The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-17


water famine. no rain Of any conse
auence having fallen for the past year
The farmers are taking their stock 4
the low lands in order to have waite
for the IN.
AGosHrS man is said 10 he getting
rich selling recipes for a me- corn cur
which i moth ing but -four and water
The Henry Gas Belt Electric railwa,
has begun the SURVEY OF its lines be
tween Anderson. Marion and Elwood
JOSIAH L. BrRroN. of Martinsville
has patented a sectional boat for fish
crmen and duck hunters.
WV. HlpAy. aged "a, died At Ingalls,
He had lived in Madison county for Z
years.
ORA PICKETT. aged 10. who fell from
n haystack near Noblesvillc. died from
her injuries.
CorNcILMAN McMAsrrRs was thrown
from a bicycle and badly hurt a
Frankfort.
ASsEI JOHNSON, of Cowan. pardoncd
from the penitentiary, is dying Of con
sumption.
AT Indiana polls Dan L. Paine. poet
and journalist. died of p~aresis.
MADISON county undertakes will
form a combine.
DE rERMSE effort will be made BY
the ssloon.keepe rs to have the Nichol.
o law decla red unconsti.utional.
The contract for building the new
courthouse ut Rochester has been
n warded to j. L. Newton. of Logans
port. for $4,000.
WILL DrGAS. a glassworxer. of steu,
benyille. o.. was killed by cars a, FL.
wood.
CHARLEY RUSSELL. of Eridgetown-
says ne mas n meerscnaum pipe fifty
one yea rs old.
SOUTH BIND citizens don't like the
plans of the new government build.
ing.
AMAD bull viciousIy attacked a horse
driven by James McCombs near Lc.
g~ansport- McCombs was seriously
hurt.
WORMS ere destroying crops. mead.
ows and other vegetation in Clarke
and Floyd cou mites.
AARON MoSsLER, for thirty years a
prominent merchant of Boone county.
has assigned Assets about $50. 600;
liabilities unknown.
WILLIE THOMAS, o-vear-old son OF
John Thomas. Of k~nightsville. wa
horribly mangled by "A vicious dog. His
recovery is dou btful.
Hon. WV. NJ COPELAND. of Madison.
an ex-member of the general assem- bly,
and a pr%ominen at attorney of southern
Indiana. has been placed on trial for
the attic mpted murder of his brother.
in-law. VIM Bruning. a wealthy bust.
ness man Of New York city.
Ar Bed ford, while in intoxicated. Homer
Bruce shot and killed Paul johnson. q
boy 10 years old. Yeager Bruce anc
VIM Emery Were with him. All three
are now in jail. They are all young
men and have been friends Of John.
sons. No one spoke 4 word before the
shooting
AT Mitchell fire consumed two frame
buildings on Main street. owned by W..
II. Moore and occupied by Il. r. Fuquay
grocer. and Charles Whites restaurant
Contents partly saved. Loss, 50. 900
insurance, s.. 200.
". H. BEow>, a tenderof the rolls at
the wire nail works. Anderson. was
caught by the red hot wire. which
wound around his leg like a snake.
and burned him in a horrible man.
ner.
AT Franklin. Elber Quick pleaded
gu>ty to a charge of horse stealing
and was fined five dollars and senten-
ced to the prison south for two years
The horse, buggy and harness were
stolen from Warren Taylor and Har.
vey Fea theringill
In the annual contest in declama
tion, open to the freshmen class o;
Franklin college, Miss Grace fetroe
won first place. and Miss Leone
Kcrlin. second There were seven con
t~estants-
AT Je fferson vile. a 3~-year-old chile
of Vim. Bussey swallowed a number o.
capsules containing atrophinc and is
O corpse.
Mrs. G.. W. Ross. who last winter
fell through a grating on Main street
Brazil, and received serious injuries
has fled a suit for $4,000 from the
city
ELLSWORTH PERKINS. a farmer Of Ed.
w%arisport, disappointed in love. sho,
himself through the heart and died in.
stantly.
>rvERALweeksago Edward W. Drie.
man was injured in a wreck on the I.
and V. railroad at Marco. lie has
sued the Pen nsyluania Co. for IS. oOt
damages
PREsBYTEMAS church ladies Of Ko
komo gave black face minstrel show
for the benefit Of the church.
GEORGE W. SMITH was given two
years in the pen at Noblesville, for in.
cest
ACCORDING TO the report OF Chief
Fendrich Vincennes has had just sixty
fires during the year ended April 80.
+. T.. J~ErFREys, of Evansville, has
been appointed assistant general
freight and passenger agent Of the +.
& 7. ii. railroad.
TIM pretty little steamboat peanli.
shaw. which has been plying the Wa.
ba sh, Is to be sold. The boat will be
ia ken to- Evansville.