The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-07
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

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The Pike County Democrat is u
quarter of a century old and still
growing.
Woo county will resist the schools
fund tax in order To test the law.
>MALLrox scare At Tell City is over
and the schools have reopcned.
INDiANAroLis' Commercial club IL
10 discuss how To reduce the death
rate.
Ar Evansville John IIarmer, aged II.
killed John Smith. aged -. with bill
lard cue. They had quarreled during
game Of pool.
A LAroRrr man has invented a paper
rim for bicycle wheels.
ANDERSON has firm of three female
paper-hangers. They have been asked
10 join the paper hangers union.
REV. HAYDEN EAyBrRS. of Logans-
port. has married LEAF couples.
SHELBY county's courthouse has been
rcpainted and papered.
PEARLS are being found in the White
river near Gosport.
CLINTON county farmers report very
little wheat left
ABoUT $50 Italians are working on
the roadway of the Indianapolis. Rock
| port 4 Chattanooga railroad between
Rock port and Newtonville.
THE new First Methodist church. OF
Terre lIaute. costing over $4,000. was
dedicated the other day. Bishop Joyce
and Rev. L. !. Coulta. of indianapolis.
| preached. Nearly $4,000 was raised
at the services TO apply toward paying
the debt. The church seats 1900.
WM. BOWMAN. while blowing on his
farm near Oswego. kosciusko county
found several Indian relics. among the
number being perfectly-formed
spear-head and an implement resem
bling a Ratchet They were discovered
near the surface. the Ratchet being
broken and the parts lying % yards
apart.
THERE are 80 attorneys at EllShart
Lo>Gwoop's depot is now a heap Of
ashes
ONE-THIRD of Mt. vernon's school
children are colored. So says an ex-
change.
INDIANA stands fifth in the list of
states as 10 the appraised value Of
property for taxation.
INDIANAPOLIS sanitary officers will
come out in new togs June .. Then
look out. epidemics.
MICHIGAN CITY high school boys are
being taken through course of milf
tary discipline.
AT >helbyville John Poland took
dose OF laudanum by mistake and came
near dying.
ME-. NELLIE CLEGGETT. on trial at
Green field. charged with killing her
infant child. was the other morning
found guilty. Her punishment is five
years is the Woman's Reformatory.
a TRAVELLING man went up against
the electric dice game at indianapolis.
Lost $500. Bartender in hoe.
The New Richmond bank has de-
cided 10 discon tinue its deposit depart
ment and has paid its depositors-
Il. +. DAVIDSON an attorney Of
Column bus. received notice Of his APP
pointment To a foreign mission as as
sistant treasurer at the Pekin tChina)
Methodist school. lie will sail for his
new post August Is.
WHILE a gang Of men were clearing
the farm of Charles Stewart. near Bob
town. the other day. large stone was
turned over and thirty-two large fiints,
in the shape OF arrow heads and hearts.
we're found. Bobtown is near Johns
Vile.
THE police raided one of tbs crap
joints which have spung up in the SUI
burbs of Elwood. since gambling
houses were closed. and captured TWEEN
ty of the inmates. among them several
society men. They where heavily fined
and released.
INDIANAPOLIS is to have q woman
deputy sheriff.
FRANKFORT has opened brick street.
paving bids.
STEPHEN CLANCY. Elwood. who went
insane from being hit on the head WITH
bricks during fight. has become q
ravinr maniac
RrckEgT. Randolph county. now has
post Office with sam G. Rickert a.
postmaster.
MINNIE STANLEY. the seven-year-old
daughter of George Stanley. Of Mitch
ell. was fatally burned while playing
with fire.
The c.. II. & u. railroad depot at
Longwood. a small station four miles
west of Connersville, burned at noon
the other day.
THREE vell-knovn Anderson women
have formed a firm and are doing paper
hanging. and doing it fully as well as
the men. They have been asked to
join the paper hangers union.
AN Auburn barber has a hot and cold
set Of pictures TO hang in his shop. In
summer he puts up winter scenes, and
vice versa.
MR-. DR. FARMER, Noblesville. has
fallen heir TO a s75, 600 fortune in Phil.
adelphia.
Mrs. MARGARET CAsoN. mother OF
Ex-Congressman Cason, died AT Leb.
anon. aged % years.
A FEMALE street fakir IS a Richmond
novelty.
A COUPLE Of Elkharters are said 10
have traded wives.
PosT OFFICES in Indiana to be dis
continued after May 81: Ivis. Harrison
county. and Rapture, Posey county
The New Richmond bank has dccid.
| ed TO discontinue its deposit depart.
ment and has paid its depositors.
| A RousIxG revival meeting was held