The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-04-05
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

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/ law was few days ago discovered I,
4 contain a provision that the count,
. auditors and treasurers shall first TAX,
IN fees equal To their salaries befor,
the amount taken in Is due them fol
their work. In the case Of auditor,
and treasurers. unlike the offices o
clerk. sheriff and recorder, fees are q
small part Of the income. and il wa.
evidently through an error that the
words auditor and treasurer crept into
this section. This affects most seri.
ously every auditor and treasurer in
the state. and the section will REQUIRE
judicial construction at the earliest
possible moment
JOHN CoLvERr, a prosperous laborer OF
brazil, was dangerously injured while
engaged in an alteration with Thomas
l. Dewellen. The latter struck the
former on the head with brick. crush
ing his skull Dewell en- escaped.
JOHN f. MAxsoN's Jewelry store. at
waterloo. was robbed the other after
noon The clerks attention was at
tracted while Judson Potts stole a
watch and chain from show case.
Potts pleaded guilty
DECATUR saloonmenwill prosecute all
Sunday openers in any kind OF bust
ness.
PROSPECT HILL coal mines. near Vim
cennes, have been leased TO an Illinois
firm.
AUGUST LAVAL. an old citizen OF
Vincennes, made second attempt 10
blow out his brains. few DAYS aro
Several days before ne tried to do the
rash act, but the pistol failed 10 dis
charge. and he tried again. sending a
ball crashing through his head The
wound is serious and may prove fatal.
Ill-health the cause.
Mrs THOMAS CArRox. wife Of 4
wealthy Clinton county farmer. COM
mitted suicide by taking rat poison.
while suffering from the effects 81
grip.
For sympathizing with a fellow
convict, who had assaulted a guard in
prison south. James Dalgarn. sent IN
from Brazil, has had MS time extended
300 days
JACOB FIKE. of Chill. was found in a
dying condition at the foot of the Wa
bash railroad bridge near Peru. which
he fell through.
PosToFFicE established the other
day: Echo, Wells county.
Two footpads with clubs and knives
attempted to kill William Glenn. OF
Peru.
SIMON T. COIN, aged Is. one Of Della
ware county's pioneers fell nearly ten
eet from the top of wagon load of
ogs. the other day, and is believed to
'e fatally injured.
FLOYD THOMPSON. li-vear-old boy
mpioyed at the United States Glass
actory, at Gas City. was found dead
n the track. II is thought he was
truck by a passing train.
Mt CARMEL has passed an ordinance
children under the are Of
. from playing on the streets after
80 p m. during the winter. or after .
. m. during the summer
The largest well in the nottingham
cid has been drilled in by II. c. Zieg- !,
'r The we'll is flowing eight hundred :
arrels daily. Much Oh is being vast. :
because of insufficient tankage. !,
A VALUABLE bed Of clay for the :
Of crockery and fire brick
as been discovered near Bourbon. I
GEORGE ALVEY. Muncie. fell over a
hair and burst blood vessel. He q
early bled to death before medica. A
ID came !,
BrRsLARs have been making such a
holesale raids on the farmers OF
arke county recently that the latter v
ave been worked up TO a frenzy and a
he perpetrators will be summarily r,
aalt with should they be captured. m
JOHN Wake. a self-confessed forger. Il
as taken before Judge Comstock at 81
ichmond. few days ago. and pleaded al
atty. He was sentenced to two wears IN
nd three months in the penitentiary al
i'd fined $40.
AN eagle measuring : feet and 10
ches from tip to tip was killed by II.
Marks. near Marion. A,
WHILE boiling some beef in covered
.scl the top blew off and the steam
IDLY scalded Mrs. NJ w. Harkins. Of 4,
nderson. vi
TERRK HArTE schools have abolished st,
e old custom Of each graduate deliv- a
ing an Grafton on commencement Ill
Y. ge
THE other dav at Greenfield Charles at
sserman. conductor of local freight pr
} IS. west bound. was severely on
ished about the chest He was max wi
: coupling. and. the cars not being pl;
; same style, the bumpers slipped pil
81 each other. and ne was caught be- sh
cen the sills of the cars tai
AT Jeffersonville great interest was Ma
infested in the trial Of Mrs. Matte
cipher and George Willis. charged r.
III arson. The trial resulted in their
luittal. Oh,
BITTER quarrel among the Hunga-
ms of Whiting has resulted in the I
rider Of George Otke by Andrew ito
nsy. pa,
NE trial of Isaac Bridges. alleged Sin
rderer Of Mrs Joseph Montgomery. as
November. has begun in Terrc
ute. abe
IN Edinburg sneakthief stole 5000 .
nth Of jewelry from the house of d. cffs