The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-08-09

III NfAAtoiA tANAhAAhN ftAsts ~ >s'~
Hau,c i to be sold.
hokoMo is To- have cement sidewalks
around the courthouse.
NnlfEcAp notices are being served
on many PERSONS in Davies cor l;y
GEA>T county now claims to have
.hrce of the largest oil wells m the
state
III. WAYNE capitalists will drill for
oil in the southern part of Wells
county
ELKnAEr reports many mishap> at
lights.
TnE Marion bank has purchased the
Citizens Exchange bank al Fair
mount.
Ar Anderson one of the fire depart
ment horses was instantly killed 10y u
live electric wire in his stall.
A rE>-yEAR-oID boy at South Bend
exploded a cartridge with IA ston,. lie
only has one hand now.
ANDERSON youngsters place stones
on the tracks TO watch the street cars
crush them.
The plate glass company the other
morning started up their third furnace
at the Elwood plant. and the factory is
now running at full capacity with
eight hundred men. The demand for
plate glass continues to increase. and
the outlook for the future of the FL
wood plant is assured.
III Is given out upon good au-
thority that within ninety days
operations will be resumed at
the Depauw Plate Glass works at
Alexandria and New Albany. These
plants employ ] 900 men when in full
operation. The Depauws will continue
to have charge of tine plants
The common council of west Indi-
annapolis the other night passed a
resolution appropriating 500 as a re-
ward for the murderer of little 3-year-
old Ida Gebhard. whose putrd body
was found with evidences of outrage.
TIE Big Four fast express. bound
from Cincinna ii to Indianapolis while
running a mile a minute, struck and
smashed 10 smithereens buggy eight
miles east Of indianapolis Ellis Brown,
the occupant. was instantly killed lie
had been to call on a young lady and
was returning home.
THE prospect is that a company of
Chicago capitalists will build large
sanitarium at the Morgan mineral
well, near huntington. which has be-
come famon since its discovery few a
months ago.
CHARLES FLAcK. living near Stanley.
while attempting to place a belt on
separa tor was caught by the belt and
thrown over ind badly hurt.
Ar Boonvillc the entire family of
Gustavus Decker. consisting of himself.
wife and four children were poisoned
by mistaking toad stools for mush-
rooms. resulting in the death of Deck
er's wife. Decker is n farmer and mis-
wife had cooked toad stools for dinner.
of which they all ate
THE express and railway Office at
Taswell. on the l.. T. and 1t. l..
railway was robbed of 500 worth Of
tickets.
AT Nunce "A bottle of chemical used
TO extinguish fire. exploded in Cyrus
Wilken sons hand. shattering his right
arm al the elbow.
Mrs FRED DRAKE was probably ia
tally hurt by being tarc-vn from a
buggy near Brazil.
The western parl Of Wayne county
is suffering for rain. and the corn crop,
which promised to be enormous. is be-
ginning to show damage.
BENJAMIN TMBERLAKE. of Wayne
county. and "A graduate of Earlham
college with the class o. 1894. has been
| elected TO the principalship of the high
school ut Parker City.
JoH~ A. DuEY Of South Bend. has
been notified that ne is the rightful
heir to an estate in England. the value
of which is estimated at q half million
dollars The title comes to Mr. Duey
through his first wife. an English
woman named Woolrer
PRESIDENT Brown. of the Northern
Indiana Normal school has secured
ex-senator John J. ingalls,. of Kansas.
10 deliver an address to the graduates
Thursday evening August Is. Gov.
Matthews will make an address and
present diplomas 70 235 graduates
FRA SFogr has telephone war and
one can almost talk for nothing now.
GRO. HALLS. near Sidney. was at
tackled bya bull few nights since.
and was butted, trampled upon and
dragged until he was injured SO badly
that he died.
CLYDE SMITH. who recently escaped
from the Plainfcld reformatory. was
captured at L Mon City.
,IrDeE McCRAy. of the criminal court,
indianapolis. held the Nicholson law
constitutional. and an appeal followed;
10 the supreme court
FRANK MCKINNEY. in the northern
prison for alleged housebreaking. was
pardoncd by Gov. Matthews a few days
ago. the governor being satisfied of his
innocence.
TnE large frame residence of Mrs.
Elizabeth Summers. three miles north
of Windfall, was destroyed by fire.
Loss. 81 900: with 5000 insurance in the
Home of New York.
RICHMoND's good citizens league Il
just beginning campaign against
liquor law violators-
A CHILD Of j. y. Leonard. residing
near Hartford City. was stung on tho
tongue by some poisonous insect. and
is in a prccarious condition. Tn.
tongue is so swollen as to nearly choke