The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-02

being worked" with q pearl Bryal
cab"
HAoENsTowN reports the first ma,
ural ice of the season with the frost th
other night
JAMES W. HoBBs, a Kokomo grocer
Is missing. lie drove away, saying Ia
was going TO Nashville.
JAKE WINkKLER, aged %, accidental
ly shot himself at Eockport Will,
cleaning a pistol. The ball lodged il
the base of the brain.
LEAvENwoRrm is lighted by elec
tricity.
PATRICK BnLow, of Muncie, earl,
the other morning was walking along
the railroad track, when n potato bug
flew into his mouth and down his
throat BADLY frightened. he entered
"A house near by for relief. The woman
told him Paris green was the only rem,
edy. and Billow secured a quantity oil
IA poison at Campbell's drug store,
went TO his boarding house. swallowed
IT and lay down on the bed awaiting
the bugs death In a short time the
poison began to work and he called for
help. 1t required two doctors to save
Patrick. but the bug was killed. He
works at the Indiana iron works.
REV. FATHER SCHMIDT, of Muncie,
was cut and bruised in a nav ac.
cident. A runaway horse collided
with his vehicle, causing his horse to
run off.
ARTHUR EvERsoS, n man of about
III u ~ - ~ A.. ...
was found dead in his room at l2is
North Delaware street. Indianapolis.
by an old colored man. The body.
which was in a filthy condition. was
lying face downward upon the floor.
His coat was off. The cause of his
death Is thought To have been heart
disease.
FRANCIS COFFIN. who was convicted
a year ago of completely in the wreck
ing of the indianapolis national bank.
but who has been out on bond pending
appeal to the supreme court, that
proved futile, arrived on a train from
the east the other morning.. surrend-
himself to Marshal Hawkins and
was hustled away To the Northern
at Michigan City, to serve an
eight years sentence. There has been
some speculation as to whether coifin
would appear. and his long-continued
absence caused much Colin
S very ~downcast. On the first trial he
was given ten years and was taken to
prison. He wore the stripes two hours
was then released on a new trial.
the second continuance his
.riends made a vain appeal to the presi-
lent.
AT Franklin John Coins was the
dav sentenced to -four years i'm
'risonmet in the ~penitentiary for steal
ne chickens. This will make his third
rip over the road.
o the murder of Chris LEM. at
limestone, August %. Dan Cline was
he other day sentenced in the Law
cnce circuit court to three years in
he prison south
A. j. WAIT. an employee of the street
ar company at indianapolis. received
slight cut in the neck. to which no
ttention was paid. He has lost his
olce.
MARY JACKSON, died n few DAYS
go at the poor farm near Brazil.
weeks before her death
weighed $50 pounds, but
er illness reduced her weight to $50
ounds- Her coffin was three feet
ride, and the door had to be taken out
, allow il to pass through.
GEORGE DYER, yardmaster at the l..
: & w. railroad at Tinton. caught his
'ot in a frog while working in the
ards, and succeeded in loosening it lust
a freight backed down and struck
i'm. f%racturing his leg and injuring
internally.
The 4sth annual conference of the
icsleyan Methodists of Indiana. which
been in session at Paramount for n
adjourned the other night. The
say this has been the best
'ssion in point of attendance for sew
years.
THE closing day Of the Indiana con-
renee at Evansville was very busy.
+. Asbury led the morning prayer
and both bishops Merrill and
were in their usual places.
Z. Gilbert was continu ed in his pres
IL HhttOual DuuudN -SCiiOOi WOrk- -.
:. Vigus presented the interests Of
&c Bible cause. The board of stew.
'ds reported the distribution of slO,-
o among the conference claimants. a
ight increase over the amount of last
ar for the same cause.
THE Sixteenth Indiana will hold its
union at Lawrenceburg. Among the
embers of this regiment were ex-
+. +. Thompson. Henry
ay Allen, Capt. Eli L. Ritter, Col.
an Perry, of indianapolis, Mai. Dox-
!. Hon. w. I. Durbin. Hon. c. C. Mat.
n and many others. all of whom ex-
pit Maj. Doxey will probably be pres
INDIANA populists and democrats
We up all hope of fusion after a con- ,
renee. l
South Bend. the six-year-old son !
Jacob Strantz was crushed to death 1
n wagon running owe his body.
MARTIN BUTLER, of Indianapolis. !
,pped in front Of an electric car and :
IS killed. c
The State Liquor League of Indiana .
ports that the Nicholson law has :
'sed about 700 saloons in that state.
THE corner stone OF the ne,v NJ r =