The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-09
INDIANA STATE NEWS

coupling pin in her room. He was ev-
identity bent on robbery or murder, but
was noored n second later by her IA
year-olG son. who crept up behind and
dealt a HOW that laid him on the floor.
Before he could be secured. however,
he regained his feet and dashed through
a big front window. lie escaped ar
rest. There is no clew to his identity.
lie effected his entrance through "A side
window.
The proposed Cincinnati. Union City
& Chicago railroad has passed into the
hands OF Chicago capitalists, who took
up the claims held against il. IL is now
said that there are good prospects for
the building OF the road.
AT Danville, John Henry Baker, a
car repairer ON the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad, committed suicide by
hanging. He was 81 years old, and had
on his person 1884 in currency. lie
leaves a wife and four children, living
in Chicago and Terre Haute.
MR.. AND Mrs. FRANK CooMER and
Miss Cora Mount, of Windfall, were
seriously If not fatally burned by a
natural gas explosion. Mr.. Coomer
and his wife were moving into a frame
residence, assisted by Miss Mount. in
attaching gas fixtures Mr.. Coomer al
lowed a large our of gas to escape
in the kitchen. He struck a match TO
find the leak and the explosion fol-
lowed. Neighbors rushed in and as
sisted in smothering the flames. which
had ignited .he clothing of the victims,
but all were severely burned. Physi-
clans say recovery is doubtful. Mr..
Coomer is n glass blower. The build
ing was wrecked.
DIR. j. n. Hurry, secretary of 49,"
state board of health. returned a few
days ago from an official investigation
into the charge by a Chicago health
officer that sickness in hat city had re-
suited from the use of Indiana milk.
1t was charged by the Chicago health
officer that the daughter Of George
Emmerling, from whose farm milk is
shipped to Chicago, was su ffering with
typhoid fever, and also his wife, and
that the waters which the cow drank
came from "A well not 100 feet from a
vault. DIR. Hurry visited the farm and
found these statements absolutely
false. No one on the farm is affected
with typhoid. Contrary to the health
officers statement that typhoid is prev
alent in Lake county, it is found that
there are but four cases.
The Methodist church at Hartford
City, recently remodeled and return
ished, was dedicated the other day.
The church is valued at SIS. 900 and the
recent improvements cost So, 600 Rev.
ID. IL. Moore, of Cincinnati, editor OF
the Western Christian Advocate, had
of the services and succeeded
in raising "a, 500 of the 5000 indie bted-
ness.
ALvA EVANS, living two miles west
of Carbon. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself with a gun. He loaded a
she'll, placed it in the gun. went to the
and ate a lunch and then shot
himself through the breast, dying in
about thirty minutes. He was a single
for the deed.
A TEN-YEAR-oLD boy named Korpal
was run over by the ears at South
Bend and died soon after.
GUY EVANS. of Brazil, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
brain. He had been drinking and was
respondent.
JAMES JONES, aged 20 years, was
standing in the railway station at
Kouts, near Valparaiso. lie was struck
on the head by a mail sack thrown
from a Panhandle train. lie died half
an hour later.
TtY I..-- yVLAAl o. I--4-l -
started up with orders enough to run
the plant a solid year, turning out 100
sets of wheels every day. The concern
has a capital stock Of $50, 900 and gives
employment to so skilled workmen.
CHARLES MAusER, aged Is, a son Of
Policeman Maurer, ran int n fallen
telephone wire at Madison. which was
heavily charged by coming in contact
with an electric light wire, and was in
stantly killed.
WILLIAM HUDSON, a prominent farm
er, of Portland, died after having his
leg amputated to relieve him of white
swelling.
TIE Fourteenth annual reunion Of
the Seventy-fifth and One-hundred and
first Indiana Volunteer infantry was
held in Elwood October / and ..
EVANS WOODEN has been nominated
for congress by the national democrats
Of the indianapolis district.
G J. MASON. the wealthiest citizen
of Spencer county, died at the age of
"a years. He was a native of Ohio
county, Kentucky, and removed to In
diana in 1887.
THE Ohio Oil Co. will abandon wells
at Parker City which formerly gave
from $50 to 900 barrels daily.
A TERRIBLE epidemic of hog cholera
prevails in Lawrence county, and
swine are dying by the score.
L. DoRBELL was the other day APP
pointed postmaster at stones Crossing,
johnson county, vice A. Browning, re-
signed.
JAMES L. ORR, the wholesale and re-
tail dealer in harness. of V~incenness,
assigned. Assets, $50, 900; liabilities,
SO, 900.
THE store of VIM. Watt, Lafayette,
was broken into and a quantity OF