The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-13
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

the Office OF the Manllla Mai, news
paper. and DESTROYED the meat market
and residence Of ;. ;. Green. saloon
and residence Of Joseph Powers. resi-
dence OF John Schlieman, drug store
of DR.. Pence, barber shop of Marshall
Hcaton, residence OF George Inflow,
residence OF John Green, Masonic hall
and general store OF Frank English.
harness shop of Geo. Craig and dry
goods store of Treece 4 Null The big
residence of Eph Treece was badly
damaged. Loss about $4,000, insur-
ance s., 900.
SIXTY drunken men employed on the
new Indiana pipe line, now being
built, went TO Lagro the other night
and started small riot. They paraded
the streets and finally got into gem
eral fight A few heads and many
windows were broken. Ten men were
arrested. Twenty-Five deputy sheriifs
were sent from Wabash to Lagro To
preserve order peNt day, another out
break being feared.
HERBERT BERG played football last
year with Butler university. The
other day it became necessary for the
doctors to remove portions of three
ribs, which were decaying from injur-
les received in football game Berg
expects soon To resume management Of
the Anderson team.
DENNIS Scan rIIS, ar old resident of
Warsaw, aged % years. was drowned.
lie was returning home, and in cross
ing the canal bridge fell in. where his
body was found floating next morn
ing. Deceased was born in County
Kerry. Ireland, and was the oldest
man in the county.
AT Montpelier an unknown man lost
his life by having his head mashed be-
tween a car OF ties and another of lum-
Der on the Wabash railroad. He was
stealing ride on a freight. which
broke apart and aftcrward crashed to-
gether.
N. j. FRANKHL, furnishing goods at
South Bend. had his store closed the
other day on a Judgment of sll, 900.
As 4 result of quarrel over politics,
Edward Heath, democrat, was stabbed
in the side by Harry Leslie, republican,
at kokomo. The wound is of fatal
nature. Leslie was arrested.
DAVID CAsHor, of Russiaville. aged
as years, was killed by the cars the
other morning He was walking on
the track, and, being deaf, did not
hear the train.
DEPAUw university easily defeated
Wabash college at football at Green
castle, Depauw not even having out all
her eleven. Score 90 tot
LEROY IEMPIETON. while delivering
democratic speech at Fowler. was
stricken with paralysis. He was car
ried TO his hotel. where he now lies in
a characterization. Mr. Templeton
was the populist candidate for COVER
nor in this state in 1892 and proprietor
OF the Nonconformist.
The remains of Joseph McQuaid
were taken TO Muncie from Hunting
ton, where he dropped dead from heart
disease. His old home was in Middle
town. Q. For years he was an ele-
plant handler in the John Robinson
circus. lie was also a lion tanner.
known to all circus people. He had
been in the Joliet, Ill, prison for muir
der
A BRUTAL prize fight was pulled off
early the other morning on the fair
grounds at Shelbyville. Ed Dinsmore,
of shelbyville. and Charles Smith, OF
Marion. O., were the principals Smith
was knocked eless in the sixth
round and was carried from the ring
bleeding from the ears. nose and
mouth. His condition is serious.
PENSIONS have been issued to the
following Indiana people: Original
Francis 5. Stcere, National Military
home, Grant county. supplemental
Franklin sullivan, bloomington. Mon
roe county. Increase-,Iames 1homp-
son. Bec.1's Grove. Brown county; VIM.
Donohue, Madison. jefferson; Lawson
III. Pickering. Nincennes Knox; Henry
Whitman, North Vernon. jennings.
Reissue-Simpson Hoopingamcr, Riv-
erdale. Lawre nee; Edward Williamson,
Elkhart, Elkhart.' Original Widows.
etc.-Minor of James H. Northrop.
Frankfort. Clinton; Sarah Isbell,
Avilla, Noble; Julia A. Coleman, Spur
geon. Pike; minor of Crales G. Warnocx,
Westville. Laporte. Supplemental
Alice :. Hartpence, Indianapolis, Ma
rion.
A SHORT time ago the experiment OF
free mail delivery in the rural districts
was tried in Ilaw Creek township,
Bartholomew county. The system i
proving very unsatisfactory, and re-
monstrance has been signed by the
citizens of the township and sent to
headquarters at Washington. The pa.
irons claim that the new system is less
convenient than the old way of going
to the Office.
Two mortgages, one for s33, 1904:
and another for $50. 755. 81. were fore
closed against the Montpelier sheet
and Tinplate Co. in the circuit court
a. q. Lupton was appointed receiver
for the plant, with orders to sell tn,
same. The plant is one of Mont
peliers largest manufacturing con
Germs.
DURING the democratic parade a
Alexander, n horse ridden by Smitl
Childs slipped and fell on him. break
ing his leg and otherwise injuring him
Mrs. JANE HENSEssy. aged 100 years
~ New RuNalo il dead She WINS IN,