The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-09-04
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

will reune at Beavcrtowu, SePtemper
81 and IS.
Tux Detroit plan of gardening. the
idea being 10 help the poor OF the city
get a livelihood, has teen quite sue
cessful AT Richmond, this year, and an
excellent display selected from the
stun raised was made AT the city build
ing the other day.
MONTPELIER was visited by terrific
wind and rainstorm. The large sum
mer theater at Rustic park, two miles
west OF Montpelier, was destroyed, en-
failing loss of over $500. The barn
owned by A. llarts, one and one-half
miles west, was unroofed and moved
ten feet from it's foundation. The
main building of the Indiana steel
works was unrooscd and the machinery
damaged to the extent of $1,000. The
oil fields west, east and south suffered
TO the extent of $40 600 in the way of
derricks, power. boiler and tank houses
being blown down. The Ohio Oil Co.
lost over 100 derricks.
DURING the wind and electrical storm
that ragged, just north of Lafayette,
Elba Cleaver, farmer liY8g near
Monitor, was struck by lHhtning,
while bringing cows from the pasture,
and killed.
Az Noblcsville Charles Fox, aged %
years, committed suicide by taking
morphine He had been recently en-
ployed as driver of fast horses. He
claimed that he was out of work and
wanted to die. He leaves wife and
one child.
TIE tin plate strike ut Elwood is
ended
JAMES STANLEY. under treatment at
the Central Indiana Insane hospital.
indianapolis. while walking in Ward
l., not being considered violent pris-
oncr, sprang to the barred window and
wrenched the fastenings apart. and be-
fore he could be checked he sprang
through and lunged outward into
space twas straight fall Of 30 feet,
but, although a heavy man. he struck
where the earth was very soft and es-
capped with unbrokcn bones, save a
fractured ankle.
THREE Japanese. claiming to be mem
bers of the royal family Of Japan,
have been making a complete circuit of
the oil fields north of Farmland. They
are also capitalists, and state that their
purpose is TO learn the art OF drilling
for oil in our American manner. They
stated that oil had been struck in Japan
at the shallow depth of 300 feet, but
more often they dug wells 1000 feet,
pumping air down to the workmen.
Is the winter of 1892 there was ia
tai case of diphtheria in the family of
S c. Moore. kokomo. The lounge on
which the child died was stored away
and forgotten. A few days ago Mrs.
samuel Sipe, of Pittsburgh, Pa. with
her small children. came to visit Mr..
and Mrs. Moore. her parents. The
lounge was brought out for the chill
dren, and two of them are down with
the diphtheria. contracted from the
lounge on which a iphtheria-affiictc
child died more than three years ago.
AT Anderson suit for receiver was
brought against the Midland Railroad
Co. by the Indiana Oil Tank Co. which
holds nominal bills that have been due
for two years and is unable TO force
collection upon them 1t says the
company is insolvent. Several other
suits for receivership have been filed
against the same company in the past
year. The railroad is badly behind
and owes its employees for five and six
months work. 1t is not likely that
this suit will be successful
THE Hartford City council has passed
an ordinance requiring quart shops
to take out $3.50 liquor license before
they can do business under their gov
eminent license.
A LARGE wagon shed owned by John
Beale, near the Wabash county line,
was picked up by storm ana carried
quite distance, being dropped in the
center of n corn field.
DURING "A recent storm Lightning de-
stroyed Jerry Longs house at Albany,
occupied by Edward Spear. and a barn
owned by Lie FELTON,, near Muncie.
The postofiice at Plato, Lagrange
county, has been re-establishcd, with
George A. Gage as postmaster.
The next reunion of the Nineteenth
Indiana regiment will be at Farmland
on Thursday, September IL.
john +. BURROUGHS. prominent
lawyer and democratic politician OF
Hammond, died suddenly the other
night of paralysis of the heart. De-
ceased was forty years of age, and has
been a member of the Lake county bar
for about ten years.
TILDEN PIIKINsoN, aged 90 commit
ted suicide at Madison by shooting lie
was at the home OF Charles Toombs
near IIargan, where he and his wife
were visiting. He married Caroline
Davis last Christmas day and they
lived unhappily.
TWENTY-FIVE people were poisoned
BY ice cream at birthday surprise
party given Mrs Ed Clark, OF Munce
and for "A time all were dangcrously
sick, and. the attending physician
thought that many Of them would die
) All have recovered, however. except
Mrs. Marshal Corners and Miss Pear
Hall, whose chances for recovery arc
very slim The cream was home made
and IL Is supposed that the poison wa.
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