The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

UiuS1acnc, which cauacu 1slNtN ~
sneeze 80 violently As to dislocate
some vcrtebra Of the neck. Physicians
doubt Silyer's recovery.
NEMs reaches Boston from Sodom,
Perry county, OF a fight to a finish
with knives between Charley Naue
and Ed Fleece. II and Il years old,
respectively. over the ownership of a
bicycle. The boys are cousins They
were found by the roadside exhausted,
an1 were brought to Nane's home.
Neither is expected to recover from
wounds in the arms, breast, neck and
face
The two-year-old child of William
Biblcr died at Wooster the other morn
ing OF in juries received by being struck
hy Pennsylvania freight train. The
child was crawling on the railroad
track when struck.
BLACK diphtheria has made its APP
pearance at North Manchester. and
the daughters Of Henry Bolinge- and
Jacob Warner, afflicted with the dis
ease. died the other day. There are
other cases and the public schools have
been closed
Tom SMITH, aged 81, was fatally
wounded by shot from mis- brothers
gun at Lagrange. Smith started for a
wounded squirrel just As his brother
shot lie received the full charge in
the abdomen.
JoHN FEEw, popular coal operator,
owning a slope just north of Brazil,
was found in his slope the other after
h,.- 81 of ~ "A and
earth, his body being crushed To a
jelly
SENATOR VOORHEES, Is in better
health than at any time since his ar
rival at Terre Iaute some weeks ago
In the past ten days he has been out
riding frequently and has received all
callers. something he did not do when
ne first came home. He is now talking
OF going to Washington soon. 20 be
present at the opening of congress
next month His physician says he Is
in no serious danger and the chief
cause of his trouble is nervous prostra-
ton 1t is positively denied that there
is indication of brain disease of any de-
scription.
JAMES GOLD was fined $50 and costs,
and Byron Gibbs was fined ss5 and
costs in the circuit court at Muncie,
the other day for illegally selling intoxi-
caEts-
j. t. YATES, a farmer living near Vim
cennes. the other day discovered large
eagle eating two OF his lambs, which
il had Just killed. Yates shot the bird
7 Ii measured ~ feet from tip to tip.
- nf
Y grange. was burned to death in his
shanty near the Indiana state line.
The Journal correspondent from
i Richmond thinks that Perry Howard.
of that city. has the largest head in In
diana. because he wears an 81 hat.
Thomas Aydelott. of Rockville, viii
90 him better. He has his hats made
TO order. and 1t takes an So size to
cover his head. Tom is coroner OF
Parl<e county.
CART. K H. WELLS, superintendent
of the Ideal Park race track. spent a
day at his home in Crown Point From
him il is learned that the Wisconsin
track will clo-e soon. probably before
December ]. and over 300 horses will
winter at the Roby track Mr.. Wells
also said that the Roby track will open
as usual April Is and continue for =
days
JAMES BARNETT. l5-year-old son OF
David Barrett. while out hunting the
other day. accidentally discharged his
gun while crossing fence near Nun
delTs church. six miles east of Bed
ford The weapon dropped from hi
grip at the same time the trigger
caught The load entered his ID
domen. working it's way - his ie.
lung. tearing ii so that il was exposed
causing his death shortly after.
The congressional official vote an,
pluralities in Indiana as they hav,
been received. are: First District
Hemminway (rep). 2i.g05: Duncan
dem. 90. $50: Lee pop. i.i33- Hem
minway's plurality. l.Ols. Second Dis
trict-Hardy .rep-), 20. 100; Meier
! tdem-). 21.599; Motsinger pop, 2,645
Meters plurality. 80. Third District
Pracewell trep.). COCOA: Zenor dem
21,7ls. Zenor's plurality. liza. Fourtl
District-Sulzer (rep.l -. s6s; Holman
. ldem.) %. 59i. Holman's plurality. SCI
Fifth District-Faris. lrep). -, 2.C
heupdtn ANtln- y. -fs'tp- dfA> iAhte.i
ity. 353. Sixth District-Johnso
, rep. a5.Os3: Robinson dem }. 81. So
r Johnson's plurality, s.2i6 Sevent
; District-Overstreet trepL 2a.07'
Cooper dem. 24.is7. Overstreet'
4 plurality. 4.sss. Eighth District
e Henry lrep.l. 30.0i5; Benne
! (dem) 2T.4l3. Henry's plurality
n 2.63a. Ninth District--Landis rep
c S.6lG: Cheadlc dem, 23.sG7. Landi,
~ plurality. a49. Tenth District-Crrn
packer rep. sass; Ringer (dem.) %
d 100 Crumpacker's plurality. 5,i3'
\, Eleventh District Steele (rep.l. -. -:
!, Larimer tdsm.l. 23.5s4. steele's plI
= rality. s.264. Twelfth District Leigh
a ty (rep }. -. ISL: Robinson ,dem.). %. IS.
i Robinson's plurality. Sos Thirteent
District-Royse lrepl, 25,5i4: kelbre'
n (dem.) 23.gas In the Third Winche
q prohibitionist. received Ill. in I'll
lf Fourth Swinter i05, in the Elevent
IN Radcliffe 649 and in the Seventh Woo
Il len, bolter. received 757. The net r,
l. publican congressional majority in tn