The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-01-01


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JESSE Jol,.iscN will serve two years
ar the Jacksonville penitentiary for
killing Andrew Popp. November IA.
TnE American Oil Go. has been in
corporated at Richmond to operate in
the Ohio oil and gas fields. The capi-
tai stock is s25,0
CHARLES Il. BLAKE. n prominent
jeweler of Marion. died the other after
noon after prolonged illness of ty-
phoid fever.
THE trial of John c. Evans, former
president of Jonesboro bank, and
Insurance Agent J. w. Crum is on Mt
Marion. Haines claims to have been a
green goods victim. lie says he paid
s., 900 for brown paper.
ST SnEnRIN, of Logansport, is said to
be organizing new light company Tor
Indianapolis.
THE Prince AK Co., of Pittsburgh.
will move to Alexandria.
DR. HENRY FRANZ mistook laudanum
for medicine; he died little later at
indianapolis.
DR.. c II. EcKERr, of Marion, says
that he's a colonel for the Cuban junta
to raise volunteers.
THOMAS DREW. just out Of the Jeffer-
sonville prison, says he has been in
cell half hundred times lie owns
Chicago property.
A PETITION was circulated at Rush
Vile calling on the next Legislature to
pass law calling for two-cent fare
per mile on the railroads OF the state
The proposed law meets with favor
here and the petition is being freely
signed.
WARREN Bros, at Saratoga, Ran
dolph county, east of Manchester,
struck monster gas well on the farm
of VIM Warren. A company will
proba bly, be formed to carry the prod.
net to Ohio towns. The pressure is so
strong that it is yet impossible to
shoot the well. The people in that
vicinity are excited and preparations
are being made TO put down other
wells, as there are indications of oil,
as shown by a well put down two or
three years ago.
TNENTy-THgFE young men at Bed
ford signed the roll as Cuban recruits
the other day, and several more have
siwniiied their Willingness to do SO. An
agent of the insurgents has been in
southern Indiana for several days So
letting recruits At Bloomington 10
young men were enlisted.
THE bituminous miners strike near
Terre Iaute came TO an end the other
morning. The men Of the four big
comnanies in Nigo, Parlse and Yer
million counties have voted to accept
50 cents. Ii is expected that operators
elsewhere who conceded 60 cents will
ask for reduction. The strike has
been on since May l.
MARSHAL MOORE arrested George
Barnard, of Wabash, for passing coun'
terfeit coin. and the arrest SO fright
ened George Ballenger that the latter
gave himself up TO the officers and CON
fessed that he, with Jack Barnard. two
other members OF the family, Arthur
Simmons, two women named Win field
and Faidlev, and three other men had
been running a coin-making establish
ment and had showed" large
amount OF "the queer" there this fall
Ballenger also conducted the police to
Barnard's house, pulled up the carpet
and raised a trap-door and led the OF
ficers int the private mint. large
amount OF pig silver and lead and a
box of dollars were captured, but tho
outfit, which Ballenger said was buried
c in the yard, had been broken up.
d The Pennsylvania Glass Co., of An
a derson. has sued Charles Russell II
t Chicago for 81. 400 The company in
g sured and had fire, then il was in
u formed that there was no such insur
u ance company as the one in which i
9 was supposed to have policy.
/ The Frankfort and GAINESVILLE toll
road, the last surviving toll pike II
that part of the state. is causing mucl
e excitement in the vicinity of Kokomo
$ The farmers. 200 strong, have entere,
ID into league to resist the further pay
- ment OF toll The tollgates were tori
e out dozen times in the last few days
N the farmers coming to town in process
u sions. each with an AK in his wagon
s. Teams of horses were hitched to tn
c. gates, which were pulled out root an
branch Several of the farmers hav
h, been arrested, but standing together
y they escaped conviction. More tina
IN 90 gates have been chopped to piece
st by the enraged farmers, who declar
~ they will be destroyed as fast as RI
ne placed.
~ The other afternoon Theodore Scott
I'D of Fountain county. left Crawford
n Vile in company with his wife an
son. Going down the TOWNSVILLE hi
h. his rig collded with another. He Wa
IS thrown out and died next mornin
ly from INJURIES received.
re AT well attended mass meeting I
p Angola, over which ex-Judge ;.
at Powers presided, short speeches wei
n made by several prominent and u
ID. fiucntial citizens. all breathing stror
h, spirit of sympathy for the Cubans ar
RS bitter denunciation of SPANS
~ methods
m ALBERT WADE. alleged to have Ell
ur bezzlcd more than $4,000 from Il
no First national bank of Mt Vernon, W
ly. arraigned before Federal Commission
Wartman at Evansville. and, wavii