The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-23
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

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LIONEL a. DELoucn. of Evansville.
was ARRESTED on the charge of bigamy.
He recently married Eva Gaines. but
she now alleges that he has wife
living in North Carolina.
GEORGE GOLDEN, so was run down
and killed by Pennsylvania train at
Jeffersonville.
FREDERICK SToLTz jr.. was killed
by a fast freight train at IIagerstown.
His body was discovered by the crew
OF another through freight who stop
ped their srain and gave notice to the
authorities The belief is that Mr..
Stoltz fell asleep on the station plat
form and fell over on the track. The
rem aims were found near the middle
of the street. few feet east of the
platform. with n deep cash in the
head. The young man was 35 years
old and unmarried. He belonged to "A
prominent family and was highly es-
TENED
WHILE in Seymour shopping Miss
Lin Downs was very seriously hurt in
runaway. Her head received a severe
blow, and she has been Unconscious
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wagon driven by N. T. Everback.
throwing him violently 10 the ground
and causing an ugly scalp wound.
VIM ID. JOINS, of Martinsville, aged
"a, hanged himself
c. 4. LONG was kicked by a horse
and fatally injured at Butler
A GAS company is getting ready TO
drill 100 wells near Pcndleton.
j. A. SoUTHARD, of kokomo, dry
goods merchant, assigned. Assets,
$40. 900; liza bilities, $4,000
The Central normal school will grad
uate 100 students the last week in
July.
A CHICKEN thief left n horse and
buggy at the Tracy farm, near Rich
mond, being frightened away by Farm
er Tracy.
JAMES GAINES, drayman of Aurora.
was found dead on the roadside near
Florence, Ky. He had died from the
heat.
FRANCIS WEYMOUTH, wanted in Chi
cago for alleged connection with the
murder OF Bicyclist Nelson, was caught
at Elkhart-
ALEX FERGUSON, aged los. and his
sister, Mrs. Bette CarroltoE. 109, live
in Madison county. They were born
in Ireland.
in Madison county by John holland.
1t escaped from circus
AT Kokomo it required three officers
to place Gus Freeman, n desperate on
crutches, under arrest Freeman had
two reviewers and was trying to run
the town.
TIE feather bone factory at Val.
paraiso has closed down on account Of
dull business, throwing $50 men out of
employment
j. l. BUCKLEY, formerly a hotel
proprietor of Anderson, has struck
gold in Cripple Creek, Col, which runs
81, 500 to the ton.
MARIoS wants the meeting of the
National Retail Clerks Protective as
sociation in 1895
Ex-LIEUr. SAMUEL J. SHIPLEY, aged
"a, of the United States navy, died OF
heat prostration at Connersville.
JOHN kILPATRIcK, of Kokomo, was
thrown off a moving machine and his
head struck on a piece of thing. lie
was instantly killed.
AT Lebanon DR.. Amos Bennington
was sued by George Rowe for $40. OO0
damages for the alleged alienation OF
his wifes affections.
THE city council of indianapolis has
passed resolution fixing the price of
gas at IS cents per 1000 cubic feet
The company charges 81 %.
NEAR Wabash. Sherman Thompson.
the 2l-year-old son OF +. Ii. thompson,
a wealthy farmer. unhitched his team
from a self binder and was stan ding
near a large oak tree, when lightning
struck the tree The bolt also struck
one Of the horses. which fell over on
the boy crushing him to the ground,
inficting fatal internal injuries. The
horse was instantly killed.
A THrRTEEN-yEAR-oLD son of James
Brown, a quarryman of Putnam coun-
ty, was fatally injured the other day.
He loaded gas pipe heavily with
giant powder, touched .he fuse, the
pipe burst and Brown was terribly
mangled by the explosio ion. His recov.
cry is very doubtful
JESSE ULREY was killed by lightning,
which set his fathers barn on fire at
Delphi. The boys mother dragged
mis- body from the burning building.
AFTEB an investigation of nearly two
weeks the grand jury returned an in
dictment of murder in the first degree
against Mrs. Bedealyea Geiger at
Evansville. Mrs. Geiger is charged
with poisoning the little son of Mrs.
Eugene Moore, who. died May O. A
grain of arsenic was found in the
child's stomach at the post-mortem ex.
animation. Mrs. Geiger is also sus-
pected by the authorities of being i'm.
plicated in the death of her husband.
who died three years ago.
JOSEPH Dunn, of Anderson, has in.
vented perpetual" motion machine
which he claims works"
WABASH COLLEGE will receive $40, OO0
from the Fayerweather estate in few
days.
The Pennsylvania shops at Fl. Wayne
will run nine hours instead of ten.
l. II. NORRIS, the attorney and poll.