The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-10

vile. They are from Frankfort.
THOMAS BENJAMIN and son write
from Klondikc To their Muncie friends
that they are making money 10y the
Wholesale and have dug $4,000 worth OF
gold dust.
j. 4. NORRIS, "A travelling man for the
kimball Piano Co., Of Louisville, was
arrested at Corydon on a charge of en-
oezzlment and taken To S~cottsburg.
TmE old settlers of White county
held their annual meeting at Month
cello and il was the largest ever held
in the county. Hon. w. ID. Owen ad-
dressed the meeting.
JoE PARKER, residing southwest of
Elwood. sold his farm products and
took home 81 900. which he hid under
the carpet. When he went To ret it the
money was gone.
The fourteenth annual reunion of
the Thirteenth Indiana regiment will
be held at Etna Green. Tuesday, Sep
tember 2s. Curtis McCutcheon. OF At
wood. is president; l.. III. Peddycord, of
Etna Green, vice president, and j. \.
Ohlwine, of Cromwell, secretary and
treasurer.
Gov. MouNT addressed :, 900 people at
the annual meeting of the Delaware
and Randolph County Old settlers re-
union.
A NTMBER of Texas steers persisted in
a box ear which caught fire from a hot
box ON the Clover Leaf road at Russia
yille.
Vun ;aura1- ~ ebarparS I,,pa1 n 90 mao
pie with cheap rings. watches. etc, at
Bourbon and escaped.
BETTE DOWNING, aged 10l, claims TO
be the Oldest old maid in America.
She lives at Sparksville.
The family Of Alfred Good. of Hunt
ington. was poisoned by eating canned
corn. One child is dead.
A WONDERFUL cave has been discov-
red near New Middletown. The ex-
ploring party travelled a mile before
coming To the end of the cave.
JONI SPgICKERnoFF. of Dillsboro.
was murdered and his body thrown un-
der "A railroad bridge. His head had
been split open.
JESSE GEORGE. of Elwood. was prob
ably fatally injured in a runaway acct
lent. in which his buggy was demol-
ished.
WILLIAM VAN LEUvEN, of Wabash.
has received information that his
brother-in-law, Harry Ash. who went
to Alaska seven years ago. is snow worth
500. 900.
BENNETT COHEN. of Orleans. was as
saulted by robbers and badly beaten.
He threw a pocketbook containing $500
over n nearby fence and thus saved his
pile.
SPARKS from a locomotive set fire to a
large field of clover near Princeton and
had il not been for a sudden rain thou
sands of acres of corn would have been
destroyed.
PROP. +. AsHcRAFT, formerly editor
of the Decatur Journal. has accepted
the chair of history. civics and political
economy in the Chattanooga Normal
university. at Chattanooga. Tenn, and
Mrs. Maud Bundy. for several years a
teacher in the Valparaiso high school,
has accepted a position in the same in
stitution.
TIE reunion of the Fifty-seventh
tul> year VIII W. ntil 1T hOhDlID ut~-
day and Wednesday, September IA and
Is. upon which occasion will occur the
unwilling of the handsome monument
erected to the of its former
commander, Col. Willis Blanche. II. X.
Learner. president of the association.
is very anxious that a large number of
the Fifty seventh boys" attend this
meeting. He asks all members of the
regiment to forward to him at kokomo
those they may know of all fellow.
members Of the regiment.
A PLAN has been suggested WHEREBY
TO give the penitentiary convicts work.
1t is proposed TO buy raw material and
let the convicts manufacture articles
for use in the prisons Of the state.
CHAMPIONSHIPS CoMMASDERY No. 10
Patriotic Order sons of America. con
tested for "A $500 prize in "A drill contest
at Reading. Pa. and won it. A big
reception has been planned for them
on returning to Charlottesville.
WALTER RUSH. Of Marion. has mad,
a confession duplicating 80 of the mos
prominent citizens of Paramount in /
dynamiting and whitecaping cXpc
dition which occurred in 1898. Tn,
victim of their vengeance was a 81
l%oonist.
THE residence Of Harry j. Doan, o
Richmond. was burglarizcd. and Oar
Smith. of Chicago. was arrested. III,
confessed.
WV. GILLESPIE. of Huntington, die,
of lockjaw after having a finger ampu
tated which had been mashed in coup
ling cars.
ANNIE NEWMAN suicided by takin,
morphine at Evansville because he
sister quarrclcd with her.
A MARSH fire is raging near Valpa
raiso. Fifty cows were killed. Tn,
fire wa started by boys roasting frogs
legs.
A%TERRIFIc windstorm destroyed mucl
fruit in the vicinity of Princeton.
A COMPANY with sl00. 900 capital will
develop the cement beds at Lagro.
AT Elwood Howard Whitcomb.
12-year-old boy, fell IN a fence an,
was impailcd, suffering horrible in
%juries.