The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-08-27
INDIANA STATE NEWS.


of Bedford on September Is.
THE Indiana Wire Fence and Nail Co.,
Mt Charlottesville. started up and will
be obliged To run day and night in or
der TO fill orders.
The police are looking for William
Bridgewater who, it is charged, killed
Ollister Whapton, Mt Woodruff place,
indianapolis.
THE ~nine-year-old child Of Rev.
George Speichcr, of vrbana, was IA
tally burned at the camp meeting at
Syracuse, her clothing igniting from a
bonfire.
Ar Madison. ''Su" Griffin shot and
fatally wounded Willis Payne, colored.
Ar Greencastle. Den Toney was kill
ed by Samuel Gardner, his brother-in.
law.
GEORGE SLOW was fatally injured by
a traction boiler explosion at Lagrange.
W. n. HARDING has been nominated
by the republicans for mayor of Indian
apolis.
No trace can be found of William
Messenger, who killed Charles Nelson
at san Pierre.
THE official plurality of Marion
Griffith in the Fourth Indiana district
was $40. Holman's plurality last year
was s2J.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Lake Erie 4 Western excursion train
returning from Chicago To Peru near
Walkert. Eight large ties were placed
on the track. They were discovered by
two men and reported before the train
arrived. Five hundred passengers
were aboard.
;. +. NICHOLSON, the author of the
famous Nicholson temperance law. will
be a candidate for the republican nom
ination for congress nex year.
TIE total vote in the recent Fourth
district election was as follows: +. NJ.
Griffith (dem.). 1905: c. w. Lee (rep.l,
1s.1l7; L. VI. Browder (pop.), as. Grit
fith's plurality, $40.
Ar English. Charles Antice. aged %.
tied his feet together and fastened his
and then dropped into the river
in attempting to commit suicide for the
time. He was rescued.
Tom c. LAswEII. of Princeton. was
drowned while bathing at Atlantic
City, y. J..
ALlsToN WHARTON. colored. was stab
bed to death by an unknown man in
indianapolis.
MATTE LoUDES. of Cincinnati. and
Frank Jones, of Drennon Springs. Ky.
day.
The twelfth annual reunion Of the
Old Settlers association of eastern In
diana will be held at Oak Grove.
A NEW slack-barrel stavc factory has
just been located at Carthage ard is
now under construction. When com.
pleted it will cover five acres of ground.
work 80 TO so men. and use so, 900 feet
of timber a week.
ANOTHER large gas well has been
drilled north of Pendleton. IL is owned
by the Pendleton window glass factory.
1t has n very strong pressure of gas,
and is one of the best wells found this
season.
THE large barn at Matthews of New
berger Bros. together with one road
wagon. four buggies, several sets of
harness and 100 bushels of oats. was
burned by incendiarics. Loss, 81, 200;
Philadelphia.
ALL the streets in the business part of
Nashville are to lie paved with cement
AT Evansville. Rosa Patrick. %. jeal.
Gus Of her husband. took three grains
of morphine and will die.
THREE men in a buggy tried to hold
up J. Il. Curtis. an attorney. at Indian
apolis, but he beat them off with a cane.
The annual convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor union will meet at War
saw.
Ar Evansville, Henry Jones. colored.
seized a pockct-book from q young
woman and "A mol of 1000 people
threatened to lynch him.
HENRY CROOKS, a pioneer Of Branch
county. was found dead Of heart dis
ease in his wagon as his team was pass
ing up the main thoroughfare of Cold
water.
DIR. JosErH Bowers, coroncr of Della
ware county. recently reelected to the
office, has resigned the position and
has left Nuncie for Colorado. lie APP
pointed as his ~succcssor DIR. L. g.. Po-
land. who was the opponent to him for
the nomination at the county primary
election last fall.
FIRST LIEUT.. HuGH T. REED. who has
just been assigned to duty at the Howe
school. Lima. is a native of Richmond,
and a son of Mrs. Irwin Reed. lie is u
graduate of West Point, and has won
considerable prominence on account Of
the book of military tactics which he
has prepared and which is recognized
rs standard.
john kIMEs. Albert and Bricc Horn
beck, young boys, are under arrest at
Winamac charged with attempting to
wreck a Penns, lvania train.
CHARLES SMITH, aged IS, attempted to
assault a s~ix-year-old child and was
lodged in Jail at Mt. Vernon. There
were threats of l~ynchcng.
THE Indiana state tax boar.lh has raised
the assessment of the Citizens Street
railroad OF indianapolis from 81 900, 900
10 So. 09c. 900.
THE state fish law is being strictly
enforced in the Vincennes section.