The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-06-25
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

MuscIr ministers will make war on
sunday outings
N. L.. KINNEY has been elected pres
dent Of the indianapolis board OF
trade.
DIR :. NJ. MARTIN committed suicide
by hanging At Greenfield. lie was de-
spondent
JAS. lowell saved the lives of two
boys at bourbon. and is now the hero
of the town.
BERwANGER Bros. clothiers of Lo-
gansport. assigned with $4,000 lia5ili-
ties and ST.. 600 assets
The women members of the First
Baptist church at indianapolis have
agreed TO remove their hats during
services.
The cornerstone Of the new Starke
county courthouse will be laid july 3
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Mortimer Nye has been
appointed by the grand lodge, r. and
A. NJ. TO be grand master Tor the oc-
casion.
The other day. as Sinclare Donham.
resid ing near Cory, Clay county, was
driving to church. his team ran away.
the rig overturned and Mr.. Dom
hams skull was fractured and his
chest badly mashed. lie Is in serious
conG
CoNNERsvIILE citizens are preparing
to en- terrain one of the largest crowds
in the history of the city on July 3, on
which day Connersville will celebrate
hide pendence day. The street fair
promises 10 be as attractive as the mid
way plaisance.
THE Morning News at Muncic has
been sold by c. r. w. Nicely to Frank
Claypool and Cyrus Heath, the latter
brother of First Assistant Postmas-
ter General Perry Heath The price
paid was $50. 600.
PROP. CAswELL GRAVE, a graduate
of Earlham college, and who the past
year has been connected with Johns
Hopkins university, has been sent to
jamaica to gather specimens for that
1 institution.
AT Muncie, while two sons of Con"
I Shea were making paper cigarettes
and smoking them in Harry Cross
fields barn. the building was fired Ii
burned. with one across the alley.
JuDGE McCLURE's decision the other
day that married man has 5000 ex-
empt from the provisions of the new
! garnishee law has caused sensation
in the ranks OF those who have been
taking advantage OF the new garnishee
law TO collect old debts. Several hun
bred cases have been filed in Elwood
alone and most OF them were success
ful
The directors of the Terre Haute
House Co, which is building theater
alongside the hotel property. have
leased the theater TO Barhyd. & Cham
berlain, who have theaters in Peoria.
Quincy and other cities in that part of
the western circuit
JOHN FLYNN, formerly a teacher in
Richmond, and who for some years has
been superintendent of the White
Earth Indian schools, has been made
superintendent of the new government
training school at Chamberlain. ;. d.
He will enter upon his duties some
time next month
ROBERT c BROOKS. of Wayne county.
who graduated from the State univer-
sity in 1896. and who for the past year
has been secretary Of the New York
Reform club. has been elected to the
President White fellowship in history
and political science al Cornell uni
versity for the ensuing year.
PATRICK LUNCHEON, the weait hest
land owner in northern Indiana. is
dead. aged 20. He was widely known
for his eccentricities and lived with
his brother. both being bachelors, I'M
der the same roof - years without
speaking. dying with the silence un-
broken. lie was one of the founders of
La Crosse. in Laporte county His
fortune is estimated at 81 100000.
The new ST. Pairick's Catholic
church at Redlxey was dedicated the
other afternoon. Father DomeniclI. of
salina, o., Father Wakeman. of Gas
City. chaplain of the Marion Ind SOL
diers' home. and others officiating.
Funds sufficient to wipe out the church
debt were subscri bed.
The Jay county commissioners have
appointed Philip Stolz trustee for
Bear Creek township. To Till the place
made vacant by the ousting Of Peter
Bishop. According to decision from
\ Judge Ieadington. the Office has been
vacant since last October. " hen Bishop
was appointed postmaster at bryant
OTIS w. ksIzER, prominent young
student of the Northern Indiana Nor
NAL school, from TT Wayne, aged &c.
was drowned while bathing in Long
/ lake
AT Fl Wayne. Henry Voughtin. a
prominent butcher, committed suicide
by severing the radial artery in the
right arm Death resulted in 20 min
utcs- Failure To meet his obligations
and prospective penury induced him
to commit the deed. lie was 90 years
Odd and a bachelor.
HoS. $. f. NICHOLSON. author of the
famous Nicholson temperance law. was
q recent visitor to Richmond. He is
engaged in organizing branches of the
Good Citizenship league. In reply to
questions by reporter as to his re-
ported candidacy for governor. Mr.
Nicholson said ne had no am bition
along that line, but would have no OBJ
\ jections to representing the Eleventh