The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-24

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TnE Te.-re Haute factory of the
STANDARD Wheel Co. is overrun with or
ders and extra men were put at work.
III has been eight weeks since Terre
Haute and the immediate surrounding
country has had rain sufficient TO
lay the dust There is danger OF the
loss Of the fall hay crop.
GEORGE LUKENBETI., n carpenter. OF
Jeffersonville. has just been notified
through the German consul that he IS
an heir in the direct line of descent OF
the late Mrs. Lucy Lukenbell. who died
in Germany leaving an estate ofss,oOo,-
600. Lul<enbell's share will be very
large. Alex. Ball. of Memphis. has re-
ceived notice that he is an heir to the
immense Ball estate of Philadelphia.
AT English, in IA duel fought With
knives Frank Jones and George Blevins
both were badly wounded. Blevins is
missing.
W. K. TRAsnER, f. W. Short, H. w.
Howell and stanley Green, of Chicago,
and George W. Pitchell, of Union City,
were in Portland engaged in looking
over the route of the proposed Cincin-
natl, Union City 4 Chicago railroad.
project which has been abandoned, or
at least seemed to be. If the road is
built. and those now at its head claim
TO have capital interested. il will, with
connections. make an air line from Chi
cago to Cincinnati.
The annual reunion of the Fifty
seventh regiment, Indiana volunteers,
was held in kokomo. The association
unveiled the monument of Col Willis
Blanche. in Crown Point cemetery.
CHARLEY McBRooM. living near Hills
boro. found carrier pigeon in a water
trough. 1t was tired out and had fall
en- into the water while trying 10 get a
drink. On the leg was band marked
+. 43ll.
The Thirty-eighth Indiana regiment
held a reunion at the court house in
Jacksonville. 1t was mustered in
September 16. 1861. and mustered out
at Indianapolis July %, 1865. With the
exception of shiloh. the regiment par
ticipated in all the battles of the Army
of the Cumberland.
FoREsT fires are doing great damage
between Evansville and Nincennes.
SEVERAL recent incendiary fires in
indianapolis have been traced to three
small boys, little more than babies,
whose desire To see the engines turn
out had cost property owners about
$50. 900.
The miners of Gibson county seem to
be well satisfied with the new scale.
At the Eastern Indiana Hospital for
the Insane a separate ward for the care
of consumptives has been opened in
order to prevent other patients from
becoming infected. There are nine pa
tients in this ward at present. DIR. 5.
f. Smith. the medical superintendent.
hopes to separate the epileptic class
also.
The Richmond bicycle factory has
received the third order from Alexan-
dria. Egypt, in which is one for the
pasta and one for a young prince. both
belonging to the circle of the khedive,
the viceroy of Egypt They both or
dered cushion frame wheels and 2l-inch
frames, although the pasha weighs pa
pounds. The prince orders his wheel
enameled royal cream. These wheels
have to be wrapped and Grated, water
water and air proof.
REV. JosErH BALL. for 40 years a min.
lister in the Old School Baptist church.
Muncie. is dead of typhoid dysentery,
aged IS years He was raised in Wayne
county and has resided in Mrncie fol-
80 years
The large farm barn of Monroe +
Wright, trustee of Salem township
Steuben county. burned. together will
nine horses. I 200 bushels of wheat, 4
large quantity of clover seed and a
tons of hay. 1t was one of the largest
and finest barns in northern Indiana
Insurance, si.s00. Origin of fire "a
known.
AT Marion Grief Matthews. who's
confession to attempt at jury brib
cry led to the somewhat scnsationa
trial of L. ID. Baldwin and the in
dictment of others. was fined b,
Judge Custer 81 900 and costs 1t i
thought that this will be the last hear
of the jury-bribery affair SO far as til,
courts are concerned.
The skeleton of a mastodon wa
partly exhumed on the farm owned b.
Nicodemus A. Spindler. five mile
northwest of Waterloo, and several O
the teeth and pieces of the tusks wer
brought TO the city and placed on e,
hibition at the Press office. The tuslSs
allowing fair amount for taperin
ends, would measure Is feet. and tn
mastodon is thus estimated to hav
I stood IL or 20 feet high. The rest {
the skeleton will be exhumed.
The people of Morgantown. Morga
county. bored 1880 feet in search {
gas, but without success. At thu
depth a second vein of water was er
countered. which gave them unendin
trouble, and the work was stopped.
THE Peoples Oil Co., drilled int
r Trenton rock at the depth of $40 feet
few days ago and secured a 200 barr,
well The oil flowed from the "a
within Al minutes after the drill fir
, penetrated the rock. This makes for
1 good oil wells for Peru.
(. The Elwood tax levy has been r
4 duced from LIE. where it has been fc
A three years, to 81 even.
JOHN BAIRD. well known roller
1 the hot mill at the Elwood tin pla