The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-16
INDIANA STATE NEWS

an UNKNOWN person Is supplvin
children with whisky at Mooresvill
The cornerstone for the new cour
!. house at Knox, Starke county, WI
: laid July 4
GEO. WooD, OF Muncie, attempted
commit suicide because his sweetheal
: had died.
The receipts OF the revep re collects
at Ierre Haute for the fiscal year ju,
ended amounted TO s6,ol7, 900.
ERNEST MISDERMAS. of near Prince
ton, claims that he has found gold i
paying qualities on his farm.
RIOT occurred at picnic /
Wright's woods, near Jacksonville
In which John Langdon and Johl
Walker were fatally stabbed.
THOMAS ROGERS, of E,wood, who's
foot had To be amputated because O
injuries inflicted by an N-ray machine
died from the shock.
SIXTEEN hundred men began worl
In the tinplate factories at Elwood anc
Montpelier, the other morning Tn,
mills had been temporarily shut down
IHE Grand Trunk passenger depot
at Valparaiso was destroyed by fire
the other night Loss, IS. 600 Girls
threw neutrality-suspicious. under the
porch.
DANIEL GEORGE and John Ellis quar-
relied over their bicycles at Crawfords.
vile and George was fatally wounded
by bullet fred by Ellis.
EMERSON J. DIXON. drug clerk. was
drowned while swimming in Eagle
creek. near indianapolis.
SPOILERS are said to be numerous on
pennsylvania trains in Indiana
COUNTERFEIT coins are in circulation
1T Muncie and Redkey.
MRS SADIE BUsKIRK, a circus rider
tried TO commit suicide at Muncie by
taxing morphine. She will recover
The Richmond conference of the
joint Lutheran Synod of Ohio and In.
aiana Will convene at Richmond.
JOHN 5. SPANS. a pioneer of In.
diana, who came to indianapolis in
1880, is dead. At one time he was
owner of the State Sentinel. For 80
years Mr.. Spann had been engaged in
the real estate business.
lHE pea season with the Franklin
canning factory has just closed. and
100000 cans have been prepared for
the market Probably seven hundred
persons have had employment during
the season in various ways.
JOHN HENRY BREES, an eccentric old
man living by himself on his 4o-acre
farm, near Auburn, was found near
his home unconscious, his face. BODY
and limbs bruised, fatally beaten with
club. He never carried any money.
nor is he known to have had anv
money. The whole affair is a mystery |
which the officers can not solve
AT the Fourth of July celebration at
Valland, three miles ives, of Browns.
town, the ten-year-old daughter OF
Joseph Duncan was accidentally shot
and seriously wounded She was sit.
ting about 20 yards from a shooting
gallery, when some one missed the
target
HERMAN RUDOLPH, aged 10. was
drowned while swimming at Robinson
park. TT Wayne He was the only
support Of his widow mother.
AT Muncie, George Wood the other
,ight, for the second time within a
week, attempted to take his own life.
lie was respondent over the recent
Heath of his cousin, to whom he WAS
,etrothed.
HERMAN RANDOLPH. aged 10, while
,athing at Ft Wayne. was caught in
he weeds and drowned before he could
,e rescued
IN collision of an electric car with
trailer at Indianapolis the trailer
vas wrecked and several people were ,
eriously hurt. .
AT ureen held Depot Henry McKin-
'ey, after attempting to kill his broth
r-in-law, VIM. Richey, severed his own
with knife. ]
The marriage of Grant milford
ged 80. and Cora milford. Is. was de. ]
Jared void by the court at Rising SIM
n account of the youthfulness of the .
ride. :
ELKHART will have a new carriaue !
actory employing les hands. 4
The state encampmento OF the knights '
I st John met at Charlottesville few r
avs ago. Il
AT Crown Point Charles O Wallace Il
q employe of the Pan Handle COM =
any, was run over and mangled bv
lssenger train No. IS, dying almost o.
stantly. He attempted to jump from e.
he train while in motion and was l.
ragged under the wheels lie leaves y
family. h
AN industrial parade in which there HI
ere lS2 firms represented was the 8
ature of the Fourth in Columbus
the afternoon 1000 people were :,
escnt at the races held at Crump's n
lrk. At night the city was a blaze of g
'eworks- There was none of the -
ual accidents m
MRS H. +. WILEY. for many years co
resident OF South Bend, died at the OF
me of her daughter, Mrs. Lester +. h.
lker. She was born in Vermont in Ii
DO.
JAMES BLAKELY. while bathing in 81
e river at South Bend. struck n ~
ringboard n diving, was knocked tn
useless and drowned. co
IoHAN Witt. while working in a hav I'M
Id near Laporte, was overcome bv r.
Q heat and his death ras,l,~s T.. 80