The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-05-14
INDIANA A NEWS.

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tinuous racing proposed in Lake coun-
ty, under the new arrangements with
tracks at Forsyth, Hammond and
Crown Point. Gov. Noun: called the
attorney generals attention To the an
-nouncement that another meeting was
to open at one of the other tracks,
and Attorney General ketcham said:
s.Two years ago, when they were
racing at Roby, sheffield and Forsyth,
all tracks being adjacent, / went be-
fore the supreme court n insisted
that the tracks were practically one
and the same within the understands
ing Of the law. The supreme court up
held my position and stopped the con-
tinuous racing, but with the tracks
separated miles apart. as they are now
proposed. | do not see how | can claim
they are the same This will proba-
bly, settle all opposition to continuous
racing from that locality.
WHILE setting a hand line in White.
water river, B~rookville, William j.
Ashley, aged IS, and Gerd Werst fell
from their boat in IL fee of water.
Werst safely reached the shore, but
Ashley was drowned.
AT Washington Frederick stump, q
w~ell-known meat dealer, was found
dead in his slaughter house having
hanged himself to a pulley on account
of financial troubles.
TIE enumeration of school children
in Montgomery county shows a slight
gain over that of last year.
THE hotel at the Shades Of Death, in
Montgomery county, will open up on
May Is in charge of Scott Steele, of
Cravfordsville.
FRANK WETzEL, an engineer on the
Pennsylvania railroad, was killed in
his cab, near Chestnut ridge, by a
broken parallel rod on his engine.
THE AMOUNT of the alleged defalca-
tons OF Thomas X Lucas and Fred
Lucas, Of Huntington, is now put at
S35, 900.
THERE have been Is cases OF diph-
liberia in the home OF the board of
children's guardians, Terre Haute,
where children taken by law from
their parents or guardians on account
of vicious surroundings, are kept until
homes are found for them. There was
but one death, a child named Benight,
whose parents were divorced about the
same dav that the child died.
Miss FLORA EVANS, of Portland, has
brought suit against the Lake Erie &
Western railroad for $50, 900 for the
loss of a leg and an arm. She was u
down by a freight train.
MUNICIPAL elections were held in
five towns in Grant county. Returns
indicate republican gains. Upland, a
democratic stronghold. elected but
one democratic official out of five.
AT Rockport the town election oc
Cured the other day and resulted in
the success of ali but one on h re-
publican ticket by majorities ranging
from 1856 to As. Councilman James
Richardson, democrat, was elected by
Is majority.
THE town election at kentland re-
suited in n draw between republicans
and democrats There was no atten-
ton paid to party lines, and scratching
was The officers elected are:
Councilman, John s Higgins, repub-
lican; city clerk, s L.. S~ammons, dem
ocrat; treasurer. j. V. Dodson, repub-
lican; marshal, Daniel Zumbrum, dem
ocrat.
WILLIAM II. GErzANDANNER, aged
IS, and one of the best known citizens
OF Monroe county, died the other
morning. He was an old soldier and
bad lived in Bloomington for SO years.
Mrs. ELIZABETH NASH, aged SIS, died
the other night, the result of old age.
She was a pioneer of Bloomington.
MATTHEW Ii. CLARK, a contracting
timer at Rushville. tried to commit
suicide by hanging himself with a pair
Of drawers tied to a bed post. His lit
tie daughter summoned the neighb ors,
who cut him down He then went to
a medicine chest in his room and drank
the contents of several bottles of med
icine. Among the other stuff he tool
was a bottle of stove polish. Clark
has been respondent for some time.
THE cattle of l. +. Hunt, near Arba,
Randolph county, are afflicted with a
new and fatal disease. When they are
attacked they become blind, although
their eyes appear to be unaffected
They live from three to six hours after
the first symptoms. After death they
bleed at the ears and eyes Mr.. Hunt
has lost four head from this disease.
1t was thought by some that the cattle
had been poisoned, but Mr.. Hunt does
not believe it. The farmers in that
community are greatly alarmed.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. L.
W.. Block, of Valparaiso, the other day,
weighing Is ounces. 1t is strong and
healthy.
THE shoe factory at Wabash was
cold at public auction by the receiver.
AN animal that resembles a man
was found in the woods near New
Sailor.
SENATOR FAIRBANKs has returned to
his home at Indianapolis for a brief
rest.
PROF. JAMES PIERcY, of Anderson,
was in Jeffersonville the other day in
the interests of his candidacy for the
superintendency Of the Jeffersonville
city schools Prof. p. y. Stultx, the
present incumbent. will retire after
eight years Of faithful service. Prof.
Percy will most probably be elected,