The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-09

A DOUBLE calf born IN Cass county
sold for 500.
ANDERSON is preparing for location
Of new factories.
THE Colerick-I Hal tragedy ut TT
Wayne is still a mystery.
FIFTY ear loads of stone are shipped
from bedford daily.
NEARLY all the people are joining
church AT frankton.
OLD veterans are preparing to SO to
Richmond in May.
Hon school girls cheated in EXAM
nation at Middletown and were sent
home in disgrace.
JACK GowpY will rent his farm at
Rushville before going 70 Paris as con-
sui general.
FARMLAND boys perpetrated a fake
robbery and had bloodhounds set on
the track of supposed d~esperadoes.
The Richmond high school has 40
cepted an invitation To take part in an
oratorical contest among the high
schools of the state ut Indianapolis in
May. The Richmond contestant will
be chosen at n primary contest
AFTER two weeks repairing, the
Methodist Episcopal church Of Bed
ford was formally dedicated by Bishop
Thomas bowman the other morning.
At the conclusion of the morning serv-
ices a collection was taken for the for
eign missions amounting to several
hundred dollars.
AFTER making an unsuccessful at
tempt TO commit suicide by severing
an artery in one of his arms, Charles
Peters, of Hammond, repaired to an
Clubhouse and finished the job 10y hang
ing himself. Dependency over do
nestle troubles is supposed to be the
cause. Deceased leaves a wife and five
children.
WORD was received at Anderson the
other day by Sheriff John Starr Thar
John Patton, a colored man VINO had
escaped from Jail there last December,
had been arrested in Toledo. and an
officer was sent to return the prisoner.
At the time Patton esca ped he was I'M
der a two-year sentence for shooting a
colored man in Alexandria
GEo. PATTERSON, prominent citizen
of knightsvil!e, was seriously. il no.
fatally, INJURED in runaway accident.
His companion, John Allen. was also
injured.
AT indianapolis a horse attached to
a laundry wagon INDUCED in a run
away and fell the other evening. Il
as Benjamin France, a fireman on the
Monon road, was assisting in releasing
the animal he was kicked in the stom-
ach and fatally injured.
JACOB NANNEss' barn. two miles west
Of E!wood. was burned by incendiarics
the other night.
EARLY the other morning Geo. Huff
stetter's big barn, near Scion. Clark
county. was burned by incendiaries
Eight cows farming implements and
grain were destroyed. The loss was
1900. with no insurance..
JAMES LovETT. sheriff of Hunting
ton county. went TO Hartford City a
few days ago and took charge Of Fred
Nichols and Dun Highland. two burg
lars arrested there. They are wanted
for burgiarizing three stores at Mt
Etna. huntington county.
AT indianapolis, Edward Shingler,
the five-year-old son Of William Shin
gler, the Bates house engineer. while
IAi 4tE WIN "a AaAiIA > Ia
tally shot himself.
WHILE repairing some fencing James
Lower, Of Walker township, Rush
county, lost an eye. A staple glanced
backward and struck him in the eye,
splitting the eyeball. The sight of the
ether eye is endangered
EARLY the o:her morning the body
of Elias Ledford was found in n woods
on the outskirts OF Alexandria by Mat
Benger. 1t was lying face down. Two
bullet holes were discovered in his
breast. Ledford was Respondent over
losing $50 while gambling the night
before-his entire savings. lie was 20
years Did.
JAMES Il. RoDMAS. tie forger who
was sent up from Richmond to serve
two years in the prison south at JEFF
~fersonville. has made rapid progress.
His brightness earned for him an easy
position. lie is s~tenoyrapher and type
writer in one OF the contractors offices,
is looked upon AS a model prisoner. and
is a great help to the prison officials.
The Developments when Rodman was
on TRIAL showed him one of the clever
est and most successful forgers in the
country.
THE Marion high school class this
year will include % graduates, with
the boys outnum bering the girls.
LOVE MORGAN, for assault with in
tent to kill Matthew Lyons, was sent
to prison for two years from Madison.
q. w. McCAMMoy, the Farmersburg
Ascending agent who skipped out
with So, 500 OF the Adams Express Co.'S
money about one year ago, was landed
in the Sullivan Jail.
AT Curtisvillc Roley Ruse, a young
school teacher. shot Gilbert Hadley,
who charged use with insulting his
wife.
DURING her husbands absence, Flora
Moran, of Boston. elopcd with q ped
der.
STATE STATIsTrcrAN THOMPSON adj
mits that his accounts are mixed, and
has offered to resign.
AT Wabash Frank J.. Rcttig was se-
vereiv injured by the explosiou Of resin