The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-09


Grant Superior court. holds the Indi-
ana divorce record. lie disposed Of so
actions the other day. clearing the
docket The day was set apart for the
divorce trials and no other business
was transacted. The court was in ses-
sion from $50 in the morning to 10 at
night Three cases were dismissed
because the attorneys were not ready
for trial. The shortest case was over
in IL minutes. One couple had lived
together but three days The court
room was packed and people came
from miles TO hear the trials and half
a hundred mismated couples were in
court.
The Panic grocery, which created
sensation at Union City by the re-
markably low prices at which goods
were sold, has been seized by the
sheriff
SHERIFF McFABLAN, Of Rush coun-
ty, was arrested and fined at Muncie
FOR contempt of court for refusing to
file papers in divorce case until the
fees We're paid.
DEPosIToRs started a run on the
First national bank at TT Wayne but
when they found they could get all
the money they wanted they soon de-
sisted and redeposited their money.
AT kokomo VIM. Adams and his l3-
year-old son were leading the horses
To pasture, when one of them kicked
at its mate. but missed, the blow
instead striking the boy in the aldo
Ia. - IL
an hour.
AT Muncie George Fox, an old sol.
der, was fatally kicked by vicious
colt.
THERE are II completed oil wells in
the Indiana field
7. A. JACOBS hanged himself in Jail
at Lafayette.
OFFICIAL crookedness is again being
investigated in Delxalb county.
SEVEN shopkeepers were fined at
Muncie for keeping their places open
Sunday.
AN apportionment of 81 4s has been
set aside for each of Indianas 40, $50
school children.
NUMBER of Texas cattle infested
with the Texas tick were killed by the
government sanitary officer at the In
dianapolis stockyards
JOHN BRIGGs, formerly of New AL
bany. was killed in Chicago. where ne
had been employed for the past four
years as switchman in the Rock Island
yards lie was Al years old and leaves
a wife. The remains were taken to
New Albany for interment
The second suit for $40. 900 damages
has been filed at Terre Haute against
DIR. Pence for malpractice. As in the
case of Mrs Standard, of Clay county.
it is alleged that he gave medicine
which caused death while prescribing
for tapeworm. The suit just fled is
by the administrator of the estate of
Mrs Eliza Reinacke, who died in great
agony a few weeks ago in Terre
Haute.
Two hundred or more members of
the State Labor day celebration com
mittee met in Muncie the other even
ing and made reports that show tina,
the celebration there September will
be the greatest in the history of the
organization. Thousands OF strangers
will be there A half-rate or better
will be secured on the railroads
WILLIAM JARBoE. aged is. was ar
rested and placed in Jail at Brazil for
forging the name OF his guardian,
Flod Graham. to note at the First
national bank. Jarboe was recently
released from the Plain field reforma-
tory.
JAMES THOMPSON. aged so, while
painting barn at stanton. fell from
the roof, crushing his skull and in
terna lily injuring him so badly that he
died few hours later
MRS NANCY THOMPSON, aged 55 o..
IIillsd ale, is dead from lock jaw She
fell from a cherry tree ten days ago,
breaking her left leg. She was thought
to be improving, but tetanus set in.
She was widow.
REV THEODORE IiESKLE. graduate
OF Concordia college. St Louis was in
stalled as pastor OF the new English
Lutheran church at Terre IIaute. Rev
the installation sermon.
The following fourth-class postmas.
tiers for Indiana were commissioned a
few days ago: Guthrie, Lawrence
county. Cleopatra Tincher. vice Sam
uel May, removed; Lincoln's Station.
Fayette county, Emma A. Lyons. vice
J. V. Lyons. dead; Magley. Delaware
county, Robert Carr. vice I. Il Zirkle,
removed; Monmouth. Adams county.
J. K. Evans vice l.. y. Grandstaff. re-
signed; Selma. Delaware county. VIM.
Bailey, vice ID. J. Leeper. removed.
A YLY-wHEEL ten feet IN diameter,
which drives the heavy machinery ia
the pulp department OF the Hartford
City paper mills. burst. dcmoishing
the roof and tearing a large hole in
the stone wall Pieces of the wheel
were found buried two feet in the
ground, $50 feet on either side of the
mill. No one was injured
NATURAL gas was struck at Gwyf
vile on Mrs. Anna Poliitt's FART
This is the first well. drilled in that
territory. Excitement is high and
other wells will Immediately be
drilled. The new we'll registers pres.
sure of $50 pounds.