The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-23
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

building.
Ar Union City highwaymen held Vi
. young woman
The TT Wayne presbytery will meet
Mt Goshen April 10
ELwoop will invest $50, 900 in a new
school house.
CANDIDATES for West Point will be
examined at Cam bridge City April 80.
BEN NORRIS, An attorney at Rich
mond, has become insan on the sub
ject OF s~piritualism.
"BRlDGEr," n Maltese cat at West
port, cares for n brood of little chick
ems as carefully as would an old hen.
ROBERT !. PATTERSON, of Muncie, is
preparing a poem on Lees surren-
der, which will be read at the state
G. A. II. encampment at Richmond in
May.
THREE tailor shops were burglarized
at TT. Wayne.
A GIRL gave birth to twins in a wag-
on ut Column BUS.
Two boys died at English from eat.
ing wild parsnips-
FULL-BLoop Miami Indian is serving
On n jury At Marion.
HEARsE horses ran away at Brazil,
injurlng two people.
ANDERSON democrats want William
j. Bryan to address them.
MRS DIR. ROBERT T.. DAVIS, wife of
the grand senior warden of the d
fellows of Indiana, had four teeth ex-
tracted and hemorrhage set in. 1t ON
tinued until her friends were greatly
alarmed lest it end in death.
GEO. G.. CoLIToS. a young farmer of
Bedford, shot himself through the
heart with a doub BILE barreled shotgun.
He was to have been married in a few
days. and it is said his fancee Tilted
him, causing his rash act.
A DOSE of laudanum ended the trou-
bles of Alva Campbell at Charlotte.
A WOMAN at Laporte depended upon
faith cure and died in awful agony.
WILLARD w. sIMoNs. Of Plymouth,
HARRY WELLs, charged with man
slaughter at Paoli, was not convicted.
EiGHr-year-old son OF Rev. Barley
burned to death in a field near Bluff
ton.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN GEORGE w. COOPER
has zone TO New Mexico for the benefit
Of his health.
AT South Bend. Mrs. Amanda Mat
thes, in making chocolate cake, used
the contents OF a can containing rat
poison for baking powder. The whole
family ate OF the cake, and it took the
doctor nine hours to bring them
around again.
The following postmastcrs for lndi-
ana were commissioned a few days
ago: Acton, Marion county, Joel T.
Sutherland; Foraker, Elkhart county,
JOS. Hoover; Montmorenci, Ti%ppecanoe
county. Overton J.. Styner.
I. 7. STULTz, of Jacksonville, was
the other day elected president OF the
Southern Indiana Teachers ~associa-
ton. Terre Iaute was selected a. the
next place of meeting.
Miss SUSIE SLOAN, aged 1S years,
was seriously injured and disfigurcd
for life while attempting to pat a Ben
gal tiger in Wallace's circus at Peru.
The girl was saved by the prompt ac-
ton of the keeper.
WILLIAM Cox, who was sent to the
pen for two years for completely in the
murder of William Foust, il free
once more and at home with his par.
ents at Elwood. He insists that he
was wrongfully convicted and has be.
gun an Investigation of the murder,
to bring the real criminal to justice If
possible.
TRAMP at Lawrencebur g was given
~turpentine with which to battle his
rheumatic limbs, and the pain it
caused was SO severe that the poor fell
low jumped into the river, but was
rescued.
The Noblesville Christian church,
by a unanimous vote, has decided to
build a new church this year A com
mittee consisting of Judge X. r. steph-
Martz and Hon. James l.. Evans was
appointed to solicit funds.
THE s~emi-anaual meeting of the
Muncie P~rcsbytery began at Marion
the other night with an address BY the
retiring moderator, Rey. C. +. Fowler,
Of Albany. About seventy-five are ex-
pected. The Muncie Presbytery in
cludes Howard, Delaware. Randolph,
Jay, Huntington, Wabash, Madison
andsGrant counties.
The central hospital for insane 10
crowded and the inmates sleep on the
floor
GLAsswoREERs Mt Mario returned
to work after being out or a strike for
three years.
THE Morristown council has passed
q curfew ordinance.
L. d. MOORE, ex-city marshal of
Mitchell. has been released from pris.
on, where he was sent for killing two
men.
HUMAN bones and skulls are scatter
ed over a cemetery at Hartford City.
left there by men who had the contract
for removing the bodies.
BLUFFroN is to have paved streets.
YOU'VE PEOPLES UNION held G session
at Wabash.
THE Soldiers memorial hall will be
built at Wabash
The laws of bunker church govern
ment will be revised.