The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-30
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
A yLow of fine oil was strack near

Peru.
GRAssnoprEgs are destroying wheat
in the vicinity of Ligonier.
AT Valparaiso Tcliff Jones, a retired
business man. committed suicide by
taking morphine.
lr is thought the law and order
league will abandon their fight against
Muncie merchants who keep their
stores open on Sunday.
A MOVE is on foot by the G. A. Il.
posts of the state To change the date of
Memorial day 10 the last Sunday in
May.
The Midland Steel Co, and Ball
Bros, fruit jar manufacturers, of Nun
Gle. have signed the wage scale and
Will soon resume work, the former
plant with 400 hands and the latter
with 1900
The men employed in the Camel
burg mines the other day notified the
local organization that they would
not join the strikers.
HARVEY WILSON, who is worth $780,.
900, was found in the woods near Bour-
bon disguised as a tramp. lie had
been missing for some time, and his
guardian thought him dead.
HERBERT PosroN, at Patriot, charged
with forging notes to the amount of
$1,000, will set up the insanity plea
lie bought store in Kentucky with
the money secured on the notes.
ALoNzo JONES, who eloped with q
young woman about four months ago,
has returned home to kokomo, and
wants his wife to forgive him. The
girl deserted him in Chicago. he says
JOSEPH OCoNNELL. John Blitz and
Patrick OConnell are under arrest at
Warsaw, charged with passing lead
dollars
j. l.. CRowELL. who is under arrest
at Evansville on the charge of bigamy
is wanted in California Tor grand lar
ceny.
WILLIAM GRAY. n convict in the state
reformatory, hid himself in box ear.
which had been in the prison yards,
and escaped.
Louis PAYNE, Henry Smith and John
Finly, young boys, drank large
quantity OF liquor and were found in
an indianapolis alley in dying con-
dition.
The tenth annual commencement
exercises of the Indiana Normal col
lege were held in the Baptist church
in Covington. Though there were but
four graduates. the smallest class ever
sent out, an exceptionally interesting
program me was rendered The new
alumnB are Messrs. Artie L. De Paven,
Hetie A. Griffith, Anna O. Wolfe and
AIDA f. Bostic.
DISPATCH from Bristol says vast
nordes of grasshoppers have appeared
in southern Michigan and surrounding
Bristol, causing great damage to the
wheat crop and large financial losses
The oat crop is also being destroyed.
They are killed by the bushel without
apparent effect.
JOHN FOSTER, n Greenwood livery
man, while killing lot of pigeons
about his stable, brought down a car
rier pigeon which had silver band
about its right leg with the initials
.ls5-W. II. ii. CO., engraved upon the
band. He says he thinks there are
two more in the flock
THE Edinburg council has awarded
contract for an electric lighting plant.
to cost 50. $50. The plant will be erect
ed by Keller & Co, of Columbus
ALBEIT Tricky, of Troy, q, was
killed by train in Jeffersonville.
CHARLES XAVIER was fatally shot
b. Otto Belicher. the result of a quar-.
rel.
AT Anderson. W. c. Compton was
badly burned by bottle of vitrol
bursting in his hands.
FRANK CLINE, an insane boy, of Liz
gonier, hit his father on the head with
an AK. The blow caused insanity.
AT Muncie. Maud and Carrie Long
drank solution of morphine on ban
ter, and both are near deaths door.
Jake Woerner. of Jeffersonville.
while drunk, pushed heavy trunk
over his little child, fatally injuring il.
JOACHIM GUIDEL got verdict for
s., 500 against the South Bend Chilled
Plow Co. at La Porte for the loss of "A
thumb and finger in the defendants
factory.
The effort to close stores and stop
street cars from running on Sunday,
under the old blue law, at Muncie, was
n failure. The sheriff refused to stop
the cars or close the store.
DANIEL SAYRE, among the earliest of
Indiana settlers, who came to Wabash
from his birthplace in Senaca Falls, n.
Y, died there few days ago. aged So
He left six children. among whom
were Warren q. Sayre, speaker of the
lower house of the general assembly
in 1887, and Joel. a banker of Marion
lie assisted in making the original
lines for Wabash a. Erie canal.
COUNTERFEIT silver dollars are ia
at Redkey.
AT Logansport, John O'Mara's fam
lily was poisoned by eating pressed
beef.
A NUMBER of persons charged with
natural gas have been arrest
ed at Alexandria.
A SLIGHT advance will be made In
the wages of window-glass workers
July "a.
COMPANY has been incorporated
Tor the manufacture OF wheels in
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