The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-10
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HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

| day, by the terms OF his Will gave
| s2,250 TO the Reid Memorial hospital.
The gift was made, according to the
will, on account of a favor done
Brookins several years ago by Daniel
G.. Reid, multimillionaire of Kew York.
formerly a resident of Richmond. One
hundred dollars Is also bequeathed TO
| Miss Rhea Reid.
Several years ago Me. Reid told
Brookixs that he would assume $3.50
on note which the Second National
bank held against the elderly negro II
he would remember the Reid Memoir
ial hospital with a gift when he died.
Although Mr.. Reid gave 100000 to
the Reid Memorial hospital. and was
much interested in its maintenance,
he made the proposition to Brookins
rather in jocular manner. Brookins
was the most influential of the colored
race in Richmond and left an estate
valued at upward of $4,000.
| Fort Wayne-Senator Kern has
been notified of the desire of the
waterways commission TO hear him or
ary-of his constituents at the public
discussion on the Fort Wayne-Toledo
| portion of the route of the proposed
canal from Lake Erie to Lake Michi-
| gan, at the Anthony hotel in this city
November 2. and possibly on Novem-
Der 3. In reply to the announcement
of the hearing, Senator Kern has
stated he will be present unless pre-
vented by the Lorimer investigation,
he being a member of the inquiry COM
mittee.
| Shelbyville. - James j. Corbett,
sixty-two years old, who says his
home is at Chicago, entered a plea OF
not guilty in circuit court here to
charge of child stealing, and will be
| given an early trial. He was brought
here from Toledo. o., and IS accused
Of having enticed Harold c. Albert,
| thirteen, away from his home here
three weeks ago. He had been held in
| the workhouse at Toledo since the
boy was located in his company at
| that city.
Terre Haute.-Paying a bet they
| lost on the recent worlds series,
six Terre Haute girls walked TO Brazil,
Ind, Is miles. The girls were on the
road six hours. They returned on an
| interurban car. The walkers were the
Misses Elizabeth Heidenreich, Edith
! Ophoff, Carmen Felthoff, Kate Hep
pen, Edith and Julia HenbesSy. They
are members of social cub and took
an active interest in baseball affairs
olumbus.-The teachers In the
Lincoln school building have hit
on an effective plan for identifying
the grounds about the building They
are having the pupils of the school
sell soaps and other toilet articles, on
which they make 80 per cent profit,
and the profit will be turned into a
general fund which will be expended
for shrubs, vines, flowers. ETC. AL
ready the children have raised $50
for the fund
Richmond The annual meeting
of members Of the Association
of High School Principals OF north
ern Indiana is in session here.
Various phases Of high school work
will be discussed The affair opened
with a luncheon at the high school
and Prof l. E. Neff, principal of the
Richmond high school, entertained the
visitors at the Richmond Country
club.
Attica.-Five trainmen were in
jured, one fatally, at the Indiana
gravel pit near here, when a fast
freight on the Chicago & Eastern ILL
nois railway collided with gravel
train. Fireman John Clingerman of
Brazil, of the fast freight jumped and
received fractured skull, a fractured
jaw and badly torn arms and legs. He
was taken to his home, where his
death occurred
anapolis.-Christian Piel, six
ty-seven years old, died at the
city hospital here, following an at
tempt to commit suicide at his home.
He was found in an unconscious con-
dition by his niece, with a bullet
above his heart. A revolver was found
lying alongside of Piel. He said that
he was tired of life.
MISUNDERSTANDING a mysterious
fire Of week ago, which burned
the pulpit of the Christian church
at Jewell, the discovery was
made that the carpet had been cut
about the pulpit and ruined The
church authorities are at loss to un-
derstand the motive
Charities Conference Is On
indianapolis. - The state confer
ence of charities and correction
Is In session here and will continue
until Tuesday. Among the speakers
are: Jane Adams OF Chicago and