The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-13
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HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

fc ticket, Civil war veteran and lodge
member, is dead in Bloomington. He
was a member of the Fourteenth Indi-
ana and received three gunshot
wounds during his service. One OF
them tore through the base OF his
right lung and it was trouble from
that lung that caused his death. He
is survived by one son, Bedford Sud
bury of Des Moines, Ia
Michigan City.-Herman Hahn,
twenty years old, under parole
from the reform school, was bound
over on the charge of grand larceny.
1t is alleged that he stole $3.50 certi-
ficate of deposit from his father, Will
lam Hahn, indorsed 1t and got SEQ.
which lasted him two days. When he
went to the bank for $500 more he
was arrested. Aloysius Spychalski.
seventeen years old, also under parole
from Plainfield, was arrested as
Hahn's accomplice.
Elkhart-A posse of men is
securing the country about here for
an unidentified negro who attacked
Bernice Vincent, seven years old. The
negro, 1t is said, approached the little
girl and. after sending her brother
after candy, dragged her TO clump OF
bushes in the city park. Two men
working in a lumber yard near the
park heard the girls screams and
gave chase to the assailant He Is be-
lieved to have boarded freight train
and escaped.
Frankfort-The longest Jail SEN
tence ever given in the local police
court was that handed Earl Freel,
nineteen years old, OF Charlottesville,
when arraigned before Mayor o. w.
Edmonds, charged with the theft OF
$50 from his employer, Joseph bikes
of Kokomo. Upon his plea of guilty,
he was fined SIS and sentenced to
serve six months. Being without
funds, he was sent to jail for 26S days.
Laporte.-The Valparaiso district
journed, after naming Crown Point
for the next meeting. Officers elected
were: Secretary, Miss Vada Money of
Crown Point; missionary superintend-
ent, Mrs. F. E. Walton Of Gary; junior
superintendent, Prof. j. F. Griffey of
Laporte Miss LaEham Of Indianapo-
lis, state secretary, was here for the
meeting and led several interesting
sessions.
Laporte.-Solomon Shippee, sixty
two years old, drove upon the
Lake Shore track, after he had been
signaled that the crossing was clear,
and was cut into an unrecognizable
mass of flesh and bones by the train.
Ashley Fermen, the gatekeeper, who
had only filed the position of watch
man four days, was reported to be a
maniac The horse was killed and the
buggy splintered to pieces.
helbyville.-Ernest Stricken, TWEEN
ty years old, who accidentally
shot himself in the head July 7 last
with a revolver, was able to leave his
| home for the first time since the acci-
dent. The bullet is still in his brain
and his recovery is regarded as one
of the most remarkable ones on rec
ord. He made trip of three miles to
| Boggstown and return with his father
and did not seem to suffer any Ill eff
fectS from the eXertfOn.
| Petersburg Fires destroyed the
stock barns of Richard Sullivan
and Pearl Postlethwaite, ten miles
east Of here The fires were with
in a few hours of each other and
located two miles apart. Sullivan lost
one mule. besides the contents of the
barn. Loss, $1,000, with no insurance
Postlethwaites loss Is $1,000, with nc
insurance Incendiaries are suspected
Sullivan.-Tom Shepherd, one OF
the principals in a recent pistol
battle at Digger, in which his brother
was killed and three others were shot
was indicted on charge OF attempt
ing to kill Code Burch Henry Cush
man, who shot and killed James Pipes
at Digger several days ago. was In
dicted on a charge of murder in the
first degree.
Shelbyville.-Failure OF the motor
man to see a passenger car or
the indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction
line approaching a freight car and
trailer which he was attempting &c
run on the viaduct at Falkland
caused a collision. in which the trac
ton company suffered loss OF 900
Elyood - Driving an automobile
George Dehority collided with {
motorcycle ridden by Maybon Hum
phreys. The smaller machine was de
molished and Humphreys clothin,
catching on the auto, he was dragged
so feet before the car could b
stopped. He was badly cut ant
bruised, but will recover.