The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-02-02
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the murder Immediately after his ar
rest.
Owing to the prominence of the VIC
tim and circumstances OF the crime
the city was plunged into a whirl or
excitement. Police and relatives,
prior to the confession of the assassin.
were completely mystiied by the ap-
parent lack OF motive.
After 1t became known hat Fordyce
had confessed TO the police that he
fired the fatal shot, ugly threats were
heard on the streets. Fordyce was
taken into the third story OF the Grant
county Jail and placed in a separate
cell. Sentiment is strongly against
the prisoner.
Vincennes. - Mrs. Rose Cooper,
thirty-five years old, wife OF Frank
Cooper. was accidentally killed by her
seventeen-year-old nephew, Gladys
Cooper. Cooper grabbed a rifle to XIII
sparrows, and ii was accidentally DIS
charged, the ball passing through MIS-
Cooper's heart. James Weaver. forty
five years old, was scalded to death
when steam was turned into a boiler
which he was repairing. The widow
and three children survive.
Gary-Saloon men of Gary are
much worried by rumors OF a
threatened move on the part of the
Indiana Anti-Saloon league TO enforce
the Sunday closing law. II is reported
hat the league will start impeach-
ment proceedings against the city
prosecutor for failing to enforce the
Sunday closing law.
South Bend.-DeclarIng that her
husband, William Temple, insist
ed that she should cure herself by
faith, that he had been cruel to her.
| that she made an attempt to commit
suicide while on the Pacific coast. Mrs
Paulina Temple, one Of the best
known of the younger social set of this
city. secured a divorce. Mr.. Temple
was formerly a student at Culver
Military academy and is now in the
auto business in South Bend.
n~QlanaDOllS. Inc INtpubiitah
State Editorial association elect
ed the following officers at the an
nual meeting here: President. Leo X
Fesier, indianapolis: first vice-presi-
dent. A. A. Hargrave. Rockville; sec
ond vice-president. John w. Lewis.
Salem; secretary, b. r. Inman. Mid
d~letown; treasurer. Edgar Baldwin.
Fairmount.
Evansville.-Hoping 10 gain fame
and fortune ON the vaudeville
stage, Marjorie Wright, seventeen
years old. living AT Noun City, H.,
who ran away from hcme. was taken
I'm charge by the local authorities and
will be sent to her home.
Kokomo.-Hoard. aged three years.
son of Charles Mason, a farm
er. was drowned in a concrete water
Ing trough on the Mason farm. falling
through a hole cut in the ice.
Plainield.-The fourth of a series
OF farmers Institutes. now be-
ing held in Hendricks county. began
here with a good attendance. A con-
certed effort is being made to estab-
lish permanent joint township insti-
tutes for the instruction Of farmers
I'm better methods. and which will ar
ford opportunity for full discussion OF
I the various problems of agriculture.
this being taken UP I'm the meeting
and referred TO a committee on c gan
ization.
Columbus.-The prisoners in the
/, Bartholomew county jail here were
frightened when the building was
2 perceptibly Jared as II by a nearby
explosion or earthquake, m IL Was
D some time before they were quieted
r Sheriff Miller was In the prisoners de
r partment Of the jail at the time. and
he plainly felt the Jar. No explAna
e ton for the Earring of the building has
been found.
Sullivan. - Thelbert Godfrey
g Charles Gorby and Isaac Gorby plead
ed guilty TO a charge OF having robbed
& the store of V. ID. Cummins. at Hy
y mera. They received sentences o
from one to fourteen years In the STATE
n prison. Joe Gorby. arrested with them
h Is being held. pending an investiga
ton.
Hammond.-While trying 10 thros
a pail of scalding water on
ID number of companions whom he &C
n cused Of ejecting him from a dancinI
ID party. Ella Gragg of Indiana Harbo
le was fatally burned about the face
ID Some ore kicked the pail as Ell
hurled IL and the entire contents pal
Il boiled Elias face.
Martinsville. The highest Jud'
ment for damages ever awarde
I'd by a Jury in Morgan county was give
OF I'm a sealed verdict In the case (
Charles Stilwell versus the andaIl