The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-03-01

ordinance is adopted the members OF
the charity organization will aid in
every possible way in the enforce
ment of the law. The police depart
ment has been enforcing the orders
of Mayor John o. Wilson to rid the
city of hobos and the result has been
gratifying to the executive.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Keever. thir-
ty-five years old, married, and VIII
liam Sommers, thirty-seven years
old. single, were killed while engaged
in clearing away the freight wreck
which occurred on the c. & O. rail-
way of Indiana here. Both men were
members of the wrecking crew and
were residents of Peru. keever is
survived by q widow and one child.
II is said that the men were engaged
In coupling two cars when another
member of the wrecking crew gave
signal to the engineer TO back his
train, crushing Keever and Sommers
They died in the ambulance on the
way to the hospital here.
Fort Wayne.-Daniel Lytton Hard.
ing died here from heart trouble.
He was 'sixty-nine years of age and
came 10 Fort Wayne from England
more than so years ago. He was
elected mayor on the Republican tick
ct in 1889 and served two years, be-
ing defeated for reelection. He had
for &c years been secretary OF the
Wayne lodge. A. F. and A. NJ, and was
prominent in Scottish Rite work. He
was also one of the prominent insur-
ance men Of Indiana
South Bend-Frank Z. Arnold.
one of the best known young
lumbermen of South Bend and School
craft, Mich, has turned over TO the po-
lice a letter demanding payment of
$500 or forfeiture of his life. Arnold
has no idea who the blackmailers are.
Arnold a short time ago fell heir to
large estate of his mother, Mrs. Man
ley T. Andrews of this city, and it is
supposed the blackmailers, hearing of
the fact, attempted to force him to
pay over the $500.
Newcastle-The police discovered
that the city has been flooded
recently with bogus checks, which To-
cal merchants have cashed and in
each instance given change. dozen
different schemes were worked. and
the merchants, although warned and
using precautions, were absolutely Ia
ken unawares. Spurious coins have
also turned up and the police believe
there is a counterfeiter working In the
| city.
Wabash.-Because OF his opposi-
ton TO the operation of motor
cars on public highways, Ora Abshire,
twenty-five years old, farmer. hurled
an AK at Lewis Bling of Indianapolis
as the latter passed him in an automo-
bile near here. Abshire was arrested.
The ak just missed Bling, and coming
In contact with q tire on one of the
wheels of his car, cut 1T in two. The
farmer was i'm a wagon when the auto
list passed him on a country road.
aged eighty, who has been sick
for some time, is now in crit
ical condition. X. NJ. lands of Chi
cago, United States district judge, is
here in answer to a summons DIR.
John Lands of Cincinnati, head of the
IF hnt oil anf
former Congressman Charles b. Land
is of Washington have been notified
of their mothers serious Illness.
Marion.-Three boards of count,
commissioners will be in session
at the Grant county courthouse
on February 80, the boards being those
of Grant. Wabash and Huntington
counties. The tri-county meeting is
for the purpose of passing on matters
pertaining to the building Of county
line roads. During the past veal
Grant and adjoining counties have
constructed several line roads.
indianapolis. - James Ryan. ALA
Jack Quinn, of Cincinnati, VIII
robbed the post office at Swazee las
July, pleaded guilty in the fedora
court. Judge Anderson sentenced hin
to the prison at Leavenworth, Kan
for five years. Ryan is ffty-four year
old. and had served ten-year sen
tence previously at Leavenworth. hay
ing been convicted of post office rob
berry in Illinois.
Terre Haute.-Ray Heiney. mans
: ger of the light and water plan
of Jasonvile, probably saved HIS III
by rolling in the snow when his clotl
ing took fire from n gasoline explt
sion. His burns are serious.
Alexandria. Charles T.. Baxte
forty-five years old. Is dead q
his home I'm Orestes. three mile
west of here. lie had just finished
conversation with one OF his friend
when he toppled TO the floor deat
Measuring fivo feet six inches tn
aud sixtv inches around the walls