The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-10-17
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HOOSIER NEWS
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ing carbolis caid after a quarrel
with wife to whom he had been mar
ried a short time.
Evansville.-After being. out less
than an hour the jury in the case
of William Springer. charged with the
murder of Anna Gray here last sum
mer, brought in a verdict of guilty and
fixed life imprisonment as the GEN.
tence
Evansville.-The plant Of the Mon
arch Broom company was de-
stroyed by fire. the loss being esti-
mated at s10.0 900. with part insur-
ance. The origin OF the fire is not
known. The plant is owned by
Meginiar & Pfngston. The fremen
saved about $4,000 worth OF broom
corn.
Lebanon.-Rev. Oakel F. Hall. a
graduate OF Wabash college. and
pastor Of the First Congregations
al church of Boston. Mass. at a sal
airy of $500, will return TO Indiana
and become pastor of the Methodist
churches at the villages OF Advance
end New Ross, at a salary Of less than
one-half what he has been receiving
in the east.
South Bend. - Thoughts OF an
operation are directly responsible
for the death of Samuel Rush OF this
city. Rush's physicians told him he
must undergo an operation for the re-
moval of a cancer. At the words
Rush became pale. gasjed, and drop
Led dead. The shock is said TO have
brought on heart failure. He was
sixty-three years old.
Indianapolis.-Dr. Ralph S. Chap
pell. deputy coroner. returned a
verdict of suicide in the death OF DIR.
Richard F. Stone, pioneer Indianap-
oils physician and author, who was
asphyxiated in his Irvington Office,
222 South Emerson avenue. James
Ostrander and Charles Sinner testi-
fed to having found Doctor Stones
body lying IL a gas-flled real room,
with a gas jet open. Mr.. Sinner said
he had known Doctor Stone for years
and he believed suicide was prompted
by a lack of practice and financial
troubles.
Marion=Dr. V. V. Cameron, cor
oner, in a verdict filed concerning
The death, August %, OF Wesley
Stahl, killed by electric shock at the
Marion Malleable Iron Works, holds
that corporation ~resonsible for the
young mans death. The verdict
reads: Il find that Wesley Stahl was
electrocuted by coming in contact
with a defective lamp hood. and that
the Marion Malleable Iron Works
should be held responsible for his
death for permitting defective hoods
on lamps in the factory" Stahl was
a moIder employed at the works. and
: his head came in contact with the
r light above him.
/ South Bend.-"Worry is the worst
f disease in America. In fact, 1t is
r Americanitis," declared DR.. Stanley
, l.. Krebs, head of the department OF
psychology OF the University of Penn
, s~ylvania, in an address here before
D the Ad-Sell league of Northern In
diana. Doctor Krebs declared worry
is the most serious disease in Amer
lea. He said this trouble is under
mining the American nation. Doctor
Krebs spoke at the first monthly din
nsr of the organization of the new
fall season. About two hundred per-
sons were in attendance, many out
: side members being here from various
cities in the northern part OF the
state.
indianapolis. = Governor Ralston
: gave further expression TO his views
; on the subject of peace and ar
bitration in a letter to Rev. Gilbert
Russell of the Biblical department OF
Earlham college. In part the COVER
nor wrote: Il do not see my way
clear to a belief in the doctrine of non
resistance, because in the last analy'
= sis the qualities of force. discipline
: and selfdefense are essential, as hu
i man nature is constituted, TO the
preservation of society and a Chris
g ton civilization. But | "a heartily
join you in the promotion Of arbitra
Il ton and the rule Of reason and jus
tice as against the law of force. In
Ie the settlement of personal. nationa
II and international differences"
y Shelbyville.-On an indictment re
< turned by the grand jury here
William C. Fales. a real estate mar
of Greensburg. was arrested in tina
city and will be brought here TO an
ID swer TO a charge OF forgery. Rober
lie Kinney. a yonng attorney here. re
?; Gently purchased the stock OF a men
a furnishing store on account OF tn
a death OF one of the partners ans
N Bales took the goods. giving in ex
y. change a deed TO a 5o-acre farm II
in Jennings county. Kinney alleges h
ry discovered that the names OF IN
s. grantors, Wilbur r. Ramsey and Bell
NJ. Ramsey, and OF the notary public
Zell C. Swain, had been forged. II
tried to trace the stock. but found
i'll had disappeared after being trans
ferred to DR.. c. W. Pagel OF Greens
TO burg.
OF Martinsville.-The eleventh annua