The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-04-18
--
HAPPENINGS
INDIANA

Noblesville. = Walter N. Evans.
eighty-six years old. died at his
home In this city. following IN illness
OF a week. Among the children who
survive him are A. l. Evans or his
city. Mrs. BENJAMIN Both or Indianap-
oils and Mrs. L. l.. Lybrand OF Terre
Haute. He was in the mercantile.
stock and milling business in this city
for forty years and served one term
as clerk OF Hamilton county. being the
only Democrat elected in this county
since the wal until four years ago. lie
IA a brother OF Major Evans. who
was auditor Of state in the seventies.
and former Representative ia Con-
gress ]. l.. Evans.
Hammond. - Mrs. Albert Palmer
is dying at st. Ma-garet's hos
pital. Doctors say life is being short
ened because she wonder why her
husband, employed at the American
Bridge company's works at Gary, does
not come TO see her. Palmer is in
Jail at Crown Point under heavy guard
on charge of attacking his six-year-
old daughter.
News has been kept from mother
Citizens of Hammond are so enraged
at Palmer that authorities are afraid
20 take him from jail TO hospital.
Acknowledgment Taylor. a tax
icab driver, was assaulted and
very painfully injured by two uniden-
tilted men, supposed TO be relatives or
one of three young women Taylor had
beer engaged to take home from the
skating rink. Taylor says two OF his
passengers were Miss Eta Davis and
Miss Nora Thompson. The other he
does not know. When he stopped the
car in front of the girls homes in the
East end two men jumped into the
car, one holding him while the other
beat him with brass knuckles. Tay-
lor had to be assisted back 10 the tax
icab station.
Terre Haute.-Dr. F. W. Shaley,
after long-distance conferences with
the state board of health. issued an
order quarantining the shanty town
VI liC ~ IN 49,
Now is the opportunity people OF
Terre Haute claim they have been
wanting, to condemn the place and
convert it into a park, thereby getting
rid of a menace and nuisance.
Richmond-Alf. Underhill, charged
with malicious destruction OF prop
erty. was released under $500 bon
He will be given a hearing Monday
1t is alleged that Underhill maliciously
destroyed a section of the Richmond
water works main, which cut of the
city's water supply nineteen hours.
Columbus-On the William Porter
farm heal Flat Rock the high waters
of the recent flood uncovered an In
dian burying and camping ground,
from which many relics are being TAX
en- by sightseers and curio hunters. A
number OF Indian skeletons were UNI
earthed, together with hatchets, pipes.
"niggerhead" stones, etc. Local physi-
clans say that the skeletons are those
of members of the Fathead tribe or
Indians.
New Albany.-The body of an
unidentified man was found IN the
river here. He was apparently about
forty-fve years old, five feet ten
inches tall, and weighed two hundred
pounds. He was dressed like a la
borer, and in his pocket was found
$50, which included a new twenty-dol'
II = 81 "A ~ hall ~ AIodfann
HERE Haute.-Dr. John Ovens
of the state board OF health. who
is here investigating health condi
tons. saws the residents OF Taylor
Vile. the shantytown opposite the city
should not be permitted to re-occupS
their shacks. He says there IL dis
ease in the filthy and unsanitary con
J ditions OF the bottoms, where the VII
) lage is situated. DIR. F. W. Shaley
} county health commissioner. says tn
town must be placed in a sanitary con
dition before the people return to II
; Terre Haute.-C. NJ. Fortune
J Judge OF the circuit court. dc
cided against Grant b. Lemons. wn'
went into court with an appeal from
the decision OF the state board or del
tai examiners, which refused him a
y cense because he did not take an e,
animation. He contended that h
5 should nave a license because he ha
> practiced for ten years. The coui
held that the board did not usurp al
Q thority under the new dental law.
y Franklin.-The floods in Indian
will mean a loss of at least 81,
600 10 the endowment campaign
Franklin college, is the opinion or ID
~ NJ. w. Haynes. who is head OF II
movement. Doctor Haynes, believir
:. the people in the state will be unab
~ TO respond 10 the college need. w
go 10 New York and lay the situate
before wealthy men, who stood reae
TO help in the final endowment NOV
- - 81 e. ~.a-nDr