The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-12-05
HAPPENINGS
INDIANA

entertained With dinner.
Gary.-December l has been set
as the trial date for defendants ar
rested in the anti-election riots at
Gary. The cases will be tried in
Crown Point. A special grand jury is
now sitting in Hammond and is ex-
pected to return many indictments.
Shelbyville.-Henry Wits of Union
township was beaten and pain
fully injured by two hunters whom
he ordered from his farm. They used
their shotguns as clubs in the fight.
The matter was laid before the Off
Gals here, but the identity of the as
sailants has not been established.
Observation-Disclosures Morton was
found guilty of the murder Of
Charles Bartle, a fellow inmate at
the Indiana reformatory, by stab
bling him with a shoe knife August 81,
1913, and his sentence was fixed at
life imprisonment. The jury reached
a verdict after having the case two
hours
Princeton.-The strike of the
fourteen machine operators at the
local coal mine ended. word having
been received from Terre Haute that
representatives of the company oper-
ating the mine here and miners had
reached an agreement. The strike
was to have the company taking of
the bit carrier and requiring the oper-
ators to carry their own bits.
Vincennes.-Th last will of Mrs.
Ellen Cohen, who died last week,
was probated. Many requests are
made, principally to nephews and
pieces, besides $500 to Rev. James Gre
goire for masses, 500 to the Altar so
ciety and 5000 TO the benevolent So
cietiee of ST. Francis Xavier's church
and $500 to Bishop Chatard OF Indi-
annapolis for the orphans. The estate
is valued at 100000.
South Bend--The bottom fell out
of the reported antagonism TO Uni
ted States Senator b. F. Shively
when announcement was made by S.
N Stephens of Plymouth that he was
In no way a candidate to succeed the
senator in the upper house OF con-
gress. Representative H. A. Barnhart
of Rochester also issued a statement
to the effect that he was not inter
ested in a movement to bring about
the defeat Of the South Bend man.
notwithstanding letters d.
recting that his body be Gre
mated, Bartlett Wiley. forty-five years
old, a prominent stock and bond sales
man and clubman, blew out his brains.
1t was his second attempt to commit
suicide. friends having saved him No
vember T. when he took morphine
with suicidal intent. Wiley was un-
married. and without relatives.
Fort Wayne.-Joseph Bolere, en-
ployed at the Bass Foundry &
Machine company, yawned while at
work in the foundry and at the same
time kettle of molten metal stopped
and splashed a quantity Of the hot
metal into the mouth of the unfor-
tunate workman. He swallowed it.
and is now in a critical condition at
the Hope hospital. Attending physi-
clans say that even if he should re-
cover it is probable that he will never
speak again.
Muncie.-"Pve got a date to be
married at five o'clock, and I'm
going to keep it if it kills me-" said
Harry Johnson, an electrician, as he
lay on a cot with several fractured
ribs, arguing with physicians to allow
him to leave the hospital. Johnson
had been unconscious for three hours.
as the result of falling from tele-
phone pole. Johnson had his way, and
after physicians had bound him up In
plaster casts, he was loaded into cab
and taken to the parsonage Of Rev. l..
A. Reynolds, where he became the hus-
band of Miss Ethel Stephenson.
Kendalville.-The body Of Charles
Stotts, aged twenty-one, son OF
John Stotts, a farmer near Avilla. was
found in woods eight miles south of
Kendallville. He had gone hunting
early in the day and 1t was presumed
he accidentally shot himself with his
shotgun, there being no known mo-
tive for suicide. All evidence near
the body showed that he must have
lived some time after the shooting.
The body was discovered by neigh
Dor. who was attracted TO the spot by
the continual barking OF the young
mans dog, which refused to go from
the side OF his master.
Columbus.-John F. Kinney, son
Of Justice e. II. Kinney OF this
city, was arrested on an affidavit
filed by the Peoples Savings & Trust
company. charging forgery. A few
weeks ago Kinney cashed a check for
$40 at the Peoples Savings & Trust
bank, which he says he cashed for
stranger while Kinney was racing a
horse at the Kentucky state fair at
Louisville. The check was issued 10
J. Frank Bryant on a Louisville bank
and was signed. or purported to be
signed. by the Kentucky State Fair
association. Kinney gave bond in the
sum of $500.
Warsaw.-Warsaw residents were
greatly excited because OF the kid
naming of TospOh ShultZ the five