The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-21
HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

doctors say he VIII recover. lie ana
his wife had separated. lie told his
mother ~Secentiy no had thrown his
wife into White river, and a search
was made. She was found ut the
home OF u relative. and 10 now living
with her sister.
Anderson.-The Anderson Council
OF Women Will try 10 buy tho
former Congregational church prop
erty in this city for $500 within
ninety days, having an option for that
period from the general board OF the
Congregational church. The building
would be made a social center for all
women's clubs.
Lafayette.-James Kirby and Jo-
seph ballard, who tried 20 work
a check game on several stores In the
city. were In court charged with issu.
ing fraudulent checks. Kirby. seven
teen years old. pleaded guilty and was
sentenced TO one to five years at JEFF
~fersonville and fined 800. He had
worked the same game at ~Logansport
and Delphi.
Anderson.=An unknown man. ap-
parently about thirty-hve, supposed
TO be a Hungarian. was fouRd
dead in the Big Four yards. lie had
died from natural causes The man
was known by fellow workmen as
Dick Myers. and was employed with
other men on a railroad grade.
WashlngtOn.-Health officers have
finally succeeded in stopping tho
spread OF measles. There are
three hundred cases In the city.
Mrs. Loretta e. Elsey and Mrs. Lulu
! r.. Clark contracted the disease from
their children aud died when pneu-
{ monia set In.
Shelbyville.-Alonzo Bowman, Sr..
who lived northeast OF Falkland.
was kicked by a horse. and as a
3 result died. At the time OF the acct
e lent he was in the stable feeding the
{ stock. He was seventy years OF age.
and leaves two children.
Washington.-D. l.. Arnett. aged
: thirty, was killed instantly when
he fell from q moving freight
: train. One arm was cut of and the
body was badly mangled. He was
: married, but leaves no children.
6 Sullivan.-Acting on the informa-
: ton of Burton Cassidy. secretary
u Of the state board OF pharmacy.
Sheriff Kelley confiscated liquor found
ID at the stores OF w. L. Hunt and T. A.
Combes OF this city. 1t is said that
charges of illegal sale will be pre-
ferred.
o Warsaw.-It was learned that
e the man calling himself Robert
a NJ. Gray, who robbed Marcus Phillip
sons store and was tracked by his
footprints in the snow. is also wanted
n in Michigan. The night before the
robbery here he entered the store or
q Phillipson's brother IN Dowagiac,
e Mich, and stole more b $l,O0O
Is worth of goods, using the same meth
s DDS as he used here. He did not know
.e that he was roobing the stores OF
n brothers. 1t is learned hat Gray is
j. an assumed name, the man being VIII
le liam A. VanSell OF 6112 Ingleside
street, Chicago. where he has a wife
and three children.
n S%helbyville. = Milton Glover OF
this city was given a verdict
of 81, 900 in circuit court in his suit
against the Shelby County Water, Gas
" & Electric company after the jury had
been out for sixteen hours. Some Of
H. the jurors voted to give him all ne
Is demanded, $4,000, and six voted fol-
Sc, 900 on a number of ballots. March
he IA, 1910, Glover. al employe or the
mpan was sent TO the top OF a pole
a. 10 ~disconnect some wires. His weight
4 caused the pole 70 break on near ths
ground and he was badly hurt
Sullivan.-Lee Brown. nifty year
OF age. a coal miner a
m Farmersburg, was placed In jail here
% on a charge preferred by Lille Brown
10 twelve years old. whom he and hi
AZ wife adopted from the Glen Orphans
home al Terre Haute. The girl
story was told to her school teacher
"a Miss Henrietta ~Berlingmier. She say
On hat Brown has been mistreating he
more than a year. and when she toll
ID Mrs. Brown no attention vas paid q
her complaints.
Shelburn.-Burglars entered tn
-. department store OF w. Z. Mill
& Co. by removing a pane c
glass at the rear. and took two shoi
guns. one automatic rife. six revol'
n. ers. $50 cartridges and 400 shells
B~loodhounds from Hymera wer
20 brought here but failed to develop an
Ia clue.
Observation-Disclosures as 10 n
explosion OF a boiler six mile