The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-10-10
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HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

signal timer, killed self by drink
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 SEN
tence
Evansville.-The plant OF the Mon
arch Broom company was de-
stroyed by fire. the loss being esti-
mated at $4,000. with part insur-
ance. The origin OF the fire Is not
known. The plant Is owned by
Meginiar & Phngston. The hremen
saved about $4,000 worth OF broom
corn.
Lebanon.-Rev. Oakel +. Hall. n
graduate OF Wabash college. and
pastor OF the First Congregations
al church OF Boston. Mass, ut a sal
airy OF $4,000. will return TO Indiana
and become pastor OF the Methodist
churches at the villages OF Advance
end New Ross. at a salary OF less tina
one-half what he has been receiving
IN the east.
South Bend. - Thoughts OF an
operation are directly responsible
for the death or 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 +. Stone. pioneer lndianap-
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 In a gas-flled rear 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. h verdict
reads: Il find that Wesley Stahl was
e~lectrocuted 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 molder employed at the works. and
, his head came la contact with the
r light above him.
l South Bend.-"Worry is the worst
f disease in America. in fact, IL is
r Americanitis," declared DR.. Stanley
D l.. Krebs. head of the department OF
psychology OF the University OF Penn
n 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 his 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 I'm attendance, many out
side members being here from various
cities in the northern part OF tn
!, state.
indianapolis. - Governor Ralstol
. gave further expression to his view
on the subject of peace and al
bitration in a letter to Rev. Elder
Russell of the Biblical department Q
Earlham college. In part the govel
, nor wrote: II do not see my wa
clear to a belief in the doctrine OF nor
resistance. because In the last anal,
= sis the qualities OF force. discipiin
4 and ~self-defense are essential, as HI
II man nature is constituted. TO IN
preservation of society and a Chris
e ton civilization. But | can hearth
4 Join you in the promotion OF arbitr'
al ton and the rule of reason and ju
tice as against the law OF force. !
lie the settlement of personal. nation'
Il and international differences"
~ Shelbyviile.-On an Indictment r
&c turned by the grand jury her
William c. Fales. q real estate ma
of Greensburg. was arrested In TIL
city and will be brought here TO a.
ID swer to a charge Of forgery. Robe
Kinney, a yoang attorney here. r
Y: Gently purchased the stock or a men
a furnishing store on account OF II
a death OF one OF the partners ar
Bales took the goods. giving in e
y, change a deed TO a 50-acre farm
in Jennings county. Kinney alleges
ry discovered that the names OF q
rs. grantors. Wilbur r. Ramsey and Bel
NJ. Ramsey. and Of the notary publ
ZeIl C.. Swain. had been forged. I
tried to trace the stock. but found
III had disappeared after being trar
,er ferred TO DR.. c. ". Pagel OF Greer
TO burg.
of Martins ville.-The eleventh annu