The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-05-16
HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

South Bend.-After lying hid
den for more than thirty years and
having been the object OF a search COW
ering almost twenty years. papers
which may mean a fortune for the de-
s%cendants OF l.. s. Watkins. prom
inent %hnancier. who died in 1850, have
been recovered.
The papers consist OF stock in vari-
Gus oil companies organized In the
early history OF the oil industry In the
United States. and have been turned
over by Lewis c. Landon OF this city.
grandson OF Watkins. 10 the Mer-
chants National bank to ascertain
their value. They will be forwarded
to New York.
Wrapped in the packet of parchment
which was accidentally discovered in
a castaway trunk in St. Louis. is a
story OF a fortune woE and lost and
gained again The par value OF tho
stocks is approximately $4,000. Be
sides Landon. who is a prominent
druggist of this city. other relatives
interested in the discovery are George
Landon. his brother and Mrs. Joel Par
ker. an aunt. both of ST. Paul. and II.
c. Watkins of South Bend. 4 son OF the
financier. The discovery is largely the
result of the efforts OF Lewis Landon,
who became interested in the search
about nineteen years 60. while visit
ing his grandmother in st. Louis.
While glancing over an old diary
Landon became acquainted with the
details of his grandfather's early op-
GRAFTON In the oil business.
Watkins was one of the first to en-
ter the development of this industry
and is said to have been n Of the
first partners OF j. ID. Rockefeller.
Wabash.-Esta Cook, postmaster
at Evansville, near here, made
a confession to Inspector Piatt that he
had forged the names OF prominent
and wealthy residents Of North Man
chester, Laketon and Wabash to notes
in an attempt to collect 81, 1000. Bank
ers here and at Roam, where the
paper was presented, refused TO ad-
vance the money. AS the negotiations
we're carried on through the mail I'M
der an assumed name some time was
required in establishing the mans
identity. The Inspector informed
Cook his resignation would be de-
manded at once. His accounts as
postmaster were found in good shape.
MISUNDERSTANDING city sent be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 to other
counties for the aid of flood sufferers.
according to a final statement just
made by Secretary Charles H. Spring
er of the Bloomington Commercial
club. At a special meeting OF the
Monroe county council appropriated
s2,334.S9 for the construction or
} bridges and other public work made
necessary by the food.
Petersburg.-The jury, after DELHI
Grating less than two hours in the
case against John Black for attempted
wife murder, returned a verdict OF
guilty. Black struck his wife on the
head with a gas pipe, infiicting
wounds that came near causing her
Q6dlu. I1e 10 a AOptlCco 1iiPpiCs oA1
for this reason the jury was lenient.
fning him s25 and sentencing him TO
sixty days in jail.
Terre Haute.-Charles Laughlan,
thirty-one years old. a fireman,
was fatally and Redmond Gle
ments, twenty-eight years old, a labor
er, seriously burned in a dust explo-
sion at the Standard Steel works.
Laughlan was burned when a blast
from the furnace of the boiler ignited
a large cloud of dust hat had dropped
from a dust collector which was being
repaired.
New Castelar,. F. A. Bolser,
assistant state veterinarian, has sue.
cessfully experimental with a sam
pie of pneumonia serum sent him by
the Rockefeller institute OF New York.
and is in a position 10 make the as
sertion that a great advancement has
been made in the treatment OF the
disease in both humans and animals.
, South Bend-Ben Kahn, convict
!, ed OF burning his store here, was
sentenced to from two to twenty-one
years in the Indiana state prison. A
motion for a new trial was o~verruled.
but Kahn's plea for bail pending an
appeal to the supreme court was
granted. His bond was fixed at $780,
600.
observation-disclosures that her
husband held her and tried 10 cut
her throat with a knife and that he
had driven her from their home in
s Fountaintown on several occasions by
4 his extreme cruelty. Mrs. Sarah +.
y Inflow sued Samuel A. Inflow for a dt-
g vorce in circuit cour. hers.
Wabash.--While engaged In pa
n pering a room. William Vanvion-
g kef complained of being tired, and sat