The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-05-23

AAO0A(C lAO lC-dppO1ulluGuI OIL LIT.
John F. Spaunhurst of Indianapolis
and DR.. s. G.. Smelzer of Shirley as
members OF the state board of medl-
cal examination and registration.
There was q conference at the Office
Or the governor yesterday afternoon.
IN which friends and supporters OF
various candidates for these places
took part.
South Bend. Thirty-seven young
women will be graduated from st.
Mary's college and academy June
IL. Diplomas will be given TO TWEEN
ty-four graduates from the academic
department, degrees will be con-
ferred upon seven graduates of the
collegiate department and one post
graduate in the. conservatory of music,
and five graduates from the conserv-
atory Of music will receive diplomas.
Columbus.-The Taylorsville Tele-
phone company is having much
trouble because of the cutting
Of wires and poles by persons whose
identity the company is making every
effort to establish. The cutting is
done on land which is in dispute as
to the right of the company to occupy
1t, and as fast as the company makes
repairs the wires and poles are again
cut.
Lafayette. - George West, aged
~thirty-eight, said to be from Indi-
annapolis, was brought here i'm a dying
condition from Earl Park. He was
seen on a freight train with three
companions. one a colored man. He
was found lying insensible on the
track at Earl Park. The doctors say
he is suffering from conclusion of the
brain, and evidently was assaulted and
robbed.
Hammond.-Sacks of United States
mail for Indianapolis and south
ern points, containing drafts and
checks for several thousand dollars.
oSOAOh iCSCAIiy " TIC 1OIOu uCpOb
platform In Lowell, just before the ar
rival of the Chicago-Indianapolis train,
were found riled on the r~ight-of-way
south of the city. Bloodhounds will
be used in an effort to track the
thieves.
Wabash.-A tub of water, used
In her weekly washing and left
In her back yard, saved Mrs. Esta Dix
on's life. While working about a
stove the gasoline exploded, envelop-
ing the woman in flames and igniting
her clothing. Running out of doors,
she plunged into the tub and succeed
ed in extingrlishing the fire.
Columbus.-A meeting Of the
Of the Fourth district
will be held here May %, at which it
is expected more than one hundred
the counties of Brown, Bartholomew,
Jackson, Jennings, Decatur, Dearborn,
Ohio, Ripley, and Switzerland coun-
ties.
Gary. - Richard A. Smith. forty.
nine years old, an E. J.. & z. rail-
road official, was found dead in bed
by his daughter. He had been suffer
ing from facial neuralgia and an over
dose Of c~hloroform, taken to relieve
the pain, is believed to have caused
death. He is survived by a widow
and ten children.
Wabash.-Following the refusal
Of local officials to grant them
a marriage license, Elmer Correll and
York, nineteen and sixteen years
old, respectively, went to a remote
part of the county, where they lived
for six weeks in a howell before their
presence was discovered by the au-
thorities.
Gary.-In the Westville polio,
court. ear Gary, Justice Clara NJ.
Hess imposed twenty-five days i'm
prisonment in the county Jail on
Henry Stoner. The convicted man
threw rocks, breaking Westville shop
windows. Mrs. Hess is the only fe
peace magistrate In northern
indiana.
Shelbyville.-George Hornberger,
twenty-five years old, narrowly
escaped instant death when light
hing struck Charles Worland's barn.
He was knocked unconscious and re-
NAMED in that condition for an hour.
say he will live. Worland
vas also badly shocked. The barn
not fired.
Crawfordsville.-Dr. G.. Frederick
professor emeritus at
)berlin college, eminent in geology,
addressed the opening session of the
indiana Academy of Science here