The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-04-25
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HAPPENINGS
INDIANA

: Noblesville. = Walter N Evans
eignty-six years old, died at his
home in this city. following an illness
or a week. Among the children who
} survive MIN are A. l.. Evans or this
city. Mrs. Benjamin Both OF Indianap-
ohs and Mrs. l.. l.. I.ybrand or Terre
haute. He was in the mercantile.
stock and milling business in this city
Tor forty years and served one term
as clerk OF Hamilton county, being the
only Democrat elected in this county
since the war until four years ago. lie
was a brother OF Major Evans. who
was auditor OF state in the seventies.
and former Representative in Con-
gress j.. l.. Evans.
Hammond. = Mrs. Albert Palmer
Is dying at st. M~argaret's hos
pltal. Doctors say life Is being short
ened because h wonders why her
husband. employed at the American
bridge company's works at Gary, does
not come TO see her. Palmer is in
JAN at Crown Dir under heavy guard
on charge Of attacking his six-year-
old daughter.
News has beer kept from mother.
citizens OF Hammond are so enraeed
at Palmer that authorities are afraid
10 take him from Jail to hospital.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Taylor. a tax
lead driver, was assaulted and
very painfully injured by two uniden-
tlned men, supposed to be relatives of
one or three young women TAYLOR had
been engaged to take home from the
skating rink. Taylor says two Of his
passengers We're Miss Eta Davis and
MISS Nora Thompson. The other he
does not know. When he stopped the
car In front OF the girls homes In the
East end two men jumped into the
car, one holding him while the other
beat him with brass knuckles. Tav-
lot mad TO be assisted back TO the tax
icab station.
Ierre Haute.-Dr. F. w. Shaley,
after l0ng-distance conferences with
the state board of health, issued an
oruer ~quarantining the shanty town
OF Iaylorville. To the public he SAYS:
NOW Is the opportunity people OF
ere Haute claim they have been
wanting, to condemn the place and
convert IL into a park, thereby getting
rid OF a menace and nuisance"
Rlchmond.-Alf. Underhill. charged
with malicious destruction OF prop
erty. was released under $500 bond.
he VIII be given a hearing Monday.
IL is alleged that Underhill maliciously
destroyed a section of the Richmond
works main, which cut off the
water supply nineteen hours.
Columbus.-On the William Porter
arm near Fiat Rock the high waters
'l the recent Hood uncovered an In
nan burying and camping ground.
rom which many relics are being TAX
ID Dy s1ghtseers and curio hunters. A
-umper or Indian skeletons were I'M
'arthed, together with hatchets. pipes.
stones. etc. Local Dhvsi-
lans say that the skeletons are those
L members of the F1athead tribe OF
indians.
New Albany.-The body OF an
hloentlned man was found in the
IVer mere. He was apparently about
'rty-nve years old, five feet ten
lches tall, and weighed two hundred
ounds. He was dressed like q Ia
orer, and in his pocket was found
~ which included a new t~wenty-dol-
r bill of the bank of Madison.
HERE Haute.-Dr. John Ovens.
the state board of health. who
mere investigating health condi-
says the residents of TAYLOR
lie, the shantytown opposite the city,
lould not be permitted to re-occupy
.elr shacks. He says there IS dis
-se In the filthy n u~nsanitary con-
uons or the bottoms, where the vii
ge Is situated. DR.. F. w. Shaley,
unity health commissioner, saws the
must be placed in a sanitary con-
lion before he people return TO il.
Haute.-C. NJ. Fortune.
1ge of the circuit court. de-
led against Grant B. Lemons. who
mt into court with an appeal from
decision of the state board OF dem
examiners, which refused him a IL
use because he did not take an ex-
llnation. He contended that he
ouid have a license because he had
icticed for ten years. The court
q that the board did not usurp au-
'rity under the new dental law.
Irankiin.-The floods in Indiana
| mean a loss of at least $40
to the endowment campaign or
inklln college. is the opinion OF DR..
w. Haynes. who is head OF the
vement. Doctor Haynes. believing
people in the state will be unable
respond to the college need. will
to New York and lay the situation
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