The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-09-26
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HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

OF MI anu hio- W IL "ithiOh
of Los Angeles. Cal. which start
ed last June ended in jail at
Huntington. when the couple were ao-
cused OF stealing a horse and buggy
from Frank Glass. liveryman- With
rom told the police he and his wife
were held up and robbed in Kansas
City. They landed broke in Hunting
ton. rented the horse and buggy 10
visit friends and tried to sell H.
Hammond.-Two Elkhart young
people shot themselves because
their parents refused to grant them
permission TO leave home Orris Fouts,
aged seventeen, in the presence of his
mother put bullet in his head be
cause she refused TO let him go TO
South America. He will die. The
mother is in the hospital. Miss Ger
trude Conklin, aged eighteen, shot her
self below the heart because her moth
er refused her permission TO attend a
theater.
Observation-Disclosures Hurst. a de-
mented stone mason, placed
stick of dynamite under each of the
beds in which his children slept, tied
two charges of the explosive TO him
self and ignited them. Only those
tied to his body exploded. and he and
his seventeen-year-old daughter.
Maude. were killed. two other children
and his wife we're hurt and their home
was damaged. He had been separated
from his wife six weeks, and she re-
fused to let him return.
I.aporte.-After an all day and
night search for a missing child in
which hundreds of farmers of Starke
county joined, followed by a crazed
mother praying for the finding of her
child, little Treva BOwser, aged eight
months who wandered away from
home was found dead in the bottom
of a ditch into which she had fallen.
death resulting from drowning. The
mother, 1t is feared will lose her rea-
SON
Laporte.-Mrs. Wilhelmina Tetz-
laff. aged seventy-five years, was
arrested at the instigation OF the state
fire marshal. charged with arson.
Mrs TetZlaff is alleged TO have left
her home, travelled a distance of l6
miles setting fire to the buildings on
her sons farm after having been in
hiding until late at night. The son
refused to prosecute his mother. The
state authorities taking the action.
Goshen.-Charles f. Miller, agent
for the United States Coal com
i,,Cf x.-ho, ha
touring car in which he was returning
TO his home from Elkhart ran into
ditch and overturned. r. F. Ayers OF
Cleveland, who was riding with Mr..
Miller. was seriously injured. The
steering wheel of the machine broke
as the car rounded a curve.
South Bend.-Merritt Price, pa
rolled from the Michigan City prison
last July, was arrested In Elkhardt,
charged with stealing more than TWEEN
ty bicycles in South Bend. and is be
ing held in jail here until the prison
officials investigate his case. Price is
said to have sold the stolen bicycles
to farmers
Evansville-Charles J. Schrick. a
young business man of Cleve-
land, o., formerly of this city.
died here at the home of his mother
on his first wedding anniversary. He
had come here TO attend family re-
union. He leaves a widow and young
baby.
New Albany.-In the popularity
voting contest for queen of the
centennial celebration TO be held
in this city in October, Miss Martha
Enos was declared winner, receiving
900 votes, or more than the votes
of twenty other contestants combined
Miss Edna Kaiser was second, with
$4,000 votes. More than one thousand
dollars was added to the centennial
expense fund.
South Bend.-News Of the death
of South Bend couple, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Eldred, who have been mis-
sionaries in Africa for several years
was received by relatives here. Mr..
Eldred was accidentally drowned Sep
| TENDER 3. An attack of African fever
proved fatal to his wife Mr.. and Mrs
Eldred represented Christian churches
in the Congo district
Connersville.-Arch Handley, age
twenty-five, Is dead OF blood pol
soning as a result OF trying to ex-
tract a wild hair from HIS lip. The
hair, imbedded under the skin, caused
a tiny ulcer, into which the young
man probed with knife. Later he
pressed on the papule with his fin
gers, trying to force the entrenched
hair out of its place
lainfield.-Ceptral academy, con-
/ Quoted by the Plainfield quarterly
meeting OF Friends, opened for the
thirty-second school year. The trus-
tees announced that domestic
science will be taught by competent
instructors. The equipment is being
installed this week. A course suffi-
GENTLY thorough TO equip teachers in
| that line Is considered for next year.
Manual training will be taught "a
heretofore