The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-31
State News
in Brief
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Ads accepted call 10 the paStOrdte OF
the Baptist church
Brazil.-Thomas Burke, who was hit
by rifle bullet during the Fourth OF
July celebration here, will lose the
sight of his right eye.
valparaiso.-Frank Craig. held for
shooting Miss Gusta Newman ct Wa
natah, has been bound over 10 the
circuit court under $4,000 bond.
South Bend.-Because OF III health
James Curtis. sixty years old, commit
ted suicide by drinking poison. He
leaves a widow and two children.
Goshen.-Fred Jarvis and Harvey
Myers of Elkhart were killed when
the automobile in which they were
riding was struck by Lake Shore
train at Bristol
Lebanon.-Harry NJ. Graves, thirty
eight years old, OF Whitestown, COM
mitted suicide by swallowing poison.
He leaves a widow and a daughter. No
reason is known for his act.
ushville-Herschel Cover, twelve
years old, is dead of blood poisoning.
resulting from a stone bruise. He is
survived by his parents, a sister and
brother.
HammOnd.-Fire, believed TO have
been started from a cigar butt, de-
stroyed the German village of the
Athey Hydro Amusement exposition at
Roby. Damage was estimated at $780,
600.
Losantville.-While hunting turtles
Carl Phillips caught four-foot rattle
snake alive and brought il to town.
Before it was killed it bit kitten that
ventured too close and the kitten died
In an hour.
South Bend.-Mrs. Wesley w. Ford
has been granted a divorce because
her husband recently became drunk
at the funeral of his mother-in-law
| tried to sell a team of horses at auc-
ton and had TO be locked up.
Marion.-A jury in police court
found William Daley guilty of run
ming blind tiger" in West Marion
and fined him $50 and costs. to which
was added a jail sentence of 80 days.
DALEY appealed TO the circuit court.
Brookville-Rev. Father A. A Schaff
celebrated his silver jubilee. About
twenty priests from different parts OF
the state were present. Members OF
the congregation presented Father
Schaff with 42S silver dollars on
tray.
Marion.-George Wilson, a prisoner
in the county jail. suffered dislocated
left shoulder when assisting Sheriff
White in putting an insane man into a
cell Wilson had volunteered his aid
when the man was, battling the sheriff
and his deputies.
Elkhart-John McKeen OF Indian
apolis, eighteen years old, fell exhaust
ed in the street here and asserted that
he had had nothing to eat for two
days. He is being cared for at the
police station. He said he had been
in Chicago seeking physician he had
heard could cure him of epilepsy.
Laporte.-Despondent because of a
disagreement with her husband, Mrs
Harry Crane, wife of an expert ma
chinist, endeavored to commit suicide
in Pine lake. but was rescued. She
was unconscious, but a physician re-
vived her. Now she is glad she did
not die
Goshen.-Eating poison, which he
spread upon crackers obtained in the
saloon where he became intoxicated.
Harry Floerkey, thirty-two years old,
tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide
following a quarrel with his wife. A
policeman found him lying helpless in
the rear Of a business room.
Hartford City.-Mrs. Mirinda Bell of
this city, administrator Of the estate OF
her son, Roy r. Bell, who was killed
in Indianapolis in a fall from a build
ing being erected by the Indiana
Bridge company OF Muncie, has &C
cepted $3.50 in settlement Of a suit for
$4,000 which has been pending in
Muncie courts.
Logansport.-Harry Organ. under
parole from the state prison, 10 which
he was sentenced from Cass county
for forgery, was arrested here on an
old warrant for forgery at Decatur.
but obtained his release by habeas cor
pus proceedings, contending that he
was in effect still in prison and sub
ject to the jurisdiction OF the state
board of pardons.
Aurora.-Mrs. Maude Veit Frocks.
thirty-six years old, obtained $1,000
bond after her arrest on a charge or
assault and battery with intent 10 kill
Richard D. Windhorst, ffty-seven
years old. Windhorst and William C.
Frocks had quarreled over a line fence
Windhorst charged that Mrs. Frocks
hit him on the back OF the head sew
eral times with a shotgun and left him
unconscious on the ground. Mrs
Frocks had warrant issued for the
arrest of Windhorst on a charge OF
provoke.
Bloomington james Weaver, fifty
two years cid. prominent farm