The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
INDIANA
BREVITIES


DID, OF visiting gambling house
nned him $40 and costs and sentenced
him TO ten days in Jail Nine other do
PENDANTS. who were arrested in recent
raid made on the James Tinbrook
cigar store here. will be required 10
face like charges.
Gary. - Sixteen hundred farm.r.
with their families and hired
hands. were the guests of the Com
merciai club and the United States
Steel corporation. The farmers were
escorted through the steel mills d..
special trains, taken for an automobile
trip over the city. and ENTERTAINED hy
free concerts and theatrical perforn.
ances
Terre Haute.-Mrs Myrtle Gibbons
confessed slayer OF Elroy b Smith \
motion picture theater owner waived
preliminary hearing i'm the c.tg court
and was bound over TO the grand riry
Bond was fixed by Judge smith m
$4,000. An effort will be made 10
procure a reduction OF the bond by
her attorney. The courtroom was
crowded with curious spectators
Indianapolis. rain storms
in Indiana increased the crop homes
OF farmers considerably. While light.
ming and wind did great damage
I'm some sections, and hail destroyed
many acres or growing grain in other
E.Rrts of the state. the effect of the
general storm late Friday was bcnef.
cial In many counties the first rain.
fall In two months was reported
Princeton.-Th case against clyde
White. twenty years old. OF Evans
Vile. charged with frst-degree muir.
der opened in circuit court here
White is charged with killing Hills
Young. with whom he had quarreled
over Young's wife. White pleaded
selfdefense but evidence introduced
tended to show that Young was un-
armed when the fatal shot was fired
Evansville.-At the meeting of the
Indiana Democratic Educational asso.
citation held here Mayor Don NJ Rob
erts OF Terre Haute. who was recently
tried in the Vigo county circuit court
- AAN 1hdi VI oAlulAillb fl'NAlNl"f
announced he would seek the Demo
cratic nomination for governor OF IN
diana. The announcement threw con
sternation into the ranks of the edi-
tors.
Wabash.-Lowered into an aban-
doned well by two men, who held his
feet, Earl Yentes. twenty-five years
old, almost lost his life when over
come by damp. Yentes was attempt
ing TO find his watch. which he had
dropped into the well, and was una
ware of the damp When pulled out
he was believed to be dead. but ply
sicians revived him after two hours
work
Bloomington.-David Biermann, aged
seven years. son OF Prof +. II.
Biermann. instructor in German az
Indiana university. may lose the
power OF speech as a result Of being
struck by lightning. He. his brother
Arnold, aged nine, and Stanley Bow
ers. aged ten, were struck by light
ming late Friday. David was Knocked
unconscious and the other two boys
were stunned.
Goshen-Warren Brody Of Elkhart,
charged with stealing an automo-
bile belonging to Mrs. Manning
Rogers at Klinger Lake and driving II
to Lennon, s. d., where he was cap
tured, and who was returned 20 Cas-
sopolis, Mich, for trial. attempted 10
escape from the Cass county jail by
firing the structure. Piling mattresses
high, he touched a match to them
Smoke was so dense that the prisoners
were rescued with great difficulty.
Sherman Salyards. forty
years old. and James Polman'
fifty. while under the influence OF
liquor. II is said. engaged in
quarrel. and Salyards is said 20 have
struck Polman I'm the bead with
Ratchet Later Polman obtained
shotgun and shot Salyards in the right
shoulder, infiicting a dangerous wound.
anapolis.-Indiana. Ohio ana
Michigan coal dealers, members OF
the Tri-State Coal Dealers associa-
ton. opened a two-days' session at the
Hotel Severin. The resumption OF
work in many OF the mines, foliowing
the signing up Of the new rate of wage
scales as well as the more active trade
in coal and the closing of contracts Tor
steaming coal next winter, are sub
jects up for discussion at the meeting
Columbus.-Three Thompson broth
ers, from Stone Hall. Brown coun-
ty. 20 miles from here, walked TO
the farm OF Albert Newsom, wealthy
farmer near here. for whom they said
they had contracted to go to work IN
his harvest field. He refused TO put
them to work and they filed suit for
three dollars each against him In 10
cal justice OF the peace court. The
three brothers said that they would
have 10 walk home and back and forth
to the trial, and felt that they ought
to be paid something for their time
and their hiking
Fort Wayne.-Three yeggmen loot