The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-04-10
Hoosier News
Briefly Told
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kicked of a Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern train, which was run
ming 80 miles an hour, William Tar
nowskie was awarded $3.50 damages
and E. T. Cappes was granted s2,soV
damages In the st. Joseph circuit
court.
Gainesville. Thomas Broadstreet,
aged sixty-two. one of the wealth
lest retired farmers in this part
of the state, fell dead on an inter
urban car between here and Fillmore.
He is survived by a widow. son. at
Indiana university, and daughter IN
the high school here.
Goshen.-One hundred persons at
tended the first banquet given oy
post B, T. P. A., recently organized
here. Speakers present were A u.
Gorrell. state president, and george
A II. Shideler of Marion, Robert
T. Cheadle of Frankfort, former state
president. and II. l.. Carr of Elkhart-
Fort Wayne-The local rivers got
nm to the flood stage Of ID feet
and submerged Baltes avenue. Inc
residents of about twenty houses on
that street were forced to leave. as
| the water covered their first floors.
The weather man says that the riv-
ers will not go much higher.
Montpelier-The interior of the
post office here was wrecked
when three masked yeggmen blew
omen the safe In the post office. Inc
burglars got nothing, however, be-
cause 500 In stamps and $3oo III
cash were in another safe, in anotner
room. The yeggmen were seen by
night Waterman. but made their es-
cape.
Evansville. - William ]. McLeish,
aged seventy-seven, and his WIFE,
Mary M. McLeish, agec seventy
, four. ended their lives by turning on
the gas in the bathroom of their home.
Mrs McLeish was dead when found,
hut her husband was still breathing.
A pulmotor was used for three hours
in an unsuccessful attempt TO resusci-
tate him.
Vincennes.-The victim of muir
: derous assault on train at ol
: Francisville is still unidentified. the
: man is about forty years old. his
: throat was cut with razor ana ne
t died almost instantly. Four suspects,
e all carrying razors were arrested anu
n are in Jail at Lawrenceville. Two
! gave the names Of Burke and Borman
n The other two refuse to talk.
f Frankfort. - John X. Parvis,
n Civil war veteran and constapie
,r was found drowned in Prairie creek III
I. the southern part of the city. A nr'
le company recovered the body by th'
S. use of ladders suspended from
I'd bridge. Parvis had been dead apou
to eight hours. Officials are of the opin
n ION that the man stepped from tn
n abutment of the bridge.
S. Noblesville. = The general me-
chandise store occupied by 0. +
lg Russell. at Cicero, was destroyed b
is fire thought to have started in IN
IS rear of the building, where tank
,rt coal oil was stored. The loss Is ~
&C. 600. with insurance Of $4,000. tn
by general store operated by Geore
m Shoemaker. the Farmers and Me
be chants bank and the Marshall No
ist city store were somewhat damage
nv sharks from the Russell fire.
Peru.-John II. Miller Of Per
whose Polled Durham cattle ma
won international first prizes SIM
the Columbian exposition, SO
'ly, so head of Durhams at auction al
Oh the prices totaled $23,O6O. sultan
,oil Creed. purchased by w. w. Rose
nty Rossville, was the top notcher
I'M $4,000 Several head were sold
on ]. T. Burwell of Neelwood, Va, WI
nst others went to buyers from Kans
MOI and Iowa.
ess' Indianapolis. = The city heal
WV hoard has announced It will ht
a. it's examination April 20 anu
for applicants for appointments as
ma ternes at the city hospital and
dispensary for the year beginni
ia July 1. All the principal medical
u, leges in the United States will be
laiu titled of the examination, as there
-. not be enough graduates from India
D, medical colleges this year TO Ill
the positions that will be open In %
W. pitfalls throughout the state.
., South Bend-Martin Koplin
his most remarkable escape II
de- death when he was struck by
Lake Shore & Michigan South
IN n train and hurled 20 feet from
in crossing. He was picked up
orn- rushed to Epworth hospital, where
and examination showed he had sustai
with only q cut over the right eye. lie
,acl unable to remember anything reg
until Ing the accident A horse which
4 b;t was driving was killed and his wa
totally demolished.
n, Petersburg. - Hard rains
~" caused another rise In the sire
and both the Patoka and w
oD rivers are flooding low bottf
''" Thousands OF acres OF wheat vii
'Scuy ruined II the water rises four
Nj more
ha i,, Fort wayne.-H- j. Bruce,
wiz gro waiter. who was shot by
thony b. Trentman. wealthy pre-