The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-11-27
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ing at Pierceton. ten miles east of
here, was badly damaged by fire.
School children who were in the build
ing fled In panic. A defective flue
is blamed. The loss will amount TO
about $500
Rochester.-David Hissong, a farm
er living near Rochester, led his
sixth wife to the altar. He is sixty
years old and has lost three wives by
divorce and two by death The bride
is Mrs. Minnie WEIGH, aged forty.
She has been married twice.
Hartford City-The foot and mouth
disease has not yet reached Black
ford county, according to L. E.
Epple of Cleveland, o., Fedora, IN
spector, who was here Mr. Epple
inspected herds on the Charles Alfrey
and Walter Seelig farms and found
them free of disease. The cattle were
recently shipped here from Chicago.
La Porte.-Rev. Geo. F. Goodrich,
pastor of the First Baptist church
of Albion, has accepted a call to
the astorate of the Parkside Bap-
fist church in Chicago, located near
Jackson Park and the university of
Chicago. Rev. Mr.. Goodrich, who has
been in Albion four years, will go to
Chicago on December 1.
Terre Haute.-Ernest Morris. age
nineteen, who had patched" in a
small house at Staunton, after prom
fn RI hnr
blew off most of his head with
shotgun. Couple returning from a
party saw light and looked in window.
seeing body half sitting on side of bed
Left rambling statement of mental
worry
Bloomington.-The little town of
Harrodsburg, twelve miles south
Of here, was visited by yeggmen,
but little loot was obtained. The
safe at the Fowler & Holland -four
ing mill was blown open, but was emp
ty. The ]. B. Smallwood store was
entered and 81 taken from the store
cash register The post office is in
the Smallwood store and SIS of Uncle
Sans money was taken. There is no
clew.
Lafayette.-After operating extern
sively in this city, Mrs. w. II. Hood
and members of her family. adj
vertising themselves as New York
furriers, were arrested as they were
boarding a Wabash train for central
Illinois. Charges of fraud had been
placed against them. 1t is said they
owed a bill of s25 at boarding house
here, and that through advertise
ments in the papers they had obtained
credit at many stores and bought
goods. A number of people turned
over furs to them to be remodeled,
and, it is alleged, these furs had been
shipped out of town. The family of
six was brought to the jail
Anderson.-Henry w. Richart, age
forty-threc, painter was f'led !
when he came in contac- with an
electric wire about the caves of |
the court house, where he was work
Ing. He and William Turner another
painter, were working together When
they shifted their position along the
caves, Richart received the fatal |
shock. Richart uttered cry, and Tur-
ner, seeing what had happened be- |
cause of Richart's smoking hands, |
pulled him from the wire His body |
fell on the roof, where it lay In the
caves until it Gould be taken down |
by ropes and ladders. Turner was |
unhurt, though slightly checked Rich
art is survived by a widow and seven
children.
Kokomo = Harry w. Eckhart,
charged whit embezzling the funds
OF branch tea store here, of |
which he was manager, was arrested |
at his home when he returned and |
threatened to kill his three-year-old |
son and himself Brandishing a re-
volver, Eckhart forced his way into
his home where his wife and mother
1n-law were staying and announced |
his intention of killing the child and
then committing suicide His wife
pleaded with him to spare the baby,
while the mother-in-law slipped into
the next room and called the police
Four policemen rushed to the scene in
an emergency automobile and dis
armed Eckhart He was lodged in
jail. He said he had been in Evans
vile.
Terre Haute.-Thomas Burge, alias
Bertsche, one of the five alleged
gunner charged with holding up and
robbing Ed Broadhurst and Fred
Lackey, proprietors of the Plaza hotel
poolroom, has been released on bond
from the county jail. word to that
effecting being given out by Prosecu-
tor Werneke. Burge was one of the
five men captured by the Indianapolis
police near Plainfield. Ind, after they
had crossed the county on the morn
ing of October % on a wild automo-
bile ride. Werneke said he could not
give further information, as he said
he did not know of Burgess release
until after bond had been accepted.
Sheriff Shea Is out of the city and
Shea has the bond with him. Werneke
says none of the men will be tried
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