The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
Observation-Disclosures
HAPPENINGS
INDIANA !


board of health secretary. has held.
the Office for % years.
Springport.-An election will be.
held here soon TO determine the ques-
ton of incorporating as a town
Nashville-Brown county Demo-
Gratis will hold their primary TO name
a county ticket January "a
Evansville.-Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
Schu have celebrated their y golden
wedding anniversary.
Bedford.-A committee has been
named to draft a constitution and by
laws for the Lawrence County His
torical association.
Bedford.-Leroy Stevens has sued
the Ohio & Western. Lime company
for $4,000. alleging injuries while I'm
its employ
Terre Haute-Oswald DeRossy. a
Porto Rican student at a veterinary
college. homesick. shot and killed him.
self in his room here
Waynetown.-Wa Harvey has
suer the I. H.. l. & f. Traction COM
pany for $4,000. alleging injuries
Petersburg. Hurley Cieman. TWEEN.
ty years old. who has disappeared
from his home here, is said TO have
passed number of worthless checks.
Nashville.-James NJ. Moore. sixty
eight years old. Is in jail on complaint
OF his wife. who says he attempted TO
shoot her
Cromwell.-James Burwell. Jr, has
filed suit for $4,000 for injuries sus-
tanned when he was run down by an
auto driven by Albert Adds.
Evansville.-First District Progress
siyes will hold their convention here
January 20. Charles Finley Smith
will probably be reelected chairman.
Petersburg-Pike county commits
sioners have elected VIII Chew road
superintendent; DR.. Il. Bell OF Wins.
low. health board secretary, and s. w.
Dillin, attorney.
Sullivan.-Numerous robberies have
caused the employment of night pa
trolman. Merchants have been or
dered to maintain a light I'm the rear
of their stores
Evansville.-Friends of William VIII
son. serving a penitentiary term for
shooting William Walters OF Paducah.
Ky, will ask his pardon at the next
meeting of the board
Coyington-The Fountain county
commissioners have appointed former
Commissioner James A. Copeland
road superintendent, the position pay
ing five dollars a day
Terre Haute.-Sales of Red Cross
seals in Vigo county aggregated ST.
$50, according to the report OF Helen
Renbridge, who had charge of the dis
tribution.
Bluffton.-Wells county commission
ers have chosen John T.. Markley
road superintendent and George Mock
as county attorney TO succeed Frank
c. Daley, appointed United States
district attorney
Brazil.-Lewis McNutt entertained
the Clay County Bar association at a
banquet in honor of his father, Judge
James A. McNutt, celebrating the lat
ter's seventy-fifth birth anniversary.
and fortieth year as a member OF the
bar
Goshen.-Harvey Swoveland, for
ty-five years old, wellto-do farm
er, for the second time defeated
efforts of his wife to send him TO
Longcliffe asylum. He was given into
the care OF his brother and sister. Up
to date Swoveland has had three
guardians.
Terre Haute-William Locke, aged
seventy, for a third OF a cen
fury cashier of the local branch
of the American Distilling company,
married Miss Ray Conkling at the res
idence of his daughter Mrs. Jane
Johnson, in Connersville. The first
Mrs. Locke was a sister of the bride.
who is sixty-three.
South nd-Announcement was
made of the founding of scholar
ships at the University OF Notre
Dame and at St Mary's ~college
of this city. The foundation amounts
to $4,000 and becomes available i'm
mediately. The scholarships were
awarded to Frank Mulcahy and Emil
Reidman of Rochester. " V. seniors.
Marion.-Crist Miste, twenty-sev-
en- years old, was struck by
Pennsylvania train near Sweetzer. six
miles west of here, receiving injuries
TO his head and spine which caused
death shortly after he was brought TO
the city hospital here. He had been
working for the railroad company and
evidently had started TO walk to this
city. His pockets contained s12S
and papers which disclosed his name
and that he had wife and two chill
dren in Macedonia
Evansville.-Bertis E. Capel. TWEEN
ty years old, OF Shawneetown, Ill,
champion typist and former secretary
TO Governor Deneen of Illinois. was
arraigned here in city court on
charge OF passing fraudulent checks
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