The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-09-25
INDIANA
BREVITIES



her view. and died few hours later.
Observation-Disclosures. and Mrs. Gil
bert A. Eldredge of this city have ar
rived home from an interrupted tour
OF Europe. They were marooned IN
the war zone for some time.
Marion.-The largest Sunday school
convention in the history of this city
will be held here at the First Christian
church September 30, when lis schools
of Grant county will be represented.
Rochester.-Because Nat Squires, a
Minnesota citizen. who was visiting
here, did not know that he had to
have license 10 fish, he paid $3.50 in
Justices court here for angling in
Lake Manitou.
Newcastle.-Rev. W. r. Motley. Pro
hibition candidate for congress from
the Sixth district. is expected TO with
draw from the ticket because he has
accepted the pastorate of the Central
Christian church at Richmond.
Observation-Disclosures of the Van
derburg County w. c. T. L.. at their
annual meeting here, avoided the sub
ject OF European peace, members as
sorting the subject would be left for
action by the union as whole.
| Jeffersonville - Charleston. which
has been dry" for six years, became
wet" when the county commissioners
granted a liquor license TO Conrad
Kahle formerly a saloonkeeper, after
a hearing on remonstrance.
Jeffersonville.-Att the reunion here
of the Eighty-first Indiana Volunteers
Veterans association, Joseph G.. Snider
OF this city was reelected president
John A II. Owens of Charlestown was
made secretary. Next years meeting
will be held at Scottsburg. Septem-
Der 49,
Bloomington.-Ruth. the fve-year-
old daughter OF Harry A. Axtell.
narrowly escaped death when she
was attacked by a pet deer at the Az
tell home. Tie animal knocked her
down and continued its vicious attack
until dubbed off by Mr.. Axtell. Mr..
Axtell has a herd of nine deer at his
suburban home, and this is the only
one that has ever shown any indica-
ton of viciousness.
Greensburg.-Fifty-fv survivors at
tended the reunion here of the One
Hundred and Twenty.third Indiana
regiment. Officers elected are fol-
lows: President, George w. Daniels.
Marion; first vice-president, James =.
Smith, Paramount; second vice-presi-
dent Hugh Weston, Paramount; third
vice-president, Enoch Hewitt: chap
lain, Rev. Jesse Miller; secretary, Will
liam S. Kaler, Glenwood Marion was
selected as next years meeting place.
Rochester-Charles u. Benedict OF
indianapolis, deputy grand master OF
the Masonic lodge, was a guest OF
honor at a banquet of Rochester lodge.
| No. 70, f. and A. NJ, at which past
masters jewels were presented to IL
Of the Is living former masters. The
Rochester lodge was founded in 1S49
and has had SO masters. Arrange
? ments are now being made TO build
| handsome clubroom as an adjunct TO
l the Masonic temple here.
> acknowledgements l.. Brown.
drug clerk, was fined $40 in the court
of Mayor Schoelch for selling a half
pint of whisky on Sunday to Landy
= Williams. Brown entered plea of not
guilty, but later allowed the mayor to
! find him guilty The fine was paid.
When Brown was arrested the charge
was selling without a prescription but
I this was dismissed and the fine was
imposed for the sale of intoxicants or
Sunday. -
Portland-When his team became
frightened at a passing train Mel.
vim Wright of near Pennville was
thrown from his wagon, dying OF a
/ ruptured blood vessel a few minutes
after. With his wife, Wright was
driving home behind spirited team
attached TO spring wagon. On the
1 outskirts of town the horses suddenly
s veered as the train approached. throw
8 ing Mrs. Wright 10 the street and
i dashing into a side street and into a
J. tree. Wright was thrown against the
: tree and his chest was crushed. Mrs
K Wright was uninjured.
/ Evansville.-Two girls met death
: here as result of gasoline ex-
q plosions. Emma Keown, fifteen years
!. old, a charge of the orphan asylum.
who has been given a home by Albert
c. Voss, bank cashier, poured gaso-
+ line into a stove, mistaking it for kero-
q sene. Members of the Voss family.
who heard the explosion. ran 10 the
clubhouse, where the explosion &C.
: CURED, and found the girls clothing
v afire. She inhaled the flames and
r died. Beulah Gibbs, twenty-one years
{ old, clerk in West side department
0 store. in cleaning and pressing a skirt
r at her home used a gas iron that set
l. fire to cup OF gasoline. The blazing
3 liquid ignited the girls clothing and
y she ran from the house a living torch.
Neighbors extinguished the flames,
8 but she died few hours later
Anderson.-Ralph p. Clark, presI-
dent of the Indiana Retail Merchants
e association, has announced that the