The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-09-04
State News
In Brief
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Newcastle.-A business meeting of
the White River conference OF
the United Brethren church OF In
diana, at a session here, held TO select
a conference superintendent for the
coming year, resulted in the reelection
of DR.. B. E. Shannon Of Marion.
Laporte.-A dispatch received at
Monticello. announces the death of
Rev. Joel Weaver, a prominent
Indiana United Brethren clergy
man at the home Of a relative near
Omaha. Weaver, in attempting to
crank an automobile. was caught I'M
der the machine and fatally crushed.
observation-disclosures Universalist
Missionary society day was cele-
brated at the state convention Of
the Universalist church of Indiana. at
Waldron. An address was delivered
by Mrs. Agnes R. Conklin, wife of the
superintendent of the Universalist
churches of Michigan. A business ses-
sion was held, attended by state off,
GERS of the church. More than ninety
delegates have registered.
Logansport. - Miss Louise Rabb,
daughter of Joseph Rabb, former
judge of the state appellate court,
arrived home from Europe. She
was in Paris when war between
France and Germany was declared and
her party was among the first to
leave. acting on The advice of the
American consul. She sailed for
America from Glasgow. Scotland.
Hammond.-Harry Forbes of Chi
cago, believed to be the leader
of a gang of pickpockets that has
worked on interurban cars between
Chicago, Gary and Hammond during
the last two years, vas shot by an
East Chicago policeman on a Sixty
third street Chicago car. He was taken
to st. Margaret's hospital. He is in
a serious condition. Four other men,
bers of the gang with him escaped.
Rochester. = Isaac Washington
Brown, known as Colonel Brown,
Rochester's bird and bee man." died
here of acute Indigestion, after an i'll
ness of six days. Mr.. Brown, who was
roll county. Mr.. Brown was famous
all over the middle West for his lee
lures On birds and bees, and appealed
especially to school children.
Columbus.-The fftieth wedding an
niversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Yves
ley Pottorff of Hartsville was
spent quietly at their home with only
their relatives present. There were
members of five generations present
among the guests. The husband was
hundred years old July l. He
has been twice married. His present
wife is eighty-three years old.
Anderson.-William H. Ellison, age
th~irty-seven, a factory employe,
committed suicide by slashing his
throat with a razor. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellison had just returned from seeing
a relative away on a train. Mrs. Eli
son said her husband gave no intima-
ton of his act and that there had been
no trouble. While Mrs. Ellison was in
the kitchen she heard her husband fall
in a front room and she found him dy-
ing.
Washington.-Two boys, about eigh-
teen years old, who say they live
at Louisville, are being held here
by the local police until they can learn
how the boys got possession of a num-
Der Of stamps which they sold to AL
bert Shepherd, a street car motorman,
last Saturday. The boys sold Shep-
herd two sheets of 1 and 2-cent stamps
for % cents. They say they came here
from Leipsic, but refuse to tell where
they got the stamps.
Shelbyville.-A rainfall of more
than two inches in Shelby county
in two days has caused a flood. At
Flat Rock cave, south OF this city, the
picnic grounds were overfiowed and
damaged. The shoot the chutes" was
washed out as were many of the
amusements on the grounds. AT ST.
Paul, the stone quarries were flooded
by Mill creek and operations were sus-
pended. Little Blue river was filled
with dead fish, caused by the refuse
from the canning factory and the city
health authorities have been forced to
take measures to get rid of the decay
ing fish
Columbus.-Frederick Liebrock of
this city is a prisoner of war
in London. This information, came in
a letter from him to friends in this
city. Liebrock had been employed in
the Mooney tannery here for the last
few years and started for Germany
several weeks ago to bring his wife
and children here. He had reached
Indianapolis when he bought a news
paper and saw that war had been de-
clared. He telephoned here TO have
his revolver sent TO him, as he said
he might join the German army when
he got to Germany and would then
have need OF the weapon. The revolver
was sent, but II did not reach Indian
apolis in time. He desires TO get his
family and return to Columbus, bat
says he probably will have TO remain
in prison as long as the war is In prog
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