The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-12-17
INDIANAT
BREV1TIES


biscuits in which calomel was used
in mistake for baking powder. r.
Coyington.-While Benjamin E. CHI
ton. formerly pastor OF the Meth
odist churches at Kingman ana
Salem. was on trial. here for THEFT.
his father. John Clifton, fftyeight,
died at Flora OF heart trouble The
father had been failing rapidly since
the son was arrested.
Goshen.-Mrs. Lamar p. j. Croop,
manager Of the Jefferson theater.
is in a very serious condition at
her home. suffering from blood pol
soning that physicians believe was
contracted by handling money at the
theater box office. Infection first ap-
peared on her heel.
Gary.-William Brummell, forty-hye
years old. prominent in theatrical
circles, died suddenly here. Brum-
NELL lived for years at the On
tario and Bismarck hotels. Chicago.
He was a member of the Bedford
lodge Of Elks. Katherine Snow. a SIS
ter. lives at Jamaica Plains. ~. I.
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Frankfort.-Buen Witt, a teacher
in the schools at Mechanicsburg.
and Miss Lulu Heighley. trained
nurse o. Lebanon, were mar
ried in the school building at Mechan-
icsburg The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. Omer Dale OF Leban'
on and was witnessed by the pupils
of the school
Indianapolis-Cleo Hart. alias Irene
Hart, twenty-one years old. for
merly of Knightstown. was ar
rested here charged with vagrancy.
and is being held under high bond
The young woman was wearing wig
when arrested and claims to have trav-
eled about the country wearing mems
apparel.
valparaiso.-The Burrows camp. a
saloon and dance resort on the Kan
kakee river near here. was burned In
fire believed to have been started by
persons who objectd to the presence or
the resort. Remonstrances against
the saloon license petition OF Leonard
Burrows. the owner. had been unsuc-
cessful
Indianapolis.-Rev. William Martin
Gearing. eighty-six, one of the best
. known of Indiana ministers and
active in ministerial circles for more
than fifty years, died here from an
q operation performed at the Methodist
hospital Dir. BEARINGS advanced age
4 was responsible for his failure TO rally
q from the shock of the operation.
Gary = Fearing that st. Johns
B church and parsonage in Tolles-
l ton will be burned by incendiaries.
/ steps were taken to guard the prop
4 erty The police are searching for the
z incendiaries who destroyed the va
cant dwelling adjoining the untenant-
q ed parsonage where Rev. Edmund
Kayser was mysteriously assassinated
q three months ago.
Terre Haute.-Fire destroyed the
tipple and adjoining buildings or
s the Vandalia Coal companys mine
8 at Liggett, seven miles west OF
g here on the Vandalia railroad. causing
9 loss of about $4,000. The cause
j of the fire is unknown. No one was
Y were sent from here and prevented
the spreading of the blaze. The build
> :ngs destroyed will be replaced.
Lafayette.-A needle she had beer
\ using in the biological Laboratory
!, at Purdue university caused thS
a death of Bernaldine Surface, aged
- twenty. She used the needle to oper
O. a small pimple on her forehead. and
W acute septicaemia set in. Physician:
failed to check the progress of The
:. poison, the nature OF which could no.
l. be determined, and in forty-eigh
N hours she was dead.
Elkhart.-More than 300 Knights o
ID Pythias. representing lodges in tn
pr five counties OF the second fra
,e ternal district. participated in
I'd banquet given at the close of one
W day convention held in this city
Among those present was Frederick
Tiers of Goshen, who was the fifty
lg sixth member taken into the nationa
organization.
Terre Haute-The ten-months-ol
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Elme
Elmer Johnson of Cayuga died in
hospital here following an operation
which the parents said might prolon
the life of their defective child. Tn
baby was born with spinal maiforms
ton and with other internal defect
which precluded natural physical az
velopment and which probably woul
cause death in a few months
Evansville.-In celebration of b
golden wedding anniversary, Be
iamin Eckert age seventy. Twin
I'm the Stringtown road near her
opened an old-fashioned log-rollir
contest by rolling the first and bi
gest log into place with his ow
hands. Mr.. Eckert is vigorous despi'
= his years. and this fall piowed te
acres oil wheat land in preparation Il
the planting
=, Indianapolis-Gov. Samuel y. r;
,Ia ston has invited the governors