The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-10-22
HOOSIER NEWS
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Oakland City. Elmer Gender.
twelve years old. dragged a loaded
shotgun toward him. and IL was dis
charged. one OF his arms being shot
of.
Indianapolis.-John Hornung. six
ty-one years old. former cashier
OF the Dresden National bank or
Dresden o.. is under arrest here
charged with embezzlement. Accord
ing TO the police he has admitted TAX
ing $4,000 of the banks funds.
Marion.-A ladies' auxiliary 20 Fred
ID. Ballou camp. Spanish-American
War Veterans. 10 be organized at the
National military home here. is 10 be
named for Kate Miller Chapman. who
was the wife OF Justin III. Chapman.
governor OF the home for several
years.
Indianapolis.-The regular panel
of the criminal court petit jury.
members OF which may SIT at the trial
OF Mayor Bell. Thomas Taggart Chief
of Police Perrott and more than 100
others on charges OF election con-
spiracy. was sworn in before Judge
Collins
Lafayette.-Charles Lawson of this
city. who shot and killed August
Scallon, a night Waterman at Del
phi, last May. was arrested at Milford.
H.. by Sheriff Popejoy OF Carroll coun-
ty. Lawson, who was brought back
10 Delphi. has confessed the crime.
He says: Il did not intend to shoot
him. l only intended to run bluff
New Albany-Three prisoners.
Luther Stewart. Herman Stallings
and William Winterhalter, charged
with larceny and awaiting trial. es-
capped from the county Jail here. and
had it not been for the prompt work
of Edward White, a "trusty." who
hastily locked the outside door. all OF
the 20 prisoners would have got away.
Paoli.-A new brick boulevard 10
feet wide and a mile long has been
completed between West Baden and
French Lick. The street car track
laid in the center will soon replace
the old route and new and larger cars
will be purchased. The road was
financed by proprietors of West Baden
and French Lick hotels and by Ed
Ballard who owns a 100000 house on
the boulevard
South Bend.-Harry Sudlow, TWEEN
ty-six years old. son of a promi-
nent family of Cromwell, who is held
here on a charge of larceny. will not
be sent TO prison. Charles N. Schuell,
the jeweler from whom he fraudulent
ly obtained diamond ring valued at
$3.50. has paid the $40 advanced by
Sudlow by pawnbroker and the lat
ter has dropped the prosecution. Sud-
low is said to have been intoxicated
when he pawned the ring.
Bloomington.-The public service
commission will again go into the
Bloomington waterworks PROPOSE
ton. Notice was given that a meeting
would be held September 81 at the
statehouse in indianapolis. The CON-
mission will hear the new plan OF
John G. Harris. mayor, and the city
council, to let a company from cut OF
the city build a pipeline and power
plant and rent ii to the city for ten
years.
MISUNDERSTANDING Mcclure, aged
seventy, is dead Of injuries suf-
fered when she was struck by an
automobile driven by Raymond
Eads, an employee of the Haynes Au-
tomobile company. Miss Mcclure was
crossing a street and did not see the
auto or hear the shouts of warning
from its occupants, her attention be-
ing directed to an interurban car that
was approaching from another direc-
ton.
Hammond.-More than two thou
sand members OF the Disciples OF
Christ church were pledged to try out
Cecil j. Sharp's church efficiency
plan. Sharp. who has built up ten
congregations in the Calumet region,
explained his system to the church
workers who had assembled here
from all parts OF the country. II is
to put everyone in every congregation
TO work. The delegates will give the
system test on their return To their
respective churches
Frankfort-Priscilla Michaels,
young daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry AIichaels of Middlefork, was
killed by an automobile at Mid
dlefork. The child was returning
frem a grocery and was walking be-
hind threshing machine. The thresh-
ing outfit turned aside TO allow the
automobile TO pass, and the child
turned in the opposite direction, STEP
ping in the path of the car. which
was driven by John Grosscut. a farm
er The girl died In a few minutes
Connersville. = David Disselwein
fell from his log wagon when
one wheel fell into hole in a bridge
over Garrison creek. and he plunged
eight feet downward into shallow wa
ter. He came up smiling. unhurt and
with a six-pound soft-shelled turtle
clutched in his hands. He felt the
turtle writhe as his hands encoun-
tered it, deep in the sand. he said.
and he Immediately reasoned that fate