The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-02-25
STATE NEWS

eighty-nine, pioneer resident of Nor
gan county, is dead.
Hammond.-Sven Ericksons broke
the ice on West creek. near Lowell.
and drowned himself.
Naiparaiso.-Jacob Fisher, G.. A. r.
commander here, fell from his wagon
and was killed. A farmer found his
body.
Princeton.-Bcrt Hope, slayer of his
mother, was taken to Michigan City to
begin life term sentence in the state
prison.
Wabash.-Earl Ravencroft, age six
teen, when cleaning revolver which
he thought was unloaded. was shot in
the hand.
Lyons--Mrs. Stella Pape was severe
ly burned when her clothing caught
fire from a CRATE. before which she
was standing.
lndianapolis.-Mrs. Joseph E. Nc
Donald. eighty, widow of Joseph E Nc
Donald, former United States senator.
died Thursday
Alexandria-Clyde Cunningham, an
employee of the Mineral Wool plant in
this city, was injured seriously when
he fell from high trestle.
Greensburg.-Mrs. Samuel Jackson,
wife of farmer and stock raiser near
Kingston, suffered a broken ankle
when alighting from a buggy.
Greensburg - The local option
election, called by the vets, will
be held Tuesday. February % The
city has been dry for more than two
years
Greencastle. = The boys in the
manual training department of the
Greencastle public schools are now
engaged in building bird houses. which
will be sold
Indianapolis friends of State
Representative John c. Branaman of
Brownston say that he will be a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for lieutenant governor
Hammond-George Bubuch of In
diana Harbor was sentenced to prison
for fourteen years for stabbing Rosa
Hujack, his former sweetheart. The
girl married another man.
Madison. = Steven Simmons, age
hty-eight, cattle buyer. is in a
hospital here suffering serious injuries
received when his automobile was
overturned near Hanover.
Muncie.-An unidentified man, be-
lieveG to have been Clifford Ham,
twenty-four, was almost instantly
killed when struck by a Big Four en-
CINE.
Garrett-As Mrs. John Mitchell,
fifty-four, passed the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad yards she inhaled
gas escaping from a locomotive
and died in few minutes after
reaching home
Vincennes.-Th body Of Oliver
Hazleton, fireman, who lost his
life when a Big Four train crashed
through the Wabash trestle here ten
days ago, was found two hundred feet
from the engine.
Evansville.-A romance said to have
started when Miss Louise Volk-
mann, aged twenty-nine years,
trained nurse of this city, nursed Carl
Haas. a bookkeeper of Chicago, cul-
minated here when they were married.
The bride is the daughter of Carl
Volkman, a prosperous farmer living
a few miles north of this city. Mr..
and Mrs. Haas will make their home
in Chicago.
Martinsville.-Porte Bond of Coal
City, who killed Melvin Hubble
and Hardy Gray here a few days ago,
was found guilty of murder and or
dered committed to the Indiana colony
for the criminal insane at Michigan
City until discharged by law. Bond
shot both Hubble and Gray at the in
terurban station here. He was labor
ing under a delusion that they were
trying to poison him.
Indianapolis Definite announce
ment was made here that Sam
uel T Murdoch. former president of a
chain of utility plants in the state. will
start binder twine factory here. The
company will be capitalized at $780,
900. Edward j. Fogarty. warden of
the Indiana state prison at Michigan
City and former Democratic mayor of
South Bend. will be the manager of
the factory He became acquainted
with the manufacture Of binder twine
at the prison factory. Lafayette was
first picked as a site for the factory.
Hammond. = Angry parents of a
hundred boys and girls of the
East Chicago grammar school de-
nounce the work of Wayne Miller.
teacher of physiology, who invited the
children to remain after school to see
a cat killed and carved. Reports cir
culated that the cat was cut up alive
are denied by the school authorities.
Miller said the cat was dead before II
was cut up. Many of the girls at the
clinic were nauseated and compelled
&c leave the room during the dissec-
ton. Miller declares that nc COM
plant would have ben made were it
not for the fact that the cat had been
petted around the school for a few
days before Ii was killed.
Greenfield. = The baby of Mr..
and Mrs Dawilla Spannuth Of this
CITY is in a serious condition the re-