The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-01-28
HOOSIER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Anderson.-Ralph b. Clark of An
derson. president of the Indiana
Retail Merchants association. has an
nounced h program for the organiza-
tons annual convention, which will
be held at Lafayette on January Is.
10 and 20.
Boonville.-Boonville will entertain
the meeting Of the Twentieth District
Knights of Pythias on Friday. jan
uary IA. James f. Watson will make
the principal address. j. Fleener Bau-
man of Rockport, deputy grand chan
cellor, will preside.
Terre Haute.-Harry Davey and
Walter Graham, confessed hold
ups, who took $4,000 from a mining
company's paymaster. were brought
in court secretly and sentenced and
hurried to prison by the authorities.
who feared an attempt might be made
to rescue them. The money was not
recovered.
Observation-Disclosures for presi-
dent" signs were posted through
out the business district. and it
was understood the name of former
Vice-Presiden. Charles w. Fairbanks
would be placed formally before the
nation as a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for president at the
party love feast" here.
Liberty.-The coroner exonerated
Sheriff Post, who killed Carlo Hurd
(colored), saying hat the sheriff shot
in self-defense. Hurd was killed when
he resisted arrest after Sheriff Post
had been called to the Maxwell farm
near here TO stop a fight in which
Hurd, his brother, and another negro
were engaged.
Vincennes.-George w. Brewer, g
eighty, a colored man, who was
known by almost every resident
of the city, was found frozen stin
about ten miles east of here. He had
been missing from his home three
days. Brewer was the father of Is
children. Among tire nine surviving
are three A. NJ. K. ministers.
Oakland City.-The will of DR.. ID. A.
Cox of Howell. who died recent
", leaves a fortune of approx
mately 100000 to Oakland City col
lege. The money is to be applied to
the endowment. The will was filed
for probate at Evansville. Doctor Cox
was president of the colleges board
of trustees.
Columbus. = The city counc has
passed an ordinance reducing the
members OF the volunteer fire depart
ment from IS to 10 and increasing the
salaries of the remaining members
from So to Sc a month. The advance
was made because the public utilities
law does not permit free water TO the
firemen as has been allowed in the
past.
Evansville. = Hand-knitted wooden
shawls, the kind that grand
mother wore" are being made by man
prisoners in the county Jail here. Two
of the shawls have been completed
and are valued at $40 each. Four OF
the prisoners are working on the
shawls, and they have become ex-
perts. Exactly 6,405 knots are made
in each shawl.
Indianapolis.-State officials esti-
mated the damage done by fire in
the statehouse all the way from $4,000
to $685. 900. The fire department
placed the damage at $1,000, but this
estimate was thought to be too low.
The fire started at the bottom Of the
elevator shaft when the big building
was nearly empty. Defective electric
wiring is thought to have started the
blaze.
Shelbyville.-Edwin Macy. thirty
five years old, died at his home
near Carthage as a result OF swallow
ing a piece Of bone while he was eat
ing rabbit at his home two weeks ago.
The accident occurred when he
laughed. 1t is believed the walls OF
his stomach were perforated. His
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Macy
of Union township, his widow. a broth
er and a sister survive.
Rochester.-At the annual meeting
of the Farmers Co-Partnership Insur'
ance company of White, Pulaski and
Fulton counties the following officers
were reelected: N. A. McClung. Roch-
ester. president: r. A. Phillips. Star
City, vice president; F. c. Montgom-
cry, Rochester, treasurer: K. c. Mer.
Ger. Rochester. secretary.
Milroy.-A few days ago Frank
Thomas, one OF whose legs re-
Gently was amputated at 81. Vim
cents hospital in indianapolis. enter
tained three friends at his home here.
Among the four men there were only
three legs. A society was formed.
with Thomas as president. for Hoosi-
ers with less than two legs. Letters
have beer received from ~ Hoosiers
who desire to become members.
Among those ~ men and the four
who originated the society there are
only a. legs. One applicant lost his
left leg In the Civil war and the right
was crushed In a railroad wreck q
year ago
Hammond.-Princess Eddy. a Michi
gan City c~lairvoyant. charged with
transporting Miss Elsie Schwarts from
Chicago 10 Tacoma. Wash. for I'm
moral was held In $2.00(