The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-04-07
STATE NEWS
In BRIEF

ehty-nve, founder OF the Parker Painl
WORKS here. died at Houston, Tex.
Logansport.-The sum of s16.15;
was raised for st. Joseph hospital in q
TWO weeks campaign.
Monticello.-Vacant lots in the CITY
VIII De used by the school children fol-
mower and vegetable gardens.
Delphi.-A dairy barn on the farm
C John Smith, near here, was de
stroyed by fire. causing a loss of 81,
500.
Wabash.-Mrs. Martha Rose, age
seventy. who attempted to commit
suicide with butcher knife, has been
adjudged insane
Elkhart.-Dr. Louis O'Brien left here
for Toronto to join a Canadian COM
mand which is going to Europe. He
will be an army surgeon
Indianapolis.-Ye cracked the
safe of the Indianapolis Coal com.
pany's office, but the money had been
taken out by the cashier.
Gary. Work is under way on the
railway supply tracks which will be
used in the construction of the new
S25.OO0,000 tube mill here.
sonville.-Release on bond was
denied Alonzo Brendel, who is charged
with murder in the first degree for
fatally shooting John Cast at Utica.
Alexandria.-Much interest is shown
In the City Beautiful" contest of the
Business Mems association. 1t is ex-
pected that four or five hundred per-
sons will enter the contest.
Bedford.-Buster Bundy, the ten
year-old son of Folkner Bundy,
fell under the wheels Of a Monon
freight train when jumping on cars,
and his right foot had to be ampu-
tated.
Frankfort.-Harry Oliver, indicted
by the grand jury for numbering
his mother February 20, told the
court he did not wish a lawyer. The
court appointed c. V. Laymon to de-
fend him.
Observation-Disclosures T. Bilby shot
and killed Riley Stewart, forty
two, a few miles west of this
city. Stewart and his associate, Clyde
Heaton, are alleged to have been steal
Ing Bilby's chickens. Heaton escaped.
Observation-Disclosures than go to
the Indiana girls schol at Cler-
mont, Dean Peltman, fifteen, is
dead. She drank carbolic acid in the
presence of her mother and two police
men who waited to take her to the
train.
Columbus.-F. M. Ehlers, deputy
fish and game warden, confiscated
a 100-foot seine, said to belong
to George Dahn of this city, who was
Ehlers went to the farm of
George Maier, east Of this city. where
he confiscated trammel net.
Marion.-An ordinance making sa-
looms within two miles of Marion
illegal was repealed by the coun-
ell. Two Socialist members de-
clined to vote and Mayor Bachelor
told them their votes would be re-
corded in the affirmative.
apolis.-Major L. A. Naftz-
ger, commanding officer Of Indiana
National Guard companies at In
Martinsville and Winnie
mac, has ordered the men to be in
readiness in case call came for them
to go tc the border
Edinburg.-When their mule baked
ON the crossing, Harry Dyke, six
teen, and Thomas Beech, sixteen,
were struck by Pennsylvania
and their rig were carried more than
3 block by the engine. The mule was
killed.
Hammond because he
could not furnish $4,000 bond,
Louis Vlahos, Gary taxi driver, was
aiken to the Crown Point jail by fed
eral detectives after being arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Charles Surprise IN Hammond with l.
Store. Charles Swanson, Marie Miller
and Esther Anderson, the woman in
he case, under the white slave act.
The prisoners were held under So 900
bond to appear for hearing April 8.
Store and Swanson, a Gary constable
md alleged proprietor of a chicken
arm near Gary, were handcuffed to-
5ether The prisoners are charged |
With taking Esther Anderson from Au-
ora TO Gary by automobile and inter
Urban.
Laporte.-Claiming that new evil |
lence has been found which will |
completely establish his innocence,
'ohn r. Wilson, a lifer In the
Michigan City prison, has retained f.
Z. Marine of Valparaiso to make an
Investigation with a view to obtaining
pardon. Wilson went to prison
bout seven years ago for the murder
# his wife. He protested his inno-
ence at the trial, and during his inn
has always insisted that
he time would come when he would
'e proved guiltless. A brother of vii.
on shared the belief in his innocence
While other members Of the family be-
ieved him guilty. 1t is now said that /
tramp entered the house In Wilson's
bsence and when she fought his ad-
ances be killed her.
Anderson.-Bert Woods, thirty, prob !
bly, will die as result OF poi.
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