The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-31
STATE NEWS
In BRIEF

enty-five, founder of the Parker Paint
WORKS here. died at Houston, Tex.
Logansport.-The sum of S16,153
was raised for st. Joseph hospital in a
two weeks campaign.
Monticello.-Vacant lots in the city
VIII be used by the school children for
mower and vegetable gardens.
Delphi.-A dairy barn on the farm
Ct John Smith, near here, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss OF ST.
500.
Wabash.-Mrs. Martha Rose, age
seventy, who attempted to commit
suicide with butcher knife, has been
adjudged insane.
Elkhart.-Dr. Louis OBrien left here
for Toronto to join a Canadian COM
msnd which is going to Europe. He
Will be an army surgeon.
Indianapolis.-Ye ggmen 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.OG0.000 tube mill here.
fersonville.-Release on bond was
denied Alonzo Brendel, who is charged
with murder in the first degree for
fatally shooting John Cast at Utica.
Alexandria.-Mu 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.
F'rankfort.-Harry Oliver, indicted
by the grand jury for numbering
his mother February %, told the
court he did not wish lawyer. The
court appointed c. Y. Laymon to de-
fend him.
Connersville.-Palm T. Billy shot
and killed Riley Stewart, forty
city. Stewart and his associate, Clyde
Heaton, are alleged to have been steal
ing Bilby's chickens. Heaton escaped.
Bloomington.-Rath 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
100-foot seine, said to belong
to George Dahn Of this city, who was
arrested. Ehlers went to the farm OF
George Maier, east Of this city. where
he confiscated a trammel net.
Marion.-An ordinance making sa-
looms within two miles of Marion
illegal was repealed by the coun-
Gil Two Socialist members de-
clined to vote and Mayor Bachelor
told them their votes would be re-
corded in the Affirmative.
indianapolis l.. A. Naftz-
ger, commanding officer of Indiana
National Guard companies at In
dianapolis, Martinsville and Winnie
mac, has ordered the men to be In
readiness in case a call came for them
to go to the border.
Edinburg-When their mule baked
on the crossing, Harry Dyke, six
teen, and Thomas Beech, sixteen,
were struck by Pennsylvania
train and severely injured. The boys
and their rig were carried more than
a block by the engine. The mule was
killed.
Hammond Weeping because he
could not furnish $4,000 bond,
Louis Vlahos, Gary taxi driver, was
taken to the Crown Point Jail by fed
eral detectives after being arraigned
before United States Commissioners
Charles Surprise in Hammond with l..
Store, Charles Swanson, Marie Miller
ard Esther Anderson, the woman In
the case, under the white slave act.
The prisoners were held under $4,000
bond 10 appear for hearing April 8.
oNciO anu oWdhSOit d poi SohSSNDAo
and alleged proprietor of a chicken
farm near Gary, were handcuffed to-
gether. The prisoners are charged
with taking Esther Anderson from Au-
rora to Gary by automobile and inter
urban
Laporte.-Claiming that new evil
dence has been found which will
completely establish his innocence,
John r. Wilson, a lifer in the
Michigan City prison, has retained f.
r. Marine of Valparaiso to make an
investigation with a view TO obtaining
a pardon. Wilson went to prison
about seven years ago for the murder
of his wife He protested his inno-
cence at the trial, and during his inn
prisonment has always insisted that
the time would come when he would
be proved guiltless. A brother OF VII.
son shared the belief in his innocence
while other members Of the family be-
lieved him guilty. 1t is now said that
tramp entered the house in Wilson 8
absence and when she fought his ad-
vances he killed her
Anderson.-Bert Woods. thirty. prob.