The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-04-14
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
What the People Are Doing All
Over the State.

Terre Haute.-Voorhees n. Griffith,
former city controller, committed
suicide.
Muncie.-The Eighth District Fed
GRAFTON of Clubs held its annual meet
ing here.
Rushville.-Dr. Hugh H. Elliott,
aged sixty-six, dropped dead on the
street here.
Fl. Wayne.-Employes at the cleo
trio works are organizing light bat
terry of artillery.
Sullivan.-A seventy-five barrel oil
we'll has been brought in on the Poe
lease, near here.
Lafayette-Mrs. Charles B. Stuart
has donated $4,000 to the new hos
pital fund being raised.
Upland.-Haif a business block was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000, only
partly covered by insurance.
Gary.-Announcement has been
made that a new 25,000,OOO steel mill
will be erected here this year.
South Bend.-Mrs Annie Halstead,
a pioneer, aged ninety-two, for fifty
seven years a widow, is dead.
Greensburg.-Judge Wickens sus-
tanned the motion to quash indict-
ments against Mayor Mendenhall.
Terre Haute.-The convention of
the United Mine Workers, District
No. II, has resumed it's deliberations.
Moores Hill.-The Rev. U. G. Lea
zenby, of Charlottesville, has been
chosen president of Moores Hill col
lege.
Hartford City-A judgment for
S140,206, the largest on record, has
been entered in Judge Eichhorn's
court.
Lafayette.-Rev. Clements Stein
kamp celebrated the fftieth anniver-
sary of his entrance into the order of
friar minor.
Orleans.-What is believed to be a
branch of historic Lost River or an
underground cavern was struck by
we'll drillers here.
Shelbyville-Kari J. DePrez, who
was injured on the athletic field at
Wabash college, has undergone the
sixteenth operation.
Hartford City.-George Brown has
celebrated his first vacation in twenty
years from duty as manager of the
Western Union Office.
Fl. Wayne.-Telling his wife that
he would build a fire in the range,
Gilbert McNab, farmer, went to the
kitchen and shot himself.
Noblesville.-The case against FL
mer E. Sturdevant, former president
of the Hamilton Trust Company, has
been set for trial on May 1.
Fl. Wayne.-The lifeless body of
Samuel Jordan, eighty-fve years old,
a recluse, was found in a shack on the
banks of the Maumee river.
South Bend.-Twenty-seven Bel
gians, who left Mishawaka several
months ago for Europe, are with the
French army in the trenches.
Jeffersonville.-George T. Jacobs
has been appointed administrator of
the estate of his sister, Mrs. Frances
Brookbanks, murdered recently.
Petersburg-Well drillers were
smoking when they struck gas at a
depth of $50 feet. The gas ignited
and they were seriously burned.
nchester.-According to the re-
port filed with the county clerk, James
P. Goodrich, republican candidate for
Governor, spent $18,51550 in the cam
paign.
Fl. Wayne.-Judge John ". Egg
man has named commissioners to
make a recount of the democrat bal
lots cast for county recorder in the
recent primary.
Hazelwood.-The appearance of a
Zeppelin here has thrown the town
into fever of excitement. Carl
Labertew, a prosperous farmer, is the
owner of the machine.
Fl. Wayne.-Newton w. Gilbert, of
the Philippine islands, will be dele
gate to the Chicago convention and
visit relatives here, according to let
tiers received from him.
Anderson.-The Loyal Order Of
Moose held its twenty-seventh annual
meeting and elected officers. E. J..
Hennings, of San Diego, Cal, was
elected supreme dictator; Hy d.
Davis, Cleveland, O., vice dictator;
John Ford, Philadelphia, Pa, su-
preme prelate.
South Bend.-Miss Donna Regina
Smith is enroute home from the
Philippines, where she has been
visiting her brother-in-law, Guy
Rohrer, Governor of the Province of
Sulu. Miss Smiths engagement to
Lieutenant William Middleton Quig-
ley, U. S. N. has been announced.
Anderson.-The Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society will have a state
meeting here April 10 and 20.
Logansport.-Mrs. F. w. Patterson
fell and fractured her arm while