The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-10
STATE news

heater Is DeleVeu 10 nave sidfteu 'no
blaze.
Observation-Disclosures Kaiser acct |
dentally shot himself in the head
when handling an old revolver at
his home near here. and physicians do
not expect him to recover.
Greensburg.-By a majority or liz
Greensburg is again wet territory.
The election was the hardest
fought campaign between vets and
drys this city has ever seen.
Lafayette.-The Lafayette Mothers
club has decided TO have a baby
show at the vocational school
here March 1918, during the celeb,a-
ton of Baby week.
Indianapolis.-E B. Stotsenburg.
attorney general. told the state board
Of tax commissioners that Pennsylva-
MIA railroad stock. owned by Indiana
persons. was subject TO taxation
North Manifestation famii-
les are quarantined as the re-
suit OF an epidemic of scarlet fever that
has broken out in the schools. The
North ward and Central buildings
have been closed.
Monticello.-A pageant and his
torical play. both representing Mon
ticello and White county history,
will be features of Historical day. 10
be held here March II, by the pupils
of the public schools
Indianapolis.-Sta Treasurer Bit
Ter received a check for S62l.lo
as payment for nearly fifty-hve
acres of land reclaimed by the lndi-
ana Steel company in Lake county.
The land was reclaimed by the COM
pany making deposits Of dirt along the
lake front
Evansville-John III. Rosenberger.
local manufacturer, has been no
titled of his appointment as one
of the committee of five compris-
ing the governing board of the Missis-
sippi Valley Terminal league, body
devoted to lettering middle West riv-
or terminal facilities.
Elkhart-C c. Myers, age
thirty, manager of an oleomarga-
rine store owned by o. K. Files
& Brother of Toledo, o., has been ar
rested, charged with embezzlement OF
s1O6. He has confessed, the police
say, declaring he used the money tc
pay doctor bills and buy coal and 9TH
er necessities.
Bedford. Robinson, eight
cen, is in the county Jail facing
charge of first-degree murder
He shot and killed Frank Quacken
bush, forty-five, superintendent of the
Peerless quarry. Robinson had beer
discharged, but the superintendent re
fused to pay him his wages until the
regular pay day. This incensed the
youth and caused him to return to the
quarry with shotgun and shoot the
Superintendent without warning.
Indianapolis-If Evansville moth
ers want to sew underwear OIL
the children and leave it ther'
all winter they are at liberty to d.
so. This information was sent 20 Ev
ansville by the state board of healtl
in answer to complaint from loca
? officials, who have been trying TO sto
, the practice. Doctor Hurry of tn
board says the state needs child by
, giene law to meet such problems.
Marion.-Clint CLANCY, who wa
T brought back here from Teri
2 Haute on a charge of embezzl'
: ment, pleaded guilty before Judge
Y F. Paulus of having appropriated fund
e of the Mississinewa Motorcycle con
/ pany. CLANCY returned $50 to tn
q club. Miss Fern CLANCY, his siste
j. assisted him in paying the none.
r Judge Paulus fined Clancy $50 an
r suspended sentence of from two
J. four years TO the state reformatory.
t Indianapolis youthful au'
s bandits who were foiled in an
|. tempt to rob a South side grocer
recently were sentenced in crimin'
court here to long terms. Ray Dav
g goes to the state prison at Michiga
City and Victor Mabrey, Michael Ha
:, and Elisha Lamantress to the Jene
= sonville reformatory. The sentence
O. are from five TO fourteen years. he
CALDWELL, Tie SIOCel, OpSHCN hiO
:, the bandits when they entered b
20 place and ordered him to put up b
~ hands
Indianapolis TO accus
tions of federal officers, Glenn
Murphy of Darlington took in )
900 In nine months on Sill
mail-order scheme be operat
through the Kokomo post office. MI
=, ply was arrested at an automobile
pair shop here. and is held under 5
-, 900 bond to answer TO the charge
., using the mails to deSaud- 1t is
N legged that he advertised for WON
everywhere to make dust caps. L
thousand replied. Then he sold the
sample for a quarter. and IL tn
wrote again he demanded $40 depo
q on the materials he promised to Sc
~ them. The officers have been looki
for him since last November. when
~ left Kokomo.
10 Seymour-Mayor John A RI
20 has established the rule OF thre
CT in dealing with habitual drul
ards. The name OF each defends
who is found guilty the third time
he sent to all saloon keepers in
n sell