The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-04-28
INDIANA HAPPENINGS.
Live Wire Notes From All Over
the Entire State.


the Audubon society will be held here
April q, % and %.
Kendallville.-Guy c. Hart, mail
carrier, was selected by popular vote
for the next postmaster.
Madison.-For shooting off the left
arm of his son-in-law, Christopher G.
Henry was fined $40 and costs.
Indianapolis.-The husband is the
owner of the household goods. accord
ing TO n decision OF the superior court.
North Vernon.-St. AIMS Catholic
church was fred by mice chewing
matches, resulting in about $500 dam
agea.
lndianapolis,-Work In under way
In remodeling the union station. The
new train sheds will be In three sec
tions.
Petersburg. -Seventy-hve barrels n
day Is the estimated production of an
oil we'll brought in three miles west
OF here.
Suilivan.-The body of Frank Roa-
bolt, who was drowned while hunting
mussels in a motor boat. has been re-
covered.
Seymour.-A coliseum will be built
here by business men ut Shields park
for the use of the ehautauqua and
conventions.
olumbus.-Police stopped ten
round boxing exhibition here and pre-
ferred charges against the promoter
of the bout.
Newcastle. - Jitney busses must
stop at least one square from the
interurban station, according to a re-
cent ordinance.
Columbus.-The Eagles have de-
cided to hold the next district meeting
at Shelbyville. Nearly 1000 attended
the meeting here.
Madison. = Thirty-four acres of
ground has been purchased by the
Southeastern hospital, making total
acreage of 374.
Bluffton.-Fire destroyed the stree
high tree on the banks of the
Wabash river.
Shelbt&ille.-George Stubs, CASH
Ter of the Shelby National Bank, has
been selected treasurer of the new
Chamber of Commerce.
Delphi.-Rev. w. T. Van Cleave,
pastor here when the Baptist church
was built, is dead at Santa Anna,
Cal, according to word received.
elbyville.-Donald, the three
year-old son of city engineer George
Mcbride, was instantly killed when
his fathers automobile turned over.
Evansville.-By accidentally taking
hold of a live. wire, Thomas Foster is
dead. Twenty-three thousand volts
of electricity passed through his body.
Columbus.-The vacant lots in the
city will be cultivated by the members
of the Commercial club this summer,
and the profits will be used as fac
tory fund.
Bicknell.-Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Lackey were both shot in the head
when they interfered in a quarrel be-
tween George Murphy, who did the
shooting, and George Suitor.
encastle.-Bascom O'Hair, in his
will. left the Commercial hotel prop
erty to DePauw university, subject to
an annuity of 5000 to his sister, Mrs.
J. A. Curtis, of Putnamville.
New Albany.-Frank Spelman, age
sixty-four, is dead after an illness of
ten days, from nervous prostration.
He was serving his third term as
county recorder of Floyd county.
Muncie.-A finger that was pinched
off the hand of Joseph Long dropped
to the sidewalk with a thud. Long
was astonished when he looked down
and exclaimed, "Well what do you
think of that, some one has lost a
finger" He later discovered it was
his own finger.
Elwood-While Miss Leora Cross
was in an undertaking establishment
selecting coffin for her father, who
dropped dead, the body of her fance,
Donald Powell, was brought into the
| place. Powell was instantly killed in
the collapse of brick cupola he had
just completed.
Charlottesville. = The Woman's
Council are planning Better babies
contest" which will be held in May.
Mrs. George L. Macintosh, wife of
the president of Wabash college, ard
herself the mother of a one-year-old
baby daughter, is chairman of the
committee in charge.
Franklin.-Mrs. Dewitt Parker is
IN Jail charged with completely III the
attempt to rob the bank at Green
wood. She denies the charge
Indianapolis Mayor Bell and over
1000 city employees participated in
a mammoth parade Saturday With the
sole purpose of showing the public
what is being done with its money.
English.-Adam Gilmore, 10, has
left for Ireland TO visit d brother he
has not seen for fifty years. lie came
here to visit another brother, from