The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-10-12

as conscript
Mrs. Charity Benham of Benham.
widow OF a civil war veteran. fell
from her chair while at the dinner
table and suffered serious injuries.
\ golden eagle. measuring seven
and a half feet between the tips OF
its extended wings. was killed south
west of Elwood. near Aroma, by ARA
Leeman.
Mrs Grace Meredith OF Wabash.
one of the leaders of the Women's
Benefit Association. formerly known
as the Ladies of the Maccabees. will
represent Indiana at the dedication
of the new home office OF the asso-
citation at Port Huron. Mich. Oct. ,.
Mrs. Mary Adams. So was instant
ly killed near Lafayette when the
auto in which she was riding was
struck by a Wabash freight train
Miss Gould Mills and Walter Rine-
hart, the driver, were seriously in
jured.
Joseph ID. TORI was arrested at
Greencastle after he had served
about nine years as deputy postmas-
ter in the Greencastle Office. He re-
signed his place as a result of dis
closures made by postoflice inspec-
tors, who found a shortage of $4,000
in his accounts.
A tract of twenty-five acres. be
tween New York avenue and lndi
annapolis boulevard. in Whiting. has
been sold TO the Great Western
Smelling and Refining Company of
Chicago by Oliver o. Forsythe for
$4,000 A plant to cost $4,000 will
be constructed.
A jury in circuit court at Muncic
awarded 1880 TO Mrs. Matilda Nice
wanner, who sued the estate OF her
sister, Mrs Rachel Henderson, for
$4,000 for services given as a nurse
during thirteen years in which Mrs.
Henderson lay i'll. other relatives
opposed the claim.
An Austrian, whose name was not
given out has been arrested at Green
castle charged with cheering the
kaiser and condemning President Will
son. He was working on Rector
Hall dormitory at DePauw. He has
talked pro-German strongly for the
last few weeks. He will be held for
federal officers
Tbrao uopap uara proha hIv fatal
ly injured and one man badly hurt
when an interurban car, travelling to-
word Lafayette, struck a touring car
bound for Frankfort. The injured
are Mrs Leona Hinton, Frankfort;
Miss Mary Leslie, Monticello; Miss
Della Morecraft, Frankfort, and Will
liam Weidman, Frankfort.
Free incubation against typhoid
fever of residents of South Bend, in
Guiding school children, will be com
menced as soon as the vaccine is re-
ceived from the state health depart
ment. One hundred and eighteen
cases of typhoid and five deaths have
been reported to the health office to
during the last few days.
Resolutions were adopted by the
executive committee of the Indiana
Patriotic League at Indianapolis. de-
nouncing Senator Robert NJ LaFol-
lette of Wisconsin as being unworthy
to hold seat in the United States
senate because of his alleged disloyal
conduct and his statements in
speech he made at st. Paul a few
days ago. The resolutions favor the
expulsion of LaFollette from mem
bership in the senate.
The Indiana industrial board has
been called on TO determine whether
the loss of a mans only good eye
causes total blindness in the eyes
of the workmen's compensation act.
Arthur Blair of Harmony was en-
ployed by Clay county and was split
ting coal when a piece struck him in
the right eye. destroying the sight.
He was already blind in the other eye.
Blair filed a claim for $500 declaT-
ing the loss of his good eye caused
total blindness.
"Sixty-three persons in Indiana
died of typhoid fever during August.
new record for this malady in the
state" said Dr. ]. ~ Hurry. state
health commissioner. During the
past month tuberculosis. which has
been responsible for more deaths
than any single disease in ordinary
months, were crowded into second
place by typhoid fever. During the
month of August there were 2,9s9
deaths reported and 5.479 births
recorded in Indiana"
Henry Snyder, age sixty-eight. who
was injured at Covington while firms
an old civil war cannon as feature
of the ovation given the Fountain
county soldiers who were leaving for
Camp Taylor died after lingering two
days. He was directly in front OF the
mouth of the cannon ramming down
a charge of wadding for firing the
last salute. when the gunner. who dio
not see him, pulled the trigger. His