The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-12-21
HUNTERS ARE SHOT
Several Accidents Happen IN Va
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Huhtluks
John Benko. twenty years old. Is I'm n
serious condition ne South Bend as h
result OF an accidental shooting. Ben
ko and two companions were eating
lunch and had set their guns by h
side OF nm automobile. One OF n
weapons fell to the ground. dlscharg-
Ing the shot into Benko's left side. IL
Is believed ne will recover.
Two small boys uncovered I'm the
Lake Erie X Western railroad yards
az Muncie what the police believe was
n crude attempt TO wreck n freight
train. A 25-pound keg of powder was
found beneath n pile of coal I'm one
end of n car.
Samuel Falls. hfty-six. n miner OF
Oakland City. is dead of injuries re-
ceivcd when he was caught by falling
slate. Samuel Myers. who also vas
injured. probably will recover. nj
though his condition is serious.
Mrs. Zacariah Wall and her daugh-
ter of Huntington are surerine broken
noses as the result Of being thrown
against the back of the front seat Of
an automobile. when the machine
struck fresh gravel
AS n result of burns suffered on
Thanksgiving day. Lester +. Theme.
~two-year-old son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Theme OF Fort Wayne, is dead.
Henry Stegall. Seventy-four years
old, died nj Reid hospital nj Richmond
OF Injuries received when he was
struck by n train neal Williamsburg.
StegalI was n farmer of Grace town.
ship.
Mrs. Elmer Schwitzer OF Winchester
was severely injured when she was
struck by an automobile driven by
Thomas Achor. Both the front and
rear wheels passed over her and h
suffered injuries on the body and legs.
f.. J. Curry, fifty-fve. brother of Da-
vid Curry, representative from Sulli-
van county In tile state legislature.
hanged himself In his barn mt Farm
ersburg. Illness is believed TO have
been the cause for his act. He was
county recorder from 1907 to 1911. He
is survived by the widow and three
children.
Officials have been unable TO throw
any light on the mystery involved in
the finding of a skull on the farm OF
Henry French. just outside the town
of PatOka. The skull was found by
Elmer Elliott, an employee of the
farm, protruding from the .w~ashed-out
bank of q creek. The head evidently
is that of a man and I'm the top a little
back of the center Is a small hole. In
dicating the man had. been struck. The
skull is at the office of Sheriff Phillips
at Princeton.
The Protestant congregations OF
Peru have united i'm q movement for
tabernacle meetings. 10 begin January
8. Rev. c. III. Smith, pastor of the
Methodist church. is chairman of the
committee of arrangements. Fife
brothers, e~vangelists. will conduct the
meetings. A tabernacle has been
bought ut Centralia. H.. and will be
moved 10 Peru at once.
32-caliber revolver. found neal the
scene of the murder Of George Wiike-
son. aged s~tOrekeeper in Aydick. n viii
lage near South Bend, has brought a
woman into the case. according TO re-
ports from the sherifT-s Office. The
gun was traced back to n hardware
store in South Bend. and the clerk
says n woman purchased the weapon
on the afternoon before tile murder.
November 10. The woman gave a false
name ar address. IL has peer learned.
and efforts to find her have so far been
futile.
Soldiers in training for National
army service are not TO be asked 10
be their WI farmers and raise vegeta-
bles md garden truck in or near their
environments. David f. Houston. sec
rotary of agriculture. has replied to a
suggestion TO this effect by Prof. G. l..
Christie. in charge of food production
work in Indiana. by declaring the plan
o feasible. Secretary Houston de-
clared the soldiers need all their time
for training and that noncombatants
must supply them with food.
Private Charles Reese OF Fort
Thomas, KY, said TO be wanted In
Greenville, O.. for forgery. was ar
rested at Indianapolis by the police.
DIR. Il. Il. Schrock or Lagrange was
killed when he attempted 70 walk be-
tween two cars in the Pennsylvania
station at Richmond. The cars were
detached but came together in some
manner and crushed Doctor Schrock
to death.
OZel Lane was killed and Pearl Lane
was hurt M kokomo. when a Pennsyl-
vania freight train backed into a bug
~ in which they were riding.
His automobile smashed by a train,
the body of Francis Street. twenty
two. was found ar a railroad crossing
ut Huntington eight hours after the
accident happened. He evidently had
been struck by n fast passenger train.
which did not stop.
A young woman working in one OF
the downtown stores ut South Bend
accepted and ate n piece Of candy from
a strange woman. and she has been
III siace with symptoms OF poisoning.
The soung woman believes the woman
and The man who ACCOMPANIED her