The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-19
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near New Harmony, when her clothes
caught IRE from ia open CRATE
Rochester A touring cnr driven by
Elsen Blackburn struck mnchlne Ia
which were Earl Smiley aud Gus Meix.
ger. md both Smiley aud Mctggcr were
injured.
urcencnstlc. Levi Howard, colored.
was arrested here. accused of the
theft of 5000 from the Citizens Nation.
al bank n week ngo, Howard WIS lunl.
tor nt the bunk.
llenfyNlllo, Mrs Henry Richardson.
forty i've. aud her daughter. BESSIE.
seventeen, were burned 30 denih Ia
iirc which destroyed their home here.
Richardson escaped
Lagrange William Davis was Mt
tackled by rat he was reeas.
ing from trap md developed blood
poisoning, Ills condition il critical.
Lognnsport,- Ralph Hunter. age
twelve, fell 80 feet In the city
electric light plant 10 cement floor.
He suffered only slight bruises, as his
fall was broken by IA projecting board.
oorydon. Chris Shnffer II dead nj
his home in this county OF an injury
caused by brick falling on his head
from n chimney that was being re-
paired.
indianapolis. - l.. III. Wolfardt OF
Newcastle has been appointed chief
deputy under Ed Jackson. secre-
tary of state-elect, and John Il. Reed
has been named chief deputy by Otto
KLAUS, auditor OF state-elect.
Misunderstanding that the high
cost OF living has made their sal
aries insufficient, the members OF the
police and fire departments have filed
petition wit the city council. asking
for an increase of SO month.
Bloomfield.-Whle hunting on the
flanagan Rainbolt farm, near the
Greene-Lawrence county line, FL
wood Holmes killed gray eagle that
measured seven feet two inches across
its wings. The bird was brought To
bloomfield and will be mounted.
Butler. Charles w. Warren,
sales manager for manufacture
ing concern in Chicago, was killed and
DIR. w. Montgomery, Chicago dentist.
was seriously injured here when the
automobile in which they were return
ing home from Detroit overturned.
Indianapolis.-A campaign to teach
the schoOlchildren Of the state to
help conserve the paper supply was
launched by Charles 4. Great
house, state superintendent of public
instruction. Greathouse issued n set
of rules for children TO follow i'm gath
ering waste paper and selling il.
Knox. The Ten Wrinkle Oil
Reclaiming company, capitalized at
$250,OO0. has been Incorporated under
the laws of Indiana. and will locate
plant for the manufacture of oil-re-
claiming machinery here, 1t was an
nounced. Arthur l.. Kline of Chicago.
head of the company, said 100 men
would be employed at the start.
Muncie I'm sorry l didn't
kill the cur" was Rollin H0welrs only
comment after he had been charged
with attempted murder for shooting
Frank Shockey, when he found him
with Mrs. Howell. Interference of
policemen who heard the first shots
probably saved Shockey's life. Two
bullets hit him, bat he was not seri-
ously wounded.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Samuel Ralston
will ask the state legislature TO pro-
vide for the calling of a constitutional
convention in Indiana. In an
nOuncing his intention, Governor Rails
ton declared he was adhering TO his
pledge when he went into office, and
added that both the Republican and
Progressive parties had declared for
such convention. The governor also
pointed out that suffragists can obtain
the ballot only through this method,
and asked them TO support it.
Hammond. = Steps TO investigate
the recent election in Lake coun-
ty were taken by the government
when subpoenas calling for their i'm
mediate appearance before a federal
grand jury at indianapolis were served
on Auditor Edward Simon and Coun-
~ Clerk III. Wheaton. Simon has
charge of the registration records and
Wheaton of the election returns from
112 precincts in the county. Similar
summonses were 20 be served upon
officers OF both Democratic and Repub-
iican organizations at Gary.
ndianapolis.-Nearly 1900 persons
i'm Indiana voted for a presidential
elector who had no party candidate
for president TO vote for. The official
count, now being completed, showed
that the first electOr on the Progress
sive ticket received 3,S9S votes, The
count shows that the first presidential
elector on the Republican ticket re-
ceived 6,S94 more votes than the cleo
tor on the Democratic ticket bearing
out the unofficial tabulation of Mr..
Hughes plurality. The vote also
shows that although the plurality of
Mr.. Hughes fell several thousand be-
low that of Governor-elect Goodrich,
he received more popular votes than
Goodrich.
Observation-Disclosures stole so from
small metal box In the Under