Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — WILL OF TOM W. HARPER [ARTICLE]

WILL OF TOM W. HARPER

Cuts Off His Daughter with Nothing and Forbids Religious Services z at His Funeral. Terre Haute, Ind., March 12.—The will of Thomas W. Harper, a noted lawyer of thia city, has been filed for probate. It stipulates that there shall be no minister at the burial and no religious services. This has been complied with. His estate, amounting to nearly $25,000, is left to his widow. The will also provides that his daughter Winifred, by his first wife, Ida Husted Harper, the biographer of Susan B. Anthony, shall get nothing because the testator paid for her education at Leland Stanford university and at Chicago university, and because she had already drawn SI,OOO from his father’s estate and would inherit her mother’s property. The daughter is the wife of Rev. J. G. Cooley, of New York. Curious and Fatal Accident. Boonville, Ind., March 12. While Lee Weller, twenty-two years old, and William Young, were felling trees in the Beker bottoms, a descending tree broke off a large limb from another tree, which, in falling, struck Weller and knocked him into a ditch filled, with swiftly running water. He was not seen again. Weller was married, and the father of a child. . Withdraws from the Race. Madison, Ind., March 12.—Joseph M. Cravens, who was opposing Lincoln Dixon for the Fourth district Democratic congressional convention, announces that he has withdraw from the race. Cravens represented Jefferson county in the last session of the legislature. He withdraws In the Interests of party harmony. Veterans Passing Away. Jeffersonville, Ind., March 12.—During the last six weeks nine veterans of the war of the rebellion have died in this city and county. Four of the nine died within three days of one another. Among them was' a veteran of both the Mexican and the later war The average age of the nine was something over seventy-two years. - . School Is a Ptretrapf Evansville, Ind., March 12. Fire Marshal Dunlefy has condemned the

Carpenter street school, declaring it la a veritable firetrap. The building Is an old ohe. It will cost >50,000 to replace it.