Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1882 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Tub Vandalia A Terre Haute road earned $1,665,516 last year. Sift. 25 has been fixed upon as the date for opening the Indiana State Fair, this year. . Benj. Rinbalee, of Madison, is 82 years old, and is suing for a divorce from his wife. Ellis Thurman, of Grandview, Spencer county, has eloped with his grandfather’s young wife. A young man of Fort Wayne died from hydrophobia. He was bitten by a small blaok-and-tau dog. A Mormon preacher is holding a series of meetings in New Albany. He has large audiences but no converts thus far. Several Jewish relugees from Russia have lately arrived at Indianapolis. They find no trouble in obtaining employment. Miss Ella Tumby, a bright and intelligent young lady of 22 years, committed suicide at Seymour, being troubled about her debts. t . This Madison County Commissioners have voted an order for the erection of a new court house to cost not to exceed $150,000. It took five days to summon a man from Crawford county to the beside of his dying wife in Orange county, only fifty miles distant. Last year the various manufactories and other business interest! of New Albany flourished ai was never known before in the history of the city. Mb. Blos/3, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has sustained the action of a County Superintendent in revoking a teacher’s license for maltreating a pupil. Miss Julia Test, of Richmond, has jnst recovered a watch lost on a Pullman sleeper three years ago. In rebuilding the car the workmen discovered it wedged in a corner of the berth, where it had escaped the notice of the porters. Lobbnob Pombroy, who embezzled the contents of valuable letters while Postmaster at Hebron, was sentenced by Judge Gresham to twenty years a; hard labor. The culprit is an old man, and is completely crushed by his punishment. Thrbe Greensburg roughs, William Welsh, William Mullen and James Gannon, went to Rushville, got drunk and tried to take the town. Welsh shot Charles Fisher, abarber,in the face. The Sheriff and a posse charged upon tho S, and Welsh was shot three times, ,y. By a decision of the State Supreme Court a large number of claims for bounty by volunteers who enlisted in the Union army are forever burred, the court holding that an offer of bounty by a Board of County Commissioners was not a contract in writing, amt that actions to recover such bounty are barred by the statute of limitations. Henry 0. Spaulding, who was once famous as the inventor of liquid glue, was recently arrested at New Albany for drunkenness. He says that he sold the right to manufacture to a concern who made a rcund $1,000,000 out of it, but he got nothing, the buyer putting in a defense to the suit brought by Spaulding that the plaintiff’ was a minor when the contract was made. Jaoob Cartwright and Labuner Lundy, laborers in a Muncie sawmill, went into the engine-room to get a drink and commenced a playful scuffle, both plunging their heads under the connecting red of the engine, which was running at a frightful speed. Both their heads were mashed to jelly, causing instant death. Cartwright was about 21 years of age ; Lundy, 18. Dr. Hawn, Secretary of State, lately received a letter directed to “ The Clerk of the State of Indians;” from a Justice of the Peace in a northern county, in which he sa.>s that “the Note of Republic ” in his town has died, and hisfriends want him to apply for the position. He evidently thinks that there can be but one notary public in a town, and gives the Postmaster as reference us to his capabilities, etc. A Cllnton ctfunty farmer went into Perrin’s Bank at Lafayette, the other day, and informed Mr. Perrin that about twelve years ago, in paying out a lot of money to him over the counter of his bank, two bills had stuck together and hence ho had received $lO more than the proper amount. The matter had been weighing on his conscience ever since, and he could not rest easy until he had made a clean breast of it, and restored tho amount thus erroneously paid. In the case of the State vh. Creek, appealed to the Supreme Court for the purpose of testing the question as to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace to try criminal cases where imprisonment might be part of the punishment, it has been decided that Justices have jurisdiction in such cases. The court holds —Judge Worden delivering the opinion —that Justices have jurisdiction in all cases where a fine is the only punishment that must be inflicted, though imprisonment in the county . jail might, but need not necessarily, be imposed, but that they have no jurisdiction in cases where both fine and imprisonment must be assessed in punishment. The decision is a surprise to lawyers generally, as it was supposed the Legislature at its last session had taken cases of the kind mentioned from the jurisdiction of Justices, and these ofiicers were acting accordingly.

A horrible murder was recently perpetrated near St. Paul, Shelby county, John Walton, a wealthy farmer, being the victim. Mr. Walton, before retiring for the night, sat' down near a window in his sitting-room, for the purpose of reading the papers. While in this position, in view of the road, he was foully murdered, some unknown person shooting him in the head with a gun heavily loaded with large shot. The household soon spread the alarm, and Dr. Howard, of St. Paul, was called on to attend the dying man. The physician, as soon as he heard of the affair, suspected Aaron Frasier, a negro. Search was commenced for the fellow, and he was shortly found and arrested. When he knew that his crime bsd been discovered, Frasier broke down and made a full confession. He said he had been promised a large reward by O. M. Garrett, a neighbor living near, if he would kill Walton. Garrett was arrested and taken to a Justice’s office, where before his trial was begun he obtained permission to go to an ouihouse with a guard, when suddenly drawing a ■revolver he shot-himself in the head inflecting a mortal wound. Watson denied that, be hired Frasier to do the killii g, but seemed to indicate that Wai top’s wife was most likely to be th® one. Mrs, Walton was arrested and held in $5,000 bail. The people of Shelby county were gjeatly pxcited over the tragedy.