Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

A vouTH'of Rising Sun lately assaulted an elderly oitizen who had been accused of speaking ill of the young mau’s girl. The Ohio Falls Car Company is building fifteen passenger coaches for the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railway. The postoffioe at Fremont, Steuben oounty, was robbed of $699 in stamps and S2OO in money, the thieves escaping to Angola by a stolen hand-oar. So many ladies have been aoocsted and insulted on tho streets of Muncie that one of them aets an example to her sex by walking abroad with a revolver in her hand.

During the absence of her husband and family, Mrs. Catherine Duffy, wife of Patrick Duffy, of Shelbyville, was burned to death, her clothing having canght fire from the kitchen stove. Aaron Jones was recently sentenced to jail, at Rushville, for thirty days for perjury. He has heretofore stood well in the community, and is among the wealthiest farmers of the county. The students of Butler University, Indianapolis, adopted suitable resolutions on the death of Rev. O. A. Burgess, of Chicago, a former President of that ERtitution, and memorial services were held in the university chapel. A suit instituted against the State in the name of Carroll oounty to recover certain amounts of money expended in advertising delinquent tax-lists, will, if successful, bring the State in debt to the several counties for nearly $200,000 on the last collection of taxes. Clinton Bower and Mary Bower were divorced a few months ago by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jeffersonville. They soon afterward remarried, and Mrs. Bower now turns up missing with $650 of her husband’s monoy. The parties resided near New Washington, Clark county.

After many years’ absence from his home at St. Joseph, Clark oounty, Richard Malbon returned to find his wife married to another man. He had failed to correspond with her during her absence, and she, hearing he was dead, married again. Richard did not make a muss or suicide over the Btate of affairs he found on his return, but permits husband No. 2 to occupy in perfect peace. E. R. Hill, a rich and prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, was lately arrested by Federal detectives for using the mails to defraud produce merchants in Chicago and Elgin. He had letter-heads announcing himself as a wholesale grocer, and coolly ordered large quantities of goods on credit. He confessed his guilt, and was placed in jail in default of $lO,000 bad. The Trustee of Pleasant Run township, Harrison county, has absconded, being a defaulter to the amount of near $5,000. The township will lose nothing, as his sureties are good for the amount. For some time past ho bad been leading a rather fast life, but his good character and reputation as a business man completely misled his bondsmen, who will now have to pay for their confidence in him. For many years he had carried on a successful merchandising business.

The Directors of the Northern prison lately met at Indianapolis to take counsel of‘the Attorney General relative to the power of themselves and the Warden iu the management of prison affairs. It appears that Warden Murdock has disregarded the recent order of the Directors and continued to feed his hogs with the prison garbage, claiming that the contract entered into between tho board and himself cannot be abrogated by the former during his term of office. He is acting under legal advice. The Attorney General will he eallod upon to untie the Gordian Knot. The Jeffersonville correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal denies that the crazy Miss Herman, who lately deceased in tho Clark county alms-house, completed a fast of sixty-two days, or that her body was reduced from 162 pounds to a mere matter of about seventy pounds. The remains made a liealthy-looking corpse of 125 pounds, and persons who saw Miss Herman within the last two weeks of her life assert that she was strong in voice and mind, and not very weak physically, and that she could not have fasted the time (specified.