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STATE. INTELLIGENCE. Young. “Fernzen, W. T. Malott and John P. Morphyy ”.Were,on the,20ths, appointed’: as Ianapolis “Metroplitah Police. Commis ca t Broomneton special of the 19th says: “This sister notn a sensational suit was filed at the clerk’s office by Martin Deckard, a Well known farmer living east of Bloom ington,’ to recover $12,000 damages from Marion Fads, Jackson Clementiner and two ‘others, for shaving his daughter Sarah of her hair, not‘long since. The complaint, as filed, says: At night, about 1 o’clock, certain parties surrounded her father’s house, where she resided, and forming a mob, took possession. She had retired for the night, and without regard for the occa sion, or the garments worn at such an untradely hour, the parties entered her bed chamber. Upon her trying to make her escape, they caught her, and imprisoned her for the space of near an hour, during which time her hair was cut from her head up to her scalp; that while this oper ation was being performed, owing no want of time, she was not able to appear anch attire as is desired, necessarily caus ing her great duination, besides being very insulting, all of which has caused her great injury, that can only be repaired by ‘€ 12,000. These seem to be the facts in the case. Miss Deckard is a young lady of twenty summers or more, and as far as information goes, is of excellent character and standing. Why this inhuman attack should be made upon her person can not be conjectured, only that a few nights pre vious she had jilted a young man who had been paying her attentions. The case is set for the ‘April term of Court.” ‘ARticlees of incorporation of the New ‘Albany Electric Light Company, with a capital stock of $40,000, were filed at In dianapolis on the 23d, I. 8. Winstandley, Charles Sackett, E. C. Hungary, G. C. Camson, N. J. De Pauw, M. A. Weir and Backett, incorporators. At Crawfordsville, a few days ago, John Cronin, of New Ross, was run over by a train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, his lower limbs and right arm badly mangled, and some cuts were made on his face. He lived an hour after medical aid reached him. He was twenty three years old and unmarried. Drunken ness was the cause. The five year old son of Harvey Smith, of Connersville, thrust a small shell in his car a few days ago. Doctors used chloro form and probed. The boy died in six hours. J. W. Green, of Waynestown; F. W. Throckmorton, of Lafayette, and W. C. Phaler, of Greencastle, all young students, confessed on the 22d to setting fire to Wabash College on the night of the 18th. They are out on bail. The First National Bank of North Man chester, Wabash County, has been organiz ed, and has begun business. The First National succeeds the Manchester Bank, owned by Jesse Arnold o., which has been in existence since 1871. The new charter was received on the 23d. The paid up capital of the bank is $50,000, and the officers of the bank are: Jesse Arnold, President; Joseph Arnold, Vice-President; John Wallace, Cashier. Some slick swindlers have been operating on some of the farmers in Miami County. The first victim to appear is a worthy farmer named J. C. Miller, who some weeks ago, to oblige a traveling stranger, signed his name to a blank postal card, and who now to his astonishment, finds a note in the First National Bank at Peru, for $138, which he will have to pay. There will, no doubt, be other counties heard from. A spreraAL dispatch from Peru, Miami County, on the 23d, says: ‘'The little town of Mexico, in this county, is in a terrible state of excitement. One of its citizens has mysteriously disappeared. Allen Brown is missing. Some time,since he sold his property, realizing a neat sum, and, with his wife and old child, removed to Kansas. The country was not such as pleased him, and, after a short trial of Western life, the family returned to their former home in this county. About two weeks ago Brown started for this city to seek work. He had about his person a con siderable sum of money at the time. Days ‘passed by, and the husband and father did ‘not return. The anxious‘waiting wife be came alarmed, and the people ‘about Mex ico have been searching ravines, dragging the creeks and rivers, fearing that he has met with foul play. Brown had always lived ,happily, with his family,and there could have been no possible ‘reason for the desertion of his young wife and child.” A cat was discovered on the 23d in a ‘e ‘cant lot in Shelbyville, feasting on the body of a fetus. An attempt was made to get the little body from it, but the brute made its escape and took refuge under a house nearby, taking the remains of its ghoulish meal with it. All attempts to dislodge the brute were in vain, and the fetus was completely devoured. Whether the fetus was the result of a premature birth or the effect of a criminal operation is at present a mystery, but one which may yet be unraveled. James Gop got into an altercation with Dr. A. W.Bigham and his son Jgin, at Al fordaville, a few days ago, and instantly killed John by stabbing him to the heart, and cut the Doctor fatally. An old grudge was the cause, Gold is in jail. He claims to have done the cutting in self defense. Joan Naprxe’s elevator at Flatrock Switch, fifteen miles south of Shelbyville, Was destroyed by fire on the 23d. Loss, $27,000; insurance, $19,000, Mrs. Joan Lona, of Sullivan County, was burned to death on the 23d, her cloth ing taking fire from a grate. March 26 the Indianapolis Chicago Air Line opened for business between In dianapolis and Delphi. One mixed train each way will run daily, and the rates will be lower between these points than by other lines. A farmer at Amesbury, Mass., has among his poultry a single dove, which came upon his premises about a year and a half ago, and domesticated itself with the barn-yard fowls, at once as suming their habits, roaming with them through the day, and roosting with them at night. When the fowls are confined, the dove remains in their m elsure, although it might easily fly outside.
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Osgood Ripley County Journal
Osgood, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1883
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