The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-02
A STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 2. 1877.

on suspicion, Saturday, and bound over
until his examination takes place in 81 900
bail.
New Albany Ledger-Standard: 1t is
rumored that all the employees of the Jeffer-
sonville, Madison and indianapolis railway.
under twentyone years. are to be laid off
and their places given to married men. This
would make decided change on this road.
and, besides it would force many to marry
against their will
Knightston Journal: The remains of
Harry Hazen, one of the Southern hotel vic
Tins, passed through here on No. Friday.
on the way to Pennsylvania for burial. Mr..
Hazen was an honorable attache OF the audi
tors Office, Missouri Pacific railroad. The
remains were met ar Richmond by his
brother from Pennsylvania.
Fort Wayne Gazette: Yesterday morning
Miss Nettie Marks, a teacher in the Harmer
school, was arrested on the charge of assault
and battery, the affidavit being filed by Ev-
eret Pierce. A son of Mr.. Pierces, boy of
eight years for some offense had his mouth
filled with cayenne pepper as punishment
by the teacher. On promise of discontin-
uing that mode of punishment the case was
withdrawn by Mr.. Pierce.
Upton Times: On last Friday night the
county treasurer's Office was broken into and
the safe blown almost to pieces. The thieves
drilled a hole in the end of the safe and in
serted powder and fuse. the explosion of
which entirely ruined the safe, but failed to
blow the door open as was doubtless in
tended. There was but little money in the
safe at the time but quite number of valu.
able papers, which were destroyed by the
burning powder and fuse.
Sullivan Democrat: On last Sunday. while
services were being held at the Palmer Prai.
RE meeting house, two men, Frank Wood
ward and John Wall, who were seated on
the outside, became involved in an angry
dispute about some hogs and soon came to
blows. Wall gave the lie to Woodward,
who, having knife at the time, whiting,
struck Wall, infiicting two cuts with his
knife, one in the shoulder and one In the
side. Part of the knife blade broke off and
is supposed remains in the wound.
Joshua CoplIn, farmer living in Still
well, Laporte county, had two valuable
horses and double harness stolen Saturday
night about IL p. IN. The thieves started
north and stopped at Charles Websters
farm, ran bis wagon and carriage out of the
shed, hitched on to the wagon, ran the
buggy back, broke into the barn and stole a
single harness and made off. The Horse
thief Protection society and officers are af-
ter them. The horse thieves in this section
of the country are giving the farmers great
deal of trouble.
Saturday morning United States Collector
Will Cumback, accompanied by his deputy,
arrived at I.awrenceburg and seized sol bar
rels of the crooked belonging to the dis
tilling firm of John II. Calf & Co. The whis-
ky had been receiving its rations OF burnt
peach and sugar from the hands of firm
that had no license to rectify, and so the
company was sat down upon. The CATS
three brothers, are all heavy whisky men
and were never tripped up before. The
seizure is the sensation of the season in
southern Indiana.
Jane McGhan, daughter of prominent
citizen of Casey, Illinois, DIR. McGhan, was
arrested at the Terre Haute house at Terre
Haute, Saturday night, for the murder of
her illegitimate child. Three weeks ago
Raphael Williams the father of the babe, it
is claimed, had an abortion produced by a
physician of some prominence and by the
operation the child was born, but alive
The young woman claims that the doctor
then strangled it with an apron-string. 1t
was then thrown into an old straw pile, and
was found by dog belonging to passerby
a few days after She was on her way TO
Kentucky when arrested.
A short time ago Mr. Daniel Ammon who
had resided in Fort Wayne for the past Is
years, died at the advanced age of IL He
was the owner of considerable property, in
cludlng the opera mouse, and was well known
in Fort Wayne. This morning Mrs. Am
mon, who has been recognized as the wife of
the deceased during the entire Is years OF
his residence in Fort Wayne, applied to be
appointed administrative of his estate, when
the appointment was resisted on the ground
that he had another wife living in North
cumberland county, Pennsylvania to whom
he was married in 1899. and from whom he
had never been divorced and that he had
three children by that wife living, one of
whom, Samuel Ammon, of Steubenville,
Ohio, resists the appointment of Sarah Am
mon, of Fort Wayne. as administrators, and
files a long affidavit to the effect above
stated. Sarah Ammon claims that she is
the only lawful wife of the deceased, and
asks for time to gather evidence, which was
granted and the case set for hearing on the
sth of May. The case causes a decided SEN
sation.
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