The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14
Minor Notes.

Feather-bed swinilers Ia new dodgel are
operating in southern Indiana. They get pos
session of the family feather-bed under pretense
of renevating the feathers, and never return It,
Maria B. Vanarsdall, wife of John w. Vanars-
dali, of Shelbyville, died yesterday morning
Mrs. Vanarsdall was daughter of the late sid
ney Thayer a well-known citizen of Shelby
county.
Lebanon has new weekly paper, the first is
sue of which bears the date of June II 1t is in
dependent in politics. and modestly announces
that at has come to do the best it can under
the Circumstances.
d. J. Salisbury, one of the oldest settlers of
Porter county, committed suicide at his home IN
Valparaiso, by shooting himself in the head
with a heavily-loaded shotgun, on Thursday.
The deceased had been suffering from i'll health
for some time past.
Frank Kersey a boy about fifteen years old,
got into street difficulty with al Hinton, an
other boy about fourteen years old, at Lebanon.
During the difficulty Hinton stabbed Kersey in
the abdomen. Kersey died on Thursday from
the effect of the wound.
The Goshen Wooden mill Company purchased
700 pounds of wool on Thursday. Shortly after,
it was discovered that the wool, together with
the team that hauled it, had been stolen from
near Mendon, Mich The thieves succeeded In
escaping, but left the team.
Thomas J. Thorne, of Tippecaneo county,
who was one of the forty-five survivors of the
Z, jUU souls on DOarQ Jne Su1Gdna AT tne llnle
she blew up, has received 81, 800 back pension
Mr., Thornes experience included long nm
prisonment at Andersonville.
Samuel Burkholder, of this city. who has been
engaged in the lumber business in Crawfords-
vile, and in Posey county, has made an assign
ment to L. A. Swift. His assets and liabilities
are unknown. The First National Bank, of Craw-
forsville is caught for 81, 600, with no security
Charles A Fisher, for five years deputy post
master, of Greencastle, has been appointed post
master st Aberdeen, Dakota. He has been a
resident of Aberdeen for one year, and his ele-
walton to the position of postmaster in one of
the leading cities of that Territory gives great
satisfaction TO his Indiana friends.
All day Thursday about fifty regulators were
in and near Albion watching Sheriff Braden and
the two convicted prisoners Kuhns and Howell
The sheriff, however, succeeded in eluding the
mob and landed the prisoners safely in the
Northern prison. The two attorneys for the
prisoners are still in hiding, fearing the regula-
tors will wreak their vengeance on them
At Plymouth, on Thursday, the jury returned
a verdict acquitting John Cheesman of the
charge of murder. Last March, George Harris
and Dan Harding entered Cheeseman's saloon, at
Walnut Station, and attempted to capture the
place Cheesman did everything to avert a
row, but finally shot and instantly killed Harris,
and wounded Harding, twas thought at that
time fatally, but it proved otherwise.
CDR Warner" travelling specialist, aban-
doned his reputed wife and young baby at
Washington, Ind, and eloped with Miss Annie
Bussnger, a servant girl of that place. The
couple were arrested at Shoals, charged with
adultery, but gave kind-hearted officer the slip
and disappeared. The woman left in Washington
admits that she is not Warmers wife, but that
he persuaded her to leave comfortable home
in Kansas and go with him. She refuses to tell
her name or mention where her family lives.
A church society has taken charge of her.