The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-15
Minor Notes.

j. j. Richards, Democrat, the present mayor
of New Albany, has been renominated
D. F. Kufle, Montpelier attorney, has been
missing since March 25, leaving family behind
him in poor circumstances.
Andrew J. Guthrie prominent farmer living
near New Corner has been granted divorce
from his wife, and she has been prohibited from
marrying again for two years.
Catherine Quinn, fifty years DID, died at
Madison yesterday from dose of rat poison,
taken, it is thought, under the belief that it
purgative salt of some kind.
Arthur and Camille Thuermer, brothers, liv-
ing near Rising Sun, and aged, respectively, TWEEN
ty-five and twentyseven years, have become
suddenly insane owing to intense religious ex-
cItement.
The trial of James Dennis, as an accomplish
with j. w. Coffey in the murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. McMullen near Elmdale, on Jan. Z, this
year, began in the Montgomery county court
yesterday.
The building erected by Col /. G. Elston for
the postofice at Charlottesville is under roof and
it is probable that the Office will be moved therein
about May 26, the date of the expiration of the
lease on the present postofice building.
Frank Smith, tramp, captured some
days ago, after having been shot in the shoulder
for stealing goods from residence at the village
of New Waverly, ten miles east of Logansport,
was sentenced to two years in prison for larceny.
Mrs. Kate Harley, of Logansport, who disap-
peared from that city on the 18th of March,
while laboring under temporary mental abera-
ton of mind, is still missing and unheard from.
She is thin in face weighs 100 pounds, is five feet
two inches high and thirty five years DID, Her
front teeth are clear white. with gold filings
showing near the gums.
At Seymour vigilance committee called at
the Jail and took Charles c. Mccarthy, tramp
printer thief, therefrom. On the way to the
whipping -post-or, as he thought, to be hung
he prayed vigorously all the way, asked time to
pray at the tree, and said ''Thank God!" when
told that the mob did not intend to hang him.
He left the city before daylight.
Mitchell has curiosity in the person of
Thomas Armstrong, a fifteen year-old colored
boy, who is gradually turning white. He was
was six years DID, at which time his scalp and
hair turned white. There are now white spots,
rapidly increasing in size, all over his body. He
| is in good health and stands well in his classes
at the Mitchell High-school.
Melville R. Ferguson printer employed in
Chicago, has been arrested at South Bend for
bigamy. He was married last New Years day
| to Miss Smyser, the nineteep-year old daughter
of resident of Mishawaka and from letters and
papers found upon Ferguson ii is discovered that
he has two other living wives, from neither of
whom he has been divorced. He is in Jail in de-
fault of 81 600 bail Shortly before his arrest
he concocted the scheme of publishing card in
the Chicago papers asking for certain heirs to
500, 900, with request that the South Bend and,
Mishawaka papers please copy, in the hope, no
doubt, that the Smyser family would see it, and
thus learning of his splendid prospects of acGuir-
ing fortune, gladly forgive him and restore to
him his BRIDE This didn't work, however.