Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A snake, said to be nineteen feet long, was seen on the farm of Hon. J. W. Sansberry, near Anderson. The 5-year-old son of Wm. Pitts, living south of Knightstown, was burned to death in a straw-pile set on fire by some children.

Farmers in Hamilton county complain of damage done to the corn by wire and grub worms, in many cases necessitating entire replanting. R. J. Wilson was training a SI,OOO trotter at Rushville, a few days ago, when it reared up, fell back and broke its neck.

William Schoopmire, of Bising Sun, was bitten on the right wrist by a bulldog, supposed to be mad. His arm is frightfully swollen. A hen killed at South Bend, the other day, was found to contain eight fullsized eggs with soft shell and seven others of different sizes, or fifteen eggs in all.

A disease resembling lung fever has made its appearance among the horses of Jackson township, Huntington county, and causes death in a very short time.

dr. N. P. Howard, Sr., of Danville, has had under his treatment the largest woman in America, if not in the w orld, Mary Powers. It is stated that her weight is about 800 pounds. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanfield died of paralysis of the heart at Fairmount, lately. Her age was 88. She settled there in 1836, and her husband laid out the original plat of the town. In 1879 Frank McDonald, aged 15, and Naoma Moore, aged 14, were married at Shelbyville, and lived together as man and wife until last week, when the boy concluded he wouldn’t play any more, and resigned. Two small boys of Highland township, Greene county, were out in the woods. One of them suggested that the other eat spikenard as a remedy for his cough. The boy ate what proved to be wild turnip, and was dead in five hours.

The Logansport Pharos has been presented v’ith a portion of a newspaper printed in Philadelphia, on Thursday, November 9, 1798, and the renowned name of Thomas Paine appears at the masthead as editor. An item reads: “Gen. Washington is expected to visit this city about the first of next month.’ The new drainage law of Indiana is now in full force apd effect, and it is the duty of Township Trustees at the time they select Road Supervisors, the first Monday in June, to name six Drainage Commissioners, and from these the Judges of the respective Circuit Courts will appoint two. Washington Benson, a wealthy farmer of Porter, Mich., met his death in an encounter with a vicious stallion near South Bend. The animal first crushed him with its fore feet, then grabbed his face in its teeth and bit off his right cheek. Until beaten off with clubs the brute continued to crush in the old man’s ribs and eat his face. A representative of the Indiana Coal road, a newly-proposed line of railroad to run from Terre Haute to Columbus, through Vigo, Green, Sullivan, Morgan, Brown and Bartholomew counties, has visited the latter city to record a mortgage of $1,500,000 on the roadway and equipments when built in favor of and to secure the bondholders. The mortgage has been recorded in each county through which the road passes. Rev. D. E. Hudson, of South Bend, editor of the Ave Maria Magazine, at Notre Dame, is the fortunate owner of a photograph of a picture that has a history. It is a photograph of the only sketch made of the Emperor Napoleon 1., and was secretly drawn by the attendant physician immediately after the great General’s death, and by him presented to a family who idolized the dead Emperor. Hqn. S, M. Stockslager, member of Congress for the New Albany district, has inafle tlie foU owing selections for the positions in Mih Naval Academy at Annapolis and the Military Academy at West Point: Cadet to the United States . Military Joseph H. Shea, of Scott county. JMr. Shea is a nephew of Col. Thomas Shea. For alternate cadet to Military Academy, Edward M. Lewis, of Floyd county. Cadet Midshipman in the navy, Martin McO. Fullenlove, of Floyd county. For alternate, Edwin V. Johnson, son of ex-Mayor Johnson, of Seymour.