Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The citizens of Rochester held a meeting recently, and organized a fish protection society. It is the intention of the new society to see that the existing laws are strictly enforced throughout Fulton County, and every violator severely punished. For some time past Lake Manitou has suffered from seining and dynamite, and it is thought if the slaughter is not stopped the lake will lose one of its most desirable charms. Action was also taken looking to the building of a fish-ladder over the dam in the Tippecanoe River at that place. —A farmer living five miles northwest of Wabash was engaged in shooting ruts in a wood-shed on his farm, recently, using a seven-shooter revolver. The first ball fired passed through the side of the structure and struck his wife, who happened to be outside, in the right shoulder and penetrated her lungs. The full extent of her injuries is not known. .The husband is nearly crazed with grief because of his carelessness in the handling of firearms. —The Flatrock Baptist Association, comprising twenty churches, held its sixtyfourlh annual session at Shelbyville. The records of the churches show 343 baptized during the year. The membership of the association is 2,365. The amount of $215.73 has been given to tho State missions; $40.85 to home missions; $85.36 to foreign missions; $24.87 to the publication society, and $114.35 to women’s missions. —A 14-year-old boy of Rushville met with quite a painful accident recently. Some dynamite caps were found in an old tenant-house on his father’s farm, and the boy concluded to try to tiro a few of them. Gne exploded in his left hand and badly mangled his thumb and finger. The thumb was amputated, and it is thought by the physicians that the finger will have to be taken off. —A farmer living six miles south of Elkhart, some time ago unearthed several huge bones of a mastodon. Since that time he has continued his researches in the hopes of finding tho whole skeleton. His habors have been rewarded by finding a foreleg, which has the enormous length of fourteen feet. He has hopes that he will eventually find tho remaining portions. —A strange disease has made its appearance among the sheep in Redding Township, Jackson County. As soon as attacked they are thrown into hard spasms, and death follows often in less than thirty minutes. A man lost fifteen fine Southdowns. The disease seems to baffle the skill of all. Some thinks it results from a kind of fly that stings the sheep in the nose. —The largest yield of flaxseed ever known was thrashed from twelve acres of ground on a farm five miles west of Decatur. The total yield was 300 bushels, or twenty-five bushels to the acre. The remarkable yield astonishes the farmers in that part of the State. It was raised on thoroughly-ditched and tilled prairie. —The southern part of Grant County is being devastated by hog cholera. One farmer states that, in bis immediate neighborhood, not less than a thousand have perished. There are not less than a hundred farmers in the county who have lost from thirty to sixty head, and hundreds of others have lost smaller numbers. —Membeis of the Salvation Army who were arrested nt LaPorte a few weeks ago for parading the streets have filed suit against the County Sheriff, City Marshal, and the Mayor, for false imprisonment. The claim is for SI,OOO damages in each case, and two charges are made against each of the three officers. —A fanner living near Roann, having more dynamite than he needed, thought to secure safety for himself and family by throwing it into a burning brush-heap. Before he could get away the dynamite exploded tearing away one of his hands and slightly injuring him in other parts of the body. A farmer of Redding Township, Jackson County, received $381.10 for the nutmeg melons raised on three and a half acres of land, and his net profits from the sales were $153.72. This is $45.35 per acre—enough in one year’s products to pay for the land. —The Sheriff of Jeffersonville, has a horse affected with hydrophobia. Some time ago it was bitten by a rabid dog, and since then snaps viciously at everything within reach, kicks down the door of the stable, and does all manner of wicked things. —Grandmother Boggs, of Milton, 103 years o’.d, was one of the attractions at the old settlers’ meeting at Centerville. Wayne County. She had with her the little pewter dish she ate mush and milk out of when a child. —The Mayor of Jeffersonville, and a number of other leading citizens are arranging to organize a stock company, with a capital of SIOO,OOO, for the purpose of erecting and running cotton mills in that city. —A curious specimen in the shape of a double apple is exhibited at Huntington. It has two distinct stems and two blossom ends, though it is grown firmly together as one apple. —Bonds and notes, amounting to $20,000, stolen last March by blowing a safe open at Canaan, Jefferson County have been found in a briar patch in the neighborhood. —Horse thieves are operating in the northern part of Wabash County, and farmers in that section have organized, and promise to make it warm for the rascals. —A Clark County peach-grower, reports no peaches in his immense orchards this season. He has set out 10,000 young trees, and will in 1888 set out 30,000 more.