Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—About twelve miles west of Shoals, Jacob Jones, a young man, was shot and instantly killed by Stephen Miles. The difficulty grew out of an old-time fend. Jones, it seems, was angry at the whole Miles family, and about two months ago he caught Vincenti Miles, a brother of Stephen, and beat him brutally with brass knucks. Since that time Jones has, on several occasions, gone to. Vincent Mile’s residence and abused and blackguarded his wife. The men met’recently, no one being present but the two Mileses, Stephen and Vincent, and Jones. As soon as they met, Jones drew his revolver and snapped it at Vincent Miles-. two or three times. Stephen, trying as best he could to prevent Jones killing Lis brother, finally discharged a load of shot into his abdomen, killing him instantly. —Recently Chesley L.. Vent, of Scott County, was crossing a. pasture on his farm when a Jersey bull attacked him and gored him so badly that he bled to death from the wound in his side. Shortly after B. H. Vest, a brother of the dead man, was thrown from a wagon, amd had his neck broken. A short time after Mrs. Chesley Vest received a slight cut, which ordinarily would have amounted to little, but owing to the trouble so suddenly thrown upon the family she gave way and is not expected to live. Just one year before the day upon which Chesley; A'eat met his death his son Morrison’s head was completely torn from his shoulders by the explosion of a gun which he was loading. —The synodical meeting of the AVoman’a Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Presbyterian Church will be held in Fort AVayne, October 20 and 21. About three hundred ladies will bo in attendance, and workers from China, India, Japan, Mexico, and among the freedmen and the Mormons, now home on a furlough, will be present; A museum of foreign curiosities will be under the management of Mis. M. C. Garvin, and a bazaar of Syrian and Egyptian articles will be attended by a native Egyptian.’ girl. —Hog cholera of a very malignant typo is making devastating ravages among the farmers of Hendricks County. Washington , Township has the worst sufferers. In some instances droves of hogs numbering from , eighty to 100 head have been stricken with i the disease* amd all have died. Farmers are greatly discouraged, as they hoped to > realize considerably from their hogs this., year, being blessed with a bountiful corn, crop. Their loss in this county will amount! to many thousand dollars.

—ln order to do some drilling and blasting in the AVabash River nt Logansport,.a; dam was built above the island at that place, and all the water sent around by the south side.. As the water flowed out ofitho north branch thousands of fish were disclosed to view,and hundreds of men,women, and children, armed with every conceivable kind of implement, took advantage of the occasion to lay in a stock of brain food for winter use. One man secured a fortypound catfish. —Hogs are so plenty in New Albany that they sometimes impede locomotion. A young girl, arrayed in white, , was going into the front gate of a neighbor’s, house, when, a venerable porker that hadi invaded the place ran out of the gateway, between the ] edal extremities of the girl, making a wreck of her dress and knocking her down. She was not severely injured, but was almost scared to death. —Lithographic stone, from a quarry near Fayetteville, Lawrence County, has been tested by lithographers at Chicago* and is pronounced as good as the German, stone. They offer to pay for all this stone shipped to Chicago the same price they now pay for the stone imported from Germany. This is the only stone thus far found in the United States as good as the German stone. —lt is now believed that the man who recently disappeared from near New Providence, was murdered. The fellow and his family, who were suspected, have suddenly left the place. A posse of men searching the neighborhood found a grave, which, however, had recently been robbed of its inmate.

—A harp, together with 500 bushels of wheat, and all the farming implements on the farm of Frank Grimwood, in Scott Township, Vanderberg County, were destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Loss, $2,500; no insurance. The bam was set on fire by tramps. —Black diphtheria is very prevalent at Logansport, and the Journal, of that city* asks the health board to resign because they allow public funerals of the victims and otherwise neglect sanitary measures. Ten new cases were reported in one day. —A pretty 18-year-old Terre Haute girl asked permission to go to a picnic, and, because her mother refused to grant the request, she took a large dose of morphine with suicidal intent. Prompt medical attention saved her life. —Au old blind soldier of Jefferson County has received news that his pension claim has been allowed at the rate of $72 per month. He will receive, to start with, $11,764. He has been prosecuting this case ever since 1869. —AVhile digging in the clay pit of a tile factory on a farm eleven miles west of Kokomo, at New London, a man excavated the teeth of a large mastodon, one of which weighed five pounds and measured nineteen inches around. —The migratory birds are said to be leaving the northern part of the State for a warmer latitude a full month earlier than ever known before, and the weather prophets are therefore predicting an early winter.