Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Fort "Wayne was recently visited by a severe wind-storm, accompanied by a most terrific fall of rain and hail. The hail stones were tho largest ever known to have fallen in that vicinity. The damage to window glass was extensive, it being estimated that over five thousand panes were broken. The rain-fall was so great that the sewers could not carry away the water, and in several portions of the city they burst, tearing up the streets. The wall of the new St. Mary Catho'ic Church was undermined, and will have to be pulled down. The severe gale which accompanied the rain did not do any damage other than twist off a few shade trots. —An Indianapolis barber, who went to Lafayette six months ago, dropped into a saloon during the recent encampment, where he found the bartenders asleep. Thinking that somebody might rob the place, he concluded to take charge of the cash-drawer and deliver it to the proprietor himself, and at the same time play a capital joke on the liquor dispensers. Unfortunately for him the bartender awoke just as he was leaving the door, and spoiled his fun by having him arrested, and now a jury with no sense of humor, has given him a year in the penitentiary. —Until the recent rniu in the Northern part of the State, many of the marshes, heretofore coverod with one to four feet of water, had become dry, and were taken possession of l>y innumerable rattlesnakes, vipers, and other poisonous reptiles. In some sections they were so plenty that hunters could not reach their favorite shooting-grounds without incurring groat risk. It is also said that the snakes havo eaten nearly all the young waterfowl, as fast as hatched, and that none of the native birdß are left for tho fall sportsman. —Three young fellows of Centerville got drunk last week and concluded to have a little fun with one of their number. A mock trial was held and he was sentenced to ho hanged, which they proceeded to do by putting a cord around his nock, throwing one end over the limb of a tree, and then swinging him off. The cord was expected to break, but didn’t, and ns his companions were too drunk to rolenßO him, he came very near strangling to death boforo sober assistance arrived and cut tho string.

—A man employed on a farm twelve miles from Evansville, got up during tho night in his sleep, went to the barn and attempted to commit suicide by hanging, but through mistake tied a rope around his feet instead of his neck, and then jumped from the loft. The sudden stopping at the end of the rope awoke him, leaving little breath in liis body and almost soaring him to death. His cries aroused the household and he was rescued. Ho lias been a somnambulist for years, and suicide is always a hobby, but not when awake.

A negro minister who liaß been preaching at New Paris and Palestine for several months, has gone, under a cloud. His wife discovered some letters from another woman of Palestine, couched in most endearing terms and referring to their proposed elopement. Going to Palestine, where he was officiating, she exposed him to the congregation, which at once denounced him, and he and the girl disappoured the next morning. —Wm. H. liro.vn, of Allen County, ia the banner convict iu the northern prison. He has just been returned to that institution for the seventh time, after a vacation of six months, and is said to bo one of the most incorrigible criminals in the State. He rarely stays out of prison longer than the interim between the session of court, and always commits an olfense entitling him to a sentence of from one to three years. —Some time ago a human skeleton, with a fractured skull, was discovered under a tree in the vicinity of Hoover’s Station, Fulton County, and now the place is said to be haunted by the former tenant of the skeleton. Some of tho wiseacres of the neighborhood are trying to couple the story of the mysterious disappearance of abopkngent several years ago with that of tho newly-found bones. —A Knox County man was out at work with a clover-huller for a few days, and on his return his house was empty, wife, children, household goods, and a team of mules gone. Ho found a brief note from his wife informing him that she had “gone with another fellow; you may look out for yourself.” He hunted up his mules, but let his wife go.

—A man has discovered on his farm, near Puoli, a ledge of very fine yellowish gray stone, which is of excellent quality for building purposes. It is said to he of finer texture than the Bedford stone, and but little harder. It can be polished almost as easily as marble, and is plentiful and easily quarried. —A beautiful and accomplished young lady hanged herself at her home, near Armstrong Chapel, fourteen miles from Lafayette, recently. Bhe was engaged to bo married to a worthy young man, but had of late been subject to fits of melancholy. No cause is known why she killed herself. —A Rush County farmer says that if bogß are allowed to run in fields where the jimson weed grows abnudantly they will never have the cholera. He backs his statement by saying that he has followed this plan and never lost a bog by the disease, while his neighbors have lost hundreds. —There are more licensed fruit distilleries in Fioyd, Crawford, and Perry Counties than in any previous year. As (he apple crop is so large the market has' been overstocked and the fruit has been converted into apple brandy.