Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Alex Hoard and John Paxton, schoolboys and rivals in love, stood in a store at New Frankfort. Their sweetheart passed by, going to school. Hoard throw a kiss to her, and Paxton, enraged, knocked him in the head with a stick, fracturing his skull, and then stamped his face to a jelly. Paxton seemed a madman and foamed at the mouth, and before he could be captured rushed to the woods, waiving his hands and shrieking. Hoard will die. Both are sons of promiueut farmers of Scott County. The young lady remains at the bedside of her dying lover. —The disease which has been so fatal among the hogs in Benton County is believed by a great many of the farmers to be a kind of throat trouble which resembles diphtheria among children. The malady does in no particular resemble the symptoms of cholera. The hogs are still dying from tbe malignant malady, whatever it may be. Tlie loss to fanners in that county will reach many thousands of dollars. An effort will be made to have the nature of the disease investigated. —A liveryman of Kokomo, in July, 1884, lost a valuable team of horses from his livery stable by hiring them to a sleekappearing individual, who never returned. Recently he was advised by an officer of tho Western Horse-Thief Detective Association that the stock was held at Gardner, Kas., having been found in tho possession of one A. H. Hoff, who is accused of having stolen everything from an electric light plant to a patent churn. He is held in Kansas for bis crimos. —A Blooniingdule doctor proposes, as an effectual means of preventing surface water from running or filtering into wells, that the wells bo made two feet larger in diameter than is needed, beginning at the surface aud continuing down a short distance into tbe blue clay. Tho well is then walled up, and tho space between tho wall and the earth filled in w ith a concrete made of clean gravel and cement, thus preventing any water from leaking in to contaminate tho water. —Tho woods in the vicinity of Slate Cut are on fire, the flames sweeping everything before them. The farmers have no means of extinguishing the flumes, nnil thousands of dollars’ worth of property haß already been destroyed. An uged luboror, who worked on a farm and slept in a small cabin in the woods, has disappeared, and it is feared ho has been burned to death. —A serious accident occurred recently in a sawmill in Independence. The large fly-wheel in the engine-room burst while in motion, and tore ono end of tbe room out. Several men barely escaped with their lives, yet no one was hurt. Tho engineer at the mill claims that the wheel has been defective for some time, but had not been considered dangerous. —While working on a barn three miles south of Franklin, a workman fell to tho ground and received injuries that are thought fatal. His bead struck a chisel, which divided his left ear, laid opou his scalp, and fractured his skull, allowing the brain to ooze from tlie fracture. He is a young man, and bis purenls reside in Brown County. —A, very remarkable colored family are living in Harrison County, six miles south of Corvdon. ißaiah Mitcfacmis the lather’s name, and be is the father of thirteen healthy children, seven of whom are regularly licensed school teachers. Tbe grandfather is a hale old gentleman, and is a practicing physician of thirty years’ standing. —One day recently the postmaster and principal merchant of West Point, was attacked by a school-teacher with a cane, who made vigorous use of it over his head and shoulders. The school-mtu m went before the ’Squire, after her castigation, pleaded guilty to an assault, was fined $5 and costs, and paid it “like a man.” —An old man W&s found sitting by the side of the road near Pike’s Peak, in Brown County, with his throat cut. He was cared for, and after gaining some strength, he said he was tired of living, as he was 80 years of age. It is thought by careful nursing he may recover, but owing to his age, chances are against him. —A young lady aged 18, of Union Township, Madison County, took a quantity of arsenic and Venetian red mixed, with suicidal intent. Her mind is said to have become unbalanced over religious excitement, and while under the delusion that people were making fun of her, took the poison. —A pike bridge two miles north of Liberty was the scene of a fj ightful accident recently. It gave wav with a loaded log wagon. The fall was fifteen feet. The driver had an arm and leg broken, and was badly crashed about the head and neck. The two horses were killed. —A young lady of Terre Haute, who tried to hurry the process of getting dinner by the use of oil in the stove, died from the injuries she then received. The oilcan burst and her clothing caught fire. She suffered severely from the time of the accident until her death. —Thieves entered the L. E. <fc W. depot at Elwood, and robbed the money-drawer of about sl2. They also rifled trunks belonging to a Cincinnati drummer,and appropriated several overcoats, damaging the clothing lo a considerable amount. —Wabash County bonds to the amount i of $9,000 were disposed of to Spitzer <fc I Co., of Toledo, at a premium of $421. I There were eight bidders, representing all the principal Western cities. The credit of this County is of the best. —Redkey postoffice was burglarized one night recently. A small amount of change I was taken. Tho postmasier had stamps ■ and registered letters deposited in the b&uk, • ~ . - •