Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Secretary Metcalf, of the State Board of Health, has returned from Clinton County, where the members of tho Board have been looking after the plenro-pneu-monia. The farmers throughout that section of the State, he reports, are badly frightened over the existence of the disease, and nothing the Board can do seems to pacify them. All tho imported cattle were killed, except nineteen head belonging to a Mr. Snider, who refused to kill his. The farmers killed the cattle themselves, on the advice of the Board, aud will petition tho coming Legislature for relief from their loss. The County of Clinton was quarantined for ninety days, aud orders were loft to see that the quarantine was rigidly enforced. Gov. Gray has telegraphed the Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington to send immediately a competent veterinary surgeon to treat the disease. There are four cases of the disease in Jasper County, but the State Board has no fear of its spreading there, as the farms have been under quarantine for some lime. The cattle, Secretary Metcalf says, did not come directly from Ohio to this Stnte, as has been reported, but were shipped from Sherman, N. Y., to Steiner Brothers, of Blnffton, Ohio, where they wore not unloaded, but were sent on into this Slate and Illinois. —An accident occurred at Columbus that will likely cost two men their lives and injured three others. A gang of meu Were erecting a water tank for the railroad, and had a guy rope stretched across tho track to support a derrick. The rope was too low, and the smoke-stack of an incoming train struck and broke it while the meu were raising a heavy pieco of timber, and Ihe derrick fell, prostrating every one of the men. Milton Robinson, tho foreman, an old man, was injured in tho chest, shoulder, aud head; he has since been unconscious, and will scarcely recover. Jacob Weaver was struck on the head, and was supposed to bo dead, but revived and may possibly live. William Pennison had a shoulder dislocated, and William Elliott and Charles Whipker were knocked down, but not seriously injured. - —Don. John W. Holcombe, Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at work upon his thirteenth biennuil report, and nearly 200 pages are now in type. Tho volume will bo an unusually interesting one, proßy statistics being eliminated as far as possible. Tho report shows a Rteady improvement in school mutters during the past two yours. Nearly four millions of the common school fund is invested in G per cent, bonds. Tho total amount of the fund is $0,455,085, and a portion is loaned at 8 per cent, interest, with real-estate security. The soveral colleges of Indiana are shown to be in a prosperous condition. The high standard of excellence attained by Indiana’s schools is recognized by many older slates. —Martha Duncan is nn old colored woman who lives near the government depot in Jeffersonville. The other day she found a bottle containing what she supposed to be medicine for rheumatism. In fact, it was labeled as such. Being it sufferer from that disease, alio applied the contents of the bottle, which proved to be nitrate of silver. Blood-poisoning set in, and she cannot possibly recover. The flesh is almost burned off her lower limbs, and she will live but a few days at the farthest. —The gas well at Fort Wayne still continues to keep its regular flow, and arrangements are now completed by which the gas is prevented from escaping. The projectors believe that they are on the edge of a gas belt, and are now making experiments for the purpose of sinking another woll. Tho new well will probably be sunk at some distance from tho present one, and tho company are confident they will yet strike a bonanza. —Michael Caniff, a Lafayette laborer, attempted to crawl under a freight train, that blocked his pathway. The train started up suddenly, and Caniff, unable to get through, lost his presence of mind, was thrown down, the train running over and crushing one of his legs to a jelly. The injured man was taken to the St. Elizabeth Hospital, where, upon examination, an amputation was performed, but the man sank and died. —Tho surviving members of the Twelfth Indian Infantry Volunteers will hold their flrst reunion since the war in Warsaw, on Thursday, Nov. 25—the anniversary of the battle of Missionary Ridge. M. D. Gage, tho beloved chaplain of the Regiment, will be present at the leunion, he now being in the State on a visit from his home in California. Every officer and enlisted man of the “old command” is urged and expected to attend. —ln the State Reform Sctool for boys there are 516 inmates, being much the largest number ever in the institution. During the year 211 were released on tickets. Since the opening in 1808 there have been admitted nearly 5,500. They have made 650,000 bricks during the past summer and added a great many improvements about tbe building. —ln transferring the remains of a child of Rev. A. Murine, buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, at Richmond, twenty-six years ago, to Earlham Cemetery, it was discovered that the features were still plainly recoguizuble, and the little lace collar about its neck was seemingly as perfect as ever. —Edward Morgan, who was slabbed by John Opp during a call upon the latter’s daughter, near Lafayette, has fled on learning the death of Miss Opp, to whom he had been paying atlentious while he had a wife and family in Maryland.