Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The following patents have been issued’ to Indiana inventers: William P. Bollenbacher, Bloomington, cigar box: Thomas B. Carroll, Indianapolis, apparatus for regulating pressure; John P. Dodds and E. Dawson, assignors to L. Shultz, Terre Haute, piston or valve rod packing: John A. Evans and L. A. Teagle, Richmond, sash operator for green-houses; Rufus B. Gillespie, Fort Wayne, garment adjuster; George W. Hays, Goshen, back rest; Andrew E. Hoffman, Fort Wayne, feed mechanism for saw-mill carriage; Lewis McNutt, Brazil, shade exhibitor; Ora M. Miller, Greensburg, extensible seat; Lucian R. Oakes, Valparaiso, milk cooler; George W. Smith, assignor of one-half to C. H. Cadwallader, Union City, box; Levi Sutherland, Indianapolis, thill coupling; John A. Witmer, Wakarusa, road cart; Theophilus A. and S. B. Wylie, Bloomington, instrument for describing circles; Harvey B. Yarvan, assignor of two-thirds to J, H. Watson and C. N. Vancleave*. Crawfordsville, reach coupling. —One evening recently, as Wilber Hadley, the son of a prominent farmer living seven miles north of Plainfield, returned home from school, he found all the members of the family away from home. Entering the house quietly, he was startled by a burglar rushing past him. He had barely recovered from his astonishment when a second thief appeared at the head of the stairs. Wilbur produced a revolver and commanded the burglar to surrender, when the thief bounded down the stairway and attempted to escape. At this moment Wilbur fired, the ball taking effect in the burglar’s thigh, but only disabled him for a second, when he continued his way. Several minor articles were found missing by the young man, who then proceeded totrack the thieves. Following the blood drops a short distance, the burglar was found lying in some high weeds. He was taken in charge, and is unknown. —The dreaded hog cholera appears tobe spreading in the north part of Wabash County. A gentleman from a point five miles northwest of Wabash states that during the past three weeks fully 460 hogs have died in his neighborhood alone, the value of the animals being from §7 to $B- - The finest and healthiest hogs seem to be attacked first, those from seven to eight months old and weighing about 150 pounds being most susceptible to the malady. The symptoms are drowsiness,, bleeding at tho nose and a deaf and dumbcondition. If the scourge continues, very little pork will be marketed from the noith part of the county. Nothing has been found to check the cholera.

—The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Kokomo District, North Indiana Conference M. E. Church, have elected the following officers: President, Mrs. J. E. Ervin, of Kokomo; Recording Secretary, Mrs. W. H. D. Daniels, of Logansport; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. C. G. Miller, of Peru; Treasurer, Mrs. W. E. Mowbray, of Peru. Mrs. J. E. Ervin, <f this city, was chosen a delegate to ile annual convention of the northwest branch of the W. F. M. S., which convenes in Milwaukee Oct. 12. The next district annual meeting will be held at Pera in September, 1888.

—The telephone crisis at Logansport has at last come. All contracts which the telephone company made with its subscribers when it introduced its extortionate toll-system some three months ago has expired, and with their expiration a large number abandoned its service. At onetime there was about 200 instruments in use in the city, while at present there are only about one-fourth that number. The indictment and arrest of Manager Dunseth will unquestionably be the means of a similar move being inaugurated throughout the State.

—A fine-blooded bull, belonging to Mr. Conden, a farmer of Cass County, was bitten by a dog. A few days ago it became suddenly mad, and tearing across the field, gored about a dozen fine heifers, valued at over $2,500. It then jumped a high fence and started for Logansport. Two of Conden’s hired hands, who witnessed the unusual actions of the animal, mounted horses and pursued him to within a mile of the city, when they shot him, just as hewas making for a party of children who were out nutting.

—Shortly after the war a wagon loaded with barreled cement was upset on the levee, at Jeffersonville, and a greater portion of the load rolled into the river. Recently, while a number of men were at work repairing the wharf-logs, the contents of one barrel was found lying in the water. The cooperage had long since rotted away, but the cement had remained together and had become as hard as stone. —The lifeless body of Michael Ryan was found by the side of the Panhandle track, a mile and a half east of Upland. Ryan was a farm hand employed by James Palmer. The day previous he bad gone on a big spree, and when he started home was scarcely able to walk. It is presumed he lay down on the track and was killed by the cars. He was 45 years old, and so far as known has no living relatives. —The Randolph County Board of Education has resolved upon measures to have representative work of tHe schools of the county exhibited at the next county institute, and also at the county fair. At least 150 of the teachers of the county’ will take up the reading-circle work. The average lengtji of school terms in the county will be six months. —A hired man, working for Joseph Dant, a farmer near Vincennes, after cleaning a revolver, laid it down on a table. Mr. Dani’s 8-year-old daughter picked it up and it went off, wounding the child—probablv fatally.