Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

——t — . i —Reports from various portions df Walash County, indicate that the severe storm of wind, rain, and bail, which prevailed in thnt section recently proved far more dieasterous than was at first stated. The track of the gale was originally from northeast to southwest, and when it reached Wabash city, it suddenly veered to the northwest/ The track of the storm was about four or five miles in width, and within this scope fences were blown down, growing com ruined, vegetables destroyed, fine timl>er prostrated, and fowls killed. Several barns and corn-cribs were unroofed, the detached portions being carried a long distance. The estimates of the damage in the county vary from SIO,OOO to $20,000, the former sum probably approximating the loss. The hailstones which fell were of prodigious size, and fanners near La Fontaine report finding drifts of hail in fence-comers nearly two feet in depth. Stock exposed to the storm suffered severely, and travelers who failed to find shelter were bauly cut and bruised. —The corner-stone of the new St. Mary’s Catholic Church, at Jefferson and Lafayette streets, Fort Wayne, was laid July 11 with the usual ceremonies. . Bishop DweDger delivered an address in English, and Father Meisner, of Peru, spoke in German. The crowd was immense, and the parade of fraternities and sodalities -very imposing. The church, which is to replace the one shattered by an explosion last November, will be the finest in the dioces. It will be fully as large as the Cathedral, and will not cost less than SBO,OOO. The aggregate cost of the three edifices now being erected in that city, St. Paul’s and St. Mary’s churches, and the orphan asylum, with the furniture, frescoing, pictures, 6ia(nary, etc., will reach $250,000. —A few weeks ago a long tunnel on the uarrow-guage railway, a few miles from Koleen, caved in from the top, and since that lime a force of men on the mountain have been employed in hauling dirt from the tunnel across a bight trestle work. The work-train was being used for this, and was returning for a load to the tunnel, when four men, who were sitting on a board that crossed the comer of a flat-car, were thrown from their seats and fell headlong through the trestle down on. the rocks forty feet below, a lot of lumber following them. They were all more or less injured, two of them fatally. —A very odd-looking animal, half fish and half- frog, has been found in Lamotte Creek, south of Palestine. The bead and bpdy are those of a frog, but the mouth resembles that of a buffalo fish, the tail is that of a catfish; on one side of its body are three t perfect frog legs, all in one cluster, and on the other side of the body there is but one leg. It is about three inches long from head to tail, and is as well proportioned as a fish. When found it was lying on a log, dead. —Sam Archer, the last of the notorious band of desperadoes, was executed recently in the presence of about 600 peace officers, at Shoals. His deportment on the gallows was the source of much remark. He spent his last night almost as usual, receiving friends and visitors until a late hour. A most touching scene was the parting between him and his heart-broken mother, sisters, and brother. —About a year ago the town of Corydon issued bonds to the amount of $4,000, which were sold to parties in Ohio, and the town Board of Trustees failed to levy sufficient tax to pay the interest on bonds, which soon became due. The town treasury is depleted, and as the corporation is heavily in debt no funds can be secured to pay the accumulating interest. —Recently, while an inspection waa being made by several members of the Fire Department at Kokomo, it was discovered that some scoundrel had ent the hose of both hose companies. The hose was new and first-class, having just been purchased by the City Council, and is damaged to the amount of S3OO. A St. Joseph County rattlesnake, though cut in three pieces by a mower, had enough vitality left in its business end to bite a German woman who was raking hay. The jaws of the reptile had to be torn apart to remove the fangs, and the woman had a close call for life. —A young lady at Raglesville, while handling a revolver, accidentally shot her mother. The ball entered midway between the ear and eye, on the left side of the woman’s face, passing through the cheek-bone, and lodging, it is supposed, at the side of the nose. —Soldiers’ reunions will take place in Northern Indiana as follows: Warsaw, August 13 to 16; Kendallville, August 12 to 14; Michigan City, August 16 to 18, Fort Wayne, August 19 to 23; Lafayette, July 26 to August 2; Hartford City, August 11 to 13. —Evansville has forty churches, allotted ns follows: Baptist, 10; Metbcdist, 9,5; Roman Catholic, 0; German Evangelical; 3r Lutheran, 2; Jewish, 2; Protestant Episcopal, 2; Christian, 1, and Unitarian, 1. —The Mississinewa Valley Christian Conference will hold its nineteenth annual session with the Shiloh Church at Swayzee, in Grant County, Ind., commencing Angust 18. —A bine racer got into the kitchen of a Warsaw lady and knocked down pans and dishes at a lively rate. It -was finally killed, and was found to be five feet in length. —St. Mary’s Catholic Cbnrch, at Huntingbnrg, was dedicated a short time ago. Bishop Chatard assisted in the ceremonies. —The South Bend Register wants a paid fire department for that place, and says the Studebakere, Olivers, and other large manufacturing firms ore heartily in favor of it. —A 5-year-oid son of N. B. Jewell, of Vincennes, was seriously burned on one side, from head to foot, by setting his clothing on fire with matches. —Lafayette is striving for the new L.,N« A. A C. Railroad shops, which are to be located somewhere along the road. —A bee tree on a farm near Jeffersonville, yielded nearly 400 pounds of .honey.