Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The State Firemen’s Association will meet at Angola In August. —A blacksnake, ton feet long, is frightening the berry-pickers in the vicinity of Jeffersonville. —Richmond has a lodge of colored Masons,and is now organizing a lodge of colored Odd Fellows. —The grain elevator at Frankton, Madison County, burned recently. Loss, 83,000, with SSOO insurance. —Horned pigs are no novelty, according to a farmer near Fort Branch, who says he has a large number of them on his farm. —The largest single coal mine in the State is the Nickel-plate, in Clay County. It employs 500 men and turns out 800 tons daily. —The fanners of Jefferson County hays purchased forty acres of ground at Wirt, on the J., M- <fc I. Railroad for fair purposes. , —The Fort Wayne Electric Light Company has secured the contract for lighting the streets of Newark, N. J., to cost SII,OOO per annum. «- , —A farmer living near Seymour, raised 1,000 bushels of wheat on thirty-six acres. Six acres of the field yielded 226 bushels, an average of 37 j per acre. —A Seymour butcher has left that place, after borrowing all the money he could. He was to have been married to a respectable young lady, but did not materialize. —A Wabash County farmer reports that of twelve hogs on bis Indian-land farm, eight have died of cholera recently, and that the disease is raging all through that vicinity. —There is an immense yield of blackberries in the northern counties of the State, and as a consequence the crop of rattlesnake stories promises to be very abundant. —A man at Newtown, Dearborn County, died from the effects of a weed poultice that he had applied to his face to cure a boil. The weed poisoned his face and killed him. —Bishop Dwenger, of Fort Wayne, has in his possession a picture of great value. It is from the brush of the celebrated Titian, and represents the beheading of John the Baptist. —The Brazil Block Coal Company is the largest mining corporation in the State. It operates eleven of thirty-four mines in Clay County. The capacity of their mines is 4,000 tons daily. —The Tri-State Fair will be held at Fort Wayne, September 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th. They are also in the Big Circuit this year, which is a guarantee of ; a large field of first-class trotters and runners. —A fatal disease, known as catarrhal fever, has broken out among Terre Haute horses, and is spreading rapidly. It is similar in several respects to the disease which broke out in 1872 with such fatality. —Clark County bad a chicken that beat anything as a curiosity, outside of a museum. It had the head of a cat, body of a chicken, and was provided with four legs. The monstrosity died after a fitful existence of three days. —The watermelon crop of Jackson Cftunty will not be nearly so large or as fine in quality as usual. The cold nights are having a damaging effect on the fruit, and for a second time this season, the vines have been attacked by black rust. —Although the widow of a brave soldier who lies buried at Angola has received $7,500 in pensions, she has expended nothing for a tablet in memory of her liegelord, whose grave is unmarked and unprotected from the depredations of cattle and horses. —Sportsmen may lawfully shoot game in this State between the following dates: Quail or pheasant, October 15 to December 20; prairie chicken, September 1 to February 1; woodcock, July 1 to January 1; duck, September 1 to April 15; deer, October 1 to -January 1. ” —The Commissioners of Fountain County have purchased the toll bridge across the Wabash River at Covington, paying SIB,OOO for it. There is great rejoicing in the neighborhood, as the tolls charged have always been considered excessive by the farmers. —The City Marshal of Winchester wants information as to the whereabouts of Edward Betts, a 15-year-old boy, who left his home, near Ridgeville, September 20, 1885. He has dark hair, light compierimr, light blue eyes, and is about five feet four inches tall. , —ln some parts of the State farmers are tearing down their worm fences, built of black walnut rails, and selling the seasoned sricks to the chair-makers for prices that will refence their fields with pine and paint the boards, and leave a margin of profit on the operation.' :■ ■ . : 7 - '' —A cyclone passed over Decatur/and the monster funnel-shaped cloud was seen by many of the citizens. The cyclone did not seem to touch the earth, but came to the tops of the treys. The branches of the highest were wrenched off and carried away in the vortex. —Recently two young thieves were arrested five miles east of Kokomo. They had burglarized the residence of a farmer. When run down and caught, near Vermont, they surrendered seven loaded revolvers, and were handcuffed, taken to that city, and lodged in jail. They are each about 25 years of age. —The South Bend Times says that buyers, representing Chicago dealers, are endeavoring to purchase cholera-infected hogs in St. Joseph County, and warns thp fanners to be on the lookout, and sdve them such a reception as will cause tMem to come to the conclusion that they dbn’t want any Indiana pork. / —A curious case is reported near New Albany. A short time since a young man 18 years old, was bitten on the arm byran insect, it is snpposed. A few days Ugo the arm swelled.to an enormous size, the swelling even reaching his shoulder and neck, and his sufferings during all the time have been intense. His physicians state that the case has no parallel in thejr experience. \ —Terre Haute will hold a great bicycle tournament in September. Two hundred wheelmen Me expected to be present from various parts of the country.