Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Fort Wayne was recently visited by » severe wind-storm, accompanied by a most terrific fall of rain and hail. The hail stones were the largest ever known to have fallen in that vicinity- The damage to window glass was extensive, it being estimated that over five thousand panes were broken. The rain-fall was so great that the sewers could not cany away the water, and in several portions of the city they burst, tearing up the streets. The Wall of the new St. Mary Catholic Church was undermined, and will have to be pulled down. The severe gale which accompanied the rain did not do any damage other than twist off a few shade trees. —An Indianapolis barber, who went to Lafayette six months ago, dropped into a saloon during the recent encampment, where he found the bartenders asleep. Thinking that somebody might rob the place, he concluded to take charge of the cash-drawer and deliver it to the proprietor himself, and at the same time play a capital joke on the liquor dispensers. Unfortunately for him the bartender awoke just as he was leaving the door, and spoiled his fun by having him arrested, and now a jury with n<j sense qf humor, has given him a year m the penitentiary. —Until the recent rain in the Northern part of the State, many of the marshes, heretofore covered with one to four feet of water, had become dry, and were taken possession of by innumerable rattlesnakes, vipers, and other poisonous reptiles. In some sections they were so plenty that hunters could not reach their favorite shooting-grounds without incurring great risk. It is also said that the snakes have eaten nearly all the young waterfowl, as fast as hatched, and that none of the native birds are left for the fall sportsman. —Three young fellows of Centerville got drunk last week and concluded to have a little fun with one of their number. A mock trial was held and he was sentenced to be hanged,which they proceeded to do by putting a cord around his neck, throwing one end over the limb of a . tree, and then swinging him off. The cord was expected to break, but didn’t, and as his companions were too drank to release him, he came very near strangling to death before sober assistance arrived and cut the string. —A man employed on a farm twelve miles from Evansville, got up during the night in his sleep, went to the barn and attempted to commit suicide by hanging, but through mistake tied a rope around his feet instead of his neck, and then jumped from the loft. The sudden stopping at the end of the rope awoke him, leaving little breath in his body and almost scaring him to death. His cries aroused the household and he was rescued. He has been a somnambulist for years, and suicide is always a hobby, but not when awake. —A negro minister who has been preaching at New Paris and Palestine for several months, has gone, under a cloud. His wife discovered some letters from another woman of Palestine, couched in most endearing terms and referring to their proposed elopement. Going to Palestine, where afie was officiating, she exposed him . to the congregation, which at once denounced him, and he and the girl disappeared the next morning. —Wm. H. Brown, of Allen County, is the banner convict in the northern prison. He has just been returned to that institution for the seventh time, after a vacation of six months, and is said to be one of the most incorrigible criminals in the State. He rarely stays out of prison longer than the interim between the session of court, and always commits an offense entitling him to "a sentence of from one to three years. —Some time ago a human skeleton, with a fractured skull, was discovered under a tree in the vicinity of Hoover’s Station, Fulton County, and now the place* is said Ltozbe haunted by the fanner tenant of the skeleton, Some of the wiseacres of the neighborhood are trying to couple the story ~ of the mysterious disappearance of a bookagent several years ago y'ith .That of the newly-found bones. v/ • —A Knox County man was out at work with a clover-huller for a few days, and on his return his house was empty, wife, children, household goods, and a team of mules gone. He found a brief note from j his wife informing him that she had “gone 1 with another fellow; you may look out so« ‘Hilles, let his wife go. |||||| —A man has discovered on his faHH| near Paoli, a ledge of very tine yeilo« ’* : peiiitW building purposes. It is said to be texture than the Bedford stone, /Vi little harder. It can be , a>id is quarried. •J • * Jha