Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 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 the Board ' have jfieen looking after the plenro-pneu-monia. The farmers throughout that section of the State, ho reports, are badly frightened over the existence of the disease, nnd nothing the Board can do seems to pacify them. All the iitiported cattle were killed, except- nineteen head tielonging to a Mr. Snider, who refused to kill his. The farmers killed the cattle themselves, on the advice of the Board, and will petition the coming Legislature for relief from their loss. The County of Clinton was quarantined for ninety days, and orders were left to see that the quarantine was rigidly enforced. Gov. Gray has telegraphed the Commissioner of Agriculture at 'Washington to send immediately a competent veterinary snrgeon to treat the disease. There are four cases ;pT~ lEe”'diSease in Jasper County, bnt the State Board has ao fear of its spreading there, as the farms have been under quarantine for some time. The cattle, Secretary Metcalf nays, did not conie "“direct?}’ from Ohio to this State, as has been reported, but were shipped irom Sherman, N. Y., to Steiner Brothers, of Bluffton, Ohio, where they were no.t unloaded, but were sent on into this State and Illinois. —An accident occurred at Columbus that will likely cost two men their lives and injured three others. A gang of men were erecting a water tank for the railroad, anil hail a guy rope stretched across the track to support a derrick. The rope was too low, and the smoke-stack of an incoming train struck and broke it while the men were raising a heavy piece of timber, aud the derrick fell, prostrating every one of tlie men. Milton Robinson, the foreman, an old mnn, was injured* in the chest, shoulder, unil head; he hns since been unconscious, and will scarcely recover. Jacob Weaver was struck on the head, and was supposed to be dead, but revived anil may possibly live. William Fennison had a shoulder dislocated, and William Elliott and Charles Whipker were knocked down, but not seriously injured. —Hon. John W. Holcombo, Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at work upon his thirteenth biennail report, and nearly 200 pages are now in type. The volume will be an unusually interesting one, prosy statistics being eliminated as far as possible. The report shows a steady improvement in school matters during the pa#t two years. Nearly four millions of the common school fund is invested in 6 per cent, bonds. The total amount of the fund is $9,455,085, and a portion is loaned at 8 per cent, interest, with real-estate security. The several 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 states, —Martha Duncan is an old colored woman who lives near the government depot in Jeffersonville. The other day she fonnd a bottle containing what she supposed to be medicine for rheumatism. In fact, it was labeled as such. Being a sufferer from that disease, she 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.', v -?:- —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 welL The new well will probably be sunk ai some distance from the present one, and the company are confident they will yet strike a bonanza. —. —Michael Cauiff, a Lafayette laborer, attempted To crawl'under a freight train that bkreked-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. —The surviving members of the Twelfth Indian Infantry Volunteers will hold their first reunion since the war in Warsaw, on Thursday, Nov. 25—the anniversary of the battle of Missionary Ridge. M. D. Gage, the beloved chaplain of the Regiment, will be present at the reunion, he now being in the State on a visit from hie home in California. Every officer and enlisted man of the “old command” is urged and expected to nttcud. In the State Reform Scfcpol 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 1868 then ’ have been admitted nearly 5,500. They have made 350,000 bricks daring the past summer and added a great many improvements about the, building, —ln transferring the remains of a child of Rev. A. Marine, buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, at Richmond, twenty-six years ago, to Earlham Cemetery, it was discovered that the features were still plainly recognizable, and* the little lace collar about its neck was seemingly as perfect as ever. Morgan, who was stabbed by John Opp during a call upon the latter’s daughter, near Lafayette, has fled on learning of the death of Miss Opp, to whom he had been paying attentions while he had a wile and family in Maryland. —Minnie Helyie, aged 6 years, only daughter of Sanjuel Helvie, a leading citizen of. Anoka, Cass County, was burned to death. She was playing around the fire, when her clothes canght, and before assistance arrived she was horribly burned, and. died soon after. —The voters of Knightstown have decided to erect a public building for town purposes, and its coustruciion will be undertaken at once. —One-balf of the town of Wolcott, including Peck’s Hole) and the Christian Church, was destroyed by tire.