Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Secretary, Metcalfe; of the State Board of Health, returned from the cattle-plagued districts of Clinton County, where, in connection with Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Burean of Animal Industry at Washington, he made a thorough investigationjpto the disease. Dr. Salmon says it is not pleuro-puenmonia, but verminon* bronchitis, very contagions, and frequently fatal. The poet-mortem in each case discloses thousands of small, hair-like worm*, ffom one to two inches in length, in the bronchial tube. Tha infected cuttle are quarantined, and it is thought that tbe disease will be checked. —Samuel Grube, a farmer of Wabash County, has recently received word that * fortune estimated at 8250,000 awaits bia order in Switzerland. Mr. Grube’s grandfather emigrated to America from Switzerland in 1732, leaving two bachelor brothers, who in time died without heirs, leaving large estates, which, under the Swiss law, was taken possession of by tbe Government. Niuety years have elapsed since the Grnbe property was taken in charge. A neighbor of Grube, who takes a Swiss paper, saw the final advertisement of the Government for heirs, and at once informed Samuel. —Michael O’Brien, of Colnmbns, went to the Catholic cemetery und fixed up a large new lot he had purchased, to which place he intended to move at an early day the remains of his family buried in tbe old burying ground. Then, after dinner, h® went down town and ordered a large monument to be built, with the inscription, etc., and to be at once erected in tha center of the lot. He then went home and jokingly remarked to his wife, “Everything is ready now, if I get sick and die, to be buried.” In less than an hour he waa seized with congestion of the bowels, and died. —The trustees of the State University have just closed an important session. Two new professors have been selected, Dr. Gustaf Karsten, of the University of Geneva, to take the chair of romance and languages, to succeed Dr. Gamer, whose resignation takes effect in June; also Dr. Leonard Stejneger, of tho Smithsonian Institution, who takes the chair of biology, giving special attention to ornithology. Both have accepted and are of national reputation among educators. —Both iron and lead ore have been diacovered in paying quantities in Denver, Miama County. Large quantities of it lay ou the surface, and at one point there is a mound of solid ore covering five acrea. The ore assays 87 per cent, pure lead, and is found in abundance at tbe month of Wesaw Creek, which assays 75 per cent, pure. A mining company is now being formed, and the little town is in a fever of excitement over the rich prospect. —Hugh Kennedy, in passing near a belt tin Ihe Jeffersonville machine-shops, waa caught, his coat becoming entangled, and before he conld extricate himself was drawn into Its folds and was being whirled rapidly todeath. Fortunately, in his straggles the belt was thrown from the pulley, letting the bdy fall heavily to the ground, thus saving his life. —A lady residing three miles south of Wabash, gave birth to a girl baby having but one leg, the left limb being wanting. In all other respects the child is perfectly formed, is lusty and strong, and, the physicians say, will survive. The peculiar deformity excites much curiosity, and the infant has been visited by many persons. —A natnrnl-gas company has been formed at Crawfordsville, and the right of way for the mains secured from the City Council. The company is composed of Trnesdale <fc Foster, of St. Louis, and C. W. Wright, of Crawfordsville. Work will be commenced within six months, and (he works are to be completed within a year. —Diphtheria has broken out in its most malignant form in Veale Township, Daviess County, and the epidemic is assuming alarming proportions. -Two deaths among adults have already occurred, and a number o{ persons are beyond recovery. The attending physicians think the epidemic may sweep over the whole county. —During the year 1887 New Albany will 1 probably have three additional railroads—the Ohio and Mississippi; Dayton, Cincinnati and Lonisville; and Vincennes, Jasper and New Albany roads. In addition, ft road will be built from Cannelton to ft point on the Air Line to connect with New Albany. —John M. Day, a soldier of the late war, died' in Madison. Mr. Day was a private in the Eighty-second Indiana, being the first colored man enlisted for the war.'“‘'He marched, slept, ate, and fonght by the side of his white comrades for three years, and never for once was the color line drawn. —Burglars entered the residence of Misa Margaret Allen, near Liberty, and at the muzzle of a revolver forced the inmates—three ladies —to deliver np their valuables. They succeeded in carrying off abont S7O in money and old coins. There were three masked men. —The police of Shelbyville . have captured a burglar named “Walk” Hammond, who proved to be the last member of the Reno gang of express robbers. lift was the leader in the famous Ohio and Mississippi robbery near Seymour, ten years ago. —Sheriff H. P. Clausen, of County, New York, writes the postmaster as New Albany that an old man named Charles Judson, claiming to hail from -Floyd 1 County, Indiana, is now at Goshen, N. Y., insane. —Wild turkeys are being shot by the hunters in Dubois and Crawford Counties, and wild geese in Jackson. —Epizootic, or a malignant form df distemper, has broken out in the western part of Adams County. The disease so far baftbeen confined to Normans, for which that country is noted. The disease has but freshly broken out, and the extreme caution being used by farmers will prevent further spreading of the disease. —Peter Munch, a passenger on the eastbound train from Chicago, died in his berth, in a Pullman car when the train was a few: miles west of Fort Wayne, of consumption* He was on his way home to New York froxfc. Denver.