Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Hon. E. W. Davis, of Galena Township, Laporte Comity, has sbme sixty acres of timbered land from which a tree hafi never been cut. He has kept the origin nl forest intact rather more as a curiosity that* anything else. Aitiong the trees are sarge poplars, walnuts, and all the other varieties of limber grown in) that locality, just as they stood when the- country was first settled. The forest is now quite a curiosity, and it is doubtful if nnother one like it cun be found in tbe State. Most of the owners of land have cut more or less timber from all their possessions, and especially has this been the case with the more valuable woods. —lt has just been discovered that the domesticated fish in the numerous ponds in the locality of Moore’s Hill are dead. In the last five years fish culture in that part bf Indiana has become quite an industry, nearly every farmer Laving made and stocked a pond with German carp. The recent warm weather melted the -thin, icn on the ponds, and now large of these fish of all sizes may be seen floating dead upon the surface of (lie water—poor remuneration for the farmers’ exfiense und labor. Many theories are advanced to explain the mystery, but none of them are tangible. —At LaGro, a 14-year-old negress attempted to cross the Wabash Railway track, when she was struck by tbe last car of a freight train, which was switching in the yards, and thrown onto the track. She was not seen by the brakemnn, and the train continued backing. Fourteen cars passed over her body, and when the engine reached the spot she wns scooped up into the ash-pan. The engineer stopped his engine and xescued the girl. She was found to be entirely uninjured, tbbugli terribly frightened by her ffcarful experience.

—A. J. Jewett, a lime-burner at Utica, six miles above Jeffersonville, met a horrible’ death. He was standing at the end of the dump-track above the kiln, when he lost his footing and fell into the burning kiln, the stone from a car falling in after him. Another employe saw the accident, but was powerless to prevent it, After much effort a few of the bones of the unfortunate man were taken out at the bottom of the kiln. Jewett was 45 years old, and leaves a widow and large family. —The annual statement of the Marion County Treasurer, showing the amount of taxes collected in 1886, has just been completed. It makes tbe following showing; County current tax, $585,441.30; county delinquent tax, $182,309.60: city current tax, $546,614.14; city delinquent tax, $09,446.03; total, $1,283,271.07. The collections wero considerably larger than those of previous years. —Wallace Marsh, a saw-mill owner at Truman’s Landing, was accidentally shot p and perhaps fatally injured by bis 10-year-old son. They were hunting-in a swamp near the village, and as the boy climbed over a fence his gun was discharged. The shot took effect in the father’s breast just above the nipple. He was carried home and is now lingering between life and death.

—At a meeting of the Rockville Fair Association recently, a ladies’ u department, managed wholly by ladies, was made a special feature of next Rummer's exhibition. The new officers for the association are: R, C. McWilliams, President; James S. Steele, Vice President; S. D. l’uett, Superintendent; W. H. Elson, Secretary; L. H. Hadley, Treasurer. —The barn situated on the farm of Mrs. McNew, three miles north of Knightstown, whs entirely consumed by fire. Two horses were burned to death, and grain and farming implements were lost. The fire was thought to have originated from a cigar stump negligently thrown away by one of the boys of tho family. Loss, $1,500; no insurance. —As the workmen at the Harris City stone quarry were hoisting a large flagging stone, it broke in two, and one part caught John Lake, crushing him badly. Physicians amputated a leg and ‘arm, but the injury internally, together with the great shock, was too much, and the patient died. Lake was a man about 23 years old, unmarried. / —While Levi Griffert, residing on the farm of Fred Spikers, four miles north of Wabash, was catling a tree, it lodged in the top of another, and, ru his effort to fell it, a limb broke and struck him on the head. The skull was fractured, and Griffert lias since lain in a comatose condition, with little hope of recovery, lie is a man of family. >

—David Meredith, of Rich Valley, Wabash County, who recently made the discovery that he has Cherokee blood in his veins, has received a patent from.lkaGov--eminent so a rich section of land in the Indian Territory'. In the seventeenth century one of his ancestors married the daughter of a Cherokee chief. -T-=rAt IngdnTer, as several young boys were going to school, Irvie Hadley, aged 12 years, undertook to board a moving train and was thrown under the wheels. His right leg was cut off at the hip and he was otherwise injured. His recovery is doubtful. —lt is learned that the woman who inserted her infant at the Wabash depot, at Lafayette, was Cynthia Chamlea, and she liad been for some time an inmate of the! County Asylum. Nothing has been heard of her since she left Lafayette. —The dead body of E. G. Gottsball, of Loyal Center, C'ass County, was found under « trestle-work north of Logansport, The neck of the unfortunate man was broken. He was 35 years of age and leaves some property. t—The Indiana; Academy of Science will probably hold its Held meeting fin May) at the “Shades of Death, Wabash. The name is uncanny and suggestive enough, but naturalists will Venture anywhere. —The Commissioners of Montgomery County have employed George Myers as Superintendent of the poor- farm.—The.present incumbent, Mr. Hole, had to resign on account of ill health. —Another natural gas company is being formed at The capital stock will be $2,500, and it will be the second enterprise of the kind in that city; —The congregation of the Park Chris-