Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

•V' ' ) ; 1 J ’ —The remains of Henry Dunham,a prosperous farmer of Kosciusko Couuty, Indiana, were found in a lane leading from the barn to the house. The hogs had eaten the face and cut into the throat and had eaten the body and lower limbs, dragging the intestines under a bay stack, where they were found several hours nfter the discovery of the body. Two huntirs, who found the body, stopped at the place to get a drink of water. They went to the house nnd found Mrs. Lucy Dnuham, marked with eight wounds, ell made with ft knife. She was unconscious, bht still living. Their 20-mdnths old child was dead, with itp throat cut from ear to ear, and lying on the floor about six feet from the mother, who was also lying on the floor dressed, but with her shoes off. Mrs. Dunham recovered consciousness long enough to ask if her husband was hurt. Dunham was 56 years of age and his wife is 4<j. At last accounts she was beginning to sink and will probably not live to tell the story.

—The Montgomery County Orphans’ Homo Association, ut its annual meeting for the election of officers, held at Grawfordsville, selected the following: President, Joseph Milligan; Vice President, Mrs. J. M. Lane; Secretary, Mrs. M. E. Campbell; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs, N. Q. Irwin; Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. B. McCain. Mrs. Jane Hinerwas re-employed as Matron of the Home. There are twenty children now at the Home, and during the past year there has been an average of about twenty-five all Ihe time. The Home was established in 1881 by Mrs. Susan Wishard, who at that time took four small girls from out the County Asylum. The County Commissioners pay 25 cents per day for eaeh child cared for at the Home, and furnish n farm of eighteen acres. —Tho phenomenal fast of Mary Baker, at Monon, White County, is rapidly drawing to an end. Miss Baker began her fast last October. She cannot eat or drink anything, Nothing will stay on her stomach, nnd injections are equally useless. Members of the medical fraternity are completely at sea in regard to the peculiar disease. Several days ago the extremities of the patient began to grow cold, and dissolution is now very near. —Gov. Gray has revoked the parole of Marvin Kuhns, sentenced to tho northern prison from Noble County,• June 4, 1884, for stealing a horse. He was to serve five years, but, last June, on condition that he would behave himself, return to his father’s home and not drink, the Governor paroled him. Recently Kuhns wns rearrested for grand larceny, and this led to the revocation of the parole, at the request of the prosecuting attorney. —Four Townships of Bartholomew County voted on the question of subsidizing the Richmond and Evansville Railroad. The amount asked from the four townships was $41,900. Sand Creek gave a majority of 120 for the proposition and Jackson was almost unanimous in the same way, but Wayne and Rockford voted negatively by 34 and 70 majority, respectively. The subsidy voted by Sand Creek and Jackson is about SII,OOO. —A .short time sinco a girl 10 years old, of Wheeling, Carroll County, was bitten by a cat, and she was attacked with symptoms of hydrophobia. After suffer? ing great agony for a few days the little sufferer was relieved by death. The father slated that while in one of her paroxysms she bit the fingers of Dr. Loop, the attending physician, from which he is suffering great pain. —During the past winter three colored children have been sent to attend school with whites, at the “Murdock” schoolhotise, in Boone Township, Harrison County, causing considerable ill-feeling. The other night tho schoolhonse was destroyed by fire, supposed to. be the work of an incendiary. The loss is sst)o. —While John Marti, a farmer living between Troy and- Tell City, was driving along the road on the bunk of the Ohio River, the bank suddenly caved in, precipitating him and his team into Ihe raging flood, nnd all were drowned, Marti was about 45 years old, and leaves a widow and eight children. —The stockholders of the Boone County Agricultural Society elected the following officers; J. M. Ball, President; E.'G. Dnruall, Secretary; Si L. Cason, Treasurer; T. A, Cobb, Superintendent. The date for holding the next fair was fixed for the week beginning Monday, Aug. 15. —Roland Mills was found beating his invalid mother, at Centerville, and narrowly escaped rough usage at tlio hands of ' indignant neighbors, who went to her rescue, but he proved to be crazy, and was sent to the county asylum to await admission lo the insane asylum. —Recently a dog belonging to John Garvet, a farmer living near Goshen, went mad, and before being kilfed, bit Mr. Garver and bis son. They are both suffering from the effects of the poison, and it is feared that they cannot escape hydrophobia.

—The merchants and others directly interested, in Xenia, Miami County, have organized a stock company for the purpose of boring for natural gas. The stock is almost taken, and work will probably be commenced in a few weeks. —The jury in the case of Benj. D. Richards, of Bussiaville, vs. The Town of Marion brought in a verdict for the defendant. About four months ago Richards fell on a sidewalk and broke his arm, nnd sued the town for $5,000. —A company thathns been boring for oil six miles north of Monon, struck it at a depth between six and seven hundred feet. Excitement is running high over the find. j===—The committees of theEighth-Dis-trict Veteran Association met at Lafayette, and arrangements for the reunion next September, a't 'CrawfordsviLle. —The Lafayette traveling men have organized a branch of the State Association. President, David H. Plyun; Vice President, G. A. Bailey; Secretary, S. C. Cox. ■ —lt is now an assured fact that 'Elkhart will have a free delivery of mail, an inspector having been there and decided she is entitled to it under the new law. —Oil was struck in paying quantity at 700 feet, at Francesville, Pulaski county. .