Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

» Tipton has adopted electric light. Roan is opera ttnga $5,090 creamery. Hartford City Glass Works arc again In operation. ■ _ The churches of Marion are leading in a erusade against the saloons. Samuel Bloomfield, of Kendallville, has been arrested as a counterfeiter by the federal authorities. Many fields of wheat In Huntington county had to be re-sown owing, .to grasshopper ravages. FJ- W. Tarleton, of Mart’nsvllle, while fishing in White river, found a pearl worth S3OO in a clam shell. ’ George O. Taylor, formerly of the New Denison, Indianapolis, has purchased the Murdock hotel at Logansport. “Black-tongue” has appeared among the cattle in Porter county, and quarantine measures are being enforced. The October report made by the‘Stat j Board of Agriculture gives the wheat crop of 1891 at 45,063,480 bushels, and condition 98 per cent. The yield of oats is 25.698,333 bushels. The report sent out from Seymour of great damage to growing wheat by grasshoppers has absolutely no foundation in fact. Noxious insects have been “conspicuous by their absence” this season and the young wheat is in excellent, condition. ■ '.7 . == ■ that the DePauw glass works will beerectcd at Jonesboro. instead of Alexandria and charge is made that the Pan-Handle railroad company used its influence against Alexandria and in favor of Jonesboro. Judge L. J. Hackney, of the Shelby Cir cult Court, in charging the, grand juryealled judicial attention to the lynching o! Charles Hawkins in the courthouse yard at Shelbyville, for the murderous assaul t upon City Marshal Bruce, stigmatizing it aS a crime without legal excuse or justification, and charging the jurors upon their oaths to make such investigation as wiii lead to the successful prosecution of all engaged in that lawless affair. The court also instructed that it was not essential to The guilt of anyone that lie should with his own hands have struck a blow or held the fatal rope, the fact that he was present and abetting the outrage making him equally guilty with active participants,

DAVIESS COI’NT’i COUIJT HOUSE BURNED. At 3:30 o'clock Wednesday morning the Daviess County Court House, at Washington, was discovered on fire, and before the flames could be subdued the building, costing $120,000, was wrecked and tho county records were burned. Over $lO.000,000 in real estate is involved in the loss, and thousands of lawsuits to establislr titles will necessarily be the ‘ outcome. A consequent panic in real estate circles is very imminent. When tho lire xvas discovered it was fast destroying the recorder's office and eating its way to the office of tho auditor, People who rushed into the auditor’s office saw flames enveloping every record of importance, and examination showed thai kerosene had been poured on the books and sprinkled on all papers of importance. Tho tiro from the recorder’s office could* not have communleat -d with tbo auditor's office so soon, and it was undeniably starir cd in the half dozen different offices at th; same time. There is no mistaking _tbe fact that the books were seton fin-, and public indignation is very groat, whi'.j tho entire county is aroused. An investigation of the books of the auditor an , treasurer, was ordered by the County Commissioners a few weeks ago, and ..tho. w ork was ..io begin Jn a lew daysThe fire will, retard this movemen greatly, if not render it wholh ineffective. An extrasessfrin of the Board of Commissioners will be called at once, and it is probable Iliat detectives will bi employed to ferretout the incendiaries, ji is said several clews are already in possession of the sheriff, and important and sensational arrests may be made in a fevt days. Five new jugs, which had contained coal oil, were found this evening- in :ui outhouse, and are regarded as a clew that will help the officers to fasten thegnilt Excitement is intense. INDIANA CATTLE. XSSES Dr. John N. Taylor, president of th® State Board of Health has prepared th< following facts in regard .to the diseas that is raging among cattle in various sec tions of this State.

“Epizootic apt.ha, or what is more com inonly known as “fooUaud-moutli disease” is now i revailing Io a considcrabli extent in Montgomery county, as well a; in other parts of thw State. Epizooli; apatha, so far as is known, first macle its .appearance in fchgland in the spring o 1839, and spread rapidly over that country Ireland and Scotland, prevailed for aloul two years, and then gradually disappeared Since that time, it has appeared in varujm localities at longer or shorter intervals. “It is in its essential character a eonta-. gious eruptive fever that attacks all warmblooded animals, including man himself udder certain circumstances. It of an inflamaticn of the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose and throat, o. the conjunction of the eye, the hairies; portions of the skin, the coronet and cleft; of the horns. In a period vary ing Iron twenty-four hours to four days aftoi exi>osure to the contagion, a cow will exhibit symptoms of shiverIng, followed by fever, the hair ’wil; lose its luster, lameness will appear, tin eyes weep, the nostrils run, and saliva wilb dropfrdni the mouth. The anihiai then ceases to eat, and an examination o' tho mouth will show the cause. The ipslde of the lips and cheeks are covered with vesicles, ifoxaaained within eighteen hours, after which time there appear shallow ulcers with intensely reddened mars gins. An examination of tho feet will show that in the clefts of the hoofs are the same vesicles and ulcers, causing great pain and lameness. “Usually in favorable cases, at tho end of the fourth day the an[nial bjtgins_tolm*. prove, and soon all symptoms disappear. It sometimes happens however. that-tin> uleirs become very deep, blood po soni/u sots in and the animal either dies or recovers very slowly. “As soon as it Is discovered that ot>e ol a herd Is so attacked It should be separated from tho others, and a veterinarian sent for who will ipslitulo such measures oj cure and prevention as are needed.”