Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Yorktown will have a glass factory. Cholera appeared near Jonesboro fortythree years ago. There was a heavy frost fn Jackson county on tho 31st . James L. Jackson, of Orestes, Madison county, sgersirtt a grand-father; James Wilkens, of Lagrange, was bitten by a tarantula, which he found In a bunch of bananas. The Muncie Architectural Iron works were destroyed by fire on the 31st. Loss 173,060; insurance $40,000. Jackson county nutmeg melon shipments havo closed, showing a total «1 7,700 barrels, against 8,870 last year. Tho State convention of/, the Epworth league adjourned at Richmond, after electing new officers and deciding to meet at Indianapolis next year.' A section hand working on the P. C. C. & St. L. R. R., at Cementviile was struck on the log with a shovel by a fellow workman. He has filed suit against the company for $2,500. The SUite Board of Health is preparing a circular for distribution among county boards of health instructing cthem what precautions to take to prevent the introduction and spread of cholera. 7 383SE-3 Thirty-two ragged and weary looking tramps, claiming to bo miners from Ten neSsee on their way to Chicago to secure work, passed through English on the 3ist. ..and were glyen t\yo good, square meals and a place te sleep. Patents were Issued to Hoosiers Tuesday as follows; R. Eichstaedt, Michigan Ofty, drawer pull; J. A. Hunt, ludianapoliu, fire escape; J. G. Lightford. Indianapolis, motor for street ear; J. M. Trier, Jefferson, harvester and binder; B. C. Wickers, Lebanon, fence wire tightener. Bedford was visited by the cholera in 1833 and 1848. There was but one death at the first visitation, and the ladies who prepared the body of their neighbor for burial, bruised and bound bunches of bit ter herbs over their mouths and nostrils to avoid contagion. In 1849 there were but two deaths. A curious phenomenon is prensented at Jerome, Howard county. There has been no rainfall of any volume in that section for several weeks, and the drought was beginning to bo severely felt. Suddenly tho dry wells filled up. the springs doubled their flow, and the earth for a squaro mile and more became saturated with water, the ground in many places quito muddy. Lilly creek, a small stream usually, be came swollen and ovorflowod its banks, and everywhere tho water oozod out pi tho ground, accompanied by gas, which boils and bubbles and emits a strong odor. Jerome is located on a bltiff, but the cellars of the houses are filled with water, as if situated on low ground, while tho gas is present everywhere. Necessarily tho people are much alarmed, fearlug an explosion similar to the one near St. Paul last year. The,supposition is that one of the numerous gas wells in that vicinity has burst its casing leaving the gas to force its way to the surface as best it can,—