Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — INDIANA STATE ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE ITEMS

A mam wm gored to death near Evansville, a few days ago, by hie family milch cow. Recent accounts report sickness prevailing to an alarming extent in Miami county. Under a tree struck by lightning in Wabash county recently, sixty-Mx dead bird* were found. Tax wheat yield of Kosciusko county this year, is estimated, at a million and a quarter million bushels. It is reliably estimated that the wheat crop of Wabash county will average twenty-five bushels to the acre. Am Elkhart saloon a tie claims that be has sold liquor for eleven years without touching a drop of the stuff. A remarkable surgical operation was performed in Goshen, recently. The entire uterus was removed from a .woman.

At Valparaiso a bed was made for Captain and Mrs. Bates, the giants with Coles’ show, by placing two large bedsteads together. About thirteen years ago a son of Dr. Cowgill, of Warsaw, swallowed a needle. Last week the doctor cut it from the leg of the boy. Am average yield of from forty to forty-four bushels to the acre is a frequently reported result of the late wheat harvest In this State. A mad dog created considerable excitement In Elkhart a few days ago. The rabid canine assaulted a little girl, tearing off her clothing, but not biting her. The yard at Indianapolis where irnpecuniou&malefactors are put to work breaking stone for the streets, is dubbed the “geological garden” by the local press. Indiana sent 194,147 soldiers into the field in the war of the rebellion. Only lour States, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, excelled that number. A LaPorteAn who was visited by sixteen cousins and several sisters and aunts has some doubts about the happy results of the temperance, forty'-day camp-meeting. . ’ 4 Francis Goetz, leader of the Elkhart Silver Cornet Band, was arrested and lodged in jail, a few days since, to answer for. indecently assaulting a seven-year-old girl. Mbs. Ellen McDermott, of Harrison county, was bitten by a spider recently, and despite the efforts of the (test medical aid she died from tire effects <»f the bite in six days. There were 67,000 acres of wheat sown in 1 aPorte county, and the estimated average yield of fifteen bushels l>er acre will give the county a product of about one million bushels. A petition is being circulated and largely signed in Carroll county, asking the Legislature to relieve Treasurer Hance from the lows of the money recently stolen from the county treasury’ by burglars. Willard P. Stanton, of Valparaiso, now claims the championship of tbe£tate as a short-distance pedestrian, and is willing to support his claim in a contest of from one to four hours with any walker in the State. Wabash Plain Dealer: John Austin, a farmer, northeast of this city’ has & hermaphrodite pig, three weeks old. Both sexes are combined in the pig, and it is the object of much curiosity. Dame'Nature even, Is liable to commit mistakes sometimes. About four weeks ago, Jerre Gaultney. a farmer living in the vicinity of Sandborn, Knox county, was walking along tlie road and observed a watermoccasin, a species of snake which abounds in marshy places, lying directly in his path. To pick up a club and attack the reptile was but the work of a moment, but when Gaultney’ struck at it, three more, of the same species joined in the fight, and the battle raged briskly. He succeeded in preventing them from biting him, however, but covered with their saliva, from the effects of which he was taken sick, and for three weeks lay in great agony. Death came to his relief. It is said that Gaultney- presented a moat disgusting appearance a few days previous to his death, the flesh having all sloughed off from his bones, the effect of the poison with which his system had become impregnated.

Angola Herald: Miss Emeline Nobles, of Fremont, was returned borne Friday, July 4th, in charge of Lieutenant C. R. Vernon and Dr. John Connell, a sanitary officer of the police of Washington, D. C. It is reported that Miss Nobles arrived in that eity one week previous and sought an interview with the President with a a view to matrimony. She was kindly taken in charge by the authorities there, who, in accordance with instructions from the lady’s friends, returned • her to her home in this county, as before stated. We did not see the officers who accompanied her, but understand they were both fine appearing gentlemen and seemed to understand their duty thoroughly. Miss Nobles is con* nee ted with L some of the best families of Steuben county, and has had the advantages of a splendid education, but for some years the unfortunate lady has been laboring under a strange hallucination, from which her friends have but little if any hope that she will ever recover. Two highly respectable young ladies, Elizabeth and Kate, aged nineteen and sixteen years, daughters of Frederick Ahalt, a reputable, well-to do farmer of Harrison county, mysteriously disappeared from home several days ago, and all efferts to gain a clew to their whereabouts have foiled. The characters of the girls were without reproach, and their parents are greatly distressed at their mysterious disappearance. John Marshall, a plasterer,

and his family recently removed from the neighborhood, and on July 12, left on a flat boat bound down the Ohio. It is suspected they 1 nduced the girls to forsake their hqme. Amob Durbin, of Johnson county, and his daughter,, are under arrest, charged with incest. The discovery was made by the daughter’s husband.