Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The recent reunion of Gen. Wilder’s Brigade at Greencastle was the means of bringing information to Mrs. Elizabeth Collard, of Indianapolis, about a son whom she supposed had long ago died. The son was I. W. Collard, a member of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. Ten years ago he startol West, intending to send for his mother within a year. After his departure there was no further communication between the mother and son. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to obtain some information of each other, they each reached the conclusion that the other was dead. Mr. Collard attended the Wilder Brigade reunion, nnd met an Indianapolis gentleman, whom he asked for some information regarding hiu mother. The gentleman promised, upon his return to Indianapolis, to ascertain, if possible, the whereabouts of Mrs. Collard. This he easily succeeded in doing, and apprised her of her son’s inquiries regarding her, greatly to her surprise. The son, in turn, was informed of where his mother was living and the happy meeting between mother and son was very affecting. —Hon. Rufus Magee, United States Minister to Norway and Sweden, has written to President Jordan, of Indiana University, stating that Baron Nordenstrold, the Swedish arctic explorer and scientist, has presented him with a copy of a map made in 1482 ahd 1486, showing the geographer’s idea at that period of the world. The Baron discovered it in an old library in Russia, and caused 100 copies to be made. The only other one in America is at Harvard University. Minister Magee reached the conclusion that he could make no better disposition of the copy given to him than to present it to the University of his native State, in which he was once a student’ The map will be framed and hung in the college library. —Patents have been issued to the fol-lowing-named Indiana inventors: Martin V. Beiger, Mishawaka, fabric boot; Nelson P. Bowsher, South Bend, grinding mill; Sharon Case, Montezuma, automatic grain scales; Isaac M. Brown, Columbus, ruling machine; John A. Hay, New Goshen, fence;' Conrad Lunim, Garrett, eavestrough hanger; Henry A. Pershing,assignor by mesne assignments to G. A. Baker, South Bend, petit ledger; John T. Solenberger, Kokomo, thill coupling; James L. Sullivan, Xenia, clock-striking machine. —George McDaniels, a farmer living near Boswell, Benton County, was run over by a C. & I. C. car, at the Colborn lumber switch in Athica. An engine threw two cars on the switch without warning, and McDaniels, who was standing between two cars unloading lumber, did not see them. His right arm nnd leg were terribly lacerated, the bones of his arm being crushed into a pulp. —A distressing accident occurred at Bloomington resulting in the death of the 18-months-old child of Andrew Wycoff. The parents had just returned from a circus, and the little one was playing about the room, when it pushed a lamp over and fired its clothes. No one was in the room at the time and when the mother came in the ehild lay dying on the floor. It died in an hour. —Henry Grener, of Columbus, while hunting ducks in White River, landed his boat, and in drawing his shotgun Out it was discharged, the charge entering his right side under the armpit, ranging around, tearing him fearfully. He got back in the boat, rowed a mile and then walked a mile to town, trailing blood all the way. He is now in a dying condition. —The first gas for Selma, was struck recently at a depth of 1,000 feet. It is one of the best wells in the State. From the time the first gush came the gas increased in volume and force so rapidly with every stroke of the drill that the company soon discovered that they were getting more gas than they could control, and ordered the drilling stopped. —Mrs. Will Wright, of New Castle, gave premature birth to four children recently. This is the first case of the kind that ever occurred in Henry County, and the event has been the subject of a great deal of comment. To add to this record, Mrs. Wright had previously given birth to five pairs of twins, making fourteen children at six births. —David Cram, wife, child, and a hired man, living north of Laporte, were thrown from a buggy by a runaway team and they were more or less injured. Mrs. Cram had her right arm broken and was badly hurt about the head, having the entire scalp tom loose. She is in a dangerous condition and it is very doubtful if she recovers. —Mack Steins, of Greensburg, while at work on the bridge at St. Paul, fell a distance of seventy-four feet into the river and was killed, living only an hour after the accident. He was about thirty-five years old, and leaves a widow and one child. —While C. C. Corwin, a prominent attorney, and Deputy Sheriff John A. Adair were driving out to the Portland gas well recently, their horse took fright and ran away, throwing both out, seriously hurting them, the latter probably fatally. —The muster-roll of the Peru Guards, a new military company, has been received by Adjutant General Koontz. It numbers forty-three men and the enlistment is for three years. The Captain is William Henry Harrison Spaulding. —Alfred Amick, the oldest resident of Lexington, Scott County, fell from excessive weakness and, striking a fence, broke the point of his shoulder-blade and sustained serious internal injuries. He now lies in a critical condition. —Thirty thousand people attended the yearly meeting of Friends at Plainfield.