Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

The smallpox scare at Noblesville is interefereing considerably with business of all sorts. Garfield lodge, No. 17, United, Order of Honor, was instituted at Noblesville on Saturday evening. A four-year old daughter of George Patterson was run over by a freight train at New Point, and had both' its. legs cut off: White’s Institute, a Quaker educational establishment, five miles from Wabash, was burned. Loss, $3,000; partially insured. The river at New Albany reached a point five inches higher than the flood of 1867, and but fdrty-two inches lower than the great flood of 1332. Mrs. Mary Wilder, mother of General J. T. Wilder, formerly of Greensburg, died at Chattanooga, Friday night, from injuries received some days ago. Edward Israel, of Franklin, aged twenty-two years, was instantly killed in trying to cross the railroad track by climbing over a freight car while in motion. A man by the name of Gilbert, o, Dudley township, Henry county while moving, was struck by a chain that’broke, had his leg broken in two places, and was badly mangled. J. H. Ballard, colored, for ten years school teacher at Jeffersonville, has been appointed, through Senator Harrison, a'.l agent on the J. M. and I. road, between Madison and Indianapolis. Michael Sarski, an employee of the Tippecanoe paper company, of Monticello, was drowned there yesterday while crossing the river in a skiff, the boat being carried over the dam’by the rapid-current.

Peter Hanson, returning from Brookville to his home, near Fairfield, and a woman and child accompanying him, were all drowned in Templeton’s creek. None of the bodies have been recovered. A little six year old daughter, o Turner Simms, of ShelbyviHe, was badly scalded by the upsetting <»f the coffee pot the other evening. Both legs, from the knees down, were so badly burned that the skin and part of the flesh came off George W. Robertson, David Kirkpatrick and another man went duck shooting in a skiff in Muscotatuch river, in the vicinity of Salem. One of the sruns was accidently discharged, the ball passing through Robertson’s head, killing him instantly. Mr. Reeder, ex recorder of Henry county, who, it was reported, absconded, leaving behind a large amount of forged paper, has returned, and asserts his entire innocence of the charge. But one of his endorsers has filed a legal denial of his signature.

Frank Habert, of St. Wendels, Posey county, fifteen years old, is supEosed to have drowned himself ecause of ill health and disappointment in being refused permission to attend a seranading party His hat was found near a swo lien stream. During the flood of last week a passenger train of the J. M. and I. road was detained at Edingburg by a washout. The passengers, two coaches full of them, were, by order of Superintendent McKenna, taken to the hotels and fed and lodged at the company’s expense.

A terriffic boiler explosion occured at New Harrisburg, a sawmill boiler exploded with fearful violence. One man was instantly killed and two others seriously injured. Esta Crill, the proprietor, who was in the mill at the time of the explosion, escaped with slight injuries. * * Hiram Lee, aged twelve years, light compexion, black eyes and hair, is missing from his home in St. Omer, Shelby county. When he went away he had on a pair oi jeans pants, dark coat and cap. Any information of his whereabouts will be thankfully received by his mother, Mrs. Malinda Lee, Omer, Ind. Dr. Turner, of Nulltown, Fayette county, was called out at the dead hburof night by a tramp, who told him there was a man very sick a short distance away. The doctor followed his guide through a drenching rain to the river bottom, where he found a person dressed in men’s clothes with only a board for a bed. A few moments later the census was increased, and mother and child were at once taken to the asylum. Nothing could be learned of the name or antecedents of either the man or woman,

The following patents have been granted to citizens of Indiana during the past week:—George E. Chandler, of Jacksonburg, gate latch. George J. Cline, of Goshen, paint for rooting, etc. John F. Coppock, of West Newton, gate. Louis A. Keifer, of Indianapolis, reel lock. Jacob King, of Indianapolis seed cup for grain drills. Hiram McCray, of Kendallville, refrigerator car. Nathan Newsom of Columbus, stacker for hay and straw _ Ewald Over, of Indianapolis spring washer. G. W., J. R. and S. B. Rude, of Liberty, grain drill. Alonzo J. Simmons, of Indianapolis, steam-actuated valve. . • Charlee A. and F. D. Smith, of Carlisle, earth excavator and conveyer. Kate Walker, of Indianapolis, dress putting and fitting mould. James Weathers, of Indianapolis, liftingjack.