Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — SMALLPOX AT MUNCIE. [ARTICLE]

SMALLPOX AT MUNCIE.

The State Board of Health met, Thursday morning, in consultation with tho Governor. The object of the meeting was to consider the situation at Muncie, where the smallpox has assumed the proportions of an epidemic. It was shown by reports that the smallpox has been present In Muncie ever since last May, although the fact was not Known until August. It was shown that Muncie has done everything In its power to quarantine the disease. It was decided that the State Board would visit Muncie to view the situation, and, If possible, to prevent the disease from being brought to Indianapolis. While hunting near Holton, Ind., Monday, James Lambert, the son of a farmer, met Samuel Hannah, a neighbor. Between<he famlies an old grudge exists regarding a line fence. The dispute was renewed, when Hannah attacked Lambert with a club, hacking him into a barbed-wire fence. Lambert turned upon Hannah with his shotgun and fired both barrels, killing him instantly. Lambert surrendered to the authorities Tuesday morning at Holton, asking for protection against the Hannah faction, who, he claims, have hunted him all night to kill him. He was taken to the connty jail at Versailles. - '

The Century has just come in possession of one of the most unique and important historical documents of the age. It is a record of the dai>y life of Napoleon Bonaparte on board the English ship which bore him into captivity at St. Helena, as contained in the hitherto unpublished journal of the secretary of the admiral in charge. The reports of many conversations held by the admiral with the deposed Emperor, regarding his important campaigns are given with great fullness, and there is much about the bearing aad the personal habits of Bonaparte during the voyage. The Memoire of Las Cases eohtain the story the l Emperor’s deportation as told by »■ Frenchman and a follower; this diary is an English gentleman’s view of the same memorable journey, and of the impressions made by diaiy Contact *with the man who had all Europe at his feet. The dairy will be published in early numbers of the Century.