Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The'packing house of the Sioux City Stock Yards Company is said to be haunted by a ghostly pig-sticker nine feet tall. Loren H. Hixon, one of the best-known* men in Northwestern Indiana, died of Bright’s disease, aged X 8 years, at Valparaiso. The schooner Red Wing, of Philadelphia was lost sixty miles south of Pensacola, Fla. Her crew and passengers were saved. The two factions which have been, dividing, St. Stanislaus’ Polish Catholioi congregation in Bay City came together Sunday in a pitched battle, in which! clubs and missiles were used and nearly % score injured.