Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1911 — “The Great Unknown.” [ARTICLE]

“The Great Unknown.”

For thirteen years the author of "Waverley” was unknown. Indeed, the country spoke of him as “the great unknown,” a pseudonym Sir Walter Scott often employed in writing. But on Feb. 23, 1827, Sir Walter gave a dinner party to which, among others, Lord Meadowbank, the judicial magnate, who chanced to know his host’s secret, was invited. Then when the toasts were being drunk Meadowbank. with Scott’s permission, got up and proposed the health of “the great unknown, Sir Walter Scott.” The effect was magical, and the news spread through the country like wildfire. That dinner and the secret It disclosed were tbe most talked of events of the year.

William Lyndley, alleged to have been in the gang of white cappers who last Saturday night shot to death Mrs. Rettie Combs in Spencer county, Indiana, was arrested at Evansville Wednesday on a charge of murder.

With a view of building the connecting link in an interurban system which would give Laporte through connection with Indianapolis, representatives of an eastern syndicate have been going over the route of a propored road between Laporte and Peru.

Profiting by the experience of Indianapolis, Dayton and other cities, South Bend will keep its public market free from any connection with local retailers. The Intention is to make the market a place for the sale of food from the producer direct to the consumer,

* The finding of the bones of a large skeleton and part of the bones of another skeleton in the hill on East Highland street in Martinsville, by workmen who were excavating for a dwelling caused a great deal of comment No one could recall a tragedy that would account for the bones.

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