Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1914 — Another Rip Van Winkle Makes His Appearance. [ARTICLE]

Another Rip Van Winkle Makes His Appearance.

Twenty-five years ago John Burns, of Elizabethtown, Ind., disappeared. As the years rolled by he was mourned for dead. Thursday Burns came back to spend Christmas with his family in Hammond. He found his wife and two children had died years ago, and that one .boy, Harry, remained, but had moved away. Burns found the boy, now a prosperous fanner, and spent the holidays with him. Mr. Burns, qow an old man, refuses to say where he has spent the twentyftve years.