Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — LAST TRIP FOR NISSEN [ARTICLE]

LAST TRIP FOR NISSEN

His Roller Boat Has 1)1 nap pea red from View Somewhere in Lake >1 ichi gan and He with It, Chicago, Nov. 1. —With the exception of a report from Buffington. Ind.. a village located seventeen miles east of Michigan City, that four men had noticed a dark object in the lake about three miles off shore resembling the pictures they had seen of Nissen’s water balloon no trace of the missing navigator or his'‘roller boat,” has been received at this writing. According to the story told by the men the object was drifting slowly eastward, hut was so far from shore that they* were unable to determine certainly whether or not it was Nissen’s “Foolkiller No. 3.” It is the general belief that Nissen is dead.