People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — MISSING RELIC FOUND. [ARTICLE]

MISSING RELIC FOUND.

Louisburg Cross of Harvard Said to Have Been Located. There is considerable excitement among the students and faoulty of Harvard over the rumor that the celebrated Louisburg oross has been discovered in the rooms of a oertain secret society. The crows i 3 of real historic value. It was taken from the old Catholic cathedral at Louisburg by tbe Englisb under Shirley in 1746, and after a varied career in Massachusetts was put up over tbe entrance to the Harvard library, where it remained until abont a year ago, when it mysteriously disappeared. ' Now it is thought that it was stolen by some oandidate for admission to a society, which requires ail its neophytes to do something the discovery of which would cause the candidate to be expelled from the college. The faoulty has been putting forth every possible effort to learn tbe whereabouts of tbe missing refio.