Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — Wholesale Horse Stealing. [ARTICLE]

Wholesale Horse Stealing.

Isaac H. Selljck lives in Wisconsin, but owns a large stock farm in Walker tp., this county. Somejtime ago: he employed J. J. Burton to reside on his Walker farm and take care of his stock. On Saturday last Mr. Sellick came to Rensselaer and reported that on about the 9th inst., Burton had stolen four of the best horses in his cuarge, a buckboard, and set of harness, and left the place. The horses stolen were a sorrel mare 8 years old, a brown one 9 years old, and two 3 year old geldings, one gray and the other bay. Burton is a low, beavy-set .man, with light complexion and light mustache, and wore, when he left, small chin whiskers. A reward of SSO is offered for his arrest and the return of the horses. g. l . The Big Stock Show. The Premium Lists of the Tippecanoe county Fair are now in circulation. The Association offers SIO,OOO in cash premiums, and will, without doubt, make the Fair, as heretofore, the great live stock show of Northern Indiana. The fair will be held at the grounds of the Association in Lafayette, but at just what time we coufess ourselves unable to state exactly. On the cover of the premium list the dates of the fair are given as September, 4,5, 6, &7; on the inside title page the dates are given as September “3 to 8, inclusive,” while upon page 56 we have still another statement of the time: The dates there given as September 3, to*7. Such blundering is a source of more aggravation perhaps than of real injury.