Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Excitement is reported at Sedan, Ind., because of ghostly manifestations on the farm of the late Samuel Miser, who died about a year ago. One of the decedent’s sons alleges that his mother find elder brother have defrauded him out of an eight-acre tract willed to him by his father, and at night a peculiar phosphorescent light can be seen traversing the boundaries of the disputed lot Phantom lights, it is alleged, have also been seen at the Miser residence, and rumbling. sounds are heard. A friend of Mrs. Garfield informs the Associated Press that the rumors that she was about to be married were circulated by persons who wished to annoy her, and that she still wears mourning, and harbors no thoughts of matrimony,... .Joseph Palmer, the accomplice of Berners, whose light sentence caused the Cincinnati riot a year ago, has -been for the second time found guilty of murder in the first degree. A circular letter has been issued by Um Illinois State Board of Health to the various railroad companies whose lines traverse the State, suggesting as a precaution against the spread of Asiatic cheolra the thorough cleansing and disinfecting of all depots. Scientific investigation, the board says, has shown that the disease is propagated along the lines of travel. The combined associations of Montana consolidated in joint convention at Miles City, organizing the Montana Stock Growers* Association. This is the most important cattle growers’ meeting that was ever held in the Northwest, and was composed almost entirely of Americans. A strong determination by their action was expressed io stand on their own bottom.