Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The packing house of the Sioux City Stock Yards Company is said to be haunted by a ghostly pig-sticker nine feet tall. Loren H. Hixon, one of the best-known men in Northwestern Indiana, died of Bright's disease, aged 78 years, at Valparaiso. , The schooner Red Wing, of Philadelphia was lost sixty'miles south of Pen ll sacola, Fla. Her crew and passenger* were saved. , " The two factions which have been dividing St. Stanislaus’ Polish Catbolio congregation iu Bay City catne together Sunday In a pitched battle, in* which clubs and missiles were used and nfearhr % score injurtft. * * "■ '*• «. <