Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1908 — Unearth Hunan Bones. [ARTICLE]

Unearth Hunan Bones.

Laborers employed on street Improvement work at Lafayette uncovered a number of human skeletons buried about 8 feet below the surface of the ground. The plow and scrapers unearthed enough bones to form at least three skeletons. They are in a good state of preservation, and there Is much speculation as to their identity. Several of the older citizens say that a numbr of people were buried In the locality during one of the cholera epidemics while the old Wabash and Erie canal was being constructed in 1840. Others believe the bones art those of Indians.