Intense Excitement in the East End of the City Over an Alleged Apparition Supposed to be the Disembodied Spirit of Jacob Archibald    From the  Journal and Courier  (Lafayette, Indiana) - Monday June 7, 1886   There is no little excitement in the vicinity of Sixteenth and Hartford Street crossing, and large crowds congregate there nightly to gaze at the "Haunted House," from 9 o'clock until midnight, which is the time his Ghostship is supposed to walk and to listen with blanched faces and hair standing on end to the blood curdling stories told by those who claim the honor of seeing the ghost and whose veracity is undoubted by the terrified listeners.       The reporter joined the throng last night to get the share of the horror and took his place among the awed bystanders. After several preliminary alarms occasioned by the small boy's circus son, "Here he Comes," a light was seen in one of the windows. At first it was dim and rather uncertain...