Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1914 — Temporary Bridge at Lafayette Will Not Be Rebuilt. [ARTICLE]

Temporary Bridge at Lafayette Will Not Be Rebuilt.

The temporary bridge across the Wabash river at Lafayette, which was built by the street car company and the county after the Main street structure had been destroyed by the flood ot last year, was carried out by an ice gorge last week. The ice had backed up for a long distance and an effort was made by the use of dynamite to dislodge the ice but to no avail and the structure was carried out one day last week. It was decided not to rebuild it, as it would require the expenditure of considerable money and something like 90 days to complete it. It is expected that the new bridge, which is in course of construction will be completed within four or five months. Communication between Lafayette and the west side is again forced to go by the Brown street bridge and street cars can not cross the river at all.

Dec. 20th James W. Simpson, of Redkey, an old soldier and Inmate of the state soldiers’ home at Lafayette, went to the city and imbibed freely at the saloons. He had S2OO on liis person. That night he was found in the rear of the Seeger transfer barn in a dying condition. His money was gona He was taken to a hospital and died the next day. John Harvey, a bartender, and Ernest Lomaa and Ernest Linder, were indicted by the grand jury an<l Harvey is now on trial at Lafayette Lafayette is a city with ever so many “law and order” saloons. The slate of Indiana should refuse to give further aid to Purdue University until the saloons are voted out of Tippecanoe county.