Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Judge Darroch was over from Kentland yesterday attending a meeting before refereee in Bankruptcy Bowers in regard to the Nichols-Hollingsworth matter of settlement of the county funds deposited in the Parker bank at Remington on the eve of its failure, two and one-half years ago.

We are told that the Winamac Bridge Co., has had practically all the bridge contracts in Pulaski county for several years, and that lots of bridges have been constructed there. It might not be a bad idea for the taxpayers of Pulaski to investigate their bridges and see if they have got what they have paid for. No. 7587. Benjamin J. Gifford, vs. T. F. Terry, et al; action to quiet title. No. 7588. Silas H. Mtaore vs. W. E. Moore; suit for mqdical attendance, 329 visits from May 12, 1908, to August 17, 1909, $411.25. The parties are brothers, both quite aged, and reside in Rensselaer.

No. 7589. D. R. Miller vs. William Schultz; action on an attachment in the municipal court of Cook county, 111., wherein plaintiff claims SSOO. No. 7X?O. Lafayette Loan & Trust Co., vs. The American Lubric & Refining Co., et al; action to foreclose mortgage Demand $20,000. O— ■" Misfortunes never come singly. The C. & E. I. railroad not only got stuck for a $3,100 judgment here Saturday, but the sudden stoppage of one of its mixed trains on the cowpath at Fair Oaks the same day quite badly injured J. R. Hazen of Goodland and a gentleman frqm Petersburg, passengers on the train, who had been up to Jake’s farm near Kniman. Both were quite badly bruised and a claim for damages will be presented to the company for settlement.

Marriage licenses issued: Mch. 12, William Ross Porter, son of W. V. Porter, of Rensselaer, aged 20, occupation farmer, to Pauline Ames, daughter of Edward Ames, of Jordan tp., aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. March 14, Grover Ritchey, son of O. K. Ritchey, of Marion township, occupation farmer, to Della Irene Smith, daughter of James W. Smith of Union townships aged 22, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. The Democrat has taken the position all the way through in this bridge graft matter that if the charges of Mr. Marshall of the Lafayette Bridge Co., were true the taxpayers of this county ought to know it; if untrue, it was but justice to Mr. Bader and the Winamac Co., that they be fully exonerated; that such charges were a serious thing to to that company, and no one ought to court an investigation if they were untrue—more than the company against whom they were made. The writer heard practically all the evidence in the case, and a more one-sid-ed case we never heard. No juror who had any respect for the oath he took could do otherwise than return the verdict this jury did, and ludge Hanley, hearing the evidence and making after investigation of other bridges put up here by that company could not do otherwise than pass senteftce as he did. 1 lie criticism of the jury, <ourt and state’s principal witness that has been made in certain quarters is undeserved, anti is either made by those who heard little or none of the evidence or who have good reason to want nothing done about such cases.