Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1914 — Remington Parties Looking After a “Traction Magnate.” [ARTICLE]

Remington Parties Looking After a “Traction Magnate.”

Cyrus Rice and Perry Griffith, accompanied by the town marshal, were over from Remington Monday looking after H. J. Wilson, one of the I. X. \\. T. Co. magnates who has been stopping over there for some time and is .?aid to have left about a month ago f&r Chicago, leaving his family in Remington. Mr. 'ice. who resides in Remington, has an auto hire bill of $172 against Wilson; it is said; Griffith, v. ho runs a hotel there, has a board bill of $72; Wilbur F. Smith and Orville Reames, whose occqpation we are unable to give, $31.50 and $33. 50, respectively. The marshall had a couple of warrants for Wilson’s arrest, The Democrat is informed, and as Mrs. Wilson and children were leaving on the 10:40 train Monday it was thought perhaps her husband might meet her here or that he could be apprehended in Chicago. the household goods of the Wilsons were shipped here from Milwaukee about a month ago, but have never been unloaded from the car and are still on the side-track, with the demurrage charged up against them. The goods were shipped to Mr. Wilson himself, and the Remington parties above mentioned, decided to

get out a writ of. attachment and hold these goods, which was done. Whether they are the property of Mr. Wilson or his wi.e will no doubt now be determined. It is also reported that Simon Rice of Remington, is alter Wilson on a SSO check which was given him and which he burned over .after endorsing same to Lefler & Bartee of Lafayette, to whom it came back endorsed "no funds,” and they came to Rice for him to make the amount good. The Democrat is unadvised as to what defense, if any, Air. Wilson has to make for the non-payment of the above bills; but the writs of attachment for the amounts as given were sworn out in Squire Irwin's court and the public will probably bear more about the matter later. Mr. Wilson is the engineer for the I- N.- W. T. Co., and was associated with Eugene Purtelle during the latter’s promotion of the electric line this company alleges it expects to build through Rensselaer. He has also been connected with T. S. Roberts and the latter’s crowd of promotors who have been working on the scheme since last winter. President Roberts has apparently not been doing much in the matter of late, but was down here one day last week and accepted trie franchise granted the road by the city council of Rensselaer just before the sixty day limit for accepting same expired.