Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The contract has been let for an SB,OOO Carnegie library at Oxford. The Democratic state convention will be held in Indianapolis next week. Joseph Crist has bought suit for SIO,OOO damages for injurie_s received In the cutting scrape recently at. the Hardesty hotel in Winamac, an account of which was published in The Democrat. The complaint alleges that Smith assaulted, struck, _beat, cut, carved and wounded Crist.

Pulaski County Democrat: A preliminary resolution providing for about 25 blocks of paving in Winamac was adopted by the town council at a special meeting Tuesday evening. While the resolution 'does not specifically mention brick, it la the general understanding that that material is to be used. George W. Peck, former governor of Wisconsin for two terms and at one time mayor of Milwaukee and author of “Peck’s Bad Boy,” died in Milwaukee Sunday after a short illness, aged 73 years. Mr. Peck was one of three Democrats since the admission of Wisconsin to the in 1818 to hold the position of governor.

A. L. Barker of Lake Village was in town Monday and turned in at the auditor’s office 10 wolf scalps (one old one and nine young ones) and filed his claim for the bounty on them, $27.50. Ned, as he Is familiarly known, is Newton county’s veteran wild game trapper, also fisherman, bee and honey man, and makes quite a neat sum by the sport each year.-- Kentland Democrat.

Yesterday's dispatches stated that six people had been killed or burned to death in a collision of trains on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at Bradford. R. I. The accident occurred at 7:30 o’clock Monday night and four hours later it was said that 30 bodies had been recovered. The dead were in the rear car of a. four-coach local train bound from Boston to New London and which had stopped at the local station when it was run down by the Gilt Edge express, bound from Boston to New York.

A. S. Kent, chief engineer of the Monon, was in town Wednesday talking over the intended improvement regarding the new passenger station. Work on the new building will probably begin May I. The block signal building in the west yards of the Monon has been moved to the site it will occupy as a freight depot when the old one is moved from the present location. Track construction is in progress for the new freight handling location, a gang of 20 men being employed most of the time. The platform and its roof will be built from material obtained from the old location in part Soon the old passenger station will be moved south in the little park to make room for the new building, and will continue in service until the new structure is ready for occupancy.—Monon News.