Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1889 — MIXED UP. [ARTICLE]

MIXED UP.

Indianapolis Sun, A meeting of the Momence rock commission was held at the state auditor’s office Friday. It mgt to consider the difficulties that lie in its wav. Soine years ago Gen. Cass sold the islaud in the center of the Kankakee river to the Illinois & Eastern railroad company. Two years later the heirs of the Cass estate deeded the bed of the river to the state of Indiana. It is by right of this deed that the state proposed to deepen the channel. As soon," however, as tire commission began work the. railroad company asked for damages, as it would spoil its ice field. Jt also produced the deed given by Gen. Cass which contemplated thetransfer of not only the island but the river bed to its center. The membets of the Cass estate are now endeavoring to 1 .econcile this matter so the work of the commission can be continued.