Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — Lafayette Wants the Monon. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Wants the Monon.

The Commissioners of Tippecanoe county have ordered an election on July 80 to vote on the proposition ot Lafayette to donate one hundred and thirty thousand dollars as a subsidy providing the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago company will build its c entral shops there. Lafayette having just voted one hundred thousand dollars for the construction of a belt road, there is some opposition to voting favorably on the Monon projects; still it is believed that as the railroad company shows a disposition to act squarely in the matter, the subsidy will be voted.