Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1894 — That Trouble in Lake County. [ARTICLE]

That Trouble in Lake County.

The various contradictory reports that have been published regarding an occurrence at Hammond last Saturday, have caused much bitterness of feeling between the respective partisans of Messrs. Johnston and Landis, throughout the district. The Landis men accuse the Johnston men of having stolen, for their own use, a train chartered to carry the Landis men to Crown Point, to the county mass convention, to choose Congressional delegates; while the Johnston men retort with the counter charge that the Landis men had a train offered them in good time, but that they found that they were so greatly outnumbered by the Johuston men, that j they availed themselves of the supposed train-stealing as a good excuse for stayi-g at Hammond, and kicking up a row. The whole trouble was probably the result of a few unlucky misunderstandings, much more than to any intentional crookedness, upon either side. The agent of the Chicago & Erie R. R., at Hammond, makes affidavit, that he attached the Landis cars to the Johnston train, under orders from the general officers of the road; and that none of Johnston's | friends had asked or suggested ( that action. The agent’s orders were to take the Johnston men to Crown Point and then to return for the Landis men The principal blame would seem to rest upon the railroad officials

for taking the -Landis cars, and not explaining why they did it. We are confident that neither Mr. Johnston nor Mr. Landis would countenance for an instant, any of the unfairness that some of their too ardent respective partisans are charging against the otl.ers. ——... a..—....