Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — The County Commissioners. [ARTICLE]

The County Commissioners.

Stuart Bros. & Hammond, attorneys of Lafayette, have been employed to represent the county in the Iroquois River Ditch case, now pending in the circuit court. The application of the Town of Remington to annex a certain tract of territory to that town was granted, after a hearing in which one or two parties made objection. In the hard fought salcon license case of Geo. A. Strickfaden, the final decision was to refuse the license, on the strength of the remonstrance, under the provisions of the Nicholson bill. Mr. Strickfaden has already filed bonds for an appeal to the circuit court. Still another appeal, based on the same case, is made by the parties who signed the original, remonstrance, and afterwards signed another paper requesting to have their names taken off, and which request the commissioners refused to grant. "This appeal is taken by Lyman Zea, Wm. H. Babb, Godfred Yeiter, Henry P. Jones, Wm. B. Chilcote, Wm. T. Walters, James | Welsh, John (bis X mark) Wood, Wm. H. (big X mark) Nichols, Jerry P. Karsner et al, Ac. to the extent of 14 in all.

The Rensselaer land annexation case has occupied a good deal of time. There is still a pretty extensive opposition to the annexation in the proposed district, although the only opponents who appear of record are, Erastus Peacock, Mary E. Mar‘lall and Joseph Francis. C. E.

b *- attorney for the town and R. Mills U for the remonstrants. W. Msrslu. > case was rendered Decision in th«. i. It was in yesterday favor of the (own, ■’ts are territory. The ’’her talking of appealing Us

courts.- * 1 Ttffcoiinfy' tax I*yy was u % 46 cenfa; the gravel rev d repair ilevy at “ 4 cents, on the valuation."

Louis Leopold was broug from Wolcott, yesterday qn lte sick with the quinzy. • 4La The decision yesterday oi Oorhmißsioners in favor of annex territory to Rensselaer, with its coi V

sequent annexing of Benjamin A Magee’s Addition, will increase the territory of the town by about 80 acres, and its population by at least 100 persons. Comparatively speaking, the people are few in number, but excellent in quality.