Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — WAR! [ARTICLE]

WAR!

There was trouble- in Porter county last week,,occasioned hjL two rival railroad companies. The Baltiitiore & Ohio company was extending ijs line into Chicago, and in order to do so was obliged to cross the Michigan Central road this the latter objected to, aud in order to prevent it, they stationed a train of cars at the point of crossing and kept a gang of several hundred laborers on the ground to prevent their train being moved.— The Baltimore «fc Ohio people also had a large force on the ground for the purpose of laying down their track whenever they could do so. As collision between these forces was imminent and might be precipitated at any mo ment, the Sheriff of Porter county telegraphed to Governor Hendricks for troops to preserve* comity and prevent internecine disturbance. — Our noble Governor promptly responded, and a company of militia, armed and equipped for war, with shining bayonets, haversacks in which were three day's rations (more or less), with forty rounds of amunition in their well blacked cartridge boxes, and two pieces of Gatling artillery, together with several newspaper correspondents t were dispatched to die scene ot anticipated battle. With banners flying, drums heating, fifes shrilling, bayonets fixed,- and gallant eorrespondents stationed as file-closers, the armed host formed in line ot battle and moved intrepidly against the menacers, who broke ranks and ignomiuiously fled at the approach of this imposing pomp and circumstance of glorious war, and the field was won without the spilling of blood or the discharge of a single musket. The military prowess of our noble war Governor —is being ineffaenblywritten upon the pages "of history. Scarcely have two years sprouted, bloomed aud withered, since Air. Hendricks was seated in tha gubernatorial chair, yet already are the victories ot Logan sport and Lake Station emblazoned"'“upon his escutcheon in letters of unflickering light; and future generations will forget to enquire How big was Alexander, pa? when the transcendent glories of our Hoosier hero, which’ pale the feeble fires of that Greecian hoodlum's fame, shall have become the theme of school book song and stoiy.