Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — The Corporation Election. [ARTICLE]

The Corporation Election.

The election lielil in Rensselaer on Motdny for corporation officers excited more interest,, perhaps, than any previous one ever did. For the first time in the. town's history party lines were drawn and the issue was made openly between democrats and republicans, although the democrats had placed on their ticket two republicans for trustees, a republican for clerk and another forassessor. One hundred and eighty-one votes were polled. The entire straight republican ticket was elected by majorities of from fiye.to4weuty-two. . The new set of town officers is as follows: Trustees, M- & Alter, J. Sears, E. L». Clark, A. W. Cleveland and Z. Dwiggihs; Starr, treasurer; N. W, Reeve, clerk; M. D. Rhoades, assessor.. The town contains about, two hundred voters, with a republican majority of about twenty-five. The total population of Rensselaer is probably, not short of one thousand. Some time last winter young Cotton was murdered in the northern part of Jasper county. The board of county cotninissioners at a meeting held subsequent to the perpetration of the crime offered a reward of >SOO for the detection, arrest and punishment of the offender or offenders, but since that time all excitement has died away and nobody appears to think about it. If possible to detect,, the guilty ones should be brought to justice.

, .we . “■ Mr. Patrick Barton and wife, of Ay<lelolle, ‘Benton county, were in Rensselaer yesterday to bury beside two or three other little graves of m ambers of their family in St. Joseph’s cemetery, the remains of an infffnt that died of whooping cough the morning previous. A number of relatives and sympathising neighbors came with the sad procession. Mr. William Crockett starts tomorrow (Friday) for Cincinnati, to be present at the marriage feast of a friend and acquaintance.