Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1898 — More Trouble in Pugnacity Hollow. [ARTICLE]

More Trouble in Pugnacity Hollow.

Hostile Row, near the railroad has long, since been pacified, but the spirit of beligerency seems now to have established itself in the far west part of town, in Austin & Paxton’s addition. So strong is the disposition out there to go on

the war path that even so nnld and peaceful a citizen as Henderson the oil man, has dug up the tomahawk. His trouble was with Mrs. Mary Jenkins, and arose from the fact that both claimed a certain quantity of fire wood. The actual act of hostility on Mr. Henderson’s part consisted in upsetting the other party’s wheel-barrow, loaded with some of the wood, and in a more or less ‘rude violent and angry manner” as the legal phrase has itr The aggrieved lady therefore “stopped Henderson's oil wagon” long enough to persuadd the proprietor to pay a short visit to Judge Burnham’s city court, where $1 and costs was thought to be about the right penalty to satisfy the damage done to the peace and dignity of the state of Indiana. The case was tried Thursday afternoon.