Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1901 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE.

Representative Crumpacker will, at the opening of Congressive, introduce a bill providing for an appropriation for the Jerection of a monument on the Tippecanoe battle ground, near Lafayette. He has previously introduced a similar bill but hopes to have better success ' this time. Harrison Warren, now living in town, has sold his 80 acre farm, in 1 Newton Tp., to W. D. Mayhew, of ' Beaver City, Newton Co., whose son will occupy it, after March Ist The price was $52.50 per acre, and C. A. Dean negotiated the sale. We understand that Mr. Warren will sell his town property also and then buy a much larger farm than the one he has just sold. The picture of Marguerite Springer, wife of Warren Springer, i Chicago millionaire and owner of many hundreds of acres in Jasper county, was given in Tuesday’s Times-Herald. Mrs. Springer is thus honored because of her liberality in giving p site for a building for the Chicago Industrial Art She is very wealthy in her own right. The Springers are occasional visitors to Rensselaer.

Capt. J, A. Burnham’s pension agency has just secured an increase of $2 per month on the pension of Henry Sparling, of DeMotte: of $4 per month for Geo. W. Peterson, now at the soldiers’ home at Marion, and an original soldier’s widow’s pension of $8 per month for Mrs. Marie Babcock, widow of Frank W. Babcock, and $2 per month for each of her minor children. Mrs. Babcock is now living a t New Orleans, La. She gets back pension for nearly 22 months Senator Fairbanks will, on the opening day of Congress, introduce a bill providing for the’admittance of Oklahoma Territory into the Union as a State. He has received numerous petitions and letters from Indianians now in Oklahoma asking him to take this action, and he will make a vigorous effort to have the bill passed, as he is in perfect sympathy with its effect, The bill will be referred to the committee on Territories, of which Senator Beveridge undoubtedly will be chairman.

It is announced in the Chicago Tribune that the big George H. Hammond packing house will be removed from Hammond, Ind., to the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. The packing house’has been located in Hammond for 34 years and is that city’s largest labor employing industry. The plant was recently greatly damaged by fire and it is this fact that urged the removal which is said to have been in contemplation for about four years. The new buildings to be erected at the stock yardsjwill cost about $2,000,000. The Wabash Plain Dealer “related an amusing incident’which ocoured recently in the office of a local attorney there. An insane ward, who has been drawing a large pension and has an estate, came in and wanted to manage all the money. “See here,” he urged, “I am not insane. I can managejt.” “Well,” was the reply, “if you are not insane your pension will stop, for that is why you are getting it.’’ “The dickens! Then lam crazier than George Francis Train” was the finale to the conversation as the startled pensioner darted through the door. In commenting on Governor Durbin’s refusal to surrender Taylor and Finney to the Kentucky authorities the Chicago Chronicle, the leading Democratic paper of the west truthfully says the governor’s words, “are severe words, but he would be a careless reader of contemporary events in the blue grass state who would say

they are not justified. The orderly processes of law are the foundation stones of our form of government and if these indicted men had prospect of fair trial neither Governor Mount nor Governor Durbin could make just excuse in refusing extradition papers.”