Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1904 — Other Places [ARTICLE]

Other Places

The estate of the late Frederick R. Otis, of Chicago, is in all later accounts stated at $3,000,000, instead of $1,000,000 as first estimated by the Chicago papers. His land holdings in this and Newton counties were 7,000 to B.OCO acres Over in Benton county the antisaloon people still knock out the saloon license applications as fast as they appear. The Fowler papers say the business men are doing fully as much business without any saloons in town, as they did when they had saloons. The Brook Reporter says that the 7th member of the county council who was not present when the proposition to build a court house was voted ou, is a'so opposed to the appropriation. This being the case there is, apparently, no prospect of the appropriation being voted in September.

A bulletin issued by the Board of State Charities shows that the population of the charitable and oorreotional institution attheolose of tbe last fiscal year was 9,090, an increase over the figure of last year of 371. The population of the State prison decrease sixty-six during the year.

Over in Newton oounty there has been some prospect of a law suit between Reuben Hess, the new olerk elect, and Ira Drake the retiring clerk, as Mr. Drake some time ago, announced his opinion that he had a right to hold over nine m >re months, on acoount of tome of the botoh laws passed by the state legislature. Lately however, Mr. Drake has ohanged bis views, and wh*-n his la9t regular four years term expires in April, he will peaoably give place to Mr. Hess.

The Liou Store, in Hammond, one of whose owners is Leo Wolf, A. Leopold’s son-in-law, was the ending poiut of a sensational runaway, Thursday. A big team hitched to a livery stable hack, bumped full tilt into the plate £lass windows of the furniture department, and landed half inside the store. A man, Barman tried to stop them and was carried through the window with the horses. He was pretty badly but not dangerously cut by the falling glass. The horses tore through the lowered gates of a Monon railroad street crossing, just about 10 seconds ahead of the milk train.

Miss Rena Nelson, a young woman who formerly worked in a telegraph office at Valparaiso, has just died at Pierre, S. Dak., sup posedly from eating poisoned candy. The candy was sent from Boone lowa, and it is charged a Mrs. Sherman Dye, of that plaoe, sent it to Miss Nelson, in revenge, as is supposed, for the latter having taken her husband’s affections. Now Gov. Cummins of lowa and his attorney general have decided that there is no law by whioh Mrs. Dye can be tried in lowa, because her supposed victim ate the poison and died in Dakota, nor as they hold, can she be extradited to Dakota as she is not a fugitive from jus tice from that state. Thus, by this line of reasoning, or rather, hairspitting, a person might stand in lowa near any state line and shoot one or any number of persons over in any other state and yet there would be no way to try him for the crime,