Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1904 — No Saloon In Third Ward. [ARTICLE]

No Saloon In Third Ward.

The Applicant Is Defeated Two to - One. Other Commissioners Court Doings. Frank K-nnell is the latest man to find -.ut that the people of the Third Ward of rii not want a ‘Woon in the r raidet” even if some of them do want the merchandise of the saloons there. The remon trance filed against his application was signed by 129 voters. The tote. 1 vote in thr ward at the list oity eleotion was 176; and the number of signers needed to defeat a saloon is 89, Thus there was 49 more than needed. Practically two thirds of the voters of the ward_ G. A. Striokfaden w ss granted a renewal of his lioense in the Ist ward without opposition. The Pan Amerioau Bridge Company was given the oontraot for lengthening Burk’s bridge 149 feet on the'sjuth end, for $1,16q

gen Miles fatally sick. Goshen Democratic: Advices received here from Logansport are to the iffect that Gen. Edwin R. Niles, a patient in Longcliff, is rapidly failing and that he OHnnot long survive. Gen. Niles’ family here are doing all that is possible for his welfare. Clothing haa been sent to him frequently and he is always supplied with fruits and delioaoies. The above named Gan. Niles is the same party of whom considerable mention was made several months ago, after his mysterious disappearance from Longoliff asylum, and who stopped over Sunday with W. S Russell, in Carpenter township.