The History of Peru

d on account of Peru and Rock Island Rail Road-United States Census-Incorporation of the City-Territory embraced in City Limits-Elections under the Charter in 1851-Question of issuing Bonds on account

inst the place of crossing the Ri

Votes 159. This Board elected P. M. Kilduff, President; Erasmus Winslow, Clerk; Ezra McKinzie, Assessor; James Cahill, Collector; J. P. Thompson, Street C

o the disease. On the 20th of June it suddenly assumed a malignant and virulent character, and some hundreds were swept off in the course of

t and substantial warehouse, directly upon the

, Constable; Edmund Pennington, Fire Warden; James Cahill, Collector; and Erasmus Winslow, Health Commissioner. During this year the subject of Railroads began to attract the attention of the people of Illinois. The inhabitants of the town were a good deal excited about the location of one from Aurora, in Kane county, to Peru, via.

as destroyed by fire. This was the largest and best buil

ointed Street Commissioner, in p

he State. Thomas W. Welch, the editor of this paper, gave promise of great usefulness in future years. He was a vigorous writer, energetic and industrious, and imparted a degree of viva

part of the town, of $25,000 towards the capital stock of the Rock Island and Peru

A similar increase has been going on until the present time, when there are found to be only 3,652. If such a decrease has taken place where are the tenements vacated? A similar error occurs in the United States census returns of La Salle, the population of which is set down at 3,201. A census, taken by the authority of the to

Section 21 North of the river. The extent of territory embraced in the City, was forty-eight acres less than that in the borough, that part of Section 21 included containing forty-five acres, while the North West fractional quarter o

rris, Aldermen for the Second Ward. Whole number of votes 196.-By the provisions of the Charter, the Aldermen were to be elected for two years-two out of the first four retiring at the end of the first year-to be determin

a Salle Rail Road, (the Charter having been so amended as to continue the road to Chicago,) wa

ormer surveys of the town, a new survey was ordered and establi

ock, to the extent of $40,000, including the $25,000 previously authorized, was submitted to a vote of the people. Strenuous exertions had been made to defeat the subscription; and this time there were found to be 16 vot

nd interest, and convertible into stock at the option of the holder; thus giving him the advantage of any advance of the stock above par, while the City must pocket the loss of any depression below. The interest

n the act of cession. The people of Peru assumed, that by this it was intended that it should terminate at the pier head, where the waters of the canal and river unite. The company proceeded to build the bridge across the river at the mouth of the Little Vermillion, a mile and a-half above. This drew forth a vigorous protest from the C

g great advantages, not only to the town, but also to the country through which it passed. The result demonstrated that these expectations were reasonable. The large traffic which passed over it, for a few succeeding years, could not by any possibility have existed without it. It was originally contemplated to finish it to Grandetour, on Rock river, but want of funds delayed the work, until the construction of intersecting lines of Railroads, in a degree, superseded its necessity. The road has since been allowed to run down, and the plank have been removed. The com