Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Complaints come from Dayton, Ohio, of tyrannical treatment of disabled veterans by Gen. M. R. Patrick. Governor of the National Soldiers’ Home, and the citizens are clamorous for bis removal....An Indiana court has decided that the establishment of arbitrary rates by the Underwriters’ Association of Indianapolis is contrary to the freedom of trade and prejudicial to the common good. Gen. Patrick, Governor of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio, is charged with being unnecessarily harsh to The Board of Management of the Home say there is r o foundation for the Charges, and that they have originated In the- imaginaton Of some of the inmates. It is probable that' a committee of investigation will be appointed. Several unknown persons stoned and partially wrecked the residence of L M. Lynn, editor of tbo Oreenbaclt Herald, at Ebelbyville, 111. The inmates escaped unhurt. Recent attacks of the paper on the bad ele-

ments of the plnoe resulted in the outrage. ....Amos Baokentros, a farmer of Boone County, Indiana, was shot through tho heart by burglars who broke into his house. Near Audubon, lowa, an «]d manbj the name of Hiram Jefferson was taken out of his bed by three men, at»d, after being dragged by the men about 300 feet, was hung to the limb of a tree. Dispatches from Fort Wingate report an uprising of Indians at Mitchell's ranch, in the Ute Reservation. The Ules attacked the ranchmen of that section and a desperate battle ensued, but tho Indians were repulsed with n loss of two Indians killed and two wounded, 1 The Ute Reservation, the scene of the trouble. Is located in the corners of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and news from there cannot bo readily obtained.... The. postofllies at Minneapolis and St. Paul have been added to the list of those which come under the civil-sorvice

rules.