Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The President's message appears iulullAHi our insitle p.;g a very prolix document. Judge Gresham has just rendered a very important decision, in Chicago, by virtue of which all the.lines of the Wabash railway system will be placed in the hands of receive is of the Judges own sele cion. The United States grand jury, nt Indianapolis, having grossly failed to do its duty, by not indicting the scoundrels who altered the election returns in that city, proreedingS' for conspiracy against them have been begun before L ni- • t-d States Commissioner, Ann l»ujen. Whatever opinions may be held as to the justifiability of Blaine’s iffront to Mr. Edmunds at Arthur's funeral, there can scarcely beTwcF ipinions as to the unwisdom of the act from a political point of view. Tt can ma keno £r ien ds lor Bh> in e among those who were already unfriendlv and on the other, hand it -v 111 certainly jnmke him someeneTiTies. and in quarters where he most needed friends. It is our opinion t 1... ’ th? shallow gas wells that have lately been discovered in some portions of White and Benton counties will hot prove permanent in their aeU.iu in their flow after a few months or years, and ultimately cease entirely. This has alwavs been the result heretofore, in shallow wells in fitherilociilities, notably in some parts of lowa, and as before remarked, we believe they will re-‘-alt in the same way in this state.