Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1887 — Another Gas Well Eetter from Mr. Dwiggins. [ARTICLE]

Another Gas Well Eetter from Mr. Dwiggins.

President Cleveland will be in 1 ndianapol'is next Saturday; and in Chicago next Wednesday. B. F. Stull, the Oxford preacher who ran away with a lewd woman, <Olll6 time ago. has returned to his family, ragged, dirty and outwardly at least, repentant. He hcpt jiis way home and was arrested in j .nfayette for a tramp. The w*ny -if the transgressor is hard. - The printing cilice of the Brimneld, 111., News, C. F. Overacker, proprietor, was burned Monday l ight, with all its contents, not even a scrap of paper or the Sub--cr rot ion list was saved. The loss j- A • is a great misfortune to Mr. Overacker, but is partly covered by insurance. The fire.was the work of nn incendiary. lu the face of absolute knowledge to the contrary, the Democratic Sentinel repeats its assertion that the Tippecanoe county commissioners who made the index contract were Republicans and that the indexing was work that; had accumulated under Republican Auditors. That a lie well stuck to is not only as good as the truth j Out a good deal better, is one of jthe .foundation principles democratic doctrine, and one which our neighbor of the Sentinel practices with unswerving fidelity. He is a Democrat from way back, he is. 1 The first of the series oi ocean i yatch races, for the Americas cup, representing the championship of the world, came off Tues- j day. The contestants were .Scotch yatch “Thistle” and the American 1 “Volunteer” both tew vessels and built especially for this race.-The American boat was the winner fcy u big margin. The second race will to-day, aud if that dors not settle the matter, the third will be sailed text Saturday., /P'i3 is the seventh Unsuccessful -attempt the British have made to -.capture this cup since it was first 'on by the yatch America in 185 L

The Republican has heretofore t’:irt‘fuliy hVisttiiiut-tl from utterijio any smitimenls or oiiiuioiis- Mhivli would, iu any degree however re- ] mote, prejudice tlife case of the! wdmnn who slew John (Steel. We j desire onlyHliat she may have a, fnir trial and that her pbuigliinentj if jiiiy be inflicted, bv strictly np- ! portioned to the measuro of her j guilt jyot all mitigating circum-j stam given full weight and if there* beany points or facts clearly -tst doubt, give the accused the ben- ! eflt of that doubt, in accordance ; with the wise and humane precepts of the law. And while thus avoiding anything that will unduly prejudice and embitter the minds of our people against the accused we should also condemn any attempt upon the part of others to create such feeling, if any were - nmde, which does not seem to, be the case; and wo must at the sometime I condemn the strong, efforts that

! are being made in certain I to induce our people tp believe itlie J killing justifiable, in advance of a trial nud before all the tacts bearing on tlie cnee can be fully known. I Most of the people who are mak- ! ing or endorsing this clamor in fa- ! vor of the accused are undoubtedj ly good and well meaning people, : but others, again, nre from quite | the opposite end of the moral scale, and nre more immoral and licentious than was the man whose j killing they try to justify because of bis immorality .and licentiousness. It weye an easy matter to expose the fallacy of many of .the arguments of these advocates of assassination and also to show the probable falsity of some of the so called facts relied upon as a basis for their conclusions; but as wo believe the better and the fairer course, for the newspapers of the town, under the existing circumstances, is to avoid and discourage a public, pro aud con. discussion of the case before all the circumstances bearing upon it are brought out at a judicial trial, we shall refrain from so doing. We will, however, remiud all right thinking people of a fact the truth t i which they already know, and that is that the lawless taking of a human iife is. a dreadful and an ,awful thing to occur in a com mu nij.ty, aud few worse calamities can befall-a; people than the growing up of a general disposition to look j upon the killing of a human being Jas a comparatively trivial thing, l and tlie justifying of it upon any j grounds but necessary self-defense' Jor the most extreme provocation, ; of some kind • —— •

Mr. Editor : In my article in last week’s Republican 1 referred textile fact that it-was only in certain localities that artesian water is found iu our town, for the sole purpose of proving that the formation changes very suddenly. .1 do not flunk the statement in your editorial that “If gas exists in tlie vicinity of Rensselaer in quantities of any importance,, we believe the chances are just as good for fiuding it ; one place as another” is borne out by the history of gas wells. lam credibly informed that had the good people of the city of Mvuicie, Ind., been content with the first well they sunk for gas, they would not now be enjoying the comforts of life andx the boom in business which was obtained from the large flow of gas they have secured. No gas was found in the first well. The second was only five or six rods from the first. It was not sunk as deep as the first by about 150 feet. 13uh a very strong flow of gas was found. Other cases might be cited but this is sufficient, As you. say, the gas is found iu whnt is called Trenton limestone, which is porous. AY as it so formed originally or have the interstices been caused by an upheaval? It is not difficult to find Tren ton rock, but to find Trenton rock that will produce gas is quite another thing. If it is all porous why does it not all contain gas? At Muncie Trenton rock was found in botLibe first and second wells. Why was it that a large flow of gas was found in the seciirst weH,~ when they were only five or six rods apart? Does it not. show conclusively that it does make some difference where the well is locat-

ed?

R. S. DWIGGINS.