Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

The engineer officer who was detailed to survey and locate the Hennepin canal has presented his report to the Secretary of War. He offers a choice of three routes, varying in length from sixty-four to seven-ty-five miles, and providing for a canal and feeder eighty feet wide on the water line and seven feet deep, with locks 170 feet long and thirty feet wide. The cost of these works ranges from *5,811,468 to *7,207,646. The estimate for the enlargement of the Illinois and Michigan canal to the same dimensions as are proposed for the Hennepin canal contemplates an expenditure of *2,298,919. 4 The Dunlap elevator and mill, at Albany, N. Y., took fire from friction of the shafting, and was wholly consumed. The falling walls killed four men and seriously injured three others The total loss is *200,000. Two flouring mills and several other buildings at Red Wing, Minn., worth *200,000; the freight depot of the Jeffersonville road at Columbus, Ind.; a business block in McPherson, Kan., valued at *50,000, and the chemical works of Chappell A Co., in St Louis, worth *50,000, were also burned. After a legal fight extending’ over several months it has been decided by the Ontario (Can.) Court of Appeals that EL is P. Phipps, formerly Superintendent of the Philadelphia Almshouse, must be surrendered to the authorities of Pennsylvania Phipps is charged with forgery. Henry Chapman & Co., Montreal wholesale grocers, have failed for *150,000. Goldstein, Isaacs & Ao., leaf tobacco, same city, have suspended, with liabilities of *75,00ft The Nova Scotian Assembly has passed a bill abolishing imprisonment for debt Four Montreal firms went to the wall in one day, their aggregate liabilities being *138,000.