Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — THE CONTINENT AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

The National Convention of Brewers concluded its sessions at Baltimore Thursday. William A. Miles, of New York, was elected President, and Thies J. Lsfens, of Chicago, is one of the Viee Presidents. Thirteen thousand dollars was voted the brewers of Michigan, Texas, and Tennessee to aid in fighting the Prohibitionists, and $9,0C0 was voted for publication purposes. The next meeting will be held at St Paul The excitement over tho railroad question in Manitoba is increasing. At Winnipeg, Wednesday night, Sir George Stephen and Mr. Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacific, were burned in effigy. Proposals for building the new railway will be advertised for by the Provincial Government next week. Resolutions were adopted Friday by the General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church, in session at Philadelphia, recognizing adultery as the only scriptural ground for divorce, and forbidding the marriage of divorced persons, excepting only when the decree was awarded for violation of the seventh commandment. A resolution was introduced at Friday’s session of tho General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North Americi, and referred to a special committee, declaring against all measures of license or tax of the liquor traffic, and that entire prohibition was the only effective, permanent remedy to end the evils of strong drink.