Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1887 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

The Hon. Thomas A. Armstrong, editor aud proprietor of the National Labor Tribune, the leading labor journal of the country, died at Pittsburg from the effects of a wound received in au engagement during the late war. Deceased was one of the most prominent labor leaders in the United States, and was frequently commended-for his conservatism. He was a member ot numerous societies, and was one of the founders of the Veteran Logion. At the time of his death he was in the 48th year of his age. A Montreal dispatch reports that Samuel Johnson, the defaulting treasurer of a powder company in that city, was persuaded to return from Ogdensburg, N. Y., and when near Montreal jumped from the train and shot himself.

Manitoba’s wheat crop is said to be in excess of the most liberal estimates. Great excitement exists at Bellevue, Ohio, on account of the failure of the Bellevue Bank at that place. The failure was caused by poor investments and bad managements. The liabilities are about $103,000. The depositors are made secure and will lose nothing. The failure will result also in the suspension of the Bellevue Milling Company. A party of twenty-six men and women, classed as missionaries, sailed from New York on Saturday to join Bishop Taylor’s colony in Central Africa. They have with them farm implements and a saw-mill, besides other evangelizing agents for the benefit of themselves and the natives.