Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

The Canadian Minister of Customs, in an interview at Ottawa, said that unless satisfactory arrangements were made the Dominion Government intended on July 1 to collect on fish imported from the United Staes the same duty tnat is levied on Canadian fish by "the United 8 ates tariff. The annual report of the Reading Railroad Company shows that in 1886 the company received an average of $1.53 per ton for coal at the mines, and in 1887 $1.84, while in 1886 the cost to mine was $1.65, and in 1887 SLS7. A case involving the rights of naturalized citizens in the matter of exemption from mili-

tary duty in Europe is io be referred to Secretary Bayard. It is that of George Nelson, of Jackson, Michigan, who fled from Germany to escape the draft, returning thence after having become a citizen of the United States, was arrested and find and then escaped and found his way back to America.