Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The Ohio Supreme Court rendered decisions ou the Scott law, declaring the second section of the act, providing for a lien on real estate tenanted by a liquor dealer, to cover the tax, unconstitutional, but refusing to say whether the entire statute is valid, claiming that that question has not been presented in the cases under consideration. While a train on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Bead was pissing through the long tunuel near Magnolia, two strangers spang upon a passenger with a conoungpm. and knocked him under his seat He struggled until the robbers leaped from the train, for fear of capture... .The Dominion Government lias granted permission to the Canadian Pacific Bond to carry Montana cattle over its lino in bond. Os representations of the Canadian Pacific Boad, Canadian customs rules will be relaxed so as to enable cattle from Montana to be shipped in bond to Montreal for export. ...There were 187 failures in the United States the past week, against 184 the week before. Flames swept away the six-story shirt factory of Skelton Brothers Jt Co., in Montreal The falling walls crushed an adjoin _ Hotel, causing the death of one man and severely injuring fire others. Hie loss is estimated at $190,000.,. At Toronto in a collision between two freight trains. Walls, a brakeman, and Tremefiion, a fireman, were killed. The Queen's Hotel at Port Arthur, Manitoba, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. William McPherson, a commercial traveler, of Winnipeg, was burned to death.