Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — GENERAI. [ARTICLE]

GENERAI.

Capt. Hines of the whaling schooner Byron, which has just returned to Gloucester, Mass., from the Greenland coast, reports poor fishing in that region this year on account of the icebergs and the* exceptionally severe weather. He reports the Greenlanders in a pitiable state of servitude to the Danes, who pretend to christianize them. The Danes will not even allow them to work for Americans, and two whom he employed were taken off by a Danish man-of-war. Alfred G. Isaacson, of Montreal, has absconded, and is a defaulter for a large amount, the funds having been intrusted to him for investment. ,4 .Four students of the Collegiate Institute at St. Catharines, Ont., were drowned in the canal near Port Dalhousie. Thomas S. Judah, a Montreal Justice of ihe Peace, has been arrested on the charge of obtaining $25,000 from G. A. Burland under false. pretenses—giving a mortgage on property be did not own. Burland and Judah were friends and belonged to the “first families" of the Canadian city....A. Dickson, an insurance agent at Montreal, has absconded, leaving numerous creditors. Near Pickering Station, Ont., a JYroken frog threw three coaches and a special car of an express train down a 25-foot embankment, the cars turning over a couple of times, and the .special catching fire and being consumed. Rain was pouring in torrents at the time, and the shrieks and groans of the travelers' multiplied the horror of the occasion. was killed, but a dozen were injured, some painfully. The financial loss is said to be SIOO,OOO. .... At St. Boniface, Manitoba, fire swept away Sutherland's extensive saw-mill and sufficient lumber to make the total loss $60,000. Canadian ranchmen complain that the Piegan chiefs demand 10 cents on every head of cattle- passing through their territory from Montana to Manitoba, and enforce it by shooting sufficient stock to equal the tax... .Gillie Leigh, who recently perished in the Big Horn Mountains, was heir to Stanley Abbey, one of the finest estates in England. A brother of the deceased, now visiting in San Francisco. is next in succession.... The schooner Golden Rule capsized off Michigan Island, Lake Superior, and two persons perished... . Caceres, the< Peruvian revolutionary lender, is a fugitive, and the country is resuming a peaceful condition. Replies to the circular proposing a reduction of the pig-iron production have been tabulated and put in shape for ready reference. The number of firms agreeing to restrict are as follows:' Maine, 1; Vermont, 1; New York, 9; New Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 23; Virginia, 5; West Virginia, 4; Kentucky, 3; Tennessee, 2; Georgia, 2; Alabama, 3; Ohio, 24: Indiana, 2; Hlinois, 2; Missouri, 1; Michigan, 4; Wisconsin, 2; Texas, 1; Colorado, 1. Those declining to restrict are: New York, 1; New’Jersey, 1; Pennsylvania, 1; Virginia, 1; West. Virginia, 1; Alabama, 1; Ohio, 6; Wisconsin, 1. ... .A suit for $50,000 has been brought on account of the drowning of Mrs. E. R. Beach in the City of Columbus disaster .... Bill Bellmont, a Toronto barkeeper, working -for $8 a week, is heir to SIOO,OOO by the death of Ms father in London.