Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The enraged Italian Laborers nty Porf. Rowan, Ontario, seized Col. Collier; and carried him by force to one of their camps. His release was secured by the magistrates, who swore in thirty citizens to patrol the streets... .Glass-workers’ union throughout the country have subscribed $50,000 to aid the Pittsburg strikers, and have agreed to give, if necessary, the proceeds of one day’s work each week for the same purpose. „.. William Wannemacher, the young temperance orator, is dead. During navigation season this year 1,823,117 tons of iron ore were delivered at Lake Erie ports, 130,428 tons in excess of last year’s record... ..Warren Price was hanged at Wrightsville, Ga., for killing his son-in-law, R. F. Perry. George Cook met a similar fate at Laramie City, Wyoming, for the murder of James Blunt, his brother-in-law.

Business failures for the week numbered 316, agaiust 296 for the previous week, and 249 in the corresponding period of 1883. Special dispatches to Bradntreet’s (New York) from leading trade centers report “the holiday purchases are exhibiting a contrast with the inactivity previously noted, yet the volume of such sales is almost uniformly below the total for 1883. Aside from the continued firmness in the New England cotton goods markets, due to the recent firmness in the price of raw cotton, and with the exception of a slightly improved distribution of goods at Boston, Memphis, Wilmington, and Savannah, general trade at all points is at as lowaji ebb as ever. A more conspicuous feature is found in the long-continued and pronounced dullness of mercantile collections. This is reported in almost all directions. Rates of excliango'on New York at interior points have declined in most instances. There is no gain in the industrial situation. In all lines of manufacturing wages continue to go lower, in sto 10 per cent, drops. Actual stoppages of factories and mills are less frequent, but conspicuous. ”

A friend of Gen, Grant has been expressing the fear that bis financial future is not the brightest, His assured annual income for the future is fixed at about S3O, - 000, and his friends count that amount inadequate to maintain him... .Boston capitalists have contracted for eight thousand tons of steel rails for the Arizona Mineral Belt Railroad, and work will begin forthwith on the section from Flagstaff to Green Valley.... Muriate of cocoaile, the newly discovered anaesthetic, has been successfully applied to dentistry... .Nearly the whole of the business portion of Brookville, Ind., was burned. The loss is variously estimated at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. -■...The Calumet Sewer-pipe Works. near Toronto, Ohio, were burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $40,000.... Eight stores at St. Mary’s, Kan., were burned, causing a loss of $48,000... .Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the depot of the Traction Company; loss, $40,000... .A fire at Johnstown, Ohio, destroyed a block of buildings, including a hotel, and the Masonic and Odd Fellows’ Hall, causing a loss of $30,000... .Fire at Asheville, N. C., caused a loss of $38,0(>0 Fire in New York destroyed a six-story brick building 011 Ninth avenue. Loss on building and contents about $30,000.