Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — GEHERAL. [ARTICLE]

GEHERAL.

A jewelry store near a police station at Montreal was robbed of SIO,OOO worth of jewelry. Lieutenant Abeecombie, who has just returned from Alaska, reports having explored Yukon river for 2,700 miles, and found gold placers paying SSO per day to the man. An arctic wave of unusual severity spread itself over the country last week. The mercury was below zero on a line across the continent from Washington to Portland, Oregon. At Minnedosa, in the far Northwest, the meroury went down to 39 below, Fort Garry reported 33 degrees. St Vincent 30 degrees, Berlin, Wis., 30 degrees, Milwaukee 23 degrees, Rockford, IIL, 25 degrees, and Fort Dodge, la., 28 degrees. At Davenport and Dubuque the Mississippi River was frozen over ; at La Porte, Ind., there was a railroad blockade, and-at Lynchburg, Va., a heavy snow-storm. LeadvDle, Colo., reports two feet of snow and all railroads blocked. Judge Taylor, of Indianapolis, has decided that the Pnllman Car Company is Vesponsible for the goods and chattels of its passengers, and gave judgment for $71.40, of which a patron wns robbed on a sleeper... .The Wabash Road has not only cut down wages and reduced the number of employes, but now runs “spotters” on all trams to watch the conductors. It is reported that Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian Premier, has expressed himself in favor of the alliance of England, Canada, and Australia on terms of individual autonomy and mutual protection.... Investigations by Bradstreet’s Commercial Agency show that in twenty-offas States there are at the present time 316,<(HI persons out of employment..... Business failures for the week number 305, eg. inst 316 the previous week, and 280 in the correspondi g period of 1883... .Both of the Mackay-Bennett cables are now in running order, the second one having been successfully fished up and mended.