Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

In the United States Circuit Court at Chicago, Judge Gresham granted a writ of error in the cases of Mackin and Gallagher, the election conspirators, and fixed May 4 as the date for hearing arguments in company with Justice Harlan. He closed his decision with the'remark that it need not be inferred that a new trial will be ordered. The prisoners were released in bonds of $50,000 each. Conflagrations consumed nine small buildings in Stevens Point, Wis., fourteen in Frankfort, Ind., eight in Hale, Mo., thlee in Stuart, lowa, a livery stable and thirtyseven horses in Urbana, Ohio, $75,000 worth of property in a manufacturing building in Boston, and a pork-house and several other buildings in Covington, Ky. ....Reports of the troubles at Prince Albert and Duck Lake have greatly exaggerated the gravity of the situation, although it is actually serious. The half-breeds demand that patents shall be issued for the lands occupied by them, defining each man’s homestead. The Dominion Government has admitted the justice of this demand, but delay has been caused by the fact that the Government had previously disposed of many of the half-breeds’ farms to speculators. The half-breeds refused to give up their homes, and demanded the same treatment as is accorded to other settlers, Dispatches from Winnipeg, Manitoba, state that companies are being organized in the West at all points along the line of railway for defense against the half-breed rebels under Riel. The country is in an uproar. The rebel army has been augmented by bands of Indians, and general uprising is expected. Cot

Irvine, who ‘started for Fort Carlton three days ago with a detachment of mounted police, has changed his rouse, reports having reached' him that the insurgents wpre lying in ambush at Batache. It is thought that the rebels number over 1,000,all well armed. Advices from Ottawa report that .two batteries of regulars have been ordered from Quebec and Kingston to the Northwest. Twenty officers of the Mexican army have gone to join the forces of San Salvador and Nicaragua. Some skirmishes have already occurred. The armies of Guatemala and Honduras act in harmony against those of the remaining republics. Costa 'Rica has contributed SIOO,OOO toward the expenses of the war. President Zaldiyar will command the forces allied against Barrios. Advices from Ottawa, Ont, report that Maj. Crozier left Fort Carlton for Duck Lake to obtain a quantities of suplies stored there. His force consisted of 100 mounted police and civilians. At Beardy’s Reserve several hundred rebels were encountered, and Maj, Crozier forced to retreat after a hard fight, in which he lost twelve men killed and eleven wounded. Two rebels who tried to wreck a train carrying troops west from Winnipeg were captured. More troops are to be sent at once to the scene of the disturbance from Winnipeg, Quebec, Kingston, and elsewhere. Reports from the chief wheat-growing States of the country regarding the condition of the whoat crop are discouraging.... There have been 277 business failures the present week, being nineteen less than last week ... Four boys, belonging to wellknown families, created a disturbance in a Cincinnati school after dismissal by rushing after each other over the desks, armed with large revolvers, and whooping like Indians. They were practicing to be cowboys. having determined, to go to‘Texas in May. The rebellion in the Northwest appears to be even more serious than was at first anticipated, and the Canadian mounted police seem totally unable to cope with the insurgents. According to dispatches from the front, the defeat of the troops at Ruck Lake Was followed by the evacuation of Fort Carlton, which was burned to prevent it falling into (he hands of the rebels. D. W. Caldwell was appointed at Cleveland, 0., receiver of the NickelPlate Railroad... .Capt. Couch has again postponed the time for the invasion of Oklahoma with his force of 500 men. Gen. Middleton and 700 men are on the march from Qu’appelle to the scene of the Riel insurrection. The Canadian Government has ordered the immediate dispatch of 800 militia from Ontario and Quebec by the Lake Superior route. Capt Moore died from a wound received in the engagement of the 26th ult, and there are rumors that Maj. Crozier was killed.