Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Thomas Judah, for thirty years a prominent member of the bar of Montreal, has been sentenced to imprisonment for six months for obtainipg $35,000 by false pretenses. •' 1 Richahd Fraser, colored, was hanged in the yard of the- courfty jail in Charleston, S. C., for the murder of Jack Gethers, also colored, last July. Columbus Crauford, colored, was hanged "at Yorkville, 8. , C., for the murder of Ellison Sanders, also colored. Qeprge H. Mills, wife-murderer* was executed in the jail-yard at Brooklyn, N. Y. A Winnipeg (Manitoba) special says: The alarming news of a massacre at Frog Lake has been confirmed by authentic dispatches. much to the dismay of many citizens, who have iriends among the killed. Anjong the dispatches received, the following to the Hudson Bay Company is the most explicit, and contains the best inforTniition regarding the massacre: “Intelligenca from dark’s Crossing confirms the startling report that a horrible massacre had been committed by the Cree Indians at Frog Lake, a village on the North Saskatchewan, twelve miles north of Battleford and about twenty miles from Fort Pill The Indians, incited by Big Bear, have been congregating around FFog Lake for some time, menacing the people. The massacre took place on the 4th inst., and fourteen persons were killed. The Indians are supposed to have commenced a massacre at Fort Pittnnd kitted ii large number, but the news is not confirmed. The Government warehouse at Saddle Lake has been raided and burned, and all the Indians have gone to join the rebels. A dispatch from Edmonton says the Indians are surrounding that placg,and a grave crisis is approaching.” .... E. Sheppard, the owner of a newspaper in Toronto, has tendered the Canadian Government the services of a company of mounted cowboys from Montana, who stand ready for active service... .A party of 400 persons who left England to settle in the Canadian Northwest have been diverted to Wisconsin and Indiana, in consequence of Riel’s revolt... .Geni M. L. Barillos has been installed as President of Guatemala, and the Cabinet has been reorganized since the death of President Barrios. The crop returns of April to the Department of Agriculture at Washington indicate a reduction ot over 10 per cent, of last year's area of winter wheat. The aggregate shortage amounts to 3,000,000 acres. A decrease is reported in every State except Oregon. It is 22 per cent in Kansas and Virginia, 20 in Mississippi, 15 in California, 14 in Alabama, 12 in Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri, 11 in New York, 2 in South Carolina, 10' in Maryland and Texas, 8 in New Jersey, West Virginif, Kentucky, and Indiana. 7in Georgia and Ohio. 6 in Pennsylvania and Delaware, 5 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas, and 2in North Carolina. The present condition of wheat, as reported, is worse than in 1883. It is 77 per cent, as against 96 last year and 80 in 1883. The Chicago Times prints a variety of information in regard to the winter wheat crop in the West and Northwest. Dispatches from Kansas and Illinois agree upon conditions which will lessen the yield one-half: Some portions of Ohio entertain hopes for an average crop, while the central counties show a decreased acreage. Very little injury was done in Michigan by the severe winter. Great damage is reported in the southern counties of Indiana. A crop of nearly 14.000,609 bushels is expected in Missouri, while the decreasing acreage in lowa will bring the product of that State down to 700,000 bushels. Unfavorable exhibits are still being reported at the prominent clearing-houses. The volume of business last week shows a decrease of 20.7 per cent, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. Outside of New York the decrease was but 6.7 per cent. The unfavorable report is , made more noticeable by the fact that six days of 1885 are . compared with but five days of 1884, Good Friday having intervened last year. In Chicago the decrease was 17.3 per cent. .... A cablegram from Libortad states that Honduras and San Salvador have signed atreaty of peace; that the allied forces are marching upon Guatemala, and that the army of the latter republic is rapidly disbanding.