Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The American Institute of Homeopathy held its thirty-eighth annual session at St. Louis. Twenty-five new members were admitted, and flattering reports were rehd. ....At Des Moines, lowa, the Supreme Lodge of the United States, A. O. U. W.,met in annual convention, Georgia and Nevada being the only States not represented. The beneficiary certificates in force number 143,122; the deaths last year reached a total of 1,074; and the amount paid for death losses aggregated $11,420,294... .Richard S. Scott, paying teller of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, New York, is a defaulter to the extent of $160,000. In a type-setting contest at New York for SSOO and the championship of America, between Ira Somers, of the World, and James Me Cann, .of th e Her aT<7, the former set 6,032 ems of solid minion in three hours, and the latter 6,342. The score is the most remarkable ever made in type-setting contests. According to a report read at the meeting of the Conference of Charities and Corrections, at Washington, the whipping-post is greatly favored by the people of Delaware for the punishment of petty offenders. It is stated that a second whipping is rarely administered to the same person... .There were 162 failures in the United States during the last week, as compared with- 161 the preceding week, and with 182, 148, and 130, respectively, in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882. About 85 per cent, were those of small traders, whose capital was less than $5,000. Canada had 25—. an increase of 4. A murderer named Edward Sisco was executed at Hackensack, N. J. He confessed to having killed Abram Gumer, but insisted to the last that he had acted in self-defense., A negro murderer named Joe Clark, was hanged at Bolivar, Tenn. Foster Chase and Bob Williams, both colored, were swung off at New Orleans-. Henry Lumpkin, colored, was lynched at Hearne, Tex. ' , The International Typographical Union held its annual session in' New York. Martin M. R. Witter, of St Louis, was re-elected President A resolution was adopted that in case Public Printer Rounds is removed President Cleveland be requested to appoint a man who sympathizes with organized ; laffor. The next meeting of the union will be held at Pittsburgh. Big Bear’s little army has been split in two, but Gen. Middleton telegraphs that he will follow both trails with all his mounted mep. The Rev. Mr. Quinney, his wife, Mr. Cameron, and two half-breeds, who were prisoners with Big Bear, have escaped. They report that none of the female prisoners have suffered any indignities at the hands of the Indians.... A war of fates, whiph is expected to be vigorous and protracted, has broken out between the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Roads on all Northwestern business... .At Barrie, Ont., the wife and four children of J. Wonch were burned to death in be;}.