Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The number of business failures in the United States and Canada during the past Seven days was 220. an increase of nineteen ONertM preceding week. Telegrams to Bradstreet’s from the largej cities throughout the United States Continue record of almost uniform summer duliS>fss. At a few of the smaller citieg there has been an improved demand for loans, notably at Detroit. At the larger trade centers the reverse is true, with the sole exception of Cincinnati, wliefe the demand is mainly to move the new clip of wool. The volume of produce and genera] merchandise moving throughout the country is light— probably smaller than at a like period last year The practical dissolution of the iron strike or lockout at the West by means of mutual concessions is a credit to both employes and employers, and most of the idle Pittsburgh mills are °r soon will be busy. The iron and steel industries show no signs of improvement, and prices are unchanged. The anthracite coal trade is duller than previously, and side-tracks along the lines of the coal roads are filling up with loaded cars. The bituminous trade is quite demoralized, so far as prices are concerned, owing to the competition from newly developed fields. The wheat market is dull and dragging, and it is becoming more evident daily, that the winter-wheat crop is to be a very short one. The damage since May 1 has exceeded all precedent, Drygoods have been in modirate request, and the production of cotton fabrics in the'East promises to be restricted. Wool is in light demand and trades are small. Cotton continues its downward course under light takings and the promise of anunusua ly heavy yield.... The Indian exhibit at the New Orleans World’s Fair will probably be presented to France. The United States Government exhibit has been returned to Washington, 1,300 cars being required for its transportation. A portion of this exhibit is to be turned over to the Smithsonian Institution .... The Lutheran synod of the United States held its sessions at Rockford, 111., 400 'delegates being in attends ahee... .The seventh annual convention of the Business Educators’ Association of the United States and - Canada will be held at Jacksonville, 111., from July 9to 16 .At Farmers ville, La., Perry and William Melton, father and son, were hanged for murder. William Morrow, white, was executed at Clarksville, Tenn., for the killing of a negro. Charles Campbell and Henry Etheridge, both colored, died on the gallows, the former at Point a la Hache., La., and the latter at Clinton, Ga. At Hamilton, Ohio, the death penalty was inflicted upon George Schneider, who took his mother’s life last November. A negro named Howard was lynched at Coshocton, Ohio, for a brutal assault upon two young ladies, one of whom will die. T. J. Cluverius, convicted of the murder of Fanny Lillian Madison, was sentenced at Richmond, Va., to be hanged Nov. 30. The prisoner declared that he was an innocent man.

Admiral Jocett’s last dispatches indicate that there will be more serious trouble in Central America soon unless something is done to prevent it. It is stated authoritatively that the administration is determined not to permit irresponsible persons in any country to endanger the lives and property of United States citizens by revolutionary organizations against the local governments. President Cleveland holds that tho preservation of the dignity of the American nation must be secured at all hazards, and that the United States should exercise a proper degree- of influence in the affairs of other states.... C. Arthur Preller, who was supposed to have been murdered at a St. Louis hotel, carried a heavy life insurance in an English company, which his relatives are anxious to. collect. The company, however, refuse to settle the claim without more evidence, and advance the theory that tho body found in the trunk wa6 that of a medical college “subject,” p’aced there by Maxwell an d Preller, an d that the latter is alive.... Capt. Couch, the leader of the Oklahoma boomers, thinks that the commission appointed by President Cleveland to consider the question of throwing open the Oklahoma tract to settlement will make a favorable report at an early day, and that the land will at once be occupied by squatters before it is officially opened. The boomers’ camp near Caldwell at present contains about 350 people. When Capt. Couch issues his call he expects to have it answered by thousands. If the commission should report unfavorably the colonists will again invade the Territory.... The Wood Crees are reported to have left Big Bear’s camp with thq white prisoners, whom they will take to Fort Pitt and snrrender. Otter is hot on the hostiles’ trail. If he recovers the prisoners, Gen. Middleton will trust to starvation to reduce the savages to subjection... .The recent severe storm on the Newfoundland 1 coast wrecked many vessels, destroyed much property, and a number of lives were lost.