Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The New York Daily Bulletin estimates the fire losses in the United States and Canada during July at $9,000,000, an increase of one-third over the average for the past ten years. For seven months of the present year the loss has been $60,000,000. ... .John Lohman, a passenger on the steamer Werra f,rom Bremen to New York, was detected while the vessel was at sea plundering the purser’s safe, having first chloroformed that official. He was brought to America a prisoner, and will be, sent back to Germany.,. .The visible supply of wheat is estimated by the New York Produce Exchange at 38,407,948 bushels, and of corn at 5,758,304 bushels. , The'schooner James A. Garfield, which arrived at San Francisco; twenty-six days from the arctic regions, reports that the barque Napoleon, of New Bedford, was crushed in the ice and twenty-two lives lost, including W. Bogers, first officer, and Thos. Pease, third officer The peace negotiations between Iglesias and Caceres have failed, and the civil war in Peru promises to continue indefinitely. It is said to be a fact which can be proven by the War Department records that some of the Illinois regiments were largely recruited from Confederate prisoners confined during the year 1862 at Camp Douglas.. Over 1,300 prisoners, it is stated, were thus enrolled in the Federal service, and it is believed that some of them.are now Government pensioners... .Gross railway earnings for July, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, are reported as follows: Canadian Pacific $890,000, increase, $318,000; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, $468,900, increase $17,090; Denver and Rio Grande,> $548,295, increase, $147,895. The gross earnings' of the latter company for the seven months ended Aug. 1 were $3,265,857, an increase of $348,897... .The Governors of five of the Northern States of Mexico are reported to have held a secret council, and discussed secession, owing to their dissatisfaction with the financial policy of the General Government. ...At Montreal, last Sunday, 15,000 Freneh- ’ Canadians passed resolutions requesting the . Government to commute Riel’s sentence to imprisonment... .During the week 211 business failures were reported in the United States and Canada, as against 1266 during the corresponding week of 188 L