Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The next National Encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at San Francisco, beginning Aug. 3.... The silk manufacturing firms of the United States have decided to advance the price of silk thread and twist 10 per cent.... The Sugar Refining Company of Halifax has suspended payment on liabilities of $500,000, half of which is due to the Merchants’ Bank.... Jacob Schaefer has issued a challenge to M. Vignaux, or any other man, for a balk-line billiard contest of 3,000 points, for $5,000 a side—the winner to take all the receipts and the loser to pay all expenses. Shakspeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” with Robson and Crane m the characters of the Two Dromios, has met with. jmpiense success at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, qpd will be continued for another week. The play has never before in this country been placed upon the stage with such splendor. „ ’ J Exposure to the unusually co|d weather caused the death of several poor people in the City of Mexico... .The Adams Tobacco Company, of Montreal, with liabilities of $175,00(), has gone into liquidation.