Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Ex-Senator William H. Barnum has retired from the position of general manager of the Iron Cliff Mining Co., and is succeeded by John Abeel, of New York Reports have reached Canada that six mounted policemen were killed by Indians near Regina, and that the police at Edmonton and Saskatchewan bid defiance to their officers. A mob of hungry French Canadians and Indians gathered at Paspebiac, Quebec, and raided the principal stores, carrying away nearly 300 barrels of f10ur.... Count de Lesseps re'ached Cglori, and was welcomed by the entire official staff of the Panama Canal Company. The Canadian Government has decided to send through the Northwest, under the command of General Middleton, a flying column of artillery, accompanied by squads from the cavalry and infantry schools.... The business failures during the week numbered for the United States 251, and for Canada 35, or a total of 286, as compared with 275 the week previous. Telegrams to Bradfitrcct'd present some changes of detail as to the condition of general trade, yet the situation as a whole is not widely different from that ~ previously - - reported. —At Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit. Indianapolis, Memphis, and Kansas City the movement of merchandise has been more active and is increasing. This is true to some extent also at Cincinnati. At St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, aud Davenport business is fair and the prospects point to a good spring trade. On the other haiyl, the distribution of staples from the larger Atlantid seaboard cities has been smaller, and is plainly disappointing. At Boston the situation makes observers there less hopeful. Dry goods are in lighter demand and there is a tendency to mark up prices, owing to labor troubles and higher wages and .to make delivery contracts conditional on iio labor troubles. The industrial situation is no less involved, the frequency of strikes and boycotts to enforce the demands of organized employes being conspicuous and more numerous than previously. Honduras, South America, is in aturbuleut state. Martial law has been declared and the people are fleeing in all directions to avoid conscription. The feeling against President Bogran, is intense.... The Canadian Government has deliberately infringed upon a patent owned by Capt. D. P. Dobbins, Superintendent of the United States Life Saving Service at Buffalo. A petition to the Queen asking that justice he done has been prepared.