Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Ex-Senator William H. Barnttm 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 nnd Saskatchewan bid defiance to their officers. It is not true that the Chinpse Consul General has advised Chinamen to quit-' America and return home. The report orig-; inated from arrangements; being made with steamship companies to carry back poor,' sick, and unemployed Chinese at half rates. «.... The Circuit Court at Columbus, Ohio, affirmed the judgment in the Dalton contempt case, and the matter was at once referred to the Supreme Court of the State for final settlement. The Rochester American Rural Home i' has received crop reports from over five thousand correspondents, and, reviewing the situation, says: “Owing to strong, foreign competition and the decrease of ex-| ports, farmers who have been growing spring wheat largely ought to con-; sider very carefully? the amount of wheat they put out. The winter-' wheat outlook is uncertain, nltelnate freezing, covering, and uncovering being likely to injure the crop. The Pacific coast reports are favorable, The winter wheat crop coming out from under its' blanket of snow is generally reported to be in fair condition; but at the same time it will be subjected to the freezing and thawing weather which is due at this season of the year. Very little grain is moving, and; there is no prospect of any large increase. , The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers proposes to establish atj Pittsburg an extensive depot or store frqm which supplies of provisions, clothing, bacco, etc., will be distributed to subordinate shops throughout the country, either at minimum wholesale prices or on commission, to be resold at cheap rates for the benefit of organized labor,.. ,N. C.‘ Ford & Co,, distillers and general merchants at Simcoe, Ont., have failed for $100,060.