Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Hugh Sutherland, member of tho Canadian Parliament, stated at St. Paul that the contracts for building the Hudson’s Bay Railroad had been let, that work would be begun immediately, and that an English syndicate was ready to put on a line of steamers between Hudson’s Bay and Liverpool.

Poundmaker and eleven of his braves were liberated from the penitentiary at Stony Mountain, N. W. T The Canadian Department of Mar ine and Fisheries has called for bids for the construction of six swift sailing vessels to be employed by the fisheries police force on the coast of Canada. i Representatives of the five Central American States have signed an agreement looking to the restoration of cordial relations between the States of Nicaragua and Salvador, which have been strained since the recent attempt to unite the five Republics.... Customs officials at San Francisco have seized $4,000 worth of opium.... Two prominent men in Chihuahua, Mexico, fought a duel in which one was killed and the other fatally wounded.