Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Little Rock strikers who lind followed nn Iron Mountain freight train and disabled the engine, were in turn pursued by another engine, manned by United States Marshal Fletcher and a posse, and captured at the bridge nt Lttth' ItOi'lC The strikers refused to stop and jumped off T and the Marshal and his men began firing, wounding one of the strikers severely and capturing seven others. A freight train was sent out from] St. Louis on the 13th just, (sixth day of the. strike*.—Rumors are current at the latter city that negotiations are progressing between the railraad officials and the Executive Committee of the Knights at Sedalia. Al other pofiits affairs, are unchanged. The street-car strike iu Toronto continues, though ears are now taken out with the aid of the police. The attacks upon cars have been made, it is said, not by the striking men. but by the rough element of the city,eager to improve any . 'cice'asiou. for aMisturbanee. The winter wheat to special reports in the Chicago Times, will only reach an average, even with favorable weather for the next thirty days. About , cent, of the acreage was sown late, from fear of the Hessian fly, anil this portion has recently suffered f rom the“weather, "The greatest falling off In tTcfeage is iu the States of Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri. T^Tiwqierftnirtunger-timn tweutyTtoj’*the’growing crop been protected throughout the winter wheat belt. The outlook is the most encouraging on the Pacific slope. New York telegram: —“The CunardU steamer-Oregon was run into by .a schooner off Fire, Island. She went down a few fiaursl after. The crew and passengers were takenoff on a pilot-l>oat and a schooner. Over 800 passengers were subsequently transferred to the steamer Fulda and taken of the noted fast steamers.”. .. , The Catholic Bishop of Montreal annulled the marriage of Miss Elizabeth Globensky to her cousin. Daniel Wilson, and granted a dispensation under which she has wedded' a young merchant of St. I’laeide named Sauve. . . . A fall of snow, a most surprising occurrence at this season of the year, is reported from Saltillo and Monterey, iu Mexico. .> . - I