Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

GEROKIMO’S band has attacked several ranches near Imuris, Mexico. It completely destroyed all the bnildiugß at Casita, a small way-station near Imuris. on the Sonora R:\ilroad, killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans. A company of soldiers were sent after the « Indians. Two soldiers were killed. The Indians were moving in the direction of the Sierra Madre Mountains. -The steamer Honduras was wrecked on the bar of Lempa River, near Libertad, San Salvador. The crew and passengers were saved. The vessel was valued at $70,000 and owned by the Pacific Mail Company. She was engaged in the coffee trade. Twelve thousand bags of coffee were lost and the baggage of the passengers. Archbishop .Taschereau’s mondament, issued at MontrenLforbidding Catholics to join the Knights of Labor, has caused the most intense excitement among the working-glasses. ■■■ .■ Lotus Somerfield (white) and Richard™ J'."" Lee "(colored) were executed at Washington, I>. C.; J. M. Armstrong was hanged at Perryville. Ark.: George Cara roll paid the extreme penalty at Searcy, Ark.; and James Walker (colored) was strung up at St. Augustine, Fla. All had been convicted of murder. Guiseppe Scoma. a murderer, sentenced to be executed June 4. hanged him self in the prison at Hudson, N. Y., using a cord which lie had worn as a bell to support his trousers. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the week numbered for the United States 189, and for Canada 18, or a total of 207. as compared with a total of 194 the previous week.