Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, has received official notification from the Papal 1 Secretary of State .of his elevation to the Cardinalate. --t ' Official advices have been received at Quebec that Archbishop Taschereau has been made a Cardinal Thomas J. Potter, Vice President of the Burlington Road, who once refused offers of $30,000 per annum from both the Union and Northern Pacific Companies, has been tendered by the Vanderbilts the Presidency of the Bee Line Road, at a salary of $25,000 for five years. Peter L. Otto was executed at Buffalo for the murder of his wife, James Reynolds at Sidney, Neb., for dispatching James Ralston and eon, Lee Barnes at Dover,, Ark., for killing Charles Holman, and Louis Kilqtinne (colored) at Hendersonville, N. C., for the murder of Mattie Henderson.... A motion that the well-being of the people would be enhanced by the removal of the import duties on flour, meal, com, wheat, and coal was negatived in the Dominion Parliament—ll 9to 47 The official report of the Canadian Minister of Militia shows that the total cost of the half-breed* rebellion was $4,700,000 and the casualties twenty-six men killed and 206 wounded. The fishery dispute is the exciting topic on the Atlantic coast. At Portland the City Council denounced the action of the Canadian authorities, and J. G. Blaine is out in an interview in which he declared that the United States had the better of it, and if they only expressed themselves emphatically England would be only too glad to give that expression the most careful consideration. The Canadian authorities admit that the vessels can not be held answerable for buying bait in Canadian ports, but are losing no time in pushing a bill through the House of Commons to cover the case, and an effort will be made to make it a law inside of a week.\