Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The rear car of an excursion train, carrying a number of Odd Fellows, became loose near Brampton, Ont., and dashing down an incline came in collision with the front section of the train, forty persons, among them Grand Master Quinn, being badly injured. ' . The United States Minister at Teheran, to whom the Secretary of State had telegraphed requesting information concerning Thomas Stevens, a bicyclist, who was arrested in Afghanistan while making a tour of the world, states m reply that Stevens is a British subject and has returned to Constantinople .... The Council of the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great. Britain and Ireland will present valuable medals for competition at the show of the American Clydesdale Association in Chicago next September; Canada has increased the export duty per. 1,000 feet.. The manufacture and importation of oleomargarine, and butterine. has also been prohibited. . ' - William S. WARNfi» is reported to be safe in Europe. ~lt is thought he has $2,000,000 of the Ferdinand Ward stealings,, .. .Premier Fielding, of Nova Scotia has issued an address urging the people to make an effort to secure a repeal of the Union with;other Canadian provinces. ' - Whisky is reported as being smuggled into Alaska in large quantities, and the Treasury Department has ordered an investigation.... Reports from the Northwest state that the crops are suffering from 2 drought. Chinch bugs have appeared in several States, but have done little damage yet..-. .Live stock in Texas is suffering from a great drought. There has been scarcely any rainfall on the plains.