Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The Supreme Lodge, A. O, U. W., met last week at Minneapolis, the Supreme Master Workman, John A* Brooks, of Kansas City, reporting tbe order to be in a healthy condition. During the past year there were 1,284 deaths, the losses paid aggregating $2,506,458.... There was a small attendance at the Michigan semi-centen-nial celebration, held at Lansinc- on the 15th inst. Gov. Alger, Judges Cooley and Campbell, and others addressed the meeting. ~ . , The Greenland seal fisheries have been an entire failure.... In a fight between a prison guard and soldiers, at Bogota, the capital of the United States of Colombia, one General, several officers, and thirty soldiers were killed.. . . Business failures in the United States and Canada for the week numbered 155, against 209 the preceding week. Telegrams to Bradstreet's report, with an unusual degree of unanimity, only a moderate activity in general commercial and industrial lines. The approach of the customary midsummer dullness is reported to characterize general trade at most interior points. The domestic money innrkets, with few exceptions, ore unchanged, funds offering being in excess of the demand. Special wheat-crop reports continue favorable, the exceptions being in Kansas and Michigan. The plant has been delayed in Noithem Minnesota, but the outlook is for a fair crop. The wheat market continues dull and depressed. The first signs of firmness in hog products are observed. Abundant rains in the cotton regions cause trouble from grass in the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States, and to a smaller extent in the Mississippi Valley. The elections in Nova Scotia have re suited as was anticipated. The fight was made squarely and fairly on the issue of withdrawing from the Canadian Dominion. Parliament was dissolved for the purpose. The Premier of Nova Scotia appealed to the electors on a policy favoring secession. The result is that of the thirty-eight members elected twenty-nine are “seceders,” and only nine are in favor of keeping up the Dominion connection. A majority of the seceders favor annexation to the United States, and boldly proclaim their views on thi6 point. - The executive c* the Irish National League of America has summoned a national convention to assemble in Music Hall, Chicago, Aug. 18 next, and has fixed the quota of delegates. All true friends of Ireland are requested to make the event worthy of the cause they represent..... Cardinal Taschereau, of Canada, has issued a pastoral letter announcing that the Catholic Church cannot consistently tolerate the organization of Knights of Labor or approve of the means resorted to by that organization to obtain its ends. Henry Ward Beecher sailed for England last week. Being asked before his departure if he would electioneer for Gladstone, he replied: “I expect to. At all events I shall proffer my services, and I have an intimation that they will be acceptable. Such oratory as lam capable of shall be at the command of the cause of Irishmen’s rights in their own land. Probably this is my last chance to help a good movement.”... .A. W. McLelan, Minister of Fisheries for the Dominion, states that American vessels will be allowed to purchase bait or supplies, or make shipments at Canadian ports, but must not remain longer than one day.