Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Fishermen on (he Newfoundland and Labrador coasts are starving, and the Dominion Government is asked to contribute some relief. It is stated that 150 persons have perished of hunger, and that 2,500 are at present suffering from lack of food. ... The steamer Waeslaud, two days out from Antwerp, struck a sleeping whale eighty feet long, which it cut nearly in two. The ship was hacked to free itself from the carcass. ....When the Chicago limited express reached Pittsburgh, last Friday, Peter Shell was found astride the truck of a Pullman sleeper, in which position he had ridden from Fort Wayne, 320 miles. He claimed to he on his way to Washington to see his mother, who is dangerously ill, and the passengers made np a purse for him. Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians fought a battle near MedaUo, the Mexicans losing ten men killed and twenty wounded. Forty of the savages were‘slain and twenty -taken prisoners, who were immediately shot. * Advices from the far Southwest report that intense excitement existed at El Paso over the Cutting imprisonment affair. The Mexicans xvere massing troops at Paso del Norte fuljy prepared to do battle at a moment’s notice. There was a Targe body of United States troops at El Paso, and more were going-there. Editor Cutting was s,ill in prison, and it “was said that an attempt would be made to execute him.... The contest for the 1 ase-ball championship among the club 6 composing the National League is ' a hot one. Detroit has won 51 games; Chicago, 49; New York. 42. Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Washington follow with games won in the order named. The St. Louis team of the Am rican Association leads in the race for the pennant. ..The leaders in the revolutionary movement in Tamaulipas. Mexico, have been badly defeated near the Sabinas Mountains. The loss is not