Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

At a meeting of the Postmasters of the United States, held in Chicago last week, it was decided to organize a mutual benefit association... .Arthur Arthbuthurst, with several aliases, confesses that he ms paid $2,500 to kill ex-Mayor Bowman, of East St. Louis, and that his accomplice was a resident of St. Louis and Vice President of a railroad company . Arthbuthurst is under arrest at Covington, Tenn. ; Foub hundred and sixty Chiricahua and Warm Spring Apaches have been transported by the Government from Arizona to Florida. Three companies of infantry guarded the special train conveying them. More than half the party are squaws and The Society of the Army of the Tennessee held its annual reunion at Rock Island, 111., last week. The society elected General Sherman and decided to meet next year at Detroit. A resolution wab adopted calling for the appointment of a committee to consider the advisability of selecting a permanent headquarters and choosing a central place for holding the annual sessions. The American Agricultural and Dairy Association held its seventh annual convention in Philadelphia last week. The members characterized the passage of the oleomargarine bill as the greatest victory ever won for the farmers. The protection of American industries was Remanded. President Cleveland wrote a letter expressing regret that he could not be present..... A special agent of the Treasury Department ■who receiitly returned from Alaska says the* master of the seized British vessel Onward admitted having killed his catch of seal along the shores of the islands.