Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

At Los Vecos, Mexico, the hacienda of Hewlitt Griner, a Texas ranchman, was attacked by Mexicans, Griner nnd one of, his men named John Weaver being killed. The Americans reached the Texas side of the river under a volley from the Winchest r rifles of the Mexicans.. .. Professor Foster, the lowa meteorologist, predicts fierce storms between Dec. 4 and 47 next, during which railroads will be blocked with snow, high winds will destroy property, and electrical disturbances will affect telegraph and telephone lines: ... James A. Whitney, an attorney of New Y r ork, has agreed to use Lis'best endeavors to bring before the United States Supreme Court the case of the condemned Chicago anarchists. The Mexican 'authorities have refused to surrender the body of Hewlett Griner, the wealthy Texan ranchman, who was murdered at Las Vegas, Mexico. Secretary Bmard has been officially notified of the affair. The required loan of $3,000,000 having been secured by the Mexican National Railway, the work of construction will be pushed at the rate of a mile a day All the knit-goods mills iu the State of New York, which employed 20,000 men, women, nnd children, have declared against the Knights of Labor. Two of the mills have yielded, but the others are being filled with non-union men. The strike was caused by the factory owners at Amsterdam refusing to promise that in ease a cotton “j ick”.was yflif' fn isiyoratirov, tt’vroiTta be pia-cd-ia-chnrge ota member of ti e spinners! union.Thebe were 231 failures in the United States and Canada during the week, as compared with 186 the week prec ding. The steamer Northerner, lime laden-, grounded.at Kelley’s Island, Ohio, (hen took fire, and burned tcvtlie water’s edge. Vessel and cargo are a tota^loss. The Kiralfy Brothers' famous spectacular play, “Around the World in EightyDays,” occupies the boards of McYicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week. Among the incidental features,are two ballets, led bv Millie. Clara Qnelitz, M. Arnold, and Mdlle. Clara Neuman. “The Mikado” ballet, the trick elephant, and other old friends are retained. Ixgeksoll has written to a Chicago •friend that he has noFthe limb ti>. Connect' himself in any way with the anarchists, and therefore will have nothing whatever to do with the ea-e.