Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Near Republic, Ohio, an express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, westbound; came in collision with a freight. Immediately after the crash the cars took fire. • Fifteen to twenty persons were either killed or slowly burned to death, and all the mail and express matter was destoyed. Mrs. Fish of Joliet, a sister of Gen. Logan, and her son escaped without a scratch An express train from Chicago was wrecked at West Springfield, Mass., by the breaking of an axle. One person was burned to death and nineteen others injured. A large amount of mail was burned. :: Near Pewaukee, Wis., a train ran into a sleigh filled with laborers, killing Bert McConnell and James Anderson and his son. The Secretary of State has received a dispatch from Frederick Paine. United States coi. sul general-at Berlin, setting forth the annoyance to which United States citizens visiting Europe, and especially Germany, subject themselves by neglecting to procure passports before leaving this country. Passports are heeded by all foreigners visiting Berlin. Frankfort, Hamburg, Leipsic, and other cities of the German Empire where a ‘‘minor state of siege" exists, any part of the Russian Empire, and also several places in Austria and Italy.