Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — GERNERAL. [ARTICLE]

GERNERAL.

Benjamin Franklin Taylor, lecturer and literateur, died at Cleveland, Ohio, aged C 5. The American residents of the City of Mexico, joined by one hundred tourists, celebrated Washington’s birthday by a picnic, and contributed freely toward the proposed American Hospital Dr. E. Schmidt von Taverna, Counselor of the Austro-Hunpaiian Embassy at Berlin, has been ai»p<Hntrd AnstTinn'Xl inistef fit Washington in the place of Baron von Schaefer, who has for some time been absent on leave. It is Stated that fully $500,000 has already been put up on the great ocean yacht race, with the Dauntless as the favorite . Sir Alexander Campbell has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, vice the Hon. John B. Bobinson, whose term has expired. -—■ •• --