Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Tnn Hon. John Fitzgerald, of tbe Irish National League, has received the following cablegram from Mr. Parnell: '1 be coercion lull pixqxnod iu the. House of Commons ia tb« eighty-seventh sin -o toe act of union, eighty.«evon years ago It is also tiie most stringent, tyrannical, au<l uncalled for by tbo state of ulfmrs ru Ireland. Never before lias a coercion bill, been profound when crime was ho rapidly decreasing as compand w.th previous years. The measure is aimed against all open agitation, and appears to be expressly deffignod for driving discontent buueath the surface. It places all public speakers, writers, and conductors of newspapers absolutely at the mercy of stipendiary magistrates bolding their ofllce at the pleasure of the crown. 1 It condeuiue the Irish-speaking peasant of rackrented Kerry to the tender mercies of a packed jury of Orangemen or lamllorde, or to a jury of Kugiishuien at tho Old Bailey in Ixmdon. The Liberal party, headed by Gladstone, stands as one man against this iniquitous measure, and Will light shoulder to shoulder wi h us iu opposing it to the last. It soeuis impossible to believe that even the present House of Commons will continue to follow the Tory Government in its mail epurse, and good judges consider that the measure will break and ruin the Cah.net. We must, however, prepare for the worst, and I 'confidently appeal to the American people for that sympathy and support which they have never withhold irom a people struggling for liberty. It is reported at St. .Johns, N. F., that tbe whaling steamer Eagle was wrecked, owing loan explosion, and that its crew of 2.00 men perished. Di king the last, three months there were 3,007 failures, with liabilities of $32,161,(l()o, as compared with 3,203 failures and $20,681,000 liabilities for the same period in 1886... .Wreckage discovered iu Buena Vista Bay, Newfoundland, serves to confirm the rumored loss of the sealing steamer Eagle With a crew of 2.70 men. •It is stated that advices received from England show that ex-Secretary Manning is not improving in health,* but is decidedly worse than before he sailed,, and his friends have little hopes- of his recovery. .... The failures during the tirst quarter of 1887 were smaller in number than in 1886. 188:>, or 1884, but the aggregate of liabilities was larger than last year, not because of a general enlarging of indebtedness, but because a few heavy failures were included. Tur. members of the Interstate Commerce Commissionrassembled at Washington. called upon and had a talk with the President, repaired to the Interior Department, were by Secretary Lamar Sworn into office, and then proceeded to organize for businef-s by unanimously choosing Judge Ccoley President. A Washington telegram says: :—, —*. • The commission was in session Friday and Saturday. What was done was informal, as it is not the purpose to anticipate the working of tho law. There ure> a good many Southern railroad men in the city, and to them wns given the first informal hearing oh the questions submitted by M» H. Smith, - VfceTrefiident of tho Louisville and Nash' ilio Railroad, and Virgil Powers, General Commissioner of Pool Itutes for the Southern Kailway and Steamship Company. These questions relate to tho long and short haul provision of the interstate commerce act ns it applies to th® railroads east of the Mississippi River, south of the Ohio and west of the PoUmtao. The question asked by the Southern railroads is a ruling by the commission which will enable them to meet water competition. 1 Ni)Lex Territory will be placed under the care of a single army officer," with instructions to be particularly vigilant in preventing tax invasion of the boomers this summer... .Two Michigan Central Railroad freight trains —twenty-six cars—were demolished by a collision near St Thomas, Canada. Two brakemen were killed.