Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

A resolution against the Irish coercion bill was passed in the Dominion House of Commons.... A banquet was given at Pittsburgh, Pa., Wednesday night, in honor of Gen. Grant’s 65th birthday. Many prominent people were present... .Crop reports received at Toledo from every important wheat county in the six principal winter-wheat States show that the present prospect of the growing crop is very favorable except in Ohio, which averages only fair. Michigan needs rain. Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas report a better prospect than a year ago. All States except Michigan have had plenty of rain recently, and show material improvement since the April Agricultural Bureau reports were gathered. The acreage is about the same as last year. The best crop promises to be well marketed. Michigan reports a quarter of the crop remaining, but Kansas and Missouri have very little of it on hand. The Mulattos mine in Mexico has been purchased for £660,000 by an English syndicate. There are 15,000,000 tons,of ore in sight, assaying sl6 to $26 per ton... .There was a total of 191 failures in the United States and Canada the last week, against 199 for the preceding week and 207 for the corresponding week last year. A hurricane swept over the northeast coast of Australia the 22d of April. The pearl-fishing fleet, numbering 400 boats, was destroyed, and 550 persons perished. ....During a gale on the North Atlantic coast, boats in charge of lobster fishers off Tusket Island, New Hampshire, were capsized, and six men perished. Many others had marvelous escapes.... The steamer Benton, of Singapore, was sunk in collision with a bark off the island of Formosa, and 150 persons Were drowned. ... The schooner Flying Scud was recently lost off the coart of Alaska, with the owner, Captain, and fourteen native hunters.

Members of the Canadian Parliament are endeavoring to secure from the government some indication of the policy to be pursued this season by the Americans in regard to the Behring sea seal fisheries. A rival telegraph company has astonished the Western Union by announcing a rate of $1 for ten words between New York and San Francisco, which is a cut of 33 per cent. A reduced rate was also made on money orders.'.. .The Schooner Louie O'Neill went to the bottom of Lake Erie after colliding with the schooner Thomas L. Parker. Every member of the crew perished with her.