Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

An effort will be made at the forthcoming annual meeting of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company to oust the Gould clique, which has been in control for several years. Dispatches from Nanaimo, in British Columbia, state that 101 white men and 75 Chinese were in the Vancouver mine at the time of the explosion. Au exploring party entered the burning colliery and found dead miners lying in all directions. Thirty-five bodies have been taken out. All hope of finding any of the men alive had been given up. The fire was still burning, but was under control. There are forty-seven widows, and over one hundred and thirty children left fatherless. Nearly all of the imprisoned miners were from Cornwall, Yorkshire, Wales, and Nova Scotia. The mine is owned by the Vancouver Coal Company, of London, England. R. G. Dun & Co. report 153 failures .in the United States and twenty-nine in Canada during the week, against a totnl of 191 the previous week... . Speculation in real estate, coupled with great activity in building operations, continues to be lively througuont the West. The railway construction “boom” is unchecked, 937 miles having been completed already this year, against 952 miles to the corresponding date of 1885. “The enormous supply of money,” say It. G. Dun A Co. in their weekly review, “goes far to explain the situation. Large amounts of foreign capital are seeking investment here on account of the inadequate demand abroad,” While this state of things'TOTittJroes, and crop piwpects grow more favorable, no reaction is deemed probable.... .The Yankee fishingschooner Humboldt, which was damaged in the recent gales off the coast of Nova Scotia, has been allowed by the Dominion authorities to buy new lines at Halifax. It is expressly-stated, however, that the privilege is granted simply as a matter of “courtesy," and that it is not to be regarded ns a precedent. Two clipper ships, the Charmer, of the New York k California Line, and the Seminole, of. Sutton’s Dispatch Line, are to have an ocean race from New Y’ork to San Francisco... .A committee of Americans selected by John Fitzgerald, the President of the Irish National League in America, has compared a sac-simile of the alleged Parnell letter published in the London Timex with certain letters and documents written by Richard Pigott, formerly proprietor of the Dublin Irishman, and has unanimously decided that the Parnell forgery was the work of Pigott.