Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — GENERAL [ARTICLE]

GENERAL

The queen of fenglnnd, in order to invest the jubilee-ceremony in Westminster

j abbey with greater pomp, consents to as- | some the state robes and to be eJ with all the insignia of sovereignty after entering the abbey. Eight thousand troops will line the route to the abbey besides a gunrd of honor of 600 persons. Something approaching a panic took place in tho Now Y’ork coffee market, and prices dropped nearly 3 cents a pound in three days. . . . Secretary-Treasurer ■ Passoe, of tho Typographical Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., is said to. be a defaulter. , ; The governor of Colorado revoked the i quarantine,against cattle from lowa, MisI souri, Nebraska, and Kansas. Near St. Joseph. Ind., bn Sunday morir- ' ing,an aerolite supposed to weigh two ! tone fell aqd buried itself in the earth. It | crushed a grfcat tree to splinters ifi Its | fall, anil shook the earth in the neighborhood. The town of Trenton, Mo., has a curse in the why of poisonous flies, which is creating much''’suffering among human beings. Bishop Stevens, of Philadelphia, diod on Saturday, aged; 72 years. At San Antonio, Teias, Friday, tho Mayor, Chief of Police, an ex-alderman, the cashier of the San Antonio National Bank, and four other prominent citizens, were arrested on a United States warrant, charged with breaking np a Prohibition ! meeting. From a hundred stations in Northern lowa, Southern Minnesota and Dakota j come reports showing the corn to be 2(f | per cent, ahead of last year. The trial of the case of the Texas&Pacific railway company vs. B. H. Epperson at Jefferson, Texas, resulted in a victory for the railroad, by which it acquires many valuable tracts of land. The Grant Monument Association of New York has called for designs for a monument or memorial building to be erected upon ..the site of Gen. Grant’s tomb, the structure to be of granite, mar- j ble, bronze, or other suitable material, singly or in combination. The officers of the American Bankers association have decided to hold' the convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 12 and 13.

Sixty-four cadets graduated at West ; Point. The President of the Board of Health of | Texas threatens to quarantine against New Orleans if the latter city does not in- i crease from five to ten days its quarantine of vessels arriving from Key West or other infected ports. The Grand Lodge of Masons of New York, upon report of a special commttee, have forfeited, the warrant of Prudence Lodge, which recently admitted to membership Jere Dunn, Tom Gould, and six other disreputables. -i— - .. , The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention has been called to meet 1 at Harrisburg Aug. 17. Major John H. Ewing, uncle of the Hbn. James G. Blaine, -died at his residence at 1 Washington, Pa., Thursday afternoon, aged 1)0. Charles D. Keep, editor of the Wall Street News, died Thursday morning at Long Branch. A cloud burst over Monticello, Pa.,, flooding the streets and cellars, and doing damage estimated at SIOO,OOO- Many persons took refuge on the roofs of their dwellings. The Pittsburg & Western road was sold by the United States marshal at Pittsburg under order of court for $1,000,000. It was purchased by parties interested in the reorganization scheme. Dan Rice, the veteran clown and showman was united in marriage to Mrs. M. C. Robinson, of Hallettsville, Texas, on Wednesday. The Kentncky distillers agreed at Louisville to a cessation of the production of whisky until Oct. 1,1888.