Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The World balloon, which started from St. Louis on a trip to New England, landed at Hoffman, IIL, near Centralis. The failure of t]je trip is laid to poor gas and the illness of Prof. Moore, who fainted from loss of blood fis>m his lacerated . hand. The balloon reached an attitude of 16,000 feet, the highest on record in 1 America. A shock of earthquake was felt at Summerville, S. at 10:37 a, m. Sunday. It

was accompanied by tha most prolonged roaring heard therß since Oct. 22 Of last year. ( • „ Mrs. Alexander Mitchell hat decided not to contest the will of her husband and ! the will Was admitted to probate at Mil-' ; waukee Saturday. . Bijou, a famous elephant that has been before the American pubjio for sixty years, whs killed by poison last Saturday night at the World’si museum, Boston, where it has been suffering from old age and disoase. • The situation in Chihuahua, Mexico, j where thedpare two rival Governors and I State Legislatures, excites interest, but it is not believed that the Federal Government will actively interfere, except to preserve the peace. I Hon. J. G. Blaine arrived at Liverpool, I tnglnnd, on Thursday, in good health. Ex-President Hopkins of Williams College died at North Adams, Mass., Friday. S. Tousey, President of the News Company, New York, is dead. A monster balloon passed over Elgin, 111., atG o'clock Ihursday evening. It 55ns traveling very high up m tha air ami came from a southerly direction. ; ; The Sons of Veterans, in-camp ,at Des Moines, lowa, passed a resolution protesting against the return of rebel flags to Southern States. A preliminary injunction was issued Thursday by the United States Court at Pittsburg restraining the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad from issuing $3,000,0(10 certificates of indebtedness without consideration.

A Halifax (Canada) special says: If dispatches from places along the Cape Breton coast can be relied upon half the American mackerel fleet are in imminent danger of being captured. There are only four cruisers ©nUnmong the fleet of nearly one hundred Americans. Mackerel are very plentiful, mostly in-shore, and, as cruisers are few and far between, the American skippers, of course, do not hesitate to take fish wherever and whenever they can do so with apparent safety. On the Board of Trade in Chicago, on Thursday, the third day of the panic, things were more quiet. J. B. Wiltshire, of Cincinnati brought suit against Rosonfeld <fe Johnson for $2,000,000. This and a number of other suits that have been commenced, grew out of the collapse of the wheat corner in that city. The statue to Nathan Hale has been delivered by the committee to the State of Connecticut. In Ohio general indignation has been aroused by the order of tha War Department, directing that captured rebel flags be returned to the Governors of the socalled Confederate States. Interesting correspondence on the subject passed between Governor Foraker, division commanders, and others. A protest has been forwarded to President Cleveland.