Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

—1 — — '■ Ex-Governor Morrill died Monlay Torenoon at his home in Augusta, Me. General Burnside was unveiled Monday at Providence, IL I. Thomas S. Baldwin, an. aeronaut, Monday. at Quincy. 111., jumped from a balloon whileit was in the air. and reached the ground in safety by means of a parachutes? — — - s ■' Tammany Hall celebrated the Fourth in the wigwam «t New York, the piinc - pal speakers being Gov. Fitzhugh Lee. of Virginia; Governor Wilson, of Meat Virgin.a; the Hon. S. S. Cox, and the Hon. ,W. C. May bury, of Michigan. ' An epidemic of diptheria in New Fork O , I - JI

City-calls for active measures to stamp cut the disease. I,he report for June chows 521 cases and 213 deaths, principally children. Chinch bugs are reported to bs destroying the wheat crop in portions of lowa. Owing to the reduction of receipts, due to the prohibitory law, the internal revenue office for Mississippi has been transferred to the Louisana office. The receiDts have fallen below $5 1,0 JO, and are decreasing annually. During the month of June the eastward movement of flour through Buffalo fell off 203.615 barrels, wjiile grain increased 5, .9’7.132 bushels. The shipments from Bay City and East Saginaw, for the month of June were less than half for the same month last year. The rate war was the cause, vessels all going into the ore trade. A rather Unfavorable report on crop conditions has just been issued by the Territorial Statistician of Dakota. Hot winds have proved injurious. Corn averages 100 per cent., with an increased acreage, while the condition of spring wheat is but 86 per cent. According to Bradstreet’s there were 400 less failures in the United States during the last six months than for the same period of 1886 An earthquake shock was felt in parts of New Hampshire and Vermont on the Ist instant. D. H. Bates, President of the Baltimore <fc Ohio Telegraph Company, denies that its lines have been sold to the Western Union. A strict quarantine has been established in Westchester county, New York, where pluero-pneumonia is said to prevail. Heavy rains have fallen in the valley of Mexico, and many outlying villages are submerged. The new Mexican customs tariff and the reformed internal revenue system went into effect July Ist. The occasion was celebrated at the City of Mexico by a banquet tendered by merchants of all nationalities to Finance Minister Dubjan. The new postal treaty with the United States also became operativjon ths Ist. It is believed that Jay Gould has finally secured the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system. The New York World confirms the report that Cyrus W. Field turned over the remainder of his elevated-railway stock to Jay Gould on the 29th of June. The amount was 20,000,shares.