Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Hard Times in the Northwest. [ARTICLE]

Hard Times in the Northwest.

A dispatch from Grafton, Dak., says: Crops in the Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are almost destitute, and eome instances are reported where they were subsisting on field mice and gophers. In the Canadian Northwest the crops are nil. A party of emigrants from the fSoures country was met Thursday on the boundary line. They had traveled 300 miles through a well settled country on the Canadian side without seeing a fair crop, and say a great many settlers are leaving. General M. D. Manson will be one of the speakers at tbe monument corner stone laying. The many other gentlemen of distmet'oa invited to be present and make speeches have not yet been heard from, but it is thought tney will all accept. The Sons of Veterans of Ohio and Kentucky have accepted an invitation to bs here, and other organizations from outside the State ars expected to join the parade. There is every promise of a one cent rate for tickets, good coming on.the 21st and 22d of August and good returning on the 22d and 23d.

Lead ore has been found in larjje quantities near Vincennes. An ana ys.s by President Bryant, of Vincennes University, assisted by two chembt*, ( hows 96 per cent of pure lead. Mr. Anderson says that there &ra millions of tons, within easy access, but he refuses to tell the exact location. The President has appointed M. MHurley, of New Albany, Ind., to be Third Auditor of the Treasury, to succeed John a Wiirana,of Lafayette. The roaring of the new gas well d Winchester can be heard a mile. A genuine case of leprosy has beet, discovered in New Orleans. Madison’s wheat crop wiJJ average 2v' bushels per acre. ' , ...