Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

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The river St. Marie in Rayti has overflowed its banks. Yesterday a bridge oyer the river was swept away and thirty lives were lost. :J The wrouglit-iron nailnion of the Worcester and Staffordshire district of Engand bavo struck against a proposed reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. Tiie strike affects no loss than eight thousand men and may eventually affect other trades, Roy del Key, a full brother of El Rio Rey, and the Emperor of NOl folk, Tuesday won at Morris Park, the Omnibus slakes, worth nearly $.0,000. From the head of the stretch to the wire, the race is said to have been the finest of the season. At Garfield Park, Chicago, Whitney lowered the ruunsng record for a mile a:ul seventy yards to I:44}s.