Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — The government crop report covering June is generally encouraging. [ARTICLE]

The government crop report covering June is generally encouraging.

St. Johns, N. F., was devastated by fire Saturday. Two-thirds of the business portion of St Johns and one-half of the entire town and three-quarters of the value of the townhave been obliterated.— Soma ten thousand persons-are sheltered In the Parliament House and.ulider sheds, and the rest in Bannerman I* ark and other places. Sunday the town was enveloped in a dense smoker from the surrounding wooded country, which seems to be all on fire. The Kilbride Catholic Church, three miles out toward Bay Jlllls, was burned Sunday. The loss to property is estimated at $25,000,000.