Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

The Peary expedition sailed from St. John’s on Tuesday. w Cardinal Gibbons is reported to have declined an invitation of the Pope to surrender his- diocese and take part in the polities of the Vatican. Fire which started in L. A. Mayo's hardware store, in which a large quantity of powder and fireworks was stored, destroyed property of the estimated value of $150,000; insurance, SIOO,OOO. A restaurant keeper at Ixra Angeles, Cal., has received information that he has fallen lieir to 4,000,000 franes in Italy. His uncle died some time ago, leaving a large estate, to which Scotto was the only heir. An immense amount of poor seed is sold to American farmers and gardeners, according to a report recently issued by the agricultural department. While other countries have been looking into the subject with a view to protecting their agriculturists from abuses, no investigations have been made in the United States except at a few experimental stations. Great apathy prevails, however, among purchasers, who, as a rule, buy the cheapest seed in the market and trust to luck for it to produce the crop. Such seed, says the report, is dear at any price and the principal source of the hosts of bad weeds, whose eradication costs vastly more than the few cents a pound extra which good seed would have cost. The report makes the charge that American seed has acquired a poor reputation in foreign countries, in some of which it is difficult for it to gain.a foothold through prejudice. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Base-ball Leaguer Per p \v. — L. cent. Baltimore 54 83 21 .611 Boston 55 33 22 .600 Pittsburg 63 87 26 .587 Chicago .67 39 28 .582 Cleveland 64 86 28 .563 Cincinnati 60 34 26 .567 Philadelphia 57 82 25 .561 Brooklyn 58 32 26 .552 New York 58 28 30 .483 Washington 57 23 34 .404 St. Louis 63 21 42 .333 Louisville 58 9 49 .155 WESTERN LEAGUE. In the Western League the clubs close the week in the following order: Per > P, W. L. cent. Indianapolis 50 36 20 .643 Grand Rapids....sß S 3 25 .569 Deti-oit 57 30 27 .544 Kansas City 57 30 27 .526 St. Paul 56 29 27 .518 Milwaukee 58 30 2S .517 Minneapolis 56 25 81 .440 Terre Haute. . >. .56 24 82 .429

Unusually Good Outlook for Fall Trade—Fearful Rain Storm in Kansas— Fatal Riot at a Picnic New —Baby at the White Honse.