Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

The claim of Capt. Lamothe. of Alton, 111., to the site of the city of London, Ont., which he says was leased in 175)8 by an ancestor, duly excites ridicule there. Therais. no such lease as be speaks, of ill the local archives. The first one* on record dates back only to 1820. Tbe affairs of La Bannnc du People. at Montreal. Quo., came to a crisis Monday when the directors decided to suspend payment for ninety days. J. S. Bosquel, who, until two weeks ago, was cashier, is said to be largely responsible for the bank’s difficulties, having permitted heavy overdrafts, principally by companies in which he was personally intercslcd. === *

Mrs. Hattie Wills, a Tacoma woman who went to Alaska last winter, writes from Circle City, in the interior on the Yukon, that the country has been overboomed and many prospectors will leave this fall. Provisions are running short and what can bo had are very highpriced. The steam schooner Excelsior lias arrived at Seattle with the first news direct from the Yukon this summer, after having had a perilous experience in the great ice floe in Behring Sea. The Excelsior was delayed fourteen days on the way north by a large field of ice, one mass being fully 400 miles lorfg and 100 miles wide. In the opinion of Capt. Higgins’Behring Sea was entirely frozen over last winter and. the ice was broken up in the spring by the winds. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: > Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore 07 40 27 .597 Cleveland 78 46 32 .590 Pittsburg 72 42 30 ’ .583' Boston 07 38 29 .567 Cincinnati 73 41. 32 ~ .562 Chicago 79 43 3G .544 Philadelphia ~.. .69 37 32 .536 BrooHVi 71 38 33 .535 New York 70 37 33 .529 Washington 63 24 39 .381 St. Louis .75 27 48 .360 Louisville 70 14 56 .200

WESTERN’ T.EAGTTE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis 68 42 26 .618 Kansas City..:. .69 39 30 .565 Milwaukee 73 40 33 .548 St. Paul 69 37 32 .53G Detroit 70 37 33 .529 Grand Rapids... 72 36 30 .500 Minneapolis 68 31 37 .456 Terre Haute 69 27 42 .391