Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

A committee of the British Board o. Trade is considering the advisability of sending a representative to Washington to arrange a joint scheme to destroy floating derelicts, especially in the North Atlantic. —lt has been arranged that President Cleveland will touch the button at Gray Gabies on Sept. lSuncHsct in motion the machinery and unfurl the flag at the Cotton States International Exposition Buildings at Atlanta, Ga. The principal :ffldross of the opening day will be delivered by an orator of national reputation, whose name is not yet made public. Owing to the low price of horses incident to the general use of bicycles and electric power, large shipments of horses are being made from Baltimore to European markets. The Johnson Line has made five shipments to Antwerp-and Havre. The steamship lines say this promises to compensate them for the falling off of cattle exports, owing to the foreign exclusion o,f American cattle. Knights Templar rates to Boston from Chicago went to smash. Tickets were offered on the street Thursday as low as $lO for the round trip. All the Eastern roads threw restrictions of every kind to the wind and practically did ail the seaboard business on the basis of one fare for the round trip over their own counters; but the brokers did much better for purchasers and sold tickets at whatever they could get for them. There could be no doubt about the acceptance of the tickets, because the roads did away with even the signature requirement and all tickets were good- for- -bearer. -.lt. ia..hard.. lft.Jaiagine, how any traffic could be more demoralized. It was many times worse than it was during the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor gathering.

The following is tlie standing of the clubs in the National League: Per

P. W. L. cent. Baltimore 07 02 35 .030 Cleveland 106 67 39 .632 Pittsburg ......102 59 43 .578 Boston 08 55 43 -00 l Philadelphia ... 00 55 44 .556 Brooklyn 100 55 45 .sno Chicago 103 56 47 .544 Cincinnati 08 53 45 .541 New York 100 51 40 .510 Washington .... 94 31 63 .330 St. Louis 103 32 71 -311 Louisville 98 23 75 .235 WESTERN T.EAGER. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ... 99 65 94 .657 Kansas City. .. .102 60 42 " .588 St. Paul 99 57 42 .576 Milwaukee 102 51 51 .500 Minneapolis ....100 49 51 .400 Terre Haute.. . .102 44 58 .431 Detroit .100 44 65 .404 Grand Rapids. .103 34 69 .830