Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Gov. Chapleau of Quebec has been offered a seat in the Dominion Cabinet. Mexico’s imports for the year ending June 30 were $61,200,792 silver, and exports, $99,854,953. Imports from the United States amounted to $30,000,000 silver value. «*-’ Obituary: At Leavenworth, Kan., ex- " United Stales Senator Robert Crozier. — At .New York, ex-Police Justice Solon B. Smith, 53. —At Hampton, Conn., Prof. Eli Whitney Blake, recently of Brown University < .JLt ••45a» < Rankin, a pioneer milioiiaire.—At South Bend, Ind., Michael Steel.—At Denver, Colo., Dr. Richard’F. Adams, formerly of Illinois, 83. The latest report from the Mariposa wreck shows her to be still holding together. The weather is calm and the salvors are busy taking put the cargo. Indignation is increasing in St. John’s over the charges of piracy made against Newfoundland fishermen in connection with the wreck. The Government will probably take prompt steps to secure a retraction of the falsehood. According to .a report to the State De.partment from United States Consul Bigelow at Rouen,, the world’s production of wool available for commerce was 1,012,000,000 kilograms, as against 1,002,000,000 in 1894. In France the product has steadily diminished from 32,151,430 kilograms in 1840 tq 20,275,716 in 1893. The quality of wool does not improve, and owing to the high price of meats sheep are being raised for that purpose instead of for wool. Horace Lee Washington, United States vice eonsul general at Cairo, calls attention to the opening in Egypt for American furniture. He says the demand is good and retail prices of simpler grades are double or triple those ruling in New York, while the duty is’but 8 per cent.