Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Amelie Rives Chanler Jias been granted a decree of divorce ou tile ground of incompatibility. A tire atteiftled with terrible results occurred at Snider, ou the Canadian Pacific - Railway. A house - occupied l»y Thomas Lindsay, his wife, and eleven children were destroyed and six of the children were burned to death, . Comm an de r-Thi - chief Warner, of the Grand Army of the 'Ttt’prmlic, has announced the following appointments: Adjutant general, Irwin Robbins, Imlian'ap~oti§Tq irartermaster genera!, A. J; Burbank, Chicago; inspector general, William M. Oliu, Boston; advocate general, Alfred Darte, Wilkesharre, Pa. Heavy shipments of new dollars -are being made almost daily from the City of Mexico, destined for China - and Japan, via San Francisco. The total exportations of Mexico iu the last fiscal’year were $124-,855,353, divided as follows: United States. $82,453,00!); England, $29,925,000; France, $7,700,000; Germany, $0,474,999; Spain, $2,832,099; Belgium, $099,000, and the remainder to minor .countries. An American baby has been born on Ilerschel Island. Its mother is the wife of Captain A. C. Sherman, of the steam whaler Beluga. Herseliel Island is a barren spot in the Arctic Ocean. It is the. extreme northern portion of Alaska and of British North America. The whalers, most of whom had been away from home for more than eighteen months when the baby was ’born, were greatly interested in the event and sent many presents to the happy mother. There happened to-bc a dergyma-n of the~Gliureh of England at the camp, and lie christened the child Helen Herseliel Sherman. The baby has-taken very kindly to the mild but perpetual daylight of the summer at Herschel Island, arid bids fair to thrive there through the long, dull, winter months. Its playthings are made from whalebone, and its cradle was cut from “pieces of wreckage by a ship’s carpenter. Private dispatches received at San Francisco say that La I’az, Mexico, has been completely destroyed by a hurricane. The storm was followed by a tidal wave; the waters in the bay rising to an unprecedented height, invading that portion of the city fronting on the bay ami carrying out to sea men, animals and debris of wrecked buildings as the tide subsided. Mexicans iu San Francisco say that they had dispatches about a severe storm which prevailed all along the const early in the week. The loss of life is reported heavy, but details of the disaster are meager. La I’az is the capital of Lower California ami situated on a bay of the same name. The port is well sheltered and easily defensible against attack from the sea. The city had a population of 3,000, a cathedral, a government house and a town house and the place was once the abode of luxury, as evidenced by the handsome dwellings of the wealthy class. The city was also once the seat of extensive pearl fisheries, silver mining was extensively engaged in and the commerce of the port was not inconsiderable.