Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

““At Ottawa, Oaf., an order lias beeaissued for opening the Canadian eanalsjm Sundays during the remainder of the sea-.. son. - - ■ 1 ■■ "~ . -The rcvision of The Bible hastoecn'T'otn--1 ileted, including the apocrypha, upon which the revisers have been engaged since 18S1. In Ontario tons of grapes are going to waste because of the excessive ra&s of the Western railroads, The Interstate Commerce Commission has been nppealed so. The committee appointed by the Chicago mass meetings on September 30, which were held to .express sympathy with the Cubans, has issued an appeal that similar meetings be held throughout the Union not later than Oct. 31, and wherever practicable on that day, in 6rder that the movement may,_ derive the benefit Of such simultaneous action as adding to its impressiveness. An American vessel, the Parthia, Captain. Carter, Bath, Me., bound from Liver--pobl -for San Francisco with a cargo of' coal, was burned at sea four hundred miles off the south coast of Chili. The crew took refuge in the boats, one of which, that under the charge of the see.yud milt?, witty -imW,, a?si on board, reached Valparaiso, Chili. The other boats have not yet been heard from. Obituary—At Elgin, 111., Henry Olney Billings, of Chicago, 45; at Rochelle, 111., William Delaney,"of Chicago; at Cauastota, N. Y\, Commodore de Grasse Livingstone. .65: at~~Janesville. Wis., Richard O'Donnell, at one time a Chicago man; at Saginaw, Mien., Henry Nieqstedt, Jr., G 9; at Adrian, Mich., Dewitt C. Clark; at Chesterton, Ind., John G. , Coulter; at Rockford, 111., Elikam Norton, 05; at Franklin, Ind., Elba Depue; at Bloomsburg, Pa., Judge William Elwell, 87. ’ —_* ; i ' —;— Superintendent Dfiffield, of the coqst and geodetic survey, has been informed that the Alaska field parties have concluded the season’s work and are now on Mary’s Island waiting to be picked up and brought to San Francisco. The work last season consisted of the locating of Mount St. Elias as on the boundary between the two countries. Next season the more delieate work will be begun of running the line between these two pomtu?--England claims much more than the United States concedes as to this boundary. The surveys so far made tend to confirm the contentions of this country. General Duftield says there is no longer any doubt that all of the Yukon River basin below the mouth of Forty-Mile Creek is American territory, which includes the gold field of that stream as far as opened.