Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Cope Clementi, the missing collector of customs of Ottawa, Ont., is said to be hiding in Chicago. His books show a shortage of $30,000. The sealing schooner Kilmney, twentyfour tons, M. Halgram master, and carrying a crew of four whites, is reported to have gone to pieces on the west coast of Vancouver island In the gale of last Saturday. Meager particulars only are obtainable and it is not known whether the crejv survived the disaster or not. The Kilmney was built two years ago and the present was her third sealing venture. tVith horror at the atrocities of the fiepdish Turk, Mihran K. Serailian, an r»rinenian and a student; at the University of Chicago, has been anxiously awaiting news from nis home, In central Asia Minor, since the reports have been coming of wholesale slaughter. Tuesday he learned that his father had been murdered in the massacre of Nov. 30 at Kaisarea, and tnat his mother, sisters and brothers met • with the same fate or were scattered to starve or freeze to death in the fnountains. The provincial elections in Manitoba resulted in the Greenway government being sustained by a substantial majority. The issue at the polls was largely iffidlou.-. al schools vs. separate schools. The opposition party championed the cause of a dual system and the vote was overwhelmingly against their candidates, many of whom were defeated two to one by the government representatives. Premier Greenway and his entire cabinet were reelected, three by'acclamation. In the new House of forty members the party will stand: Government, or national school, party, 31; opposition, or separate school, party, 8; independent, 1. Banker Morgan has dissolved the great bond ’combination, and the gold syndicate js broken. In his circular to the syndicate members, concerning the popular feature of the loan, Nir. Morgan says: “I feel perfectly satisfied that there is no question as to the success of the loan.” The reason given for the dissolution of the syndicate is that the syndicate contract called for a bid of “all or none,” and therefore Mr. Morgan was unwilling to -make a- bjd under the present circumstances, as he might seem to present for consideration by the Secretary of the Treasury the throwing out of smaller bids - made in good faith under the public call. The only emergency, in Mr. Morgan's . judgment, which would justify such a 'ddurse would be the failure of the public .to respond to the call of tha Government.