Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Longfellow cottage, and a number pf other residences at Ntihant were burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. The Senate has confirmed William Lochren as district judge in Minnesota, vice R. R. Nelson, resigned. The President nominated Kenneth M. Jackson, of Alaska, for commissioner in the district of Alaska, to reside at AA'rangell. Nikola Tesla is reported to have invented an incandescent bulb which operates by vibration and may revolutionize the present system of electric lighting. Obituary: At Burlington, lowa, John Patterson, 75.- —At AVabash. Ind., John Oswalt, 76.—At, Kokomo, Ind., Charles E. MeKinsey.—At El Paso, 111., George Thorpe. Obituary: At Detroit, Captain B. Wilds, 65.—At Atlanta, Ga., Jere A. Blount, formerly-city treasurer of Janesville, AA’is.. 70.—At Saginaw, Mich., Hiram L. Miller, 93. At Torreon, Mexico, the- large flouring mills'and grain elevators of the Allianza Manufacturing Company were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $150,000. The mills had recently been equipped -with new machinery and were the largest in northern Mexico. The amount of insurance is small. There was a large stock of grain consumed. In jail at Juneau, Alaska, waiting trial on the charge of murder, is Chief Ye Teetleeh, the tyee of' the Hoonan Indians, a small tribe of -about a hundred members occupying Chieakikoff Island, about a hundred miles south of Juneau. The offense with which the old chief is chnrged is the murder by torture of his nephew, whom he accused of witchcraft. In all the Roman Cathotic churches in Quebec province a mandate signed by the archbishops and bishops was read Sunday night dealing with the duties of the faithful is the approaching general election.- The mandate concludes as follows: “Therefore, all Catholics should only and solely engage themselves to vbte in parliament in favor of the legislation giving to the Catholics of Manitoba the school laws whjch were recognized as due to them by Ihe privy council of England. This grave duty imposes Itself bn all good ’’U'atbolics.’mflTou'lfiftrtltflim'Tmjnstifia* ble, neither before your spiritual guides nor before God Himself, in setting aside this obligation.”