Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Mayor Timelier, of Albany, N. Y., has received a medal and letter of thanks from Germany for his work in connection with the World’s Fair at Chicago. Mr. Thacher says the Treasury Department is alone to blame, for the delay in forwarding the awards. The Independence Club of Canada, which has beeu in existence in Montreal for some five months and whose object is the attainment of Canadian independence, is gaining in strength, and a cohvention will probably be held next March with a view to federating all the groups and clubs having a like object. Members say the movement is rapidly gaining ground, especially in the rural districts. The famous Topolobainpo communistic colony in Sinaloa, Mexico, must be numbered among the socialistic failures. For nearly eight years the colony has been struggling for existence, and now the Mexican Government has struck a blow which will end the great experiment. It has revoked one of the -most important concessions given to Albert R. Owen, formerly of New Jersey, the founder of the colony, and the early dissolution of the community must result.