Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Helen Gould is reported to be engaged to Alonzo Potter, eldest son of Bishop Potter. Edward Langtry, former husband of the “Jersey Lily,” has been sent to an insane nsyluig. The villages of Casselman, South Indian and Cheney, southeast of Ottawa, on the Canadian Atlantic Railway, have been destroyed by bush tires. Canada is negotiating a loan of $lO,000,000 in London for the purpose of taking up outstanding obligations of Canada and to assist in the railroad and canal developments of the dominion. A terrible accident occurred twenty-five miles south of Monterey, Mexico, where a tunnel is being constructed by the Mexican National Railroad. A premature explosion of a blast occurred, killing four men outright and wounding ten others seriously. A great schism is threatened among the Masons of Canada. A new lodge has been started, composed of French and Italians, under a charter of the Grand Orient of France, which does not believe in the Bible. Other lodges disown them and have written to the Prince of Wales for instructions. The British war ship Imperieuse, which recently sailed from Victoria, B. C., for Guatemala, carried, as a guest of Rear Admiral Palliscr, Ernest Harris, a real estate man of Victoria. It is asserted that he went south to secure part of the treasure which Charles Hartford says he has located on Cocos Island. Hartford claimed to have located $30,0<j0,000 in gold, silver and jewels.