Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

John A. Chanler, former husband of Amelie Rives, has been sent to Bloomingdale, suffering from paresis. A plan is on foot to make the Yukon Valley a separate territory under the name of Lincoln, with Eli Gage of Chicago as its first governor. The Sons of the American Revolution and Sons of the Revolution have agreed upon a plan of union under the name Society of the American Revolution. A jury has awarded Mrs. Lang $20,030 damages against the city of Victoria, B. C., for the death of her husband, Dr. Lang, in the Point Ellice bridge disaster in May- 1896. The United States steamship Philadelphia arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu. She will transfer her crew to the Baltimore, which is being fitted out for a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands as speedily as possible. Commander-in-chief Gobin of the G. A. R. has made the following appointments: Inspector general, Alonzo Williams, Providence, R. I.; judge advocate general, Eli Torrence, Minneapolis, Minn.; senior aid-de-camp, Milton A. G. Herst, Lebanon, Pa. . The American board of commissioners of foreign missions elected these officers: President, Charles fit. Lamson, D. D., Hartford, Conn.; vice-president, D. Willis James, New York; treasurer, Frank H. Wiggins; auditors, E. H. Baker, E. R. Brown and Henry T. Cobb. The international court of arbitration which is to pass on the British-Venezuela boundary has been completed by the selection of M. Maertens, a distinguished Russian jurist, as umpire, and arrangements are being made for the assembling of the court at Paris during the late summer or fall of next year. M. Maertens will act not only as umpire, but also as president of the court. The Bessemer Steamship Company of Cleveland, John D. Rockefeller’s big line of lake steamers and tow barges, closed a contract for the three largest ships ever constructed for service on fresh water. The contract went to F. W. Wheeler & Co. of Bay City, and is for one steamer and two consorts. The three must be completed by next May, and all together will carry over 20,000 tons of iron ore on a single trip on a draft of seventeen feet. The boats will cost between $500,000 and $600,000. They will be equipped with everything modern for the rapid handling of a cargo, and will be very speedy.