Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

Assistant Secretary of State Porteb has resigned. He will return to his home in Tennessee. R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade, say: Commerce and industry have improved, while speculation has slackened. Iron furnacess of 138,725 tons capacity were in blast September 1 —the largest output yet reported. Tho increase since a year ago is 14.2 per cent. Evidence of general improvement comes from nearly all < ities. Remarkably heavy distribution of hardware and farmers’ supplies at Chicago and St. Louis, with activity of banks, not from speculative demands, and reports of a formidable increase in shipments by the railroads from this city promise satisfactory returns of fall trade. Money is generally active at interior points and collections fair. The business failures during the week numbered for the United States 152, for Canada 22; a total of 174, compared with 199 last week and 178 in the corresponding week of last year. A Montreal telegram says: “The Grand Jury here has found a true bill against ‘Boodler’ McGarigle, Detective Pinkerton, and Col. Hickey, of Chicago, for conspiracy. The only witness examined was James Baxter, who made the charge. Baxter was examined at great length, and after ten minutes’ deliberation a unanimous bill was returned.” Ihe Spanish Government has released Mr. Doane, the American missionary, who was imprisoned at Manila. The statistical report of the Department of Agriculture for September, says a Washington dispatch, presents a heavy reduction in the condition of corn and po’atoos, with little change in the status of wheat and other small grains. In tho spring wheat region Dakota returns 89, a small gain; Minnesota and Wisconsin, 72; lowa, 71, and Nebraska, 76, a slight reduction from last month. The increase in acreage will make the difference still le;s between the present crop and that of 1886. The average for rye is 82.2; that of oats, 83.4, against 85.6 last month, showing a slight decline. The average for barley is 83, against 86.2 last month. A reduction in buckwheat has occurred, from 99 last month to 89. The average of condition for potatoes is very much reduce!—from 80.8 last month to 67.3. This is four points lower than in 1881, and the lowest record for September that the department has ever recorded. The reduction is mainly in the West. The Michigan average is 39; that of Illinois, 40; Indiana, 43; Ohio, 52; lowa, 57; Missouri, 77; Kansas, 62; Nebraska, 68. There was a fierce fight between English and French sailors in Quebec, knives and stones being freely used.