Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

The City Brewery of Peoria, 111., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. R. G. Dun & Go., in their last weekly trade review, say: There aro hlgWor brloes in speculation, but tho business outlook is distinctly loss favorable. Stocks uro stronger, and breadstuff* aro rising with oil and provision*; but purchases for consumption are so restricted that almost every important branch of manufacture feels the check, und tho volume of business recorded iu bank cloarargs outside ot New York is smaller by 0 per cent, than at tho sumo tirno Inst your, with a decline of over 12 <4 per cent., at Now York. Prices of manufactured products and the chief materials tend downward, so that, in spite of a material advance iu speculative prices since Jan. 1, and in vegetables, tho average of all prices is a shade lower than at tho opening of tho year. Wheat has risen 2‘6 cents, corn 2 cents, pork 50 cents per barrel, bird nearly cent, hogs 32cents per 100 pounds, and oil 7 cents. The base-ball season of tho National League has opened. Iu tho opening games tho Chicagos defeated the Indianapolis team 5 to 4; Pittsburg vanquished Detroit in twelve innings, 5 to 3; Boston overcame the Philadelphia*, 4 to 3, and Now York calcimined Washington, 0 toO. An event of tho Chicagoludiaiupolis game was a fist fight between Esterbrook and Sullivan, in which Mr. Anson and certain police officers became verbally involved. A fine of $25 was imposed by tho umpire upon the combatant >, who were arrested after the game.