Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Col. Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, K. C. M. G., died at Toronto. He was 85 years old. In a boat thirteen feet long, provisioned with canned goods and vichy, Captain William Andrews sailed from Atlantic City for his fifth trip to Europe. Bradstreet’s sums up the business situation in this way: “Business conditions in the main reflect the continuance of most of the favorable features hitherto dominating the trade situation in the more favored sections of the country. Prominent in this direction, of course, are the iron and steel allied industries, in which active demand, present or prospective, has led to further price advances, sustained and even increased activity in distribution at most Western markets, with some improvement likewise noted at the South and on the Pacific coast, steadiness in prices—wheat, corn and cotton, however, excepted—a reduced number of business failures, fair gains in railroad earnings as a whole, and bank clearings, in spite of a slight reduction from last week, showing gains over all corresponding periods in previous years.” The ancient bark Guardian lies on the rocks off the head of Tigaldo Island, Alaska, a total wreck. She lauded the passengers taken out of Seattle at their destination, but will never again imperil human life. After plowing through a bank of solid fog for hundreds of miles through Bering Sea the old bark piled up on the sharp rocks of the island that guards the Bering Sea entrance to Unimak pass. She was then returning to Seattle. Captain Eagles and the crew took to the lifeboats and pulled twenty-three miles through the fog to Unalaska. No one was lost. The news of the wreck was brought to Seattle by the Latn-ada, f jo|n Dutch Harbor and St. MicLael. Caplain Eagles was on board. The Laurada was bljick with bewhiskered Klondikers, all of whom hail some money, the total amount being estimated at $150,000. The Laurada had about 200 passengers, of whom 151 were from Dawson City. There were a number of gamblers on board.