Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

The late Thomas F. Bayard left an estate valued at $75,000. The steamer Amnr has arrived at Victoria from Skaguay with about three hundred pounds of gold dust. The Third Illinois Regiment is to be brought back from Porto Rico as soon aa transports can be prepared. ■tor. Dr. Cunningham Geikie, the wellknown religious commentator and historian, is dead. He was 78 years old. Mrs. Margaret J. Evans of Minnesota has been elected the first woman member of the American board of foreign missions. The schooner Fortune Hunter, with a party of gold seekers from Chicago, has bean wrecked in Golovin Bay, Alaska. Sterling Marton of Chicago is believed to have been drowned. Felipe Agoncillo, the representative of Agtiina.ldo, the leader of the Filipinos, sailed from New York for Havre on the French liner La Touraine. He is accompanied by his secretary, Sixto Lopez. All the sugar refining interests are now openly selling granulated sugar at 5 cents a pound. Owing to rebates to the grocers the net return to the refiners is such that the trade is agreed that the present price Graves no margin of profit to the refining interests. William Ogilvie, Yukon commissioner, tans been empowered by the Canadian Government to make a searching investigation into Yukon scandals, and Gordon Hunter, barrister, of Victoria, B. C.» has been appointed to replace Gold Commissioner Fawcett.The Olcott committee, appointed by the Eastern stockholders and creditors of the National Linseed Oil Company to arrange for a reorganisation of the company, has given tip hope of obtaining the co-opera-tion. rt the committee appointed by local stockholders, and is appealing to individuals to sign the agreement. The- Canadian police are completing the entabFistaaent of a chain of police stations along: the Upper Yukon, from Dawson on to Lake Bennett. The stations are now abort thirty miles apart. Five men have been detailed for each post. Each station has supplies for two years and numerous dtags. The soldiers are to carry dispatches ami facilitate tltoforwarding of mails, and ara instructed W assist all travelers, of wteaa ftom 6,600 to 8.000 are expected to eomoout over the ice. Briadstreet’s says: “With the exception of seme parts of the South where heavy storms and yellow fever with resulting quarantines check distribution, a very large- business appears to be doing, though eouspiamts of a narrow margin of profit are- well nigh unanimous. It has been a carnival and fall celebration period at a number rt Western cities and a resulting large distribution both fetail and wholesafe is reported. Prices of leading staples, while showing rather more irregularity, are- in the main well held.”