Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Mirror manufacturers of the United States are reported to have formed a trust. Charles Barnes and Hugh Hooker and his two sisters were drowned near Pelee Island, Ont. The gunboat Helena, Commander Swinburne, has left the Boston navy yard for the China station by way of the Suez canal. The steamer Northern Belle was totally 1 destroyed by fire on the Maguettewa river, Ontario. The passengers and crew reached Parry Sound on a tug. The announcement is made that the entire sugar crop of the Hawaiian Islands has been contracted to the American Sugar Refining Company (the sugar trust). The new stamp mills of the Treadwell and Allied companies on Douglas Island, Alaska, are completed. These mills give Douglas Island a total of 880 stamps, with a capacity for crushing 2,500 tons of ore daily. The passenger steamer Pacific, owned by the Great Northern Transit Company, burned at the Grand Trunk wharf at Collingwood, Ont. The railway freight sheds filled with Canadian and American goods were also destroyed. The transport City of Puebla sailed from San Francisco for Manila with the remaining Tennessee battalion, the last of the California heavy artillery, the Nevada troop of cavalry, and recruits for the Twenty-third Infantry. The Spanish transport steamer Gran Antilla, Capt. Bayona, from Havana, via Porto Rico, with repatriated troops on board, has arrived at Malaga, and reports that there were 100 deaths among the soldiers during the voyage across the Atlantic. Bears and panthers, impelled by the pangs of hunger, are invading many towns in British Columbia and are terrifying the ranchers. Four bears entered Whitewater city, in Kootenai, recently at night, attacked the meat safe of the principal hotel, demolished it and got away in safety with the provender. R. G- Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Not even the election has disturbed business or industries on the financial side this week. The volume of business through clearing houses is 8.5 per cent larger than last year and 1.54 per cent larger than in 1892. Neither the volume of business nor the value of manufactured products diminishes. While Bessemer pig is sold against the combination at Pittsburg 10 cents lower, with other iron there and elsewhere steady, the general demand crowds closely on the heels of production. Wool holders at Boston have begun selling largely at concessions said to be ‘several cents’ per pound. The cotton mills are helped a little by the combinatiop to restrict production about Fall River. Cotton is again at the lowest point ever known—s.3l cents for spot—while Mr. Neill estimates a crop of 11,500,000 bales, besides large stocks brought over here and abroad. Failures for the week have been 194 in the United States, against 276 last year, and 28 in Canada, against 30 last year.”