Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Now Nikola Tesla declares that he intends to run the machinery of the Paris exposition with electric (tower sent instantly across the ocean from Niagara Falls without the use of wires. Dawson has again been swept by fire and forty of the principal buildings are in ashes. As was the case before, a drunken and infuriated woman and a lamp were the cause of the fire. The loss is estimated at half a million. The mails from Sierra Leone, West Africa, bring news of the hanging at Kwellu of thirteen murderers of American missionaries, members of the United Brotherhood of Christ, in the Sherbroo district of Sierra Leone, last May. The miners employed in the vicinity of Silverton, B. have rounded up all the Chinese laborers in the various camps and shipped them out of the district. The Mongolians are expected to return to China by the next steamer. Wreckers who have arrived at Nassau brought with them stores from the stranded vessel off Cat Island which establishes beyond a doubt that she is the Infanta Maria Teresa. They report that the water is in her between decks, that she has a list to starlioard, which side is damaged, and that she is dismantled. The condition of affairs in the American consulate general at the City of Mexico attracts much attention. Vice-Consul Benett has been suspended and forbidden entrance to the consulate by Consul General Barlow, who has not made known the grounds for his action. Col. Bennett's friends assert.that he has been unjustly treated. The steamer Wolcott, from Copper River, Alaska, brings news of the drowning of a young woman unified Crossop and a man named Tankerson in Controller Bay. They were rowing from the month of the Chilkat river to Kayak Island and their boat capsized. The body of the young woman was recovered. On it was found $114,000. She formerly lived in Minneapolis. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The country has safely passed the trial of off-year elections. Before this election everything, except political uncertainties favored business enlargement. The volume of trade has been the greatest ev£r known in October, and the greatest ever known in any month except December, 1892. The record on November thus far shows clearings 10.4 per cent larger than last year and 9.3 per cent larger than in 1892. The railroad earnings in October have been 5.2 per cent larger than last year and 9 per cent larger than in 1892. Foreign trade shows au increase of 20 pet cent in October in exports, while imports showed a gain of only 22 per cent in October, and credits against foreign bankers were piling up at an inconvenient rate. Failures for the week were 211 in the United States, against 291 last year, and 26 in Canada, against 24 last year.”