Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The world’s gold output for 1S()8 is estimated at $275,000,000. The date for the Spanish evacuation of Cuba has been definitely set for Jan. 1. Ex-President Cleveland, Capt. Robley D, Evans and E. C. Benedict sailed on the latter's yacht for a two months’ trip about Cuba and Porto Rico. The Canadian cruiser Petrel seized a lot of gill nets belonging to American fishermen" in Lake Erie, which it is claimed were set in Canadian waters.

A registered letter containing SI,OOO, sent front New York by John E. Madden, the noted horseman, to his wife in Lexington, Ivy., was opened en route and the money taken. The Government is investigating. Arthur Sewall & Co.’s four-masted schooner Talofa, Captain Fletcher, from Guantanamo for Port Tampa in ballast, has been totally wrecked on Cozumel Island, off the eastern coast of Yucatan. Two of the crew drowned. A letter just received from Lieut. Robert E. Peary states that probably no message will be received from him for several years. The Hope cleared the ice fields all right, but Lieut. Peary expresses fears that the Windward may be delayed by the ice closing in. The United States immigration commissioner nt Quebec has refused to allow Fatrick Flanagan, a passenger on the steamship Gallia, to enter the United States. The objection is that he has just been released after serving fifteen years in a British prison for connection with a dynamite plot. Official figures on the recent election show that the constitutional amendment providing home rule for cities in Minnesota carries by a vote of 26,945 to 12,809. Returns from thirty-seven counties on the proposition to extend the franchise to women on school matters show 27,860 and 18,079 against, which carries it. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison has been retained by Venezuela to represent that government before the arbitration commission to settle the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela over boundary lines. Gen. Harrison is aw id to have received a retainer of SIOO,OOO. Ex-Sec-retary Tracy is said to be an associate with Gen. Harrison, and his retainer is reported to be $50,000. Passengers on the steamer Dirigo. from Skaguay, bring news of the draowning of two men in the Fifty-Mile rapids on the Yukon River. Four men left Lakejpeiinett on a scow with fifty tons of provisions. When the scow reached Fifty-Mile her seams opened and she sunk. Two men, Smith and Halloway, swam ashore. The other two, whose names are unknown, were drowned.

11. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The situation is clearer and the improvement in business which was expected after the election has begun. Payments through clearing houses are far the largest ever known—for the week, 37.3 per cent larger than last year and 33 per cent larger than in 1892. The glass workers have resumed, the anthracite coal output is heavy and much beyond the present capacity of markets, the troubles in Illinois coal mines have been settled and the new strike of shoe workers in Marlboro, Mass., is now the only labor hindrance of consequence. It is noteworthy that in spite of all changes the price of spot wheat has but slightly changed. The exports for the Week, flour included, have been 3,968,708 bushels from Atlantic ports, against 3,237.344 bushels last year, and from Pacific ports, 988,093 bushels, against 2.191,334 bushels last year, making in all for two weeks of November. 0,312,331 bushels, against 9.939,804 bushels last year.