Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Princeton University stoSe®!#' heM a mass meeting and üßaniia-wasiy voted to abolish hazing. Grant C. Gillett, the absconding cattle speculator, is reported to iaave l<«sen arrested in Mexico, Samuel C, Dunham, a® agent off the labor bureau, estimates the output off the Klondike region for the last seas*)® at s9,ooH,e»oU, ’ A gigantic flour trust, with a capetal of fully $156,006,006, and embrarimg all the big imljs of the United States, has been practically com i deted. At Montreal, Qnc_ Pierre Laiunwn shot and killed Mrs, Adelard Richer and then committed suicide. Lanzo® had been suitor for the woman's hand, hat she chow Richot. The exports from Germany to the rested States during the quarter ended Sei*. 3o amounted to am increase of $5,110,093 over the exports dwing the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Emperor Francis Joseph, in ceWbrating the'fiftieth anniversary of his accession to the Austro-Hungariaa thmome. granted full pardon to all les* majeste prisoners and remitted the remsander of the sentences of 54-6 other prisoners. A great tobacco war between the American Tobacco Company and the Continental Plug Tobacco Company c® one side, and the new Uni-on Tobacco Company and other independent coaacHras «® the other, is expected to take place sxw®. » It is announced through H. G. Bart, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, that the Illinois Central read has signed a contract for the use of the Union Pacific bridge into Omaha and for the ■oeotapatioes of the Union passenger station which is in process of constru-cfe»ni_ Thirty-seven people were drowned were on board the British steamer Clan Drummond, from the Clyde ria Liverpool for Cape Good Hope. wrecked in the Bay of Biscay. The remainder et the ship's company saved numbered twentythree, who wore taken board the British steamer Holbein, R. G, Dun & Co-'s weekly review off trade says: *The report of failures fer the month of November is extremely gratifying, because it shows not only a decrease in number and a Smaller amount of liabilities than in any other mouth, excepting three summer months, since fibe monthly record began, but because careful analysis shows a striking improvement both in the small and in the large failures, aad in nearly all classes of industry and trade. Failures for the week have bee® 3SI in the United States, against 9t«6 lastt year, and 19 in Canada, against 28 last year.’"