Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Dr. J. J. Walter, pastor of the Centenary Methodist Church of Portland, Ore., has been appointed missionary in charge of all Methodist work in Alaska. Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hobson will probably go to Hong Kong to superintend the reconstruction of the three Spanish cruisers recently floated at Manila. A smooth gang of counterfeiters is at work in the Mississippi valley. The counterfeit is of standard silver dollars, and all that have so far been discovered bear date of 1890. It is believed that something like 200.000 of them have gained circulation. They have the same ring, apparently the same weight and the same external marks as the genuine. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The most significant thing this week has been the entire absence of the customary nervous fright before or after the meeting of Congress, the President’s message and the treasurer’s report. No one showed the least alarm, and nobody could find a reason for any. Money and stocks and grain markets moved on exactly as if the Government were automatic, certain to do or say no more the people had already decided and expected, and so the gradual betterment since October continues. There is a larger demand for products in nearly all the great industries, larger export demand for foreign needs, a more healthy domestic demand since seasonable weather arrived, and a comforting conviction that November business, the biggest ever done in this country in any month, was but a step toward something better. This week’s failures have been 248 in the United States, against 312 last year, and 22 in Qanada, against 29 last year.”