Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

General Shatter says the Cubans are not fit for self-government. Salaries of $75 and over are to be cut 10 per cent Jan. 1 all along the Quincy branch of the Port Arthur route. Train and yard men are not included. General Manager Hays of the Grand Trank Railway has recognized the Railway Telegraphers’ Association by deputing General Superintendent McQuiggan to discuss the grievances of the employes of the road with them. The Mexican Congress has confirmed one of the largest concessions for many years. The concession was granted to Cat tain A. B. Smith of Los Angeles, Cal., and his associates, for colonizing, steamship and railway enterprises of the first magnitude. The colony lands include many leagues of the Gulf of California, with conditions that a railway be constructed at once from tho lands to Yuma, Cal., and a steamship service be placed from the head of the gulf to the southern Mexico boundary. R. G. D,un & Co.’s weekly review of trade says? “December is adding a surprising close to the most surprising year •>f American history. November surpassed all other months of the century in volume of business and production, and thus far December is doing even better in payments through clearing houses, in railroad earnings, in foreign trade, in output of pig iron, in activity and strength of securities. The woolen industry also ciime* to the front with very extensive purchases of wool by large houses and small. In cotton the foreign demand is really inexplicable, considering its volume ia comparison with movements of goods fr»m Great Britain. Failures for the week have been 261 in the United Statps, against 329 last year, and 31 in Canada, against 28 last year.”