Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

At Baldur, Man., two men gagged and bound Municipal Treasurer Harrower and robbed him of S7OO. The highwaymen escaped before their victim’s cries brought help. George A. Armour has given SIO,OOO to found a classical alcove in the university library in Princeton, and a yearly endowment for three years of $2,700 toward its support. One of Dr. Gatling's new east-steel guns, which Gen. Miles regarded as likely to revolutionise coast defense artillery, burst into pieces at the Sandy Hook proving grounds while being tested. There is a strong movement on foot at Dawson to send a representative to Washington for the purpose of enlisting the United States Government in the cause of aiding in remedying the great distress which prevails among the miners of the Yukon.

Advices received at Vancouver. B. C.. from Alaska say very severe weather has been experienced on the pass. Lake Bennett has at last begun to freeze over. The White Pass Railway, which is npw being built in Canadian territory, has commenced on its last tunnel. Gov. Brady of Alaska has arrived in Washington to urge haste in territorial matters. He says mauy of the people who rushed into the Klondike region are coming out, largely because of the high taxation. Many thousands of people, he says, already have started for the Atlan district. A dispatch from Auckland, N« Z.. says advices have bwn received from Tonga, the seat of the Government of the Tonga, or Friendly Islands, that the German consul has arrived there from the Samoan Islands, and has given notice that Germany will seize Vavao, the most fertile of the group, unless the Tongan Government pays the private debts which the natives owe a German company. The Government repudiates responsibility for the giving of credit to the natives, contrary to law, and the king is appealing to England, America and France. Bradstreet’s views the trade situation thus: “The situation is one of quiet, sustained strength. In wholesale distributive trade annual inventories have occupied attention, and distribution in this branch is, therefore, of only seasonable proportions. Retail reflects the quieting down of the demand ruling before the holidays, but it is significant that the majority of the reports received since Jan. 1 iu this and in the wholesale branch refer to collections as almost uniformly good. Export trade, particularly in cereals, continues well up to maximum figures, while reports from the new great industries of the country are favorable. Bank clearings for the week reflect exceptionally heavy annual settlements in a total of $1,765,900,000, nearly $40,000,000 larger than ever before reported. Wheat, iucluding flour, shipments for the week aggregate 6,860,208 bushels, against 6,292,625 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,844,288 bushels, against 3,659,745 bushels last week.” .