Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Because of the appearance of smallpox among the enlisted men at Fort McHenry the reservation has been quarantined by Government and city health officers. Private Holbrook of Battery B, Sixth artillery, is the victim. A boiler explosion occurred in the Knickerbocker icehouse works in the east end of Toronto, Ont., killing one man and fatally injuring two. The three were found lying on the ground mutilated and scalded almost beyond recognition. The committee representing the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Indiana, which has been in Hot Springs, Ark., investigating the Government site for a national Pythian sanitarium recommend the establishment of the institution in that eity. The location of the institution means an investment of $500,000. P. H. Hebb, who is part owner of forty Klondike claims, brings news that Dominion creek has just jumped into prominence as a gold producer of the first rank, excelling Bonanza and equaling Eldorado. Its claims are not as rich as a limited number on Eldorado, but its length is greater. Dominion and Eldora together will produce from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 at the spring clean-up. A conservative estimate puts the winter output of the Klondike at $30,000,000, doubling the output of last winter. News has been received of the Paul Jones. Fishermen have come in to New Orleans who report that several days ago they found the hulk of the Paul Jones and that of an unknown schooner. Both were lying stranded on one of the Bird islands, and the Paul Jones was broken amidships, showing, in the belief of the fishermen, that she had been blown up. The men said that the shore all about was strewn with wreckage and the personal effects of the passengers. The Paul Jones carried a party of pleasure seekers from Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville and St. Louis. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “A new year rarely opens brilliantly. .Difficulties betwwn holders of material and manufacturers continue to hinder in some industries and in some may prove embarrassing, but the activity is, on the whole, unsurpassed hitherto, and the volume of traffic is beyond all expectations, in some branches consumption is running beyond the producing capacity, but in others it is hindered by doubts about the future supplies and prices of materials. The woolem. manufacturer is still waiting, with only moderate demand for goods as yet. Sales of wools for the last three weeks at the three centers of the Eastern market have been 10,495,800 pounds, against 22,322.970 last year. The cotton manufacturer has a large demand for goods, but raw cotton has so rapidly advanced that there is hesitation in the purchases of staples. The iron and sjeel manufacture leads ail others in the vol ume of new business. While production is much the largest ever known, many of the works are withdrawing all quotations or naming prohibitory prices in order to cheek orders which they cannot fill for months to come. Failures for the week have been 249 in the United States, .igainst 374 last year, and 32 in Canada, ngainst 53 last year.”