Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Jockey Tod Sloane is reported to have •cleared' $400,000 by the recent boom in stocks.

Dr. A. W. Hitt, of Chicago, who spent several years in India, says there are 532 oases of leprosy in the United States, ten of which are in Chicago. The American Steel and Wire Company has advanced the price of wire and wire nails $2 a ton, making the price $1.45 a hundred base M. mills to jobbers and wire nails $1.60 a hundred.

Advertisements have been issued for the sale of all lands -remaining of the land grant of the Union Pacific Railway Company. The sale is to take place at Omaha on March 6 and is held under a decree of the United States Circuit Court entered in Omaha on Dee. 2, 1892. The promoters of the hew cereal trust announce that the enterprise will be a success. The company will have a capital of $15,000,000 preferred and $18,000,000 common stock. It is said that control has been secured of every plant but one which manufactures breakfast food.

Ambassador Powell Clayton has notified the State Department that the Mexican Government has consented to grant the application of the United States authorities for the delivery to them under extradition proceedings of James Temple, an American railroad man, who is now held under arrest in Mexico for killing a Mexican on the American side of the border in Arizona. Capt. Delos Hayden, keeper of the lighthouse on West Sister Island, Lake ‘Erie, and a companion named Brown attempted to eross to the mainland over the ice. Brown died from being frozen. The two men set out with a small boat and they had not .proceeded far when their craft became fastened between ice floes. Cutting wind picked up great sheets of water, which froze oh them as it fell. Fishermen on the mainland saw the two men in distress and they went to the rescue. Hayden and Brown were unconscious. The boat was half filled with Ice, into which their feet were solidly frozen and their ice-incased hnnds held the oars. Brown was so badly frozen that he died and Capt. Hayden suffers intensely. It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of

trade says: “Failures iu January were smaller than in any previous month except August, 1898, and July, 1897, and the proportion of solvent payments to clearing house exchanges is smaller than iu any other mouth of which records exist. Iu January there were but 80 cents per sl,000, clearing house payments, and the smallest in auy previous month had been about SI.OB per SI,OOO. The defaulted liabilities were $7,721,897, against $lO,451,513 last year, a decrease of 26 per cent, and 58 per cent smaller than in 1897, 57 per cent smaller than in 1896, 50 per cent smaller than in 1895 and 76 per cent smaller than in 1894. The manufacturing failures were the smallest, except August, 1898. There were only seven failures for SIOO,OOO or more, and the average of liabilities per failure is smaller than in January of any other year, and the small failures are not only fewer in number but smaller in average liabilities than in any previous year. Considering that January is usually one of the largest months of the year in failures, the return is surprising as well as encouraging. Failures for the week have been 224 in the United States, against 335 last year, and 25 in Canada, against 39 last year.”