Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Fire in Toronto, ; OuL, ilesiroy'-cd the ’iiiilding on Front street.occupied by (tSvw>tns. Kent A: Co, crockery sod glass ware dealers. The loss is estimated at 4KSOA--090. The richest gold strike made fgw mtoaths is reported from McDonald cret-k. X-Mrtftt-west Territory. Surface graved gave ffresin $1 tos2 a pan. Tbe gold is -coarse and assays high. It was announced that a consodidatian | of all tlie Royalty shoe matliißery anterI ests centered in Boston had bet* [ mated in a corporation owgatiiza'd mider the laws of New Jerscy, with a -capital of $25,000,000. Arrangements are under way and partly completed for tbe amalgamation -of interests of all the leading wooden manufacturers in the United States. The -capital which will he represented in this <v>iufei~ nation will he at least SOO.OO'Y'OtJO. John W, Gates, chairman of The board of directors of the American Steeil and (Vire Company, confirms the report Shat March 7 the company would a-dvawoe She wages of its 3(1,000 employes. These increases in wages, Mr. Gates -said, will amount in the aggregate to between $750,000 and $1,000,000 a year. Tbe royal artillery regimental -quarters in the citadel at Halifax. X. were burned, causing intense cxciteaweat throughout the city. The fire started a® the basement and burned to the roof and extended for sixty yards akmg the range of buildings inside the fort. All the regiment a! papers were burned, and the lass will l>e several thousand dollars. Capt. D. W. Glenn, who is mow a® Washington on special duty in coßMaeictsi with the exploration of the Klondike «w» .try, has received a telegram annonaacing that Lieut. Castner, United States army, and two enlisted men, who disappeared in the frozen wilderness of the Klondike last August, have arrived safely at Wesie. a station at the mouth of she Tama®* river. Advices from the Klondike regi-osa ase that Dawson’s first dog frana rout-d is in successful opr rat ion. It runs froan Dawson to the forks of El Dorado and Bonanza creeks, and thence «i> Bonanza, a total distance of nearly twenty males. Thirty thousand dollars were expended in building the road and placing bridges over Bonanza Creek. The tram company charges 1 cent a pound for all freight passing over the road. Ten -dogs poll a sled load of 2.000 pounds. The following report is made hy Bradstreet’s: “That some favorable effects are likely to follow the atmospheric changes of the week is evidenced by report's <of improved distribution at retail of heavy ‘’winter goods, while the effect -on spring trade appears to be chiefly regarded as one of retardation rather than of positive injury. In leading staples the strength of prices is still a feature, all the gains made in January being sustained, if not further improved. Souse refii-et-kwa -of the cold wave is found in the advance a® wheat, showing an inclination to voneede some damage to the winter wheat crop, in view of claims that snow protection is lacking in many sections. Tbe strength of cotton, while to some extent ha-sod on -smaller receipts and a red net ion of the usual ‘winter’ crop, appears mainly d®e to the cheerful tone of the cotton goods market and the strength of demand and price manifested by those staples both at home nnd abroad. Wheat, imdndimg flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,870,500 bushels, against tv585,418 bushels last week. Corn exports for tbe week aggregate 3,805,022 bushels, against 3,697,731 bushels last week.”