Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Uuited States refrigerator steamer Celtic sailed from San Francisco for Manila via Honolulu. She carried a large amount of supplies for the Uuited States forces.

Options have been secured on the leading smelter plants of the country, according td a Wall street report, preliminary to forming a trust with a capital of $50,000,000. The steamer Olympia, about to sail from Tacoma for Manila, has an unusual cargo in the form of 350,000 American made cigarettes. The paper used in the wrappers came from China. At Manila there are all kinds of tobacco and ail kinds of cigarettes except American. The Anglo-American commission has agreed upon the establishment of a permanent international court or tribunal, similar to the interstate commerce commission, for the adjustment of disputes that may arise from time to time affeetirg commerce nnd transportation between tae United States and Canada, The annual conference of the National Association of American Rabbis, w'iieh was to have met March 13 nt Boston has been transferred to Cincinnati oa the same date. It will continue one week. Tljis change was made because the birthday anniversary of Rabbi Wise of Cincinnati, its president, falls on March 14. Engineer J. T. Jones has returned to Juneau from a surveying trip over the Taku trail to the Atliu district. He surveyed the site of a new town, which will be called Taku. It is advantageously located on Taku bay, four miles above the mouth of the Taku river, about twentyfive miles from Juneau, and is expected to become the ocean terminus of a railroad in which Eastern capitalists are inlerested. This road is to traverse the Atlin mining district and will extend to Teslin on the route to the Klondike country. The lack of a commercial treaty with Spain, the former treaty having been terminated by the war, is not altogether preventing trade between the two countries, although American products arc handicapped by an additional 20 per cent duty in Spanish ports owing to the lack cf a treaty. Still, even uuder these conditions. United States Consular Agent Mertens at Valencia reports to the State Department that there is a great demand for American wheat. A cargo of 4,000 tons of red winter wheat which had just arrived there proved entirely satisfactory, and importers were willing to receive more.

Bradstreet’s says: “Following the longcontinued cold wave, culminating in heavy snow nnd sleet storms and inclement weather'generally throughout nearly all sections of the country, come reports of reviving spring trade and of efforts to ascertain the extent to which material interests have suffered. All things considered, the damage so far indicated, while serious in some sections, has proved less than might have been expected, in view of the severity of the visitation. Exception is, of course, made in the case of the winter wheat crop, from which trustworthy reports as to damage are not forthcoming at this early period of the year. From the South come reports of more serious damage, particularly to the growing fruit and vegetable crops. Even here, however, permanent daninge. aside from the reported loss of the unpicked cotton, seems to be centered in the States of Georgia, Florida and Louisiana.”