Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Grover Cleveland is said to be laying the wires to run for Fresident in 1900 on an anti-expansion platform. Two iceboats going at a high rate of speed came together on Hamilton bay, Ontario. William Holtbam was killed and several others were severely injured. Two boys were killed, another mortally injured and several others more or less seriously injured by a terrific explosion in one of the mixing-rooms in a building of the Nordlinger-Charlton Fireworks Company in Granitevilie, S. I. The failure of the joint high commission to reach an agreement has revived the question in St. Johns whether Newfoundland is not entitled to demand from the British Government the right to negotiate a fisheries treaty with the United States independent of Canada. The sailors of the American ship Erskine M. Phelps, which arrived at San Francisco from Baltimore, have filed charges of inhuman conduct against Capt. Graham and the first and second officers, Bailey and Moye. The men tell a pitiful story of starvation and cruelty. Brig. Gen. E. P. Ewers, now in command of a brigade of troops in the department of Santiago, Cuba, has been honorably mustered out of the volunteer army. He is lieutenant colonel of the Ninth infantry, regular army, and will join that regiment, which is under orders to proceed from Madison barracks, New York, to San Francisco, where it will be held in reserve for transportation to the Philippines. Three hundred Chinamen who have been sent from China like slaves to Mexico to work on the Mexican Central Railway tried to escape at Montreal ,Qqe. They made a determined rush with their sticks for the five railway station guards, while others started to break the windows. They yelled like maniacs. A general riot alarm was turned in and it took six wagon loads of police to subdue the Chinamen. The battleship Oregon arrived at Honolulu* twenty-three days from Callao. Owing to the long aud severe service in which she has been engaged, the wear and tear on her engines and boilers necessitated repairs, which took from ten days to two weeks to make. Capt. Barker did not think it prudent to take her into the harbor on account of the fact that 6he drew within two or three feet of as much water as there is depth to the harbor. In consequence she was anchored about a mile from shore. The Philadelphia arrived six days later, eleven days from San Diego. Her bottom was very foul and her progress slow. Bradstreet’s says: “Iron and steel and cotton goods have shared in public interest for a few days because of urgency in demand and consequent buoyancy in prices. In the former industry the striking feature has been the continued call for supplies niike of raw aud of manufactured material, not only on domestic but even on foreign account, nnd it is as yet too early to ascertain the effect of the numerous and heavy advances announced upon the export demand. In cotton goods, as in iron and steel and a number of other products, active export demand seems to have been at the bottom of the unquestionable improvement which has occurred in the last three months. The export trade in cotton goods is the largest ever known for the period since Jan. 1. Cereal products remain steady and but little changed in price. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,844,359 bushels, against 2,454,771 bushela last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,871,057 bushels, against 1,5G0,545 bnshels last week.”