Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Martin J. Carter of Pennsylvania has Iteen appointed consul. of the United States at St. Johns, N. F. The Brunswick Hotel at Sorel, Quebec, was destroyed by fire, the loss Wing OUO. The guests and employes had narrow escapes. Capt. Stetson, master of the bark Carondelet, from New Castle, N. S. W-, reports passing an uncharted reef in the South Pacific ocean. The reef as it showed above the water was about a quarter off a mile long. It was in latitude 5.33 south and longitude 173.58 west. The steamer Alameda brings the news of the finding of a gold nugget in western Australia weighing twenty and a half pounds avoirdupois. The massive slug, together with over 200 ounces of smaller size, was uncovered just two miles north of where the Pantomime nugget was found. At St. Scholastique, Quebec, Mrs. Cornelia Poirier and Samuel Parslow were hanged. The crime for which they were executed was the murder of Isidore Poirier, the woman’s husband, Nov. 21, ISfRZ. They killed him with a butcher knife while he was sleeping. Both confessed the crime, each laying the blame on the other. W. C. Johnson, senior vice-commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has issued a call for the executrve committee of the national Itoard of administration of the Grand Army to meet in the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 12, to select a commandor-in-chief to succeed the late Gen. J times A_ Sexton. Transportation arrangements made with the Great Northern road give evidence that the colonization movement of liunkers to the Bed River valley will be even greater this year than it was last year. The largest colony will start west from St. Paul March 28, being made up of between 3,000 and 4,000 Hunkers tram Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. The United States consul at Dawson, J. C. McCook, informs the Department of State at YVashington concerning the condition of the people there as fallows: “The situation as to persons who will be out of food in a couple of months is becoming very serious. Many hundreds will have to be helped out when navigation opens. Many have gone out over the ice and are going out daily. The relief committee at this place is unable to extend any more aid, as all funds collected have been exhausted and it is some $2,000 in debt.”

Bradstreet’s says: “Industrial and trade activity is still a pre-eminent feature at the general business sitnation. Price strength, too, is notable, especially in view of the midwinter rise of February, except in the case of the leading cereals and wool. In manufacturing lines the situation is one of great activity. The iron and steel trade is still excited by reports of feverish demand, inadequate supplies and further advanced quotations. An easier tendency in wool is one of the disappohrting features of the week. The demand for cotton goods is very active and nearly nil classes are firmly held. Cotton remains steady. Lumber is active at most markets and prices are firm. Raw and refined sugar have alike moved upward this week. Wheat is weaker, notwithstanding crop damage reports, and other cereals are in sympathy therewith. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 4,398,821 bushels, against 5.815,585 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,736.586 bushels, against 5,794,863 bushels last week.”