Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Woodmen of the World have passed a resolution for a home far the sovereign camp to cost 908,000. Tea dries will bid for the location. The steamer La a rad*, which reoenity arrived at Seattle from the north. Ikn eight $150,000 from the Klondike, being the first shipment of treasure from there thas year. According to the Kellogg dynamometer. Captain J. D. Keen, a Louisville sad Nashville conductor, is the strongest mam in the world, when all the awsdes of the body are taken into account- Hn tatel strength is registered at 13.655 pmmfla. Druggists attribute the recent ndvwnwe of ‘55 per cent in the price of <pamme t® the great consumption dne to the Spanish war. The consumption of qninine dnriwg the last bubonic plague in India sens also immense. It is said that many ctetirateirs of cinchona neglected tbeir trees sehen the price fell below a profitable figure mod that this has caused the marked Stringency in the market. A report comes from Dawson that two Swedes, mining on a gold claim on lower Dominion creek, Klondike, struck the well-preserved body of a monster mammoth at a depth under the surface es forty feet. So well preserved was the monster that the hind quarter, weighing 8,642 pounds, was taken te Daw-son m i sections and served in a restaurant te j place of moose meat. Twenty-seven colored families, number ■ ing 104 persons in all, are stranded m Jersey City after having gone from the Went to go to Liberia, as is alleged, under a contract with the International Migration Society. It is claimed that the International Migration Society premised te send those people te Liberia, and that they have failed to carry out the promise. Mont of them are destitute and their couikion j is pitiable. R. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Business is not frightened either by the great capitalization te new companies or by the wild finetsarions m Wall street. No matter bow much the stock operations in New York may count, business elsewhere is large enough te warrant a wonderful expansion of industries and that is the thing most important lo observe. In no considerable branch has production diminished, but in (WCtically all it has been increasing during the last week. In iron and steel a MUfie lower price for Bessemer appears nt I*ittsburg, but with gray forge *■» cents higher there and Southern iron at Chicago 50 cents to $1 higher. Chicago is taking many contracts for building in Boston. New York and Washington, amounting te 4,000 tons, but makers elsewhere are overcrowded with work. The minor metals are all weaker with the reaction of London speculation. Wool is at the doubting point, with large sales ordered from the interior by tired holders, and some eoncessions made to secure transactions nt Philadelphia and Boston, though quotations show only moderate decline, and sales at the three chief markets are almost as large as iu 1882. Failures for the week have been 286 in the United States, against 251 last year, and 24 m Canada, against 21 last year.”