Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

John Lee Carroll has been re-elected president of the Sons of the Revolution. El via Croix Seabrooke, after several years of litigation, has obtained an absolute divorce from Thomas Q. Seabrooke, tbe comedian. The street railway and lighting syndicate has absorbed the Washington Gas Company. The deal involves an expenditure of about $7,200,000. Tbe American Glass Company has advanced prices of window glass 10 per cent, to take effect at once. The production will be considerably curtailed, owing to a strike in three Eastern factories. While a freight train was passing over the big trestle at Summit Cut, Ont., the structure gave way, the engine and train going to the bottom. Fireman McLaren was killed, Engineer William Canfield fatally injured, and Brakeman McDonald was badly hurt. Negotiations for the purchase of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, popularly known as the Monon line, have been brought to an end, and the property will in a few days change ownership. The system has been bought by a New York syndicate, of which the Vanderbilts are prominent members. The new wrecking steamer Rescue of the Merritt-Chapman Wrecking Company is being fitted out in New York for a trip to Santiago de Cuba. She is the largest wrecking vessel afloat and received orders to sail on May 15. The Rescue is going to Santiago to tow the raised Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes of Admiral Cervera’s fleet to Norfolk, Va. Trouble is expected when an attempt will be made by Messrs. Stewart and Wells of Chicago to take possession of a part of Dead Man’s Island, which they have leased from the Canadian Government as a site for a sawmill. Mayor Gordon of Vancouver, B. C., claims the island as a city park and will resist tbe attempt of the Chicago men to take possession. A letter has been received by relatives in Berrien Springs, Mich., from A. L. Warren, now in the Iffbndike, in which he, says that deaths by suicide are occurring daily at Dawson City. The failure to find gold and the impoverished condition of hundreds of prospectors is dethroning the reason of miners and a suicidal mania is the result. Mr. Warren says that the hospitals are full of scurvy stricken miners and many deaths have occurred from the malady. Thousands of gold hunters are trying to gef home. Warren has been in Alaska two years and has had fair success. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Nothing appears in business or in money markets to prevent continuance of the heaviest trade ever transacted at good profits. The payment to Spain is supposed to have caused some rise in foreign exchange, which would amount to nothing in any case, as balances due from other countries more than cover the payment, and advance bills against crops to come forward in July and later will soon be offered. Nothing but industrial depression is left to excite apprehension, but the industries are meeting something very unlike depression. The kind of ‘lull’ that; appears in the iron market rejoices manufacturers, because they are crowded far ahead with orders. The coke production is still close to the maximum. London speculation lifted tin to 25% cents, and copper is very strong and scarce at 18% cents for lake. Failures for the week bare been 184 in the United States, against 204 last year, and 22 iD Canada, against 29 last year.”