Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Navigation is open from Lake Svperior through to Lake Huron. Very Rev. L. Elena, vicar general of the diocese of Hamilton, Ont., is dead, aged 82 years. The failure is announced of the Cosset Cycle Company of Toronto, Ont., one of the oldest and largest bicycle manufacturing firms in Canada. Several towns in southern Illinois and Indiana and northern Kentucky were shaken by earthquake shocks. No loss of life is reported, but several persons were injured and many buildings rendered unsafe. Very Rev. F. Barnada. acting administrator of tbe archdiocese of Santiago, has been named archbishop of Santiago by Pope Leo XIII. Father Barnada it a native Cuban and a great admirer of American institutions. It is understood at Skaguay, Alaska, that the Canadian Government has instructed its collector to see that all American convoys are allowed to proceed to Log Cabin as formerly. It is further stated that the Canadian officials, iu stopping convoys at the summit, acted without authority. Dr. ‘John Duncan Quaekenbos, emeritus professor of Columbia University, has become convinced by a series of remarkable experiments that hypnotism may he employed to a great advantage not only yin alleviating pain and curing certain diseases, but for the purpose of reforming criminals and the treatment of certain forms of insanity. Reports received by grain men in Toronto, indicate heavy damage to winter wheat in sections east of Toronto. In many cases tbe crop is a total failure, and farmers are plowing up the ground preparatory -to planting spring wheat or, barley. Last year’s crop of winter wheat in Ontario was estimated at 20*000,000 bushels, but there will be a big decrease this year.

Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1900, has been officially notified of the allotment of 56,500 square feet in the Vincennes annex, divided as follows: 21,500 square feet for railroad exhibits, 4,300 for automobiles, 8,000 for bicycles, to be housed in a building erected by the American manufacturers; 19,400 far operating machinery, 2,700 for life-saving exhibits. This makes a total of 300,600 square feet of space allotted to American exhibits, sr double the amount of the original grants. . Bradstreet’s view of the business situation is thus summarised: “Favorable weather conditions find reflection in reports of good retail distribution of spring and summer goods, and in fair filling-in orders from jobbers. Demand from first hands for general merchandise is, if anything, quieter, in keeping with the ‘between season’ period now at hand. Industrial activity continues specially marked, a pleasing feature this week being the practical absence of the nnrest, particularly in the building trades, noted for many years past about May 1. favoring retail distribution, the springlike weather conditions, however, have been the reverse of stimulating qs regards quotations of two of the countries’ greatest stapes, wheat and eotton. In these and in hog products the tendency of values has been toward a lower range. Winter wheat crop advices have continued irregularly unfavorable. Cotton has wenkened on better reports. The strength of the lumber markets shows little impairment. Wool as a whole is quiet and steady. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 3.028,283 bushels, against 2,932,959 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,615,079 bushels, against 3,091,940 bushels last week.”