Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Bicycle tubcmakqrs bare formed a trust. The former Spanish cruiser Eeina Mercedes has arrived at Hampton Roads. Three companies of infantry are to he sent to Alaska to prevent a clash over toe boundary dispute. President McKinley and Arthur Dixon of Chicago have been elected members Of the board of trustees of the American University. The American Bankers' Association has decided upon Sept. 5, 6 and 7 as the dates for its next annnal convention, which to to be held in Cleveland. The American liurr Paris, with many noted people on board, went ashore an toe Manacles, off the Cornwall shore of England. The passengers were *ll rescued without injury. Messengers have arrived in Victoria, R. C., with news of a fire that laid threefourths of Dawson City, X. W, T„ to ashes. The loss is estimated at from SB,000,000 to $4,000,000. No lives were lost. The American Glass Company, toe combination of window glass concerns, has tosued a new list advancing toe price off its product 5 per cent, to go into effect Jimi 1. This is the second advance recently made in window- glass. Nine railroads that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company tom been operating under leases for yean hare been bought outright by this corporation, and hereafter they will be parts of toe lug system. The following are the reads: Illinois Valley and Northern, Galesburg and Rio, Chicago and lowa, Peoria sad Hannibal, Ottawa, Oswego and Fox fiber Valley, Illinois and Grand Trunk, American Central, Quincy and Warsaw; and St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago. The purchase of these branches solidifies the Burlington system east of the Missouri river. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “The feature of the trade situation this week is the renewed strength of wheat and other cereals, iron and steel, and last, hut not least, raw wool, which has heretofore lagged behind other staples in a discouraging way. The price-making features in cereals are not entirely of encouraging character, being chiefly the less favorable reports as to tbe growing crop west and northwest, and advices of insect dam-, age influencing western markets toward a higher plane in face of a discouragmgly small export business, caused in some degree by the continuance of the strike of grain handlers at Buffalo checking toa movement of large quantities of gram to the seaboard. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 200 bushels, against 3,284,182 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggie-, gate 2,753,414 bushels, against 2,708,08* bushels last week.”