Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Prof. Samuel Harris of Yale College ia dead, aged 85. At Hamilton, Ont., Benjamin Parrott was hanged for the murder of his mother. The murderer left a confession. News has been received of the destruction of the d’Arcey Island, B. C., lef>er station by fire. One leper is dead. The Dominion Steel and Smelting Company, with a capital of $20,000,000, has been formed at Montreal. H. M. Whitney of Boston is president. The village of St. Raymond, thirty-live miles from Quebec, was almost wiped ont by a fire. Forty buildings were burned. Loss $50,000, well insured. A number of mirror manufacturers who control the business of the United States in that line have formed a combine for the regulation of prices and production. J. M. Conroy of Conroy, Prugh & Co. was elected president. The International Supreme Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars met iu Toronto, Ont. About 500 delegates were there, among them representatives from England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and India. Five men were working in the 025-foot level of the War Eagle mine at Rossland, B. C., with machine drills when one of the drills struck a “missed hole,” where the shot had failed to go off. A frightful explosion took place. Charles Post and Charles Lee were instantly killed and Mike Griffin was so badly injured that he died on the way to the hospital.

Bradstreet’s views the trade situation thus: “Less than the average effect of approaching mid-summer influences is discernible in current trade reports. Prices, too, show a strength unusual at this period, and particularly in view of recent steady advances. This is notably manifest, of course, in the iron and steel industry, where the tendency of values is still upward. Hopes of improvement in the woolen goods industry have materialized in an active demand at leading markets for the manufactured product. Improved crop reports are responsible chiefly for lower quotations of products declining in price this week. Cotton crop prospects have continued to improve, and the raw product is lower. Raw sugar is lower on unanimous reports of improving crop prospects the world over, but refined sugar is in heavy domestic demand and firm. Lumber retains all of its early activity and strength alike as regards movement and prices. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 3,746,718 bushels, against 2,790,471 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,872,432 bushels, against 3,285.301 bushels last week.”