Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Gen. Funston writes a friend at Leavenworth that he will remain in the Philippines until the war is ended. yhe Mexican troops under Gen. Lorenzo Torres met the Yaqui Indians and defeated them in a hard-fought battle. Sixty Indians were killed. Two men named Connors, sojourning in Kingston, Ont., learned the other day that they were brothers. One was from Belleville, Ont., and the other from Syracuse, N. Y. One, a chiropodist, showed his patient a picture of his mother, which the other promptly recognized, and the identification was- complete. The third advance in the price of lumber has begun to retard building operations. The last advance makes $1.50 since June 20 and $3 per 1,000 since the spring of 1898. The cause is given as the inability of the lumber people to supply the demand on account of extensive building all over the Northwest. Three surveying corps have been started out by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, under the direction of Chief Enigneer W. T. Manning of the Pittsburg and Western Railway Company, to make a complete survey of the main line of the Pittsburg and Western between Pittsburg and Akron. The survey will probably require six months to complete, and then extensive improvements costing several million dollars are contemplated. Bradstreet’s says: “All signs indicate the maintenance of general trade and industry in an unprecedented midsummer volume. Western and Northwestern trade advices tell of expanding fall trade. Shipments on fall account from Minneapolis tax the facilities of the jobbing houses. Increased demand is noted at Chicago. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 4,711,614 bushels, against 3,366,432 bushels last week, 4,111,312 bushels in the corresponding week of 1898. Since July 1 the exports of wheat aggiegate 18,508,906 bushels, against 14.426.122 bushels last year. Corn exports for the week aggregate 5,027.706 bushels, against 3,700,320 bushels last week and 2.856,923 bushels in this week a year ago.”