Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Arthur Brass, of Brookville, N. 8., Was drowned in Kennebacasis river while boating. While bathing at Loch Lomond Lake, near St. John, N. 8., Melvin Stackhouse, aged 19, was drowned. The steamer Cutch arrived at Vancouver, B. C., with 103 Klondikers. Purser Turner reports $400,000 of treasure on board. The Labrador mail steamer reports that the Peary expedition steamer Diana passed Domino Run, northern Labrador. All on board were well. An order has been issued at Washington directing that ten additional regiments of infantry volunteers be organized for service in the Philippines. The first arrest of Dominican filibusters was made by American officers at Baracoa, on the northern coast of the eastern extremity of the Island of Cuba. Captain Dillon of the steamer Socoa states that the town of Red Bay, on the island of Andros, twenty iniles southwest of Nassau, Fla., was swept away in the recent tropical hurricane and about 300 lives lost. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., for some years in the drafting room of the rolling stock department of the New York Central road, is the inventor of a locomotive every part of which was made from designs furnished by him. The first legal execution in the Klondike took place at Dawson. The victims hanged were two Indians—Dawson Nantuck and Jim Nantuck—and one white man, Edward Henderson. Henderson had murdered his partner, named Peterson. and the Indians had killed William Mahan. R. Gl Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The Cramps have discharged many hundred hands and ask Russia to extend time for completion of two warships because they cannot get the steel. Completion of twenty-one out of thirty-seven vessels building in the Delaware is also affected. It is a curious experience for this country, but shows the gigantic expansion of home demand. For wool Coates’ circular for Aug. 1 still holds good, although inside quotations are more often made. Sales for three weeks have been 28,399,990 pounds, against 13,996,500 last year, 38,530,305 in 1897 and 23,365,400 in the same weeks of 1892. Failures for the week have been: In the United States 156, against 154 last year, and in Canada 24, against 17 last year.”