Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Frank C. Ives, the billiard expert, is said to be dying of consumption at Havana. The Hearst interest —one-third —of the great Homestake mine at Deadwood, S. D.. is to be sold in London next month. Secretary Smith of the National Association of Mexican War Veterans announces that the annual meeting will be held in Indianapolis Sept. 13 and 14. It is now thought the number of people who lost their lives by shipwreck during the West Indian hurricane which passed up the coast several days ago will reach 10.

Frederick Johnson, a farmer of Gilbert Plains, Man., shot and killed his wife and three children while insane, and then committed suicide by shooting himself. Neighbors say that the family relations have always been good. On the Gordon river, which has its outlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and twelve miles from salt water, a ledge has been discovered forty feet in width carrying galena from wall to wall, most of it solid galena and all the ore streaked with it.

Severe fighting took place in the neighborhood of Monte Christi, Santo Domingo, between the Government forces and the revolutionists. The former lost heavily, while the latter, owing to the advantageous positions which they occupied, only suffered slight loss. Andriano Grullon, the representative of the Santo Dominican revolutionists in this country, has received the following cablegram, signed "La Marche” and dated at Santiago de Cuba: "Revolution in capital. Government surrenders.” La Marche is the representative of the Jimiuez revolutionists at Santiago de Cuba. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four) Railroad announces that it has met the demands of the engineers on the system by agreeing to increase the pay of passenger engineers from $3.15 per 100 miles to $3.25, and the wages of freight engineers from $3.75 per 100 miles to $3.80 per 100 miles.

It is officially given out that the organization of the $37,000,01)0 window glass trust has been abandoned. Erown Bros. & Co., bankers, who were financiering the deal and are out $50,000, have withdrawn, the immediate cause being the action brought in the Indiana courts by the Glass Workers’ National Association enjoining the Indiana manufacturers from entering the trust. The independent and co-operative manufacturers organized in Columbus and will open their plants Sept. 15. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: “Actual payments through the principal clearing houses for the week were 23.1 per cent larger than last year, and 56.2 per cent larger than in the same week in 1802. For the month thus far the daily average of payments has been 26.3 per cent larger than last year, and 56.0 per cent larger than in 1892. Tonnage from Chicago in three weeks has been 80.7 per cent larger than last year and 74.6 per cent larger than in 1892. Failures for the week have been 163 in the United States, against 179 last year, and 16 in Canada, against 26 last year.”