Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The proposition to organize a Texas traffic association to take the place of the Southwestern Freight Bureau, recently dissolved, is off. The executive council of the International Typographical Union has voted SIO,OOO to assist the striking printers on the New York Sun. In a collision between two river steamers on the North Sea canal one of the vessels sunk and nine persons, including two women, were drowned. The commissary department is now buying coffee in Porto Rico for supplying the army in that island and Cuba, this action having been taken as a measure of relief. The death at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, of Corporal Stephen A. Barry of Company ,C, Eleventh infantry, of a wound inflicted by a native, has been reported to the Adjutant General. Cadet Philip D. Smith, who was appointed tq the West Point Military Academy from Nebraska in 1897, was dismissed from the institution for hazing Cadet Ulysses Grant, third. A fierce gale along the Labrador coast wrecked eleven vessels, which were drh'en ashore at different points while fishing. It is feared the disasters are accompanied with large loss of life. A telegram announces the death of Frank C. Ives, the champion billiard player, which occurred at Progresso, Mexico. Consumption was the cause of death. Ives’ remains will be brought to Plainwell, Mich., for burial. A company of volunteers went from Hermosillo, Mexico, to Pitaya to join CoL Peinado’s command and arrest the Yaquis who had destroyed telegraph lines to Potam. The troops met a band of about eighty Yaquis and a short fight occurred, in which one soldier was killed and the Mexicans routed. ‘ The commercial stiuation is thus outlined by Bradstreet's: “With an exceptionally heavy business already booked for the latter portion of the year, the mercantile community faces the trade situation with confidence, testified to by very generally firm prices and with quotations in a number of lines showing further marked advances. The most conspicuous exception to this is found in cereals, which are weak and declining. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 3,613,413 bushels, against 3,313,825 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,167,868 bushels, against 4,590,097 bushels last week.*'