Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Skaguay, Alaska, has absorbed its rival city, Dyea. The legislative council of Victoria has rejected the woman’s suffrage bill. The arctic steamer Windward has arrived at Brigus, N. F., with news that Peary has established winter quarters at Fort Conger. The United States cruiser Detroit has been ordered to Venezuela, where American interests are reported to be menaced by a revolution. Trof. Campbell of the Lick Observatory has discovered that the polar star is a triple system, two of the bodies revolving about each other and at the same time moving about the third body. The Hollander Line will soon open its service between New York and St. Louis. The steamship Catania will sail from New York to Mobile, whence the Mobile and Ohio Railroad will be used to St. Louis. The statistics of the cotton crop for the year ended Sept. 1, as compiled by the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, show a total crop of 11,285,888 bales, against 11,180,9(50 bales in 1898 and 8,714,011 bales in 1897. Owing to the laws of Mexico prohibiting the removal of bodies from that country until two years after death, the body of Frank Ives, the former champion billiard player, who died at Progreso, cannot tic brought to this country for burial. Adjt. Gen. William C. Lillee of the Spanish war . veterans, received a telegram from Miss Helen M. Gould, who was unanimously elected national sponsor of the Spanish War Veterans’ Association, thanking the society for the honor. At Sydney, X. S. W., Right. Hon. George Houston Reid, the premier, treasurer and minister of railways, and the other members of the cabinet resigned in consequence of the action of the assembly, which passed a resolution declaring u lack of confidence in the ministry. The naval estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. will aggregate about $50,000,000. This considerable increase in the cost of the navy is due in great part to the expenditures which will have to be made during the present and coming fiscal year for the construction of new war vessels. There is a plan arranged to form a gigantic railway system which will create a trunk line consolidation greater than any tiow in existence in this country, and it will embrace the Baltimore and Ohio. Pittsburg and Western, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Rending, West Virginia and Pittsburg and several smaller roads in as many States. Bradstreet's commercial report says: “Strength of staple prices, activity in fall demand, large railroad earnings, reports of heavy lake traffic and of activity in leading industries are the features, none of them necessarily new, but still presenting themselves in the trade situation this week. Expansion in fall demand is perhaps most notable at the leading western and northwestern markets, but advices from eastern markets furnish evidence that active interest is manifested at these centers. The price situation is one of notable strength. Cereals ure generally higher. The hot weather in the West is responsible for a further shading in exuberant estimates of the corn crop and for the slight strengthening in prices shown therein. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,353,906 bushels, against 3,(313,443 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,786,873 bushels, against 4,167,868 bushels last week.”