Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Mexican Congress has voted SIOO,000 to President Diaz for his trip to Chicago. Disastrous earthquakes, lasting a week, are reported in the vicinity of Juneau, Alaska. Congressman R. B. Hawley, representing American capitalists, has purchased the Tinguaro sugar estate in Cuba. Judge Alfred S. Hartwell has been ehosen by the Hawaiian Government to represent the territory of Hawaii unofficially in Washington during the coming Congress. The wreck of an unidentified schooner was discovered in a cove near Cape Pine, on the southern part of the peninsula of Avalon, N. F. The crew is supposed to have perished. Albert J. Earling has been elected president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad to succeed Roswell Miller, who takes the newly created position of chairman of the board of directors. Rev. F. J. H. Bennett, Presbyterian missionary at Ainsworth, B. C., accidentally shot himself and died. He was hunting high up on a mountain and slipped off a cliff. The gun was discharged, blowing off his arm. The Yaqui Indians continue their depredations in Sonora, Mexico. The Americans have begun to suffer at the hands of the savages, and if reports be true seven miners from New York have been recently murdered in the Sohuaripa district. The Porto Rican board of charities’ tabulated statistics show that out of a population of 910,894 there are 291,089 indigent and 11,858 sick. The number of deaths as a result of the recent hurricane was 2,019. One week’s rations were issued to 293,147 persons. News reached Victoria, B. C., by the steamer Cottage City that a relief expedition had been sent by the mounted poi'ce to the Mackenzie river trail, where great suffering is said to prevail. The last arrival from the Mackenzie river was au Australian named Edwards-on, who, after losiug his supplies, was a week without food.

Bradstreet's says: “Satisfactory trade aud price conditions apparently still reign. So few, in fact, are the reports of poor trade that favorable reports may be said to be almost unanimous. An expanded volume of fall trade is indicated by the aggregate of bank clearings for the week, though reports from some markets point to the greatest rush being over. Prices as a rule maintain all their former strength, decreases being few and relatively unimportant. In several lines, notably the cereals, cotton, petroleum, iron and steel, the tendency is toward higher levels. Cotton has been notably strong and active. -Wool is higher at London and sympathetically strong here, and expectations of a good export trade for fine grades of domestics are entertained. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,030,765 bushels, against 4,530,552 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,75)4,905 bushels, against 3,282,751 bushels last week. Failures for the week have been 154 in the United States, against 173 last year, and 18 in Canada, against 10 last year.”