Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Mrs. John A. Logan, Jr., ba9 received a telegram from Secretary of War Root, notifying her that he had advised Gen. Otis by cable to have the body Of Maj. Logan exhumed and sent home. L. Duplace, German consul at San Juan, Porto Rico, who was a passenger on the steamship Patria, and was rescued with the other passengers, died from the Shock after reaching land. Rumors current for several weeks culminated in the definite admission by offi-. rials of the Satanillo and Moroto Railroad and the Pouupo mine at Santiago de Cuba that both properties bad been sold to the Carnegie company. A decided earthquake shock was felt at Santiago de Cuba, lasting nearly half a minute. Several houses iu the city were badly damaged and the front of the marine hospital office fell, blocking the street. No personal injuries are reported. The trust that has purchased eighteentwentieths of all thia year’s crop of broom corn in the United States has agreed to make the price of central Illinois broom corn S3OO per ton f. o. b. cars, all other grades of broom corn to follow in price according to quality. John W. Gates of Chicago, president of the American Steel and Wire Company, and William Edcburn of New York closed negotiations with J. W. Drape & Co. of Pittsburg for the purchase of 0,000 acres of ore land for a new organizatiqn known as the United States Mining Company. The cash price for the property is $1.000.000s Bradstreet’s views the business situation thus: “General trade and industry continue at a maximum volume for this season of the year, while prices as a whole manifest a strength unapproacbed in recent years. Strength of values is still most notable among manufactured textiles, but cereals, hides, leather and manufactures thereof have also strengthened slightly. ' On the othet hand, pork products, rawcotton and tin are slightly lower. The great majority of prices, however, remain firm at unchanged quotations. The strength of cot' ton goods this week, partly the rcsqlt of active demand, and also of heavily reduced available stocks, has been in striking contrast with the irregularity and at times weakness manifested by the raw product. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 4,540,007 bushels, against 4.050,843 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4.C03.718 bushels, against 4,581,447 bnshels last week.”