Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

British Colaiffiilwa mincers, oppose tbe impo«rtataio«B of American labor. The transports Dofiaiy Yost ©ok and Co Juan tea sailed for Manila with the Forty second infantry on board.

While several Normal students were sharing at Regina. Mat, on the reservoir two of their number— J. Clarkson of Sea Forth. Ont_ and Miss Montgomery of Edmonton—broke through the Ice and were drowned.

The deer tenting season recently ended resulted in a total of eleven hunters killed and seven xrooiiMfed in the Michigan and Lake Superior sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most of them were mistaken for deer. The baskentime Ctshioni arrived at St. John. N. EL minus her bowsprit and headgear. She had been in collision with the Spanish steamer Santatuderine off the Xewfonndland banks. The first mate of the steamer was killed in tbe collision. The United States auxiliary cruiser Prairie has sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard for Havre, France, with the first shipment of the United States Government exhibit for the Paris exposition. The vessel will proceed to Norfolk, Va., and to Baltimore, where she will take aboard additions to her cargo, and will then go direct to Havre.

Bradstieet's commenaal review says: Warm weather and a holiday hare imparted an appearance of irregularity and even dullness to some lines of distributive trade, completing a month which has been on the whole quieter than was the preceding month, bat one which still makes satisfactory comparison with a corresponding period last year, when the weather conditions particularly favored distributive business in seasonable goods. The price ritaatioo generally is apparently one of notable strength in view of these conditions. Wheat, inclnding Btwr, shipments for the week aggregate 40(1 bushels, against 3JSS3.b» * last week, 7,483959 in 18WS. «*.««.!*» in 1887, 3.£53.100 in ISSK and 3J%K» in 1895. Since inly 1 this season the exports aggregate XUCT.:Vd bushels, against SMk «p&.«42 last year, and in 189798.