Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Montreal capitalists have incorporated a company to build a railroad over Chilkoot Pass.

It was announced that Willis J. Abbot, well known in newspaper circles throughout the United States, has been selected to take charge of the press bureau of the Democratic national committee. Elections for the provincial legislature were held throughout the province of Manitoba. The returns show the election of twenty-one Conservatives and sixteen Liberals.

Benjamin Armitage, a close friend of John Bright and Richard Coliden, who assisted in framing the treaty of commerce with France and served several terms in Parliament, is dead. William Weir, president of the defunct Yille Marie Bank of Montreal, convicted of furuishiug a false statement of the bank’s affairs to the Government, has been to two years’ imprisonment.

The Canadian steamer Niagara has foundered in Lake Erie aud all hands were lost. ■ The crew comprised sixteen persons, ail told. The Niagara had a cargo of lumber and shingles bound from Georgian Bay to Buffalo. The American Window Glass Company is reported to have made a cut of 33 1-3 per cent in the price of all window glass, aud to have ordered fires lighted in all its factories, the purpose being to resume operations about Jan. 1. The steamer Knmapo reported that while in Lake Erie twenty miles below Long Point, she passed through a quantity of wreckage, including a portion of a cabin. No distinguishing marks could be made out, but it is believed that some vessel must have gone to pieces. Mile. Anna Lltimpke, the sole legatee of Rosa Bonheur, announces her intention to found an annual prize of 1,500 francs in memory of Rosa Bonheur, to be awarded by the Salon Ju to the best painting, whether by a man or a woman, French or foreign. The entire crop of sugar cane and beet for 1800-1000 will arnouut to about B,UUUt--000 tons —about tbe same amount as last year—according to carefully prepared statistics submitted to the State Depart raent by United States Consul Diederich at M*Sdcbt ir S> Germany. Of this amount th« United States uses about one-fourth. A memorable year for tbe lake shipping tegde ended the other day when the navigation season formally came to a close. Not ouly have profits to vessel owners been unprecedented, but there is every promise that the next season will be just as profitable to the lake trade. The enormous demand for iron .ore was the main cause of the lake boom. Bradstreet’s says: “The last month of the year has opened auspiciously, finding trade and industry generally well employed, demand treading close upon and even passing supply, labor troubles averted in some instances by widespread advances in wages, of small importance except in one or two cities and with the general level of values of staples at the highest point reached for eight years past. Holiday demand has opened well and collections from retail trades therefore show some improvement. ' ‘ The strength of cereals, notably wheat, this week, is a reflection largely of decreased receipts at the Northwest. Wheat, including floor, shipments for the week aggregate 5,133,331 bushels, against 3,(590,400 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3.813J599 bushels, against 4,441,514 bushels last week.”