Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

TT-tji j ;. Ex-President Cleveland is recovering from a severe attack of rherimatism. The trustees Of the Northfield Seminary have issued an appeal to the world for $3,000,000 to carry on the institutions founded by Moody. The Secretary of the Navy has arranged for the sale of the collier Scipio to Ludwig Rubell of Philadelphia, at $41,550, and for the sale of the naval tug Rocket to James Tregarther & Son of New York at $1,123. Word has been received at Washington that the Mexican Government has abolished the export tax on coffee. This is expected to have a considerable effect in the United States by increasing the receipts of Mexican coffee. It may be decided to increase the number of troops in Alaska on the ground that the constantly increasing population demands additional protection. Reports indicate that the rush next year to Alaska. especially to Cape Nome, will be large.- It is likely that one or more additional posts will be established, one doubtless at Cape Nome. Bradstreet’s says: “Holiday quiet and stock-taking impart an appl’arhnee of dullness to general distributive trade, broken, however, by fair activity in reorder business to-fill up stocks depleted by the heaviest holiday trade that has ever been experienced. Following the flurry in money, stocks and in sortie lines of speculative commodities, noted last week, has come, as was expected, a more cheerful tone and a firming up of quotations is noted in sufh staples as cotton, which was affected by last week’s money developments, and also in hog products, coffee, copper, tin and lead."