Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

A dispatch from Toronto says the order in council prohibiting the export of spruce wood cut from crown lands has been adopted by the Ontario Government. Consequently all wood cut after April 30 must be manufactured into pulp in Canada. The recent demand of the engineers employed by the Lake Shore road that the salary classification be abolished and a uniform scale of $3.80 be paid for a day’s work has been granted by the company. The advance granted will benefit 200 engineers and amounts to about S2O a month for each man. A criminal is to be executed in the jail at Juarez, Mexico, within the next few days. The man will be shot inside the walls of the prison. An admittance fee of. 25 cents will be charged all persons desiring to witness the execution and the money thus derived will go to the widow of the condemned man. Acting Secretary Meiklejohn of the War Department has denied the application of the Manila Railway Company, limited, for payment by the United States of interest on the capital invested in the railway owned and operated by said company, pursuant to a guarantee of said interest by the Spanish Government. Corporal Lindsay of the Northwest mounted police force went to Regina to join the second Canadian contingent now being enlisted for service in South Africa. His father and brother were both killed in the first Boer war, and he was anxious to avenge their deaths. Unfortunately he could not pass the doctor. Despondency came over him and he placed a pistol in his mouth and shot and killed himself. Bradstreet’s takes this view of the trade situation: “Quietness as to demand but marked steadiness as to prices is still the leading feature in trade lines, a condition, it might be remarked, not uncommon at this stage of the year, which is a sort of middle ground between stocktaking and inventory time and the actual opening of the spring season. Aggressive strength in prices is confined to a fewstaples, such as pork products. Tallow, cottonseed oil and similar products are sympathetically strong. Raw and refined sugars have both been advanced this week.. Quite a flurry in coffee occurred as a result of reports of an outbreak of the plague at Rio. Raw wool is dull but firm, aud speculation is naturally light. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,248,926 bushels, against 2,509,682 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 6,314,576 bushels, against 4,019,036 bushels last week.”