Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Seven persons were killed at Colima, Mexico, by an earthquake. The destruction of property was considerable. Mary Emma Woolley, M. A., professor of Biblical history and literature in Wellesley College, has been unanimously chosen president of Mount Holyoke College. Dr. I. M. Cline, chief of the weather bureau of Texas, will' establish observatories in all the Mexican gulf ports, beginning at Tampico and finishing his work at Progresso. The plan of consolidating the thirtytwo leading bridge building companies under the name of the American Bridge Company is to be carried out. The capital will be about $32,000,000. A special from Nogales, Mexico, says a battle has been fought by the Mexicans and Yaquis, in which the Yaquis were defeated with heavy loss. Thetr killed numbered 200. Five hundred were taken prisoners. Former United States Consul Macrum is reported to be the bearer of a letter from President Kruger of the Transvaal republic asking President McKinley to mediate between the Transvaal and Great Britain. United States Minister Leishman at Berne, Switzerland, has cabled the State Department that the Swiss Government has revoked a former decision and gives general authorization for the importation of American dried fruits. The fruit growers and farm product shippers have formed a permanent organization, to be known as the Growers and Shippers’ National Protective Union. 'The capital stock is placed at $50,000 in shares of $1 each. Headquarters are to be in Kansas City, with branch offices in other cities. Passengers arriving from Dawson on the City of Topeka confirm the report of the murder of Fred H. Clayson, the Skaguay merchant; a Northwest police telegraph lineman named Olsen, and two Klondikers, whose names arc unknown, near Minto. The men were murdered for their money. Q R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: “Whether the new year will surpass or keep pace with the old is the question which gives especial interest to every week’s returns./ Comparing now with business by far the largest and mostprosperous ever known, a year ago, more than 40 per cent larger than in January, 1898, which in its turn had shown heavier business than in any year preceding, it cannot be expected thatsucha gain will be repeated. But the decrease of 9.6 per cent in payments through clearing bouses is wholly due so great speculative activity at New York last year. Perhaps the most important industrial event is the marketing of woolen goods, at prices averaging 18.4 per cent higher than last year. Sales in three weeks, 14,920,800 pounds, have been smaller than in the corresponding weeks of the three previous years. Failures for the week have been 242 in the United States, against 249 last year, and 40 In Canada, against 32 last year.”