Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Prof. Koch announces that mosquitoes and malaria are always found together. A movement is on foot to unite the automobile and bicycle interests in a gigantic combine with $200,000,000 capital. The grievance committee of the Great Northern Railway has accepted.the terms of the company. There will be no strike; The new census gives Cuba’s population as 1-,572,840, which is 50,000 less than iu 1897. Porto Rico has 957,079, a gain. of 150,000 since 1897. The Government of Mexico has granted a concession to Chicago capitalists of 1,000,000 acres of valuable land fronting on the Gulf of Mexico and lying in the State of Tamaulipas. , Under the wage scale signed by the United Mine Workers of America and the Interstate Operators’ Association- in. Indianapolis, the men employed in the soft coal mines of the principal coal producing States will get a general advance of 21.21 per cent. Another tornado swept the coast of Newfoundland. Lark harbor was devastated and. twenty houses were blown down, including the customs station and the residence of the customs.officer... Al- - lobster factory, one of the largest, on the coast, was demolished. The following view of the trade situation is taken by Bradstreet’s; "Weather influences have played no small part in.the general trade situation this week, and yet some of the unquestionable improvement in. tone can hardly be charged to the m<we season a Ide weather experience!. Whatever the causes, however—and.these have been diverse —the fact remains that: a number, of staples, no less than speeu? lative> securities, have hardened in. value during.the weak. Wheat, .including.flour,, shipments for. the week aggregate 2,724,r 937 bushels, against 3,581,197. bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3.595.9G2 bushels, againat: 3,52ft884 bushels last week,”