Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Mrs. Henry W. Lawton has written to Gen. Corbin expressing her gratitude to the American people for the fund raised to release her home from debt. President McKinley has appointed Bernard Moses, of California, as the fifth member of the new sion, and the appointment has been accepted. Yaqui Indians fought a big battle with Mexican regulars and at first defeated them and disabled a gunboat, but later the Indians were driven back into the mountains. The Theater Francais and nearly the entire block on St. Catharine street, between St. Dominique and Cadieux streets, Montreal, was burned. The total loss is about SIOO,OOO, American cattle buyers have contracted for 30,000 head of beef cattle in Chihuahua, Mex., for shipment to Cuba. They are to be shipped in lots of 1,000 head a week, the first shipments having been made. Four masked men entered the ferryboat Charon, plying between Bellaire, 0., and Benwood, Va., on the Ohio river and covered the. engineer and night watchman w ith revolvers while they blew open the safe and took the day’s receipts, amounting to S2OO. Orders have been issued by Secretary Long directing that arrangements be made for placing the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo in commission. It is expected the Buffalo will be used as a landsmen’s training ship. The Topeka will also be used for this purpose. Mrs. H. Hofercamp, probably the last surviving witness of the marriage of Abraham Lincoln, died at Quesnelle, B. C., of paralysis. When only 2 years old she witnessed Lincoln’s marriage to Miss Todd. She went to the Pacific coast in the early ’sos. The United States milling combine, generally known as the flour trust, has gone to pieces, but the fact did not become known until Judge Jenkins in proceedings auxiliary to the United States Court of New Jersey appointed three receivers for the company. It is probable that the export flour trade from the great wheat belt of Kansas and the West will in the future be sent to European points via the Gulf. Nearly all of the export shipments from Kansas and Oklahoma now are going to Galveston or New Orleans. Western railroads and lines which touch Gulf points are encouraging this movement and are granting special rates to exporters. It is claimed that the excessive freight charges ou lines east of Chicago are responsible for the heavy Gulf business. A barrel of Kansas flour can be delivered in Havana just as cheaply as in New York, and it only costs 5 cents more per barrel to lay it down in London. ,

Bradstreet’s reports on the business situation as follows: “General distributive trade is of satisfactory volume, though affected by weather conditions and holidays. Spring business is enlarging at many markets East and West. A softening of prices of speculatively dealt In staples is to be npted, but the reactions are of narrow extent'. Money is steady as a whole and no higher than a week ago. Bank clearings comparisons are rather less favorable. Gains in railway earnings for the first two weeks of February are of absolutely phenomenal proportions. The earnings of sixty roads for the second week of February aggregate $7,941,000, an increase of 30.4 per cent, over the same period a year ago. The strength of staple values is a feature of Canadian trade. Toronto reports heavy buying of spring and summer goods. Industrial activity is very marked. Canadian factories running to their fullest capacity.”