Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Gen. Wood finds the rumor of a coming outbreak of Cubans, June 1, is baseless. The City of Mexico has made a contract for the paving of seventy-five streets with asphalt. The demands of the telegraph operators on the Intercolonial Railway Company for recognition and holidays have been granted by the minister of railways and indorsed by the Government. The War Department has prepared a comparative statement showing the British losses in South Africa and the American losses in the Spanish war. Up to date England has lost in effective strength, killed, wounded and sick, 23,000 men. The American losses were 2,910 dead and 1,577 wounded. A large party of emigrants belonging to a Russian colony that was recently established iu the wilds of the State of Chiapaz, Mexico, has arrived at Tampico, Mexico. Its members claim they were Received into locating in Mexico and have abandoned the colony. They are on their way to Glee Ella, Okla. » All the farmers of the a sort of international trust to restrict the pro duction of wheat and raise prices is the plan which it is hoped to carry into effect at the international agricultural conference in Parils July 9-16. It is proposed to ask the farmers of the world to reduce their wheat output by 20 per cent, and not to sell a bushel for less than SI.OO. Bradstreet’s says: “Backward spring weather conditions have figured considerably in distributive trade reports this week, and in connection with some weakness in prices of leading staples have imparted an appearance of irregularity to the general situation. Another one of those downward swings in the prices of agricultural staples is exhibited this week in slightly lowered prices for the cereals. Evidences accumulate that active missionary work in favor of lower prices for iron and steel is at last bearing fruit. A slight upward swing in cotton is to be noted and Southern mills have officially advanced prices. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 2,896,053 bushels, against 3,836,963 bushels last week. ' Corn exports for the week aggregated 2,799,443 bushels, against 4,361,591 bushels last week."