Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Secretary Long opposes the purchase of the Gathmann gun for the navy. A collection of Porto Rican animals has been made for the National Museum. Fannie - W ard, the actress, has married “Diamond Joe” Lewis, South African millionaire. The United States Supreme Court rendered a decision holding the inheritance tax law to be valid and constitutional. The steamer Quito sailed from New York for Bombay with 200,000 bushels of corn for the famine district in India. The report of the commission appointed to inquire into the state of the finances of Manitoba states that the amount of liabilities unpaid to be $150,013.78. Four hundred Japanese immigrants have been landed at Victoria, B. C. A large number are weavers coining under a contract to work in some New England mills. The American Cotton Company, with a capital of $1,000,000, has been incorporated. The incorporators are officers of five big textile labor unions. The labor leaders will be directors of the corporation. At Toronto, Ont., little Arthur Mclntyre, aged 12 years, drew a revolver from his pocket and deliberately shot his father dead, the ball passing just over the heart. The father had refused him permission to absent himself from work. Commissioner Wilson of the internal revenue bureau has decided that if a State bank, in accordance with the provisions of section 5154 of the revised statutes, becomes a national bank under certain conditions it is not subject to another tax. The sealing schooners have made a wonderfully good catch on the west coast this year. Should the strikes on the revenue cutters continue they are in hopes of doing still better, as they will have Bering Sea all to themselves for a few weeks to come.

Bradstreet’s says: “The trade situation this week may be summed up in the phrase: Inactive demand and weaker prices. While in many respects the industrial situation is easier than it was, the unsettlement in the building trades continues marked, the reflex action being exhibited in unsettled demand for building material and weaker prices for lumber and for many products used in the building industry, in speculative, markets dullness has been the feature, wheat, after considerable steadiness, weakening on the favorable Government crop report. Wheat, including dour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,480,574 bushels, against 4,537,022 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,638,140 bushels, against 3,411,015 last week.”