Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

America’s corn kitchen at the Paris exposition has been formally opened. Examination of the books of the San Juan, Porto Rico, post office reveal no shortage. Commissioner Peck flatly denies the story that the United States pavilion in Paris is flimsy and unsafe. Populist leaders have contributed to a fund to perpetuate a memorial to Thomas Paine, the revolutionary hero. Fire at St. Catharines, Ont., destroyed the plants of the Canada Cycle and Motor Company and the Welland Vale Company, with loss of $500,000. At the City of Mexico an earthquake had three distinct shocks of forty, twenty and fifteen seconds each. No serious damage was done except eracked walls. Admiral Dewey has decided that he is not in the presidential race this year at least. The heartiness of the reception accorded to him in the South did not deceive him about his chances for getting a nomination at the Democratic convention. A deal is pending in the City of Mexico for the transfer from capitalists in Monterey of the steel plant there to the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The capital authorized for the Monterey company is $lO,t MX),000. Reports from outlying States show that the recent earthquake in Mexico, which was mild in the capital, was severe on the Pacific coast. The second shock was followed by a tidal wave many feet high, enveloping every coast town of Colima and Jalisco. At Penitas and Zapotillo fishing boats were swamped and several natives drowned. Bradstreet’s views the industrial situation thus: “Continued dullness in many branches and a further shading in several staple lines constitute the leading features in the business situation this week. The weakness of prices is displayed In lower quotations for corn, pork, butter, cheese, wool and cotton among the great agricultural products, and petroleum and lead among mineral productions. Wheat is slightly higher, partly owing to less favorable crop reports here and abroad. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,178,422 bushels, against 3,480,574 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,437,994 bushels, against 4,638,140 bushels last week.”