Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The new steel bridge across the St. Lawrence river at Quebec will be 4,000 feet long nnd 150 feet above the river, thus enabling the largest ship to pass under. The Omaha, Council Bluffs and Suburban Company has bought out and will absorb the Onvalia aud Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company, commonly kuown as the "Bridge Line.” At the request of the Philippine commission, V. M. Kiggins, chairman of the central board of examiners of the United States civil service commission, has been assigned to duty in the Philippines. A message from Grand Mere, Quebec, states that Russell A. Algex 1 , Jr., who is general manager of the Laurentine pulp mills, had his right hand blown off by the premature explosion of a giant firecracker.

Minister Wu, Chinese minister at Washington, has received a reussuring message from the Sheug, the Chinese director of telegraphs, stating that the legations were safe and that Chinese imperial troops were fighting the “Boxers." It is learned that detectives have been guarding the penitentiary at Toronto, Ont.. for several days, the department of justice having been made acquainted with a plot having for its object the forcible release of the trio of invmeibles —Walsh, Nolan and Dullman. It is not known the form the attempt at rescue would take, but dynamite is feared. The Welland Canal dynamiters are doing their work quietly about the prison and are seemingly unaware of any efforts outside to secure their release by force. Bradstreet’s views the trade situation thus: “Business is usually dull at this season, and this year no exception to the general rule is remarked. A review of the last six months, however, gives little comfort to pessimists. Bank clearings, it is true, are smaller by about 11 per cent, than they were in the first half of 1899; but railway earnings are about 10 I>er cent, larger, and business failures, ns reported to Bradstreet’s, nre the fewest reported for eighteen years back. Winter wheat has about all been harvested in the Southwest, and the yield there has been very Inrge. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week, aggregate 3,018,832 bushels, against 3,184,144 bushels last week and 3,758.972 bushels in the corresponding week of 1599.”