Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

One hundred prospectors who tried to work disputed claims near Nome were arrested by troops. William Patk Armstrong, Jr., has been chosen to succeed Dr. George T. Purves in the chair of New Testament literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. * Tlie State Department has been advised that owing to illness the new Persian minister to Washington. Mofakamed Dowleh, will not assume his duties until next fall. The Secretary of the Navy Department has extended the contract time on rhe battleships Kentucky and Kearsurge, relieving the Newport News Shipbuilding Company from penalties. Secretary of State John Hay has replied to Li Hung Chang regarding the abandonment of the Pekin campaign, refusing to make terms until free communication with Minister Conger is secured. Because of dismissals which the men claim were intended to break up their unions, -several hundred shopmen of the "Canadian Pacific Hallway are on strike. Tlie trouble may effect other classes of employes. Tlie steamship Senator reached Seattle, bringing Nome advices. She had aboard $175,900 of Nome gold, also about 375 passengers, who, unable to make a fortune in the north, returned rather than spend any more time there. I forest fire at Sopp’s Arm, White Bay, N. F.. has destroyed a large saw mill, several million feet of lumber, and a settlement of 120 houses. The whole place was wiped out. A schooner took the residents to a place of safety. Bradstreet's says: Trade conditions still favor the buyer. General fall demand, though fair in view of midsummer conditions, is still below expectations and below a year ago. Bank clearings are at the lowest for two years past, and failures are slightly more numerous, though no marked tendencies are perceptible. On the other hand, gross railway earnings hold the percentage of gain previously shown, and where prices are made low enough to satisfy buyers a heavy business is uncovered .and readily booked, pointing to demand being still present and awaiting disposal. The crop situation as a whole is better, the outlook as to corn is for a 2,100.000,000bushel crop. Spring wheat is turning out better in quality and quantity than expected. and there lias, been an unquestionable improvement in cotton crop conditions. The yield of apples will be the largest for many years, and fruits generally are yielding liberally and commanding good prices.