Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

J. 11. Wright has been appointed postmaster at Nome, Alaska. American merchants have won their case against Nicaragua over customs duties paid at Bluefields during a revolution. An American is said to have found, in latitude 47 degrees 35 minutes nortli and longitude 43 degrees 27 minutes west, a letter written by Andree June 2. 1900. The comptroller of the treasury has decided that a common carrier is responsible for the loss of goods received by it, even though such goods are not accompanied by a bill of lading or shipping directions. Glassware will cost dealers and purchasers 10 per cent more after Sept. 1 than before. This is not an unusual sequence of the action of the manufacturers in conference with the bottle blowers of granting an increase of 7 per cent in wages. The steamer Tees arrived at Victoria, B. C., bringing a belated report of the sighting of a balloon, presumably that of the missing Andree and his companion, near the mouth of the Mackenzie River ,in the winter of 1898. The news is given in a letter written by a miner at Fort Yukon to a friend in Selkirk. Six years ago M'illiani Henderson and Walter Moore lived on adjoining farms near St. John’s, N. B. They became attentive to each other’s wives. Henderson and Mrs. Moore eloped and came to Long Island, bis wife liecoming Moore's housekeeper. The husbands have agreed that a mistake was made and have exchanged wives for the second time. B. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: “Speculation is cautious, liut investment holdings are being increased rather than diminished, and operators cannot see that their hesitation on the ground of politics is echoed anymore in general business circles than two months ago. Tlie money market is untroubled by the financing of the foreign loan, though the volume of new commercial loans is well sustained. Loss of the Chinese market has put coarse brown cottons in a bad position, other grades being less seriously affected. Failures for the week were 177 in the United States, against 136 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 29 lust year.”