Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Cuba’s elections passed off quietly. The Nationalists triumphed in the province of Havana. William J. Bryan’s letter of acceptance of the Democratic nomination for President has been made public. Seth Abbott, father of Emma Abbott, has gone insane over an income of SIOO a week left him by his daughter. James Francis Smith, the Philadelphia messenger boy who carried a letter to Kruger, has returned to this country. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee, of which Gen. G. M. Dodge is president, has postponed its reunion at Detroit from Sept. 26 to Nov. 14 and 14’ President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University has returned from a trip through. Japan, where he secured tbe largest collection of Japanese fish ever obtained. Ruysdael’s famous painting,. “Silenus Somnolens,” was stolen en route from Naples to New York. It had been purchased for £3,000 for a naval officer, supposed to be Admiral Dewey. While going at a recerd-breaking clip in a preliminary test of her machinery, the torpedo-boat destroyer Goldsborough met with an accident, breaking the rocker shaft on the port engine. President C. P. Cole of the Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association of tbe United States has completed arrangements for the starting of almost all of the independent window glass factories within a few days. The first news of the winter catch of the whalers has been received from the steam whaler Balena. Twenty-five whales was the result of the winter’s work. It is estimated that the Balena’s catch is worth over SIOO,OOO. Four regimepts of Mexican government troops have arrived on transports at tbe mouth of the Yaqui river, and they will join Gen. Louis Torres’ forces at once. The campaign against the Yaquis will then be renewed with the greatest vigor. At Winnipeg, Man., tbe wife of Dr. Hutton shot herself through the temple with a revolver. She had been subject to fits of insanity. Mrs. Hutton was the niece of Bishop Phillips Brooks of New York and a relative of ex-President Hayes. Tales of widespread destruction wrought by the recent gale continue to pour in to St. Johns, N. F. Bix vessels were wrecked near St. Pierre and six in Placentia Bay. It Is also reported that four were lost in Renews harbor, two in the Straits of Belle Isle and four near Cape Bonavista. Thus far fourteen lives are know n to have been lost. 11. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Prices of staple commodities are higher for the week, hoisted by the sharp rise in cotton, but in manufactured products there is little change, though steady increase of business at the current level is satisfactory. More orders are being received at iron mills, and prices are steady. In structural and finished material there is much business, and activity is becoming almost universal in the iron region. Boots and shoes begin to recover after many weeks of idle wheels throughout New England. In the wool market sales last week aggregated 2,643,000 pounds, against 12,056.500 a year ago. Failures for the week were 195 in the United States, against 149 last year, and 30 in Canada, against 32 last year.”