Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Census returns from 153 cities show a gaiu of -25 per cent. If this gain is maiuta’ned it will give the United State* a population of 80,000,000. The dry goods store called La Valencia, which is situated on the Plaza, opposite the cathedral in Mexico City, was burned. The loss is estimated at $750,000. The boldest robbery yet perpetrated at Nome occurred when thieves sawed through the floor of the Alaska Commercial Company’s warehouse, securing gold dust amounting to $10,500. The shortage in the Japanese tea crop this season is estimated by San Francisco experts at 4,400,000 pounds, and prices have already advanced from 10 to 25 per cent. Importers expect large orders from Russia, which has been cut off from the tea caravans by the war. The new battleship Wisconsin is now on a dry dock at Port Orchard. The big battleship bucked into a northwester as soon as it passed through the Golden gate on the voyage up to Washington. Those on board report that the vessel stood the storm splendidly. News has been received that Solomon City, at the mouth of Solomon river, was devastated by the recent storm on the coast of Alaska. All buildings were either swept away by the waves or wrecked by the wind. The town had a population of 200, all of whom are destitute and homeless. Many members of the large American colony at Murray Bay, the fashionable watering place of the lower St. Lawrence, are in a sorry predicarient, being quarantined for scarlatina in their families and unable to leave for home. The disease first declared itself in the household of Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court. United States Consul W. W. Mills, at Chihuahua, Mexico, has sent a note to the Federal authorities in San Antonio, Texas, and also to the State Department at Washington, detailing an insult to the American flag over his consulate on Sept. 10, the anniversary of Mexican independence. He had hoisted the United States and Mexican flags in honor of the day, and a mob of Mexicans tore down the United States colors. The best part of the Porcupine mining district ip Alaska has practically been seized by the British. A dispatch from -the British commissioner’s camp near Porcupine City, Alaska, says that Archer Martm, justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and head of the British commission, raised the British flag en Sept. 17. He took possession of that portion of the Poreupine district recently declared to be in British territory, at least for the time being, by the international boundary commission. Bradstreet’s says: “The month of September closes with a rather better putlook in the industrial world than wws apparent a week or ten days ago. But little of significance is to be extracted from tbe movement of prices. Wheat has been somewhat irregular and prices shift listlessly. Corn, though inactive, showed strength, presumably on small supplies of ‘spot.’ Spot cotton is up on the week, but the general market has fluctuated nervously. A satisfactory activity in dis tributive trade, checked to some extent in 'certain localities by unseasonable weather and in others by a tendency to curtail operations pending the outcome of the electoral contest, is disclosed by telegraphic advices. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,242,810 bushels, against 3,535,857 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,156,171 bushels, against 2,134,205 last week.”