Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Contracts for armor plate for t’ue new warships have been let at $420 a ton. L. \V. Bates, the American engineer, has been asked to undertake the widening of the Suez canal. Navigation on the Mississippi river is officially closed. It has been practically closed stir a mouth. New cations formulated for the Protestant Episcopal Church put a ban ou the remarriage' of divorced"-persons. Thomas Connell, who killed W. A. Shit nicy at Esquimau. B. C., shot himself as an officer was about to arrest him. He tried to kill the officer, but failed. The Chili Congress has voted an appropriation of $500,000 to defray the expenses of tlie representation of Chili at the exposition to be held at Buffalo, N. Y., next year. The population of Hawaii, as announc ed by the census bureau, is 154,001, ns against 100.020 in 1800. This is an increase of 44,081, or 41.2 per cent. The population of the State of Louisiana is 1,381 ,'125, as against 1,118,587 iu 1890. At it recent cabinet meeting Attorney General Griggs made the formal announcement that on the fourth of March next by would retire from the cabinet. Mr. Griggs w ill leave the President’s official family for purely business reasons. It. O, Lazier has arrived from Nome with surveys for a railroad, which he says an English syndicate will build from the head of navigation on Grautley harbor, near Port Clarence, to Council City, on Gi*livan bay, a distance of eighty-five mites. The Navy Department received a dispatch from Annapolis saying that the torpedo boat Stockton went ashore on Horn Point shoals. The Stockton is one of the new torpedo boats and was about to have her trial trip, the board of inspeei tion being on her. Mr. Russell, United States charge d’af- ! faires at Caracas, reports that the earthquake iu Colombia was very much more severe than at first described. The people deserted their houses and slept in the streets and between 12.000 and 15,000 buildings were destroyed or -damaged. Diplomacy having failed to accomplish the settlement of the American missionary claims pending against Turkey, the administration has decided to support pea r efill representations by a naval demonstration. Two American men-of-war have received orders to proceed to Smyrna. and a third is available for duty in Turkish waters if found desirable. Bradstreet's says: “The tonic effect of seasonably cold weather is again testified to by reports from ihaclically all markets of a brisk demand for w inter clothing and footwear. This in turu is reflected in increased re orders from Western, Northwestern and Southern jobbers and g perceptible improvement in tone of wholesale trade at the East, which hopes to participate later in the results flowing from the existing good consumptive demand. The market for cereals is a dragging one, with price changes few and of little importance; lint stock speculation, though quieter than of late, is strong and confident in tone. Reflection of the late enormous business in this line is found in unprecedented bank clearings totals, eclipsing even the large totals of the year 1800. The awarding of the government contract for armor plate at $425 a ton will svyell the output of the steel industry by '515,000,000. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,002,000 bushels, against 3,555,507 bushels last week, and 4,540,007 bushels in the corresponding week of 1889. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,970,914 bushels, against 5,287.027 bushels last week, and 4.003, 1 18 bushels in this week I a year ago.”