Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Cuban constitutional convention has voted to hold public sessions. The Union Pacific Railroad has adopted the plan of putting armed guards on trains that carry large sums of money. The new steamship Fife went ashore in the Straits of Belle Isle, N. F., anil is a total loss. The Fife is owned by D. It. Ri id, railroad contractor, and cost SIOO,000. "Twenty-six lives were Tost by the wreck of the iron coasting steamship St. Oles at the mouth of Seven Islands bayou the coast of Labrador. Not a soul was saved to tell the story of the less. The War Department is beginning to think that perhaps there may be some basis for the repeated stories about Aguinaldo having died of wounds received during a skirmish with American troops in northern Luzon. Rev. Oliver C. Miller, a chaplain voluntarily attached to the Fourth cavalry, has reported at the War Department, having been invalided home from the Philippines. He says he knows of no city in the United States where there is so little crime or where crime is followed so quickly by punishment as in Manila. The I’ere Marquette Railway Company is going to place carrier pigeons on its fleet of six car ferries and line steamers, which will be ia service on Lake Michigan during the coming winter. The dangers of winter navigation and the necessity of prompt news from vessels caught in the great ice floes are the leading causes of this novel move. Bradstreet’s says: “Unsettled weather conditions have operated to curtail retail and jobbing distribution this week, and imparted a quieter tone to several lines indirectly associated therewith. Stock speculation, too, lias been less rampant, and last week’s record of bank clearings has, therefore, not been equaled. There is, however, little or no apparent loss of basic strength, and, indeed, the general level of staple prices has been slightly advanced. This iaAer movement is most notable in the iron nnd steel trades, in raw cotton and to a lesser degree in the cereals nnd some hog products. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3.827,25X5 bushels, against 4,0)12,020 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 5,235,568 bushels, against 3,970,1)14 last week.