Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Pugilist Jeffries denies that he ’is engaged to marry Miss Dorothy Drew. , M rs. Mary E. Lease is about to sue her husband for divorce on thU ground of non-support. A terrible wreck, in which a score of persons were killed and about sixty hurt, occurred ou the Mexican Central Railway between Tamanacha and Syrnon. Reorganization of tbe army, with a minimum strength of 50,024 and a maximum force of 90,700, is provided for in a bill sent by Secretary Root to the House committee on military affairs. The State Department received a cablegram from United States Minister -Hunter, at Guatemala City, announcing that he had just received front the Hondurian government a draft for SIO,OOO American gold as indemnity for the killing of Frank Fears. Hassan Fasha, Ottoman minister of marine, aud Gen. Williams, representing the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, have signed a contract for the construction of a cruiser for the Ottoman navy. The price to be paid is £350,000, which includes £23,000 as indemnity to the Uuited States for losses sustained by Americans during the Armenian massacres.

Bradstreet’s says: “Unsettled weather and holidays are a drawback to retail and jobbing distribution in many markets, but the general situation is still a most satisfactory one and the iron and steel, eoal, boot and shoe, hardware and lumber trades are conspicuously well situated. The one unsatisfactory feature in cotton is the depression iu the export branch, which tends to weaken brown goods. The feature in the grain market was the carrying to a successful conclusion of the November corn corner in Chicago. Following the private settlement of the shorts, at a basis of 50 cents a bushel, came a drop to 41 cents. At New York the influence of this corner—one of the few successful corn corners on record —was to advance prices slightly, owing largely to the deflection of supplies. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 2,407,880 bushels, against 3,827,200 last week and 3,690,400 in the corresponding week of 1899. Corn evports aggregate! 4,801,030, against 5,235,568 bushels last week and 4,441,514 in this week a year ago. Failures for the week number 184, as against 215 last w»*ek and 177 in this week a year ago. Canadian failures number 28, ns against 31 last week.”