Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Kneehtel furniture factory at Hanover, Out., was destroyed by tire and several persons are missing. Loss $1,000,000. President Dolphin of the Order of Railway Telegraphers declared off the strike of the telegraphers on the Santa Fe. He tells the men that they have, failed. The Canadian cabinet has refused to interfere in the ease of John Morrison, who murdered a whole family in the Moosemin district, Northwest Territory, and he will he .hanged Jan. 87. Rear Admiral W, S. Schley will be de-. taehed from duty as cominauder-in-chief of the South Atlantic station during the coming spring. in aiil-icipatiuii of his retirement next October, when he will be 02 years old. It is reliably reported that the Toledo. St. Louis and Western (Clover Leaf), Missouri Pacific, Lima Northern and Ohio Southern railroads are to be consolidated and that the deal will be announced in a few days by the officials. The death sentence passed on Corporal Samuel A. Nelson, Company F, Twentyfifth infantry, by a court-martial in the Philippines, has been commuted by President McKinley to life imprisonment at hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Ivan. After a six months’ European cruise the old corvette Essex arrived in Hampton roads with 174 apprentice boys on board, all of whom are reported well. The cruiser Buffalo arrived at Norfolk, Va., from New York to take on recruits for the ships of tlie Asiatic squadron. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade says: "At this tittle in ordinary years furnaces close down in large numbers and dullness is general at mills and shops where iron and steel are handled. .Instead of reduction of working force or concessions in price this year, however, reports from the principal cities indicate the existence of contracts that will take months to fill and new sales are made at the former level, despite much talk of cheaper ore next year. Fuel declined about 25 cents a ton recently. Instead of holiday quiet ffi the wool market the last week’s figures of sales at the three chief Eastern markets amount to 7,238,000 pounds, against 0,785,000 in the preceding week and 5.207,344 two weeks ago, while a year ago the aggregate had fallen to 7,312,000 pounds from an average of over 11,000,000 pounds in the two previous weeks. Failures for the week were 203 in the United States, against 220 last year, and 18 in Canada, against 20 last year.”