Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Will of Andree, the missing explorer, has been opened. E. B. Baldwin has bought the whaling ship Esquimaux for his arctic exploratiomis. A team of fine conch itorses purchased for President McKinley by an agent have been shipped from Fairlawn, Ohio. They are perfectly matched bays, with black pohits, 1(5% hands high aud weighing 1,250 pounds each. The failure of the well-known banking firm of Francisco Martinez Negrete & Sons of Guadalajara has created a sensation in Mexico- City, where the firm has for many years been identified with its business developments. The liabilities are $2,300,000. A mild sensation has been caused in New Westminster, B. C., by the discovery of $12.50 in coarse gold as big as flaxseed in the crop of a wild goose, which was killed at Pitt Lake. Many prospectors have started for the scene of the supposed gold placers. With the dawning of the new century Canada saw’ an end put .to The lotteries which have disgraced the country for several years. By a Jaw passed at the last session of parliament these lotteries were made illegal, and the new law went in force on Jan. 1, 1901. A plan of recruiting sailors for the L T nited States navy from the farms and the country towns is now under consideration at the Navy Department. The recruiting now is carried on outside of the large cities, but it has not reached the interior sections remote from large centers. Bradstreet’s says: “A fitting close to* a year of exceptional and in some respects unprecedented activity is furnished by the very general report of large holiday business in the last week. Speculation in cereals has been light aud increases in supplies and large surplus reports from Argentina have still further depressed the long interest in wheat. The corn crop is the fourth largest in our history and oats is next to the largest ever know-n. Prices, as a rule, are steady and changes are few. Wheat, including flour, shipments-for the week aggregate 4,011,105 bushels, against 4,123,350 last week and 3,010,557 bushels iu the corresponding week of 1899. Corn exports aggregate 3,808,105 bushels, against 5,405,578 last week, and 3,220,259 in this week a year ago. Business failures in the United States for the week number only 213, as against 202 last week and 220 in this week a year ago. Canadian failures number 15, against 28 last week and 22 in this week a year ago.”