Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

North German Lloyd Steamship Company will pay higher dividends this year than ever. Venezuelan troops at Caracas mutinied, killed the colored lieutenant colonel and seven men and then fled. The executive council of the Modern Woodmen of America has changed the date of the opening of the biennial head camp of the society at St. Paul from June 4 to June 11. The climax of the cold spell at Dawson and the Yukon valley was reached when the thermometer at Dawson fell to 68 degrees below zero. On the same day Forty Mile registered 78 below. Fifteen hundred acres of sugar cane was burned at Santiago de Cuba as the result of political friction on Joseph Rigney’s plantation. During the war Mr. Rigney supported a Spanish garrison. Mr. Rigney’s loss is about SIOO,OOO. The stores of D. A. McPherson. W. A. Johnson and Nicholas Pitt, in AVilliam street, Montreal, were destroyed by fire, together with their contents. The buildings were stocked with butter and cheese. The total loss is estimated at $250,000. An explosion occurred in the warehouse of the Walkerville (Ont.) Match Company, which resulted in the death of William Brindle and George Phillips, employes. Several others were injured. The loss -by fire is estimated at $35,000. Prof. Frederick G. Novy, one of the most widely known members of the University of Michigan faculty, has left on an important mission for the United States government. He goes in all possible haste to California to investigate the likelihood that the bubonic plague is about to break out there. Bradstreet’s says: “Speculation is limited in nearly all lines of produce and in stocks, and it is probable that clearing returns at present give a clearer idea of actual business than for three months past. Prices show few important changes, the cereals being slightly higher, while hog products and coffee are lower, with dairy products weak. The feature of the week in iron has been the placing of large orders—2oo,ooo tons —of Bessemer pig at equivalent to $13.25 at Pittsburg. This has steadied the market generally except for foundry grades, which are weak. A feature in the export line was the shipment of 3,000 tons of steel billets to Glasgow from Birmingham, the largest shipment of this material ever sent abroad from the South. Talk of a coming big deal in May wheat at Chicago has revived again.”