Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

A monument to the late Queen Victoria is to be erected at Winnipeg, Man., probably at the parliament buildings, at a cost of $30,000. The President submitted a list of naval promotions to the Senate, with Sampson ahead of Schley. Old controversy is likely to be revived? C. A. Willard of Minneapolis and J. F. Cooper of Fort Worth, Texas, have accepted positions as judges of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Sixty men were killed or are now buried under tons of rock in a shaft of the. Union mines at Cumberland, B. C., as the result of an explosion of gas. The State Department has been informed officially that the Russian government had imposed the discriminating duty amounting to about 50 per cent additional on American manufactures of iron and steel. Captain A. B. Wolvin of Duluth and President James Wallace of the American Shipbuilding Company are in Halifax, N. >S., where they have made arrangements to erect a shipbuilding plant for their company. A dispatch from I.a I’az, Peru, says that the overflow of the river has caused the inuudatiou of the city and the destruction of bridges. Many lives have been lost and the damage will aggregate $1,000,000 Bolivian. A mail report giving an account of the bursting of a shell in the bore of one of the big 13-ineh guns of the United States warship Kearsarge has been received at tfie bureau of ordnance of the Navy Department in Washington. The accident occurred while the ship was at target practice off Pensacola, Fla. Weather records for February in the last ten years have made it evident that the ground hog is unreliable. Only twice in that time has his prediction of Feb. 2 been accurate. This' was in 1895 and 1000. Other years when he came forth, saw his shadow nnd retreated, leaving the inference that cold weather was to remain, he was wrong. So was he when he emerged from his hole uud, not being frightened by the light, gave the people to understand that winter was practically at an end. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: "Trade advices are rather more cheerful. This applies as much to current retail business, which has been enlarged by wintry weather, as it does to opening spring trade, which finds stimulation in the general confidence felt as to the outlook for Eie coming year. Prices show exceptional strength, all things considered, the one weak spot being raw cotton. which shares the rather unsatisfactory tone manifested by the cotton goods and yarn markets. Foreign demand for our breadstuffs has been rather better and this is reflected in heavy exports, particularly of corn. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week nggregate 4,814,878 bushefs, against 4,997,813 last week. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 125,790,374, against 128,850,301 last season.”