Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Admiral Schley tells his friends he is willing to accept place second to Samps son iii the list of vice-admirals. At Winnipeg, Man., the full court kitted Hugh John MacDonald’s prohibition law, finding it unconstitutional in almost every point. Conjmander-in-ohief Leo ltassieur- of the G. A. R. has issued a call to all veterans of the Civil War not already members to join the organization. Four murders and two disappearances are reported from Santa Clara, Cuba. It is said that the men were kitted while attempting to burn sugar fields. Nome mail advices state flint the most terrific storm known swept Nome in November. Many frail houses were wrecked and several-steamers and small sailing vessels carried to sea and crushed in the ice. At the instance of the United States government the powers have accepted the principle that no further individual concessions of territory in Chinh shall be sought or obtained by any one power without international assent. Thomas Sharkey, one of a gang of, Indiana oil drillers who went to Egypt last year in the employ of a New York ayndicate to drill for oil in the land of the Pharaohs, has written to a friend stating that he has opened a splendid oiler in the Khedive’s country nt a depth of 2,350 feet. -A dispatch from Chihuahua. Mexico, says that Grant Gillett. the Kansas cattleman who fled to Mexico two years ago to escape the wrath of creditor* from whom it is said lie secured nearly $1 ,- 000.000, will soon return to Kansas City and give a thorough account of himself. Gillett, it is said, is now penniless. A correspondent in Managua, Nicaragua, “reports that Frederieo Mora, a Costa Rican, who had taken refuge in Nicaragua, attempted to invade Costa Rica with some enemies of President Zelaya of Nicaragua. The result was Mora's defeat and capture on the frontier by Nicaraguan troops, Mora is now imprisoned in Rivas. Arthur D. Bissell of Buffalo, X. Y.; H. Yineent Meredith. Montreal; George R. R. Cockburn, Toronto, Out.; Richard B. Angus, Montreal, and Sir William C. Van Horne, Montreal, are applying to the Canadian government for incorporation as the Canadian Salt Company, with a proposed eapital stock of $8,000,000 ami headquarters at Montreal. 11. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says; "Business in the East and particularly along the north Atlantic coast, has been catching up with the rest of the country a little this week, So that in the few lines where complaint has been heard locally of late the tone has been better. This comes from the working off of retail stocks which owners feared woul*l have to he carried over until next season. In builders' hardware the buying has been notablj better, .and the distribution in the grocery jobbing trade has been given a considerable stim.ulus. Even the laggard dry goods market has shown a good measure of improvement: though in cotton goods there is still much to he desired. No diminution appears in the movement of iron and steel products. Mills are rushed with orders and new' contracts are taken at full prices. Lumber and materials are in good demand owing to extensive preparations for spring building, and at Buffalo there is special activity on account of hotels and other works in connection with the exposition. Failures for the week were 253 in the United States, against 201 last year, and 39 in Canada, against 33 last year.”