Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Princess Hatzfeldt, it is said, will receive an additional $1,000,090 from C. P. Huntington's estate. National Department of Justice ia making a secret inquiry to ascertain whether trusts are violating the Sherman law. The report that the United States addressed a note to the Danish government demanding that St. Thomas and St. Crois be fortified if the Danish government refuses to sell the islands to the United States is denied at the State Department. According to the Philadelphia North American, a syndicate of capitalists is planning a combination with $100,000,(XX) capital to control the entire production and sale within the United States of the various products and by-products of cotton seed. Frias and Mataa, accused of counterfeiting American dollars in Mexico, have been declared presumptively guilty and will be held for trial. Pawnshops in the Mexican capital are being searched by the police for apparatus said to have been used in this work. John L. Sheppard of Toronto, Ont., who was arrested for non-support of his wife, showed that he had secured a divorce in the United States and held that he was under no obligation to support her. Judge Mac Douglass held otherwise, giving judgment to the effect that American divorces shall not be valid in Canada. * The first news of the season from the far north was brought to Philadelphia by the Greenland bark Find I ,Hl?’'Trom Ivigtut. There were fears among the natives when the Fluorine left that Lieut. Peary and his party of explorers had perished, as the winter in North Greenland had been one of the severest ever known. “Increasing distribution of merchandise, particularly in the territory beyond the Ohio river, including the far Northwest, is a feature of the general business situation, and tells of widespread prosperity and confidence. The railroads • are carrying more goods that may be classed as luxuries than before, and in spite of Wall street's slightly higher money market there is no fear on thia score in any line of legitimate trade. Crop news continues good, there is less trouble from disagreements with labor and the long laggard cotton goods market has recovered slightly with the reduction of unsold stocks of print cloths.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. “Failures for the week numbered 193 in the United States, against 179 last year, and 14 in Canada, against 15 last year.”