Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Minnesota, which was Commodore Goldsboro’s flagship in the famous battle with the Merrimae at Hampton Roads, has been ordered stricken from the uaval register and will be sold at auction. Federio Errazuriz, president of Chili, who had been iu feeble health for more tlian a year, is dead. Seuor Errazuriz was elected president of Chili June 25. 1890, for a term of five years, which began Sept. 18,1896. Officers of the Burlington Railroad are considering a plan for the pensioning of their company's employes. No definite system has been adopted and consideration of the subject has not passed the preliminary stage, but that the corporation will adopt some sort of a way for providing for aged and disabled men. The census office has issued a bulletin concerning the urban population of the country. It shows that 28,411,698 people in the United States live in cities and towns of over 4,000 population. Thia is 37.3 per cent of the entire population, a gain of almost 5 per cent since the census of 1890, when the percentage was 32.9. General business continues its even course, with all the leading Industries well employed and with confidence expressed on every hand. Bountiful crops of wheat seem ussured, and the damage to corn, while cousiderable in some directions, does not promise to he suffl ciently general or serious to nt all impede the progress of the country. Labor troubles are in process of settlement, and speculators have been responsible for most of the unrest which has been reflected in the markets. The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: Steel mills are actively employed, and there is n distinct improvement in the demand for finished products, while quotations are without alteration. In bars for use by makers of agricultural implements there is a brisk movement. Plates are taken readily and there is no sign of diminished purchasing in structural material. Rails |are ordered freely, with notable pressure for trolley and other light weights. Failures for the week numbered 208 in the United States, against 196 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 24 last year.