Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

A Spanish spy caught tampering with the magazine on the cruiser St. Taul has been arrested and will be tried. Navigation between Dawson and St. Michaels, Alaska, is expected to be open about June 1, two weeks earlier than usual. The steam yacht Windward has been formally presented to Lieut. Peary by Lieut. A. B. Armitage, who represented the donor. The American bark Forest Queen, Capt. Beasley, from Tacoma, Wash, March 6, has been given up as lost. She was loaded with lumber for San Pedro. The schooner Crown, Capt. Linehan, was lost off St. Johns, N. F., and her entire crew of eleven men was drowned. All of them were married. The cause of the wreck is not known. The North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Which has arrived at New Y'ork from Bremen, made a day’s record run of 580 knots. This beats the liner’s best previous westward performance last September by thirteen knots. The run was accomplished at an average of 23.3 G knots an hour. The first action under the new Canadian alien labor law has been begun in Toronto, Ont, _ There is a strike going on in a large boot and shoe factory,, the proprietor of which imported a number of hands from the United States to replace the strikers. The latter have begun an action to compel J. D. King, the proprietor; to pay the SI,OOO penalty for bringing in aliens and to send the Ameri- ■ can workmen home again. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: “A state of war was so greatly dreaded by those who have seen nothing like it for more than thirty years that its coming has hurt less than its apprehension. Especially since the victory at Manila, which indicated the superiority of the American navy, gun for gun. Expectation that the war will not last long has influenced all markets, and stocks have advanced, the average of prices of railroads $2.70 a share. The general condition of business bus been materially improved. The most sensational of all changes and the most practically important lias been the rise in wheat —13 cents during one day’s session, 21% cents from Tuesday to Thursday night, and 25% cents for the week —throwing into the shade all past advances and all expectations, though a reaction of 1% cents naturally followed on Friday. Exports have not been checked by higher prices as yet, but have caused them, amounting for the week to 2,994,380 bushels, flour included, against 1,498,167 bushels from Atlantic ports last year.”