Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Large stockholders in the wall paper trust are said to be organizing a movement to dissolve that corporation because of its failure to pass any dividends since last April on $8,000,000 of preferred stock. J. manager of thp Bank of CommerceUh Barrie, Ont., for the last fifteen years, was shot and fatally wounded by an unknown man who called at his house, and upon, Strathy’s appearance drew a revolver and shot hint. The assassin then fled. Strathy is one of the most popnlar and-well-known,-bankers in the province. Obituary : ~At. Florence, Italy, Minister of State Crfatoforo Negri, 9(s.—At Sioux City, lowa, Banker John D. Lawrence;of Mitchell, S. D., 42. -At Boston, (’. Perry McKisson, GO, of Bloomington, 111.—At New Orleans, Dr. Joseph Jones, G 4 Springfield, Ohio, Charles E. Winters, 4‘A- At Rockford. 111., John M. Mack, Reuben Cook.—At Pana, 111., Jas. M. Biggs, 81, The big prize fight was fought despite .the efforts ofXwo countries to prevent it,. It was a fizzle at the best, and was pulled ofl u ear Langtry, jus t _oxer_J;hti_Texas border. Peter Maher’s championship aspirations expired in ten seconds after Bob Fitzsimmons landed a right cross on the big Irishman's jaw. The blow came after one minute and thirty-five seconds of actual fighting. Jt put a quietus on Peter Maher; it gave Fitzsimmons a chance to chuckle over a second-hand title, and it opened up the flood gates of-Jim Corbett’s wrath t 6 see the title which once crowned his brow resting on the little pin-head of his hated Australian riyal, earned with hardjy ; . If English and French business houses can afford to pay their traveling agents -on the Isthmus ofT’anama $12,000 a year, including- expenses,-why eannot American firms do as wejl, is the question put by United States’Consul General Vtfqjiaiu at Panama in a report to the State Department treating of the unsatisfactory rate of progress made by Americans in obtaining business of the Isthmus. The Consul General says that this cannot be done by correspondence, and he suggests that our merchants by combination maintain a house of samples at Panama where their goods may be seen by the people and ordered through a resident agent. Last year Chilian wheat to the amount of v 1.185,020 bushels was imported into-Peru. United States Consul Jastremski at Callao, who reports the fact to the State Department, says this wheat is not well adapted to the making of white bread or pastry, and it cannot bear comparison with California white wheat, which might easily command the Peruvian market if there were a line of direct steam communication down the coast.