Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

NVindow glass jobbers have imide another advance of 5 per cent, iu prices. Dr. Andrews has withdrawn his resignation and consented to remain at the head of Brown University. Setaningly he has decided not to be president of John Brisben NValker’s Cosmopolitan University. Hope for those who have friends 'n the Klondike is held out by Frank Cryder, who came down ou the steamer Humboldt, after having spent five years in ths Yukon. He does not believe there will be any deaths from staryation, aithough he admits that food will 1 be scarce. Cryder says that lack of shelter is a more serious condition confronting the miners in the gold belt than starvation. It costs SI,OOO for a fair log cabin already built, and the time and labor in constructing a new one would amount to about the same. He states that the closing of the company stores at Dawson was a temporary expedient merely, to prevent speculators from cornering all the provisions in the country and thereafter holding supplies at fabulous prices.