Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The steamer Dauntless has again eluded the officials of the Government, and is off for Cuba with a cargo of arms and munitions of war. Canada’s postmaster general announces that after Jan. 1 the rate of postage on letters from Canada to all parts of the British empire will be reduced to 3 cents an ounce. The North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse made a new eastward record on her last trip from Sandy Hook to Southampton, her time being 5 days 17 hours and 45 minutes. The plan to consolidate the wire rod, wire nail and other wire industries of the United States is reported to be near conjpletion. It is understool that each mill is to be purchased outright and that the enterprise will involve $00,000,000. A monthly steamship service has been established between New York and India. The first steamer, the Sahara, has arrived. Heretofore American trade with the far East, has been usually done by transfer iu English or Mediterranean ports. The British City Line steamer Exeter City, which has arrived at New Y/>rk from Bristol and Swansea, fell in with the British schooner, Elite, dismasted and in a sinking condition, and rescued her crew of five men and brought them safely to port.