Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Government has ordered the release of the alleged filibuster, Silver Heels, for lack of evidence. Western League baseball magnates have adjourned without settling the eighth club franchise muddle. The Berner Mayer Beer Pump Company of Cleveland, with big branches in Chicago and New York, has made an assignment. The United States gunboat Newport, with the members of the Nicaraguan Canal Commission on board, has arrived at Greytown. The exportation of raw cotton from the Southern States to Japan by way of Pacific coast ports is practically double what it was last season. Daniel S. Lamont denies that he is to succeed Mr. Mellen as president of the Northern Pacific or that the latter will become president of the Union Pacific. The Ottawa Government has introduced a bill providing that hereafter all pine timber Cut on leased crown lands shall be manufactured into sawn lumber in Canada. W. C. McDonald, the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of Montreal, whose gifts to McGill University already aggregate nearly $3,000,000, has just given $250,000 more to the institution. Robbers broke into the strong room “of the Ward Line steamer Oity of 'Washington during her voyage from Yera Cruz to New York and stole $3,000 in silver, a portion of a shipment of $600,000 in Mexican coin destined for Europe. Bradstreet’s weekly review says: “A sensible quieting of demand in wholesale lines is reported as the holiday season and the annual stock taking period approaches. Chief among the favorable features of the week has been enlarged inquiry at higher prices for steel in various forms, accompanied by advances in the prices of sorts most affected. A correspondingly heavy business has developed in pig iron and prices show but a slight shading in face of the current immense production. The wheat market has been less feverish and prices are practically unchanged from a week ago, while corn, oats and sugar are additions to the list of products showing advances. Wheat exports show a heavy falling off from recently preceding weeks, aggregating as they do (flour as wheat) 4,604,399 bushels from both coasts of the United States and St. John, N. 8., against 6,266,159 bushels last week, 4.222.7J4 bushels in this week a year ago, 2,458,323 bushels in 1893, 2,536,292 bushels in 1894, and 3,217,050 bushels in 1893. Corn exports a*re over 1,000,000 bushels larger than last week, aggregating 4,129,858 bushels, against 2,814,150 bushels in this week a year ago, 2,057,790 bushels in 1895, 658,000 bushels in 1894 and 559,000 bushels in 1893. Business failures show a rather smaller than usual ante-holiday total, aggregating 283, against 292 last week, 859 in the same week a year ago, 385 in 1895, 309 in 1894 and 353 in 1893. Canadian failures this week number 43, against 23 last week, 39 in the week a year ago and 42 in the year 1895.”