Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Judge Wat , Starr is out with a sensa-. fidnal inanifCsto. in which he declared he will resist the Federal courts and their right to suspend the Cherokee courts until lie is arrested. ■»- Officers of the Atlas line steamer Andes, which steamer arrived from Haytian ports, say that 800 buildings were destroyed by the fire which devastated Port au Prince on Dee. 28. The approximate earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for December, 1897, were $2,312,544, which is an increase of $134,739 over the actual earnings for December, 1896. Twenty-two persons arrived at Seattle from Dawson City, ’bringing gold dust and.drafts amounting to $1,000,000. They confirm the report that the mother lode has been discovered on Eldorado creek. The story that the Alaska- Commercial Company had sold* out its interests in Alaska to London people and the Hudson Bay Company is denied by Louis Sloss, Sr., president of the Alaska company. The feeling over the Dreyfus affair culminated in a desperate struggle between students and anarchists at Paris, in which a n'umber of persons were injured. Police and republican guards finally dispersed the rioters. The largest armature of the largest generator of electricity ever made in tlie world for a trolley railroad has just been completed in Cleveland, and was shipped to Brooklyn, N. Y., for the Brooklyn Heights Street Railway Company. The consolidation of the New York, American and United States Biscuit companies, with a eapitalizetion of $55,000,000, may be considered an, accomplished fact. The new company will be known as the United States' Biscuit Company. The foreign commerce of the United States for the year 1897 breaks all records in vblmne and values.’ For the entire twelve mouths the excess of exports over imports of merchandise amounts to $356,561,000, and, adding $41,000,000 net exports of silver, gives a grand credit balance for the year of $397,500,000. Brad street’a commercial review says: “Distributive trade remains rather quiet, mild weather throughout the country tending to check distribution of winter goods. Prices generally remain steady or tend upward, except for some grades of Iron, and orders for spring trade where received are encouraging. • A feature of the week was the placing of an order by one railroad for 100,000 tons of steel rails, with smaller Orders, aggregating iu the neighborhood of 25,000 tons more. Pig iron production is now at an unprecedented rate, the furnace capacity being estimated at 1,000,000 tons a month. Anthracite coal production, it is hoped iu that trade, will be restricted sufficiently to allow of the advance of 20 to 40 cents a ton being maintained. Weather has been disappointing at the Northwest, but an improvement in the demand developed at some centers as the week advanced. The rush to Alaska lias already begun on the Pacific coast. The recent falling off in wheat exports prove to have been due to the usual holiday quieting and not to any falling off of demand from abroad. The total export of. wheat (flour included ns wheat) from the United States and Canada for this week amounted to 5,135,166 • bushels, against 3,481,000 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week show a gain of 1,000,000 bushels, amounting to 4,641,000 bushels, against 3,455,000 bushels last week.”