Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Cycle manufacturers have discovered that racing teams no longer pay. Edna Wallace Hopper has brought suit in San Francisco for a divorce from De Wolf Hopper, the well-known operatic star. She has also begun similar proceedings in New York. Josef Hofmann, the pianist,'met "with an accident recently while on a bicycle ride, and as a consequence Mr. Thomae has been compelled to cancel dates in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Senator Mason of Illinois has been challenged to fight a duel by the editor of a Madrid comic paper, who is offended at the Senator’s strictures on Spain in his retent siieech in the Senate. Senator Mason says he will accepts The Dyea-Klondike Transportation Company of portland, Ore., recently advices from Dyca that its upper tramway from Scales to the summit had been completed and that freight is now being taken over the Chilkoot Pass. The price of transporting goods from Dyea to the summit is now about 7 cents per pound. The cable of the tramway is about 3,400 feet in length. A deal has been practically closed for the sale of the furnace properties of the Sheffield Coal and Iron Company at Sheffield, Ala., the Philadelphia furnace at Florence, the Withrow furnace at Sheffield and the mine properties of the Lady Ensley Coal and Iron Company along the line of the North Alabama Railroad to an English syndicate for something like a million dollars. In the United States Supreme Court an opinion was handed down by Justice Harlan, in the case of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company vs. Charles Haber, affirming the constitutionality and validity of the State laws of Kansas, prohibiting the transportation into the State of cattle affected with Texas fever and providing for a civil action for damages in case of the infraction of the law. . The following report of the business situation is given by R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade: “It is most gratifying that no industry or branch of business shows any restriction or hindrance, but some have been rapidly gaining for the last week and month. The railways are gaining, even while speculators are selling their stocks, and the demand for products for all the great industries is increasing. ' More gold is coming from Europe than is needed, $10,8(58,000 having been ordered during the last week, and money markets are nowhere alarmed or stringent, though reasonably more,.cautious. The country rests assured that its industries, almost all of its business, the foreign demand for its products especially, and all its resources are beyond the reach of any foreign power, and that its honor and foreign interests are in safe hands. Exports of principal products in February were $61,034,091 in value, with an increase over last year of about 50 per cent in breadstuff®, in cotton 25 per cent and 25 per cent in the aggregate. The weekly output of pig iron was 228,338 tons Feb. 1, but 234,430 March 1. Sales of wool for this week have been the smallest since the week of greatest alarm in August, 1896. Cotton goods have a large distribution and prices are generally steady, though in outside dealings print cloths are a shade lower. Failures for the week have been 248 in the United States, against 256 last year, and 36 in Canada, against 61 last year.”