Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — “COOKED" FOR $200,000 [ARTICLE]

“COOKED" FOR $200,000

Chicago Dealers Safler Heavy Las ia Appier. $ 00,000 lost in apples. Three wccksTof exceptionally hot weather srbea the cream of the winter stock is shipped by Michigan. New York and Indiana growers, “cooked” the majority of the consignments so badly that even cold storage could not save them from decay. The national loss on apples aimer, doe to the summer weather which prevailed between Oct. 10 and Xov. 1, according to some South Water street dealers, will run past the $1,000,000 mark. A Loa Angeles judge has condemned coursing. He admitted that rabbits in their wild state may be panned and killed with dogs, bat not rabbits kept ia confinement aod released for the dogs. John Y. FUmore Blate, a gradwnte of West Point and formerly a beotewant ia the Sixth United States cavalry, ia said to hold the rank of colonel ia the Transvaal anny. # r B reawn took 1.700,000 of the 11.500,000 bales of cottoo raised to the United States last year.