Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate, has sued for divorce from his insane wife. Twenty-five thousand employes of the Standard Oil Company have had their wages raised 10 percent, _ The contract for supplying the Government military forces on the American Yukon with beef supplies has been awarded to Jack Dalton, the noted Alaskan pioneer and explorer. It involves about SIOO,OOO. A combination to be known as the American Sheet Metal Company is being organized with a capital of $50,000,000. The combine takes in twenty-nine corrugated iron and cornice plants throughout the country, the total number being thir-ty-ti vc. . r _ The chief portion of the mining town of Sandon, East Kootenai, was destroyed by fire. The railway station and telegraph office were burned. Sandon is in the center of the silver-lead mining district of British Columbia and was a thriving town. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern has a strike on of large proportions. AU the section men and extra gangs from St. Louis to Parkersburg, W. Va., have gone out. About three thousand men refused to go to work on a recent morning. They demand $1.50 a day. The section men have been receiving $1.15 aud extra men $1.25. Jacob De Haven loaned the Government of the United States $50,000 123 years ago, and now Uncle Sam is to pay the money to his heirs after litigation which has been carried on for generations. The claim against the Government, with interest, amounts to $3,000,000, and this is to be divided among the De Haven heirs, of whom there are several in Chicago. Bradstreet’s says: “A further subsidence of demand and of the level of prices is noted in several lines, this process being no doubt aided by the unsettling effect of the rather more than usually disturbed conditions in labor circles. The net result is something approaching dullness in many channels of distribution, increased conservatism in the ventures and a disposition to digest business already arranged for before making new engagements. That the basic condilions of general business, such as the outlook for the crops, the export demand and the increased purchasing power of the people at large, have not been much reduced, but on the contrary actually Improved, seems evident from the advices received. Business at wholesale is rela-tively-quieter. Flour shipments this week ore very large. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,537,022 bushels, against 3,863,863 bushels last 'week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,411,015 bushels, against 3,620,664 bushels last week."