Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Gov. Roosevelt is greatly incensed because photographers have been taking snap shots of his children. It is reported at Shanghai that thd United States battleship Oregon is ashore on the isfand of Hoo Kie, in the MiaoTao group, thirty-five miles north of Chefoo, Mrs. George A. Simpson, wife of the chief engineer of the public works department, and daughter of Col. Ross of I‘ictou, Ont., committed suicide at Winnipeg, Man. She was 50 years of age. Bradstreet’s says: "Distributive trade is dull, seasonably so in most instances, and prices of manufactured products are generally weak, but exceptions to the former are found where crop conditions are exceptionally promising aud in the case of prices where the readjusting movement has been overdone on the down side. The upward rush of wheat prices culminated and the reactions and irregularity since, mainly due to heavy realizing, would point to the movement having been temporarily, at least, overdone. Advices from the Northwest are of little more than half a crop of wheat. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,184,144 bushels, against 4,(545,180 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,000,(554 bushels, against 2,514,593 bushels last week.”