Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Canadian survey of the disputed international boundary line at Mount Baker has been completed. Surveyor Deane says that all the valuable mines in the best of the mineral belt are in American territory. Announcement is made that the atSndard Flour Milling Company is now in process of organization as the successor of the United States Flour Milling Company, which was recently in the hands ol a reorganization committee. George Sexton, a census enumerator, who has just made the trip through the Co;.per river country, Alaska, with Goveruiient Geologist Schrader, says that the copper deposits in that section of Alaska are the greatest in the world. AV. V. Powell, who for seven years has been grand president of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, was expelled from the organization by a large majority of the votes of the delegates present. The vote for expulsion came after a trial lasting nearly two days. The Wisconsin gained new laurels for her builders, the Union iron works of San Francisco, on her trial trip in Santa Barbara channel, by so far exceeding her contract speed of sixteen knots as to break al’, records. Correct official figures of the run make the battleship’s time 17.25 knots. The closing of the National League base-ball season finds the clubs in the following positions. The pennant goes to Brooklyn Brooklyn ...82 54 Chicago .....65 75 Pittsburg ...79 60 St.‘Louis... .65 75 Philadelphia 75 63 Cincinnati ...62 77 Boston ......66 72 New Y0rk...60 78 Bradstreet’s says: “Though some measures of business volume and value make unfavorable comparison with a year ago, and speculation is certainly on a reduced scale in nearly all lines, other registers of trade activity are still very favorable, and it is hard to resist the conclusion that, with few notable exceptions, the actual business of the country is, as a rule, fully equal to, if not slightly in excess of the corresponding period of 1899. Prices of staples as a whole are firm. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,292,855 bushels, against 4,450,167 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,896,037 bushels, against 2,360,249 last week.”