Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

About 12,000 acres of land in the central part of Sinaloa, Mexico, made into the largest orchard in the world, will be the culmination of piaus of New York and Chicago capitalists. Sixteen American men iu the employ of Messrs. Winters, Parsons & Boomer of Ross I and, B. C., who have a contract to do s'ome work for the Red Mountain Railroad, were ordered deported. It is announced by his private secretary that Webster Davis has sold his book on the Boer war for SIBO,OOO. A New York syndicate represented by Franklin Quinby is the purchaser. Capt. Wardi who was drowned, and Pilot Jordan are officially blamed for the steamer Rio de Janeiro disaster, the coroner’s jury returning a verdict at San Francisco charging both with criminal negligence. The National Switchmen's T’nion has presented a petition to General Superintendent Blodgett of the Lake Shore road, asking that standard of “Chicago” wages be paid all switchmen employed by the company outside of lhat city. The big British tramp steamer Samoa has been purchased by the United States government and when she arrives at San Francisco $200,000 will lie spent in fitting her up for transport service. The Samoa is on her way here from Hongkong. President George Uhler of the National Association of Marine Engineers has declared a strike of his organization and lake traffic is threatened with a tie-up. The strike is caused by the refusal of the Lake Carriers’ Association to grant the demands of engineers for additional help in the engine rooms. After having braved the perils and endured the discomforts of a trip to the interior of Alaska to wed W. H. Bledsoe. a pilot employed by the Alaska Commercial Company, Miss Nina Moore, an accomplished and beautiful girl of San Francisco, found upon, reaching her destination that her fiance was the husband Of a variety actress named Lloyd. Bradstreet’s says: “The strength of iron and steel this week recalls the boom of 1899. It is probable, too, that the broad and strong consumptive demand and not the operations of pools or cliques is responsible for the steady advance*. At Pittsburg Bessemer pig is 75 cents higher, and nt Chicago • Southern pig shows a similar gain. Steel billets now sell at $3 over the pool price for prompt delivery. The cereals are without notable change, wheat and corn being fractionally lower in a dull, scalping market. Corn is rather in lietter export demand, hut rumors of a “deal” at Chicago restrict operations somewhat. Wheat, including Hour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,233,313 bushels, against 3,424.392 bushels last week. Corn export* aggregate 4,185.440 bushels, against 3,207,008 bushels last week.”