Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Professor J. B. Steer, a government scientist, has brought a fine lot of curios from the interior of Brazil. Admiral Dewey and twenty-four other naval officers who were at the battle of Manila Bay celebrated that event with a banquet. As tlj,e result of a national conference of window glass interests it was decided to close down nearly all factories in the United States and give all employes an advance in wages of 15 per cent. Secretary Root has issued an order abolishing the following arsenals: Kennebec, Augusta, Me.; Fort Monroe, I>‘ort Monroe, Va.; Allegheny, Pittsburg, Pa.; Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Ind., and Columbia, Columbia, Tenn. The British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, which was organized last year with $25,(XX),000 English capital, has just placed some heavy contracts in this country for material and equipment for its $8,000,000 plant at Trafford Park, near Manchester. Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy is quoted in New York dispatches as saying that her successor as head of the Christian Science Church will be a man. Kansas City Scientists are convinced that the candidate is Alfred Farlow, formerly a reader in one of the Kansas City churches. President Fish and General Manager Ilarrahan have affixed their signatures to and thereby made operative the plan under consideration for some time of pensioning employes of the Illinois Central road. In order to carry out the scheme a pension fund of $250,000 has been provided, and each year the company will set apart a sum not to exceed SIOO,OOO for the payment of the pension allowances for the year. Bradstreet's report on grain is as follows: “Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,100,763 bushels, against 4.537,022 iu the corresponding week of 1900. From July Ito date this season wheat exports are 176,916,238 bushels, against 166,035,602 last season. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,371,892 bushels, against 3,411,015 in this week a year ago. From July 1 to date this season corn exports are 157,015,436 bushels, against 173,203,075 last season. The crop situation at present is quite encouraging. Warm, sunny weather is helping corn and cotton, and wheat maintains a generally good condition, notwithstanding reports of damage by insects in the Southwest. Cotton crop advices are fairly good, and an increase in acreage is still foreshadowed, despite much replanting having been necessary in Alabama, Georgia and in Tennessee, where the scarcity of seed for this purpose is remarked.