Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

New submarine naval boat Fulton was launched at the Nixon shipyard. Henry M. Flagler, Standard Oil magnate, has sued for divorce from his Insane wif*. . ~ ■" ~ . The battleship Illinois, on trial trip over Cape Ann course, made recordbreaking speed of 17.31 knots an hour and wins rant of queen of the American navy. Fire has destroyed all the lumber in the yard of the. Ontario Lumber Company at French River, Ont., on Georgian Bay, amounting to 15,000,000 feet and valued at over $200,000. Andrew Epperson, who had been found guilty by a jury of a charge of stabbing Ida Allison, made an attempt to kill Judge Ball in the County Court at Chatham, Ont. He was overpowered only after a hard fight. Trolley cars built in this country will soon go whizzing and clanging from Athens to Piraeus in modern Greece. The contract for constructing the line has been let. In a general way the cars will resemble those use* in Brooklyn. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin has started on his journey to the north pole. He sailed from New York on the Friederich Der Grosse. At Perth Mr. Baldwin will go to Dundee, where the America, flagship of the expedition, awaits his arrival. The battleship Wisconsin will contest honors of being the fastest vessel of its class with the Illinois, which now holds the record. In a trial remarkable speed was shown, the big fighting machine making 18.6 knots an hour for two hours under forced draft. Herbert W. Bowen succeeds Minister Loomis in Venezuela, the latter being sent to Portugal. Lloyd C. Griscom, charge d’affaires at Constantinople, is made minister to Persia, and is succeeded by Spencer Eddy of the Paris legation, who in turn is succeeded by Arthur B. Blanchard. Dispatches from Dawson City say that $7,500,000 in gold dust had been deposited in Dawson banks of the season’s clean-up. The total clean-up is estimated at $25,000,000. A nugget worth $1,020 was picked up on Frank Piscator’s No. 2 Eldorado. Alaska’s total output will be about $35,000,000. ' The schooner Czar, bound to Labrador with fishermen and their families, seventy persons altogether, was driven ashore on Cabot Island, on the north coast ot Newfoundland, in a dense fog and gale. Four men were drowned and six others were injured, but the women and children were all landed safely; The schooner Constitution, bound down in tow of the Victory, and the Elwood, bound up, came together in the lower entrance to the Canadian lock at Sault Ste. Marie. The Elwood has a crack six feet long just back of the stem, but will be able to continue her voyage. Considerable repairs are necessary before the Constitution can proceed. “Confirmation by the agricultural bureau of recent private estimates of the wheat crop has given to business a tone of greater confidence. Retail operations both East and West are larger and distribution of merchandise by the wholesale trade is increasing in dry goods and boots and shoes. The labor situation is gradually mending with the appreciation of the fact that in some directions manufacturers would be glad of a temporary shut-down of works.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: “Wheat declined to a more reasonable level tvlth the withdrawal of speculative support. The government report of condition of June 1 was chiefly responsible. A crop this year equal to the greatest ever harvested was indicated by the official statement. Failures for the w’eek numbered 179 in the United States, against 102 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 21 last year.”