Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

One of the arrested_men suspected of complicity in the murder of Robert Remmett, a British subject engaged in mining at Zacuaipan. State of Mexico, has confessed and gives the names of the leader of the band of assassins. The motive was robbery, and not revenge. Articles of incorporation of eight companies with $5,000,000 capital have been filed at Pierre, S. D., by Philadelphia and Pierre citizens for wireless telephone and telegraph companies. They are intended to cover operations in the United States and in all the new possessions of the United States, as well as in Alaska. President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association ordered a strike of the 20,000 union employes of the American Sheet Steel Company because of the failure of conferees on wage scale to reach agreement. Trouble threatens to spread to all mills of the United States Steel Corporation, and to involve 150,000 men. “It does not follow because bad banking methods have caused one of the smaller New York banks to dose its doors, with attendant circumstances that create discussion in Wall street, that general business is in auy way affected by or at all responsible for the trouble. The country is undeniably prosperous, and with prospects of an abundant harvest to supply our own needs and increasing European deficiencies the situation is viewed with confidence. A few more labor disturbances have arisen, but others have been settled, notably the dispute over the tin plate scale. Some disagreements in the coal regions nt times assume a threatening aspect? but the troubles have been local and do not affect the mining industry. Reports from the country speak of n continued active movement of merchandise with the jobbing trade nnd embracing nenrly all lines.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It also says: "Failures for the week numbered 204 in the Unite:! States, against 207 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 21 last year."