Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

The Allis-Chalmers Company is to build two big machine-shops, one at Milwaukee to cost $2,500,000. and another on the Atlantic const to cost $1,250,000. Lieut. Charles McClure, Jr., son of Col. Charles McClure ami grandson of Gen. George W. Getty, U. S. A., retired, died in the Philippines July L He was born at Sioux City, lowa, June 10, 1877. Nearly $8,000,000 for the repair of warships became available the other day and orders were issued to the commandants of the various navy yards directing the employment of the maximum working force. Twenty-five arrests have been made in the course of the investingation into the murder of Robert Remmett, an English mine engineer in Mexico. Gov. Yilleda has personally conducted the pursuit of the assassins. The big naval tug Fortune, now at Boston, has been ordered by the Navy Department to make the trip around South America to Puget Sound, where naval tugs are in much demand. The trip will be about 14,000 miles. The whaler Balena. of San Francisco, belonging to the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, was wrecked May 1 on St. Lawrence Island, in Bering Sea. Capt. P. F. Cotte and sixty men in the crew had an almost miraculous esy>pe from death. A telegram has been received at the mint bureau in Washington from Director Roberts, who is in San Francisco, confirming the report of the disappearance of government funds from the mint in that city. He says the cashier of that mint is $30,000 short, but gives no particulars of his investigation. "Developments of fresh labor troubles is a feature of a week that has made for conservatism in many directions, but throughout the country jobbing and retail lines are bustj - and are handling goods at prices which yield fair profits. There is a reflection of this activity in the continued improvement in the textile markets in the East, and the uneasiness over the money market does not extend beyond the ranks of speculators in stocks. Crop reports continue gratifying, much good having been done by rains in the Middle West. Harvesting of winter wheat progresses favorably.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of It. G. Dun A Co. It continues: “Manufacturing has been interrupted by the elements and labor agitation. Many prostrations from heat caused humane employers to close mills during the most distressing hours, while the sheet and hoop workers were ordered to stop work until certain disputed points were settled. No immediate settlement is anticipated. Commercial failures during the first half of 1901 numbered 5,759, with liabilities of $35,804,690, against 5,332 last year, for ST4,747,452.