Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Columbia defeated Shamrock in the first trial of the International yacht race for the America's cup. The American League season is at an end. Chicago is the champion, while Boston and Detroit get the second and the third honors respectively. The loss of from eight to fifteen lives is believed to have resulted from fire in the works of the Wellington Colliery Company near Ladysmith, B. C. The fire broke out in the evening and it was impossible to get air to the workers. In Victoria, B. C., John Rogers, a member of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, was adjudged guilty of manslaughter on the charge that he caused the death of his two children by failing to provide them with medical attendance. The steamer City of Sbattle has arrived at Vancouver from Skaguay, bringing in all 314 passengers, the record for the season. Crowds are now coming out from Dawson and 200 more were to have arrived in Skagunj' the day that the Seattle left for the South. Mrs. Peary, wife of Lieut. Peary, denies the report that Dr. Diedrich was marooned. He positively refused to go back, and said he would stay with a party of natives. It was not considered proper to attempt to compel him to return to the Windward because of his peculiar mental state. Statistics about doctors, medical students and medical colleges have been prepared and published by the Journal of the meriean Medical Association. “There are approximately 125,000 licensed physicians in the United States, or one to each 637 inhabitants,” says the report. “Last year there was a total of 31,882 medical students in all the States, or one for every 2,888 of population. What is believed to be one of the richest copper deposits in the world w»i recently discovered through a boy's selling pretty rocks to an assay office at San Diego. It was found that the ore came from about twenty-five miles below the Mexican line, and the boy’s father, Antonio Feliz, Col. Robbius and J. Wade McDonald have located the land under the Mexican law. Development work has begun. “Normal conditions have been fully restored in the distribution of merchandise, the placing of delayed orders stimulating tho few lines that appeared to halt. One of the most gratifying features of the business situation is the pronounced preference-for the better grades of goods, clearly indicating the improved financial condition of consumers. Resumption of work has progressed rapidly in the steel industry since the settlement of the labor controversy, and there is little discord between employer and employed in other lines. Stability of prices, without inflation, is the rule, except where the unusual size of crops introduces a special factor,” according to K. G. Dun & Co.’a review of trade. Continuing, the report says: “Wheat is well sustained, and still better prices are promised by the heavy export movement, which from all United States ports for the week reached 5,268,413 bushels, flour included, against 3,557,482 bushels last year. Failures for the week numbered 227 in the United States, against 204 last year, and 31 in Canada, against 18 last year."