Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Pierre Lorillard's estate at the time of his death is found to have been worth $1,797,025. Explorer Borchgrevink, the Norwegian, has taken out naturalization papers in the United States. Failure on the part of Turkey to execute agreements regarding American claims has caused somewhat strained relations with the United States. Corn and wheat will have to be imported in Mexico from the United States next winter. The corn crop in some Mexican States is good, but the general average is not satisfactory. German statistics give the total import and export trade of the world for 1901 as $23,800,000,900. Great Britain and her colonies lead, with Germany second and the United States third. The 1902 fishing season in the Columbia river is closed. It is estimated that the salmon pack is 336,000 cases, or about 100,000 more than last year. About 90,000 cases were shim>ed iu cold storage, making the total catch 462,000 cases. Announcement of the coming marriage of Miss Y’iviun Sartoris lias been made by Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris. Gen. Grant’s granddaughter is to be the wife of Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, son of Chevalier nnd Mme. Edward Scovel i nd cousin of President Roobevelt. The lower portion of the city of Altata, on the Pacific coast, just west of Culiaenn, Mexico, has been destroyed by a tidal wave, and not less than fifty persons are know*.i to have been drowned. The loss of life may lie several times that number. The property loss Is heavy. It is reported that several smaller const towns situated above Altata were washed away by the tidal wave, and that the loss of life in those smaller places Is heavr.