Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Brndstreet’s reports trade conditions irregular, with actual business showing for six months better than for 1902, and prospects good for future; June railroad earnings 9 per cent over 1902. Promiscuous boycotting, strikes und the mad rush to increase wages are likely to prove the downfall of unionism when the “bubble of speculation bursts,” according to Clarence Darrow. George RoWley, former manager of the Elgin Loan Company of St Thomas, On*., whose disappearance caused a suspension of the concern, has retnrnt-d and given himself up to the authorise*. Gideon Burts, living in Anglesia township, near doyne, Oat, killed his wife by battering her head with a stove lifter. He was insane. Burts hunted up a constable and invited him to see what he had done. Yhe steamships Roanoke, Senator and Centennial, carrying 1,200 passengers, had narrow escapes from being crushed in the ice pack of Behring sea, 100 miles from Nome, in an exciting race to reach Nome. They were caught between ice coming together, being compelled to crowd on full steam to get through.