Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1907 — THE WEEK 5 GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

THE WEEK 5 GENERAL NEWS

Forty to fifty men die in another mine horror, this one being near Yolande, Ala., and was' caused by an explosion of dust in the mine. Still another mine horror this week, 250 men being entombed in a coal mine at Jacobs Creek, Pa., Wednesday, with scarcely a ray of hope that there will any of them be saved. The financial situation over the* country shows more improvement this week probably than any previous time. All the big savings banks of Chicago are now paying out money freely. The big war fleet, the first An-glo-Saxon armada, set sail Monday for the Pacific. It consists of 16 big warships and four supply ships. Each warship carries a complement of about 1,000 men. It is to be hoped that this Roosevelt freak does not aggravate the strained relations existing between this country and Japan. Of a total of 407 persons who committed suicide in Chicago in the 12 months ending December 1, 1907, 200 were married, while only 124 were single, according to official reports. Thirty-six widowers also were in the list, 13 widows and 10 divorced persons. In 24 cases the coroner was unable to learn whether the persons had been married or not. According to Dun’s Review, bank clearings last week were but $2,029,209,293, a decrease of 33.4 per cent, compared with the corresponding week of last year. Failures for the week as reported by Bradstreet’s were 284, against 274 for the previous week, 220 in the like week of 1906, 226 in 1905, 239 in 1904 and 239 in 1903. Canadian failures for the week numbered 50, as against 26 the previous week and 31 for the same week of 1906.