Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts us the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL H»pf—nin£> in the Nearby Cities and Towns-—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FIND MUCH SUGAR STORED Government Agent Uncovers Millions of Ponds in Buffalo. Federal secret service agents Tuesday reported to Washington the discovery in a Buffalo warehouse of millions of pounds of sugar in sacks, labeled “Top Crust Flour.” Notations on the packages, it was said, indicated that the sugar had been coming irto the warehouse over a period of several months. A federal agent who made a survey of the contents of the building estimated the amount of sugar at 154 carloads, or about 10,000,000 pounds. Around immense piles of sacks containing tfie. sugar the federal agent said be found a screen of other articles, while some of the containers marked “Top Crust Flour ' actually had flour sprinkled over the outside.