Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Carl Buenz. Germa n consul at Chicago, has been apiminted consul general at New York. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has given notice of withdrawal from the Federation of American Railway Employes. Traffic on, the White Pass and Yukon Railway has l>een indefinitely suspended on account of snow and slides, which are from fifty to 200 feet deep ou the rails. Congressman Hopkins of the House ways and means committee states that there will be no revision of the war internal revenue tax law at the present session of Congress.

Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn is suffering from u mysterious growth on his right hip, which is sapping his strength, lie is too weak to bear an operation and a fatal result is feared. The movement to establish a national park on the ground made historical by the battle of Atlanta, (la . is indorsed by former President Harrison ami other prominent Northerners, "Lucky" Baldwin of San Francisco, who has only a remnant left ot a oner big fortune, proposes in the spring to gc to Cape Nome,The new mining camp un der the arctie circle, and start a dance house.

The .Ministerial Association of British Columbia, headed by Bishop Perrin, hat interviewed the Government urging leg islation against the recognition of Amer ican divorces granted for causes not recognized by Canadian liiws. While M’iss Rachel Ferguson, a wellknown young woman of Toronto, Ont., was on her way home the other night she was knocked down by an unknown man and robbed. The man used a club or sandbag and the blow was so severe that Miss Ferguson died from the effects. The Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern road has been opened sot freight traffic, and a passenger service established. John W. Gates, president of the Federal Steel Company, is president of the road, which has a bridge across the Mississippi at Davenport, lowa, and owns forty-one miles of track. A man about 30 years old registered at the Rossin House, Toronto, as A. Finberg of Chicago, aud was assigned to a room. Nothing was seen of him the next day. and the day following the bed room door was forced. Finberg was found dead. He had shot himself twice, once in the mouth and ofice in the neck. He left nothing to explain his action. Bradstreet’s says: “Perhaps the most notable movement among leading staples is that developed in hogs and hog products, a better realization apparently being had of the features making for strength in those products, notably among which being the reduction in the supply of hogs. That the advance in hog products is beginning to attract more at tention seems evident from the extent t« which this advance has had sympathetic reflection in the prices of wheat and other cereals.” A complete revision and codification ol the postal laws has been completed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Barrett. The most important changes are to prohibit the establishment or mainte’nance of a postoffice for the benefit of any person or company where they arc enabled to obtain their postage at a nominal figure, a legislative confirmation of the official practice where irregularities are discovered of relieving a postmaster from duty and transferring the office of the bond sureties and authority for the Postmaster General to fix the compensation of fourth class postmasters in caqe« of boycott.