Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Gov. Allen was warmly welcomed on his return to Porto Rico. American ordnance nnd navy armament syndicate is being organized. Dangerous derelicts are reported by the steamers L’Aquitaine and Mcsaba. Union Castle Steamship Company, which monopolizes South African traffic, defies threatened American competition. L. F. Loroe, fourth vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, has been selected as president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Peruvian press says that President Roea of Argentina intends to visit the Buffalo exposition. He will also consult President McKinley upon various South American questions. Machinists will demaud shorter hours without decrease in pay on all railway systems in the United States and Canada, refusal to be the signal for a general strike iu both countries. Bradstreet’s says: "The general situation is still largely a favorable one, the primary encouraging feature being the fine outlook for the country’s crops. General distribution, retarded hitherto by the backward spring, lias been stimulated by warm, sunny weather. Industrial conditions head the list of disturbing features, hut confidence in eonservatistn and good counsel is widespread and the effect upon general business, exerted by the largest number of men idle for several years past, has been apparently minimized.”