Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Sampson's name heads (he list of witnesses summoned for the Schley court of inquiry. Gen. William Ludlow, hero of two wars and former military governor of Havana, died of tuberculosis at Morrjs town, N. J. Information of a reliable nature has been given out to the effect that the Santa Fe road has purchased the Kansas Southwestern and that the change in management will take place Oct. 1. The London Central News says the engagement is announced of Miss Helen Morton, a daughter of ex-Vice-l’resident Levi P. Morton, to Count Boson de Perigord, the second son of the Prince of Talleyrand. So great has the demand for canned salmon become in the United States that no shipments will,be made of this season's pack from Puget Sound to England. American winners are selling their total pack at home. William IL Hunt, formerly associate judge of the Montana Supreme Court an J latterly secretary of the Island of Porto Rico, has been appointed governor of that territory by the President, to succeed Charles IL Allen. The Interior Department has been advised of the completion of the government sale of town lots in the town of Hobart in the newly ceded part of Oklahoma. The aggregate amount paid for all the lots sold was about £132,000. The City of Seattle, from Skaguay, brings news of the hanging at Dawson of George O’Brien for lhe brutal murder of Lynne Rolfe, Fred Clayson and Lineman Olsen on Christinas day, 1899. O'Brien protested his inno.ence to the last. The st < anter Frithjof reports that she successfully landed the Baldwin-Zeigler Arctic expedition at Camp Zeigler in latitude 80.24 degrees north, and longitude 55 degrees east. This is on Alger Island. All the members of the expedition were in good health. The steamer Solace brings the news that the buildings of the stockyards company in Honolulu were destroyed by fire and seventy-five fine horses were burned to death. Three cottages also were consumed. The loss by tire, which is supposed to have been of incendiary origin, was £IOO,OOO. "Even in cotton goods, which have been the slowest to respond to the vigorous tone of domestic trade, the past week has brought distinct improvement. Pressure at Fall River being removed, theprint cloth market became strong, while in the bleached goods division the gains were still more pronounced,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade. Continuing, the report says: “August opened with the commercial sky overcast by storm clouds thnt threatened serious injury to the steel industry, while drought in the Southwest aroused pessimistic predictions that business was on the verge of a severe setback. Thousands of idle strikers, together with a profitless season in agricultural regions, meant inactivity in manufacturing, trade and transportation, according to the prophets. Instead of these calamitous conditions, however, the month ends with a horizon that is almost clear, and each day resumption of work at an idle mill adds to the productive capacity, while canceled orders for merchandise from dealers in the drought section are rapidly reinstated.”