Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

J. Newton Nind of Chicago and C. U. Lortng of Boston are visiting furniture manufacturers of the United States, promoting a national organization for mutual protection. Prof. E. Stone Wiggins, the weather prophet, says he will take legal action to upset Mr. Marconi’s patents on wireless telegraphy. The professor alleges that Marconi has stolen his ideas. The Cuban government will be set up about March 1. The president and senators will be elected on Feb. 24 by the electors chosen at the election when members of the house of representatives were elected. Two persons have died ns a result of the severe weather near Dawson, Alaska, according to advices brought by the steamer Amur. The weather there is very stormy and the temperature has been as low as 50 degrees below zerp. Henry Patten of Albany, J. Dobson Good of New York and F. C. Smith of New York, the last named Dr. Seward Webb's secretary, are negotiating for the purchase of timber properties. They have taken over 75,000 acres at Sherbrooke and have been inspecting about 05,000 acres near the Gaspereau rtver and some 40,000 atres in Queens County, Nova Scotia. There v will be no withdrawal of American troops from Culm after the ceremony of transferring the island to the new republican government has been performed. The only actual difference in the present condition, so far as the American military occupation is concerned, will he the abandonment of the present scattered barracks and the concentration of the troops in naval and coaling stations which are to be located by treaty agreement before the new Cuban congress convenes.