Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Hotel Cecil was burned at Ottawa, Ont. The hotel was owned by ex-Mayor Davidson, who rebuilt it and had it newly furnished about three years ago. The loss is about $60,000. The treaty of cession of the Danish West India Islands from Denmark to the United States was signed nt the State Department at Washington by Secretary Hay and Constantine Brun, the Danish minister. According to statistics collected by the census bureau, the gross value of the products of manufacture in the United States in 1900 was $13,003,127,682, as compared with $0,372,437,282 in 1890, an increase of 38.73 per cent. The steamer Queea City reports that Indians at Ahousett, B. C., have found a small boat which is believed to belong to the missing sloop of war Condor. It is clinker-built and painted white. News of other wreckage is reported by the Queen City. Word has been received of the eventful voyage of the ship James Drummond from Puget sound to Freemantle, Aus. tralin. during which Captain IL J. Nason was forced to shoot his first mate to save his own life and prevent mutiny on the craft. An order in council has been passed nt Ottawa, Out., extending for the yt#r 1902 the modus vivetidi between Canada and the United States regarding fishing vessels. Licenses will be issued ip the usual terms for the purchase of bait, ice, seines, lines and all other supplies and outfits, as well ns the transshipment of catch and the shipping of crews. The fee Is $1.50 pe r ton.