Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1902 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

More than 2,000,000 cigars are on the way to tho United States from Manila. Rev. W. P. Hines’ 202 sermons, for which a railroad bad to pay him $250, have been found on a negro robber. Nearly 3,000,000 kroner was sent in postal orders by persons in the United States to friends in Norway during 1901. Eighty-five miners killed and seventyfive more buried under debris were the fearful results of a dust explosion at the Hondo mines in Mexico. The amount of gold in the national treasury the other day was $545,876,305, the highest point ever reached in the history of the government. President Roosevelt bus issued an order forbidding federal employes from asking Congress to increase their pay. dismissal being the penalty for any violation. Prof. Leo 8. Rowe has been elected president of tho Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, with Jirmes T. Young as secretary. “Jack" Ross of Montreal and Miss Ethel Matthews of Toronto, tlm principals in a recent fashionable wedding, were each presented with $1,000,000 as a wedding gift. After undergoing severe hardship* nnr, overcoming many obstacles, the member* of the Transalaska Company exploration and trail building party have cut their way through from the Yukon to lllamana lake and established a trail which. It la said, will bring n ne'e era commercially for Nome and the contiguous region, in addition to establishing a horse trail, with.roadhouses thirty miles apart, making a Safe, route iu the depth of winter for travelers, mall nnd freight, the party obtained topographical Information concerning the country traversed which will make accessary certain changes in this maps