Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Andrew Carnegie announces the gift of forty more public libraries. Bix deaths occurred on the transport Sheridan, which arrived in San Francisco recently with troops from Manila. Willis Van Devanter of Wyoming, assistant attorney general for the Interior Department, is the choice of President Roosevelt as successor to Secretary Hitchcock, who is soon to retire. The Senate passed the Hanna-Frye ship subsidy bill by a rote of 42 to 31. Six Republicans, including Allison, Spooner, Dolliver and Quarles, voted against the measure. No unfriendy amendment was adopted. The schooner John K. Souther, Captain A. F. Poole, from New York for Galveston, Texas, foundered off Great Stirrup the Bahama group, March 11. The crew of the Souther has arrived at Nassau, Bahama Islands. Fourteen-year-old Gerald Oslioriie, who saved the St. Jphns express from disaster near Halifax, N. S., is to be presented with a check for $2,000 and a life pass over the railway. He noticed a broken rail and flagged the train by waving a burning newspaper. Fire insurance rates on all manufacturing and mercantile risks were advanced 25 per cent throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains by the Western Union underwriters. New York City Is the only (mint in the territory named not affected by the new schedule.

Fred Lowden was killed by a snowslide near Nelson, B. C. He and Chris Bherbert were asleep at the foot of the Kokanee range when the slide buried their cabin. After thirty-six hours of superhuman effort Sberbert freed himself. Ha obtained aid at a neighboring mine, but Lowden Was dead.