Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

James R. Garfield has decided to accept the position of civil service commissioner offered him by President Roosevelt. The Illinois Central road will be double tracked from Chicago to New Orleans within two years. A large part of the line is already thus equipped. Senator Hanna hns written to a Wisconsin man stating he is in no sense a candidate for the Presidency and asked his friends to discourage any movement for him. Commissioner of Pensions Evans has placed his resignation into the hands of the President. It will not take effect before an important ixisition in the diplomatic service is found for him. Charles Hawtrey, the actor, who rrrived nt Southampton on the St. Louis, met with n painful accident. While walking on the deck the vessel gave a lurch, nnd be was throuffi down and sprained his ankle. A disastrous fire started in Steamboat slough, opposite Dawson, Alaska. The slough is used by Yukon River boots for winter quarters. Of the* steamers an I barges there when the fire started the Glenora and Mona, the property of J. W. Gcnelle of Vancouver. B. C., have been consumed. The loss is $37,000. Storm caused loss of life and great property loss in Ohio Valley, the South sn<l pnrts of the Northweat. Over two a-ote persons were injured in Pittsburg In panic iu church partly wrecked by vind. Floods caused by a rainfull that continued for twenty-four hours resulted in property damage amounting to $5,000. 000 and the loss of several lives in middle and eastern Tennessee. •