Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Eugene F. Ware of Kansas has been selected HF the President to succeed H. Cljy. Evans as Commissioner of I’en"sions. President Roosevelt announces Gov. Dole’s course has been snch as to warwant his continuance as Governor of Hawaii. Christian workers of the United States and Canada have been called to meet at Winona Lake, Ind., from June 30 to July 5. Senator Hanna wins fight for acceptance of bond for SIOO,OOO bail for Maj. Rathbone, and the latter will be released from Havana jail. The Canadian Pacific purposes building storage elevator of 1,000,000 bushels’ capacity at Port Arthur, Ont., at once and the Canadian Northern also will increase its elevator capacity by 1,500,000 bushels. Arrangements have been completed for the formation of a gigantic rival to the United States Steel Corporation. The new company will be incorporated in Trenton, N. J., and will have a capital of $200,000,000. Judge Eli Torrence, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., has issued a new series of general orders. The thirty-sixth national encampment will be held at Washington this year by decision of the national council. President Roosevelt cabled'Gen. Chaffee to investigate thoroughly all charges of cruelty to natives by American soldiers and let no guilty man escape. Gen. Smith and those concerned in “water cure” accusations probably will be courtmartialed.

A representative of the McCormick Company of Chicago has been in Toronto, Ont., for about a month and has selected four suitable sites for a branch of the firm* reaper works. The Chicago managers will decide which site to purchase and work on buildings will be rushed this summer. After three years’ discussion the leading stove manufacturers of the United States are perfecting a consolidation in which between forty nnd fifty of the largest plants will be united. The present movement is being fathered by Mazard Kahn, a leading manufacturer of Hamilton, Ohio, nnd Mr. Warren of Detroit. Bodies of Bessemer iron ore almost free from phosphorus and hundreds of miles in extent have been found on islands which line an inland sea along the coast of British Columbia nnd southeastern Alaska. The islands were supposed to be valueless except for a stunted growth of fir and cedar and a few fur-bearing animals. In the course of winding up the American military occupation of Cuba a decree has been Issued granting commutation varying from a quarter to a halt the sentences of those prisoners serving sentences of twenty years or less. Convicts having appeals pending will benefit by the decree if the appeals are withdrawn. All persons convicted of electoral or press offenses are pardoned. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America was formally launched Thursday by the filing of incorporation patters under the laws of New Jersey. The charter is an amended one of the old Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, which was Incorporated in New Jersey is November, 1899, with a capital stock of >10,000,000. E. Rollins Mqrsc, banker and broker of Wall street, is the leading spirit in the new enterprise. He said the capital atock would be >0,050,000.