Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Building trades of Cincinnati want nn eight-hour day. James it. Keene, New York, wants to form a rubber trust. Silas C. Croft, surveyor of the i>ort of New York, is dead. One thousand men representing the building trades of Niagara Falls, N. Y., struck for an advance of wages and nn eight-hour working day. The contract has been let for the erection of the monument in Guthrie to the memory of Itoy V. Cashion, the Oklahoma rough rider who was killed in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. J. Gage, former Secretary of the Treasury, has been elected president of the United States Trust Company of New York. He succeeds John Stewart, who resigned on account of ill health. Adolpluts De Wet, a nephew of the Boer Gen. De Wet, who was wounded and captured at the battle of Jacobsdal. and who afterwards escaped from Bermuda by swimming to a schooner bound for New York, arrived nt Guayaquil, Ecuador, recently. He spent a few days in that city and proceeded to Lima, Peru, where he will engage in a mining enterprise.