Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Prof. Willis L. Moore has nsked a patent on a cooling machine by which he says living rooms may be kept at 72 degrees in the hottest weather. Emperor William may conie to America to unveil a statue of Frederick the Great to be erected in Washington as his gift to this country aud as a token of international amity. An officer of the North German Lloyd steamer Bradcnburg said that it was the purpose of the Czar of Russia to establish a line of merchant steamers between Russia nnd the United States. Large numbers of 17-yenr locusts have made their appearance in Washington, and reports of similar visitation have reached the Department of Agriculture from Altoona, Pu., and Nashville, Tenn. The republic of Culm is born. At noon Tuesday the Hag of the new republic in the family of nntious wus hoisted amid enthusiastic cheers from Cuban patriots who have fought for years for what bus finally been given them. Returned army officer says Filipinos are deluded into continuing the struggle by the Hongkong juuta, which represent* President Roosevelt ns a prisoner in the White House, menaced by Americans, who demand independence for the archipelago. Eastern Canadian capitalist* hare brought about the amalgamation of fifty canneries on Fraser river nud tlie Brlttsli Columbia cqa*t. with a yearly output of 1,500,000 cases of salmon. Tlie company lis* been capitalized at $4,Q00,000 under New Jersey laws. The recontl set of the Gaynor-Greeo comedy was played when the two fugitives were kidnaped back to Quebec by the defense. They went by special train, which had come all the way from Quebec and which had been started ,wltldn on hour after Judge La Fontaine had given his derision there to the effect that the two men should Ik* taken to jail. Startling developments may follow.