Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Explosion In the coal mines at Fernie, B. C. t killed 109 miners, twenty-four escaping. The British steamer Askehell sailed from Coronel for Portland, Ore., under charter to load 300,000 bushels of oats for the British government in South Africa. The Cuban House at Havana has adopted a resolution declaring May 19 Decoration day, and passed a motion expressing sympathy for American soldiers killed in Cuba. Alfred Hawkins was hanged nt Whatcom, Wash., for the murder of D. M. Woodbury over two years ago; Charles Reeves was hanged at Boonville, MJ„ for the murder of his wife Feb. 24, and Elijah Chapman, colored, was executed at Washington for killing Ida Nimmons. Two hundred lending furniture manufacturers of the country have formed a combination which will control the furniture output of the United States and dictate prices. Tho capital represented Is about 125,000,000. The organisation adopted a new schedule of prices which will go Into effect at once. Four hundred men of the Fifth regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, armed with stones, ran riot through the streets of Halifax. N. S. They bombarded n house on Albemarle street ami practically sacked the building. Severn! days ago Troopet Martin wna sandbagged then l , and he In now critically ill. The Valdes, Copper River and Yukon Railway Company, capital $2'400,000, lias been Incorporated at Trefttofi, N. J. It Is understood that its purpose is to develop the tnffiing Industries of Alaska, by bgilding a railread from Valdez, on the GtUf oT'Alankh, to Engle City, on the Yukon river, nnd from the Yukon river to Behring strait.