Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Star advices from Hermosillo, M-'xieo, say that the Y’aqui trouble is practically settled and flint travel is perfectly safe throughout Sonora. B. YV. Snow says crop conditions were ideal through May aud looks for better than a “bumper” year in wheat. Immense acreage has been planted to corn, which is very promising. President Roosevelt finds he ennnot comply with request of New York Board of Trade that lie intervene to settle miners’ strike, the law cited by that body having been repealed in 18U8. Gen. Maximo Gomez has published on open letter, in which he refuses to accept the annual pension of S<MXX) provided for him In a resolution which is now before the Cuban House of Representatives. The largest gold nugget, ever found in the North has been picked up on the J. B. Brooksldc Hillside claim, beside Solomon Hill and Monte Cristo gulch, Klondike. It weighs 330 ounces and contains $4,800 worth of gold. The old record wns SI,OBO. The pavilion in the horticultural gardens, the second largest auditorium in Toronto, burned-.. The convervatory adjoining. in which were many valuable nnd rare nlants, was also badly scorched and many of the plants wer e irreparably dninnged. The loss Is heavy. United States Treasurer Roberts calls attention to the fact that now for the first time the outstanding gold certificate# exceed in volume the United States notes, which remain fixed at $340,861,010. The gross gold in the treasury also liaa reached a record-breaking point, standing at $554,000,000. >