Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Senator Hanna has abandoned all efforts to end the coal strike owing to the attitude of operators, and predicts a long tight. A late Treasury Department report shows that the world has 1,750 submarine telegraph cables, having a total length of nearly 200,000 miles. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has announced an advance in the wages of the company's operators which will average not less than 10 per cent. The convention of the American Opticians' Association, which closed at Boston, elected 11. E. Ellis of South Bend, Ind., president nnd William Sommers of Chicago regent. The new schedule of wages on the Big Four agreed on by the officers and the men will become operative Sept. I and will increase the pay rolls of the company about SIOO,OOO a year. Thomas S. Townsend has finished his 121 volumes, forming what is known i:s “the Townsend Library of National, State and Individual Civil War Records.” The author bns devoted thirtyseven years to this undertaking. An imperial order hus been issued commanding that all the demands made by the United States upon Turkey be conceded, nnd the relations between the Porte nnd the United States legation in Constantinople Jiave resumed their normal condition. One of the best portions of Rosahvid, B. ('., has been wiped out by fire. The tire started in I*. Beereas' premises, where lard was being rendered and n strong wind spread it to three blocks nnd several saloons. Half a dozen business houses were destroyed. The loss is SIOO,OOO. An important order affecting the military departments of about a hundred schools rind colleges in the United Stated, has been made by the War Department. The substance of this order is thnt hereafter a higher standard will be required of the military departments of those schools to which regular army officer* are detailed by the- general government.