Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Lieut. Peary sends word from Labrador that he and party are safe and well and will return home soon. Prince Henry may visit tlje United States again next year at the unveiling of the monument to Frederick the Great at Washington. Alexander B. Shepherd, former Governor of District of Columbia, who did much to beautify and remodel Washington, died in Mexico. Frank T. Merry, formerly private secretary to President Angell of the University oL-Michigan," was found dead in the Sandwich Islands Aug. 29. He leaves three children in Chicago. It is conservatively estimated that “Boss” A. R. Shepherd, whose death at his home in the mining camp of Batopilas, Mexico, occurred the other day, left a fortune of about $6,000,000. Dun & Co.’s review declared industrial activity increasing in spite of transportation blockades; foodstuffs declined 3.5 per cent during August; railroad earnings gained 4.2 per cent over 1901. Certain defects in the Panama Canal Company’s title to Colombian concessions have been brought to light which render the conclusion of the sale of the company’s rights and property to the United States doubtful.

The report of the commissioners of prisons shows an unprecedented increase in crime in the United Kingdom. There were 17,103 more prisoners sentenced to Imprisonment during the year ended March 31, 1901, than in the previous year. , The steamer Humboldt passengers report earthquake shocks occurring in Alaska along the coast between Muir and Yakutat. At Dundas the shock broke the window glass, caused the collapse of an unfinished building of a salmon cannery and scared many Chinese fishermen. A sewing machine trust, with a capital of $30,000,000, is in process of formation, according to information from a source of high authority. Already it is claimed that twelve concerns have agreed to join, and it is expected to secure a number of others. The firms involved so far are: The New Home Company of Orange, Mass.; the Household of Providence, R. I.; the Domestic of Newark, N. J.; the Demorest of I Williamsport, Pa., the Williams Manufacturing Company of Plattsburg, N. Y.; the Standard Company of Cleveland, Ohio; the White companies of Cleveland, Ohio, the Davis of Dayton, Ohio; the Foley & Williams Manufacturing Company of Chicago and Kankakee, Hl.;' the Illinois Sewing Machine Company of Rockford, Hl.; the Chicago Sewing Machine Company of Chicago, and the National Sewing Machine CtM’iptiwf of Belvidere, 111.