Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Grand Army broke camp after selecting San Francisco as place of next meeting. The Hague arbitration court reached a unanimous decision in the Pious fund ease condemning Mexico to pnv the United States $1,420,682.07. Secretary of Navy Moody, in address nt Madison, Wis., said 07 cents a ton duty on anthracite was smuggled into Dingley bill and ought to be repealed by Congress tins winter. Dun & Co.’s review reported costly fuel may soon force manufacturers to raise prices; New England cotton mills ure preparing to shut down; railroad earnings for September gained 0.4 per cei4 over 1901. The practical effect of Secretary Shaw’s recent instructions to collectors of ports and other customs officers to facilitate as much ns possible the importation of coal nt the present time will be to admit Welsh bard coal free of customs duties. The Canadian government has decided to carry free for an indefinite period over the Intercolonial Hail way, the government road which extends from Sydney, O. 8., and Halifax to Montreal, all Nova Scotia coal purchased by municipal bodies for sale to householders nt cost. J. P. Morgan visited President Roosevelt, and on behalf of the coal operators agreed to submit differences with anthracite miners to arbitration by a commission to be named by the President. As this proposal was originally made by John Mitchell nnd is agreeable to the strikers, an end of the struggle is in sight. Prince Chowfo Aluhn Vajlravudh, the crown prince of Slam, nrrived in New York on the steamer Fucrat Bismarck from Southampton nnd Cherbourg. Ho was met by Herbert 11. I). Peirce, ibird Assistant Secretary of State, nnd D. 11. Sickles of New York, formerly consul general nt Bangkok, Presi. dent Roosevelt, nnd Edyin V. Morgan of the State Department. \ At the conference of representative, of lumber association in Atlanta, Gn., pWlimlnnriea for the organization of what promises to prove the largest combination of lumber manufacturers in the world were arranged. A call lias been issued for a meeting of lumbermen in St. Ixmls, Mo., Dec. 0 and 10, nt which time n national association will be formed, with members from every part of the United States. Those who attended the conference just closed represented nn annual output of 5,500.000,000 feet of lumber.