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

IN GENERAL

Wu Ting Fang’s son will remain iu school iu the United States after the minister goes back to China. Six soldiers died during the homeward voyage of the transport Sheridan, which arrived at San Francisco the other day with 1,011 troops from Manila. The sealing schooners Annie Painter and C. I>. Band have arrived at Victoria, B. C.. from Behring Sea, the former with 435 skins and the latter with 515. Arrangements have been completed by cable for another tour of the United States by Sir Henry Irving. It will begin in New York in October, 1003. It is said by Wabash machinists that, unless President Itamsey grants them an increase of wages at the conference to be held in St. I.ouis there will be a general strike. According to n statement forwarded to the bureau of foreign commerce by Consul Winter, who is stationed at Anriabcrg, $2,000,000,000 of German capital is invested in the United States and Mexico. Fire in Montreal destroyed the woodwork factory of Simpson & Peel. Surrounding property wns only slightly damaged before the Haines were brought under control. The loss will not exeeeJ $140,000. In the general election on Tuesday Republicans carried Illinois, Indiana, lowa Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York', Ohio, I’ennsrfvnnia, South Dakota, Wisconsin. Rhode Island, Delaware and Oregon went Democratic hy small majorities. Annual report of United States Treasurer Roberts calls atteution to the large cash balance in the treasury and the unprecedented holdings of gold, and suggests that United States notes ho made gold certificates ns the stock of yellow metal increases. The Port Arthur ship canal has been examined by the special commission appointed by the Kansas City Southern Railway and pronounced safe for navigation hy all vessels of twenty feet draught not over forty-five feet benm. Steamers less than twenty feet draught are safe with any beam. The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Navigation Company, known ns the Wolrin syndicate of Detroit, has Knight from King Bros., Quebec, the entire Seignory of Mntiuio, with its extensive forests, for the purpose of entering into the lumber business in connection with its grain transportation interests. There is continued olnrm at Tapachula, State of Chiapas, Mexico, over the eruption of Santa Maria Mountain in Guatemala. For fifty-three hours the city wns almost totally dark. Bumfunding coffee planters have experienced great loss, and across the lino in Guatemala many valuable properties have been destroyed. It has been found that no lists were kept by principals of public schools of those children who contributed to the fund for the battleship American Boy, and attempts to return the money to the donors have proved futile. W. Rankin Goode, the Cincinnati boy who was nt the head of the battleship movement, now has on hand $1,500, which was contributed by school children for that purpose. He proposes to turn the money over to the McKinley memorial fountain committea.