Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Weekly trade reviews show good distribution of merchandise in preparation for heavy holiday trade. Panama fears Colombia government w ill absorb all of the $7,000,000 to be paid for concessions and privileges for the isthmian canal. It is semi-officinlly announced that it is not improbable that President Loubet of France will make an official visit to the St. Louis exposition in 1904. The Association of College Alumnae in session at Washington decided to admit to membership graduates of the University of Illinois and chose Milwaukee as the place for the next meeting. The Japanese empire will maintain a permanent fleet in the American waters ot the Pacific. It will be stationed on the Pacific const off America. Its headquarters will be at Esquimalt, in British Columbia. The Southern Pucific company has signned a new agreement with the telegraphers, train dispatchers and station agents employed on the Pacific system. An increase in salaries amounting to 10 per cent was granted. John Nystrom, a Swedish sailor on tho United States army transport Sumner, sacrificed his life while attempting to save an American flag which hnd been torn by a gust of wind from the stern of the vessel’s Bteam launch. A general advance in wages of train”men on all lines between Chicago nnd Buffalo, Salamanca, Pittsburg and the Ohio River Is likely within the next few weeks. It is said that a 10 per cent increase is almost inevitable. Relations between United States and Cuba are more unsatisfactory than the public is aware; Germany and England aro causing distrust over proposed commercial treaty and Cubans are unlikely to ratify It; Col. Tasker 11. Rlisa has been sent from Washington to Havana to negotiate a new agreement. Canada Is seeking emigration of Americans on charge that “United States Is composed of tenant farmers’’ aud “It is Impossible for these to own land they cultivate”; 25,000,000 acres for sale in Ontario, and Americnn syndicate will sell 2,000,000 acres to 75,000 American farmers. with free transportation, at $3 an acre. According tp n dispatch from Syduey, N. S. W., an extraordinary red dust storm has been experienced in Victoria end New South Woles. Darkness enshrouded the city of Melbourne and balls of fire fell and set Are to several buildings. The people were thrown into a state of panic, ns they thought the worll was coming to an end. An evening paper nt Victoria, B. 0., says: “In the quietest possible manner and with every precaution to secrecy United States surveyors hnve encroached upon Canadian territory to the northeast of Cape Fox and appropriated to iteelf thousands of square miles of land lying within the boundaries of British Columns to the westward of Portland canal.”