Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Lloyd GrUcont, Jr., has been appointed minister to Japan to succeed Mr. Buck, deceased. Weekly trade reviews report brisk retail business aided by low temperatures nnd the holiday demand. The American Flint Glass Workers’ Union has withdrawn from the American Federation of Labor. The Victoria Hotel in Quebec was destroyed by tire. The guests and employes escaped uninjured. The loss is $110,000; insurance, $75,(X)0. In Montreal, Que., fire destroyed H. Jacobs & Co.’s cigar factory. One million cigars just finished went up in smoke. The loss is S7O,(XX); insured. Cuban reciprocity treaty with United States, giving 20 per cent uniform reduction ou Cuban products for parallel list from United States, signed at Havana. At Tepn, on the Hidalgo Railway, in Mexico, a special train bearing 1,000 pilgrims returning to Tuiancingo fry in City of Mexico, was wrecked, killing three persons and injuring many more. Plans for a combination of the larger toy factories of the country are about complete, and the South IJend, Ind., toy works, employing 400 people, is included in the list. The combination will have about $2,000,000 capital. A dlspntch from Dawson says that 200 Indians have tnken tha warpath -between Little Salmon and the Pelley River. Two murders are reported to have been committed nnd n store burned. Mnjor Cuthliert and fifty men are about to take the field against the Indians. Maj. Arthur Murray and Cnpt. C. J. Bailey and G. F. Landers of the artillery corps of the army have made a special report to the War Department in regard to the recent official trials of the submarine torpedo boats Adder and Moccasin in Little Peconlc bay, which they were invited to witness. The report says that these trials are thought to be sufficient to show clenrly that this type of submarine boat has passed the experimental stagey nnd that such boats herenfter must b* taken Into account ns n practical and useful element of eencoast defense.