Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Twentieth Century Methodist Thank Offering Commission has given out a statement showing that $20,034,960 was raised. Conductor Octave Trembley was killed in a rear-end collision between two freight trains on the Grand Trunk road at Montreal. May Yohe, it is said, has been given $45,000 by her former husband. Lord Francis Hope, in settlement of her claim against the English nobleman. Cipher dispatch received in New York says President Castro has abdicate*! or soon will abdicate. Germans have seized the custom house at La Gunira. The American Young Men's Christian Association reports a prosperous year, with especially notable growth in the South and Northwest and among railroad men. A serious collision occurred on the Grnnil Trunk Railway nt the west end of Merritton tunnel, Ont., between the Chicago express east 'bound and a light engine going west. Two men were killed and two injured. $ Dun & Co.’s review reports merchandise shipments increased to forestall higher freight rates; orders for iron and steel continue; December railrond earnings gained 7.7 per cent over 1901 and for years 4.1 per cent. It is announced at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offices that the wages of all employes whose pay had not been reopntly increased will be raised at once to put them on the same footing as the Pennsylvania Railroad employes. Charles Page Bryan, of Chicago, is to be made minister to Portugal, and to be succeeded as minister to Switzerland by Dr. David Jayne Hill, First Assistant Secretnry of State. Francis B. I.oomls, present minister nt Lisbon, is slated for the State Depart incut. Attorney General Knox, on request of Senator Hoar and Congressman Littlefield, has submitted a remedy for trust evils, Including a law against rate discrimination and interstate commerce in products of illegal combines. Action by Congress seema unlikely. Advices have been received from Guatemala that W. Godfrey Hunter, Jr., son of the retiring minister to Guatemala, has been acquitted by n native court of tlie murder of William A. Fitxgferald, also nn American citisen nnd former resident of Grand Rapids, Mich. The fire loss of the United State* nnd Canada for the year 1902, ns compiled by tho New York Journal of Commerce, amounted to $149,21)0,850. This is gratlfvlngly less than the figures for 1901 of $164,347,450 and 1900 of $1(21.362,250. During the entire year of 11MJ2 there were 2,400 fires of n greater destructivencss, each, than SI,OOO. The $20,000,000 malleable casting* consolidation announced Inst month a* nn assured tiling linn gone to pieces. It is said tliat the support of E. R. Gary. Max Pam and their associates in the United States Steel Corporation was withdrawn on the ground that the conditions are not opportune for tlie launching of such a concern, nnd this led to the deal being dropped for an indefinite ♦ Itue.