Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

R. H. McLennan has been elected Mayor of Dawson City by (I plurality. New financial interests have decided to spend between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 on improvements of the Erie Railroad. Weekly trade reviews report prompt collections nnd satisfactory business conditions. fuel shortage being the only disturbing element. Fifty-six banks have been robbed in in the United States during the last four months, mid seven in Illinois. Cities are practically immune, but nitroglycerin and electric lantern make safe-blowing easy in villages. Locomotive firemen on the Chicago and Alton system have voted to go on strike for the increase in wages of 12% per cent demanded Dec. L A referendum vote has been taken by the membership nnd the strike proposition carried by an overwhelming vote. "Fighting Bob" Evans nnd Rear Admiral Kenney have liecomc involved in controversy: refusal of his requisition for uniform cloth caused charges of disrespect to be filed by Evans; Kenney retaliated with accusation that department regulation was violated. The Secretary of the Treasury has requested the department of justice not to take an appeal from the recent decia lons of court in the matter of the duties on sago flour. ' This action leaves sago flour on the free list. It is used largely in the manufacture of calico and other cotton goods. One of the most disastrous fires In the history of London. Ont., occurred in the big plant of the McClary Manufacturing Company. A boy working In the stamping department dropped a burning match into an oil vat nnd with n report like a cannon the oil hurst in n sheet of flame nnd spread over the first floor. The employes rustled from the building in a panic. The loss is $300,000. It has been learned that in addition to his work in perfecting his system of wireless telegraphy Marconi is engaged on the wireless telephone Idea. It is said that before long he will be able to announce the Invention of portable wirelces telephonic apparatus, by which a pereui can communicate, when a considerable distance away, with bls home or with others supplied with similar apparatus.