Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

H. B. Parsons Ims been elected a vicepresident of the Wells-Fargo Express Company. Judge W. 11. Day, of Canton. Ohio, has accepted the appointment to the United States Supreme bench. The Cuban House of Representatives has voted tbe sum of $300,000 to build a cnpitol for the use of the Congress. Conductors, brakemen and yardmen on the Baltimore and Ohio Rnilrond have been given 10 per cent advance in wages. The appeal for pardon made by excaptain of the I'nited States army, John M. Neal, now serving a two years' sentencs at San Quentin for forgery, has been refused by President Roosevelt. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review reporta merchandise shipments still delayed by precedence given to fuel; buying liberal in spite of high prices; January railroad earnings 5 per cent over 1902. Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, acting independently of any judicial proceedings. suspended Manuel Egozcue, the Mayor of Sun Juan, from office and ordered an independent investigation ihto the city frauds. News has been received by the Mexican Minister of the Interior of earthquake and volcanic disturbances near T’rique. State of Chihuahua. N'entanann Mountain has been riven in twain and the atmosphere ia filled with fine volcanic dust.’ Lieut. 11. Clay Evans, Jr., has received advices from the War Department that he was released from arrest and was acquitted of the charge on which he was court-martialed. Thia is a decided victory for ths young lieutenant, who la tha son of the consul general to London.