Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

George E. Roberts of lown. director of the mint, has been reappointed by President Roosevelt. Superintendent Cable of the Rock Island denies tlie rumors that have been in circulation regarding a strike of Rock Island telegraphers. La Tarde, the liberal party newspaper of Santiago, asserts that negotiations are in progress for the sale to the United States of the two Chilian warships now being built in England. Eleven women and children were burned to death and seventeen persons were injured in the Finnish settlement on Malcolm Island, some distance up she coast from Vancouver, B. C. Naval Constructor Richmond Pearson Hobson has tendered his resignation from the service, giving as a reason a disease of his eyes, on account of which he was invalided home from the Philippines. The Venezuelan goveniwiit has been notified by France that customs nt several of tlie former’s ports will be collected by French officials under 1867 treaty right. President Castro declared foreign claims will get equal treatment. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review reported business iu spring merchandise deliveries heavy, with liberal fall contracts also being placed. January railroad earnings gained 5.7 per cent over 1902. The fuel situation is less serious. Minister Bowen, for Venezuela, rejected the compromise offered by tlie allies by which they would take two-thirds of money collected, and presented wiiat is practically an ultimatum, that question of preferential treatment be referred to The Hague tribunal. Minister Bowen's latest proposal, that all nations having claims against Venezuela lie given tlie same treatment as Great Britain, Germany and Italy, has been rejected in toto by the allies. This means that the negotiations lit Washington, for tlie time at least, are at a complete standstill. According to a cablegram from Guatemala City from Dr. Godfrey Hunter, formerly United States minister to Guatemala. Godfrey Hunter, Jr., wns acquitted of the murder of William Fitzgerald; of Grand Rapids. Mich. The message states that during the trial thirty-eight witnesses swore to the fact that there was a conspiracy against the life of Godfrey Hunter, Jr.