Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1903 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Adelina Patti has signed a contract for sixty concert* in America, beginning Nov. 3 next. Rear Admiral Frank Wildes, commander of tiie cruiser Boston in battle of Manila Bay. died on ship bringing him home from Asia. Marconi is reported to be at work on an invention to give an unseen vessel's latitude and longitude and to send duplex messages on air currents. All the war ships in Admiral Glass' squadron started from San Francisco for Honduras. With the New York nre the Boston, Marblehead and Ranger. Governor Taft cabled Secretary Root that all business is suffering in the Philippines because of currency fluctuations and urging relief by the present session of Congress. At Petersburg, Ont., fire destroyed ene of the largest dry goods stores in the city and.badly damaged the stock in adjoining houses. The loss is $(50,000. A. W. Pressman is the heaviest loser. Because of Mr. Gran's determination to abandon the opera business for at least a year after ylan. 1. the Maurice Gran Opera Company’s directors decide to •quitbusiness until lie resumes active management. President Roosevelt lias again declined to arbitrate Venezuelan dispute as requested by the allies, and the ease will go to The Hague court. Minister Bowen, whose course is said to he responsible for the turn in affairs, is criticised. Duu & Co.'s Review reports trade vigorous in spite of transportation blockades; January railroad earnings, 8.(5 per cent over 1902; cost of living Increased 1 per cent last month; contracts aggregating 5.500.000 tons reported by steel trust. Edward M. Sturgess, a prospector from Mexico, reports a rich gold strike in -the Torres Mountains, about forty miles from Cos, terminus of the N'aeo/.ari Railroad. Sturgess claims to have taken $150,000 gold in six weeks, with u very crude outfit. Great Britain's protocol has been formally accepted by Mr. Bowen for Venezuela. Tiie German nnd Italian conventions are still undergoing revision but assurances are given in authoritative quarters that eventually they* will be made to conform in all essential respects to that of the British ambassador. The strike of the conductors and mutormen employed hy tiie Montreal street railway ended in a decisive victory for the men. The company conceded almost every demand made by the* employes. including n 10 per cent ndvaueo in wages, recognition of the union end the reinstatement of recently discharged employes. The New Orleans French colony has received word that President Loubet of France will come to that port about June 15, 1004, on board a French man-of-war, en route to the St. Louis fair. The idea is to retrace tho steps of historic French discoverers and to ascend tiie Mississippi River as they did in years gone by. Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hob son's resignation Ims been accepted by Secretary Muddy, who has written- .Mr. Hobson ns follows: “The department acknowledges receipt of your resignation,* tendered Jan. 29. 1!H)3; also your telegram, Feb. 5, 1903, declining to reconsider the same. Y’our resignation from the United State* navy Is accepted, to Hike effect from this date, Feb, (J, 1903.”