Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

E. 8. Cunningham of Tennessee, United States consul at Aden, Arabia, has resigned on account of ill health. Trainmen and conductors of the ChF cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road have been granted increase in wages on some runs amounting to 25 per cent. Experts in the bureau of animal industry of the Department of Agriculture nre trying to produce chickens without feathers and a race of swine that will be naturally clean. A new wage scale issued by the Wabash road increased pay of trainmen and conductors west of the Mississippi. The increase is equal to that recently made by other lines of the southwestern district. Militia reports from various States show an aggregate of 118,250 commissioned officers and enlisted men organized and 10,853,300 men on whom the couuiry can call in an emergency, not in any organization. Conservative racing men estimate that $200,000,000 has been garnered from a gullible public during the past two years by the "get-rich-quick” turf tipsters, who are now being raided by the police in ail the big cities. It. G. Dun & Co.'s review reported railroad freight congestion again serious because of heavy snow fall; February earnings 17.0 per cent greater than for 1001; enormous orders for raw silk imports being given. The Ziegler expedition for arctic exploration will start in May in the whaling vessel America and Commander Robert N. Peary may head a second expedition on a dash for the pole, though the Windward has been aold. The Montreal express, west bound on the Grand Trunk, jumped the trnck at Whitby Junction, Out. All the cars left the rail*, the engine nlone remaining. The engineer, William Stewart, had hi# leg broken. Twenty passengers were more or less injured. The negotiations for the purchase by the Oanndinn Pacific .Railroad Company of fourteen Beaver Line steamers from Elder, Dempster A Co. have been satisfactorily concluded in London. The price paid is not yet disclosed, but it is said to be about $7,000,000.