Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1903 — IN GENERAL, [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL,

A Germantown physician has made the discovery tby accident that the socalled Einson or violet rays have valuable anesthetic properties. Dun & Co.’s Trade Review says there is much activity in manufacturing, with the exception of some textile mills. Sales are reported good and collections prompt. Heavy electrical storms have been noticed recently in the direction of the Santa Maria volcano, Guatemala City. It is believed the volcano is again in violent eruption. The recent cold- wave is said to have caused damage figured in the millions to farmers, fruit men and truck growers. In southern districts cotton and Corn will have to be replanted. A tract of 83,000 acres of ranch land near Santa Rosalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, is now open to settlement by the Boer colony. Gen. JV. B. Snyraan left immediately for New York, where he will meet Gen. V’illjoenn aud return -with fifty fnmiliea to establish the first settlement. There is much alarm at Mazntlan. Mexico, over the reappearance of the plague. Two persons who were serving a quarantine at the observation station were attacked. Another case of plagui also occurred in the city. Official data, has been made public to the effect that from Dec. 1 to April 15 487 persons were attacked by the plague. Of these 328 succumbed to the diseare.