Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Dun's Review of Trade rays unrest in the ranks of labor is checking big industrial undertakings. Twenty-five millions will be added to the world’s gold supply by the clean-ups now in progress in the Klondike, Forty Mile, Atlin and Nome districts. Lillian Nordica and Edouard De Reszke announce that they have blacklisted Atlanta, Ga., because of alleged indignities heaped upon them and their friends by the “smart set” of the city. Ottawa, Ont., was damaged $600,000 by fire and 2,000 persons made homeless through failure'of water supply because of damaged main; area one mile long was swept bare and disaster of 1900 nearly duplicated. Postmaster General Payne has dismissed A. W. Machen, superintendent of the free delivery system, appointing M. C. Fosnes to the position. The system also passes under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. David, Mills, justice of the Supreme Court and former Minister of Justice In tl)e Laurier government, died suddenly at Ottawa, Ont. It is thought that the bursting of a blood vessel was the cause of death. He was in his seventy-first fear. ' \\Hliis Sweet of Cocttr d’Alene, Idaho, has been appointed Attorney General of Porto Rico to succeed James S. Harlan, who recently resigned. Mr. Sweet was at one time associate justice of the Territory of Idabo„and later represented''bis State in Congress. Twelve men, imprisoned in a derailed work train on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, were either killed outright or burned to death in the debris near Port Arthur, Out. Eight others were fearfully burned and some of them will die. The train was running at high speed when it was derailed, presumably by the breaking of an axle. With a determination that finds no counterpart in fiction, Simon Jacobs wandered over the face of the earth for-ty-five years in the search for his two lost daughters. He was 74 years old and he died in St. Joseph witkput accomplishing the one object of bis life. Jacobs claimed New York City as kis home, where his wife died and hia children were stolen. The committee representing the keepers of the Chinese gambling honses in Honolulu baa been placed nuder arrest, charged with attempting to bribe Deputy Attorney General Andrews to permit fonr games of paka pio to be run without molestation. Andrew* arranged a meeting with the gamblers and concealed witnesses, who heard the offer of $6,000 a month made if Andrews would permit the conducting of gambling houses. v ' ■ 1 , ' - -H