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

IN GENERAL.

Fire at Mariesville, twenty-one miles from Montreal, on the Vermont Central, destroyed fifty buildings. The banking and brokerage house of A. E. Ames & Co., of Toronto, closed its doors with heavy liabilities and unknown assets. Exportation of manufactures in April was larger than in any preceding month in tbe history of trade with two exceptions —March and May, 1900. The committee investigating the charges of improper official conduct against Premier Prior reported at Victoria, B. C., exonerating the premier. The Banco Agricola at San Juan, Porto Rico, lias secured from Paris brokers a loan of $3,000,000 to be used for the relief of the fanners of Porto Rico. Jaroslas Kocian, Bohemian violin virtuoso, has returned to owner $30,000 instrument he had taken to Europe, after playing on it and weeping over it at a New York hotel. Bradstreet’s reports wholesale trade waiting on crop and labor developments; iron situation bettered by lower prices; May railroad earnings reported by Dun's at i 2.8 per cent over 1902. ' Preabyterianjrencral assembly adopted resolutions' calling on the Senators and people of the United States to use utmost endeavors to seeqre expulsion of Reed Smoot from the Senate. The Navy Department has announced that the European squadron would visit Kiel. The battleship Alabama will join the European squadron, consisting of the Chicago, Machias and San Francisco, at Lisbon. Thence the squadron will proceed north to Kiel. Importations of manufacturers’ materials ipto the United States in the fiscal year which ends with June will be by far the largest in the history of our importations and will amount to nearly or quite $500,000,000. Manufacturers’ materials will form about 48 per cent of the imports of the fiscal year. The Philippines are having their postal scandals, as well as Washington. .Two cases are reported by mail to the War Department. Ex-Postmaster Milne of Tactobaq, Leyte, is rteoMri not only of taking $2,000 current coin of the United States, but even the 400-pound safe which is supposed to have -contained tha money.