Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

James J. Hill, who bnilt railways in the Northwest when everybody said he could not make them pay, will attempt the equally difficult undertaking of building railways in China. A Government report has been issued showing that there will be a good average crop yield, resulting in an advance in the stock markets. Business men are confident that prosperity will continue. . Weekly- trade reviews of < Dun and Bradstreet show favorable conditions in nearly every section of the country, merchandise freight already taxing capacity of roads, although crop demand for cars is not yet urgent.

Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, upon his retirement from command of the army the other day, issued a general order bidding farewell to the army, in which he urges the men to keep the service untarnished and honorable.

Dr. John Clayton Gifford, formerly of Cornell University, who is exploring the new Luquilla forest reserve in Porto Rico, reports the discovery of new gold streams, the soil in which is crudely panned by a few natives. W. S. Stone of Elden, lowa, division, No. 131, has been elected to fill the unexpired term as grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, made vacant by the deaths of P. M. Arthur and A. B. Young son. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has issued an order, with the approval of the Secretary of War, to prevent the ‘‘docking" of horses in the military service. Gen. Miles regards this practice as brutal, and on this point he and the President agree. Martin Lippmann, until recently a New Yorker, who. went to Spanish Honduras to engage in the banana industry, was found in a cornfield five miles from Port Tela, murdered. He had a bullet hole in the back of the neck, indicating that he had been shot from ambush. Lippmann was 56 years of age. The effort of the United States government to introduce its new currency into the Philippine Islands has not met with the success that was anticipated. Although a large quantity of the coins minted at San Francisco have 'beached the islands there is considerable prejudice against their use, especially in the provinces. v A combine, believed to be the “department store trust,” which will acquire and run mammoth businesses all over the United States, was chartered in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J„ under the corporate name of the Cash Buyers’ Union First National Co-opera-tive Society, with a nominal authorised capital «C $6,000,000.