Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

It can be announced as definitely settled that former Judge William 11. Taft, Governor of the Philippines, will be Secretary of War to succeed Mr. Root. It is reported in railroad circles that an agreement under which the Grand Trunk acquires control of the Wisconsin Central has been signed. No particulars of the deal are obtainable. The packing house of the Ontario Powder Company at Tweed, Out., was blown up and three men were killed. The explosion broke many plate glass windows in the town and injured buildings. The crop report issued by the weather bureau indicates a general improvement in corn, Kansas and Nebraska leading in this respect. Spring wheat harvest is progressing. Apples show a decline. Dun's Review of Trade says the quieting influence of the vacation reason is barely noticeable in business. Crops tardy in moving to market, but railway earnings continue good. Heavy iron contracts made. The last link connecting Seattle with St. Michael’s by telegraph is complete. Messages are now forwarded to Nome by mail. This marks the completion of the American government’s great Alaskan land system. President Roosevelt highly praised the public services of Secretary of War Root in accepting his resignation to take effect on Jan. 1. Governor Taft will take the cabinet place and be succeeded in power in the Philippines by Luke E. Wright. Analysis of the returns from the census of 1900 shows that the increase of population in ten years in the United States was 20.7 per cent, which is double that of Europe and greater than that of any other country except the Argentine Republic. Charles Carroll Bonney, originator and president of the World’s Congresses of the Columbian Exposition, is dead. As an educator he helped establish the Illinois educational system; as a lawyer he was one of the originators and also the president of the Law and Order League. The American schooner Addie Cole, bound from Key West for Mexico, was Gverhhuled and taken to Havana by a Cuban coast guard boat on suspicion of smnggiing. The investigation showed there were no grounds for the suspicion and the schooner has been ordered to be released. To prevent another Alaskan boundary controversy and to make observations of ■ the climate, geology and natural re. sources of both land and sea of the north ern regions of Canada an expedition fit ted out by the Dominion government sailed, from Halifax qb the, stgamer Ne»tune for Hudson bay. Gov. Dole and other territorial officers at Honolulu have decided to try to float th • $2,000,000 loan authorized by the laat legislature. It is thought that the local banks will take the entire issue. An exhaustive statement has been sent to President Roosevelt in response to bla request for information before approving the loan. ' . A .