Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

President Roosevelt figures prominently in a new novel on the color problem, written by N. J. W. Lecato. The Dominion government at Ottawa, Ont., has received reports from Lake Erie saying there is a great deal of illegal fishing going on. * Ten per cent of 205 cargoes of food and wines shipped from Europe since the pure food law became effective have been barred because they were adulterated. The State Department has received a telegram from United States Consul Hanna, at Monterey, Mexico, reporting that yellow fever had broken out there. Under instructions from the Adjutant General of the army a provisional battalion of Philippine scouts will he organized for duty ut the St. Louis exposition. The ship Marion Cbilcoot, from San Francisco for Honolulu, with a cargo of oil. has arrived at its destination after a tempestuous voyage in which three of her crew were lost. One of the government’s scientists who recently returned from the Orient is authority for the statement that Wu Ting Fang once attempted to commit suicide in a fit of depression. Acting Adjutant General Hall has received a telegram from Gen. Grant, commanding the department of Texas, saying that a case of yellow fever is reported at Laredo on the Itio Grande. President Roosevelt has issued a statement to labor leaders, in which he positively refuses to recede from his decision against any discrimination between union and non-union men in the government employ. Agents of steamship lines nt Tacoma received notice that no more freight would be received by the White Pass and Yukon Railroad for transportation to points below White Horse Pass this season.

The Canadian Soo was practically at the mercy Monday of a mob of unpaid workmen of the collapred Consolidated .Lake Superior Company. The offices of the company were stormed and demolished. The town was left in darkness after a day of serious rioting. The National League season ended with the clubs in the following order: VV. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .91 4!) Brooklyn ... .70 66 New York.. .84 55 Boston ......58 80 Chicago 82 50 Philadelphia.. 49 80 Cincinnati ...74 65 St. Louis 43 94 The American schooner Abbie M. Deering of Seattle, bound to Seattle from Nome, was totally wrecked in the Alzutan pass Sept. 4. She carried thirty-nine passengers, and these, with the crew, landed on Barry island and were later picked up by the revenue cutter Manning. K. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Chicago trade conditions says declines in stock values have not injured local business, which, on the contrary, shows material increases. Despite several unsatisfactory features, business generally throughout the United States is encouraging. The American League closed its season Tuesday with the clubs standing in the following order: W. L. W. L. Boston 91 47 Detroit G 5 71 Philadelphia.. 75 60 St. Lonis 65 74 Cleveland ...77 63Chicago 00 77 New Y0rk...72 62 Washington.. .43 94 Hear Admiral P. H. Cooper, commanding the northern squadron of the Aria tic fleet, has informed the Nary Department by cable of the death at the Yokohama hospital of Commauder E. M. Hughes. Commander Hughes was. assigned to dnty last November on the Asiatic station in command of the gunboat Annapolis. . > Mayor Plummer of Sanlt Ste. Marie and William Coyne, representative of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company, have issued a warning to the newspapers that should any financial loss he caused to the people of that city or to the company by reason of the stories published, steps will be taken to recover from the newspaper*