Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Orders are more numerous in many branches of business, according to Dun’s review; railroad earnings 6.1 over 1902; trade stimulated by cold, according to Brndstreet’s. By reason of a trade agreement that has just been reached, there now exists* what is to oil purposes a world-wide electrical trust. The largest three electrical corporations in the world, the General Electric of America, and the leading two German concerns, have reduced competition to an impossibility. The latest mail steamer from the "Coast of Labrador brings no report of the party headed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., of New York, which started from Rigolet, Labrador, Aug. 1, to explore the interior of Labrador. The coast is blocked with ice floes and snowstorms have covered the country with snow to m depth of fixfeet * „ „