Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON —Some radical reductions in duties are looked for in the Democratic steel tariff schedule, which the house ways and means committee probably will have ready for submis : sion about the middle of this month. It is stated that in many instances the Pbyne law rates will be cut in half and that the highest rates of duty allowed on any product of steel or iron will not be more than 35 per cent ad valorem. The greatest fight probably will be over the duty on tin plate, which, it is is to be cut from $1.20 to 75 cents a hundred pounds. Iron ore is expected to go on the free list along with all manufactures of steel and iron that wer made duty free in the farmers’ free list of the extra session.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.— That Col. Theodore Roosevelt will be a candidate for president again if the call comes strong enough for him to respond to it is the statement made by John Burroughs, the author-naturalist, in an interview just published here. Much Significance is attached to this prediction-on account of Mr. Burroughs’ intimacy with the former president, w’ho w’hen chief executive of the nation honored-Mr. Burroughs by making a special trip to visit him at “Slabsides,”'his .home near here, and later he had Mr. Burroughs as his guest on a hunting trip in the W’est. The two have many tastes in common.

SUGAR CITY, COLO.— With the mercury ranging from 15 to 32 degrees below, zero more than two w-eeks, and with from twelve to eighteen inches of snow covering the ground, southern and eastern Coloradj are experiencing the most severe and protracted period of cold weather that has been recorded in these sections for many years. Cattle, it is said, are dying from hunger by the hundreds, due to the deep snow covering the scanty range grass, a great portion of which was destroyed by a prolonged drought before the opening of last fall. „

TEHERAN —.Persia s government is doing its utmost to placate Great Britain for the attack on ilr. Smart, the British consul, and his escort of Indian sowars near Kazerun. The Persian authorities are afraid that the incident may lead to the military occupation by Great Britain of that part of the country and has assured England that the guilty parties will be punished. Mr. Smart, who witnessed the fight in which two Indian soldiers were killed, has been convoyed safely to Shiras, the capital of the province of Fars.