Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Obituary: At Chihuahua, Mexico, Jas. G. Flint, of Milwaukee.—At Evansville, Wis., Daniel Johnson, 75.—At Gettysburg, Pa., Col. C. H. Buehler, 71.—At Terre Haute, lud., Thomas Jackson, 80. The warerooms and general store of Charles Burrill & Co., Weymouth, N. S., with their contents, have been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of between $50,000 and SOO,OOO. Insurance, $40,000. Adjoining property was damaged It may be for little Switzerland, the oldest of the family of republics? to earn the honor of solving for America the problem of how to prevent the concentration of population iu great cities, an evil believed by economists to be fatal to welfare. The President of the Swiss National Exposition to be held this year has addressed United States Consul Ridgley, at Geneva, on the subject, and the latter has forwarded his communication to the Department of State. President Turrettini’s suggestion is that Americans may learn how rural life can be made at once attractive and profitable by studying the model Swiss village which will form an important section oVbe exposition, illustrating, as it will, the happy village life qf the Swjss. with .the .nuiuoriMi& home industries which are so profitable in full operation. If this can be studied in connection with the agricultural section, in which Swiss methods of dealing with produce will be exemplified and the best information may 1 be obtained which may prove to be of substantial value to persons who are seeking to solve the problem of overconcentration of population.