Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Charles Sommer, general agent for Me.fico of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, committed suicide because his management was criticised. A snowslide occurred on the Noble Five mountain range near Gannon, in the Slocan district, British Columbia. Two miners were caught and one was crushed to death. An order in the Canadian council has been passed permitting American fishing vessels to land cargoes in Canadian ports on the Pacific coast and to have fish shipped thence in bond to the United States. The order is for six months only, and is to be tried as an experiment to please the people. At Vancouver vessels are not permitted, however, to purchase supplies.