Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The State Department at Washington has received a cable dispatch from Minister Hunter at Guatemala telling of the death of Gen. Morales, leader of the Guatemalan revolution, and the collapse of that uprising. The annual report of Commissioner of Pensious IL Clay Evaus will show that at the close of the fiscal year 1898 there were 993,714 pensioners on the roll of the bureau. This was a net increase of 12,960 over the previous year. There were dropped from the rolls during the year on account of deaths 33,691, and for remarriage and other causes 12,960 pensions were discontinued. The commissioner of internal revenue at Washington, I). C., jias. held that certificates of membership in wheelmen’s protective associations arc required to have affixed to them revenue stamps at the rate of %-eent on each dollar or fraction thereof of premium paid. The document is held to be a guaranty agaiust loss by theft, and not a certificate in the usual meaning of the word.