Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Postoffice Department lias arranged with the postal department of Japan for the indirect exchange of money orders between this country and Corea on and after Jan. 1. 1899. The Postoffice Department has ordered the establishment of a military postoffice station in Cavite, Philippine Islands, near Manila. It will lie known as military station No. 2 of the San Francisco postoffice. There was a daring robbery at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C., several days ago, by which ex-Gov. Bullock of Georgia and his wife lost diamonds and jewelry valued at several thousand dollars. Secretary Wilson has awarded to the New York Gardeners’ Association the contract for furnishing all the seeds to the Agricultural Department for the current fiscal year. The contract price is $70,978 and 14,238,1(38 packages of seeds are to be furnished. A late statement from the general land office in Washington shows that there are still 579,368,274 acres of unappropriated nnd unreserved public land in the United Btates, exclusive of Alaska. More than 94 per cent of this land is in the so-called desert States. Washington has a sensational story of a plot alleged to have been formed by Blanco and others to proclaim an independent Spaniah-American republic in Cuba, which would eventually revert to Spain, thus securing and retaining the sovereignty of that country. The plan is said to Jh«ve been defeated by the capture of Cervera’k fleet.