Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The whaling steamer Thrasher has arrived in San Francisco from the Arctic with a big cargo. She has had the luck that has followed most of the recently arrived whalers, and has stored away in her hold 15,000 pounds of whalebone. Her cargo is valued at over $50,000. In a fracas at Athens, Ga., between Policeman I’all and some members of the 202 d New York Volunteers Henry Slosson, a private of Company K, was shot through the head and wrist and possibly fatally wounded, while Private Mulligan was wounded severely in the leg. The transport Newport has sailed from San Frafteiseo for Manila with Gen. Mil* let and staff and the last of the Philippine expedition. The troops that went away comprise some of the Kansas regiment, the Alger battery of Wyoming and a regiment of the California heavy artil- ( lory. Postmaster General Emery Smith has issued an order admitting private mailing cards, authorized by the act of May 19, 1898, into the foreign mails at 1 cent postage each for Canada and Mexico, and 2 cents each for all other postal union countries. This permits the sending of any kind of card in lieu of requiring the usual postal card, provided the size is the same as official cards. Russia has undertaken to help Spain in her struggle to retain the Philippines, or at least to prevent the establishment of American rule over the group. The St. Petersburg government revealed its scheme through representations to all the great powers of Europe, with the possible exception of England. Italy is one of the powers which Russia desired to enlist on her side. The Italian government was requested to join in presenting a note to the United States regarding the control of the Philippines. In view of the danger of disclosures in the Court of Cassation at Paris which would implicate prominent officials in the Dreyfus scandal, an effort is now being made to heap all the wrongdoing on the suicide, Col. Henry, making him a double scapegoat, guilty not only of illegal action in the Dreyfus court martial but of the original treason itself. To this end it is alleged that Henry forged evidence not to save the “honor” of the army but\ct prevent himself from being detected ar the real criminal. His sudden suicide is pointed to as evidence of guilt, and that ho believed himself discovered. The first report of the Princeton second geological expedition to South America has been made known. A year ago Prof. Scott sent Messrs. Hatcher and Colburn to the unknown regions of Patagonia to extend the explorations begun by Messrs. Peterson and Hatcher of the former exitedition. The results obtained surpass the most sanguine expectations of Prof. Scott and the geological department. The expedition, the report says, country inland the it distance of StJJFniiles V of Magellan, adding much to ouirtb y edge of the geography of the country and discovering at the basje of the Andes a beautiful lake thirty miles in length not previously reported. Johnnie Gordon, aged 7 years, was under arrest in Justice J. G. Gillespie’s court at Columbia, Mo., charged with assault with intent to kill. Johnnie's mother, Mrs. Saltie Gordon, owns a little home in the northwestern part of Columbia. Warren Field, a drunken negro, engaged in the pastime of throwing rocks at Mrs. Gordon's house. She undertook to drive him away, but the negro would not leave. Johnnie, seeing his mother in trouble, got down an old shotgun which hung on the wall, pointed it through a window at Field and pulled the trigger. The shot struck Field, injuring him slightly. When he sobered up he had the boy arrested. When Prosecuting Attorney J. 11. Murry heard the testimony of the prosecuting fitness and the statement of the frightened lad he dismissed the ease.