Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — Telegraphic Bre[?]ties. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Bre[?]ties.

Uncle Sam gets something over $30,000,000 a year in taxes out of tobacco , The “thoroughbred department” of the great Stanford stock farm at Palo Alto, Cal., is to be abolished. The Memphis Cotton Planters’ Journal reports that a cotton grower in Mississippi has traiued 200 African monkeys to pick cotton. Don Carlos, in a letter, forbade his adherents from attending the Spanish Cortes while the peace treaty is under discussion. Anarchy and rebellion are said still to prevail in Samoa. The provisional government persists in interfering with British subjects. Emperor William of Germany has issued an imperial decree announcing hia gratitude to God for allowing him to complete the fortieth year of his life and the tenth of hia reign. The British steamship Grange wood ran ont of coal when 300 miles from Halifax, and in order to reach port nsed her cargo of beet sugar for fuel. The sugar was worth SOO A ton. Smallpox is said to be epidemic in Fulton and Izard counties, Ark., and the surrouuding towns maintain a shotgun quarantine against them. The disease also exists in ievernl other counties.