Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Tbe United States postoffice officials have entered into an agreement for a parcel post treaty with Venezuela. Secretary Hay for tfce Government of the United Btates and Consul General Charles D. Pierce for the Government of the Orange Free State have exchanged ratifications of the new treaty of extradition between the two countries. The Department of State has been informed by the consul at San Salvador that the city of San Vicente had recently suffered from severe earthquakes. No lives were lost, alight shocks having given ample warning before the severe ones came. The man who names the new post offices throughout the country continues to remember the prominent generals and officers of the late war. Tbe latest list of post offices established includes the following: Roosevelt, in Limestone County, Ala.; Shatter. Fayette County. I1L; Otis, Bastrdp County, Texas., and Lawton, Giles County. Va. Nearly every week the list shows post offices established in several counties with the name Manila.