Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

[Rfhe winter wheat crop of southern BusHpa lias been completely destroyed by a ■hotracted drought. The spring wheat j [jcrop is also in jeopardy from the same ! Heause. The steamer Moscow has sailed ■pth 3,500 Cossack emigrants for Port ppruiur. I litHrebugs destroyed the business portion HpQortis, Neb., Tuesday morning and the ■nsa is estimated at 3100,000. The fire Hearted in the implement house of P. JohnRmi 4k Co. It quickly spread to the north Etad the business portion of the town was peatroyed. j | Rich Klondikers are already arranging |for the transportation of their treasure to pthe outside world. Latest advices from Bpawson say that five thousand men are Basiling to take the first boat up the river, ■pf are miners, who have from SI,OOO || to $50,000 each in dust. KfWhile dissenting as to the cost of the ■poposed waterway across the isthmus, gibe Nicaraguan Canal Commission is a Kbit in recommending the adoption of the Epbute from Brito to Lake Nicaragua, call|bd the Childs route, and from the lake to Kreytown, called the Lull route. I Washington authorities do not look Kindly on the project of St. Paul to have gSlie volunteers from the Philippines I litought to the city for a parade in August, Band War Department officials say it is plntpossible, even though the presence of Epfee President be held out as a bait. lft"The body of Captain George 11. Tilly of gphe Signal Corps, who was attacked by pthe treachery of natives while landing pfrom the cable ship Recorder at Escalante, Upland of Negros, has been found in a itlver near the place where the attack was gpnade. The body bears marks of violence. H The Supreme Court of Canada has ppranted the claim of E. V. Hobbs of Victoria, B. C., to the ownership of the East | .Wellington extension mine, worth over a t million dollars. Mr. Hobbs is a dealer in | teeond-hand goods. The mine was claim- | ed and worked by the Esquimault and Na- > Uaimo Railway. | Mall reports received at Victoria, B. C., ;. nay a large fire at Yamagata, Japan, destroyed six hundred houses and eleven •brines and temples. A number of lives Were lost. Thirty houses were burned in the Azohisa Theater fire at Kobe, April 80. Reports are current that Japan is |preparing for war with Russia. 1* Maj. Esterhazy was publicly denounced | as the writer of the famous bordereau in | the Dreyfus case by Ballot de Beaupre, of the civil section of the court i of cassation, and by Procurator General | Maneau. Retrial of Captain Dreyfus was fpSemandcd by both, their review of the evidence showing much in favor of the pris- : oner of Devil’s Isle. jo The President has decided not to call tor the 35,000 volunteers or any portion of them at present. It can be stated on that Gen. Otis wants only 30,000 men in the Philippines. He makes the simple request that the American .forces there be kept at that strength. As the volunteer soldiers are returned their r places will be taken by regulars, so that \ the strength of the American army in the ' orient is as low now as it will be permitted to get. S The plague is likely to complicate the 5 borne coming of Admiral Dewey. Various governments have already declared severe (quarantine regulations against all Egyptian Red Sea ports and Hong Keng, where the fresh cases and the number of deaths have nearly doubled in the last week, the new cases numbering 143 and ; the deaths 134. Admiralty officials say I that warships have no privileges as rep gards quarantine beyond those of merit chant ships. S' The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Kjßrooklyn ... .28 11 Baltimore ...21 17 | Boston 24 13Pittsburg ... .15 21 § St. L0ui5....24 14New Y0rk...15 22 if Chiengo 24 15 Louisville .. .12 2U Philadelphia. 21 16 Washington. 12 27 [ Cincinnati ..20 10Cleveland ... 8 26 Following is Ihe standing of the clubs I in the Western League: W. L. W. L. : .Milwaukee ..19 13Indianapolis. 15 14 If Minneapolis. 17 14 Columbus ...16 16 | Detroit 16 14 Kansas City.. 12 17 | St. Paul 15 14 Buffalo 11 17