Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Six men are under arrest at Guysboro, N. S., charged with wrecking vessels and defrauding insurance companies. Charles Frohmau has purchased from Winston Churchill, the author of “Richard Carvel,” the dramatic rights to his hook. Mr. Frohinan hopes to have the story dramatized. The steamer Delta, from Sydney for St. John’s, N. F„ with coal, went ashore in u thick fog nenr Cape St. Mary’s. The ship and cargo are a total loss, but the crew were saved. About 130 freight handlers employed by the Canadian Pacific Railroad are on strike at Owen Sound, Ont., for 2% cents an hour increase for trucking and 5 cents an hour for handling coal. The remains of Gen. Antonio Maceo and Francisco Gomez, son of Gen. Maximo Gomez, have been exhumed and placed in a temporary shrine. The permanent mausoleum will be begun immediately. The Missouri Pacific announces that it will put in a rate on packing bouse products of 8 cents from Omaha to the Ohio river and 12 cents from Omaha to Memphis. The Burlington has announced a similar rate to Kansas City. Advices from Skaguay say that three pronounced earthquake shocks occurred there. They were so strong that clocks were stopped, and dishes were shaken from shelves and houses swayed, causing their occupants to run into the streets. Advices from Sonora show that Chief Tetabiate of the Ynquis, who remained loyal to the Mexican Government in the recent Indian outbreak, was seized by the rebels and cruelly tortured, being stripped, slashed with knives and his body mutilated. Au expeditiou of four University of California professors has just returned from Alaska. The expedition was undertaken to explore the coast of Bering Sea with a view to studying the botany of these regions. A large number of specimens was secured. Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, whose father was Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist, and whose husband was George Parsons Lathrop, the writer, has been received into the Third Order of the Sisters of St. Domino t This order is for lay men and women living in the world. Alfred Day, representing a Philadelphia syndicate, is shipping men and material to Alaska for the construction of the second railroad in that territory. The road is to be fifteen miles long and to be used in connection with the development of 25,000 acres of coal lands on Kachkemo bay, Cook inlet. Charles Paul McKie, representing a syndicate of New York.capitalists, is negotiating with the Mexican Government for the construction of the Chiapas Railway, 274 miles long, including all its branches. The road, which will run from San Geronimo, on the Tehauntepec Railway, to the Guatemalan frontier, penetrates a very rich tropical country. It will cost $4,000,000 in gold. The first authentic news of the disaster to the Jessie party, whieh occurred at the mouth of the Kuskowim in June, 1898, and by which fourteen persons lost their lives, was brought to St. Michaels, Alaska, by Dr. Romig of the Romig mission at Bethel. Dr. Romig had with him many articles taken from the bodies of those washed ashore at different points. Six bodies are reported to have been found.