Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

The Dewey home fund to date amounts to $49,381. The Havana official yellow fever report for September announces fifty-three cases and sixteen deaths.

The Thirty-fifth regiment embarked Wednesday for Manila on tho transports Itio de Janeiro and Sikh.

Ex-Congressman and ex-Postmaster General William L. Wilson is very dangerously ill with a chronic affection of the lungs. The old Dismal swamp canal, enlarged to meet all the requirements of modern tratfle, has been formally opened as a waterway. lMaus for the consolidation of the independent telephone lines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois have been practically completed. Dr. Nils Olof Parlander, a Finn, left Chicago on his wgy to Alaska, where he will look over locations suitable for the establishment of a Finnish colony. August Feigel, who hus for years been the German consul general at New York, has resigned and will not return to the United States in an official capacity. The name of John N. Stewart of Illinois has been presented to President McKinley for appointment as successor to Commissioner Calhoun on the interstate commerce commission.

Secretary of War Root has issued an order discontinuing the Department of the Gulf and transferring the territory heretofore in that department to the Department of the East. The Mayor of Havana, Perfecto Laeoate, issued an order directing that no Spanish flag be displayed iu tile city of Havana, except at the Spanish consulate. The order is causing much bitter feeling among the Spaniards. Two Cuban generals, Miro and Sanchez. have published their intention, if the Americans do not immediately evacuate the islands, to start a revolution the first of the year. They say American domination is intolerable to enlightened Cuba.

Prof. Amos E. Dolbear of Tufts College declares that he, not Marconi, invented the system of wireless telegraphy. In proof of the priority of his system over that of Marconi he shows a patent issued to him by the United States Government iu 188(5, Marconi’s patent not being issued by the Government until ten years later. The United States treasury statement issued Wednesday, based on an estimated population of 70,5(51.000, places the per capita circulation of the United States on Oet. 1 at $25.45. The total circulation of all kinds of United States money on Oct. 1 was $1,048,703,180, an increase since Sept. 1 of $(5,572,045, and since Oct. 1. 1808. $132,100,794. Bradstreet’s weekly review says that distributive trade, while smaller at some markets, is still of encouraging volume, industry is active, railway earnings heavy, prices still tend upward and hank clearings increase, while failures lessen. Fall festivals and other celebrations at several cities have exercised an appreciable effect upon retail trade and proved a stimulating factor in wholesale lines. In industrial' affairs activity is widespread and strikes are fewer an<f less costly than in most years. Business failures are apparently at a minimum and liabilities are certainly less costly than for many years past. Prices as a whole manifest aggressive strength.