Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — WEEK’S NEWS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

\ The Dane's commission has completed its enrollment of the Chickasaw India:!*-. - The enrollment shows 17,000 Indians :v 4,000 freedmen. the latter being slave.and descendants of slaves brought to Indian territory from the South by the^ Indians. \ According to the statement given out ■by the American Bicycle Company, generally referred to as the “trust,” the 1000 griees for wheels will remain at the same -dlgure as this year. Chainless machines will sell at $75 and SOO. with chain-driv-en ones listing from SSO down to $25. M. C. Campbell, chairman of the Kansas State live stock sanitary commission, says that Kansas will have no open season for Southern cattle this year, but cattle from south of the quarantine line mav be admitted into the State from Nov. 1 to Dee. 31 on passing a satisfactory’ inspection. Intelligence is brought by the ltinsa Maru that a recent typhoon proved even more disastrous on land thau on sea. In Tokyo and Yokohama it rngtsl with great fierceness. Hundreds of houses were wrecked in all districts, though the storm seems to have been attended with >e*s loss of life than usual, Philip Stambaugli of Youngstown, 0.. nephew of President McKinley, was instantly killed at Venita. I*a.. where he was sttperintendent of the coal mines of Osborn Sacger. While replaeing a lust on a pulley nti iron bar he was using was hurled with terrific force, striking him directly over the heart, causing instant death.

There is a possibility that W. D. Man\o, the Auburn, N. Y„ man who leaped from the Washington avenue bridge ac Minneapolis, may he -still alive. A wat-er-soaked meal ticket belonging to Manro was found on the river bank three-qnai-ters of a mile below the point where he jumped in. It is difficult to explain tins on any other theory than that Marineclimbed out on the bank and dropped the ticket where it was found. The steamer Cottage City reached Victoria, B. C„ with news «>r a convention of delegates from the different parts of Alaska. The convention elosed after a session of nine days shortly before the steamer left Juneau, having resolved to send to Congress a representative to .rge the “pasrage of such laws us arc deemed by the convention to be urgently demanded by the conditions in Alaska.” John fl. Price of Skaguay. "an lowa lawyer, was chosen to appeal to Congress. The annual crop review’ of the Omaha Bee show that the corn crop *>f 1899 exceed* the record of the best previous year by 14,217,240 bushels. Pterions to 1800 the greatest corn crop was two years ago. The figures show that the crop of 1800 reaches the enormous figure of 244,125,003 bushels. The average yield per acre is 34.5 bushels, and the quality of the crop is excellent except in very limited portions of the State, where hot weather in August damaged it somewhat. The crop is not only the largest, but taken as a whole is of as good quality us any ever raised iu the State. Carnegie officials announce that the largest order for steel rails ever given had just been awarded to the steel rail pool. It calls for 1,500,000 to wof rails at the prevailing price. $33. at Pittsburg for delivery ia 1900, Nearly every railroad company in the country contributed. The rails will be supplied by the five mills which comprise tin* pool. Th» se are the Carnegie Steel Company, Federal Steel Company, Pennsylvania Steel Company, Cambria Steel Company and Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company. ’The order means that the iron and s-teel market for next year will lie tied up. The steel output for the entire country amounts to only a little over 0,000,000 tons per year. The contract involves an expenditure of about $50,000,000. It was the outcome of an advance in prices.