Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Commissioner of Navigation reported American at earn tonnage for the first time exceeded that of sailing vessels. According to the Near York World Secretary Root has entered the race for the second place on the Republican national ticket. •. Secretary of the Treasury Gage has ianed an order to purchase fgjQQflmgp

worth of bonds, the primary object of At purchase being the immediate relief of the New York money market. > The other afternoon a blue flag, bearing two white stars, shot upward on the mainmast of the United States cruiser Chicago as she lay at anchor off Tompkinsville, S. I. A second later a salute of seventeen guns thundered forth, announcing that Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley had assumed formal command of the South Atlantic squadron. The annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, William A. Jones, urges more schools, more systematic methods, study of individual traits and consideration of subsequent environment in outlining studies in the Indian schools. The entire educational system of the Indian office, he says, is predicated upon the final abolishment of the anomalous Indian reservation system.