Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Mgr. Donnta Sbarretti, auditor of the apostolic delegation in Washington, D. C., has been appointed bishop of Havaua by the Pope. The American fishing schooner A. K. Whyland has been fined SIOO nt St. Johns, N. F., for breach of the colonial fishing regulations. The Canadian department of the interior has received information that at the smallest computation 15,000 Finlanders will arrive iu Canada next spring. Secretary of the Navy Long has received a cablegram from Admiral Watson informing him that the entire province of Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, had surrendered unconditionally to Commander Very of the Castine. The Epwortb League disturbcnce over the official conduct of its secretary, the Rev. E. A. Schell of Cincinnati, was suddenly terminated when he tendered his resignation to the board of control. The resignation was accepted. The Cherokee council by a vote of 16 to 22 declined to extend the time for Congress to ratify the late Cherokee agreement. This kills the treaty for all time to come and leaves the Cherokees under the operations of the Curtis bill in all its details. Postmaster General Smith in a formal order declares that ail mail matter passing between the United States anil Porto Rico, the Philippines, Guam or any of this country’s insular possessions, is subject to the United States’ domestic classification and rates of postage. The Commercial Travelers and Hotel Men’s Anti-Trust League filed with the Secretary of State of New York at Albany a certificate of incorporation. The league will maintain a meeting room in a prominent hotel in every city in the United States. The principal office will he in New York City. W. L. Thomas of Bradford, Out., a medical student at a Toledo college, met death iu a mysterious munner at Irouville, a suburb. His body was found under the derrick of au oil well. His clothing was wet and bedraggled, and there are contusions on his bead and face. It is thought Thomas was murdered. The American Association of Fairs and Expositions has arranged the State fair schedule as follows: Des Moines, Ang. 27; Omaha, Sept. 3; Hamline, Minn., Sept. 3; Milwaukee, Sept. 10; Indianapolis, Sept. 17; Springfield, Sept. 24; St. Louis, Oct. 1. The Eastern circuit dates are: Syracuse, N. Y„ Aug. 27; Column bus, Ohio, Sept. 3; Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 10. It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "Monetary anxieties have faded with sales of bonds to the treasury under the recent offer, the fall in sterling exchange in spite of dearer money abroad and easier here, and the receipt of about $750,000 net from the interior during the week. There is no trouble in (lie ’commercial money market, as there has been none, and loans on securities have ruled at easier rates. The iron industry shows no yielding in material, but a little advance iu Bessemer pig at Pittsburg, with large inquiries for next year. Sales of wool pass all records, having been at the three chief markets 61,694,203 pounds in three weeks of November; whereas October sales iu five weeks were but 68,314,980 pounds, and in only one other full month have sales ever reached 60,000,000 pounds. The trading is largely between dealers and leaves no indication of consumption. Failures for the week have been 191 in the United States, against 18S last year, and 22 in Canada, against 21 last year.”