Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Gen. Wheeler has returned front Manila and will return to Congress. Suit has been commenced by the sugar trust to test the constitutionality of the war tax. - Gov. Davis reports that thousands of Porto Ricans are near starvation and the need of relief is pressing. All tbe employes of the National Tube trust will receive ads increase of It! per cent in wages, beginning April 1 next. Benjamin Idc Wheeler of the Philippine commission says the powers have agreed to abolish “spheres of influence” in Chinn. Social Democrats, in session at Indianapolis, nominated Eugene V. Debs of Indiana for President and Job Harriman of California for Vice-President. Five steamships, each twice the siae of the Lucania, will be built at once, and others will be constructed later by the Great Northern Railroad. They will ply between the Pacific coast ports and the far East. Gen. Pepin, ex-Govcrnor of Santiago de I .os Caballeros, who recently headed a revolt against the Government of Santo Domingo, has been arrested and the uprising has been suppressed. Tbe country is now quiet. Stanley Huntington Riggs, noted as a football player, committed suicide in a lonely camp iu the heart of Mexico. Stanley Riggs went to Mexico as a civil engineer two years ago with a party composed of Yale and Princeton graduates. Three chiefs of the Alberta bay tribes of Indians have been brought to Vancouver, B. C.. from northern British Columbia to be tried for their lives for eating Unman flesh. The offenses were committed at a potlatch given by Chief Gilhunk. &

By direction of Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn instructions have been sent to Maj. Gen. Otis to return to the United States some time in May one battalion each of the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry. The withdrawal of these troops was recommended by Maj. Gen, Miles several mouths ago. Bradstreet’s has this to say of the business situation: “Relieved from the hamperiug effects of stormy weather, tbe general trade distribution has shown a tendency to expand this week; prices of many staples arc firmer or higher, and generally there is a better toue than noted for some weeks. Easily bolding first rank in the matter of speculative activity, cotton early in the week touched the highest level for at least six years. A sharp break due to realizing has brought -the level down again, however, to a point where new buying by sold-ouf bulls is invited. Wool is rather weaker, following the drop in prices at the Loudon sale and the rather slower demand ftbm American manufacturers, who, being apparently well supplied for the present, are content to let the raw staple take care of itself while obtaining a good market and fair prices for the manufactured product. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4.208,758 bushels, against 3,863,387 bushels last week, and 4,398,821 bushels the same week of 1890. Corn exports aggregate 2,187,824 bushels, against 4.533,780 bushels Isst week and 3,736,586 bushels a year ago.”