Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Gov. Wood announces that the Cuban constitution will be limited to insular affairs and that international privileges will not be granted. News of upward of twenty deaths lately near the deltas of the mouth of the Yukon River were brought down by the steamship Sequoia and the transport Athenian. A postoffice has .been established at the United States naval station, Pago Pago, Samoa, with Mrs. M. H. Hudson, wife of Chief Boatswain Hudson, U. S. N., as postmistress. Gen. Torres, commander of the Mexican forces against the Yaqtti Indians, reports that the trouble is at an end practically and that the Indians are broken up into scattered bauds. Gen. Alexander, who was appointed by President Cleveland boundary arbitrator between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, has arrived at Managua with his engineers, having completed the boundary survey. \V. W. Rockhill has been chosen by the President a special commissioner to proceed to China and ascertain the true conditions. He will be empowered to represent the United States In that country if Minister Conger is dead. The text of the reciprocity treaty between Italy and the United States has been given out. The agreement was arranged by John A. Kasson, special commissioner of the United States, and Baron Fava, the Italian minister. Hudson Bay Indians hunting many miles north of Fort George came across a party of wrecked aeronauts. There were two corpses and a man who died shortly after being found. They are supposed to have been of the Andree party. The latest reports show that the straits of Belle Isle are still blocked with lee floes. Almost 1.000 fishing vessels are ice bound and unable to reach the Labrador fishing grounds. As some 30,000 fisher folk are involved iu this and in the failure of the fishery the most disastrous results are likely to ensue. The Peary relief steamer Windward entered the harbor nt Port an Basques, at the southwest extremity of Newfoundland, with part of her machinery disabled. I't will probably require a few days to make the necessary repairs. The delay may seriously disarrange the ship’s plans for reaching the far north. R. G. Dun &. Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "The sharp fall of 2 cents in wheat and 4 cents in corn appears to reflect public conclusions, after hearing much evidence, official and unofficial, regarding the extent of injury to both grains. The shipments go on at n Quiet and moderate pace—in three weeks from Atlantic ports 5,661,501 bushels of wheat, flour included, against 6,505,393 last year; from Pacific ports, 1,691,597 bushels, against 1,278,648 last year, and in corn, 9,620,568 bushels, against 9,289,999 last year. Failures for the week have been 231 in the United States, against 145 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 23 last year.”