Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Advices received at Kingston, Jamaica, announce the renomination for a fourth term of President Zelaya of Nicaragua. His election is said to be practically certain. The President has promulgated an order establishing a national quarantine against Cape Nome and Dutch Harbor, Alaska, ou account of epidemic at these points. There has been a desperate battle between the Mexican troops and the Yucatan Indians in which the government troops were badly routed and lost heavily. —ln her first speed trial the new Russian cruiser Variag, built by the Cramps, proved herself the fastest warship of her class afloat, attaining a speed of twentyfour knots an hour. Louis B. Scott, a law student at Hamilton/ Ont., twe years ago at Atlantic City saved from drowning Miss Nersehoyle of Los Angeles, Cal. The woman died recently and left Scott $7,000. The shrinkage of iron values has caused the failure of the Continental Iron Company, with, mills at Niles, Ohio, and Wheatland, Pa. One ejaim against the company amounts to $243,000. President Zeyala of Nicaragua presented to General E. F. Alexander of Savannah, arbitrator in the boundary dispute between Nicaragua ah<l Costa Rica, a gold medal in recognition .of his services. _ The Navy Department in Washington has received a cablegram from Captain Wilde, commander of the battleship Oregou. announcing that she has been docked iu Kure, Japan, and an examination shows that her structural strength is intact. Arrangements have practically been completed for the purchase from Spain by the United States of the islands of Cibitu and Cagayen, which were left in Spanish possession by the treaty of Paris, although part of the Philippine archipelago; —: The State Department at Washington has received a dispatch from Consul General Gudger at Panama announcing the collapse of the revolutionary movement there. He states that the liberals unexpectedly surrendered and that quiet now prevails in Panama. The new battleship Illinois will in all probability have her builders’ trial about Dec. 1. Fast progress has been made on the vessel in tJie past few months and it is thought that she will be read to go on her initial trial with all of her guns aboard in four months. A catastrophe is reported as having taken place on Lake Labarge, Alaska. Tlie stern wheeler Florence TIL, operated and partly owned by Captain Barrington, was caught in a storm on the lake and capsized. There were 150 passengers aboard, and forty are said to have lost their lives. The Madoc passenger train on the Grand Trunk, bound north, and the Teterboro train, bound sJutb, collided on a curve south of Madoc Junction, Ont. The engines were badly smashed and two cars broken into matchwood. Two of the trainmen were killed and fire persons were injured. Cape Nome was treated to a great con flagration recently. Miles and miles of tundra were burned over and many native homes destroyed. The fire began close to the eastern suburbs of Nome and swept the country from the outer edge of the Sand beach to the foot hills and far below Cape Nome. R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: “Speculative activity in raw materials is not present to discourage new business. Producers and consumers are getting together in more than one direction. although midsummer inactivity is emphasized by disturbed foreign relations and the hesitation always attending a national political campaign. False starts are to be feared; but the dangerous optimism of last autumn is lacking, and new business is at lower prices. Failures for the week were 231 in the United States, against 151 last year, and twen-ty-eight in Canada, against twenty last year.”