Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — PLANS TO BUY TWO ISLANDS. [ARTICLE]

PLANS TO BUY TWO ISLANDS.

United States May Pay Spain SIO3,(XX) for New Islands. * Arrangements have practically been completed by the United Stales government for the purchase from Spain of the islands of Cibitu nnd Cngayen, which were left in Spanish possession by the treaty of Paris. Although they are a part of the Philippine archipelago, they were not included in the treaty through the adoption of specific boundary lines, rather than describing the islands in a lump as the archipelago. The oversight was not discovered until a year later. The two Islands are Insignificant In area nnd thinly populated,probably containing from 0,000 to 8,000 people in nil. Both the (stands nre said to lie mninly valuable for their penrl and shell fisheries. The Board of Health of Hoboken, N. J., has made an ordinance requiring people who keep crowing cocks in their back Sards to pay a fl license fee.Jor cnch. This is in the interest of peace trnd quiet. Mrs. Mary Cuuninghnin of Bnngvr, Me., was 100 year* old on July 4, nnd she celebrated the dny by walking downtown to a newspaper office and giving a reporter n sketch of her long life. The wages of puddlen In nil Iron works hare Iwn advanced 12H cents per ton. Fifteen thousand njeu are affected.