Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — NEWS FROM OUR COLONIES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS FROM OUR COLONIES.

Honolulu health reports for the months of June and July show an alarming increase in the death rate, especially among native Hawaiians and Japanese on the island of Oahu, which has the only complete records. In June the number of deaths per thousand was forty-five; in July 49.68. The increase for the past few years, as shown by tables just compiled, has aroused a good deal of discussion. In 1896 the July deaths numbered forty-eight. Since then the figures have ijumped to 59.75, and this year 114. Consumption heads the list of diseases causing death in almost every month, and there is agitation for strict measures to (quarantine patients. The Board of Health is discussing a quarantine against consumption, as many people come from other places to enjoy the mild climate, a-»d it is believed they are a source of danger to the population. The Cuban teachers who have been taking a special summer course of instruction at Harvard University were conveyed to Boston free of charge on government transports. Harvard University provided free instruction and also raised by subscription the $70,000 required to pay for board and other exuenses. The 1,400 teachers come from 120 of the 129 cities and towns of Cuba and there has rarely been such a representative bod/ of educated Cubans got together. Havana sent nearly 200 teachers end other large delegations represent Matanzas, Santiago, Cienfuegos, Cardenas, Coion, I’inar del Rio, Porto Principe, Sanctl Spiritns, Holguin, Santa Clara, Remedies and Sagua la Grande, while many a little hamlet sent but a single teacher. When Maj. Hale went to the Island of Bohol he took along some telephones. In less than an hour after the troops were landed the signal men had some 'phones In operation to the amazement and delight of the inhabitants, one of whom wrote a long piece to El Comercia, telling all about how it was done. Several of the more prominent Filipino women of Manila are arranging to found a maternity hospital and nn orphan asylum, where children will be received and cared for and educated until they are able to look out for themselves. There has been a severe plague, of locusts in some parts of- Negros, and the farmers have formed an organization to fight the pest. Two dollars a quart for strawberries ta Manila, and bottled at thatl