Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Hayti dispatches report that the revolution in Santo Domingo is not ended and that fighting is proceeding in the interior, although the revolutionists are weak. A gold country which may rival the Klondike and Cai»e Nome regions has been discovered by the Harvard explorers who spent the last summer in Labrador. Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Seminoles, armed with rifles, have joined the Creek full-blood council aud all declare they will not take allotment of lands. The Canadian schooner Fabiola found.iin il. Ju Lake Ontario neat- the False Ducks. The crew escaped in the yawlboat and landed at McDonald’s cove. Tiie Fabiola was a cargo of coal. Maj. Matt R. Peterson, the chief commissary of Cuba, died in Havana of yellow fever. Mrs. Peterson, his wife, who arrived recently from Cincinnati to nurse him, shot herself in the head with a revolver one hour after the major’s death and died instantly. The force of rurales that started from Orizaba, Mexico, in pursuit of the notorious Cristobal Pedraza and his band of brigands several weeks ago encountered the outlaws in their mountain stronghold and succeeded in killing Pedraza and capturing the ten members of his band. 11. H. Porter, a ptfSsenger on the Nome steamer Lane, reports that the cable steamship Orizaba, which was wrecked on Rocky Point reef, St. Michael Island, is a total loss. It was abandoned. The Orizaba was laying a government cable between St. Michael and Nome City. A romance for which the Paris exposition is said to be responsible is the engagement of Professor Woodward, assistant commissioner general for the United States, and Miss Marion Cockrell, adopted daughter of Thomas Walsh, the millionaire American mine owner. The 1 potato crop of the United States, according to Orange Judd Farmer’s final report at the practical completion of harvest, approximates 239,000,000 bushels, or nearly 5,000,000 bushels less than last year, and a fairly good yield compared with the average of the past ten years. Extremes in climatic conditions were responsible for holding the crop» within bounds. The average yield is eightythree bushels an acre. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “Pacific coast advices are that export trade is very large as the result of army needs and Asiatic requirements. Northwestern trade is on the whole quiet, and the disposition to charge the election witli this is manifest. Eastern wholesale trade is quiet but steady. The country’s foreign trade is in a flattering condition, September exports being the largest ever reported for that month. Imports, on the other hand, show few gains, and the outlook is for a record-breaking export trade and a merchandise balance for the calendar year far in advance of all other years. Pig iron has been slow of sale, but Chicago reports that a business of at least 100,<MM) tons is in sight that maybe placed after the election. The large steel mills are well supplied With orders, though at low prices."