Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Gen. Jit lien Acosta, leader of Venezuelan telrels, has been captured and pence prevails. E. Nott Potter, brother of Bishop Potter of New York, died suddenly in the City of Mexico. James H. Southall, the former army clerk who stole nearly $500,000 from the government, has been released on parole. A lumber yard, saw mill aud fourteen houses in the western part of Havana, Cuba, were destroyed by fire, eutuiling a total loss of $700,000. The Rook Island Railroad has assumed control of the Mexican Central system and will operate a road through from Chicago to the City of Mexico. Chinese Minister Wu declined to attend n dinner in honor of Gen. Otis because he would feel bound to criticise Otis’ action in excluding Chinese from the Philippines. The FederaJ troops op their march to Chun, Santa Cruz, Yucatan, encountered rebel Indians holding a small fortified hill and carried it in n dashing charge, the Indians scattering in all directions. The rebel loss was considerable. The steamer Australia, which arrived at San Francisco from Tahiti, has on board the captain aud twenty-eight of the crew of the British ship P.vrennes, which took fire at sea on Nov. 10 while en route from Tacoma to Leith. O. C. Barber, President of the Diamond Match Company, is at work on a scheme to combine all the independent cereal mills of the country, and it is said negotiations have already proceeded far enough to assure the success of the venture. Bradstreet’s says: “Trade developments this week, aside from those connected \vith rumors of combination in great industries, of which it seems as yet too early to speak authoritatively, have been in the main favorable. The cereals •are dull, irregular nnd rather lower on large Argentine shipments and liberal northwest movements.” Advices from Dawson state that hereafter there will be no crown reservations of mining claims in the Klondike or Northwest Territory. All claims still held by the crown, including many fractional claims, with the exception of some which are involved in litigation and others which are reserved for compensation, will be thrown open Feb. 20, for staking. Several hundred tons of dynamite stored in an underground chamber of the San Andres mine, situated in the Sierra Madres, in the western part of the State of Durango, Mexico, exploded with terrific force, blowing the whole top of the mountain off nnd destroying a portion of the village of miners there. Eighty-sev-en men, women and children were killed and many others badly injured.