Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Mexican Republic lias signed the eonvent ion of The Hague peace conference. Tlie United States Supreme Court has denied the application of former Captain Oberiin M. Caster to be admitted to bail. Three heavy boilers on the deck of the bark S. C. Allen broke loose during a storm and five sailors were badly hurt by them. The President has appointed William M. Jenkins of Oklahoma Territory to be Governor of that territory, and James W. Raynolds of New Mexico to he secretary of the territory of New Mexico. Secretary Root has ordered Gen. MaeAr.thur to reduce army in Philippines to 40,000 men, which is the result of improved conditions in the islands. Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry, Fourth artillery and Fourth cavalry are coming home. Police of the town of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, have seized papers which prove that n plot against the lives of the Emperor of Germany, the Czar*>f Russia, the King and Queen of Italy and the Count of Turin was recently laid in l'aterson, N. J. James 11. Arderti of one of the mining companies of Dawson came to Seattle on his way to London, England. He said that the clean-up this year in the Dawson camp from a conservative estimate would amount to $30,000,000, making it the biggest output in the history of the Klondike. The ministers of England, France, America, Holland, Belgium and Italy, t< whom the question of provincial punishment was assigned, have submitted a report to the diplomatic corps that they demand four more beheadings and the punishment by exile and degradation of eighty more Chinese officials. The consummation of the project to consolidate all the independent cereal plants of the country is now assured. The various properties, ten in number, will be turned over to the Great Western Cereal Company at Chicago. The new company will compete with tlie American Cereal Company, better known as the oatmeal’trust. The Chicago Great Western has conceded all tlie demands made by the International Machinists’ Association, thus ending any possibility of a. strike. The demands included a nine-hour workday, a minimum wage scale of 29 cents an hour, and several concessions in connection with apprentice regulations. Under the old system the minimum scale varied from 2t; to 27 cents. Bradstreet's says: “Cold, rainy weather, with its concomitant of had roads, has been unfavorable to distributive trade this week, special complaint coming from the central West and parts of the Northwest. A similarly retarding effect upon crop planting is noted at the South, where cotton and corn cultivation and germination are reported from one to two weeks late. With these exceptions, however, trade developments of the week have been iu the lnaru favorable. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,3(X>,217 bushels, against 0,405,(501 bushels last week and 3,898,451 bushels in the corresponding week of 1900. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 107,533,246 bushels, against 157,814,717 bushels last season. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,130,401 bushels. Fj-om July 1 to date this season earn exports are 153,298,988 bushels. Business failures for the week in the United States number 212 as against 225 last week.”