Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Coal exportations of the United States have doubled since 1897 and nearly trebled during the last decade. Exports to Porto Rico during the last fiscal year were three times as much as when the island was under Spanish rule. One Montreal man is to pick out the 800 Canadians who are to be invited to the reception in honor of the Duke of York. The weekly trade reviews indicate a good outlook for business. Prices in steel products advanced because of strike. The International Tin Plate Workers' Protective Association may decline to handle Welsh plates in order to help steel strikers. The Central Union Telephone Company is to raise $3,500,000 by reducing present capital stock one-half, then increasing issue 100 per cent. Mrs. Clara White Newberry, daughter of the United States ambassador to Germany, has been granted a divorce from her husband, Prof. Newberry. The ministers of the various powers signed the Chinese protocol Thursday. The American missionaries celebrated the anniversary of the relief ot Pekin, Edward P. Thompson was convicted of fraudulent transactions while postmaster at Havana, and sentenced to a fine of S4OO and six months’ imprisonment. Archbishop Chapelle, who was sent to Manila to reorganize the church in the Philippines, is to return to the United States because unsuccessful in his mission. A British steamer brought news to Kingston of heavy fighting between government troops and robe's near Colon. Foreigners were fleeing to escape proscription. President Castro of Venezuela is believed to design the seizure of the Isthmus of Panama in order to make the United States pay well for a canal con-cess-ion. The French cruiser Suchet arrived at Colon Wednesday. Her pfesence at the scene of the Panama trouble prior to the arrival of the American boats caused a sensation. The steamer Islander of the Canadian Pacific’s Alaska line struck an iceberg off Doc-glass Island and sank, carrying down from sixtyrfive to eighty of her passengers and crew. The steel ship Manchester, which sailed from New York with a cargo of kerosene, was wrecked on one of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. A!) of her crew is missing. Secretary Root will recommend the es tablishment of an advanced school it Washington for army officers. Nation*. Guard officers are to be trained at tto Leavenworth institution. Dr. R. J. Gatling, who invented th> first rapid-fire gun of modern warfare hopes to revolutionize existing agricultural methods. He is inventor of a motor plow which he asserts will under the guidauce of one man break a thirty-five-acre field in a single day. Eugene Foley, of Utica, N. Y., accord ing to a dispatch, slapped Carrie Nation’s face on a Thousand Island steam boat when she attempted to knock a cigar from his mouth. Mrs. Nation hsid made herself obuoxious on the boat by her crusade against the smokers and Fo ley’s action was generally commended. Simultaneous transmission of telephonic and telegraphic messages over the same wire is made possible by a new system invented by C. H. Gaunt, of the Northern Pacific telegraph department He uses an original system of redaction coils and condensers. The apparatus has been thoroughly tested on the company’s line nnd has given perfect satisfaction. It is the intention to adopt it in connection with the transcontinental system now being installed by the company.