Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Gen. Frederick Fuuston has undergone a successful operation for appendicitis at Manila and it is believed he will recover. Tlie Canadian government, which a few years ago abandoned the practice of observing the national thanksgiving on the same day ns the United States, lias just appointed the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving day throughout Canada. Advices from Point Barrow, Alaska, report the total failure for the past season of the fioe whaling done by natives nt Point Barrow and Point Hope, lenvimg the natives destitute and creating a shortage in the whalebone market. The failure is attributed to the heavy ice drift. To complete the needed link in a group of cable systems which then will girdle the globe and to gain cable connection with our new possessions in the Pacific are the announced objects of the new cable company incorporated in Albany with a preliminary capital of SIOO,OOO. John \\. Mackey is at the head of the project.

A revolution has been declared in the southern part of the State of MattoGrosso, Brazil, near the frontier of Paraguay, against the government of the State. The rebels have occupied Bella Vista, San CaFlos and Tarupia- The government forces, assisted by the gunboat Carieea, succeeded in expelling the rebels from those points. The signal office of the War Department in Washington has received a message from Manila saying that tho last link of cable had been laid which allowed telegraphic communication with the southernmost island of the Philippine group. Heretofore messages had to be carried across a point about the middle of the group by boat. The federal authorities have recovered $200,000 more of the funds embezzled by Captain Oberlin M. Carter, the former engineer officer of the United States army at Savannah, Ga„ several years ago. The money was found in a safedeposit box in a bank at Huntington, W. Va., having been placed there by Dltson P. Carter, a brother of the, convicted officer. This makes about $300,000 recovered out of $722,582. R. G. Dun’s weekly review of trade says: Universal sorrow placed a calming hand on the rush and turmoil of the market place. Everything that could be conveniently postponed was put aside out of respect for the man whose life was devoted to developing the wonderful activity in all branches of trade nnd industry. Exchanges suspended operations for two days, and the distribution of merchandise was in many eases limited to immediate requirements. Mercantile payments continue prompt, but it was to lie expected that bank exchanges would not show the customary heavy gains over previous years. At leading cities outside New York there was a gain of 8 per cent over 1900 and a loss of 7 from 1899. Yet prices were stronger and there were many indications of great latent power that may be expected to appear as normal conditions return. After two months of controversy at the steel mills a settlement has been readied, although the terms are not entirely satisfactory to the Amalgamated Association and there is much complaint among the men regarding the conduct of the strike. Managers are confident that the outcome means no further interruption to work for a long period. Failures for the week nuniliered 157 in the United States, against 211 last year, and 20 in Canada, against 33 last year.