Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

President Roosevelt has appointed Frank P. Sargent of Peoria, II)., Commissioner General of Immigration to succeed Terence V. Powderly. Thomas Nast, the father of American caricature, has been given a government position. President Roosevelt has nominated him for consul general at Guayaquil, Ecuador. “Macabebe Marie,” known to every soldier in the Philippines as one of the shrewdest spies in the American service, is dead. She formerly served on Gen. Funston’s personal staff. It is reported that Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican republic, has surrendered to the insurgent forces. President Jimenes of the Dominican republic is snid to have taken refuge in the French consulate there. The Cuban Senate and House of Representatives assembled in the palace at Havana. Governor General YVood made an address. Salvator Cisneros was elected president of the Senate, while Pedro Albarran was elected president of the House of Representatives. The YY’ar Department has given out copies bf a telegram written by Aguinaldo three weeks before the battle at Manila, in which he offered rewards of money, lands and titles for capture of American troops with their officers, and particularly for the capture of their commander. The YY’ar Department has received a cablegram indicating that the campaign against Sultan Bayan. one of the principal Moro chiefs, had been completely successful. The result was accomplished by a gallant assault on the principal Moro fort and Its capture after a number of the lending Moros had been killed. J. J. Hill, the railway magnate, says the injunction to control rates will be futile, and that only roads that are best equipped and best suited will get traffic. He speaks for what he calls “inactfve” competition, denounces pooling, and declares that roads that cannot carry freight have no right to demand part of the earnings of another rond. Labor strikes were numerous throughout the United States the other day, but the total number of men who went out did not reach the figures predicted by union leaders. The total number of strikers reported at various points amounts to about 25,000 men in all. The chief points of disturbance are in the East, Pittsburg leading with about 8,000 men out. Just before departing for Scotland Andrew Carnegie announced to President YV. N. Frew of the board ot trustees of Carnegie Institute thnt he had completed a new list ot twenty libraries which he had given to various cities in the United States. The latest list of gifts will amount to over $1,000,000 and the libraries will be located in cit'es of below th* third class.