Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Department orders have relieved Gen. Chaffee of command in the Philippines nnd assigned him to department of Fast. Gen. Davis succeeds him at Manila. A cablegram has been received at the State Department from Minister Powell, dated Port an Prince, ns follows: "All is now quiet at Port an Prince. A French naval vessel arrived there this morning. The new government in San Domingo has been recognized.” The National Educational Association has resolved to petition Congress to establish a Department of Education and make its head a cabinet officer; also urge the restoration of the Bible in the schools; grade teachers organized a national federation, with Miss Margaret A. Haley president. Sixty years after hU death Gen. William Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition, which gave the United States nil the Northwest territory by right of discovery, is to have a monument over his grave. The monument is to be erected by Mrs. Mary Susan Glasgow Clark of New York, daughter-in-law of the explorer.