Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Explorer Harry De Windt of Paris has reached Dawson. A census report shows the value Of all farms in the United States for 1000 was $16,674,694,247. The United States will not have a warship in the naval review ou the occasion of the King’s coronation. Reorganization plans of the asphalt trust provide for a new corporation with a capital stock of $31,000,000. A strike has been inaugurated throughout the country by the United Gold-Beat-ers’ National Union of America. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has caused a stir among department officials as a result of alleged remarks concerning dismissals. . The number of immigrants arriving in the United States during the fiscal year 1902 shows an increase of 160,825 over arrivals in IDOL The new government of Cuba has been recognized by Great Britain. France, Spain, Switzerland, Hayti, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala. Miners’ union officials estimate that if $13.33 can be. provided each month for each striker in the anthracite field the strike can be prolonged indefinitely. The value of torpedo boats in naval warfare is expected to be definitely ascertained in the maneuvers' on the Atlantic coast within the next few weeks. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Trade Review finds industrial conditions greatly improved, due to settlement of labor disputes and good crop outlook. Heavy fall trade is expected. Cuba has requested that the United States coaling station in Havana harbor be given up. Gov. Gen. Wood already had turned over title, and the request will be granted. The United States has inserted in the Panama treaty a clause providing for i the lease of the islands in the Bay of Panama, which are to be used for defense of the canal. John W. Gates says he is the father of the steel trust, gives inside history of its formation, reveals facts upon other vast financial deals, and tells how he rose from salesman to millionaire. Customs officers arrested a priest and his niece for smuggling church goods across the Canadian border. The priest made a confession in which he declat/d that the niece is blameless. The United States received no invitation to participate in Russia’s proposed international conference on trusts, and probably would decline to participate even had one been received. The weather bureau weekly crop report says corn has made splendid progress, except where destroyed by floods. Rains have interfered with harvesting and thrashing of winter wheat. The steamer Belgenland, Philadelphia for Queenstown, with 129 cabin passengers aboard, was towed into Halifax after drifting four days in the north Atlantic with broken propeller shaft. Senator Drummond, of Montreal, tells the House of Commons committee that the only hope for Britain to compete with the United States on the ocean is to have a new subsidized line of fast steamers. William E. Curtis, the Washington correspondent, sees possible division in the Republican party on the question of tariff revision, on each side of which influential and determined forces are at work. Democrats claim to see campaign material in the present high cost of living, blaming the Dingley law and citing ns proof the difference in prices for commodities sent abroad and those sold to home consumers. Ha xaua authorities have discovered a colony of more than a hundred Voodoos in the forests near Demajaybo, a village in Santiago province and on the extreme eastern end of Cuba. The discovery has caused considerable uneasiness in that locality, owing to the great barbarities practiced by the sect in the name of religion. Dr. Garnault, who inoculated himself with matter taken from a consumptive cow. in order to disprove Professor Koch’s theory that it is impossible for human beings to catch tuberculosis from cattle, says that the inoculation has produced tuberculosis tumors. He says this proves that man is quite as susceptible to bovine tuberculosis us tiny other animal. It is estimated that from 20,000 to 25,000 harvesters will be required in West Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railroad is arranging with the Allan and Beaver Steamship lines to bring laborers from England at exceptionally cheap rates. General Manager McNicholl is hi Winnipeg and hopes to avoid a grain blockade this year. The road, he says, has purchased 100 new engines and will have 10,000 cars available. Acting Cbmmissioner Williams of the internal revenue bureau has issued instructions to collectors to the effect that wholesale and retail dealer* in oleomargarine who have paid special tax at the rate of S2OO and $6, respectively, per annum, who are found to have sold any oleomargarine taxed at a different rate than one-fourth of 1 cent per found, removed from the factory on Tnd after July 1. 1902, will be required to provide themselves with special tax stamps at the higher rate.