Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Senator Hanna says his suggestion that he would retire from the Republican national committee was a jest. An unknown schooner went ashore at Farmyard Islands, near Newfoundland, and the crew of ten drowned. Advices received in Washington indicate that President Roosevelt will call the Senate in extraordinary session early in Novein&er. The War Department is advised of the sailing of the transport Meade from Manila, P. 1., for San Fraucisco, with headquarters, ten companies mid 892 enlisted men of the Fifteenth United States infantry. Mrs. Norman Selby, the wife of Norman Selby, better known as “Kid" McCoy, has eloped with Ralph Thompson, one of his friends. McCoy and his wife have been divorced twice and united three times. The United States monitor Arkunsas returned from a very successful trial trip. During the trial the Arkansas maintained a speed for two hours of 17.2 knots, or seven knots greater than required by the government. President Roosevelt has decided on the conditions under which the Commercial Cable Company may lay its cable to Chinu and the Philippines. As arrunged the conditions practically give the government control of the cable. The steamer Santa Ana brings news that Mounts Redoubt, liiamna and Augustine, in the Csßbk Inlet section of Alaska, continue to emit smoke. Enough ashes have been scattered over trie snowcovered peaks to blacken their white surfaces. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, xvhieh has been out of commission most of the time since the Spanish war, may be dismantled as a result of the investigation into the value to the navy which Secretary Moody will make when he returns to Washington. A severe earthquake was felt at Skaguay, Alaska. The first shock was fifty seconds long. Several large plate glass windows were broken and chimneys in the northern part of the city tumbled down. The water in Lynn canal rose five feet very suddenly, then subsided ag quickly. Most of the large harvester manufacturing concerns of the country* hare been united ns the International Harvester Company, with a capital of $120,000,000. InedYporntion papers wore filed at Trenton, N. J. It is understood that nmoug others interested is the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company of Chicago. The State Department has been informed that the provisional government of Haytl lias notified the United States legation that Gonavos, Pont de Paix, Petit Goave and St. Mare are in rebellion and that the government troops captured Petit Goave after a strong resistance. Many lives were lost. Firinin’s force set lire to Petit Goave before abandoning the place, which was totally destroyed. Ten thousand people are reported homeless and in dire want.