Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Friends of W. J. Bryan sny he will te a 'candidate for a third nomination if there is any chance that he can succeed in the convention of 1904. Treasury vaults contain nearly $574,000,060 in gold, the largest sum in the history of tlie United States and with one exception the largest in the history of the world. Arrangements have been completed by the Postoffiee Department at Washington for the establishment of an exchange of international through registered pouches between San Antonio, Texas, and Ciudad Porfirlo Diuz, Mexico, to begin Oct. 1. Wreckage is strewn along the shore of Lake Huron four miles north of Kincardine, Out. Among the material east ashore is a lift* preserver marked “Steamer Louise.” The only steamer Louise given in tlie list of vessels on the great lakes is owned by Joseph W. Post of Sandusky, Ohio, Maj. Edward F. Glenn of the Fifth Infantry, who was tried by court martial at Manila for administering the water cure to natives, found guilty and sentenced to be suspended for one month and to forfeit SSO of his pay, has been restored to duty nnd ordered to return to his command at Baynmhang. Luzon. Authentic reports received from the New Naainu gold diggings in the Copper river valley, 200 miles inland from Vnl(lez. prove Xnzinu to lie the richest strike made lu Alaska since Nome was discovered. The best pay seems to be on the Rex gulch, where in three days four men sluiced out $1,500 in one sluice box. Twenty are dead and over 400 seriously 111 at Mnplnml, Mexico, ns the result of the breaking forth of arsenic springs in the mountains near the city. The water* of the nrsenic springs \*ve united with those of the springs waich supply the city with drinking water nnd the distributing reservoir Is said So be thoroughly Impregnated with argents.