Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — Page 3

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

£y| The State and War Departments are ;»|teriously considering the act of the Ventsuelan government in using an American flag on the gunboat Restaurador to .Apceße the people of Ciudad Bolivar, #hen that city was bombarded Sept. 30. President Castro at once granted the •pology demanded by United States Minister Bowen, but there are questions involved which Secretary Hay says cannot be settled so easily. International law on the subject permits a nation to use the flag of a, neutral nation in time of war, but the peculiar relations existing between the United States and South American countries makes this case an entirely new one. Besides this the flag was used in the River Orinoco, within the three-mile limit, not 4)11 the high seas, making another irregularity in the case. “ '.. Attorney General Knox has discovered defects in the Panama Canal Company’s title to Colombian concessions which, it is thought, may prevent the sale of the company’s property to the United States. A six j ears’ extension of the original concession by the Colombian government in 1898 fniled to have the approval of the Congress, the country being under martial law. The rebels at that time declared their intention of repudiating the extension, and the question is still unsettled. The War Department has decided to the manufacture of disappearing ''gun carriages for 8-inch, 10-inch and 12inch guns, and stop mounting G-inch guns on disappearing carriages, as the development of rapid-fire G-inch guns has made it necessary to mount them on barbette carriages. Gunners are to be paid more as an inducement to expert mechanics to engage in the service, and they are also to be provided with better protection in the form of small movable shields. The totals of the naval estimates for 1904, made public, are over $9,000,000 less than the amount asked for by SeeretwciL Long last year. The estimates include a $.>,000 annual appropriation for a new civilian expert advocated by the ordnance department, for the gun factory at Washington. It is claimed that work suffers from the constant shifting of the officers in charge. Three new ships asked for are two steel and one wooden training Vessel propelled by sail. The treasury report for the first quarter of the fiscal year shows that the June deficit of $9,000,000 is entirely wiped ont, and the excess of receipts for the months was $9,009,909. Customs receipts for September show an increase of $7,000,000 over the same month of last year. Internal revenue increase is over $2,000,000. The total gold fund is now $590,500,825, the largest sum of gold ever held by the treasury, or ever held in any one place in the world. The New York commissioner of labor, McMackin, reports that immigration during the past year lias surpassed all previous records, the number recorded at the port of New York being nearly 500,000. He attributes this to improved conditions, offering large attractions to this country, and to the industrial depression prevalent in European countries. The contracts for carrying the mails by pneumatic tube service in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. I-ouis have been awarded by the Postoffice Department to local companies in those cities. The agreements provide that the total nrnount paid for the service in all cities shall not exceed SBOO,OOO a year, the amount which Congress has allowed. Admiral Bradford, chief of the equipment bureau of the navy, states that he has on hand.about 100,000 tons of coal, distributed throughout the coaling stations and navy yards, besides contracts which insure to naval vessels an adequate supply ns long as there is nny coal to be had, and at the same low prices paid in the past. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has announced to all employes under his department that participation in partisan politics will not be tolerated by the United States government. He says no person is under obligation .to contribute to nny political fund, nnd no person will be removed for refusing to do so.

The War Department hns ordered the establishment of schools at every post in tlie army for the instruction of officers, including nil lieutenants and captains of less than ten years’ service 11s commissioned officers. The plan is to give thorough technical training in all branches of knowledge relating to the military profession. The anual report of the commissijnqr of pensions shows a gnin during the yenr of 5,732 names, the totul enrollment now being 999,440. The amount paid is $137,504,2G8. The total cost of pensions since the beginning of the government is given ns $2,992,509,019, exclusive of the establishment of soldiers’ homes. William Nelfloh Cromwell, counsel for the new Panama Ounal Company, returned from Paris, asserting that the titles to the Panama property were good, lie said it only now remained for the United States to perfect a treaty with Colombia. The steel floating dock at Havana, brought there by the Spaniards nnd sold to the United States for $275,000, has broken, and it is estimated that repairs will cost SIOO,OOO. It Is observed by officials of the government service that the proportion oT women in the public employ is gradually Increasing. The ratio of appointments of men nnd women is about the same, but practically no women leave their places to take employment elsewhere. The naval board which witnessed ths battleship Maine’s speed trial reports that an average of eighteen knots an hour was maintained, but that the conditions of the trial were unsatisfactory.

REPORT ON CROPS OF WORLD.

Government Figures Sho tv the Harvwt Abroad Is Very Late. The Department of Agriculture’s summary of the crops of the world shows that owing to the remarkably cool nnd wet summer In a considerable part of Europe the harvest of 1902 Is one of the latest on record. The promise of an abundant yield, therefore, has been only partly fulfilled in Europe, allowing for grain gathered in a damaged condition and for that actually spoiled. In the caso of bread grains there will be a demand among millers in the countries so suffering for good, dry grain to mix with the home product. Considered by countries, the report says: The semi-official Russian estimate makes the wheat, rye, barley and oats crop of that country not only larger than lh 1001, but exceeding the average for the five years 1886-1000. The estimate puts the winter wheat crop at 186,682,387 bushels of sixty pounds each; spring wheat, 800,938,333 bushels of sixty pounds each; rye, 854,452,7C0 bushels of fifty-six pounds each; barley, 282,130,625 bushels of forty-eight pounds each; Ots, 846,301,876 bushels of thirty-two pounds each. ' i... .. ■ Throughout about four-fifths of the German Empire harvesting was delayed by frequent rains, and there was still much grain In the fields In the middle of September. The Austrian official reports for Sept. 16 say that wheat and barley are goad, average crops, while rye Is ouly medium to good medium. The quality of the grain, so far as the harvest was secured under anything like favorable conditions, Is mostly satisfactory. From Hungary the official report for Sept, 16, received at the department here, shows that maize has suffered from drought In some districts, the plants producing no ears, and In others the grain ripened before the ears attained a normal development. The Roumanian wheat crop Is officially estimated as the best in many years. For 1902 the production Is estimated at 76,220,208 bushels. Rye is estimated at 6,958,466 bushels; barley, 24,671,040 bushels, and oats, 21,905,205 bushels. The Bulgarian cereal crops are fairly satisfactory. The wheat 1* particularly good In yield, though a little deficient In quality. The’ French ministry of agriculture has Issued a preliminary report giving the wheat production of France as 352,000,000 bushels, an increase of over 13 per cent over 1901. The crops In Belgium are stated to be comparatively satisfactory. In Great Britain the area under wheat cultivation Is 25,508 acres greater than In 1901. The recent weather through Great Britain has greatly helped its farmers In completing their belated harvests. Harvesting Is progressing favorably In Denmark. Rye and wheat are of normal yield and good quality. The wheat crop of Italy, according to present Indications, will be approximately 130,000,000 bushels. The recent rains In Argentine entirely saved the crops, and it Is expected that the yields will exceed last year by over 40 per cent. Wheat areas In Australia have been helped by heavy rains. Generally favorable reports of comlug crops have been received from all provinces of India. The rice crop of Japan, hurt by the wet summer, probably will be below the average. The official estimate of Spain Is that that country will have the largest wheat crop for many years, and will have a considerable surplus for exportation. The Nile flood this year Is the lowest in the last twenty-five years, although the scarcity of water will partly be compensated for by the new works executed by the British government, the crops In upper Egypt are likely to suffer. Whatever water Is available In Egypt will be principally applied to the cotton crop, leaving beans, maize, lentils, etc., to bear the chief effect if the scarcity.

W. C. T. U. MEETING BEGINS.

Opening of Twenty-ninth Annual Con* vention at Portland, Me. The twenty-ninth annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened at Portland, Me., Frl-

day night. Every State and territory in the Union was represented. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, president of the National W. C. T. U. and vice-president a t large of the World’s W. O. T. U., presided. Lady Henry Somerset, president of the World’s W.

LADY SOMERSET.

C. T. U., nnd the Rev. Henry S. Saunders of London, England, were among the distinguished workers present.. The convention was called to order by President Stevens, delivered her annual address. Mrs. Susanna M. D. Fry of Illinois made her report as corresponding secretary. The report stated that ths Manila organizer had reported that some 111-will had been engendered by the “canteen” victory. Encouraging reports have been received from the Bermudas, Cuba and Mexico. The national treasurer, Mrs. Helen Morton Barker, reported that the National W. C. T. U. had made a net gain of $7,097 and receipts from the Frances B. Willord memorial .fund, $4,417 (more than in nny previous yenr). Pledges amounting to $1,132, for Manila missionary work, had been received, the treasurer said. Responses to several addresses of welcome were made by Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, New Jersey, national superintendent of legislation, nnd Miss Belle Kearney of Missouri, national lecturer. Lady Henry Somerset was the last speaker.

AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

It is reported that one-hnlf of the potato crop of New York State will be ruined by blight, caused by wet weather. Consul General Mason at Berlin reports that the wet weather has modern impending calnmity to the cereal harvest of the yenr. Especial injury has been done to the beet crop. Official statistics from India report a marked improvement in crop conditions nnd a falling off of the number of famine victims. The threatened drouth has been relieved by general rains. Th einjury to the Texas cotton crop this year from the Mexican weevils is estimated at 100,000 bales. Several remedies are being experimented with by State and federal authorities, nmong them the use of the Lipscomb bug, said to be the natural enemy of the weevil The Agricultural Department is experimenting with Egyptian cotton to determine whether it can bo grown here. It is said to be proof against the weevil pest. The disense known ns “little t>eaeh," which appeared In the rich Michigan fruit belt, is spreading rapidly in spite of nil efforts to arrest It. No remsdy is known. Tables recently published show that Louisiana is now the chief rice State in the Union, raising more Of this staple than all the other States put together. South Carolina and Georgia have fallen off one-third in their rice production since the Civil War. Artificial Irrigation by scientific methods Is the rssson of Louisiana's increase. The United States now imports about as mnch rice as it grow* tt home.

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