Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Tbe depreciation in the value of silver" has cost the insular government in Ihe Philippines approximately $1,000,000 in gold, as it is carrying $10,000,000 in silver. Further depreciation will increase the loss. The official rate is $2.40 silver for $1 gold. Edward Butler, the millionaire politician, was indicted by the grand jury iu Kt. Louis on the ehurge of paying to Delegate Charles F. Kelly a $47,500 bribe for members of the house of delegates’ convl ine, who passed the ten-year lighting bill Nov. 28, 1809. At Copenhagen, the hindsthing rejected The second rending of the bill providing for the ratification of the treaty between Denmark and the United States in regard to the cession of the Danish West Indies to the latter country. The vote stood 32 to 32, a tie. Four British gunboats stationed at Shanghai, huve been ordered to ascend the Yang-tae-Kiang ns far ns Hankow because of the failure of the Chinese ;u----thorities to deal adequately with the murderers of Bruce and Lewis, two English missionaries who were killed in Ho Nan province. Joseph A. Dennison, one of the three Democratic candidates in the Ninth Massachusetts congressional district, has withdrawn, leaving the contest between Congressman Joseph A. Corny, John S. Kellieher, Democrats, and Charles T. Witt, Republican. Mr. Dennison’s withdrawal prevents tin l possible loss of a Democratic seat in Congress. A pitched battle was fought iu the country four miles from Hrocsbeek. Texas, between two Thomasons and two Rutherfords. The trouble is supposed to have grown out of a matter of rent and had been pending for some time® D. Thomason, Robert Rutherford and William Rutherford were killed, Wallace Thomason escaping without a scratch. (ion. Custer was slain by a Sioux warrior of the name of Appearing Elk, according to Rev. Philip Daloria of Flora, _i\ It. formerly a Sioux chief, but now a Tbinister attending the council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in l’hil.idi 1 phi it. Rev. Mr. Dnlorin gives the solution of the Little Big Horn mystery of lS7<i in the words of Custer's slayer himself. According to the estimate of the correspondent of the New England Homestead, the apple crop throughout the country this year will be 43,000,000 barrels. against 27,000.000 barrels in 1001. In the old .orchard sections of the Middle and Eastern States the increase after last year's failure is pronounced. In the central West there are also sharp gains, while in the Southwest, a territory last year favored by exceptionally good yields, the crop this season is deficient. As for quality, it is far from satisfactory in the Central and Western States, lull in N'exv England is very much better.