Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Postal receipts for tlie year show a deficit of $4,500,000, owing to the development of the rural free delivery system. Express companies have taken concerted action in raising express rates, the added burden falling chiefly on the general public. The nuthoritie.s at Holguin, sixty-six miles north west of Santiago, Cuba, report that an American named Joseph E. jiradley was murdered by robbers. The treaty covering the naval and coaling station bases and the treaty placing the Isle of Pines wholly under Cuban sovereignty have been signed at Havana. The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the mouth of June, ns compiled from the carefully kept records, shows a total of $14,084,350, or over $4,000,000 more than the sum chargeable against the same month in the preceding year. ~ The annual wage scales of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers have gone into effect and all the plants iu the country are reported in full operation. The signed scales received at headquarters complete the iistjior union mills. Tlie new Pacific American cable was opened by President Itoosevelt with a message which was flashed around the world in twelve mi mites. Reply from President Clarence H. Mackay of the cable company girdled globe in nine and one-half minutes. A commission of fourteen bishops and delegates of the Methodist Episcopal Church North and the Methodist Episcopal Church South is holding sessions at Ocean Grove. N. J.. to revise the catechism and ritual of the two churches so that they will conform to each other. . The army transport Sherman sailed from San Francisco for Manila via Guam with 112 saloon passengers, one squadron of the Twelfth cavalry and the Seventeenth infantry. Newly coined Filipino pesos worth $1,500,000 and SBO,000 in gold were taken on the transport. J. E. Lagdameo, a cousin of Aguinaldo and a protege of Gov. Taft of the Philippines, is iu N’ew Haven. Conn., preparing for a course in fore.-try Yale. Lagdauieo is the second of his race to come to Yale. He is 21 years old and has studied at several American universities.

The United States battleship Kearsarge broke all ocean records for speed in the battleship class in its voyage to Kiel, making a total distance of 3,345 miles from New York to the Needles at the high average speed of 16.02 miles an hour. It made the entire run without a single stop or disarrangement of machinery. The Navy Department has ordered the battleship Wisconsin, the first class cruisers Albany, Cincinnati and Raleigh to the gulf of Peehili. China, to augment Rear Admiral Evans’ squadron. In addition, the armored cruiser New York, the cruiser Marblehead and the gunboat Bennington, now on summer cruise uuder command of Rear Admiral Glass, are to join Rear Admiral Evans’ squadron at once. \ . V