Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Dean C. Worcester, Philippine commissioner, has arrived at San Francisco from Manila. He reports health and financial conditions iu the islands improving. Weekly trade reviews show general business conditions throughout the country to be exceedingly prosperous and not in the least degree affected by the recent slump in Wall street. For their heroic work in rescuing the Spanish steamship Breza in a storm off Bermuda, in February, 1902, the members of the crew of the American steamship Y’eoman will receive $20,000, after more than a year of litigation. Representatives of a South African railway syndicate have been in Victoria, B. C., Inquiring regarding the possibility of securing 3,000,000 hemlock railway ties for South African railroads, of which 900 miles are to be built at once. The most picturesque officer in the nary and one of the boldest in speech retires for age. He ia Rear Admiral George W. Melville, chief of the bureau of steam engineering. He is G 2 years old having been born in New York City in 1841.

\V. C. Deering of Chicago, who arrived from the Orient by the steamer Tacoma, in an interview says that, akboagh the people of the United States may not be aware of the fact, the insurgents in the Philippine Islands are organising and drilling and the trouble there is far from over.' ' vf'-. A diver who went down to the wreek of the steamer Hungarian, lost on "Cape Sable ledges forty-three years ago with «il on board, reports that the after part and taro sides of the steamer are standmg and the shaft is still In position. An effort will be made to recover some nf the cargo.