Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

President Roosevelt has issued his call for Congress to assemble in extra session Nov. 9, to take up the Cuban treaty. Congress is to be asked to appropriate at tiie coining session $102,866,449.34 for the support and increase of the navy during the next fiscal year. A crew of British sailors were cast away on the shores of Hiulsou’s Bay, and marched 600 miles with little food and poorly clad, before reaching civilization. Officials of the United States Steel Corporation have decided to reduce the wages of thousands of employes in the general scheme of cutting down expenses. v Finance and labor are reported by Dun’s weekly review ns disturbing country’s trade; railroad earnings 6.2 per cent over 1902; Bradstreet’s shows no urgent demand. The battleship Maine in her endurance run from Newport News, Va., to.Cnlehui, Porto Rico, showed remarkable speed, making 1,185 miles nt an average of fifteen knots an hour and running one stretch of fifty miles at the rate of 16.7 knots an hour. # x Congressman Dayton of West Virginiaihelieves Germany is looking to Sotftfi America for colonies to drain off her surplus population, and that she proposes to build a strong navy in order to antagonize the Monroe doctrine should it become necessary.

The schooner Dione, with a cargo of codfish, from Fogo, N. F., for Oporto, was sunk off the Grand Banks in Thursday’s gale, and one man was swept overboard and lost. The three remaining men rowed for thirty-six hours in a small boat before making a landing. W. J. Bryan has authorised a denial of tiie report which quoted him as saying he believed that free silver would not be considered at the Democratic national convention in 1904. Mr. Bryan said he had not talked with a reporter in lowa City, from which place the report emanated. American Alaskan claims have been granted in all particulars save the Portland Canal, which is awarded by the mixed commission to Canada. This insures the retention by Americans of every foot of land they have believed their own, and at the same time gives the British the ontlet to the sea which they so much needed. By the Alaska award, as officially made known, America gets two islands which dominate Port Simpson, where the Grand Trunk Pacific ia to end. London papers call the decision a sacrifice on the attar of American friendship, while Canada talks of imperialism as dead. The Canadian commissioners refuse to sign the verdict, declaring their country betrayed. The United States cruiser Baltimore has left tiie Brooklyn navy yard to start on a voyage to, the Philippines, whither ■he will convoy five torpedo-boat destroyers. The voyage will be watched with interest by the naval authorities of the world, as it will be the first time a. flotilla of torpedo-boats has attempted so long a voyage—l6,ooo miles. The destroyers probably will never return, but will be kept iu Asiatic waters for a possible emergency. The Baltimore, It la said, will join the Asiatic squadron.