Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Johns Hopkins University will institute a course in Filipino dialect. Dan Patch set new world record pacing mark for the mile anfl half-mile. The times are 0:56 and 1:57%. Charles Ivratz, the alleged*St. Louis boodler, has been arrested in Mexico and held for extradition on bribery charge. The Canadian parliament was prorogued. It met March 12 and the session has been the longest one on record. The U. S. Supreme Court decides that a canal is a navigable stream, and consequently subject to the federal maritime IUWB. Increased conservatism in the country’s manufacturing is reported by Dan’s and Bradstreet’s weekly reviews; October railroad earnings 6.2 per cent over 1902. Gambling is blamed for 3,212 embezzlements out of 4,152 reported in United States since Jan. 1, 1903; race tracks are the cause of small offenses; stocks of great ones. President Roosevelt, on behalf of the government, lias accepted the $20,000 painting representing the signing of the peace protocol with Spain, presented by H. C. Frick. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners are to be merged into one national organization Jan. 1, 1905. The Pan-Americnn Exposition Company, operating between New York, Cuba nnd Central American points, has acquired a monopoly of the shipping business in Yucatan. The board of trustees of Princeton elected Henry A. Garfield of Cleveland professor of politics, and conferred on James H. Hyde of New York the honorary degree of master of arts. The Canadian steamer Advance, bound from Montreal to Fort William, Ont., with a cargo of merchandise, was totally destroyed by fire at Sault Ste. Marie. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. The national trans-continental railway bill was passed by the Canadian Senate. The bill provides for a new railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the agricultural districts of northern Canada. Mrs. Isabella N. Healy and Mrs. M. C. Gilmore have started for Paris via San Francisco, Chicago and New York, after making fortunes estimated at sl,000,000 ia Nome and adjacent mining districts. A prominent Washington correspondent calls attention to the hasty dispatching of 400 marines to the Caribbean Sea and to other indications that the United States is expecting a revolution or other trouble in Colombia. What is probably the greatest gold strike since Indian George Carmack discovered the Klondike seven years ago, is believed to have been made in August, when five miners discovered rich placer gold diggings on the headwaters of the Snshitna River, western Alaska, sixtyfive miles from Slate Creek. Wasyl Kyrky, Paul Belenko, Jean Waskeskie and Andrew Bey, fonr members of the Doukhobor colony at Swan Lake, Man., were killed in a riot between two factions of the followers of Peter Vereigin, the anti-Christ, at that place. The community divided on the question of allowing a Methodist minister to preach. The Secretary of the Interior has completed and forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury his estimate of the appropriations necessary to conduct the affairs of the Interior Department for the fiscal year aiding June 30, 1905. The estimate places the total requirement for the department at $156,000,000 about $3,000,000 less than the appropriation for the current year. The proposed redaction will be made in the pension bureau and the Indian office. The estimate for pensions is $136300,000, or $1,700,000 less than the appropriation for this year. There is a ent of $1,300,000 in the estimate for the Indian bureau. The redaction hi the pension estimate ia dqe to a calculation of deaths of pensioners mads by the commissioner of pensions,