Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

There are nearly 600 casea of scarletina in Havana, Cuba. Recoveries from the disease are generally rapid, and there have been few deaths. Dun & Co.’s weekly review shows general trade restricted by warm weather, while crop gathering is helped; October railroad earnings 6.2 per cent over 1902. President Roosevelt’s message was read in both houses of Congress Tuesday. It was brief and urged keeping faith with the Cubans, who have fulfilled their agreements. The Fifty-eighth Congress convened in extraordinary session at noon Monday in accordance with the proclamation of President Roosevelt for the purpose of enacting legislation necessary to make effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty. A Chicago company, represented by Dr. E. O. Wald, has bought 150 acres of oil land in the Kayak district of southern Alaska, where the oil produced contains 90 per cent, of illuminates and compares favorably with the best Pennsylvania product. The United States government has extended recognition to the new republic of Panama, which has accomplished its independence by the most rapid work in history, and which is assured of powerful backing provided it shows capacity for self-government. On board the steamer Majestic, which arrived In New York from Liverpool, were twelve negroes from the Southern States, who went to Liberia, West Africa, to experiment in cotton culture with a view to future colonisation by negroes from this country. They say their experiment was a failure and they embarked for home in a penniless condition. A fierce gale has been ragiug along the entire seaboard of Newfoundland and several vessels have beep driven ashore. The American schooner Edith Emery has been lost at Port au Basque and the Canadian schooner Florence is ashore at Forte*a. The schooners Trefoil, Jsnet, Arethusle and a number of other Newfoundland vessels also have , been wrecked-