Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

Advices from Mukden give official statistics cf plague cases in that city and other parts of Manchuria. The total number of cases in Mukden up to Feb. 14 was reported as 1,043, but the figures are regarded as incomplete The total number of deaths up to Feb. 'lB was given as 1,028; The population of Mukden is about 180,000 The total number of deaths In Manchuria up to Feb. 15 was given as 12,* 083, but this is probably only a rough estimate and does not in any case include the deaths in the towns along the Russian and Japanese railways, which probably amount to as many more. The plague has appeared at nearly every town along the rail’’ vy from Chang Chun west to Chinchju and south to Liaoyang At Pottsville, Pa., a most remarkable display of nerve was made in the county jail yard by Joseph Chrstock, who was hanged for the murder of Mrs. Ann Richards early last fall Declining the proffered assistance of a priest and deputy sheriff, the man walked smilingly from his cell to the gallows and ran lightly up the steps It was a public hanging, and bes re him stood 1,500 persons, to whom he waved his hand. Then he reached up, | grasped the noose and placed it ab> ut ; his neck, put his arms by his side to be strapped, and smilingly said : “G< rd by all.” The man held his head in position for the adjustment of the black i cap and in another moment the trap was sprung. He was dead in twelve minutes

The Spanish cabinet headed by Premier Cahalejas has resigned. Canalejas, in forcing religious reforms, encourtered the bitter opposition of the Reman Catholics, and his course resulted in a practical suspension of diplomatic relations between the government and the vaticaa. The premier has, hewerer, been credited with the support of King Alfonso, and his bill of associations, aimed to regulate the religious and other societies, which he refused to submit first to the Vatican, was approved unanimously by the cabinet last Tuesday and was to be introduced in the cortes April 6 George W. Rue, well known citizen of Hamilton, O„ ard one of the noted veterans of the Civil war, is dead. He was born in Harrodsburg. Ky., June 18. 1828. In 1846 he joined the Second Kentucky infantry, serving one year. During the Civil war he rose to the rank of major in the Ninth Kentucky cavalry It was while with this body that Major Rue captured the famous cavalry leader. General John Morgan, near New Waterford, where a year ago a monument was erected to mark the spot of the surrender. Anxiety is felt concerning the position of Fez Since the defeat of the sultan’s troops by the rebellious tribesmen on March 26 the sultan has been a practical prisoner, and his brother, Mulai Ismail, has been repeatedly proclaimed the ruler of all Morocco. The latest news is to the effect that the victorious tribesmen surround the city. If the place is completely besieged it must soon surrender on account of the lack of food and the scarcity of water. The means of resistance. too, are slight. "When Cuba’s congress convened In Havana the message of President Gomez was read in both houses. It congratulates the republic on the unexampled prosperity of the country and on the reign of peace and order. The president points out that the sugar crop is good in spite of the lack of rain and that the national debt has been reduced by $3,465,000 in the last two years. A May-day strike for the eighthour day in years, is the plan of the leaders of the union machinists. It is scheduled to take in all union machinists throughout the United States. A general strike of the International association would be felt in every manufacturing section of the country. It would involve more than 100,000 machinists. A bomb was exploded almost under the coattails of a New York policeman. The officer was standing at the doorway of a tenement house in First avenue. The bomb was in a cellarway not a rod from his feet He was uninjured, although the front of the building was damaged and dcors and windows were blown in.

Colonel Roosevelt went to Portland, Ore., from Sacramento, Cal. .He stopped at Salem, the capital, long enough to say that Jacob Riis was about the best man in New York and got to Portland in time to lay a corner stone for the new Multonomah Amateur Athletic Club building. Reports of new gold fields in the Keekeek district of Quebec, are startling the camp at Cobalt. Ont., and hundreds of miners are planning for a rush into the new Quebec territory, where many claims have already been staked out. The rain in Mobile, Ala., amounted to 8.91 inches within twenty-four hours,* and 8.50 inches fell from 8 p. m. to 4 a. m., an average »of over an inch an hour for the eight hours. Governor Dix of New York vetoed a bill appropriating $50,000 for the promotion of the success of the national G. A. R. encampment to be held in Rochester in August next. William Waldorf Astor who owns the Pall Mall Gazatte in London, has bought the Conservative Sunday newspaper, The Observer, from Lord Northcliffe. Robbers blew open the postoffice safe at Lena, Ind., and obtained S7O in money and about SSO worth of stamps Henry Bacon Lovering, prominent In Democratic politics, died at Wakefield, Mass., aged seventy. - -