Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — America Gets Danish Isles. [ARTICLE]

America Gets Danish Isles.

It is reported at Copenhagen that negotiations have been concluded with the United States by which the latter acquire the Danish West Indies. The purchase price agreed upon is $4,000,000. The Danes will trade under the same tariff as the Americans. “The United States government is trying to persuade Portugal,” says the Lisbon correspondent of the Morning Leader, “to cede an island in the Azores for a coaling station.”