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Vol. IV.—No. 19.
Thurber, Texas: Saturday, November 25, 1899. Whole No. 175.
GENERAL FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS NOTES
$382,000 is the amount asked by Admiral Dewey and his men
for the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay.
When the Kentucky politicians stop bluffing and begin shoot-
ing will be time enough for other men to take to the woods.
General Otis has doubtless been pleased to observe that all
the British war news from South Africa is carefully censored.
Chicago contractors and architects have begun a fight to
break up all existing labor unio s. A rather big contract, that.
There is a suspicion that some Kentuckians have mistaken
powder flasks for the other kind of flasks and have wet their
powder.
Those who enjoy studying out complicated puzzles should
try to keep track of the revolutions and counter revolutions in
Venezuela.
The rumor of an impending war between Russia and Japan
hangs on with persistency worthy of fact, notwithstanding of-
ficial denials.
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Rear Admiral Philip's attempt to make Bible study a feat-
ure at the Annapolis Naval Academy will be watched with in-
terest by many.
If Tom Reed gets along in the New York flat into which he
has moved his family, it will be a joke on the writers of the dim-
inutive flat jokes.
Political stars are not the only kind which have fallen this
month, but the fall of the meteors, or shooting stars, was a much
more interesting sight.
The second annual meeting of the Postmasters' Association,
at which all the first-class postoffices wer.e represented, as been
pulled off in Washington.
If Congressman-Elect Roberts of Utah is not already con-
vinced that the fight against him is a determined one, he will be
soon after Congress assembles.
The only sure way for the United States to keep "open
door" in China is to be always prepared to open it by force, if
any Government desires to close it.
For the benefit of our foreign readers it may be mentioned
that "the count in Kentucky," so often spoken of in the
newspapers, is not a titled foreigner.
One peculiarity of the election returns is that politicians of
all parties can always find encouragement in them, no matter
how jug-handled they appear to others.
There is to be another trust conference held in Chicago in
January. Somebody will be charging the railroads and the Chi-
cago hotels with arranging these affairs if they are held so close
together.
If the talked-of ship building trust materializes, Congress
can easily head off its attempt to control the construction of our
warships by providing for their construction in Uncle Sam's
Navy Yards.
What has the Czar of Russia done with all the gold he was
said to possess several years ago, when he offered to loan the
United States several hundred millions without security? He is
now said to be trying to negotiate a loan in Germany.
Whorever there is fighting you will find Americans. An
American commands a Boer regiment, and an American Lieuten-
ant of a British regiment, who was a great grandson of General
Zachary Taylor, was killed in one of the Boer attacks on Kim-
berly.
According to General Ludlow, 80 per cent of the Cubans are
illiterate, and land owners haven't the money to start industries
on a large scale, and it will be a long time before the Cubans are
fitted for self-government. That is a gloomy picture, but Gen-
eral Ludlow, as Military Governor of the City of Havana, has
had ample opportunity to know.
That was a remarkable demonstration of what a Mogul can
do that occurred on the New York Central a few days ago, when
engine No. 968, one of the new Moguls, hauled out train No. 11,
the Southwestern Limited, made up of two mail cars, five pass-
enger coaches and nine Wagner cars, sixteen cars in all. The
total weight of the train was 1,832,000 pounds, or 916 tons, and
the length of the train, including the engine, was 1212 feet, or
nearly a quarter of a mile. This engine made the running time
of the train between New York and Albany, 143 miles, in three
hours and fifteen minutes.
Richard Hillman of London, England, the accountant and
acting secretary of the Tropical Trading and Transportation
company, one of the divisions of the United Fruit company, is in
the United States on a mission that some day may concern the
Standard Oil trust to the extent of many millions of dollars. One
of the most eminent geological experts in England, Professor
Redwood, has discovered petroleum in the State of Vera Cruz,
Old Mexico, in fabulous proportions, so he believes, and Mr.
Hillman has gone to Vera Cruz as the representative of a strong
syndicate of Euglish bankers to superintend the operations of
opening some oil wells.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 19, Saturday, November 25, 1899, newspaper, November 25, 1899; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200533/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.