p. 14 | Domestic | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

Domestic

Domestic.—In the recent elections in Alaska, not a single town voted for prohibition. At Skagway the vote stood 460 for license and 68 against; at Juneau the vote was 401 to 40. Applications for saloon and brewery licenses are coming into the district court without protest from any quarter..... President McKinley has decided to enlist the full quota of the provisional army (35,000) allowed by law, thus increasing the whole military force to 100,000 men. This decision is based on the demand for more troops in the Philippines, where it is expected that 60,000 will be in the field by the close of the rainy season—the end of September..... The American proposition concerning the Alaskan boundary has been met by a counter proposal on the part of Canada, which bids fair to postpone a settlement for a long time..... A fight between white and colored miners, near Cardiff, Jefferson County, Ala., June 27, resulted in the death of three negroes and the serious wounding of two other participants..... Of the soldiers that left San Francisco on the Zealandia, June 22, for Manila, four companies were colored troops of the Twenty-fourth Infantry..... The anti-trust conference of governors and attorneys-general, proposed by Governor Sayers, of Texas, to be held at St. Louis, Mo., promises to be fairly well attended. Nineteen governors have promised to attend, and others will, if possible..... Treasury bureau statistics state that the exports of manufactures from the United States for the fiscal year just closed have averaged more than $1,000,000 for each business day, and for the first time in our history have exceeded the importations..... The Carnegie Company, of Pittsburg, has contracted to furnish the Russian Government with 180,000 tons of steel rails. The contract amounts to about $4,500,000. This amount of rails will lay from 1,300 to 1,600 miles of track, according to weight of rails. It is also stated that a representative of the Russian Government is likely to place a large order for ordnance with the American Ordnance Company, of Bridgeport, Conn..... A Washington despatch says: “The President has ordered that no copies of the complete report of the beef court of inquiry be printed at the Government Printing Office. Hitherto nothing but a synopsis has been published. The German embassador asked for ten copies to send to his government. The President saw that the report would be used to the detriment of the commercial interests of the United States, hence his order.”..... It is reported that the government is testing a new shell of very high explosive power at Sandy Hook, and that so far results have been quite satisfactory. It is claimed that it can be exploded at ordinary artillery range, and that its effect is most deadly. The government has guarded the secret of the new missile and expects to use it in the Philippine campaign..... Dr. Stone, formerly of San Francisco, writes from the Kotzebue country, in Alaska, that 1,500 men, who were attracted to that region by the glowing circulars of transportation companies, have found nothing but hardship and suffering. All the stories of gold discoveries were wholesale fabrications. Very few of these victims have the means to get back home, even if they had the opportunity, unless the government sends for them. Dr. Stone adds that “one-half of the terrible suffering of the people in this district has not been told.”..... U. S. Marshal Shoup, of Alaska, will investigate the cause of the death of eighteen passengers and crew of the steamer Jessie, who either perished in the wreck of the vessel or were massacred by Indians a year ago, on the Kuskokwim River.