Middletown transcript., 1899-08-26
CURRENT EVENTS.

1t is reported that Hon. Thomas B. Reed
may remain in Congress, although he has
associated himself with law firm in New
York.
By direction of the President an order
has been issued for the organization of ten
additional volunteer regiments for service
in the Philippines.
The War Department has decided to con-
tinue enlistments up to the limit Of $1,000
men, the strength of the volunteer force
authorized by Congress for service in the
Philippines.
This years production of corn in Kansas
and Nebraska will break all previous record.
These States will raise between them about
575. 000, 900 bushels, or more than % per
cent. of the total yield of the country.
This nation must sooner or later turn it's
thought seriously to the problem of road
building. The antiquated and stupid meth
DDS which now prevail will no longer do.
Those who undertake to build our roads
must have the necessary understanding of
the work before them. The primitive plan
of having the farmer work out his tax by
doing his share of work for which he has
as little fitness as he has for doing any other
form of skilled labor outside of his own
calling must give way.
Every year 25O,0OO, 900 tons of cornstalks
go to waste in this country, but this is to
be so no longer. It is estimated that newly
devised methods of utilizing corn stalks
will give this hitherto unused crop value
of $500, 100000 year. Six commodities
are now made of cornstalks, viz: Cellulose,
worth $4O0 ton, used by the Government
as an automatic hole-stopper for battle
ships: excellent cardboard, a fine grade of
paper, and unequaled foundation for dynar
mite, patent cattle food and q superior
glue.
The people of the United States consume
81 600, 900 pounds of almonds every year.
The greater number are used in the manu-
facture of perfumery, soap and favoring
extracts. The amount consumed on the
table is comparatively small. California !
last year furnished IA 900 900 pounds, 4,5OO,- |
700 pounds came from Spain, 1,500, 700
pounds from Italy and a considerable
quantity from Greece and Portugal. At the
Iame time we used about Il, ,000, 900 pounds
If cocoanuts, of which about 100000
pounds were produced in Florida. The
were imported from the West
india Islands.
1t becomes apparent that Admiral Dewey
Ioes not propose to be hauled about the
country and exhibited as a sea lion. He
las accepted. the invitation extended by
he city of New York, and also the one to
be sword presentation and other cere-
Monies at Washington, but he declines to
-isit Chicago, saying that he will makes
'isit to his old home in Vermont after the
Tew York demonstration. His declination
f the invitation to visit Chicago is keen
to the people of that wide
wake and progressive city of the West,
ut they may, in few weeks after his ar.
ival, be able to induce him to reconsider
lis present determination and spend sew.
raj days with them.
The report of Pension Commissioner
Ivans for the fiscal year shows disburse- .
nents on the decrease and balance in the ,
of 81, 1888. from the amount
ct apart for that purpose. The total num-
er of pensioners on the roll is 991, ,519. q
ecrease of 2,195. There were 1891
ames added to the roll and 49, 1856 dropped.
he report shows the pension roll is decreas.
,g. Ofthose dropped, 81 ,345 were because
I death and s,s41 because of remarriage,
minors attaining their majority, failure to
aim pensions and other causes. One of
ne most gratifying results of the report is
1at 63 dishonorable attorneys were dis
AIRED, 10 suspended and 2dropped. Total
umber disbarred, 1,163. Since reform has !
cen inaugruated on general principles it
reasonable to expect that other reforms G
ill follow and the list continue to be d
runed of its dead wood. r
The Mazet Investigating Committee in 7
ew York, revealed the fact that eternal {
igilance is the price of freedom from crime n
hose exposed are the same as have been q
nearthed in the past. In 's5 it was shown :,
lat the city had been robbed of vast sums
money by what was known as the 1893
der business. The law says all work
sting $1,000 or over shall be done by con-
act by the lowest bidder. Tammany would o
vads the law by giving favored politician {,
! order for $999 worth of work. In this a
ay q 800 600 job would be cut up in such g
way that the city would be feeced of
lst amounts and millions of dollars ex-
,nded without a contract and but little Vi
ork to show for it, and in this way large "
ms of money would be turned into the
smocratic treasury and pockets of the II
'sses. The practice became so outrageous "
at honorable citizens of its own party u
owned upon it, notwithstanding VIM. c. n
hitney, then corporation counsel said
ese 1893 orders were legal. Wholesale :
followed at that time, but
re soon forgotten. as we see the Mazet
reveals the same dirty work, it |
ing on under the eye of Mayor VanWyck.
, is mere tool in the hands of corrupt
sses. Baltimore at one time while In the
ntrol of the corrupt ring, was in many
lys following in the footsteps of Tam
my. though in smaller way.
Remarkable Rescue
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfeld, ILL.,,
lkes the statement, that she caught cold,
lich settled on her lungs: aha WAS treated | !