The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-06

Charleston, South Carolina, is ener- getically pushing the project of holding a great industrial exposition there next year.
 The Hague conference occurred six months ago and since then the building of war ships is going on at an extra { ordinary pace.
 The herring fishery has been con- plete failure at St. Johns, N. F. Thirty vessels have returned home without cargoes.
 In about two months the rainy season in the Philippines comes again, and enquiries concerning Aguinaldo will soon become urgent
 The boom in cotton continued yester- day with the excitement greater than at any time during the current move ment toward higher prices.
 Though Russia is one of the greatest lumber producing countries in the world considerable quantities of finer wood, such as cabinet work woods. rose wood, mahogany, etc., are imported ev- cry year.
 According to London journal the number of stamps now current in the world is 13,S11. England has 131, her colonies 3,S43. The United States has 26s different kinds, the republic of Sal vador PIP,
 According to the statement of stamp receipts, the production of paper cigar cites in the Second and Third Internal Revenue Districts of New York is ing creasing, 21S,599, ,O27 having been manu- factured thus far this year, as against 99, ,354,746 in the first two months of ullas. year.
 
 \ The Iron Age has issued a summary of the consultations in the iron and steel trade which is nearly up to date and complete. It seems that 358 manu- facturers of iron and steel have united into twenty eight combinations having in the aggregate $99S ,3OO,OOO of author ized capital, more than half of which has been issued.
 The Sugar trust broke the record yes terday by not paying it's usual dividend. The cry of wolf at last proved cor rect. Now the alleged willy ones are propEesying that before the dividend declaration time occurs the sugar war will have ended Equally competent authorities claim that the Sugar trusts days of power and fireworks are over. Exports of steel rails from the United States last January, shown in the cur rent Bureau report were greater by B. 144 tons than in 1899. Steel-rod exports increased 1,o47,000 pounds. structural iron and steel 5,597 tons. On the other hand, exports of steel billets decreased 5,22S tons from last year; of steel sheets and plates, Ss124,0oO pounds, and of wire, 29S5,000 pounds.
 Japan, like other gold standard na- tions, finds the gold standard of enor- nous benefit to the country A report Just issued by the Japanese government says that by the adoption of the stan- dard "our currency has been freed from constant fluctuations in exchange rates, business transactions have been made safe, prices have become more stable and trade operations based on credit are more extensive than ever before."
 Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, president of Northwestern university, is reported missing but his friends do not feel wor- ried Northwestern needs the small sum of $3,OOO,o0O. There are millionaires in this country, and Dr. Rogers is suave, persuasive gentleman. Presently from some palatial home there will arise a cry of woe--the bitter wall of cor nered rich man-and then back to Evanston will come Dr. Rogers bearing the s3,000,000 in a carpet-sack. That Is, provided the eminent Evanstouiau Is Us clever genius as is Dr. Harper, Chica- go's own scientist and handler of Rock efeller.-Chicago News. The preliminary figures of the newly l completed census of Cuba and Porto | Rico show total population for Cuba 1 of 1,572,S45, loss from 1887 of 5S,S42. | The population of Porto Rico is 957,000, l which is an increase of 1900 over the | census of 1887. The largest Cuban pro- | vince is Havana, which has 424,S11 in- i