Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — Failure on ’Change. [ARTICLE]

Failure on ’Change.

Barrett, Farnum & .Co. failed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade after a desperate effort to recoup losses sustained in a disastrous bear campaign. The losses are estimated between SAO,000 and SIOO,OOO, while the books of the Insolvent commission firm are expected to show a short account of 5,000,000 bushels of wheat ' #> Pete Haddox, Henry Fenick and John Alien, negroes,, Bowling Green, Ky., charged with the murder of Sam Gordon, white, were given twenty-one years each by .the Jury. .■ ' ” ' t ’, ~ '