Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — A PLUCKED PARDRIDGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A PLUCKED PARDRIDGE.

A Famous Chicago Plunger Squeezed Hard. The bull clique in the Chicago wheat market were after big game, Tuesday.and tney bagged some of it. The famous plunger, Edward Pardridge, seemed to be the person aimed at, and he was crowded unmercifully. Pardridge was found ton slow to respond to calls for margins, which brokers with whom he had deals showered

upon him, and forthwith the broken bought in a lot of Pardridge’s wheat in the pit. The scene in the pit was very wild, while the brokers were buying Id the big plunger’s wheat. John Cudahy Is the ostensible head of the bull clique. Pardridge sent an embassador to him to his office suing for terms. He was accorded a settlement on from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 bushels of May wheat, it is said, at 87 cents per bushel, which settlement it is thought leaves Pardrldgo a poorer man by about $760,000 than he was before.