Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — A FLURRY IN CORN. [ARTICLE]

A FLURRY IN CORN.

The Chicago Board of Trade was the -cene of a wild buying panic, Tuesday, :orn shooting at a dizzy gait, and carrying wheat with it. The drought imthc corn pelt was unchecked, the Weather Bureau showing no signs of relief from the blistering winds that are sweeping over Western corn fields, withering the growth and destroying the crop, and excited brokers Clustered about the corn-pit eager to buy. At the Up of the bell, a wild struggle for holdings began. Shorts were frantic, and at every jump in the price, with its consequent losses to them, fought more fiercely for cover. Before 10 o’clock corn had gone up 7 cents in the long, a sensational jump, and wheat,- with its heavy load of bearish influences, had struggled up 2% cents. . The annual session Grand Council Patriarchs Militant I. O. O. F. was held at Elwood Aug. 6 and 7. It was decided to attend the meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Chattanooga In September as a department. Gen. W. W. Canada, ol Winchester, was elected department commander for the ensuing year. The oldest man In Rush county is Jacob > Daubenspeck, who resides with a son neai Glenwood. He was born in 1797 in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and he settled in Rush county in 1827. He Is still a robust man, weighing over two hundred poundJ and physically and mentally active.