Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Sugar, Too, Goes Up. [ARTICLE]

Sugar, Too, Goes Up.

Sugar has joined the procession of products climbing upward. There is an advance of one-quarter cent a pound in refined sugars, and that is considered only a trifle as compared with upturns coming. Chicago appears to be the storm center, and the mails bring tons of envelopes into the wholesale houses from the wl<Te territory tributary to that market. Chicago is the largest distributing point to the retail trade in the country. Willett & Gray, of New York, wired the following to, fifnis there: “Uurope strong and advancing since morning.. All things considered we expect an advance of half a cent on refined before the culmination.” Faile Dead While Making; a Speech. Edward Burrough, State Road Commissioner of New Jersey, well known throughout the country to agriculturists, fell dead while delivering a speech at the reunion of the Twenty-third New Jersey regiment at Gen. Grubb’s residence at Philadelphia Friday afternoon. In concluding his speech, Mr. Burrough said: “I hope to meet you all beyond, where friends and enemies will gather in one grand reunion.” The words seemed to choke. Burrough clasped his hand to his head and fell over dead. He was a leading Republican cf New Jersey. Four Die in the Stotm. A death-laden cyclone Saturday afternoon struck the town of St. Charles, twelve miles south of Elgin, 111., leaving a corpse-strewn track. Four persons were killed, one person was fatally hurt and two victims received serious injuries. The dead are: Mrs. H'attie E. Church, aged 30; Charles N. Thompson, aged 28; Miss Augusta Anderson, aged 18; Charles Anderson. The injured: Miss Emma Johnson, fatally; Luke H. Caustin, dangerously; Andrew Johnson, severely.