Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — GOLDEN’S GOLD GONE. [ARTICLE]

GOLDEN’S GOLD GONE.

THE ACTOR TAKES THE POOR DEBTOR’S OATH. t Milwaukee Loses a Million by Fire 'Reported Massacre in China—Tide of Business Steadily Rising Fast Time on the Wheel. Mnst Have Had a Good Time Abroad. Richard Golden, the aetor, took she poor debtor’s oath before Judge Forsaith in the municipal court at Boston, Mass. The Springer Lithographic Company of New York has sued Golden for $3,500 for a balance alleged to be due on a contract made in 1890 for posters furnished the “Jed Prouty” company. It developed that last season the gross receipts on the “Jed Prouty” company were $30,000, of which 65 per cent fell to Golden. He accounted for the loss of a good portion-of this by a trip to Europe. Many Missionaries Killed. A London cablegram says: A special dispatch from Shanghai, says that it is almost certain that a massacre of all the persons connected with the English, French and American missions at Chengte has occurred. Neithei men, women nor children have been spared. It is admitted that telegrams have been intercepted by the Government, the object being to conceal the news of the massacre. A French gunboat is en route to Woenchang to investigate the report. Chengte is situated in the province of Pe Chi Li, 100 miles northeast of Pekin. The people composing the population of the city are of a low order. The fact that Chengte is so near Pekin, the seat of the Chinese Government, makes the outrage all the more flagrant. When the news of the massacre arrived in Shanghai a French gunboat was promptly ordered to Wreng Cheng to investigate. There are several English warships here, but noue has been ordered north. The Americans and English will, however, make a thorough investigatiofi. ,

Boom in All Lines, R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The tide of business is rising, even as it was falling just two years ago, with surprising rapidity. The gain has gone so far and so fast in some branches that the more conservative fear It may not be maintained. But the period of dullness which comes in each market after an unusual rise brfilgs as yet nothing like a corresponding decline. Industries gain much, halt or fail back a little and then gain once more. The demand for consumption steadily increases as the employment and wages of the people increase. Demand for money expands, one bank reporting 29 per cent larger in the discounts for the country nnd another 23 per cent more commercial loans than a year ago, and all but two report some gain. The serious question remains whether the crop will be full enough to sustain a large business, but the worst reports to-day are better by far than the estimates recently current.” Relay Race Breaks All Records. The great relay bicycle race of the red and blue between Chicago and New York was finished at 1:56 o’clock Saturday morning. The actual time of the race was (55 hours and 53 They broke all American records for a relay race. The start was at Chicago at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. The race was organized practically by Gen. Nelson A. Miles to demonstrate the effectiveness of bicycles in military service. The “blue” riders represent the military, the “red” the postal serviee. The red message was followed at 2:359 a. m. by the blue message. Lumber Yards Ablaze. Fire early Monday morning in the center of the Milwaukee, Wis., lumber and tannery district, and only eight blocks from the business center of the city, did $750,000 damage. At 3 o’clock the flames were under control. Foster’s and Uhrig’s lumber yards, Gallun’s tannery, the steambarge Raleigh and the steambarge Lucy Graham were destroyed. The Sehlitz brewery had a narrow escape from being burned. Other shipping was damaged, as was considerable other property in the neighborhood.