Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — TRADE TAKES A REST. [ARTICLE]

TRADE TAKES A REST.

MIDSUMMER QUIET RULES IN COMMERCE. Enraged Italians Shoot Down NcSgro Miners—British Subjects Killed by Brutal Chinese—Tragedy at Washington. Cause of the Quiet. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “There is a perceptible halt which may deceive if attributed to wrong causes. Trade two months date in the spring pushed forward into July a large share of business belonging to April or May. . Seeing a rush of orders out of time, many imagined it would continue, and hurried to give other orders. The jam of two months’ business into one lifted prices —Then other orders came to * anticipate a further rise. But the midsummer halt was inevitable, and-it is yet somewhat uncertain how much improvement will appear after it. The crop of corn promises to be the largest ever grown, and is almost out of harm’s way The crop of wheat appears, perhaps 20,090,000 bushels less than was expected a month ago, and bad the best hopes been realized it would have been more than 100,000,000 bushels short of a full crop. Cotton has lost a little, and more people seem to believe in 7,500,000 bales than believed in 8,000,000 a month ago.”Carniyal of Blood. Fourteen negro miners fell victims to the fury of an Italian mob at Spring Valley, 111., Sunday. Three probably will die, and the result of the wounds of many of lire others is doubtful. Fully 1,000 Italian miners armed with all sorts of weapons and preceded by.a band of music marched on No. 3 location, where a colony of. negro miners and their families are domiciled. The mob was bent on revenging one of their countrymen, who had been killed in an altercation with some negroes. The negro colony was completely misled as to the intentions of the’mob on account of the band, and some of them flocked to see the supposed parade. They -fell—efisy and defenseless yietime-t<>-the-fury of the crowd.* It Was an attempted massacre, and in the anger of the foreigners no discrimination as to age or sex was made. The feeling of hatred which has existed toward the negroes ever since their importation during the strikp a year ago was fierce vent, and -it was with the ferocity of long-restrained malice that the mob leaped to its work. That dozens were not killed seems almost miraculous.

Missionaries Are Victims. ~A" "Shanghai dispatch’ to the London Times says that the mission and sanitariuth at Wha Sang, near Ku Cheng, Province of Fokein, was attacked and ten British subjects killed. The Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. Miss Yellow and Miss Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named Gordon, and Steetie Newcombe were murdered with spears and swords. Miss Codrington was seriously wounded about the head, and Stewart’s eldest child had a knee cap badly, in-. jured while the youngest had an eye gouged out. The Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Mabel C. Hartford, were both "wounded, but arrived safely at Fu Chau Fu. The Prefect of Cheng Fu, who was on the inquiry commission, is seriously irnplL cated in the Cheng Fu outrages. Mies Flagler Kills a Negro Thief, Miss Elizabeth Flagler, daughter of Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance of the army, and well known in Washington, D. C., army and social circles, shot and killed a 14-year-old negro boy named Ernest Green Friday yit her home iii the suburbs of the city. The Flaglers and other families in the vicinity have been annoyed greatly of late by boys stealing their fruit and damaging the trees of their gardens. Miss Flagler discovered young Green on the fence stealing fruit and fired at him from the second-story -window^—TJre~butlet entered "iris right breast and, passing through his body, inflicted a wound that caused death in a -short time. The coroner's jury exonerated Miss Flagler, and she was released. Reward for Thief, DeuJJ. or Alive. Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel Company, in Pittsburg, has developed a bloodthirsty quality of which he was never suspected. It all came about since he took to bicycling. This advertisement in the papers explains the case: “Twenty-five dollars reward— Stolen, from the corner Dithridge and Bayard streets, Victor bicycle No. 66,329, full nickle finish, 1894 model, raised handle bar, wood rims, two-inch tires, scorcher saddle, rat-trap pedals, toe clips, bell, and Spalding cyclometer; no brake; Pittsburg license No. 347. The above reward will be paid for wheel and thief, dead or alive. F. T. Lovejoy, 612 Carnegie Building.”