Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — PANIC ON A STEAMED. [ARTICLE]

PANIC ON A STEAMED.

TOLEDO EXCURSIONISTS IN A COLLISION. Figures from Abroad on the Wheat Crop—Welcome Bain Vlsite a Wide Area—Rothschild’s Life AttemptedTwenty Gnns Bring Death. i_ Seven Badly Hnrt. About 9 o’clock Saturday evening the passenger steamer City of Toledo was returning to Toledo from her regular trip tor'-put-in-Bay and encountered the schooner Magdalen Dowling in tow of the tug Butler in the straight channel just off Presque Isle. As the City of Toledo was coming in she signaled to the schooner to take the port side. •’The signals were apparently understood, for the tug at once commenced to sheer off, but in doing so gave the schooner a momentum which carried-her onto a bank of mud just ns the steamer was abreast of her. She suddenly slid off the bank and veered into the City of Toledo, her jibboom striking the passenger steamer just forward of her gangway. About fifty feet of her upper works were torn away. As soon as the collision occurred a panic reigned on board, the men acting like insane persons, mist of them taking three or four life preservers and refusing to give them up. The officers used every endeavor to quiet the passengers, assuring them that there was no danger of the boat going down, and after a few minutes succeeded in restoring order. The schooner was pulled away from the wreck and the debris cleared away. It was found that seven persons had been seriously injured, while at least fifty rdbeived severe cuts and bruises. A great many of the people were sitting directly beneath the boom when it was pushed through the vessel

Dun’s Trade Review. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of irado says: The volume of business shrank, as is natural in August, and the shrinkage seems rather larger than usual, because transacting iu July were somewhat inflated for unit month. Some industries did more than ever before in August, and the prospect for fall trade is good in others, although much depends on the crops, and the outcome is less clear than speculators-on-eithcr side are-dis—-posed to admit. Industrial troubles have not entirely ceased, but have become much less threatening. Big Shortage in the Wheat Crop. The Hungarian Minister of Agriculture announces as a result data obtained from Consuls and specialists, that the World’s wheat crop for 1895 is as follows: The total production in countries which import wheat is estimated at 749,022,000 bushels. In countries which export the total production is 1,051,701,000 bushels. The Minister also amends the estimate of the crop of 1894 so as to make the total in that year 2,032,730,000 bushels, showing the crop of 1895 is 232,000,000 bushels less than that of 1894; Drought Broken by Heavy Rains. The drought in the Northwest, which was becoming serious, was broken Friday night by general rains. In Central and Western Illinois and in some portions of lowa crops were suffering severely for lack of rain. The corn crop of Central Illinois has been so much affected that it is doubtful if the rain will bring up the average to estimates of three weeks ago.

Three Die by Fire. The Air Line Hotel, at Air Line Junction, near Toledo, Ohio, burned late Friday night. Nearly all the guests escaped with only their nightclothes. Timothy McCarthy hailed from Hillsdale. He was taken from the building soon after tlie arrival of the department, badly burned, and died before reaching the ground. The names of the two others are not known. 'The loss will be $25,000. — Bows to UUclc Sam. It is s*mi-officially announced that the French Government has granted the request of United States Ambassador Eustis to allow a representative of tlie United States Embassy to visit John L. Waller iu his prison under the usual prison regulations. It is stated, however, no further steps can be taken until the papers in the case arrive.