Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — PRICES ARE SOARING. [ARTICLE]

PRICES ARE SOARING.

MENACE TO FUTURE PROSPER-' ~ ITt OF TRADE. Knights of Pythias in a Wreck— Strange Adventure of a BalloonistSensation in a Ohio, Church —Liberty Bell to GO South. Rise May Go Too Far. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Improvement in markets' and I>riees continues, and whereas a few months ago everybody was nursing the fain.test hopes of recovery, it has now come to be the only question in what branches, if any, the rise in prices and the increase of business may go too far. A strong conservative feeling is finding expression not yet controlling the markets or industries, -but warning against too rapid expansion and rise. In some directions the advance in prices clearly checks future business, but encouraging features have great power.” Exports of gold continue, but are met by syndicate deposits and are expected to cease soon. ..Anxieties about the monetary future no longer hinder. Crop prospects, except for cotton, have somewhat improved. Important steps towards the reorganization of great railroads give hope to investors. Labor troubles are for the moment less threatening, and some of importance have been definitely settled. The industrials •are not.only doing better than anybody, .had expected, but are counting upon a great business for the rest of the year. R. L Atten Attempts R. T. Allen, of Omaha, Neb., shot himself on a New York Contrail train a few miles out of Buffalo. He was traveling from New Jersey en route to Omaha. The startled passengers, hearing the pistol shot, found Allen weltering in his blood. Tie - was taken”to The Buffalo~accident~ hospital, where it is said he will recover. No explanation other than temporary insanity can be givens Allien and his wife recently went East to place their daughterin’ the New York Conservatory of Music. They afterward went to Lindenhurst, N. J., where he temporarily acted ZBlTorgaiiist in one of the churches. Mrs. Allen is still at Lindenhurst.

Aeronaut Charged by a Mad Bull. The thousands of people at the Blanchester, 0., fair missed the best part of the balloon ascension. Pbjf. Tolbert, the aeronaut, had a narrow escape from being gored by a bull in the field in which he descended with his parachute. The beast descried his red tights and the paraohute before he readied the ground. As soon as the professor alighted the bull charged him. Tolbert flew for his life, and scrambled over the fence just in time to escape the horns of the bull. The aeronaut says he was never worse frightened in his life. Elopes with His Alto, the Rev. John W. Shorten, pastor of the M. E. Cliuch at Mason, Ohio, and Miss Geyer, 16, who sang alto in the choir, are missing. A year ago the Rev. Mr. Shorten was taken to task by the church officials for paying too much attention to Miss Geyer. He became indignant and 'said Ids visits had been simply to give instruction. The matter was dropped. Recently he acquired a good deal of notoriety by preaching a sermon advocating bloomers and baseball and inviting the home foam to attend in their uniforms.

Two Killed in a Wreck In Georgia. An excursion train on the Southern railway carrying the Knights of Pythias excursion from Macon, Ga., to Indian Springs for a picnic left the track between Holton and Pope’3 Ferry. The baggage car and "two" passenger coaches turned over. The killed are: Mrs. Hancock, Americus, Ga.; T. A. Kennedy, Macon, Ga, Almost eveYy person in the two coaches was hurt more or less seriously. Several of them are likely to die. There is no way of accounting for the accident, as it is said the track was in perfect condition. Liberty Bell Can Go to Atlanta. The city of Philadelphia received judicial consent to send the old Liberty Bell to the Atlanta Exposition. President Judge Thayer, of the Common Pleas Court, delivered a decision dismissing the bill in equity recently filed by a number of prominent citizens. In this an injunction was asked to prevent the proposed trip on the grounds, among others, that it would be putting the bell to other than its proper and legitimate uses. Judge Thayer in dismissing the bill characterized this proposition iy* preposterous. Valuable Cargo from Alaska. The steamer Beitha, Capt. Hays, arrived at San Francisco from Ounalaska and Bering Sen, bringing one of the most valuable cargoes that ever came into harbor. It is composed of sealskins, furs, whalebone, and gold dust, and it is estimated to be worth $1,000,000. The passengers report the almost utter failure of the whaling fieet.