Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — TRADE FOR THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

TRADE FOR THE WEEK

DUN'S REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL MARKETS. Story of the Extremes of HeaL aw Cold—Nashville Woman Bieate Escape Starvation Lieutenant Peary Has Returned. No Rise for Wheat. R.G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “In spite of gold exports wheat advanced for some days, in aU nearly 2 ceat6.inainly because a single speculator bought. Corn rose and fell in sympathy with as little reason. Good reports of foreign crops, weakness of flour in Minnesota, and large exports of corn from this country all work against a rise in wheat, though scarcity of contract grades may help a speculative advance. Pork products have been reasonably yielding, with prospects of a large crop,-but before the close had a stronger tone. The cotton market, lifting apd falling a fraction each day alternatclyT shows no settled tendency. The surprising increase in production and advance in prices of iron seem to be bringing a natural check, as prices have gone so high as to cause some purchases from Europe, both "of pig and finished products, and have also caused a distipet shrinkage in home demand.” j Pitiful Story Revealed by Arrest. Mrs. Nellie Reach, a white woman, was arrested at Nashville, Tenn., and locked up for breaking into a house and stealing a watch. The story is a pitiful one. Some months ago she and her husband, with an infant child, went to the city from thA country. - They failed to get work and they were in a starving condition. Made desperate by hunger she entered her neighbor’s house and took a watch, which she pawned for a pittance and bought food; She acknowledged the deed, and it is thought she will not be prosecuted. Three Deaths from Heat. Three deaths from heat were reported at Chicago Friday and several prostrations. The day was one of terrific heat throughout all the middle Northwest, at the same time snow was falling in Montana. In. tha.corn.helt.ripening.progressed phenomenally rapid; but pastures and stock suffered. p—- ... Hot Spell Broken. The extreme heat which for two weeks had scorched a wide area was dispelled Sunday night by a gale which swooped out of the West. The change was phenomenal. Within an hour the mercury dropped from 90 to 70. By morning it registered 52. Drown In the Lake. At Chicago, Sunday night, Robert Becker, Otto Sehweiger, Arthur Huber, William Elliott and Geo. Emdel, the two latter boys, were drowned while bathing.