Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — ERA OF UNCERTAINTY [ARTICLE]

ERA OF UNCERTAINTY

BOOM IN TRADE SEEMS TO HANG FIRE. Twp Sunday Wfecka on the B. & O. and M;, K. & T-.' Result in Death and , Injury to Many— Holmes Convicted of Murder. ; - ~ ~ . Trade Is Waiting. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The rapid recovery in cotton, and the rise in sterling exchange to The Tpoinr~at the txL gold were made, have not increased confidence. There is a little better demand for most manufacturing products, and retail ’distribution is .fairly encouraging and of many works is less significant at .this season than it might be at others. It is a time of waiting, and uncertainty may naturally continue for zKjnteWffiks.” _ One of the most disastrous wrecks that ever occurred orrthe Baltimore and Ohio Road happened because of a broken'wheel at 10: o’clock -Sunday morning at Elm Grove,,a suburban station five miles east of Wheeling on the Wheeling and Pittsburg division. Mrs. Mirana Hare, of Kittanning, Pa., and Lawrence Bartley's infant son were killed. C. J. Garvey, an oil operator of Marietta, Ohio, and Ella Vance, of Wheeling will die. Thirtythree others were hurt. Three cars were smashed into kindling wood and the parlor car caught fife. The flames were extinguished, lidwevef, by two of the passengers - before they gained much headway. The railroad officials say the accident was one of those unaccountable occurrences that may come at any time. The broken wheel was given the usual test before the train left Pittsburg, and apjieared to be perfectly sound.

Holmes Found Guilty. H. H. Holmes was convicted at Philadelphia Saturday of the murder of Benjamin F. I’itzel. “This man of steel and heart of stone,” as the District Attorney described him to the jury, does not evince in the olighteot any sigiiti of breaking down, With death aetually before him now, he is the same cool ami callous Holmes. The prison regulations prevented any one from interviewing him Sunday, but a message was sent out that he slept well'and was feeling comfortable and still confident his innocence would yet be established. Extra care has been taken that the man shall not frustrate the efforts of the prosecution by committing suicide. A double guard has been placelUon his cell and will remain there until he has paid the penalty of his crime. Death of Lient. Prince. Lieut. Leonard M. Prince, Second TnJantry, U. S. A., died at the Presbyterian lospital, in Chicago, Friday morning, from injuries received in the famous army-navy football game at Annapolis, Md., in 1892. For three years his splendid physique and strong will have-bat-tled against the insidious attacks of disease resulting from the Occident which happened to him in that game, but his injuries werejof_.such a serious nature death was merely a question of time. Express .Train DitchcdL By the wreck of .the north-bound passenger Jrain on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road Sunday near Waxahachie, Texas, Mike Murphy, the engineer, was killed. In addition twentytwo people were injured, thirteen of them more or less seriously. Five coaches were derailed and two turned completely over by an epon switch.