Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

The United States Leather Company, knoAvn as the leather trust, has shut down the 100 taneries under .its- control forsixty days. - Miss Florence Wickes, daughter of the vice president of the Pullman company, ,has quarreled with Miss Wallis, the star of the company with which she is play-, ing. aird has resigned. - Richard Mansfield, who has just recovered from a severe attack ot typhoid fever, finds that as a result of his illness he has forgotten the liues-of all the plavs in his repertory and°will have to learn themall ovet figaln. J ~TTreTeco^Tfiarof = trtfryTrnd'®BHfts s ' . Hyansi for the murder of Wells, the first trial having ended in a disagreement, opened at Toronto. It is rumored that the Washington authorities have applied, through Sir Julian Pauncefotp, the British ambassador, for the release of the twin prisoners oh the ground that the weight of evidence is in favor of their acquittal—that eleven jurors to one were in favor of a verdict of “not guilty,” and and that {he lives of two men who were practically declared innocent should not be imperiled by a second-trial. The series of smuggling cases agaiqst lending St. Johns, N. F., liquor dealers charged with buying smuggled liquor, ' l- nowlng Ittfj concluded;-, The-judge found the five prisoners guilty, and sentenced them to terms of imprisonment of from twenty to forty days each, -together-with -fines offrcmL4WQlfl_s2oo- - All the eases were appealed to the Supreme Court. The most prominent of those connected is Michael Tobin, one of the Whitewayite members of the assembi y for Placentia dis trict, and the go ver-. nor of the savings bank. The others are also strong supporters of the WhiteAvayite- government.

The International Nnvgation Company has libeled (he- Netherla-mls Americ.'in "fcgßSvgtQn m sh ip Obdrtßt.vdTielrAvast owed" into Halifax with her shaft broken -general opinion of shipping men that the case is owe in which unusually meritorious services were rendered, as the vessel' would have been driven ashore on Sable Island and become a total loss during the storm of the following night had she not been fallen in with by the fennland. A strange coincidence is that just six yours ago the I’ennland was towed into Halifax under similar conditions by one of the steamships of, the Netherlands-Amer-ican Line. Five more of the whaling fleet arrived at San Francisco from the north Tuesday; They were the-steamers Narwhal and Orca, the brig Hidalgo and the barks Alice Knowles and Lydia. With the arrival of the Orca, the last hope of a catch in the late season dies. The losario brought news that the whalers had gone to the westward and there was yet a chance for the blubber hunters to redeem themselves. According to Captain McGregor there were any number of whales to the westward, but they were inaccessible -on accountof the ice. McGregor say s this ends the worst year he ever experienced in the Arctic. He caught but one whale. The catch of the Arctic fleet amounted in all to twenty-six whales, the smallest known in. many years. The yield of bone from the catch will be about 40,000 pounds, which means that whalebone will be high this year. Bone is now selling for $2.75 a pound, and it is estimated that the price will be advanced to $5 before the sale begins. “Shoe leather will be dearer than car fare soon if the leather trust has its own way-,” said a Chicago shoe dealer Thursday. But whether the leather trust will have its own way or not is another matter. From Maine to California a howl goes up from shoe_dealers, shoe manufaetlirers and shoe wearers against the machinations of the trust. It is even whispered that echoes of this how; Will be heard before long in courts of law, wlu>re trusts are supposed to be nonexistent, or at least where any trust is liable to be flayed alive if caught in the act of being a trust. The leather trust, in its own quiet, unobtrusive way, has been doing business ever since May 1, 1893, steeping hides in pickling vats, shoveling bark on top of them, scraping the skins, drying them and finally distributing them all over the world for anybody who had the price to walk over them. When the trust was organized there were twen-ty-nine firms doing business as tanners, where now there is but one.