Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — DRUGGISTS IN LIMBO. [ARTICLE]

DRUGGISTS IN LIMBO.

MEN OF MORTAR AND PESTLE IN TROUBLE. Bell New-Yorkers a Fraudulent Preparation Awful Calamity Attends the Coronation Festivities at M oscow —Bast St Louis Appeals for Aid. _, . Nai'd Fifteen Hundred Druggists. An extensive raid is being made on New York druggists who are violating the United States patent laws by selling substitutes for phenacetine for the regular article. The heavy duty on the drug and the care smuggling fronirtsada has been prevented proved too great a temptation, and 1,500 druggists, sev-enty-five of whom are located in New York, succumbed to it. Cases are being brought against them in the United States courts. Dr. Cyrus Edson has brought two suits of $20,000 eaen against ten con-,, cerns at New Ydrk for ‘manufacturing and selling a sham aseptolin as a cure for consumption. Dr. Edson says instead of curing the disease it only tends to cause more suffering. Help Is Needed. East St. Louis has issued a. touching appeal for aid and the committee which prepared the manifesto estimated that 200 persons were killed and that the ninth ber of injured will foot up iu the thousands. It is known that a number of persons are still buried in the debris on the southwestern end of the island and in the ruins of the Hallesey Hotel, the Martell House, the Relay Retreat, and the Durant House. Street car traffic, telephone service,” and electric lighting facilities are entirely suspended. Men stand mute aud aghast at tie havoc that was wrought. All business is virtually suspended. Every one agrees that months will fail to reveal the extent of the tornado’s devastation in the Illinois town. From the surrounding country thousands of men, vfomen, and children flocked into the city to visit the scenes of ruin and death. Ail the Ixmdon papers have editorials or. the terrible disaster at St. Louis and all express their sympathy with the residents of that city. The Chronicle urges England to send some prompt and effective expression of sympathy. “It is quite certain,” says the English journal, "that if it had happened in England the sufferers would net wait long for sympathetic words or if necessary actions Sroni America.” Many Die in a Panic. One of the most terrible disasters that ever overtook the common jieople of Russia happened Saturday in Moscow, when over 1.000 persons were killed or received injuries from which they afterward died in a panic on Khodijnskoje plain, precipitated during festivities in honor of the coronation of the Czar. The official report places the number of dead at over 2,500. Most of these persons were instantly trampled to death, and "the spectacle presented. when the portion of the plain on which the stampede took place was cleaned of :the;SuryivorK was_sickeii.-.. Ing in the extreme. The crowd was awaiting the signal to dine at tables laid out of doors and the distribution of presents from the royal house when the disaster occurred. The immediate cause of it-was the pitching into the mid_st of-the douse throng assembled gifts, for which a wild scramble was made. The Czar has given orders that the sum of I.IXK) roubles be given to.each bereaved fiunily and that the victims be buried . iit.liis. ex-_ pease. standing of National Leacue. ’ Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cleveland ...20 11 Chicago 18 111 Baltimore .22.13 Washington .16 18 Cincinnati ..22 14 Brooklyn ....16 18 Philadelphia 22 14 New York... 14 21 Boston 20 14 St. Louis 11 24 Pittsburg . . .18 14 Louisville ... 8 27 Western League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Detroit 21 10 Indianapolis. 15 12 St. Paul 17 11 Minneapolis. 17 15 Kansas City.l7 13 Columbus ... 9 24 Milwaukee ..19 1J Grand' Rapids 7 23 The Business World. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Continued exports of gold, amounting to $3,900,000, are recognized as natural results of the borrowing and importing early in the year, but caused no serious-apprehension. There is a general conviction that destructive scheines will not succeed, although at present political uncertainties cause part of the business '-"Hurt niiytii bc dBM? time post pirovd nm-it the future is more clear. Markets for products are weak, rather than stagnant. The business -done. is. suiafi. but_.largely governed by the belief in large crops aud insufficient demand.”