Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — Jealous of American Trade. [ARTICLE]

Jealous of American Trade.

A British corporation has arranged to start a shoe factory at Galashield, Scotland, capable of turning out 20,000 pairs of shoes weekly, and Consul Fleming at Edinburgh says this is the beginning of an attempt to compete with America in shoemaking. Benedict P. Robson died at Little Rock, Ark., of Bright’s disease, aged G 5 years. For many years the deceased was employed in an official capacity on various railroads and was well known in railroad circles. He gained national prominence in 1894 through his leadership of the great Missouri Pacific strike. The khedive of Egypt will refuse to allow his brother, Mehemet Ali Pasha, to marry an American, in view of the fact that the child to which the khedivah recently gave birth is a girt and Mehemet Ali is still the heir presumptive.