Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — PRICES ON BICYCLES. [ARTICLE]

PRICES ON BICYCLES.

WILL BE NO LOWER THAN AT PRESENT. Corner on the Tubing Market Will Prevent Any Reduction Next Year— Japan Is Not Disgruntled Over Our Annexation of Hawaii. Bicycles Will Be No Cheaper. A special from New York says that bicycles are not likely to be any cheaper next year. Indeed, manufacturers may advance the prices, although the chances are that the various grades will remain at the same figures as they sold for in 1898. A corner is reported on the tubing market, and the price of tubing has been raised by the syndicate controlling a large quantity of the output. On ordinary wheels the advance is such as to be felt more by the maker than by the purchaser. It is not quite enough to bring about a radical advance in price, and yet sufficient to increase the cost of making a bicycle. The advance in tubing will hit the smaller manufacturers harder than the big concerns, and it is not improbable that some of the smaller makers will be crowded out of business. It is claimed they are responsible for cutting the price of bicycles, and this is to be their punishment. LOSS 18 CONFIRMED. Stickeen Chief Wrecked by Explosion and All on Board Lost. News has been received confirming the reported loss of the stern wheeler Stickeen Chief. A letter received from Juneau brings the confirmatory news and further said that the disaster was doubtless caused by an explosion, and that the crew and passengers, numbering forty-three persons, were undoubtedly lost. The Dora saved a dog which was floating on a piece of wreckage. THat it was an explosion that caused the loss is inferred by the Dora’s crew from the fact that most of the wreckage was broken into small bits. The wreck was found in latitude 38.38 uorth, Ibngitude 142.13 west. JAPAN SATISFIED. No Bitterneaa Over the Annexation of Hawaii. Minister Buck, at Tokyo, Japan, writes the Department of State at Washington that he has observed no dissatisfaction there in consequence of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States, since annexation has become accomplished. The Government and people alike seem to be satisfied that our Government will fully protect the rights and interests of Japan and of Japanese subjects in those islands. On the-part of the public press he has known of no unkind expressions because of the United States annexing these islands. Carterville, Hl., Is in Ashes. The citizens of Carterville, 111., were aroused the other morning by the fire alarm to find their much-prized city in a blaze. The fire originated in the rear of Lauder's saloon, and all of the buildings from the railroad to Eiles’ store were completely destroyed, with the exception of Hampton’s drug store. The 1 >ss is estimated at $250,000. Dynamite Wrecks a Car. An electric car, carrying fifty passengers, was wrecked at Indianapolis, Ind., by the explosion ,of a dynamite stick which had been placed in the curve groove. No one was injured, but several women fainted. The force of the explosion tore a great hole in the one-eighth-inch sheet-iron bottom of the car. Its Assets Are Small. A bank at New Richland, Minn.,, failed, claiming that the cause of thsir failure was the fact that the Fillmore County Bank had SIO,OOO of their money to loan for them. The liabilities are increasing all the time, now footing up to SBO,OOO, with but $75 cash and $250 in small notes as assets. Bailey Is Renominated. Congressman J. W. Bailey was unanimously renominated at Sherman, Texas, oil a platform which declares that the State convention has no right to instruct its representatives in Congress on the question of expansion or any other question of national policy. To St"»p Its Importation. The imperial ministry nf the interior at Berlin, by a circular to the different German governments, calls attention to the fact that American wheat flour is frequently mixed with corn and asks that steps be taken to prevent the importation of such flour. Trolley Car Struck. During a heavy thunderstorm at Pittsburg, l‘u., lightning struck a summer car on the Second avenue traction line as it was passing Greenwood avenue, and as a result one passenger is dead, another will probably die and four others are badly hurt. liusiuge by Storm, $15,000. A severe Windstorm leveled ten tobacco barns in the northern part of Suffield. Conn., blow down many trees and crippled the electric light service. The damage caused is estimated Ht SIS,(XX), confined largely to ruined tobacco. For Radical Changes in Colombia. The New York World correspondent cables from Colon, Colombia: Congress Is considering the advisability of reducing the army one-half, restricting the President's enormous power and the abrogation of foreign treaties. Poisoned by Ice Cream. At Middletown, N. Y., ice cream prepared with lemon extract purchased from a traveling salesman a few days ago, has caused the death of three persons, and a score of others are sick, and more fatalities iut expected. French Fchooner Rank. The Thingvalla line steamer Norge sunk I the French fishing schooner Laeoquette of Bayonne. France, on the Grand Banks. The captain and eight seamen were saved. Sixteen went down with the unfortunate vestal. Bayard It Reported Very 111. The lion. .Thomas F. Bayard, ex-am-bassador to England, is reported seriously ill at "Karlttein." the summer home of his daughter, Mrs. S. D. Warren, in Dedham, Mass. Fntnl Fnn for Foldiert. Morris D. Kano and Christopher Jurgensen. privates of the Seventy-first New York volunteers, were killed while skylarking on a train near Westbury, L. I.

BIGHT ARE BURIED ALIVE. Disaster in the Carnegie Tunnel on the Pan-Handle Road. Eight men were killed, possbly ten, and five more injured, two fatally, at the Carnegie tunnel, on the Chartiers divison of the Pan-Handle Railway near Pittsburg, Pa. The accident was due to the wall of the tunnel earing in on a number of workmen. Five men were injured. One of these, a negro, name unknown, was taken to the West Penn hospital in a dying condition. One of the others is also expected to die. The men were engaged in tearing out the tunnel on the Chartiers valley branch of the Pan-Handle Railroad, just west of the town of Carnegie. They were preparing to pull down the west wall of the tunnel, had fixed a rope for this purpose and were preparing to drill holes In it for blasting. Suddenly the wall fell over on them. Every man standing at that end of the big excavation was buried alive. The other workmen at once began the work of rescue. Seven of the men were taken out dead. GRAIN FAMINE IN RUSSIA. Even the Landed Gentry Are Asking for Governmental Aid. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says great uneasiness is felt over the repetition of last year’s failure of the harvest In seven districts of the province of Kazan and largely in the province of Samara, Saratoff, Simbirsk, Viataka and Perm the crops are almost worthless. Even the landed gentry are beginning to ask the Government for relief and the prospects of a famine are most grave. The ministers of the interior and of finance are sending out agents to make inquiries and to purchase corn. The Zemestvos are bestirring themselves to meet the situation. It is reported that in . some districts the peasantry are breaking into the communal granaries and helping themselves. Series of Coincidences. A curious fatality seems to hang over the office of Assessor of Lawrence County, S. D. Two years ago James Bullock was nominated on the Republican ticket for the office, and while on an election journey he fell down an abandoned mining shaft and was killed. Joe Schaler was appointed to the vacancy on the ticket, and he died a horrible death from an overdose of some drug. Brad Wood, the Populist nominee for the office, w’as elected, and soon after the election, he, too, met a violent death. The county commissioners then appointed W. W. Giddings to fill the vacancy. Giddings was killed a few days ago in the terrible tragedy at Central City by Ed Shannon because of jealousy, the murderer also killing Jack Weare, a friend who interfered, and pounding his wife’s head with hik revolver so that she died, and finished by shooting and killing himself. Candidates for Assessor to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Giddings are naturally not very numerous. Fire at Logansport, La. At Logansport, La., fire broke out in the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company’s building and in a very short time communicated to adjoining buildings until there is not a business house, hotel or depot in town. The loss at present is estimated at $90,000, about half that amount being covered by insurance. Drowned in Switzerland. Word has been received in Chicago of the drowning in Lake Geneva, at Lausanne, Switzerland, of Miss Jennie Baker, formerly of Chicago and late of Pasadena, Cal. The jacket and gloves of the young woman were found/in the water near the spot where she had been rowing. Accused of Fending Poisoned Candy. Mrs. Ada Botkin was arrested in Stockton, Cal., by Detective Gibson on a charge of murdering Mrs. John P. Dunning and Mrs. Deane. She is held to await extradition papers from the Governor of Delaware. Three Hundred Miners Drown. A dispatch from Vienna to the London Daily News says that 300 miners were drowned by the flooding of the Kasimir coal mine at Nience, near Schnowiz, Silesia. All Escaped but the Pilot. The tugboat Marian of the Pennsylvania Railroad sunk at South Amboy, N. J. All the crew escaped except the pilot, James Hennesby, who was drowned. Kirk Phillips for Governor. At Mitchell, S. D., the Republicans of South Dakota nominated a full State ticket, with Kirk Phillips for Governor. Henry Gage for Governor. The California State Republican convention nominated Henry Gage, a Los Angeles attorney, for Governor.