Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — WAR CLOUD LOWERS. [ARTICLE]

WAR CLOUD LOWERS.

EXCHANGE IS AFFECTED BY EUROPEAN UNCERTAINTY. Movement of Gold Thia Way Checked by tlie Financial Struggle Conditions Do Not Prevent Excess Over Previous Prosperous Years. Reported by Dun’s Review. R. G. ’Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “With growing foreign demand for American products, exchange is influenced mainly by political uncertainties abroad. While Europe waits for the outcome between England and France about the upper Nile, the financiers of all European countries are trying to force upon each other the burden of providing cash for the enormous demands of the United States. England has so managed as to make France and Germany send most of the gold, and the resulting war of exchanges between foreign nations checks for the moment the movement of gold this way. Yet these and all other causes do not so far hinder business as to prevent an excess over the most prosperous of previous years. The exchanges through all clearing houses for the last week have been .6 per cent larger than last year and 1.7 per cent larger than in 1892, but outside New York for the week transactions were smaller than in 1892. Failures for the week have been 221 in the United States, against 224 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 36 last year.” THIEF ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE. Man Wanted for Robbing a Priest Makes Dash for Liberty. Michael Hayes, held at Toledo, Ohio, aw-aiting extradition to Duluth for robbing a priest of SSOO and a SI,OOO check, made an ineffectual attempt to break jail early the other morning. He says he will yet escape. Hayes was captured by Father Hannin, aged 80, in the act of robbing the priest’s home. Hayes has made a specialty of this work and he is wanted in many cities. Deputy Sheriff Bates of Duluth, w’ho came after the prisoner, says he robbed an Eau Claire, Wis., priest of SIO,OOO. Hayes escaped from the Duluth jail on Aug. 2. Prior to that he broke jail at Racine. leather Haunin will receive S2OO reward offered by the Duluth police, and the money will be given to the poor of Toledo. POISONED WATER KILLS FOUR. Missouri Farmer’s Family Suffers from a Mysterious Enemy’s Work. Four persons have died from the effects of drinking water from a poisoned well near Aurora, Mo. Several weeks ago a daughter of John Blaek, a prominent Barry County farmer, was taken ill and her case was pronounced typhoid fever. Other members of the family became ill and, after lingering a few' days, died. Mrs. Black, a son and two daughters succumbed to the mysterious ailment, and John Black and another daughter are now seriously ill. Physicians are convinced the trouble is not typhoid fever, but that the W’dl from which this family obtained their water is poisoned, but how and by whom it has been poisoned is a mastery. NEW CURE FOR LOCKJAW. Patient in a New Jersey Hospital Is Successfully Treated. The Parisian method of curing lockjaw by injecting antitoxin serum directly into the brain of the patient has proved a Success the first time it was used in this country. Aaron M. Hemion was operated upon in this way at the general, hospital at Passaic, N. J. The doctors and surgeons declared the other day that he was entirely cured and all traces of the terrible disease were gone. For ten days the patient was in the throes of death with lockjaw. He is now' able to be bolstered up in bed and partake of a square meal. Prof. Fay Severely Injured. Prof. Irving W. Fay lectured on “Liquefied Air” at the Brooklyn, N. Y., Polytechnic Institute, and illustrated his lecture with some experiments. Four or five ounces of red phosphorus which Prof. Fay had frozen in the liquefied air and was stirring with a stick exploded with a deafening detonation and great force. Prof. Fay’s face and eyes were so severely burned that he may lose his eyesight. Lincoln Burroughs, a student, was also badly burned about the face. Jay Beebe Killed on Rails. At Elyria, Ohio, Jay Beebe was struck by an electric car and when picked up w’as dead. Motorman Stewart noticed him laying with his head on the rail, but could not stop the car in time. Beebe married a sister of the notorious Nell Lowery of the Blinky Morgan gang, and Beebe through her has been more or less connected with the robbers for the last fifteen years. Four Killed in Freight Wreck. Five laborers employed on the Rock Island Railroad in the Indian territory, not far from Fort Worth, Texas, were instantly killed in a freight wreck. Three others were badly injured and may die. The train broke in two and afterward crashed together, going at a rapid rate of speed down a grade. Quarantine Removed in Louisiana. Edmond Souchon, president of the Ix>uisiana State Board of Health, has issued a proclamation removing all quarantine restrictions on traffic. Two Suffocated by Gas. Michael Timlin and Philip Vergallite, fillers at the furnace of the Youngstown, Ohio, Steel Company, were suffocated by gas. Both leave families. Land Owned by Uncle Sam. A late statement from the general land office in Washington shows that there are still 579.368,274 acres of unappropriated and unreserved public land in the United States, exclusive of Alaska. More than 94 per cent of this land is iu the so-called desert States. * Death in a Photograph Gallery. John Melchert, an expert photographer, blew out the brains of bis sweet heart, Lillian Morris, while the two were i>osing before a camera. Jealousy caused the deed. Broken Rail Wrecks a Train. A south-bound passenger train on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road was thrown from the track by a broken rail near Maryville, Mo. B. F. Frye of Pittsburg. Kan., was fatally hurt. Brakeman Callicut of Stanberry, Mo., sustained a broken arm.