Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — TIRADE’S QUIET TONE. [ARTICLE]

TIRADE’S QUIET TONE.

COLD, BACKWARD SPRING 18 THE CAUSE. Less Favorable Wheat Crop Advices Also Have a Bad Effect—Prices Continue Strong—Chicken-Stealing Was Fatal Work for One Man. The trade situation is thus discussed by Bradstreet’s: “The quieter tone of distributive trade is even more marked this week than last, testifying to the unfavorable effect upon retail trade and indirectly upon jobbing distribution of the cold, backward spring and less favorable wheat crop advices. Other features of the week ate a further quieting down of the excitement in iron and steel, though here lack of supplies and not lack of consumptive demand is assigned as the chieLjerjnp. Lumber is A>f expanding spring demand at many markets, and prices are very strong. The situation in textiles is little changed. Cotton is slightly lower on fuller crop movement, but manufactured goods are firm. Wool and woolens are rather quiet. The situation as regards prices is still a very favorable one, the list of staples advancing or remaining steady, being by far the most numerous, while bank clearings, statistics, railroad earnings and all other obtainable measures of trade progress point to an immense business, speculative and otherwise, having been done during the first quarter of the year 1899. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,384,800 bushels, against 3,988,238 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,724,654 bushels, against 3,411,442 bushels last week." KILLED BY AN ELEPHANT. Frank Fisher, Keeper of Rajah, Is the Aniihal’s Sixth Victim. Frank Fisher, keeper of the big elephant Rajah, was killed by his charge at the winter quarters of Lemen Bros.’ circus in Argentine, Kan. The keeper, becoming angry at the elephant, struck him fiercely with a “hook.” The huge beast promptly turned on his, grabbed him with his trunk and threw him high in the air. When the body fell the elephant trampled it and gored it with his tusks till it was a shapeless mass. Fisher is Rajah’s sixth victim. The people who live near the show quarters are determined that the beast shall die. The show proprietors, however, insist the elephant was justified in his act on the ground of cruelty. CHICKEN THIEF KILLED. Fatally Wounded He Drops Dead While Making His Escape. Martin Furnibal was found dead near the city limits in Toledo, Ohio, with a load of buckshot in his back. He had been shot by Henry Hartman, who had heard chicken thieves in his yard and fired to get rid of them. Furnibal, after the shooting, had gotten into his buggy and drove away, but was overcome and fell from the rig dead. His dog was watching the body when it was found. Furnibal’s partner escaped. Warships Are Named, The President has named twelve new warships recently provided for by Congress as follows: Battleships, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia; armored cruisers, West Virginia, Nebraska, California; cruisers, Denver, Des Moines, Chattanooga, Galveston, Tacoma, Cleveland. Hundreds of petitions have been sent to the White House and Navy Department ever since the new ships were provided for, urging the merits of various names. Georgia did not petition. Accident to ap Electric Car. Mrs. S. E. Plowman of Topeka, Kan., sustained fractures to five of the ribs on her left side in a car wreck on the Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railway, near Los Angeles, Cal. Several other persons were slightly injured. The wreck was caused by a number of small iron nuggets on the track, which caused the car to be derailed and crash into a telegraph pole. Dividend on Expposition Stock. At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the transmississippi and international exposition in Omaha the payment of a 12% per cent dividend on paid-up stock of the association was ordered, making a total of 87% per cent already paid. Russian Official Is Stabbed. An attempt has been made at Moscow, to assassinate the Czar’s aid de camp, Gen. Mauzoy. He was stabbed in the throat by a servant, but the wonld-be assassin wjas overpowered. The general’s wounds Are not serious. Flouring Mills Bought Up. J. S. Bell, manager of the WashburnCrosby Flouring Mills Company, announces the consummation of the deal whereby his company assumes ownership of the C. C. Washbuni group of mills in Minneapolis. Told to Suspend Business. Representatives of all the accident insurance companies doing business in Arkansas have been notified to. suspend business on account of the anti-trust law recently enacted by the Legislature. Death of R. R. Donnelley. R. R. Donnelley, the founder of the Chicago city directory, and a member of the firm of R. R. Donnelley & Sons’ Printing Company of that city, died of apoplexy. Ex-Justice Field Is Dead. Justice Stephen J. Field of the United States Supreme Court (retired) died at his home on Capitol hill in Washington, D. C., of kidney complications. Leap from a Burning Hotel. • . The Park Hotel at Hannibal, Mo., was destroyed by fire. The flames originated from a defective electric v.ire in the elevator. The guests escaped from the third and fourth floors with great difficulty. The building was owned by Paice Brothers, the occupants, and cost $35,000. Editor Receives a Fatal Fhot. Frank (Griffin, editor of the Maryville, Mo., Daily Review, was shot and wounded mortally by C. G. Jesse. The trouble was over some reference made to Jesse in Griffin’s paper. Murders Hie Divorced Wife. Edward A. von Schmidt, a well-known yachtsman and bar pilot, shot and killed