Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1899 — FAILURES ARE FEW. [ARTICLE]

FAILURES ARE FEW.

I NOTICEABLE DECREASE IN FIRST HALF OF 1899. I Unlimited Demand for Iron and Steel p Continue* Large Foot and Shoe t • Shipment*—Organisation *f a Match Trunt I* Nearly Completed. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Failures for the second quar- ■ ter of 1899 have been 2,080 in number, against 3.055 last year, with liabilities of $20,259,000. against $36,602,252 last year. For the first half of 1899 failures were 4,852, against 6,706 last year, with liabilities of $48,711,000, against $71,246,783 last year. Nearly half of the June liabilities are due to one failure. The demand for iron and steel seems to have no limit. Tin is stronger at 26 cents and copper at 18 cents for lake, but lead is dull with hope of an end to the Colorado strike. Boot and shoe shipments from the East exceed those in any other month of any year for four weeks. Wool sales, 36,179,900 pounds, of which 29,865,900 were domestic, reveal a speculation scarcely less obtrusive than in 1897. Cotton mills are doing well in spite of the fall in cotton. Failures for the week have been 181 . in the United States, against 254 last year, and 22 in Canada, against 15 last year.” MATCH TRUsT NEARLY FORMED. Big Combine Will Control Nine-five Per Cent of American Production. g ’Hie completion of the mew match trust deal will give the Diamond Company control of 95 per cent of the match output of this country, it is claimed. For all factories in New York, Michigan and Indiana excepting the Continental, owned by the Gould company, cash will be paid. A new issue of stock amounting to $4,- ’ 000,000 is to be made to buy in independent companies. Of this Gould will be paid $1,000,000 for the Continental and about the same sum will be retained by the Diamond company as working capital. The Diamond is capitalized at sll,000,000. The net earnings are expected to be increased $2,500,000 per annum by . the new deal. CASHIER SHOUTS AT BURGLARS. Daring Attempt to Blow Open Vault of Firat National Bank. Five burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to loot the First National Bank at Wilmington, 111. Men had broken into the bank and were drilling the big door to the vault when Cashier Whitten, who lives across the street, fortunately awoke and discovered what was going on. He started across to the bank, when one burglar, doing sentry duty, commanded him to bait. Whitten re-entered the house and from a window opened fire with two revolvers on the robbers, who dropped their tools, jumped into buggies and made their escape. Several thousand dollars were in the bank. Deserted on her wedding day. St. Loui* Girl Attempts Suicide When Abandoned by Her Affianced. On her wedding day Miss Carrie Crusy of St. Louis received a note from her affianced husband, Harry E. Baker, saying that the wedding would never take place and that he had left the city. After this tragic denouement to her romantic dream ‘Miss Crusy became frantic and attempted to leap from a window and die. The timely interference of friends saved her. Race for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...45 19Cincinnati ~.32 29 Boston 40 23New Y0rk...30 33 Chicago 38 24Pittsburg ....29 32 Philadelphia. 37 24 Louisville ...23 40 Baltimore ...35 26Washington. 18 47 St. Louis... .36 29Cleveland .. .12 49 » Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. f W. L. Minneapolis. 34 25 St. Paul 29 29 Indianapolis. 32 25 Milwaukee .. .29 33 Columbus ...31 26Kansas City.. 27 34 Detroit 29 29 Buffalo 24 34 Covered with Molten Iron. The portable blast furnace used in welding rails for the Indianapolis street car company exploded. The explosion was accompanied by a destructive pyro- | technic display, followed by a hail of molten iron that covered the street walks and buildings within a large radius. Six j persons were more or . less seriously burned. Jilted at the Last Moment. | John Hile of Norwood went to Hart- ,• Ville, Mo., and got a license to marry Miss Julia Cole. Then Julia changed her mind t and notified another lover, Ben Smith of i Fontana, Kan., to come and claim her as his own. Smith came and they were mar ? ried, much to the chagrin of Hile, who *, witnessed the ceremony. Drowned in Missouri River. E, William Woodrum, dry goods merchant and president of the Commercial Club at ® Jefferson City, Mo., was drowned while f' swimming in the Missouri river. Authoress Passes Away. Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, the p Authoress, died at her residence in WashJ ington, after an illness of several weeks. Hollinger Doomed to Die. K Emil Bollinger, the Chicago wife murX derer, has been found guilty. K’ Omaha Show Open. * , The Greater America and Colonial exi position has opened its gates at Omaha. Labor Trouble* at ft. Loui*. H Four non-union men, who had taken t the Union iron e attacked while by four strikers, r used, and Gus shot through the nTestead. ugurated at the Pittsburg. The at the plant is

great labor union. Movement to Unite 500,000 Employe* in New York City. The organization of a great union of 500,000 workmen in Greater New YorK has been begun by a committee appointed by the Central Federated Union. William A. Perrine, secretary of the iron molders’ conference board and one of the leading members of the committee, said: “This new union will be the biggest local central labor body on the face of the earth. All the unions in the five boroughs of New York City will join. It will be more powerful than many great national and international unions, and will have more influence in one city than any labor organization which has ever existed. The business of conducting the big bodies which now exist independently will be greatly facilitated. Employes will also benefit by the centralization of central labor unions in New York City. Strikes are bound to become fewer in number year after year through the influence of the great central organization. The principle of arbitration will triumph at last. For twenty years the bricklayers’ unions have had no strikes, because all bricklayers have been in one union.”

MAN>DEAD AND MONEY GONE. Mysterious Corpse in an Emigrants* Camp Leads to Five Arrest*. One man, William Johnson, and four women, making up a party traveling in emigrant wagons, have been arrested at Brazil, Ind., pending an investigation into the mysterious death of James Ayers of Lexington, Ky., in their camp. When the body was discovered it was given out that the man had died of heart failure, but later investigations gave ground for a theory of murder and robbery. Ayers had been seen in the afternoon with a large roll of money and when the corpse was searched by the coroner only 5 cents was found. In one of the wagons was a bottle of carbolic acid, from which a small quantity had been taken. The sheriff and eight deputies immediately went in pursuit of the travelers, but they had broken up camp, and it required a long chase before they were captured. The emigrants admitted that Ayers had convulsions before his death. BLOW TO CITY OWNERSHIP. Detroit’* City Railway schemes Are Tabled by the Council. Municipal ownership schemes were given a serious setback in the Common Council at Detroit. Two ordinances were turned down, and the outcome in the future is problematical. It all hinged on the question of fare. The joint committee reported that no bargain could be made with the railways if 3-cent instead of 5-cent fares were inserted in the security franchise, and considering the lack of legal authority for proceeding to a special election to determine popular sentiment on ownership by a commission in the city’s behalf, the litigation and the other contingencies, the committee unanimously declined to recommend any steps toward city ownership at this time. Minor amendments to the security ordinance were submitted, but the Council decided to table the report, and street railway ownership is left in the air.

WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Mr*. Margaret Woegler Found Ablaze by Husband, Expires Later. Mrs. Margaret Woegler of Chicago died from burns. At 2 o’clock in the morning her husband was awakened, hearing her screaming with pain. He ran to her room and found her lying on the floor with her dress on fire. He. extinguished the flames, but his wife was burned so badly that she died within a few hours. It is supposed that Mrs. Woegler dropped a lighted match in her clothing while lighting the gas. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Labor Trouble in Detroit. A complete lockout is in effect in Pingree & Smith’s big shoe factory at Detroit, employing upward of 600 persons. Three weeks ago the factory started new machines in the shoe turning department, which are operated partly by boys in place of men. The Shoemaker’s Union decided that unless higher wages were paid in that department the upward of 100 men employed in the turning and welt department should quit. The company announced that if these men went out the entire factory would be shut down. Indiana Lady Beaten and Bound. At Osgood, Ind., while Albert Shaw was absent two men entered his house, struck Mrs. Shaw a blow that rendered her unconscious and dragged her downstairs. They then tied her hands fast to her knees and put her on the floor while they searched the house. Failing to find anything of value, ’they departed. Efforts to capture them have failed.

Koreans Smash Street Cara. There has been a big riot at Seoul, the Corean capital, in which the ten cars owned by the electric railway service recently established there were smashed and burned and several of the tramway employes were killed. The cars had killed several children since the service was opened in Seoul. Carriage Propelled by Wind. John and David Howard of. Beaver County, Oklahoma, have invented a horseless carriage w’hich is propelled by wind by means of sails like a ship. These men have ridden from their home in Fulton to Beaver City in this strange vehicle, and at times traveled fifteen miles an hour. Alderman la Assassinated. Aiderman C. H. Griffiths, a prominent citizen of Weatherford, was murdered by Dan Ashby. Ashby had been drinking and started down Main street with knife in hand, saying that he was going to kill somebody. He met Griffiths and without warning plunged the knife into his body. Chinese Sack Custom-House. A dispatch from Saigon, describing the anti-foreign disturbances that recently occurred in Mengtsu, province of YunYan, says that the Wong-tse custom house, which was in charge of American officials, was sacked and destroyed. Perished in Siberia. Harry Douglass o{ Nevada City, with twenty-five other pieied miners from various counties of , California, who- left June 2 last year for Siberia under the leadership of John T. McCall, have perished from privation and cold. Penn's Crew the Best. The eight-oared shell race for the in toecollegiate championship of America, at Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, was won by Pennsylvania in 20:04. Wisconsin came in second in 20:05%.