Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1899 — TUG MEN IN COMBINE [ARTICLE]

TUG MEN IN COMBINE

BIG TOWING COMPANY FORMED IN CLEVELAND. Trust Include* All Tug Companies Between Buffalo and Chicago and Duluth—Flour Trust Acquire* Firmer Hold on Milling Property. The Great Lakes Towing Company was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The papers of incorporation will be filed in New Jersey within a few days. This company will be in the nature of a trust, and will embrace all the tug and towing companies between Buffalo and Chicago and Duluth, as follows: Dunham Towing and Wrecking Company of Chicago, Barry Bros, of Chicago, Lutz Towing Company of South Chicago, Parker & Maxom of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Tug Line, Escanaba Towing Company, White Line Towing Company of Duluth, Inman Towing Company of Duluth, Thompson Towing and Wrecking Company of Port Huron and the “Soo,” Toledo Harbor Tug Line Company, Nagle Tug Line of Toledo, Huron Tug Company, Hand & Johnson Tug Company of Buffalo, Maytham Tug Company of Buffalo, Erie Tug Company, Conneaut Tug Company, Ashtabula Tug Company, Fairport Tug Company, Cleveland Tug Company and the Vessel Owners’ Towing Company of Cleveland.

GOES INTO THE TRUST. Additional Milling Properties in Minneapolis Obtained by Purchase. The United States Milling Company, popularly known as the flour trust, is now certain to acquire a much larger interest in Minneapolis milling property than has hitherto been thought possible. A. C. Loring, J. B. Gilfillan and John Martin, who hold a majority of the stock of the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, have agreed to sell to Thomas McIntyre, president of the trust, the six smaller mills which they control in that city. The figure is understood to be in the immediate neighborhood of $1,800,000. The capacity of the six mills is 11,000 barrels a day. The company is capitalized at $2,250,000, of which $1,000,000 is in preferred stock. The trust now has a total Minneapolis capacity of 1,400 barrels daily.

SHOES FULL OF DIAMONDS. Louis Bush Has Plenty of Jewels, Although Claiming to Be Bankrupt. Louis Bush, a New York City Jew, was arrested at the Brush street depot in Detroit, with $19,075 worth of diamonds (his own valuation) concealed in his shoes. Less than a year ago, or Nov. 18, 1898, Bush, who used to run a clothing business at 13 West 102 d street, New York, petitioned to be declared a bankrupt, making affidavit that he was not possessed of the necessary $25 fees to accompany the petition. His liabilities in his petition were said to be $11,879, his assets nothing. LIQUOR LAW KNOCKED OUT. South Dakota Court Sustain* the Saloonkeeper*’ Contention. Judge Moore, eighth circuit, decided the thirteen liquor cases of Sturgis, S. D., in favor of the demurrers. The grand jury recently brought indictments against the saloon men of Sturgis for violating the liquor law and the defendants demurred, raising the question of the validity of the law. Judge Moore’s decision practically leaves that part of the State without a liquor law of any sort. Death* Due to a Mad Dog. Preston Oglesby, aged 11, died at Wildwood, N. C., of hydrophobia. He was bitten by a dog ten weeks before. The dog bit a horse, hog and ox at the same time, and these died within three weeks. The horse was bitten through the nose, and chickens which ate out of his trough had spasms and died. A chicken owned by a negro was killed by the dog. The family ignorantly cooked the chicken and all of them died from eating it.

Shot Mayor and Self. Mayor James Balbirnie of Muskegon, Mich., was shot and killed by ex-Poor Director John W. Tayer, a discharged official. After firing the fatal shot the bold assassin pulled a bottle of carbolic acid from his pocket, drank the contents and then turned the still smoking revolver to his own breast and pulled the trigger. He is dead. Woman Stabbed and Burned. Sadie B. Matthewson, 26 years old, was murdered by Sampel Rowens, 57 years old, at Foster, R. I. Both were drunk. Owens knocked her down with an ax, stabbed her twice, and then, pouring kerosene oil over her, set her on fire while she was still breathing. Her body was burned to a crisp. For Young Negro Criminals. C. P. Huntington has bought a tract of land of 1,350 acres in Hanover County, Virginia, where, at his expense, a wellequipped building, with the latest modern improvements, is to be erected for the confinement of juvenile offenders of the negro race. Five Laborer* Drowned. Five men were drowned in the Mississippi river a mile above Clarksville, Mo., by the overturning of a skiff. They were laborers engaged in river improvement work now going forward in that district under the direction of the United States assistant engineer, Capt. S. Edwards.

Wed Under a Shower of Roses. Gustavus A. Ulman of Chicago was married at Richmond, Va., to Miss Genevieve Raab. During the ceremony a shower of roses from a canopy descended upon the bride and groom. Ten Lost in Lake Erie. The steamer Margaret Olwill, from Kelley’s Island for Cleveland, with limestone, was sunk off Lorain, Ohio. Four sailors were rescued. Ten persons went down with the steamer. Goebel I* Nominated. William Goebel was nominated for Governor on the twenty-sixth ballot by the Kentucky Democratic convention at Louisville. Three Negroe* Are Killed. Three negroes are dead and one is fatally injured as a result of a riot between the white and negro miners at the ore mines near Cardiff, Ala. Czar’s Object Defeated. The peace congress at The Hague has decided that the Russian disarmament proposals are unacceptable.

BOY FORGER BENT TO PRISON. Young Greenwood to Serve Fourteen Months in Stillwater. ' In the District Court at Rochester, Minn., the case of the State vs. E. L. Greenwood was very unexpectedly closed by the defendant breaking down just as the case came to trial and changing his former plea of not guilty to guilty. The trial of young Greenwood for forgery has excited much interest in that part of the State, where his grandfather, Stephen Greenwood, was one of the early settlers and very highly respected. Ernest Greenwood, the defendant, was brought up on a farm, but two years ago drifted into life insurance business and spent money so freely on the luxuries of life that he was obliged to have recourse to forged notes, using the names of both relatives and neighbors. His father, a man who stands high in the community, at first protected this forged paper, but the volume became too great and the son was indicted on four counts by the grand jury at the December term of court. Judge Snow imposed a very moderate penalty, sentencing Greenwood to Stillwater for fourteen months. DISCOVER A SMALL FORTUNE. St. Louis Police Officer* Find Wealth Belonging to an Insane Woman. In a dingy, stuffy room in the rear of 2211 South Third street, St. Louis, Officer Hanrahan found concealed in a dirty trunk and a valise more than $15,000 in government bonds, gold and bills of large denomination. The police think that this small fortune is the property of Mrs. Walberger Wackerle, an aged German woman, who is now a patient at the city insane asylum. But little is known by the neighbors of Mrs. Wackerle. They say that for years past she had been living in that neighborhood, but was always reticent and eccentric. » Zinc Mines Close Down. Fully 95 per cent of the zinc mines in the Missouri-Kansas district have been closed down, in accordance with the request of the Zinz Miners’ Association, and it is thought the remaining plants will be idle in a few days. The smelters are now paying the association schedule to get ore. It is generally believed that the mines will be in full operation again in a few weeks, and the fight between the smelting trust and the ore producers will be settled.

Tin Plate Trust Banks Fire*. The tin plate trust is banking fires in the big plant in Anderson and Elwood, Ind., and at all other points, preparatory to a complete shut-down. Ten thousand will be thrown out of employment in Indiana by the failure to adjust the scale for the ensuing year. Two Dead from Scalding. The steamer St. Paul blew out the flues of her boiler about twelve miles north Of Alton, 111., badly scalding five of her crew, four negroes and one white man. The vessel was safely landed and the injured men sent to St. Louis. Two of them died after reaching there. Riots at Saragossa, Spain. Anti-budget riots have been in progress in Saragossa, Spain. The troops fired on the mob in the Plaza de la Constucion, killing one person and seriously wounding two others. Many persons were injured. Seventeen persons received dangerous wounds. Vessel Burns in the Atlautic. The steamer City of Macon, which arrived at New York from Savannah, reports that she passed the burning wreck of the steamer Pawnee forty miles from Cape Henry. The Pawnee’s crew escaped. The Pawnee was bound from Brunswick, Ga., for Boston. Callaway Found Guilty. Frank B. Callaway, who has been on trial for murder in St. Louis for several weeks, was found guilty in the first degree by the jury. Callaway slot his wife on April 10 last in a large department store where she was employed. To Raise Sngar in Hawaii. The Makawell Sugar Company has been incorporated in San Francisco with a capital stock of $5,000,000, of which $1,500,000 has been subscribed. The company will do business in the Hawaiian Islands. Insurance Law Is Invalid. The insurance law passed by the last Kansas Legislature has been declared unconstitutional by Judge J. H. Skidmore of Columbus, Kan. Chili’s New Cabinet Formed. A liberal ministry has been formed in Chili, in succession to the conservative cabinet which resigned June 2.