Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — 10 CHANGE DESIRED. [ARTICLE]

10 CHANGE DESIRED.

Ime military rule in favor AMONG CUBANS. Kwslaess People of Havana Are Optiposeil to Discontinuance of Present HMvernment-BriKht Business Hut[/"Book Reported by Dun's Review. cable message stating that Carlos Oareia was in Washington for the pur||j|se of conferring with President McKinley and others interested in Cuban asIspirs, and alleging he kqd assorted that | fuba's greatest need is the substitution Spit civil for military government, has been IppC subject of considerable comment in B§»avnna. On ’Change, where a majority the large business houses of Havana | Ire represented, the feeling is generally ; pat at present a change is not advisable, I is the putting of new men in office would k&turb business and the withdrawal of fiktc military would mean an increase in nligandage. Among twenty-two prominent merchants- of Havana, including Mfcßmiards, Cubans, Americans and other Bferious nationalities, who were asked gijkeir views, not a single dissenting voice |kuß raised against the continuation of |p»e military government for at least two |fr three years, until the country had setPped down. 1 BRIGHT BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Run’s Commercial Agency Reports the Host Encouraging Conditions. I B. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly reNjriew of trade say: “The general evi- • lences of prosperity continue convincing. |Failures are the smallest ever known for ithe season, railroad earnings the largest, plaid solvent payments through clearing ' bouses in July have been 48.6 per cent »|brger than last year and 62.3 per cent p|rger than in 1892, the best of previous Hears. Official returns of the most wonderful year in the 'nation’s commerce i*how a decrease of $85,900,000 in value Etc the great staples exported, largely owing to- prices, but an increase of about, • $80,000,000 in other exports, mostly man IKactures. Failures for the week have 'been 145 in the United States, against ,207 last year, and 23 in Canada, againsl $.7 last year.” H RACE FOR THE PENNANT. Standing of the Clnbs in the National and Western Leagues. 1| The standing of the clubs in the National* League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. -Philadelphia. 48 31 New York.. .35 44 St. Louis... .47 33 Louisville .. .33 46 •Chicago .....45 33Washington. 31 54 fßaltimore ...44 34Cleveland ...15 68 i Following is the standing of the clubs fin the Western League: W. L. W. L. ilndianapolis. 44 30 St. Paul 38 39 |Minneapolis. 44 33 Milwaukee ..34 42 I Grand Rap.. 39 37Buffalo ,32 44 LIVES LOST IN A WRECK. Tennessee Train Falls Through a I Trestle and Is Burned. - A serious wreck, resulting in the loss of |two lives, the wounding of a number of persons and the destruction of several thousand dollars’ worth of property, occurred on the Chesapeake and Nashville Railroad. The train which left Gallatin for Scottsville fell through a trestle sixty 'feet high, between Bledsoe and Westmoreland, Tenn., part of the trestle giving way. Just as the locomotive had passed over the trestle one of the cars dropfcped through and carried the engine and fthe other car* with it. The cars caught fire and were destroyed. | WOOLEN MILLS FOR CHICAGO. Concern Will Erect $600,000 Plant to Fight the Trust. | Opposition to the woolen trust, known as the American Woolen Company, is the purpose of an important German con- . cern that intends to establish a great ■Woolen mill in Chicago within a year. Secrecy is maintained as to the name and horn? office of the corporation. A woolen inill has been planned for the concern to cost $600,000. It is the intention to manufacture worsted. Men’s clothing and women’s cloaks, suits and skirts also will be made of the material. [’ Three Bathers Drowned. Three bathers were drowned in Lake Michigan, off Chicago, the other day. One gave up his life in an attempt to save a lad who had ventured out beyond his depth, both going down. Car Is Blown Up. t An open summer car on the Euclid avenue line in Cleveland was blowu to pieces ITtf1 Ttf an explosion of nitroglycerin or gun cCtton,-and six passengers injured, one of them fatally. s BK-, I*» Alger’s Place. J Formal announcement of Elihu Root’s Appointment as Secretary of War has gticen made at Washington. He has notified the President of his acceptance. H. K. Thurber Dies in Idaho, p Horace K. Thurber, for many years prominent in New York as a business tpto, died at Hpiley, Idaho. ; Three Brothers Are Drowned. ’ /Three little sons of George Tress were found drowned in Manegold’s pond, west ,'of Milwaukee. The boys were 8, 9 and pi years of age. b'a «.... i i.—— | Destructive Fire at Fayette, Wis. The entire business portion of Fayette, Wlb-» was destroyed by fire. Andrews & pochards’ general store, E. L. Worrell’s general store and postoffice, Mrs. C.Abralam’s drug store and hotel, Dr. T. J. puckiey’s office and several dwellings B|p among the buildings burned. h Hew Suspension Bridge Opens. L; The formal opening of the new suspenses bridge across Niagara river, connectgf Lewiston on the American side with Peesston on the Canadian side, took gaAA«| I