Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — CORNER BROOM CORN. [ARTICLE]

CORNER BROOM CORN.

ILLINOIS FARMERS PROPOSE TO KHAVE A SHARE OF PROFIT. •mßrokera Are Offering Big Prices for tile Product, but Growers Are Hold- [ tn® Out Well-Volume of Business i Still Continues to Grow. It appears that Illinois farmers are iilabout to corner the broom corn market. ftLast year the brokers got hold of ail the ■ljlM’ush in sight and, storing it in wareBtouses, spent the winter in meeting once month and, while they ate and drank I'the best to be had, marked up the price fc'a few cents on the pound. The bulk of last year’s crop was bought for SSO a |[ton and before the new supply came in it [had been marked up to SIBO and had practically “cleaned out” at a figure gfnear this fabulous price. When the new I [crop was put on the market a few weeks ago it started off at S6O and finally got up to S6B for prime brush. About ten |[days ago foreign buyers began to come | into the district and the farmer with ■w-broom corn to sell at once became a man | |;ot importance. He raised the price and «[from S7O to went to SBO in twenty-four [ hours. Then the buyers took everything they could get, regardless of quality, at | SBO. Then they offered S9O. and finally •’sloo. There is no shortage to speak of Khhis season, but the clean-up of last year’s B Crop makes broom corn a scarce article I in all quarters. PRICES TEND UPWARD. Trade East and West Still Reported Good by Bradstreet. Bradstreet’s weekly review says that I>6diatributive trade, while smaller at some is still of encouraging volume, Ottdustry is active, railway earnings ■lljwtvy, prices still tend upward and bank KiSCarings increase, while failures lessen. ||[Fall festivals and other celebrations at |t®eyeral cities have exercised an apprecia- | ble effect upon retail trade and proved a Stimulating factor in wholesale lines. In | industrial affairs activity is widespread h- and strikes are fewer and less costly ['than in most years. Business failures are jfrapparentlv at a minimum and liabilities fe are certainly less costly than for many 6 years past. Prices as a whole manifest ■ aggressive strength. I BOSTON CLUB HOUSE RAIDED. fe fifaicide of a Gambler Cauaes Police to Hw— Arrest Wealthy Men. [[ The Oxford Club was raided by the £ Boston police early Sunday morning and [[thirty members arrested charged with E gambling. A wagon load of paraphermir | Ba and $4,000 in poker chips were taken I to the station. At the station the prisonft.ers, among whom were twenty-seven of E[[the most prominent and wealthy business [men of the city, furnished cash bail, and p superhuman efforts were made to supt: press the story. The raid is a climax to the “wide open” manner in which gam--1 bling has been conducted at the club, t Ouly a few nights ago a well-known citif sen, once wealthy, lost $7,000 at the club, B- the last of his fortune, and then cfcmmit•<ted suicide. B POISON IN TEETH. fc" Alloy In Fillins Thought to Have . Caused Death. r Dr. J. E. Lowery died at his home in Cedarville, Ohio, the other night. His death, a dispatch says, is thought to be i due to an alloy of copper or brass used ft in filling his teeth. His system became filled with poison from the alloy, finally E ending in convulsions and death. The fillings were removed shortly before he ft GRANT ROUTS NATIVE FOE. [ Troops Under General Occupy the West Bank of the Imus. t Gen. Fred Grant, with three companies J[ of the Fourth infantry, two companies E of the Fourteenth infantry and a band of scouts attached to the former regiment, ft advanced from Imus Friday morning, ft- driving the Filipino insurgents from the i .entire west bank of the Imus river. Three were wounded. It is estimatI ed that ten of the Filipinos were killed. |ft' Race for the Pennant, .. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: S W. L. x W. L. .. .97 45 Pittsburg .. .75 72 feßostqn 92 55 Chicago 74 72 KPhiladelphia 92 55Louisville ...73 76 K-Baltimore ..85 59 New York... 57 87 St. Louis... .84 66 Washington. 52 96 t Cincinnati ..79 65 Cleveland ...20 130 Army Mules Lost. ft The transport Siam, which sailed from | San Francisco with a cargo of forty-sev-en horses and 326 mules, arrived at MaR nil* without her cargo. Three hundred , and fifty-seven of the animals were killed ft in a typhoon by the pitching of the ship and lack of air from the necessary closjng of the hatches. Mutiny on the Fram. Something like a mutiny broke out on ® the Fram« aretic expedition under Sver- £ drup. The naval lieutenant in charge of k the ship, it is reported, refused to submit to Svgrdrup’s authority. ■ffc ■ Bostdn’s Rich Gift to Dewey. Boston’s gift to Admiral Dewey will EM a jeweled gold watch with chain and charm, to-cost from S7OO to SI,OOO. Woman Wants to Be Mayor. Martha Moore Avery has announced J her candidacy for the socialist nomination ■ft '■ Lay a Corner Ftone. Spph? largest throng of people assembled ; ' in the,downtown district of Chicago since 4*lß92gathered Monday, the twenty-eighth ? anniversary of the great fire, to lay the {£• comer stone of the Government building honor the representatives of three

GIFT OF THE NATION. Sword Voted by Congress Presented to Admiral Dewey. The presentation to Admiral Dewey of the magnificent sword voted to him by Congress took place at noon Tuesday on the steps of the capitol at Washington. Tremendous crowds attended the event and the wildest enthusiasm was manifested. Accompanied by an escort of police and committeemen and headed by the Marine band, the admiral was driven to the White House through cheering crowds. His’progress was slow and he repeatedly bowed and smiled his acknowledgment of the greetings given him. During the parade. the avenue rang with tleafening cheers, and the banks of humanity took on life and motion as flags and handkerchiefs were waved madly. At the capitol the ceremonies were singularly impressive. The presentation speech was made by Secretary Long, who paid a glowing tribute to the man who to-day fills the hearts and minds of his countrymen. AMERICAN HORSES AND MULES. Great Britain Buying Them for Use in South Africa. Agents of the British Government are now in this country picking up horses and mules by the hundred and arranging for speedy shipment. New York dealers say that 12,000 horses _and mules are to be bought for use in South Africa. Some are to be shipped from gulf ports, others from. New York. It has long been known that American horses are meeting exceptional favor abroad, but it was not hitherto understood that our stock was so highly regarded as this action of the British war office would seem to indicate. “As to mules,” said a New York dealer, “we have already exported them to South Africa from here, and the British war office must have noticed of what value they have been. The mule is never troubled with the Tsetse fly, so prevalent in Africa, that drives horses wild, and it can do good work in a campaign, if it cannot be fed oftener than once in twen-ty-four hours.” VICTIMS OF MAD DOGS. Two Chicago Children Die from the Effects of Bites. Chicago has a hydrophobia scare produced by the death of two children who were bitten by dogs. Helen Yott, 6 years, and Adam Lukanitsch lived in neighboring homes, the former at 513 Oakley avenue and the latter at 1001 West Twelfth street. The girl died Monday and was buried Wednesday. Just as her body was carried out of the grief tenanted house her playmate passed away. Both suffered intense agony before they expired. Other children in the vicinity have been bitten. WAKES FROM A FAINT TO WED. Belated Groom Finds His Indiana Bride in a Swoon. Moses Smith of St. Paul, Minn., and Miss Dora Thuman of Evansville, Ind., were married Wednesday under peculiar circumstances. The wedding was to have taken place Tuesday night and the bride was overcome when the groom failed to appear. Smith was delayed at Terre Haute. The bride did not regain consciousness until Wednesday.

$25.45 PER CAPITA. Treasury statement Shows $1,948,703,186 in Circulation. The United States treasury statement issued Wednesday, based on an estimated population of 76,561,000, places the per capita circulation of the United States on Oct. 1 at $25.45. The total circulation of all kinds of United States money on Oct. 1 was $1,948,703,186, an increase since Sept. 1 of $6,572,045, and since Oct. 1, 1898, $132,106,794. Typsetting Record Broken. William H. Stubbs, a compositor on the Baltimore Sun, broke the world’s record for machine typesetting in a contest with William Duffy of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Stubbs set 66,617 ems in five hours and thirty-five minutes, or an average of 11,940 ems an hour. Duffy set 55,026 ems in five hours and twentythree mindtes. The previous record was 10,800 ems an hour, made in St. Louis four years ago. Verdict la a Compromise. By the decision of the Anglo-Venezue-lan boundary arbitration commission, some of Great Britain’s claims as to the interior and on the coast are disallowed. Her frontier will start at the Waini river. The award was unanimous. It is considered in the nature of a compromise rather than as favoring Venezuela. Aeronaut Is Killed. Marza Townsend, an aeronaut, was instantly killed during a parachute jump at Des Moines. The balloon began to descend when 200 feet from the grounj. Townsend’s assistant fired a pistol, the signal for him to cut loose. He did so. and the distance to the ground was not sufficient to inflate the parachute. , James Harlan Dead. James Harlan, former United States Senator, former Secretary of the Interior and father-in-law of Robert T. Lincoln, died at Mount Pleasant, lowa, Thursday morning. He was conscious to the last, but unable to speak. Twenty-eight More Arrested. Twenty-eight more members of the Scotsman’s crew were arrested on their arrival at Montreal. When they were searched over $4,000 in money was found on them and a quantity of goods and jewelry. Volunteers from Canada. The British Governmqiit has. accepted Canada’s offer of volunteers, and a Canadian regiment is to be sent to the Transvaal at once. Canadian ships have already been chartered by the British Government to transport troops. Word “Lady” I* Tabooed. The word “lady” is tabooed on the Long Island Railroad. Superintendent Potter issued an order forbidding the em-. ployea using the objectionable term to any female passenger. The word “madam" is to be substituted. Strike of Canadian Workmen. Three hundred machinists and fitters of the Canadian Pacific road, representing various centers from Fort William to Vancouver, went out on a strike. Recognition of the union was demanded, but the company refused. w ■ - - Harrhon Upholds Decision. Uenjamiß Harrison, in an interview at Paris, confirmed the state-