Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1899 — OOD TONE IN TRADE. [ARTICLE]

OOD TONE IN TRADE.

BUSINESS SEEMS TO BE QUIET■H. , ; W ING DOWN. . igusof Shrinkage in New Demand for '£®n and Steel Products Are Visible ■ Janesville Man Blows Up a House K-isith Dynamite. % ' F, JL G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of ■&’! adv says: “The signs of shrinkage in jgjjgga. fc new demand for iron and steel pro2’ijVfra|cts become more clear, and while HpM of pig are maintained without jg--''-.feSange and billets are quoted lower only Efeause premiums for earlier deliveries longer paid, plates are Eiger at the East, with some small mills .' nling at 2.5 cents at Pittsburg, and ||BS&gfeets are sold bv some works there at . Isto $4 less than the regular price. The £\-,.Mtength of bars at the West is largely gW to the great demand for cars, of Which it is said that 1,000 per day are ||||||. rdered. Shipments of boots and shoes ■ 111 ofL and yet are larger than in any year. Textile manufactures are thing well, although in woolens the specin material threatens to cause f 3®>c embarrassment. Sales of wool were ■BKpain heavy—21,042,311 pounds at the Kee chief markets—making in two Keeks 41,823.811 pounds, against 17,437,- ||||||; 00 pounds last year. Worsted goods are uMil St good demand and have been advanced ■■Ji price with some flannels. Failures for fy’“ pSe week were 219 in the United States, I gainst 223 last year, and 20 in Canada, HEainst 26 last year.” |||| F SIX KILLED, FOUR INJURED. ,? '■ | satal Accident on Railroad at HumSHE boldt, S. D. men were killed and four seriously Snot fatally injured in an accident on jjjShe Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and |||||Blnaha Railroad at Humboldt, S. D. The was backing out of Humboldt when ,<- ■ Sj handcar, bearing thirty-five Italians, g||»tKine around a curve. The Italians saw ■be danger and jumped. The handcar C | itught under the rear of the caboose and |||B®«ls and the flat car next to it were de- , J troyed. On the flat car were twenty s ■ jylian laborers, five of whom were killI d outright and five more injured. Brook 11M faobelman, one of the dead, is an AmeriE||n. The rest are Italians. t Bries to kill with dynamite. . • ' I Wisconsin Man Blows Up a House OccuHH| K'■ pied by Six Persons.. ||||i|Fred O’Brien placed a ten-pound stick dynamite under his wife's bedroom at ''-EMnesville, Wis., and exploded it, partly necking'the house, which is a one-story > Kune. In the building were Mr. and Frank O’Brien, Mrs. Fred O’Brien find three children. All escaped injury. I wife had refused to live with HBBin and he sought revenge. He is in I &il and has confessed, implicating two E|||l H Mob in Ohio Tars a Woman. gin the town of West Liberty, Ohio, a of 150, including, it is said, some of | he most prominent people, battered down P B|he jail doors, took out Nell Jackson, Miute; Ed Jackson, colored, and David |||||fPichman, colored, tarred and feathered ihem, and, after parading them through jjS'” he streets, started them on the road toBellefontaine. They had been aron sus P‘ cion o£ having fired a barn. The woman is the wife of a negro. |||fc Arm Crippled by a Gesture. EJ. H. Goeke, prosecuting attorney of County, Ohio, just before the |||||jl|eetion was delivering a political speech I in® country school house and while in if-*.', the midst of an eloquent period made a in such a manner as to break a ■HSipament in his right arm. The injured ■Kimber has troubled him to such an ex■KEmt that he is obliged to carry it in a ■jH gU Murdered for His Money. ■ i unknown man whose body was ‘ ’ found in Mill creek, six miles from Fort FScott, Kan., weighted down with a heavy HH'Chain -and saek of stones, has been identi- ||(| fied as Leopold Edlinger. a farmer living ||g|®jißAr Rockville, Mo. When last seen gSS?, JEdlinger had drawn his money from a ' I ‘Rockville bank. He was undoubtedly for his money. Rj-jPower for Black Hills Cities. ft- Fifteen miles of water rights on Spearcreek, South Dakota, have been pur--11 <t#hased from William Lardner of Deadftd by the Cascade Water Power and ifetmc Transmission Company, which poses to put in a 15,000-horse power Arical plant to furnish electric power I light to the mines and cities of the tck Hills. b ' Schley’s Flag Goes Up. he other afternoon a blue flag, beartwo white stars, shot upward on the inmast of the United States cruiser icago as she lay at anchor off Tompaville, S. I. A second later a salute seventeen guns thundered forth, anthat Rear Admiral Winfield IgljEScott Schley had assumed formal com■■BMnid of the South Atlantic squadron. ncide by Shooting. *ugh, aged 38, single, and reus parents five miles southon, Ohio, committed suicide contents of a shotgun into Prugh had become mentally from excessive grief. Blow Kills a Peacemaker. Spin Washington. D. C„ Charles F. Gol- ’ wtteagr attempted to act as peacemaker in Ka quarrel. He was knocked to the sideBwalk, the fall causing a fracture of the which he died. Prison Sentence for Rieger. jjjy ; ImDavid V, Rieger, former president of National Bank, which failA ; Nov. 30, 1896, owing depositors sl.was found-guilty in the United 1 |wtatea District Court at Kansas City, .of misapplying the bank's funds

FLANS FOR ENLARGING NAVT. Construction Board Considering Building of Eighteen New Vessels. The project for further naval increase, which Congress will be asked to authorize at the next session for immediate construction, involves eighteen warships, three of them armored cruisers of the improved Brooklyn type, but double the size and formidableness of that excellent vessel; three improved Olympias, onethird larger and proportionately more powerful than the fine flagship that led the way into Manila bay, and twelve gunboats of a type recommended by Admiral Dewey as essential for the effective patrol of the Philippine archipelago. The latter class, to use the admiral’s own expression, summing up the results of his experience in Asiatic waters, must be quickly built, must be able to go out to Manila under their own steam, must draw less water than any gunboat now in the navy, must maneuver easily in tortuous channels, and. above all, must have sufficient protection to resist capture if stranded. Such boats, in his opinion, are needed now, and will always be needed to patrol the numerous channels between the less civilized islands. SEASON’S CATCH OF WHALES. Not a Single Canadian Vessel Operated in Whaling This Year. The whaling fleet now on its way home will bring a revenue to San Francisco of about $1,500,000. It is composed of the steamers Jeannette, with a catch of seventeen whales; the Karlak, with seven; the Alexander, with eight; the Beluga, with sixty-three; the Mary D. Hicks, with twenty-one; the Grampus, with five; the Balena, with seven; the Narwhal, with three, and the bark Alaska, with three. The total catch for the nine vessels is 150 whales, or 153, including the catch of the Mermaid. The hunting grounds were between Herschell Island, at the mouth of the MacKenzie river, and Banksland. Though the whales were found off the Canadian coast, not a single Canadian vessel was this year operated. LOCOMOTIVE HITS A STREET CAR. Five Person* Injured at a Railway Crossing in Cleveland, Ohio. A locomotive drawing a caboose struck a street car on Detroit street at the Lake Shore Railroad crossing in Cleveland, wrecking it. Five persons were injured and that nearly everyone in the car was no* killed outright is marvelous. The car contained eight persons and the locomotive, after knocking it over, plowed through it and smashed it into bits. A train had just passed and both the street car conductor and the gateman failed to set the locomotive and caboose approaching on the other track. HUNTER SLAIN BY A FARMER. Companion of Victim Shoots Man Who Fired the Fatal Bullet. William Busby, a leading farmer near Kokomo, Ind., who has been annoyed by hunters, fatally shot Orin Springer, who, with Fred Smith, was hunting on the faftn. Busby used a revolver. When Springer fell with a bullet in his heart Smith shot Busby in the shoulder, inflicting a dangerous wound. Busby and Smith were arrested, but Smith was released on bail. The dead man was 23 years old and leaves a widow and baby. Bhsby claims that he shot in self-defense. Greweome Find at St. Lonis. Four trunks, each said to contain a mutilated body, have been found at the St. Louis union station. The police have made one arrest in connection with the mystery. Frank Thompson, the man under arrest, says he is the City undertaker of Memphis, Tenn. The trunks are addressed to W. H. Hamsen. Keokuk. lowa, who, Thompson says, is proprietor of a medical college. Thompson says he in paid for furnishing the bodies. White Pine Lumber Prices Raised. White pine lumber manufacturers have agreed upon a uniform mark-up in prices, taking effect at once. The advance is 50 cents per thousand in some grades of dimensions and $1 a thousand on some grades of uppers. Notice is given that all grades not advanced now will be shortly, making a uniform ’ advance of $1 per thousand all around on all grades. Murder in St. Louis. In St. Louis John Armstrong was found dead in the dining-room of his home. His face was stained with blood and close to his right hand lay a new revolver, with an empty shell and four loaded chambers. The theory of suicide was not tenable, for the man’s wound Showed he had been shot through the heart, from the rear. Killed by Eating Mince Pie. Two persons are dead and a third was made seriously ill in Kansas City, Kan., from eating mince pies, apparently containing ptomaine poisoning. George W. Hoffman, aged 72 years, a carpenter, and his son-in-law, John Salmon, aged 45 years, died after hours of agony. Alleged Stage Robber Acquitted. Pearl Hart, the alleged woman bandit, who, with Joe Boot, held up a stage near Florence, Ariz., last June, was acquitted at the trial before Judge Doan at Florence. The judge, like all the citizens of Florence, is highly indignant because of the verdict. , Lynching at Bloomfield, Mo. William Huff was taken from the county jail at Bloomfield, Mo., and hanged by a nM>b 6t about 100 men. Huff, who was charged with the murder of Andrew Melton, showed remarkable nerve, facing the mob and asserting he was not afraid. Closes Lebanon Plants. The American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company has suspended operations in all its puddling and rolling mills at Lebanon, Pa. The cause assigned is an exhausted coal supply, resulting from the car famine. Lost on Casquet Rocks. The Belgian steamer Belgique, from Antwerp for Alexandria, foundered off the Casquet Rocks, near the Island of Alderney. Eighteen persons, including the captain, out of a total crew of twen-ty-six, are believed to have perished. J 77 Last of a Big Family Dies. Matthew Howard died at his farm near Paris, Ky. He was the last of a family of eleven which was the largest in the known world. The largest measured 6 feet inches in height, and the smallest, the mother, 6 feet % inch. Labor Trouble Settled. Metal workers’ lockout in Chicago has been settled. Sykes Roofing Company I paid disputed railroad fare and men