Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1899 — MANY LESS FAILURES. [ARTICLE]

MANY LESS FAILURES.

BJrGE decrease from last ■ W YEAR’S FIGURES. of Trade Much Larger During BpKmbcr than Through CorrespondBile Month of 1898 American SyndiIgßjfte to Divert Grain Trullic to Canada. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of says: “Business continues wonder■Ky large, prosperous and heallhy. As K^We tailed statement of failures by ■Hjches of business cannot be made unHfaext week it seems well to say that ■four weeks failures have been reported ■bunting to $0,848,590, against $8,110,IflP in th( ' same weeks of last year, sll,■1195 in 1897 and over $12,000,000 in ■pß and a'so in 1895. Yet the volume |Bpvent trade represented by exchanges HKfae principal clearing houses has been month 22.5 per cent, greater than and 40 yer cent, greater than ■■*B92. Wheat remains weak, yielding ■Bbeats, although Western receipts .but barely half last year's for the ■■he, and for four weeks only 21,743,505 ■pels, against 38,002,739 last year. The decrease in Atlantic exports for the and for four weeks 10,173,735, ■pst 17,388,210 last year—explains ■left weakness. Corn declined 1 cent, ■jti slightly smaller exports than last Bir for the week, but for four weeks H&745 bushels, against 11,479,098 Failures for the week have ■pu:T:44 in the United States, against |Kjast year, and 21 in Canada, against ■ust year.” HpIDS SON THROUGH A DREAM. Bpnessee Farmer Meets the Boy He ■ Long Believed Dead. Rogers, who left his family in County, Tenn., forty years ago HEjWM not heard of after, being reportwhile a member of the Twenty■h| Ohio regiment in the civil war, |Bnd his son Frank at Maryville, lte■tiy he dreamed that his wife and oldHSon were dead and that Frank, born Ker he left home, was alive. Investigathis vision accurate in detail. K father is a farmer in Sullivan Coun:«nd the son a fruit dealer. They have within 125 miles of each other ISthirty years, each thinking the other

!eht grain traffic. fce Steps to Capture Large if American Trade, commissioners of the port ave accepted the proposiluffalo and Cleveland capito an increase of grain sh that port. The syndijranted a site for a large freight sheds, and in turn fifteen steam barges with cost' of $1,100,000. The ees to bring 25,000,000 lin to Montreal next seaxease this amount to 35,jor more in 1901. A bond o be given. Woman Kills Two. >ng shot and killed Lizzie Calvin Andrew in a fit of ndpebble- Phosphate camp, la. Andrew had been payle attention to the DeLong d transferred his affections ins. Mamie DeLong went > woman’s house to borsethe trouble ■resulted in the two. in Noble’s Wedding. ; at Springfield, Ohio, that ;rom of that city had been larried to Eva Lindahl of he groom is working in a His father is the distinal Engstrom of the Swedin attache of King Oscar’s iuple next summer will go d take up their residence astle. sr Kills an Indian. >f the Indian police from reservation was shot and Schultz, a bartender at The Indian and his iouiIrunk and the Indian startwith a gun, which he had at others in the saloon, d the Indian to desist, but it coming, and was shot ?art. on Union Pacific. , Neb., the Union Pacific ll trains collided wuh t. Fifteen passengers mnone fatally, is the report trains, both of which were . One of the trains was rhen the other crashed into loone was fatally hurt. I Girl Are Drowned, several students were skating at Man., on the reservoir two of Ijrtb, nonivent ■ eath (ting has i liv- . ask olicy conrred 18 of cord the ; heath. Jriptbiy

SHIP’S MISSION A MYSTERY. Vewel at Mare Island to Go to Panama Under Sealed Orders. The United States ship Ranger, now lying at Mare Island, San Francisco, has been quietly fitted out for some long voyage, and well-founded rumors are current that she is bent on some secret mission. The officers of the warship refuse to discuss the nature of the voyage. Several six-inch guns are being placed in position on the vessel. The only thing the officers will admit is that the Ranger has been ordered to Panama, and will sail early in December. Sealed instructions have been received from Washington, to be opened on arrival at Panama. It is believed by naval men in San Francisco that the Ranger’s ultimate destination is Manila, and that she will be anchored for shore duty at some of the new ports recently taken from the rebels. SON HELD FORM OTHER’S DEATH. Alfred Swingle in Jail at Zanesville, 0., on a Charge of Murder. Alfred Swingle, 14 years old, is in jail at Zanesville, Ohio, charged with shooting and killing his mother, Mrs. John Swingle, near Stovertown. It was at first thought Mrs. Swingle had been murdered by a tramp. Suspicion begun to point to the son, who told conflicting stories, and when questioned at the coroner’s inquest he broke down and confessed. The lad stated that the shooting was accidental; that the gun was already loaded, and that when he happened to pick it up it was discharged, the load entering his mother’s head, killing her instantly. The boy’s story is contradicted in part by liis father, who says that the gun had not been loaded for some time and that both barrels were empty when he went to work in the morning. ' STARVES IN A PULLMAN CAR. Illinois Man Sick as a Result of Riding in Linen Closet. A well-educated young man who says he is Charles Hassinger of Collinsville, 111., is under the care of the St. Joseph, Mo., city physician, suffering from hunger and injuries caused by remaining several days in a cramped position in a linen closet of a Pullman sleeping car bound for East St. Louis from San Francisco. Hassinger says that be gave the porter in charge of the car an overcoat and a few dollars, all the money he had, for permitting him to ride from Sacramento. He was compelled to seek medical aid at St. Joseph. FARMER SHOOTS TWO OFFICERS. Attempt to Levy an Execution Results in a Double Tragedy. Near Chicago Junction, Ohio, Constable William Smith was killed and Marshal J. T. Conklin of Plymouth was fatally wounded by Ezra Moore, u farmer. The officers went to Moore’s house to levy an execution and Moore became incensed. Seizing a gun, Moore shot Smith in the head and Conklin in the head and shoulder. Smith died in a few minutes.

Passes from Harpers’ Control. The difficulties under which the publishing house of Harper & Brothers, New j York, has, according to rumor, been laboring for many months, resulted in the entire business passing from the bands of the Harpers into the control of the State Trust Company, acting as trustees for J. P. Morgan & Co., holders of $3,- . 500,000 in mortgage bonds. Shot Wife and Himself. Louis Bach of Brooklyn, N. Y., attempted to kill his wife, wounding her twice, with a pistol. She fell in a faint, and Bach, thinking her dead, shot himself through the brain. Bach wished his mother-in-law, Mrs. Bobbins of Denver, to give him $5,000, but his wife objected. This led to a quarrel between husband and wife. Telephone Combine Fallß Through. I The attempt to form a company to control all of the independent telephone companies of the United States has failed, on account of the withdrawal from the ! scheme of William C. Whitney. Thomas ! F. Kyan, Anthony C. Brady, William L. j Elkins. P. A. B. Widener and Thomas 1 Dolau. i'lot Against the Sultan’s Life. A number of arrests of Mussulmans have been made in Constantinople, inj eluding a general of division and several important officials, charged with being engaged in a plot to assassinate the Sultan with dynamite bombs on the occasion of the Selamlik. The accused have been exiled to Yemen. Advance iu {standing Timber. The purchase oi luige tracts of nr forests iu Washington Stale by Eastern lumbermen has caused a sharp advance m the prices of both logs and stAidiUrf limber. Stumpage prices have risen with j in the past thirty days from 10 to 2U ! tents, according to the accessibility of the : timber belts. Dying by Hundreds. Yokohama au\i>es that a terrible condition of affairs prevails at New Chu uug, Manchtu.a. vv itb respect to the bubonic plague. Hundreds of deaths are occurring weekly, ihe mortality reaching forty to sixty every day. The disease is beginning to spread over Manchuria uets Freucii .-cientific Medai. 1 Dr. William U. Brooks, director of Smith Observatory, has just been awarded by the Paris Academy of Sciences the Grand Lalande prize for his numerous and brilliant astronomical discoveries. The prize is a gold medal worth 500 francs. Hardwick Bill Is Beaten. The negroes of Georgia will continue to exercise unrestricted the right of suffrage. 'lhe house by a vote of 137 to 3 deteatecl the bill offered by Mr. Hardi wick of Washington County, calling for j the practical disfranchisement of the j negro. Torpedo Boat Is Very Fast. Tne new torpedo boat Craven had her builders' trial over the Southport course. She made one knot at the rate of 31.07 and two knots at the rate of 30.75. She developed greater speed than the Dahlgren attained. Cherokee Treaty Is Revived. After killing the late Cherokee treaty, the Cherokee council took it up again the next day and passed the bill, extending the t ; me for ratification by Congress aud asking that body to make certain changes in the document .Garland, Tex., Destroyed. The town of Garland. Texjis, with 2,000 inhabitants and an important business lK>»nt twelve miles from Dallas, was destroyed by fire. The property loss, exclusive of cotton and railroad iuterests, canpot fall below SIOO,OOO.