Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1900 — NEW BUSINESS QUIET. [ARTICLE]

NEW BUSINESS QUIET.

CUT DOWN IN VOLUME BY ADVANCE CONTRACTS. Record Breaking Transactions in Woolen Goods Sharp Advance Hi Wheat—Failures of the Week—Admiralty Island Cannibals Kat Shi p's Crew. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “New business for manufacturers this year has been light in some branches and much below the production last month. It is perhaps too often forgotten that industries start this year with .larger contracts ahead than ever before, and when half the work of the whole year has been ordered in advance there cannot continue quite the same activity in new buying. The woolen maniifaetiir er has just opened a new season withthe largest transactions ever known in a single week, it is said, but in most other lines contracts previously booked'Would make similar activity impossible. ¥et there is seen enough of hesitation caused by advanced prices to make inactivity trying. Iron and steel prices have . been yielding for several weeks, and are a shade lower for products than at any* other time since the middle of September. Wheat has advanced to 73% cents, with no clear reason for such a sharp advance. Western receipts are small, in four weeks only 10,984,928 bushels, against 17,290,297 last year, but the Atlantic exports have been only 7,737,474 bushels, flour included, against 17,037,383 last year. Pacific exports amount to 3,311,230 bushels for the same four weeks, against 2,176,248 last year. Exports of corn still show that American food is wanted abroad, having been in four weeks 13,482,792 bushels, against 12,370,504 last year. Failures for the week have been 231 in the United States, against 224 last year, and 38 in Canada, against 33 last year.” BULLETS LAY ROBBERS LOW. Two Men Killed and One Wounded by Qnincy, 111., Police. Two men dead and one seriously wounded are the results of an attempt, by the Quincy, 111., police to capture the members of a gang of suspected safe-. blowers and burglars. Although many shots were fired the officers escaped unin alleged crooks being the only-victims of the bulets. The leader" of the gang was Charles Prince, alias. “Chuck” Price, alias C. F. fcummis, alias C. Rogers. The other two went by the names of H. J. Crowley and Joseph West. They had rooms at the Moeeker Hotel. Aid. Moeeker, who runs the hotel, recognized the trio as the same who were registered at his place Jail. 7, the day that Judge Henckenkamp's safe wasblown open and robbed of $20,000 in money and notes. He suspected them of -being erooks and notified' the police: West showed fight when an officer attempted to arrest him and was shot dead. The other two returned after their tools in the night, and while also resisting arrest, Prince was killed and Crowley wounded and captured. The coroner’s jury exonerated the officers and complimented them on their nerve.

eaten BY CANNIBALS. S, Horjilile Kate of Trading Schooner's Crew in Admiralty Island. Details have been received of the killing of the captain and crew of the schooner Nikamarra on one of the islands of the AdmirtNty group by the natives, who are cannibals. It is said that all of the victims were eaten. The Nikamarra left New Britain early in October on her trading cruise to the Admiraltys. On arrival there she was boarded by a number of the natives, with whom Capt. Dalthe was unsuspectingly doing business when he was set upon by his treacherous customers and killed, his fate being shared by the mate and six New Ireland natives, all of whom were cut and backed with knives and tomahawks. The natives.then plundered the vessel. Safe Robbers Gag Four Persons. Three masked robbers entered the factory of Dr. Peter Fahrnej. & Sons Company at Chicago, bound, and gagged four employes of the cou.-efn, blew open the safe and escaped with SBOO in currency. The burglars used a high explosive, which shattered the safe and completely wrecked the office. The burglars left but slight clews. Want Reservation Opened. A convention held at Devil's Lake, N. D., to take measures to secure the opening of the Fort Totten Indian reservation and to throw open to settlement 200.000 acres of land not taken in severalty by the Indians, voted to memorialize Congress to appoint a commissioner to treat with the Indians and effect a sale. Americans RciHirtcd Killed. The mail from Guaymas, Sonora, .Mexico, brings the news that a report is current there that six Americans were shot neur the foot of the Bacatetc mountains by order of Gen. Torres, who is in command of the Mexican troops now operating against the Vatjui Indians in the Bacatete range. Mrn. J. I). Rich Found Guilt3'. Mrs. John I>. Kiel), the Chicago woman < who was surrendered to Mexico to be \ tried for the murder of her husband in Juarez last May, was adjudged guilty by tlio Mexican court und sentenced to foartoon years in prison. Suicide of China’s Emperor. According to u special dispatch front Shanghai it is reported there that Emperor Kwnng Hu hits committed .suicide. To Fight Cereal Trust. F. A. Schumacher, sou of the ‘'oatmeal king,” is at the head of a pew company being formed at Akron, Ohio, the American Cereal Company'. Ferdinand Schumacher w|H la* interested in the company, at least to the extent of permitting the 11*1* of his name tlicr<4vith. Noted Swine-Breeder Itcnil. t, David M. Magee died at Oxford, Ohio, aged Hit years, lie originated the ruinous 'JPolutid-Oblnai breed of hogs in 1840, and nmdu Ohio fatuous as a swine breeding

BRVTN HOPKINS’ SAD FATE.

Chicago Man’s Awful Heath in South America from Snakebite. Word has been received of the tragic death in Sputh America of Ervin Hopkins. Jr., son of Ervin Hopkins, a veteran member of the Chicago Board of Trade. The young man, was interested in a rubber concern which bad obtained concessions from the Republic'of Colombia. He represented bis compauy at Bogota, and had made his headquarters at that capital for nearly a year. While on an exploring expedition in the interior his boat ran aground on a sand spit. It Is supposed that in trying to Boat his craft, standing in the water to do so, Mr. Hopkins was bitten by a poisonous reptile, death ensuing in . a short time. Ilis body was found several days later by some of the tiativi? workmen employed by the" company. Indications of a terrible struggle were apparent, and the livid wound inflicted told the horrible story only too plainly. The remains were so badly decomposed that instant burial was necessary and interment, was made on tbe BINDS AND GAGS HIMSELF. Peculiar Precautions Taken by a Man ~, Wlio Commits Suicide. A freight handler in the Central tlud-, "sou depot: at Waterloo, -N. Y., passed out of‘ the rear door of the freight house -early the other .morning. lie saw an overcoat hanging across the fence at the east end of the railing. He. also saw a man about fifteen feet west of tbe coat, whom be thought was- -leaning agaiust the platform. He asked the man if the coat belonged ,to him. There was no answer. lie walked towards the mau, and was horrified to discover that what he supposed was a live man leaning agaiust the platform was the corpse of Reynold Seyboid, suspended from the ceiling, his hands tied behind his back, and a gag in his'nroiith. It was thought at first that Seyboid,, hud been murdered, but later developments and information as to previous Attempts of Seyboid to kill himself in a peculiar manner,-convinced his family and thends that Seyboid tiled; gagged" and then hanged himself. BOBBERS TORTURE A HERMIT. Burn a Pensioner with Red-Hot Irons, but Fail to Find His Money. Cash Jlarry,. a veteran, was tortured by robbers at his home ,in Famiersville, Ohio.'' Barry is a hermit and lives alone. He is,« pensioner, and as he never speut much money it was • enought he bad a treasure concealed about bis borne. The robbers had evidently heard of this and , .tried to get him to"tell where his money was. Barry would not tell, and the robbers burned his feet ami hauds with redhot .irons. The old mau howled with pain and called for help. As no one lived near him he was not answered, but the robbers took fright and lied, getting only $lO. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. Ardandhu Struck by Herman White — Two Officers Lost. The Glasgow steamer Ardandhu, Captain Dundas, from New London, Conn., for Halifax, N. S., was sunk in collision with the Metropolitan liner Herman VVinfrom -Boston for New York, oft" Robinson's Hole, Vineyard sound, Mass., and two of the Ardandhu’s crew of thirty-one men were lost. They were James Henderson, chief engineer, of Glasgow; Fred Dowe, second mate, of Boston. The-Her-man Winter reached Vineyard Haven with her bow gone and reported the accident. She had on board the twentynine men who escaped from the Ardandhu. Klg Fire in Mnucie, lild. “ At Mjurieie, Ind., fire, probably of in jendiary origin, destroyed tbe entire plant of the Union Traction Company, together -With the Snyder cooperage works and a dwelling house. The estimated loss on the traction company’s plaut is between $90:000 and SIOO,OOO, fully covered by ire surance. Every motor car save one used in the city street- car service was consumed.

Forbidden to Bent His Hat. No more may the private soldier knock dents in his campaign bat or pin up a flap of the b<*im on one side. The regulation just issued by the War Department reads: “The wearing of these huts in any other than their original shape is prohibited.” The original shape of the campaign hat is on the Alpine order. Strike Leader Becomes Insane. James Woods, secretary of the Stone Workers’ Union of Roekport, Mass., and the leader in the three months’ strike this summer, has gone crazy. He started out to murder his wife aud brother, but they overpowered him, and then he broke away from them aud disappeared in the woods. Stores Burned at Burr Oak, Ind. The general stores of W. F. Wilhelms, Redwise & Co. and Frank Overmeyer at Burr Oak, Ind., were destroyed by tire. The estimated loss is $28,000. It is believed that the Redwise store was burglarized before the tire, was discovered, and the other store buildings caught from this one, Hoad Prepares for Trouble. The Great. Northern Railway authorities are preparing for trouble. Chief Herrick has an emissary at Minneapolis hiring police officers. Herrick visited Minneapolis aud arranged to hire all the ex-policemen and watchmen he could get at $4 a day. . Embezzler Mukes Confession. Leroy W. Secor, who embezzled $17,000 from the Goodrich Transportation Company at Milwaukee, has confessed to the officers in New York City, where he was arrested. He will help the Goodrich people straighten out his books and then take bis punishment. Suicide of Miss Ricksecker. At Oberlin, Ohio, Miss Gertrude Kiekseeker, the 16-year-old daughter of Millionaire Ricksecker of'New York, committed suicide by tnkiug laudanum. Miss Ricksecker was in, poor health, and melancholia caused her to take her life. Phillips (Jets Life. Sentence. Amos Phillips, the murderer whose accomplices were lynched at Fort Scott, Kan., the other day, and who was himself saved from the mob by the determined efforts of the sheriff, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Spittoons for City Streets. 'Spittoons will Ik*'placed at distances of 200 feet uloug the streets of Cleveland if an ordinance introduced in the Council is given npprovul. The novel plan tt aid in keeping the city clean was suggnted in all seriousness.