Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — REACTION IN TRADE. [ARTICLE]

REACTION IN TRADE.

PRICES OF VARIOUS MATERIALS ARE YIELDING. Business Could Not Long Continue I nder Extreme Prices Caused by Supposed Scarcity I.ast Year Gulf Route Is Taking Most Kansas Wheat. S'. IL G. Dun <£.- Co.’s weekly review >■: Trade says: “Prices in materials artyielding. If TM»t the best news possible for some speculators, it is the besl that could come for the country, since Indus "tries could not long prosper .without reaction frlufi the extreme prices caused by actual or supposed scarcity of materials last year. The great iron .industry has been embarrassed by prices for pig and billets which were no longer sustained by the gradually yielding prices of products.' Cheaper hides and- leather enable boot and shoe makers to take contracts for split goods at 2% cents less than prices recently asked. Hides at Chicago have again yielded.-making 3 per cent, fall in a month. At last it is admitted that wool quotations so long held are fully’ 3 cents per scoured pound lower than prices in large actual sales last week,. Prices of cottons are "still advancing. Failures for the week have been in the United States 201, against 191 last year, and 33 in Canada against 40 last year.’’ FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER. Convicted of a Crime Committed in Ohio in November Last. At Defiance. Ohio, the jury in the case of Frank Zuber, on trial for the murder of Enos ltat.li. the deputy marshal of Hicksville, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree with a reeommendation for mercy. -Tim sentence for this crime is life imprisonment withofit parole or pardon. On the morning of Nov. 25, 1899. between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, Enos Rath, a" niglii watchman and deputy marshal of the village ol? Hicksville, Ohio, was attacked by three men, unknown to him. ami so unmercifully bgaten and kicked that Indied within a few minutes without regaining consciousness sufficiently to be able to. make any tangible statement iham might'jead to the detection of those who had committed the crime.

KANSAS FLOUR GOING VIA GULF. Freight Charges East of Chicago Turn the Trade Southward. It is probable that the export flour trade from the great wheat belt of Kansas and the Wefct will in the ffiture be sent to European points via the GulfNearly all pf the export shipments from Kansas and Oklahoma now are going to Galveston or New Orleans. Western railroads and lines which touch Gulf, points are encouraging this movement; and are granting special rates to exporters. It is claimed that the excessive freight charges on lines east of Chicago are responsible for the heavy Gulf business. A barrel of Kansas flour can be delivered in Havana just as cheaply as in New York, and it only costs 5 cents more per barrel to lay it down in LonF don. Wed by Dead Mun’s Voice. Although the father of Miss Edith 1.. Smith of New’ York, who was married in Binghamton, N. Y.. the'other day to Frank T. Mercervau, has been dead for several weeks'it. was his. voice ‘.hat pronounced the marriage ceremony. Rev. Mr. Smith was taken suddenly ill while the bride was in the South and died before her return. Before his death ho recited the marriage service into the phonograph used. Big Fire in Philadelphia. A fire which broke out in the straw goods manufactory of S. May. 721 Arch street, Philadelphia, resulted in the loss of life of a woman employe, the injury of several girls who jumped from windows and the destruction of property valued at several hundred thousand dollars. The fire extended to the adjoining buildings and some dozen or twenty firms were burned out. Winter Moil Route to Nome. The Government has decided to establish a winter overland. United States mail route from the Cook Inlet coast to Nome, Alaska. To this end it is dispatching an expedition, led by Edwin Engelstad and Postoffice Inspector Wilcox, whose commission is to travel over the so-called Katmai trail ami ascertain its practicability for mail carrying purposes.

Five Die at Grade Crossing. The midnight express <>n the Lehigh Valley Railroad struck a carriage containing seven persons at Tuttle's crossing, about twenty-five miles east of Rochester N. Y., instantly killing live of the occupants, fatally injuring another and badly bruising the other. All were members of a family. * Father and Ron Assassinated. A special from Buektown. Tenn., says Miles Woods was called from his mountain home and shot down in cold blood. He died in ten minutes. His father ran out to ascertain the trouble and was shot twice by the assassin. Bernard Mono* Is Chosen. K; President McKinley has appointed Her- £ nard Moses, of California, as the fifth I member of the new Philippine eommis--1 sion, and the appointment has been aew* Gas, Explosion in <i Mine. i One man was entombed in a pocket of terrible epfil gas and two are seriously burned ns n result of an explosion in one of the Black Diamond mines, Seattle. Meets Death in a Theater. George E. Cox, buyer for George I'. Gore & Co., shoe deniers of Chicago, having nu office in Boston, was taken ill in Keith’s theater. in that city. He was removed to the lobby and at tendance summoned, hut he died soon after. MMWre Fire nt Baraboo, Wis. Hevea business firms were wiped out hy fire at. W ope woe, \Vis. For a time It seemed ptobabio that the entire village was 'the loss amounts to S6'». aUMM. The origin of the.fire is unknown.

PAYMASTER IS EXONERATED. Had to Leave the Cruiser Charleston's Stror.'s IX-iz Belli nd. When th. j erawtr Charleston was wrecked; two tsonths: ago. rm air ti trebart - ed reef north of Luzon the ship’s paymaster was compelled to abandon his money safe, which con tai ned abou t t wen - ty thousand Mexican dollars and S4OO in gold. The weight of this amount of specie and the strong box was too great to imperil the lives.of the men set adrift in the,open hoats 2 with no certainty of being able to afloat until land' ebtlld" be reached. It was necessary to utilize all the spare capacity of the boats for lood and for arms and ammunition, for fear a landing would have to be made on a barren shore or that sympathizers of Aguinaldo would offer a reception at which guns and cartridges would lie worth more than Mexican money. The money l left behind had been charged against Paymaster Reynolds of the Charleston, to. the amount of $12,240, and when he reached Manila his accounts were found to be short that much. Under the regulations Admiral Watson ordered a board to investigate this failure to balance accounts. The report fully’ exonerates the paymaster from any actual wickedness or-criminal intent in the transaction. PLANS BIG RAILROAD SCHEME. New International S.vsteqi from Kansas City to Gulf of California. Arthur E, Stillwell, promoter and former president of the Kansas City, I’ittsuurg and Gulf Railroad Company, is the iioving spirit in an ambitious railroad -cfaeme. His plan contemplates a new uteruatioiiai railway system, 1,800 miles >u length, stretching from Kansas City to the Gulf of California. The Kansas City, Mexico apd Orient Railway Company has been incorporated in Kansas, with an authorized capital of sl,tiOthOW. Hie plan • contemplates a railroad from Kansas City through Topeka and Wichita, Kan., through El Reno, Ok., .and through northwestern and western Texas between the Santa Fe and Rock Island lines to a point on the Rio Grande river about 200 miles south and east of El I’aso, thence southwest to Chihuahua, Mexico. At Chihuahua connection "is proposed with a line now being built to the southwest, its ultimate terminus to be Topolobampo, on the Gulf of California. Of this line 1(50 miles is already constructed. RETURN TWO ISLES TO SPAIN. United States Withdraw from Territory Not Included in Treaty. Upon representations of the Spanish Government to the effect that some of the islands south of the Philippine archipelago, which had been taken possession of by United States gunboats, were really the property’-of Spain, the authorities of the State Departmont_at Washington have examined the charts and concluded to direct the withdrawal of all claims to the islands of Caygayen Sulu and Cibutu, both of which lie without the boundary lines laid down by the treaty of Paris.

DEAD IN THE WOODS. Body of tlie Murderer Was Found, and —ls Possibly a Suicide. A special from Kingstown, Tenn., says that Tete Hickey, who shot and killed Maggie Jones and seriously wounded John Billingslea at the house of Sarah Kiiklin recently, was found dead in the woods near the scetft? of the tragedy. The top of his head was blown off. The impression is that a friend of the murdered woman who was in one of the posses hunting Hickey killed him, refusing to take him in custody. Some think it was suicide, as a shotgun with one barrel empty was lying near the body. She Is a Noted Criminal. It was determined beyond question at the New York barge office that the alleged Wilhelmina Sells is no other than Mme. Katherine Hanuweber, the woman convict who led such a daring career of crime in Germany. The truth was learned from the woman herself through the simple medium of administering an oath to her on a crucifix instead of on a Bible. She is said to have been a famous “fence” in Germany, and three times attempted murder. She will be deported. Says Labor Unions May Boycott. Judge Stover in the Circuit Court at Kansas City declared that labor unions had the legal right to put in force a peaceful boycott against employers of non-union labor, and had a legal right to try by peaceful and fair persuasive means to’mducc customers of a boycotted person or firm to quit that person or firm and patronize employers of union workers.

Blaze in a Southern Hotel, The Hotel Flanders at Knoxville, Tenn., was partially burned, seventy-five guests being forced out into the streets with the mercury hugging the zero mark. McNabb's case, in the hotel block, was gutted. Six firemen were overcome by smoke. The fire originated in the basement under the case, probably from electric wires. Slept at His Post To Be Shot. A dispatch has been received in Batavia, N. ¥., that Ernest Kingdon of Stafford, who enlisted rn the Fortieth volunteer infantry, had been found sleeping at his post, tried by court martial and sentenced to be shot. It is said that, a number of Filipino rebels entered thy* camp while Kingdon was asleep and killed two or three American soldiers. Pensions for Old Employes. The Pennsylvania Radroad pension department has acted upon the cases of 988 employes who were relieved from service on the first of the present year, and has fixed tlie monthly pension allowance to lie paid to each, the aggregate of which amounts to over $200,000 per annum. Railroad Is Ordered Sold, J The Pittsburg and Western Railroad will be sold within thirty days unless the corporation satisfies a big mortgage held by the Mereau/ile Trust Company of New York. Judge Buffington in the United States Circuit Court nt Pittsburg signed a decree directing the foreclosure. Murder in the becond Degree. Aftep being put twenty hours the jury in the case of Clay Larkin, the baseball player, who killed .Charles Shock with a bat, re'urned a .verdict of murder in the second degree at Batavia, Ohio. The penalty is life imprisonment. '■.rings Ore from Corcnn Mines. The steamer. Coptic brought to a San Frangieco smelting company 1,840 sacks of ore copcentrates from the mines of an Ameiktin syndicate in Corea, mid is the second itwrlar consignment within a few mouths.