Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1900 — FAILURES FOR APRIL. [ARTICLE]

FAILURES FOR APRIL.

IT IS NOT THOUGHT THAT THEY PRESAGE DISASTER. Conditions of Business Show a Reaction ' from Abnormal Excitement and Expansion of Last Yea,r Robbers Compel - Passengers to Jump from Train. R. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review «f trade says-. "Failure returns for April are especially valuable because they show that there does not exist in the most important branches of business the conditions which threaten disaster. They call attention to one line in which some curtailment had seemed from previous returns to be in progress and had been hastened by extensive strikes in the building trades. The simple fact is that some reaction from the abnormal excitement and expansion and rise of prices last year was necessary to continued prosperity. Its duration may therefore be expected to depend on the promptness with which production and prices adjust themselves t" actual demands. All exports from New York in four weeks have been 3J?.4 per cent, or ever $11,000,000, larger than last year, and with the gain of $15,000,000 in cotton from other ports the months aggregate for merchandise should rise above $100.1)00.000. Imports show-a small gain, bnt will hardly exceed s7o.boo,opo£ Failures .for the week have been 209 in the United States, against 158 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 23 last year. - ’ NEW STYLE IN TRAIN ROBBERY. Northern Pacific Bandits Compel Vie- ’ time to Jump Off Moving Car. After robbing five passengers on a Northern Pacific freight train near North Y akima, Wash.. six h igh way men compel 1ed their victims to jump off the moving train, that they themselves might be secure tvhen the conductor and brakeman returned from, the front end of the train. Compelling the passengers to line up wit li arms uplifted, the robbers went "through them, securing watches, rings and nearly SOOO. The passengers were then made to jump off, the robbers meanwhile shooting them and- pounding them_i>ver the head with -their guns. The passengers walked to Rosa station and wired Sheriff Tucker at Yafcima, who organized a posse and started in pursuit. The. robbers left the train at Umtnnum.

WOMEN SMOTHERED TO DEATH. Singular Accident in St. Louie Costs Two Girls their Lives. Sophia Everson. 27 years old, and her *cousin, Melvina’- Wilson. 28 years old, were smothered to death in bed during a storm, while Perry Everson, an 8-year-old*child. occupying the same bed. slept on uninjured. The Eversons lived in a two-story dilapidated structure at No. 1430 North Eighth street". St. Louis, occupying the'first floor, while Jerry Moore and wife lived upstairs. During the height of the storm the rafters gave way, carrying down the second floor and contents. The mattress of Iho bed upon which the Moores slept fell immediately over the two women on the floor beneath, and they smothered. Contests ou the Diamond. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia. 10 4 Chicago 7 8 Cincinnati .. 8 6 St. Louis.... <> 8 Brooklyn ... 8 <1 New Y'ork... 5 8 Pittsburg ... 8 7 Boston 4 9 In the American League the standings are: •' W. L. W. L. Milwaukee.. 11 4 Buffalo 6 6 Indianapolis.. 8 5 Kansas City. 6 10 Chicago .... 9 6 Minneapolis . 6 12 Cleveland ... 7 5 Detroit 4 9 Damage Is Nearly $50,000. 'Hie flood in the Platte river caused by the bursting of the Denver. Colo., Union Water Company's diverting dam on Goose creek, is subsiding. The total loss from the washing out of railroad tracks in Platte canyon, destruction of bridges, flooding of ranches and gardens is estimated at $40,000, and the water company estimates the. damage to its works at $7,500.

Fires Cause Four Deaths. Four persons were killed in tires in New York City the other night and a fifth was fearfully injured. At a lodging house tire in South street, John Curran, a marine engineer, was burned to death and Fireman Daniel Mullin Was thrown from a ladder, receiving injuries from which he died. Fireman James Fitzpatrick was fatally injured Uy the overturning of a hose truck which he was driving. Exact Status of Porto Hico. Judge Doehren in the I’nited States Circuit Court at St. I’aul remanded Rafael Ortiz, the Porto Rican, hack to Stillwater prison. In his decision Judge Doehren held that hy-the cession of Porto Rico that island became an integral part of the i’nited States and that the Federal constitution thereupon, ex propria vigore. extended over the island and its people. Frost Injures Ohio Fruit Crop. In eastern Ohio ice formed in some localities the other night and killing frosts were general. The damage to fruits and early crops is heavy. The apple and peach crops are practically destroyed. Kansas Dow Unconstitutional. The Kansas railroad law. which is the result of ten years of Populist agitation in Kansas, was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court. One Killed and Two Injured. Passenger train No. 107yuu the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and (Jhio road wits wrecked just cast of.Gastonvilie, Pa. Patrick J. Horan, track -inspector, was killed and two trainmen were badly hurt. None of the passengers was hurt. Smallpox in Butler Colleice. Smallpox has lyoken out at Butler College at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis. Five young ladies have the disease. .Twenty-five students and other persons exposed have been placed in quarnntiue.

MRS. NEVKU’S PAPERS FOUND. „ Bon Accused of Poisoning Her Manages to Escape Arrest. Mrs. M. J. Neveu, a Klondike woman who struck it rich, is under treatment for poisoning in Chicago. Her satchel containing diamonds, gold dust and negotiable papers valued at $70,000 was stolen from her room. She was in a stupor at the time the robbery was committed and she declares a drug was administered to her-by her son Thomas, who has eloped with an actress. Young Neveu and his sweetheart were traced by detectives to a hotel at 36 North Clark ’street, but they managed to escape arrest They left the satchel and the detectives recovered all the stolen property save five diamonds valued at $1,200 amL a small quantity of gold dust. Mrs. Neveu has been boarding in Illinois street for four months with her sons, Fred and Thomas. The latter is 17 years old. Late Monday night he induced his mother to drink a cup of tea before going to bed. After drinking it she became sick and drowsy. A stupor overcame her and Thomas is then supposed to have taken the sa'tcheh COURT AIMS'BLOW AT TRUSTS. New York Supreme Justices Forbid Investments for Minors Therein. A blow at trusts, industrials and all kinds of corporations formed to control some specific commodity is made in a decision just handed down by the appellate division of the Supreme Court of New York. This decision forbids executors, administrators and guardians of trust estates to invest those funds in. the stock of a trust or industrial corporation. -It is held by tjie court, that combinations formed to control the market prices are illegal and unauthorized. The decision was reached in the ease of the controversy over the estate of the late Alvah Hall. Portions of the funds were invested in the umbrella trust, which collapsed after an existence of two years. The decision requires that the trustees shall pay over to the estate the sum put into the umbrella trust". • . TOWN SWEPT BY" FLAMES. Gladwin, Mich., Is Almost Wiped Out by Fire. Fire, which started in Shaw & Walker’s billiard hall at Gladwin, Mich., destroyed sixteen buildings and a lot of other property. For a time it was thought the whole town was doomed. Albert Bergau slept in the billiard hall and it is supposed he was burned to death. The body of Thos. Van Wenner, awaiting burial, was burned. Among the property destroyed were the Michigan Central station, Free Methodist Church, city hose house, Brunswick Hotel. Foster & Miller's hardware store, Hugh McClary's agricultural implement store. The total loss is $50,000. STABBED BY GEN. H. G. OTIS. W. R. Ream, a Reporter, Attacked, He Says, with a Bayonet. W. R. Ream, a well-known newspaper man at Los Angeles, Cal., was stabbed by Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Times. Artist Chapin of the Times had got into a row in a restaurant and Ream went to the Times office to get" Chapin's version of the affair. Gen. Otis was talking with Chapin. “You have come to see Chapin. You will write him up and lie about him, just as you do everything else,” said Otis, according to Ream. Gen. Otis then stabbed Ream with a bayonet. Gen. Otis gave himself up ami entered a plea of not guilty. Ream was not badly hurt. Mother Killed aud Child -Escaped. Mrs. Alice Thornberg and her little 10-year-old son, Eddie, while walking over the Lake Shore Railway trestle that spans Ottawa river nt Toledo. Ohio, were run down' by the fast limited express from Detroit. The boy threw himself flat on the track between the rails, and the train passed over him without injuring him. His mother apparently tried to do the same, but was struck and hurled into the river below, a distance of 130 feet. When recovered she was dead. Thrown from Bridge by Tramps. Jack Lynch, an employe at Long Cliff, near Logansport, Ind., while returning to the hospital was assaulted and robbed by four tramps on. the Wpbash Railway bridge. The men rifled Lynch's pockets and then threw him into the river below, a distance of thirty-five feet. The water was shallow, or Lynch would have been drowned. Hope to Solve the Mystery. The body of a woman found in a box at the express office in Cambridge Springs. I’a., is traceable by only one clew. The name of a Connecticut firm is on the box. -The corpse had been packed in sawdust .and ice. A stranger left the box at the express office on April 24. The body is that of a woman about 40 years old.

Dynamite Outrage in Indiana. The house of Mrs. Katurah Alldredge at Mount Vernon, Ind., was wrecked by a dynamite explosion. Mrs. Alldredge ami her 5-year-old daughter were thrown from their bed. but c neither was hurt. The police are at a loss to understand the motive for the crime. Kills Himself in a Cemetery. Near Howell’s, .Neb., Joseph Slama went to the house of Frank Chady, a neighbor, and shot the latter as he lay in his bed after driving other inmates from the house. Slama then went to the (Catholic cemetery and killed himself. The men had long been enemies. Great Fabric Collapses. An immense truss in the building of the Dimmick Pipe Company, in the course of, erection at North Birmingham. Ala., fell, causing the collapsF'of'the entire framework of‘ the structure with -a terrific crash. Two were killed, two fatally hurt, and nine badly injured. . Industrial HchooV Burned. A fire which started in the industrial school building ou Randall’s Island. New York, caused a panic among the children in the children’s hospital, which stood next to the burning building. The Indus- 1 trial school was burned to the ground. No one was injured. Twanty Killed in Philippines. The American garrison of Catubig, Island of Samar, consisting of thirty men belonging to the Forty-third regiment. has been attacked by rebels. Twenty of the Americans were killed. The remainder were rescued. Many Coins Made in April. The month of April was h record breaker for the making of coins at the Philadelphia mint. The tofnl number of pieces of money made was 9,831,100, the value of which is $12,954,480.