Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1900 — TRADE IS IRREGULAR [ARTICLE]

TRADE IS IRREGULAR

INDUSTRIAL SITUATION AS SEEN BY BRADSTREET'S. Immense Corn Crop Practically Assured and Large Winter Wheat Yield Reported-Palatial Yacht of a Detroit Man Burns on Lake Erie. Bradstreet’s says: “Important changes in trade and speculation are notably lacking this week, but counter currents of demand in sections and industries lend a rather more than usually irregular appearance to the situation. Among the features calling for notice arc the practical assurance of an itumense corn crop in the farther West; the continued cheerful reports from the sections which have gathered and are now’ marketing a large winter wheat crop; fairly satisfactory gains in gross railway earnings, and less weakness in prices of the. country’s leading cereal products, based apparently on renewed buying for export. Unfavorable elements in trade probably find their chief and greatest exposition in the iron and steel business. That industry is, if' possible, more de- ' pressed than at any time for three years past, and expectations that price declines "would be checked by the arrival of finished material at a cost basis have been disappointed. “Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 2,363,743 bushels, against 3,029,381 bushels last week, 3,366,432 bushels in the corresponding. week of 1899. Corn exports for the week aggregated 3,243,745 bushels, against 4,182,159 bushels last week, 3,700,320 bushels in this week a year ago. ’ TAKES TOO MUCH MONEY. Duluth Man, Overpaid at a Bank, Arrested at Erie, Pa. The Duluth police are in receipt of a telegram from Erie stating that William Baker of the former city is under arrest there. It is charged that on July 16 Baker went to the American Exchange Bank in Duluth to get a certificate of deposit cashed. By mistake the teller paid him SSOO too much and did not discover the mistake for fifteen minutes, during which time Baker vanished. He was located at Erie by Detective Troyer of Duluth through a woman who went there coon after Baker disappeared. Baker can be tried for grand larceny in the second degree. YACHT ROBERTA IS DESTROYED. Burned Up in Lake Erie—Crew Escapes -Loss, $12,000. ' The steam yacht Roberta, owned by C. H. Lawrence of Detroit, was burned on Lake Erie about twelve miles out from Sandusky. The crew got away in boats. The yacht was in charge of Capt. Jarrett. The flames caught in the boiler room and spread with such rapidity that nothing could be done to save the boat. The Roberta was valued at $12,000 and was rated as one of the finest of its class afloat on the fresh-water lakes. Contests on the Diamond. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. . W. L. Brooklyn ...49 28 Boston 37 40 Philadelphia 43 34 Cincinnati ...36 43 Pittsburg .. .42 38 St. Louis... .33 42 ■Chicago ....40 38 New Y0rk...29 45 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ... .49 33 Buffalo 42 45 Indianapolis 45 36 Detroit 41 45 Milwaukee ..47 41 Kansas City.4l 49 Cleveland ...40 42 Minneapolis. 37 51 Express Robber Foiled. Just after the Missouri Pacific train No. 1 left Atchison, Kan., at 11:45 the ether night for the north, a masked robber entered the express car, covered John Kreiser, the messenger, with a revolver, and demanded the contents of the express safe. Keiser convinced him that the safe could not be opened until the train reached Omaha, and, aftei; taking a silver watch from an express package, the robber got off and escaped. Collision on the Grand Trunk. The Madoc passenger train on the Grand Trunk, bound north, and the Peterboro train, bound south, collided on a curve south of Madoc Junction, Ont. The engines were badly smashed and two cars broken into matchwood. Two of the trainmen were killed and five persons were injured. Sloane Thrown and Injured. Sloane, the famous American *wns badly injured in the race for the classic Liverpool Cup at Liverpool, England. He had the mount on Maluma, and during the progress of the race the horse fell. Sloane was thrown heavily and landed on his head. He was badly gashed. ■ 1 ■ Iron Company Is Bankrupt. The Continental Iron Company, composed of Henry B. Shields, J. Dudley Shields and others of Youngstown, Ohio, haw filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. The company was organized last August with a capital of $200,000 and has been ©iterating mills at Niles and the rolling mill at Wheatland, Pa. B .. Flames Destroy a Town. Fire at Buckley,’ Wash., caused the t loss of twenty-seven buildings, and pracB<lcally the whole town was wiped out. Boer Army Gives Up. g/Gen. Prinsloo, with 5,000 men, has surrendered unconditionally to the British. Kins of Italy Assassinated. I ’ King Humbert of Italy was murdered 4t Monza, where he had been attending a distribution of prizes at a gymnastic competition. The assassin, who gave his ma me as Angelo Bread, a Tuscan, fired Three shots, one of which entered ti ■ hen it. B Actor Attempts Suicide. D. Valencourt Deuell, late leading man M>f the Sporting Duchess company, play? 4ng with Bosp Coughlan, died in Serf-tie in cocaine after two desperate at gem pts at suicide.

NEGROES KIEL POLICEMEN. Two New Orleans Officers Blain During Bloody Fight. Police Captain John T. Day and Policeman Peter J. Lamb are dead in New Orleans and Policeman August T. Mora is 1n the fhospital suffering from three wounds, one of which Is very severe, the result of an encounter with two desperate negroes, Leonard Pierce and Robert Charles, Sergeant Jules G. Aucoin and Patrolmen Cantrelle and Mora attempted to arrest Pierce and Charles while they were seated on a doorstep on Dryades street. When, the officers approached the negroes they jumped up with drawn pistols, and Charles fired at Mora and Oantrelle, and Pierce directed bis bullets nt Aucoin. The officers returned the fire. Mora was shot in the right thigh just below the hip. He fell to the sidewalk, and Cantrelle continued to shoot at Charles and the latter fled, leaving a trail of blood. Pierce finally surrendered. Charles was tracked to General Taylor and Baronne streets. Captain Day. Sergeant Aucoin, Corporals Perrier and Treachard and, Patrolman Lamb and several other officers went to a house In which the negro was said to be hiding and knocked at a door. Charles burst out of the door of the fourth room and opened fire on the policemen. The first shot wounded Captain Day. Soon Lamb fell mortally wounded; Trenchard and Aucoin retreated. Charles then fired several shots into the body of Day. Aucoin and Trenchard waited in a side room in the hope of getting a shot at the negro, but he did not expose himself, and finally disappeared somewhere in the block and all efforts to find him were futile. DEAD MAN’S NAME IS CLEARED. Convicted Fifty leafs Ago for a Crime Never Committed. Fifty years ago Jacob Ritter, a stonemason of Pittsburg, a Lancaster County, Pa-, villages was sent to jail for a year through circumstantial evidence on a charge of stealing a crowbar from Christian Zimmers, a Highville hotelkeeper, for whom he curbed a well. Ritter served honorably through the rebellion as a Union soldier, but to the day of his death several years ago rested under a cloud tn spite of his declaration of his innocence of the offense charged. The other day, while the present owner of Zimmer’s former home was making improvements about the well, a rusty crowbar was unearthed two feet below the surface, and Martin Manning, an old resident of Highville, declared that it was the bar that sent Ritter to jail. In filling up the ground about the well the bar must have been covered up. Members of Ritter’s family have become men of importance, one being an ex-lientenant governor of Illinois, another a Wisconsin railroad magnate and a third a prominent western educator.

GREAT WAREHOUSE BURNED. Fire in St. Paul, Minn., Does $750,000 Damage. In some as yet unknown manner the St. Paul Gold Storage and Warehouse Company’s large , warehouse on 'Eagle street, St. Paul, caught fire and was completely destroyed, together with its valuable contents. The loss is estimated at $750,000, with an insurance of $550,000. The warehouse was filled completely with butter, fruit, tobacco, eggs, tea, whisky and other commodities. The loss aggregates $740,750, divided into the following items: Building and machinery, $150,000; 1,000,000 pounds of butter, SIOO,OOO ; 750,000 pounds dried fruit, $50,000; 25,000 cases of eggs, $100,000; 400,000 pounds of tea, $60,000; 150,000 pounds of maple sugar, $15,000; 100,000 pounds of poultry and game, $10,000; 100,000 pounds of rice, $5,000; 400 bales of tobacco, $80,00075 barrels of whisky, $10,000; ten cars of canned salmon, $60,D 00; two cars of patent medicines, $5,000; one car of cheese, $3,000; one car of canned tomatoes, $750; furniture, $12,000. One Killed and Fourteen Injured. A solid vestibule train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad was wrecked two miles north of Benton, 111. The entire train, except the engine, turned over. Otto Meinal of Chicago was looking out of a window *at, the time. His head was caught under the car and he was instantly killed. Fourteen persons were injured. The wreck was caused by spreading of the rails. Peary Relief Ship Disabled. The Peary relief steamer Windward, entered the harbor at Port au Basques, at the southwest extremity of Newfoundland, with part of her machinery disabled. It will probably require a few days to make the necessary repairs. The delay may seriously disarrange the ship’s plans for reaching the far north. Train Runs Into Landslide. A Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger train was wrecked at Kings Coolie, near Wabasha, Minn., by running into a landslide at that place. Engineer Hathaway and Fireman Thomas were instantly killed and several passengers who were in the forward coaches were injured, some seriously. Train Wrecker Is Arrested. Clyde Hagan, the young man who with Frank Levick, it is alleged, tried to wreck the Memphis flyer, two miles west of Lamar, Mo., on the night of May 21,. was arrested near there. Levick has confessed, but asserted that Hagan placed the obstruction on the track. AKuinaldo’e Body Found. Sergeant Ed Jackson, Thirty-third volunteer infantry, writing to his father in Wichita, Kan., from the Philippines, says the soldiers there generally believe Aguinaldo is dead. A body was found that corresponded exactly with the description of the insurgent leader. Bold Faro Bank Robbery. A faro bank in the rear of Al Richardson’s saloon at Truckee, Ariz., has been robbed by two masked men, who covered five players with revolvers and secured about $750. Joseph Mullen Electrocuted. Joseph Mullen was electrocuted in the New York State prison at Sing Sing. He murdered his wife in New York City June 4, 1898. Mme. Janauschek Haa Paralysis. Mme. Fanny Janauschek, the tragic actress, is a patient in St. Mary’s hospital, Brooklyn, suffering from almost total paralysis of the left side. Six Hurt in a Fight. In a fight at LaSalle, 111., between union strikers and non-union laborers of the German-American cement works, six num were badly wounded.