Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — GATES TO BE CLOSED. [ARTICLE]

GATES TO BE CLOSED.

CANADA BARS OUT UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS. Action Taken on Account of Recent Inflnx of Dukhobors, Galician* and Roumanian Jews —Good Crops of Cotton, Spring Wheat and Apples Inspected. The Canadian Government has caused a proclamation <0 be issued decreeing that pauper immigrants .arriving at any Canadian port cannot be permitted to land until the captain of the vessel has put into the hands of the government immigration officials a sum sufficient to meet their temporary requirements and to pay their traveling expenses to point of destination. The cause of the government’s action was the importation of 10,000 Dukhobors and Galicians into Canada last year, and a large number of whom last winter had to be supported by public grants or aided by charitable societies. The climax was reached a few weeks ago when 2,000 Roumanian Jews arrived at Quebec. Scores were permitted to be landed in a state of absolute pauperism despite the protests of press and people. LARGE CORN CROP EXPECTED. “Store Cotton and Spring Wheat than Expected—Applea Promise Btjr. Bradstreet’s says: Trade conditions still favor the buyer. General fall demand, though fair in view of midsummer conditions, is still below expectations and below a year ago. Bank clearings are at the lowest for two years past, and failures are slightly more numerous, though no marked tendencies are perceptible. On the other hand, gross railway earnings hold the percentage of gain previously shown, and where prices are made low enough to satisfy buyers a heavy business is uncovered and readily booked, pointing to demand being still present and awaiting disposal. The crop situation as a whole is better, the outlook as to corn is for a 2,100,000,000bushel crop. Spring wheat is turning out better in quality and quantity than expected, and there has been an unquestionable improvement in cotton crop conditions. The yield of apples will be the largest for many years, and fruits generally are yielding liberally and commanding good prices. ROB TRAIN AND KILL. Bandits Hold Up Coaches West of Hugo, Col., and Shoot One Man. Union Pacific east-bound passenger train, N. 4, was held up by two men (several miles west of Hugo, Col., ninety miles east from Denver. The passengers in the Pullman sleepers were'robbed of their money and valuables. W. J. Pay, an old man who was a resident of California, and had been visiting in Denver and was on his way to St. Louis, refused to surrender his valuables and fired a shot at one of the robbers, but missed. Thereupon the robbers fired, one shot entering Fay’s mouth and coming out at the back of the head, killing him almost instantly. The bandits jumped off the train and escaped. ROBBERS SECURE $28,000. Mail Bag in New York City Cut Open and Valnable Papers Extracted. The New York Journal and Advertiser says: One of three leather mail pouches In transit from the general postoffice to Bub-station O, at sth avenue and 13th street, that city, was robbed of more than $28,000 in drafts, checks and cash. While the bags lay on the platform to await a certain train a slit eight inches long was cut in one of them, and through the cut nearly all of the mail in the bag was extracted. The matter was kept secret and the postoffiee inspectors set to work to find the robbers. Contests on the Diamond. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L Brooklyn ...53 29 Boston 40 42 Philadelphia 45 37 Cincinnati ...38 4<i Pittsburg ...44 40 St. Louis ....3(5 44 Chicago ... .41 42 New York.. .31 48 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ... .52 30 Cleveland .. .43 45 Indianapolis 40 41 Kansas City.4o 50 Milwaukee ..4!) 44 Buffalo 43 50 Detroit 40 40 Minneapolis .40 54> Loss of a Million. Nearly $1,000,000 wortli of lumber was burned in Barker & Stewart’s and the Keystone Lumber Company’s yards Ht Ashland, Win. Almost 50,000,000 feet of lumlx-r was burned, and two of the Keystone Company’s tramways and four out of five of the Barker & Stewart tramways were burned to the water’s edge with all their lumber. King of Bervia Marries. King Alexander of Servin has wedded ltme. Draga Maschin, the ceremony being performed with great pomp. In honor r 'of the event the king granted an amnesty, together with numerous political pardona. Fall-Blood Governor Elected. Reliable returns of the election for ■Governor held in the Choctaw nation •bow that Judge J. XV. Dukes has been elected. Mr. Dukes ran on the full-blood Fatal Quarrel Over Election. Will Elder shot ar»l killed-James Aimstrong at Elk River. Tenn.. as the result ot a quarrel over the election. Elder surForest Fire Burns Town. A forest fire ut floppy Arm, White Bay, N. F., ha* destroyed a large saw mill, •everal million feet of lumber, and a setok the resned.

GIRLS IN THE WHEAT FIELDS. Xonng Women of Kansas Earned Big Sums Harvesting Crops. Hundreds of Kansas girls now have a pocketbook full of new, crisp money as a result of three weeks’ work in the harvest fields this summer. Many of them have earned enough to buy their winter clothes. There is no way to tell the exact number of girls w-ho were employed In the wheat fields this year, but from the numerous notices of-town girls going out to do harvest work, as contained in the local newspapers of the State, it is believed that no less than 500 women were thus employed. The work is easy, and the pay is $2 per day. They can sit on a binder or mower, shock wheat or rake hay, just as the farmers may wish. The day’s work is from sun to sun, and the men treat them with great respect aiid courtesy. But the girls will not allow the men to relieve them of their share of the work. Eighteen young women from McPherson this year went "Into the fields and earned enough money plowing and harvesting to take them on a trip to the Atlantic coast, at which place they are now. Other girls have earned enough to send them to school this winter, and many more have spent their money for fine clothes and jewelry. c The daughters of the farmers do not work in the fields so much as do the town girls, who go out during the summer to make a little vacation money. The harvesting is now over, but many girls may be seen running plows. BUILDERS GO AWAY. Chicago Union Men in Demand in Other Cities. Continued requests for structural iron workers are being received by Secretary Nicholas Darrah of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ Union in Chicago. Twenty-five iron workers were sent to Duluth the other day on request of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company to work on towers for the mammoth coal chutes being built there. Twenty more men were sent later. The towers are to be completed by Jan. 1, 1901. Fifty men went to West Superior to work on the grain elevator being constructed there. The contractors express a decided preference for the Chicago builders, and are endeavoring to recruit all the extra men needed from the Chicago union. The building now under way at West Superior will be the largest elevator ever constructed. When completed it will have a capacity of 2,000,000 bushels. Ten bridgemen were sent recently to Jefferson, Wis., where two bridges spanning the Rock and Crawfish rivers are to be built for the Northwestern Railroad. The combined length of the bridges will be 900 feet. Twenty iron workers were sent to Pearl, 111., upon request of the Chicago and Alton Railroad. MINE HORROR IN MEXICO. Probably Thirty Men Are Entombed and Burned Alive. Fire broke out in one of the chambers of the La Paz mines at Matehauala, state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and it spread so rapidly that many miners were entombed and perished. Eleven bodies have been brought to the surface and near twenty miners are missing. An effort was made to send down a rescuing party from the surface, but the terrific heat made it impossible. Ramon Gomez, foreman of the day shift, perished in an attempt, to go down from the surface and save his comrades. The cause of the fire is not known. An official investigation has been ordered. Street Cars Crash Together. A terrible head-end collision occurred on the Dayton and Xenia, Ohio, traction line. Both electric cars were smashed and a dozen people injured, some fatally. The railway people allege that some one tampered with the electric signals, setting them “open” for both cars. The cars met at full spebd near a sharp curve, were forced up on end, left their trucks and toppled over. Sad Accident in Wichita. Four women driving in the park at Wichita, Ivan., whipped their horse while crossing a bridge. He ran away, overturned the carriage and threw the occupants to the ground. Miss Grace Gilbert died from her injuries. Mrs. Blanche Chandler Miller is not expected to recover and Miss Ella Chandler is seriously injured. Yukon Railroad Is Completed. The Lake Bennett section of the White Pass uud Yukon Railroad is completed, and from now on through trains will be run from Skaguay to-White Horse. The completion of the road will result in the deserting of Bennett City, so long the point for thousands of Klondikers. Training Ship Goes on a Cruise. The United States training-ship Hartford left Charlestown navy yawl for Southampton, England. The first stop of a cruise which is expected to last a year will be Southampton. The Hartford will visit Turkey. Gibraltar, Italy and France after leaving England. Seizes Canal Property. The Government of Nicaragua has taken possession of the property of the Maritime Canal Company and removed the company’s cars, rails and property to the interior from Grey town, under article 54 of the concession. Pastor Encourages Raving. Rev. J. F. Moreland, in charge of the Zion Methodist Episcopal church for negroes in St. Louis, is operating a penny bnnk to stimulate his race to industry and thrift, llis only capital is his honesty, in which his flock relies implicitly. Ridpath, the Historian, Dies. John Clark Ridpath, the famous historian, succumbed in a New York hospital to a complication of diseases. He resigned the vice presidency of De Pauw University to devote his entire time to writing. Assassinated from Ambush. Michael Byrd, a prominent farmer living near Magnetic City, N. C.. was assassinated from ambush. He died n few hours after having been tired upon. No clew bus yet been secured as to his murderer*. Plan New Hnbmarine Cable. The fact that the United States ha* granted landing rights for a new German cable may pave the way for direct cable connections between Germany and the United State*. Alma at Servian King. A rumor ha* reached London from Belgrade that an attempt was made to assassinate King Alexander while he wa* driving through the town. It ia said he wm shot at, but waa not Injured.