Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1900 — GOOD CROP REPORTS. [ARTICLE]

GOOD CROP REPORTS.

PRICES OF GRAIN BUT LITTLE altered. foreign Estimate of Short World's Crop Neutralizes Effect of Favorable Reports Here Ninety-six Spiders Removed from a Missouri Boy’s Ear.

I R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of 1 trade says: “The volume of business does not materially enlarge at the east, and there is only moderute improvement at the west and south, but if expectations of greater activity when politics ceases to disturb are realized current operations will be found to have laid a substantial foundation. The most important event of the week in the industrial world was the agreement on the tin plate wage scale, with the Amalgamated Association granting about 8 per cent advance to 35,000 hands long idle. Other metal workers’ disputes are nearing settlement, while the Borden purchase of 500,000 pieces print cloths at 2% cents clears up the Fall River market and is believed to preclude serious wage differences there. Prices of grain are little altered, good crop reports coming in freely, but the effect being neutralized by a foreign estimate of a world’s crop below requirements. Exports from Atlantic jtorts amounted to only 1,002,540 bushelswheat, flour included, against 2,900.000 a year ago. Cotton is strong in the face of a larger yield than expected. Business in, iron and steel products steadily increases, and mills are more actively employed. Oet. 1 is mentioned as the probable date of a general resumption. It is significant that shipyards on the lakes and the Pacific coast are full of orders for eight months or more. Failures for the week were 145 in the United States, against 132 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 30 last year.”

SPIDER’S NEST IN BOPS EAR. Ninety-six of the Insects, All Alive, Are Removed. From the ear of the 8-year-old son of James Hawkins ninety-six live spiders were taken, besides three balls of eggs and a lot of spider web. The boy, who lives with his parents at Senath, Mo., complained of earache, and his mother applied a common remedy, tobacco juice. She was astonished to see a full grown black spider come out, and in a few minutes several others appeared. The boy was taken to a physician, who coaxed out fourteen other spiders. The boy was then put under an X-ray light and a lot of other spiders were discovered. All of the spiders are reported to have been as large as buckshot. > BIG STEAMER FOUNDERS. Bock Tears a Hole in Its Side—Passengers Are All Saved. The excursion steamer John Endicott, of the Boston and Plymouth Line, bound for Boston, struck a sunken rock just east of Minot’s light and tore a hole in its side, so that* it was obliged to run full steam for the shore off North Scituate, Mass., where it foundered. There were on board 600 passengers at the time of the accident, but by the hasty use of all its lifeboats and with assistance from the boats near by every person aboard was saved.

Contests on the Diamond. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn 66 43 Boston 53 58 Pittsburg ...64 49Cincinnati ...52 60 Philadelphia 56 53 St. L0ui5....51 59 Chicago ....55 57 New Y0rk...46 64 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....76 49 Kansas City. 63 67 Milwaukee ..71 57 Cleveland ...59 67 Indianapolis 68 59 Buffalo 58 72 Detroit 68 02 Minneapolis .50 80 Electric Company Blamed. The coroner’s jury at St. Louis rendered a verdict finding the Seekner Contracting Company responsible for the death of two patrolmen who were killed several days ago by electric shocks while using police telephones. Shot Down by Her Husband. | Because she wouldn’t go to a mission ! and lead the afternoon service in his stead James Burnside, colored, a deacon in the Baptist church and prominent in Afro-American society, circles in Chicago, shot and killed, his wife. Lowers All Records. Sirg-Ameriean Line steamer arrived at Plymouth, hav--11 records for transatlantic r time* was five days seven rty-eight minutes. lestrnctioa in Texas. and tidal wave destroyed lives and many millions in ralv'etjton,, Houston and othits. Into Warship lowa. ;1 American ship May Flint, into San Francisco harbor, battle-ship lowa and sank utes. No lives were lost. Accepts Renomination. IcKinley has issued hia letaccepting the Republican >r the presidency. • Denies Complicity, rial edict the empress dowa denies any complicity in j foreigners. tman Kills Another. t Mlddleboro, Ky., l>et\veen ,illy Russell and Kllen Porwas seriously stabbed and d from tbe wounds inflietsell woman escaped to tbe t was luter captured by the To Avoid Signing 84,000 Bonds. The reason why A. M. Moreland wishI to resign his office ns secretary bf the Uti -.'4.

NATION TO AID GOLD HUNTERS. Transport Will Be Sent to Bring the Penniless from Nome. At a meeting of the cabinet in Wasbington the administration decided to send a transport to Cape Nome, Alaska, to bring away the several hundred or thousand gold hunters who are stranded there. It is believed that most of those who rushed into the great gold district last spring have been disappointed; that they will require help to get back to their homes, and that if this help is not forthcoming there will be a carnival of crime and death at Nome during the winter. Clothing and food will also be taken to the Alaskan Indians, who are reported to be stricken by plague and starvation. The miners, it is reported, have gathered for their own use nearly all of the drift wood which the Indians have been accustomed to depend upon for their winter fuel, and in some instances the cabins of the Indians have been torn down by the miners and the wood used by them Regardless of the suffering Indians.

GETS SLICE OF VENEZUELA. Colombia Has Been Awarded Big Piece of Barren Country. Francis B. Loomis, United States minister to Venezuela, who has recently returned from Caracas, said in an interview: “Just before I sailed for New York I learned that the joint commission of Colombians and Venezuelans appointed by the Queen of Spain to decide the boundary line between Colombia atfd Venezuela, had completed its task and had advanced the boundary line to the Negro river. This gives to Colombia a slice of Venezuela, which reduces the size of the latter nearly one-eighth. The land in question is barren country. The decision of the commission was received acceptably by the Venezuelans.” Mr. Loomis said the talk of a war between Colombia and Venezuela is utterly groundless. ROB RICH WOMAN OF GEMS. Thieves Take Diamonds from a .New York Society Matron. While returning from a dancing party at 3 o’clock the other morning Mrs. Julia Mollenhauer, wife of J. W. Mollenhauer, from whom she separated a few years ago, was assaulted and robbed of her diamonds by four men. Her colored maid was also beaten brutally. The assault and robbery took place in a livery stable in North Tenth street, Williamsburg, N. Y. The men were arrested. Mrs. Mollenhauer is 27 years old and pretty. She lives in one. of the most fashionable residence sections in Brooklyn. Her husband is wealthy and a relative of the Mollenhauers, the sugar refiners.

BEST MONTH OF 1900. August Makes Best Showing in Matter of Failures—The Figures. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "Commercial failures during August were 735 in number, with liabilities of $7,323,903. Manufacturing were 174, for $2,945,607; trading, 51!), for $3,585.667, and other commercial 42, for $792,629. There were only two banks, with liabilities of $146,000. This is the best monthly statement for 1900 t'aus far, but shows an increase over the corresponding month in the two preced?ig years. Failures for the week were 175 in the United States, against 141 last year, and 19 in Canada, against 25 last year.’’ Turkey Making a Navy. Turkey evidently intends to be prepared to resist any attempt which may be made by foreign governments to collect indemnities by force. Consul General C. M. Dickinson at Constantinople has cabled to the State Department announcing that the sublime porte has awarded a contract for the construction of two torpedo boats to a shipbuilding firm at Genoa, Crosse! Wires Cause Death. Electricity killed two St. Louis policemen and badly shocked or burned thirteen others. The officers were attempting to use the patrol boxes to telephone to the central station. These boxes are connected with the police stations by private city wires strung by a new electric lighting company and 8,000 volts were loaded on the wire. The wires became crossed with lighting wires. Deutchland’s Fa9t Time. The steamer Deutschland of tbe Ham-burg-American line has again eclipsed all previous records for fast trans-Atlantic traveling. She has broken the eastern and western records. Her time was five days twelve hours and twenty-nine minutes between the Mole at the entrance of Cherbourg harbor and the Sandy Hook" lightship.

Negro School Given Big Sum. John D. Rockefeller has made Spellman Seminary, a negro college of Atlanta, Ga., a present of SIBO,OOO. The money has been paid into the treasury of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, which has charge of the college. Fire Levels Town of Atlin. The steamer Amur from the North brings a report of a disastrous fire which swept the town of Atlin, practically wiping it out of exisAmce. Ten of the largest and important business blocks in the town were destroyed, causing a loss that is estimated ati about $40,000. Negro Laahed by a Mob. Elijah Davis, colored, was taken from the Charleston, Mo., city jail by a mob, tied to a post and lashed until the blood ran down his. back. Davis, who is powerfully built, made an unprovoked assault on Marshal E. G. Elkins of Charleston, disfiguring him terribly. A. H. Cummins Withdithwe. A. B. Cummins, in a letter addressed to the Des Moines Daily Capital, announced his withdrawal from the senatorial contest before the coming lowa Legislature. The action was a surprise to the politicians of lowa. Caleb Powers Sentenced. At Georgetown, Ky., Judge Cantrill overruled the bill of exceptions in the case of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Power*, convicted in the Goebel case, and sentenced him to prison for life. Miners Strike in lowa. Several hundred miners have gone on strike at the mines of the Consolidated Coal Company at Muchackinock and Baxter, lowa, and the mine at Saylorville, lowa. • Vermont Gives 27,000. The Kepublican ticket won in Vermont on Tueaday by about 27,000 majority. The Democrata, however, gain several legislative seats.