Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — EFFECTS OF STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

EFFECTS OF STRIKE.

PENNSYLVANIA LABOR TROUBLE DISTURBS TRADE. PoMibilities in Its Development Have Tendency to Cause Irregularity in Business- A Squaw Man Dragged to Death by Hie Indian Wife. Bradstreet’s weekly review of trade says: “The unfavorable turn given the general industrial situation by the strike of anthracite coal miners and the possibility of wage disputes in the iron trade, with rather less activity in the latter industry, and some increase of weakness In the prices of cruder forms, have given an appearance of irregularity to the general trade and business situation." On the other hand, the course of staple prices has been very generally upward thia week, fall distributions of dry goods, clothing, hats and millinery has been of large volume at nearly all markets; there is a decidedly better tone noted in the boot and shoe and kindred trades, and the strength of cotton goods, though ap-. patently in excess of that shown by the raw material, has been regarded as indicative of confidence on the part of manufacturers. A little more is reported doing in raw wool, but it is mostly to supply current needs of manufacturers. Reports of damage to grain in shock in the Northwest, re-enforced by Northwestern hnying in Chicago, furnished the key to the advance of nearly 2 cents in wheat, followed by a gain of 20 to 25 cents in flour and of 1% cents in corn. Wheat, including flour, shipments for week aggregated 3,535,857 bushels.”

BANDITS ROB EXPRESS SAFE. Get a Small Sum After Forcing Messenger to Open the Strong Box. Pour masked men held up the express car on the St. Louis-Portland train of the Burlington at the village of Woodlawn, a few miles northwest of Lincoln, Neb. The men commanded the express messenger to open the local safe for them and allow them to go through it. The through sgfe, which the messenger could not open and which contained a large sum of money, was not molested. The robbers secured a very small sum from the local safe. After going through the safe the men left the express car and scattered. DBAGGED HUSBAND BY HIS NECK. Drastic Treatment of Her Spouse by an Indian Territory Squaw. Joe Nemeshek, who is 50 years old, was to the habit of getting on weekly drunks, much to the disgust of his young Indian wife. He went to Purcell, taking his wife along. While in town he got gloriously drunk, and upon starting home quarreled with his wife. She threw him from the buggy, tied a rope around his neck and dragged him nearly a mile. Then she cast him In the creek bottom and covered the body over with sand. Nemeshek was white. Contests on the Diamond. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W- E 7 w - L - Brooklyn ...73 49 Chicago .....60 67 Pittsburg ...73 52 St. L0ui5....55 69 Philadelphia 66 57 New Y0rk...53 70 Boston 61 61 Cincinnati ...54 71 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago . ...82 53 Kansas City. 69 70 Milwaukee ..78 59 Cleveland v .. .63 73 Indianapolis 71 64 Buffalo 61 77 Detroit 71 G 8 Minneapolis. 54 85

Fatal Street Duel in St. Louis. In St. Louis Francis McGpire, a discharged employe of the St. Louis Transit Company, shot five times and instantly killed Wesley P. Haynes, a road officer of the same company. McGuire attacked a conductor named Scott, accusing him of having caused his discharge. Haynes interfered as a peacemaker. McGuire knocked him down and a pistol duel followed. Colliery Watchman Wounded. Bran Davis, watchman at Hickory Uldge colliery, near Shamokin, Pa., was shot by an unknown person as he was petrolling the colliery. The bullet entered the left side, inflicting a serious, if not fatal, wound. Ke-Elected with Higher Pay. ■ The convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in Des Moines raised the salary of grand master to $5,000 and re-elected Frank P. Sargent for the nfcath consecutive term. In Hie Son’s Memory. In order to erect a physical culture hall aa a monument to his son, Frank, who died a few years ago in Germany, A. C. Bartlett of Chicago has given the University of Chicago $125,000. Allies to Get Out. Military commanders of the powers find the holding of Pekin useless as a means to bring the dowager to terms, and are preparing to evacuate the city before winter. Four Negroes Are Lynched. Four negroes were lynched at Pontchatpnla, La. They were taken from jail. town, which is on the Illinois Central has recently been infested with negro burglars. . . Storm Sweeps Texas. Great storm swept over Texas, causing Bj property. Three towns to be under water. ['Mills Reopen. the conference committee mated Association of Iron kers and of the manufac*e wage scale that will be tuly, 1901. Immediately lent in every direction ormce fires built at once. '•fees HU Own Life. Jt. sole proprietor of the >er, Minn., committed sui- | a rifle. The

FIRE DESTROYS JOLIET MILL. Blaze Caused by Dust Explosion and Loss Is $60,000 —Workmen Escape. The most destructive fire that has visited Joliet, 111., this year nearly wiped out of existence the Lakeside Oatmeal mills and caused a loss of $60,000 to the David Oliver company. An explosion of dust in mill B, a four-story brick structure, was the cause of the blaze. The insurance amounts to $43,000. The loss is divided as follows: Building, including machinery, $30,000; labels 'and cartoons, i $10,000; grain, $5,000; product, $2,000; extra machinery, $10,000; total, $57,000. Seven men were at work in the mill at the time of the explosion and all escaped without injury.. The entire Joliet tire department responded, but before the steamers arrived the big building was a mass of flames, and the efforts of the firemen wore devoted to preventing the j spread of the fire , to the other buildings and mills in that section. The explosion occurred in the milling room on the third floor. The first warning to the men was a deafening roar that shook the building to its foundations, and the whole interior was lighted up with the flames that seemed to burst out in a dozen places at once. Window frames were blown nearly to the railroad track, several hundred feet away, and broken into fragments. The mill was finished only two weeks ago and was Considered one of the most complete in the country. John Kelly, who was at work on the third floor of the mill when the explosion occurred, jumped I through an open window, landing on a box car twenty-five feet below. He climbed to the ground with few injuries.

FARMER KILLED FOR HIS MONEY Peter Hartman Falla Victim to Thugs in Chicago Levee District. Three thugs dragged Peter Hartman, a farmer from Burkett, Ind., into an alley at 294 State street, Chicago, at midday, and in an attempt to rob him took his life. The instrument used was a beer bottle. The erime was witnessed by several bystanders, who ran to Hartman s assistance and scared the thieves away. After a 12-hours search, that-culminated in a desperate struggle, Inspector Hartnett and Detectives Quinn and O’Malley of the Harrison street police station, captured two of the men implicated in the murder. The men, who gave their names as John Cummings and John Callahan, have been positively identified. The sum of $33 was found on Hartman at Holston's morgue. Letters on his person told that he had been working this summer near De Kalb, 111., and was oh his way home to his sick wife. He was to have left late in the afternoon. While waiting for his train he was in several saloons in the levee district, where he met the three men, and it is thought Hartman let it be known that he had money in his possession. BABIES DIE IN FLAMES. Infants Left in Kindergarten by Mothers Killed in Cincinnati. A branch nursery of the Salvation army at 403 East Front street, Cincinnati, burned. Its occupants were imprisoned and six were suffocated to death, while others, were seriously injured. Walter Fisher, a barkeeper in an adjoining saloon, discovered the fire and sent in a still alarm. On account of the cold weather a fire had been started, in the stove for the children, who were cared for there during the day while their mothers were engaged at work elsewhere. It is thought a defect in the flues set the old tenement building of four stories in flames.

Says Howard Confessed Crime. < At Frankfort, Ky., sensational testimony in the trial of James Howard, charged with having tired the'shot that killed William Goebel, was given by James Stubblefield, an ex-deputy sheriff of Clay County. - Stubblefield testified that Howard exultingly told him that he fired the shot that took Goebel’s life. Running Fight with Robbers. Early the other morning an attempt was made to blow open the safe of the "Wilton, Wils., bank by three men, but it was frustrated by citizens who were passing and heard the explosion. They hastened to the bank and a running fight ensued, several shots being exchanged. The robbers made their escape. “Model Child” Kills Self. Juda A. Fleeze, known as the model child, the most beautifully formed, from an artist’s view, is dead uy her own hand in New York. She eloped with a youth of IG. then two years her senior. Poverty evidently caused the deed. Storm Kills Forest Fires. The forest fires which have been raging near Plymouth, Mass., were extinguished by a storm. The loss on buildings is $90,000; on timber, $350,000, and on cranberry bogs, $60,000, bringing the total to $500,000. Summer Resort "Wiped Out. Spring Lake, N. J., a summer resort near Sea Girt, was destroyed by tire. Among the buildings burned were three of the largest hotels in the place, eleven fine cottages and several stores. The total loss is estimated at $250,000. Killed in a Feud Fisht. A terrific duel between two members each of the Howard and McGhee feudists occurred in the crowded dining room of the Crow Hotel at Madisonville, Tenn. Twenty shots were tired and three men killed. Negro Shot atad Killed. In a chase by the sheriffs of four western Florida counties, two bloodhounds and twenty citizens after a negro desperado a negro detective was shot and killed and two of .the posse seriously wounded. Two Roys Held for Murder. Judge Giddings of the District Court at Anoka, Minn., has held James Hardy and Elmer Miller, charged with murdering the Wise family, for trial without bail. Both accused are under age. Miners Quit at Call. The great strike in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania has begun. Both sides are confident. Of the 142,600 miners in the district 112,000 obeyed the order to strike. Hurt in Engine Explosion. The boilers qf a Santa Fe locomotive exploded in the yards at Chicago. The engineer, J. R. Jackson, and the fireman, E. Breckenridge, were severely injured. Bryan Accepts Nomination. William J. Bryan’s letter of acceptance of the Democratic nomination for President has been made public,