Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — GOOD HOLIDAY TRADE [ARTICLE]

GOOD HOLIDAY TRADE

INCREASE IN BUSINESS NOTED IN BIG CENTERS. Collections the Country Over Continue Good and Relieve Anxiety Over Hicher Rates Asked for Money— Shorten Canadian Northern Railway. Holiday trade has increased moderately and in wholesale staple lines no relapse is seen either in volume of transaction or in prices. Cold weather has helped New York, but it is still behind the rest of the country, for some recent losses from failures in the textile markets have fallen rather heavily there. Collections in the country continue good, and this relieves anxiety which might otherwise be felt over the higher rates for money. Merchants’ accounts are in good position, so that new sales of commercial paper are Right 'eTCO for this season. Industrial enntinne. with no great, accn'mulation of new Tuerchandise in any quarter, according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of .trade. Continuing, tlie report says: Cereals did not maintain their advance, Coffee has suffered from liberal receipts at Brazil ports, and No. 7 Rio is 1% cents below- the price a month ago. Failures for the vvtWk were 240 in the United States, 26 in Canada, againstfco last year. MEW SAILKOAJP SCHEME OUT. Minnesota and Manitoba Line to Become Important Link. - The Minnesota arid Manitoba Railroad is to become an important link in a vast transcontinental system of railways controlled by the Canadian Northern. McKenzie & Mann, millionaire contractors, who are financing the scheme, have mapped out a route which will shorten the distance to tidewater fc- upward of 1.000 miles for all Northwqkern freight destined to European marla ts. This is done through a carefully Elected Eastern transportation scheme." The McKenzie & Mann roads already extend from Winnipeg to Port Arthur anxLthey expect to operating trains between these points next September. \ t OHIO THIEVES ARE cijPTURED. Two Shanesville bank Taken After a Lively Fight. Two of the robbers that entered Doerschuck’s bank at Shanesville, Ohio, were captured on the Massfllpn accommodation train at Bridgeport after a fight which nearly caused a panic among the passengers, and resultedAn the breaking of windows, tearing upc of seats and slight injury to two drocers. Four others of the gang jumped through, the windows and escaped. L- Dies Whili Helping Others. Nels Nelson, who lived at 771 orth Artesian avenue. Chicago, died during a recent storm near Two Harbors, Minn., while on his way from a lumber camp to get food for lih> companions, who were unable to leavepjand at the point of starvation. Nelson, instead of taking shelter at the home of a settler, as he might have done, plodded ajong and before he reached his destination was frozen to death. * Indians’ Fatal Gasoline Fire. An Indian family, consisting of father, mother and four®iildren, burned to death at Cannonball, W. D., from an explosion of gasoline. Another family of father, mother and one, child are frightfully burned and will.pmbaidy die. They mistook .tbp stuff for kerosene. X Scores Die iu Shipwreck. - With only her: masts showing above the surface of the*vater the German training frigate Gfieiseuau lies a wreck off Malaga, sixtyY&ve miles northeast of Gibraltar. It is believed that the loss of life will reach 100. This figure is considered a conservative estimate. BcandA Ends in Tragedy. ; Tragedy ant&scandal followed the discovery of J. 1\- A. Davis, a high official of the Erie Railroad, under a sofa in Mrs. Flora Wickham’s apartment at Port Jervis, N. Y. Mrs. Wickham committed suicide aLfew hours after Davis was found iu hismiace of concealment. Hob Two Negroes. Two negro® Jim Henderson and Bud Rowlands, w® confessed they waylaid, •brutally mur®red and .robbed Hollie Simons, a were lynched in the jail yard at Koekfk>rt, lud., by a mob of 1.000 frenzied citiz# s. Ex-Sedfetary Porter Pies. | John Addison Porter, former private secretary to Eresident McKinley and one of the most prominent men of Connecticut, died at his’jjbome iu Ptajtfrci after a long illness # roaj|jacomplicat|<iL . f disFonr Deadlwttu'nlson. | As a result of a mys*Bta|iCflsc of poi-' 1 %pning at Forsythe Marietta, fjptuo, four persons are dead. fßee fatally picric and two others are serioqßy ili. The dead are Andrew Barnick, Laijpbajc, Andy Litchie, and a child.* ■ Noted Indian scout Slain. ,4 Baptiste Gamier, known all over the ttyest. and especially among jkuy men, fcjPfc'Rle the fearless IntHb n scout, Bm'shot'and fatally wounded i*u saloon It C-awford. Neb., by James 1* HngueWooJ, the saloon manager, 9 jfV To Jail for Kissing a oA. SaFytfd DaveUport of Toledo, JKio, was ■fat 1" Jail for ten days for Mar pa Baleen, a pretty S.vrU^jfddler. I’ Fire at Ashtabula Haßr, Ohio. pThe Herrick House ut jAtabula HarHSf fllitn caught fire ’ l.*- Mam s swept fvery frame hiiildS on the east ide pf'Sft ldgb streejt jpE High street Ea Nearly a ..doistvstrurtures were wttetl. The lom Is JrtiinAted at about Kq /uhi mirliiillv lnmffrf'l ■S^Pfreuciter Mff (TU|7 $200,000. ■tester AtiderMrl, tyho went to the Klon\;&.and Non* ami Swedish missionary,