Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — TRADE LIVENING UP. [ARTICLE]

TRADE LIVENING UP.

- ‘-T' 4 * iSE* v ' " ;: >gsr ftJfriLL RATHER ON BETWEENm K SEASONS ORDER. |l, Ipron and Steel, Leather, Urns and Jl || Lumber Trades Make Heat Reports E-lUaLtt in Wool Noted—Girls Shot by , I a Jilted Lover. K E|Bradstreet’s weekly review of trade I pftayst ’’Business is still of a betweeniseai HP' character in most lines, but a liven- £ &l»g up of interest in several trades has 5 BBeen' noted. Relatively best reports come lf‘Mßlrom the iron and steel, lumber, leather i £ and drug trades, but there has been some $ Enlargement of wholesale distributive | Krade on spring account in the South aud | HHentTal West. Some gain in wool sales is I at Eastern markets, but weather | have not been favorable at the Bfeast to business as a whole. Summed * BlP* briefly, the situation is one of w:deconfidence in the general business isoutlook. Cereals have given a further of life, partly on light NorfihIfcwest receipts and advices that Argentine Bgplppaents will not exceed 36,000,000 ' bushels, or about half those of a year K but also largely on the unquestion* R;tbly heavier volume of Wall street money ffedseeking an outlet in the grain market. lljpPheat, including flour, shipments for the ■ 'week aggregate 5,901.093 bushels, § against 3,914-,301 last week, and 4,248,- | 920 in the corresponding week of 1900. B* Corn exports aggregate 4,897,345 bushels, against 4,470,521 last week, and 3,I 614,576 a year ago.” JILTED LOVER SHOOTS TWO. Tonag Woman and Her Sister Botb Probably Fatally Wounded. I Amelia and Tillie Bergman, aged 24 and 17 respectively, were the victims of a murderous assault made upon them at their home in Galena, 111., by George ■ Durerstein, an unsuccessful suitor for the 1 baud of Miss Amelia. Durerstein accompanied the girls from their place of business and when they arrived home, a I quarrel ensued, Durerstein shooting both girls, probably fatally. A ball from a I 32-caliber lodged in the neck of one of jr the girls and the second shot entered the body of the other victim. The shooting I was witnessed by the girls’mother. The latter, assisted by neighbors, carried her daughters into the house. Immediately after the shooting Durerstein escaped into the alley. He was pursued by a mob, which he held back by firing. Durerstein resides at Scales Mound. He is 22 years of age. POLICE SAVE NEGRO’S LIFE. A Leavenworth Mob Prevented from Lynching Woman’s Assailant. Fred Alexander, a colored man, charged with attacking a young white woman on the street, was saved from being lynched by an infuriated mob at Leavcuj» worth, Kan., by the prompt action of the police in removing him from the station. While Miss Eva Roth; employed in a store, was on her way home to supper she was seized by Alexander on South Broadway, the fashionable residence street. Miss Roth managed to scream for help and her cry was heard by Prof. Evans of the high school, who ran to her assistance. The negro fled, but was soon after captured by the police. A mob quickly gathered and searched the station and jail, but failed to find the prisoner. The police, anticipating an attempt at violence, had removed Alexander in a hack to the State penitentiary at Lansing. Gypsy Princess an Eloper. Posey Harrison, the 17-year-old daughter of Nailor Harrison, the gypsy king, and heiress to the queenship of the united tribes in the United States, is missing from her father’s home near Madison, N. J., and her father believes she went with and was married to her cousin, Morris Harrison. Bind a Family and Rob a Safe. Five masked burglars robbed the farm house of Henry Stroker, near Versailles, Ohio, of SBSO. Mr. and Mrs. Stroker and their son, Grant, were bound and gagged till they told where the safe was in which the money was kept. Besides the money the robbers stole jewelry and horses and then escaped. Thirteen la Fatal Again. Jacob Cole, a wealthy real estate dealer and an old-time resident of Fordbam, N. Y., died at the Fordham hospital just thirteen hours after he had been stricken while playing a game of pinochle at the Boosevelt Club. There fell to bis band the “suit of death.” Fatal Theater Panic. Five persons were killed and scores injured in a panic following a cry of “Fire” in the West Twelfth Street Turner ilnll, in Chicago. A Yiddish play was in progress and an audience of 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, was present. Falls Fifty Feet Coasting. < Jamie Cratz, 6 years old, coasted over the brow rf>f the west bluffs at Tenth street, near the tlnion depot in Kansas City, and went down a sheer fifty feet before striking. He sustained a fracture of the skull, but may recover. Boon for Southern Farms. Oaptaifi John C. Brain of Mobile, Ala., is the promoter for a New York project I, to build a fertilizer works in Chattanooga. The works wall cost $1,000,000. will be used as a basis of the fer-