Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1901 — NOT HURT BY PANIC. [ARTICLE]

NOT HURT BY PANIC.

DISTURBANCE IN STOCK MARKET FAILS TO CHECK BOON!. Conditions the Country Over Were Never So Sound, Payments Prompt, and Dealing* Heavy—Passenger Bid* ing on Pasa Entitled to Damage*. “A panic in Wall street does not mean that legitimate business has suddenly ceased to prosper, nor is the condition of mercantile trade and manufacture adversely affected by a violent fall in prices of securities. Throughout the entire country fundamental conditions were never as sound as at the present time; reports from nearly every city this week showing an exceptional volume of transactions 'and payments promptly met,” says the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: “Production is not overtaking demand at the finished steel mills, and all Pittsburg plants are two months behind orders, while ninety days is the limit at many. Although the expected advance in bar iron did not appear, the tone continues firm and orders are liberal. Less events occurred in the cereal markets than in the preceding week, although quotations are slow to recede. Com eased off a few cents, but is still about 10 cents a bushel, or nearly 25 per cent above the quotation at the corresponding date in the two preceding years. Failures for the week numbered 187 in the United States, against 192 last year, and 26 in Canada, against 15 last year.”

PROGRESS OF THE RACE. Standing; as Leagne Cltibs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...10 oßrooklyn .... 7 8 Cincinnati ..10 6 Philadelphia.. 7 9 New York... 7 5 Chicagb 8 12 Boston 7 6 St. Louis.... 7 11 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Detroit 13 4 Washington.. 6 0 Chicago ....11 G Philadelphia.. 5 8 Baltimore ... 7 5 Milwaukee ..6 11 Boston, 7 6 Cleveland ... 4 13 RAILROAD MUST PAT DAMAGES. Passenger Riding on a Pass Competent to Recover for Injuries. In the case of John R. Payne against the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company the Appellate Court in Indianapolis held that a railroad company cannot exempt itself from liability for negligent injury of a passenger traveling dn a pass. Payne was injured by the alleged carelessness of the railroad company’s employes in permitting the two parts of a freight train on which he was a passenger to come in collision while trying to make a "flying switch.” Woman Chokes Her Child. Mrs. Nick Mark and Mary Mark, the wife nnd daughter of a wealthy farmer near Wichita, Kan., took Mary Mark’s child from a hospital on the pretext that they were taking it to their home, and \an hour afterward it was found choked and buried in the sand of the Arkansas river. The women were arrested and the young woman confessed to killing the child.

Cattlemen Lynch a Farmer. J. L. Chandler, an old resident farmer of loland, Oklahoma, was taken from his home the other night, presumably by cattlemen, and lynched. For some time there has been trouble between the farmers and the cattlemen, and a great many cattle have died from drinking poisoned water. Chandler was suspected of having been responsible for the loss. Fight Has Fatal Resnlts. A horse doctor named Ziegler and George Browner were having a fight back of Colby’s billiard hall at Fairbury, Neb., when the Rock Island switch engine, pushing a string of ears out of the way, ran over the two men, cutting off both of Ziegler’s feet and injuring Browner’s right band. Cherokee Note. The Indian Bureau has received word that the official count of the vote of the Cherokee nation on the Cherokee agreement with the Dawes commission shows a majority of 1,023 votes for rejection, instead of 1,235, as first announced. Murderer Surrenders Himself. John Turner surrendered to City Marshal Smith, stating that he had killed Jerry Boulden, one and a half miles south of Alvarado, Texas. The parties were brothers-in-law and the killing was the result of a family quarrel.

Riot in Detroit Streets. An attempt of the new director of police of Detroit to qnlet a curbstone orator caused a riot that lasted four hours. Involving thousands of disturbers and injury to nearly a score. Force of 300 reserves was needed to dispense the mob. Farmer Kills His Wife. Merritt Chism, wealthy farmer residing near Bloomington, 111., stabbed and beat his wife to death in the presence of the family, and then attempted to drown himself in a shallow well. President in a Crush. Enthusiasm of crowd at San Luis Obispo, Cal., to shake hands with President McKinley caused panic from which he was extricated with difficulty. Body Found in Wabash River. . The body at Wolf Betz of Carmi, 111., was found floating in t4e Wabash river near Mount Vernon, lud. The head was crushed in and several bruises were found on the body. Betz disappeared from his home two weeks before and'had $5,000 on his person. > Votes Kina's Civil List. The English House of Commons, by a vote of 307 to 58, voted the civil list for the King, the sum being fixed at $2,350,000 annually. The opposition was made sp almost entirely of the Irish members