Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — IMPROVED BY RAINS. [ARTICLE]

IMPROVED BY RAINS.

BREAKING OF LONG DROUGHT AIDS BUSINESS. Much Late Planted Corn la Saved and Weather for Spring Wheat Harvest Is Very Favorable—Uncle Sam ' in a Family Quarrel. “Continued favorable weather conditions have resulted in the saving of much late planted corn, and ia the Northwest ideal weather for spring wheat harvest has been enjoyed. As this is the point that business in all parts of the country has been most carefully watching, the general feeling is better than a week ago, although the disposition on both sides to settle the steel strike has not yet resulted in any agreement, and the labor situation is thus kept prominent.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of 11. G. Dun & Co. It continues: “Violent fluctuations have marked the course of corn prices. The top point of the previous week was not regained, but traders on the short side of the market were compelled to cover at a loss. Failures in July were 697 in number, against 793 last year, and $7,035,933 in amount of liabilities, against $9,771,775 in 1900.” CAUSES BROTHER’S, ARREST. St. Louis Man Sends Postal Card and Gets TntoXTrouble. Thomas M. Sayman, a manufacturer of soap and proprietary medicines, was arrested in St. Louis, charged with sending a non-mailable postal card. His brother, Harry Isaac Sayman of Washington, D. C., was the recipient of the postal card, and he also instituted the proceedings resulting in his brother's arrest. For twenty years the brothers have not seen each other. Recently Thomas Sayman wrote his brother in Washington asking him to contribute to the support of their aged mother. The letter was returned unopened. Indignant, the St. Louis man wrote a postal card to Harry Sayman threatening him with criminal prosecution if he did not do his duty. The arrest of the St. Louis man followed. PROGRESS of the race. Standing of League Clubs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L W. L. Pittsburg ...49 33Boston 40 42 St. Louis ...50 37 New Y0rk...36 47 Philadelphia 48 36Cincinnati .. .34 49 Brooklyn ...45 41 Chicago 35 57 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....57 30Philadelphia. 36 43 Boston .....48 33Washington .35 44 Baltimore ...45 35Cleveland. ..33 50 Detroit 46 41 Milwaukee . .32 56 Weds Bride One-third His Age. J. McGregor Adams, a Chicago multimillionaire, who is hale and hearty despite his three score and ten years, has been married to Miss Edith MacGregor, an attractive young woman, well known in Brooklyn society circles, whose age is but little more than one-third of her husband's. Mr. Adams is president of the Adams & Westlake Company of Chicago. Wife Mur.ler and Suicide. Without a word of warning, and seemingly without provocation, Alexander McCullough of Crawfish, Ohio, shot and killed his wife and then blew .out his own brains. The supposition is that he was insanely drunk when the tragedy occurred. The affair took place in sight of the five children of the couple.

Peace Negotiations Abandoned. Negotiations for a settlement of the steel strike are abandoned and a fight to the finish will ensue. Pierpont Morgan offered terms less.favorable than at the first conference, and they were promptly rejected. Pretty Bride Is Kidnaped. A pretty Italian girl was stolen from the lake at St. Joe, Mich., on the eve of her wedding. The bereaved bridegroom accuses unsuccessful rival of the kidnaping. Illinois Central Shops Burn. The woodworking department of the Illinois Central shops at Paducah. Ky., burned, entailing a loss of about $25,000. The blaze is supposed to have originated from spontaneous combustion. Trottinq; Record A<*ain Lowere-t. At Columbus, Ohio, Cresceus, the king of trotters, lowered his own and the world's record of 2:02%, made at the Cleveland track, to 2:02’4. a full half second. Fatal Collision in Missouri. Two Chicago and Alton freight trains collided head on at Grain Valley, Mo. Engineer Jacques was killed and Engineer Walsh and Fireman Pilliain, all of Slater, Mo., were badly injured. Northwest Territory Wheat Yield. Hugh McKellar, deputy minister of agriculture, estimates the yield of wheat in Manitoba and the Northwest territory for this year at from 55,000,000 to 00.000,000 bushelri. V'cKinlev Will Be There. President Cleveland has accepted an invitation to attend the national G. A. R. encampment at Cleveland. Attendance nt the Pnn-American. The attendance at the Pan-American Exposition for the first three mouths was 2,724,908. 2 Robbed on n Sleeping Car. An unknown thief robbed William Hanford, a diamond salesman for Freendenheim Brothers & Levy of New York, of more than S7OO in diamonds and SSO in money on a sleeper on the Grant! Rapids and Indiana Railway between Grand Rapids and Mackinaw City. Dayton, Ohio, Has Big Fire. The machine room, foundry and storage room of the Gem City stove works Were destroyed by fire at Dayton, Ohio. The loss is estimated at SOO,OOO, fairly well protected by insurance. I