Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — WANT BETTER GOODS. [ARTICLE]

WANT BETTER GOODS.

DEMAND SHOWS IMPROVED FINANCIAL CONDITION. Settlement of Steel Strike Is Followed f»jr Speedy Resumption of Work — Little Discord Between Employer and Employe!. "Normal conditions hare been fully restored in the distribution of merchandise, the placing of delayed orders stimulating the few lines that appeared to halt. One of the most gratifying features of the business situation is the pronounced preference for the better grades of goods, clearly indicating the improved financial condition of consumers. Resumption of wort has progressed rapidly in the steel industry since the settlement of the labor controversy, and there is little discord between employer and employed in other lilies. Stability of prices, without inflation, is the rule, except where the unusual size of crops introduces a special factor,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade. Continuing, the report says: “Wheat is well sustained, and still better prices are promised by the heavy export movement, which from all United States ports for the week reached 5,208,413 bushels, flour included, against 3,557,482 bushels last year. Failures for the week numbered 227 in the United States, against 204 last year, and 31 in Canada, against 18 last year.”

C HARGES PROMPT A SUICIDE. Jacob A. Blodt, Accuse 1 Cleveland Business Man, Kills Himself. Jacob A. Blodt, for twenty years connected with extensive business interests la Cleveland, killed himself by asphyxiation in a little boarding house on Perry street. Mr. Blodt was secretary of the Guarantee Savings and Loan Company, which failed a few weeks ago. He had been arrested on the charge of embezzlement, and was out on bail when he ended Ms life. It is thought by his friends that desperation caused by the belief that lie had been ruined through persecution caused him to take his life. DQCTOR TO EACH 637 PEOPLE. Statistics Give Ratios of Physicians and Schools to Population. Statistics about doctors, medical students and medical colleges have been prepared and published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There are approximately 125,000 licensed physicians in the United States, or one to each 637 inhabitants,” says the report. “Last year there was a total of 31,882 medical students in all the States, or one for every 2,888 of population. Prair'e Doses Favor Poison. Five thousand dollars’ worth of poison has been fed to Kansas prairie dogs, upon which they appear to flourish and fatten. The recent Legislature appropriated the money for the purchase of poison. Reports from west Kansas say these pests are destroying cattle ranges and multiplying by the thousands. Kills Herself and Grand.on. Mrs. Louise Nostz, GO years old, of Astoria, L. 1., killed herself and her grandson, Willie Colletti, 6 years old. Bhe had stuffed the keyhole and other apertures in the room with papers and tamed on the gas. Four years ago her husband committed suicide and this is believed to have affected her mind. Rac- for th- Pennant. Following is the standing of tho clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...86 47 Boston 67 67 Philadelphia 77 56New Y0rk...52 71 Brooklyn ...77 58 oincinnati ...51 80 St. L0ui5....73 61 Chicago 52 85 Apologizes to His Town. Louis Steubel, a baker, has published an apology to the citizens of Argentine, Kan., for uncomplimentary remarks made about the late President McKinley, and a mass meeting has withdrawn its threat to drive him from town. Inanrarents fifill Soldiers. Filipino insurgents surprised seventytwo men of Company C, Ninth infantry, at breakfast, in province of Samar, P. 1., killed forty-eight and wounded eleven. Capt. Connell and two other officers escaped. i CHs>nla ai Sliiilmey Tnmb. Guard at the McKinley vault at Canton was attacked by midnight prowlers carrying packages supposed to have contained explosives, the intention being to destroy the vault. Ore soldier was stabbed while pursuing the marauders. Pennnnt Won l>y l hiengo. The American League season is at an end. Chicago is the champion, while Boston and Detroit get the second and the third honors respectively. Meet Death in Flood Trap. Thirteen men, prospecting for cinnabar along the Rio, Grande river in Presidio County, Texas, were drowned in floods which swept away two camps. Editor of the Interior Dent. Dr. William C. Gray, editor of the Interior and distinguished in counsels of’ Presbyterian Church, died at his home In Oak r'ark. Colombia Defeats Shamrock. Colombia defeated Shamrock in the first trial of tho international yacht race for the America's cup. Tonn-r Man's Frightful Fal'. After a fall of 200 fcct-from a cliff near Meriden, C onn.. and four hours spent hanging by his ankles from the top of a tree, T. Charles Vincent was found an I taken to n hospital in a hay wagon only to die of his terrible injuries. Vincent was 28 years old. * Quarre' K'i(l< In Tre*rs<Jv, At Georgetown, Ohio, Homer Fite shot and bent his wife until she will die, and then shot himself to death. Mrs. Fite said he shot and bent her after a quarMt