Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1904 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. ■ V - "" RENSSELAER, * - INDIANA.

IT PAYS OUT $500,000.

FAIR MEETS FIRST INSTALLMENT ON LOAN. St. Louis Exposition Company Meets Government Obligation—City of Duluth Has a s4oo,ooo—Fire—Min or News of the Week. The first payment of $500,000 on the government loan of $4,600,000 to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company was deposited in the subtreasury in StLouis Friday. “The best answer to any talk that the exposition company would have difficulty in making the payment is the fact that the money is now in the subtreasury,” said President Francis. “Not only have we made the payment, but it has been done a day ahead of —time.” W4lliam H. Ellis, checker T and Charles H. Stiller, inspector, in the concessions department of the World’s Fair, who were arrested and held prisoners for more tian twenty-four hours in the hope of learning of them the details of a supposed plot to rob the exposition company, have been released. Norris B. Gregg, director of the division of admissions and concessions, said that it had been decided that the men had no information regarding the alleged plot. The Associated Bill Posters and Distributors of the United States and Canada assembled in international convention on the World's Fair grounds, tendered without cost to the exposition management its service, guaranteed at more than 1,000,006 miles of boarding, throughout the United States and Canada, for the entire mouth of August The proposition was accepted and will be carried out The cost of the service thus given free is estimated at $250,000.

STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Three Principal Leagues. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. W. L. New York... 55 20 St. Louis 39 35 Chicago 41 27 Brooklyn ....30 50 Cincinnati ...42 31 Boston 28 49 Pittsburg .. .40 31 Philadelphia. 17 55 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 49 24Cleveland ....37 32 New Y0rk...45 28St. Louis3o 39 Chicago 44 33 Detroit 29 43 Philadelphia 40 32 Washington.. 14 57 Standings in the American Association are as follows: W. L. W. L. St Paulss 28 Indianapolis. 40 43 Columbus ...48 31 Minneapolis.. 39 42 Milwaukee ..44 35 Kansas City.. 29 51 Louisville ...47 38 Toledo 24 58 The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W.L. W. L, Denver 44 29 Omaha 84 38 Colo. Springs4l 35 St. Joseph—.3o 37 Des Moines. .39 38 Sioux City... 25 44

DULUTH HAS BIG FIRE. Buildings Flame Up Like Tinder and One Man Is Killed. In Duluth, Minn., $400,000 worth of property was destroyed Friday afternoon at the Omaha docks and warehouses, owned by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, and one man, a cook named George Smith, on the tug Abbott was drowned in an attempt to make his escape from the craft as the flames sujept over it with cyclonic rapidity from ’the docks. The fire started in the northeast corner of the building and swept through the long sheds like a tornado, taking everything that stood in its path. In three minutes after the flames were discovered almost the entire length of the sheds was a fiery furnace, belching forth volumes of dense, black smoke that rolled away over the city, crumbling the freight cars that stood beside it like tinder. It was the most disastrous fire witnessed in Duluth in years and the most spectacular. Thousands of people lined the docks, the viaduct, the tops of box cars and the sides of the hill to witness the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of property. Passes from the Black Sea. Russian guard ship Chernomoretz has been allowed by Turkey to pass from the Black Sea, although the vessel is armed with big guns and carries torpedo tubes. The Russian officials fear no protests from the powers resulting from the operations of the cruisers in the Red Sea. Fighting in the far East is confined to light skirmishes, according to reports, and Newchwang is still in the hands of the Russians. Many Are Drowned. Twenty persons throughout the country met death by drowning while on outings last Sunday, the majority losing their lives while bathing. The mercury mounted to 94 and several deaths resulted from the heat, the most intense known there for three years.

Prisoners Overpower Guard. Three prisoners who were doing fatigue duty at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt, escaped and the sentry who was guarding them Is missing and is believed to have been overpowered by the prisoners. Condition of Trade. Weekly trade reports indicate that business recuperation is delayed by labor troubles, conditions in other respects being satisfactory. Will Not Fly His Airship. Santos-Dumont declared in Havre, France, that he will not return to the world’s fair ia?BL Louis to take part in the aerial races! * x that he is thoroughly angry and disked. Two Killed in Explosion. By the explosion pf a can of gnsoline In a Buffalo, Jf. Y., dwelling house, Mrs. George W. Carbine wks instantly killed and Mrs. Allee Buckley, Who worked for Mra. Carbine, died shortly afterward from burns and other injuries wldcb she received. X

TUGS AND ROW-BOATS ATTEMPTING TO SAVE THE PASSENGERS OF THE BURNING STEAMER. The steamer “General Slocum,” carrying the annual Sunday school excursion of the St Mark’s German Lutheran Church, of New York, to Locust Grove, Long Island Sound, on June 15, took fire while off Sunken Meadows. The flames speedily became uncontrollable, and panic followed. The vessel, unable to turn because of the Hell Gat* rocks, was run at full speed to North Brother Island, and there beached. The hurricane deck gave way almost at the first. Many brave attempts at rescue were made, but nothing could prevent an enormous sacrifice of life, and over 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, perished.

EXCURSION TRAIN IS WRECKED.

Twenty-four Persons Killed and Seven-ty-Two Injured at Glenwood, 111. Twenty-four women and children were killed and seventy-two injured, forty seriously, in a collision between an excursion train loaded to the platforms with Sunday school picnickers from Doremus Congregational Church, Chicago, and a freight train near Glenwood, 111., at 6:46 o’clock Wednesday night The wreck was the result, of a misunderstanding of orders. The excursion train was coming north on the southbound track of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad when at a curve half a mile south of Glenwood it crashed into the rear end of a coal train. The baggage car was telescoped and the first coach completely demolished. Both cars were filled with children and old women.

The party of 750 picnickers was returning from Island Park, Momence. For ths most part the passengers were happy children and their mothers. Some were singing and some were asleep when the wreck came. , At the crash those in the rear cars of the eleven-coach train rushed for the doors or jumped through the windows, many being injured. In rout, the first two cars, crushed like egg shells, were crowded with dead and injured. The baggage car had been filled with ramping children. The roof of the first passenger -was rammed clear through it, poshing the cruelly crushed mass of humanity through the breaks in the walls. The first passenger car was torn to splinters.

Word was sent to Chicago Heights and Glenwood and relief parties reached the spot fifteen minutes later. The scene was a most fearful thing. Struggling masses of bodies could be seen through the openings in the cars. The dead and Injured were packed in together. The dead were terribly, horribly mangled, heads and limbs having been severed, and in the midst were the maimed and injured living. It was fifteen minutes before the first body was taken out. There was no screaming or wailing. The picnickers came to the aid of the workers who had arrived in large num-

WRECK OF PICNIC TRAIN AND WHERE IT OCCURRED.

bers. Eight physicians were soon on the scene. The enormity of the catastrophe did not become apparent until they started to take the bodies out. The passengers in two cars which were smashed were mostly mothers and their children. Families had stayed together. t Few in the other coaches had relatives among those killed. The lack of water caused much delay and a dozen mangled little ones breathed their last under the scrub oaks on the seat cushions. Fires were built to heat water. The farmers brought water in milk cans. The field hospital was operating among the piles of dead until 8 o’clock, when the last bodies which could be found were taken out and placed on a special train for Chicago.

Officers are searching for Edward Bowen, a negro farm hand, who disappeared shortly after the mysterious disappearance of the 14-year-old daughter of Perry P. Joseph, a farmer near Hollyville, Del. The father swore out a warrant after discovering a cabin in the woods which bore signs of a struggle In Its interior. Judge Beekman Winthrop was inaugurated as Governor of Porto Rico.

THE DISASTER TO THE “GENERAL SLOCUM.”

FOREIGN LANDS.

Prince Dolgorouki, who assaulted Count Lamsdorff, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, has been exiled to Archangel? It is said that two British yachtsmen are seriously contemplating challenging for the America’s cup, the world’s emblem of yachting supremacy. The dowager duchess of Abercorn is the oldest living British peeress. She has lived through five reigns, one of them the longest on record. Cab drivers in London, England, are again on strike. They say it-is impossible to pay the amounts fixed by the Asquith award ten years ago. The bubonic plague has broken out at Paita, Peru, on the border of Ecuador, and is raging with such violence as to occasion alarm in both countries. June 10 ten firemen died of the plague at Paita within three hours. Investigations made by representatives of European governments confirm the recent reports of shocking massacres of Armenians in the Sassun district of Asiatic Turkey by Turkish troops. According to some reports 43 villages were destroyed and the inhabitants killed. The British, French and Russian ambassadors at Constantinople have joined in remonstrances to the Turkish government against the perpetration of such atrocities. A treaty of arbitration between Spain and Portugal has recently been signed. It conforms with The Hague convention. Holland and Denmark have concluded a treaty of arbitration, by which they agree to submit to the tribunal of The Hague all differences which cannot be settled by the ordinary processes of diplomacy. The treaty is broader than most agreements of the kind, and the

only cases excluded are those in which the vital interests or honor of either party are involved. Such a secrecy about their affairs is maintained by the Tibetans that, according to a correspondent of the Loudon Times, the fact that they have a postal system with properly authorized government stamps has only just leaked out. A photograph of a Tibetan stamp shows it to be merely a native character impressed in red sealing wax. A missionary says that the sender of a letter in Tibet takes it to the nearest official postoffice, pays the postage, and then the letter is impressed with the seal and duly forwarded. It is announced that Earl Grey, lord lieutenant of Northumberland, will succeed the Earl of Minto as Governor General of Canada when Lord Minto’s term expires next Ooteber. Earl Grey is a brother-in-law of Lord Minto. He was a member of Parliament 1880-80, and one of the original promoters of the South African Chartered Company, and administrator of Rhodesia, 1896-98. Recently he has been actively Identified with the interesting movement of the Public House Trust Company of England, for the establishment of municipal saloons to discourage the sale of intoxicating liquor, and to promote the use of tea and coffee m substitutes.

PAUL KRUGER IS DEAD.

Former President of Transvaal Republic Passes Away in Switzerland. Former President Kruger of the Transvaal republic died at Clarens, Canton Vaud, Switzerland. President Kruger’s name has for twepty years been a household one throughout the civilized world. He won far himself the title of “Modern Champion Of Liberty.” Disappointment over the conquering of the South African republics by Great Britain primarily caused his death, although the fatal disease has been diagnosed as a gradual wasting away due to the infirmities of old age. When the war broke out President Kruger had an enormous private fortune,

OOM PAUL KRUGER.

which he sacrificed in the hopeless cause of liberty. When he left South Africa, never to return, he had less than $5,000, according to an authoritative report. He was 79 years old

WOULD AVOID DIPPING CATTLE.

Delegation Petitions President and Secretary of Agriculture. By an order promulgated in March by the Secretary of Agriculture, it is required that all cattle west of the Mississippi river intended for shipment should be “dipped” in a preparation prescribed by the department for the purpose of absolutely exterminating the skin disorder known as the mange, which has existed to a limited extent for many years in that section. As it has been found impossible to make necessary preparations and round up and dip the cattle within the limited time allowed, numerous petitions have reached the department praying for a relaxation of the order. The other day a delegation appeared before the Secretary of Agriculture, and later called on the President, requesting that the order be so modified as to obviate the dipping of beef cattle before shipment and in lieu thereof to institute rigid government inspection at the point of shipment before the cattle are loaded on the cars.

Sparks from the Wires.

The Seaboard Air Line is having ten locomotives built at the Baldwin works. What is known as the Santa Fe system embraces over nine thousand miles of track. A daily paper at Rapid City, S. D., is managed and edited by Mrs. Alice R. Gossage. Her husband is an invalid. Potato growers in the Kaw valley, in Kansas, will have only from a third to a half crop this year, owing to the excessive rains. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank at Moline, Kan., to begin business, with a capital of $25,000. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank of Plainville, Kan., to begin business with a capital of $50,000. F. Harwood, formerly assistant general freight agent of the Illinois Central at Evansville, has been appointed coal traffic manager for ths company at Chicago. The headquarters of William J. Leahy, assistant general passenger agent of ths Chicago, -Rock Island and Pacific, have been transferred from Chicago to St Louis. Immigration and industrial agents of Southwestern railroads look forward to a heavy movement of homeseekers toward Indian Territory and Texas -gup. ing the summer and autumn month*.

Direct Evidence.

The lawyer shook his finger warnIngly at the witness and said, “Now iwe want to hear just what yon know, not what some one else knows, or what you think, or anything of that kind, but what you know. Do you understand?” “Wai, I know,” said the witness, with emphasis, as he lifted one limber leg and laid it across the other, “I know that Clay Grubb said that Bill Thomson told him that he heard John Thomas’ wife tell Sid Shuford’s gal that her husband was there when the fight tuk place, and that he said that they slung each other around in the bushes right consid’able.”

Of Wide Interest.

Breed, Wis., July 18.—Special.— Chas. Y. Peterson, Justice of the Peace for Oconto Co., has delivered a judgment that is of Interest to the whole United States. Put briefly, that judgment Is, “Dodd’s Kidney Pills are the best Kidney medicine on the market today.” And Mr. Peterson gives his reason for this judgment. He says’: “Last winter I had an aching pain In my back which troubled me very much. In the morning I could hardly straighten my back. I did not know what it was, but an advertisement led me to try Dodd’s Kidney Pills. After taking one box I can only say they have done more for me than expected, as I feel as well now as ever I did before.’’ Pain in the back is one of the first symptoms of Kidney disease. If not cured by Dodd’s Kidney Pills it may develop into Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Rheumatism or some of the other deadly forms of Kidney Disease.

Maximite Safe Enough.

Mp Maxim will show you one of his important inventions, his powerful shell exploder, known as "maximite, which in explosive force is about 56 per cent more efficient than dynamite, and somewhat more powerful than pure nitroglycerine. This maximite has lately been adopted by our government as a bursting charge for projectiles and shells, and it is equaled in shattering force by only two other known substances. In spite of its high explosive quality it is a very safe compound to handle, and is practically unaffected by shock, and will not explode by being set on fire —even if a mass of it is stirred with a white-hot Iron. It will bum with a bright green flame, and can be Ignited with a match. All this Mr. Maxim demonstrated by lighting a piece of smokeless powder and dropping it in a dish containing some lumps of maximite. He also melted lead and poured it over dry lumps of maximite, and, While it burned freely, like sulphur or wax, it did not explode. In appearance maximite somewhat resembles sulphur, being yellow in color and quite hard. It is easily melted, in which condition it flows like molasses and is poured into steel projectlies. —St Nicholas.

Life’s Working Rules.

Edward Everett Hale, the venerable chaplain of the Senate, has boiled dow r n the receipt for life’s working rules into three sentences: “For your health, keep out In the open air as much as possible; “For your religion, keep faith in your neighbor; “And for your mental advancement, keep up the practice of engaging in conversation each d/y some one whom you know to be your superior.”

A BACK LICK.

Settled the Case With Her. Many great discoveries have been made by accident and things better than gold mines have been found in this way, for example when even the accidental discovery that coffee is the real cause of one’s sickness proves of most tremendous Value because it locates the cause and the person has then a chance to get well. “For over 25 years,” says a Missouri woman, “I suffered untold agonies in my stomach and even the best physicians disagreed as to the cause without giving me any permanent help, different ones saying It was gastritis, indigestion, neuralgia, etc., so I dragged along from year to year, always half sick, until finally I gave up all hopes of ever being well again. “When taking dinner with a friend one day she said she had a new drink which turned out to be Postum and I liked it so well I told her I thought I would stop coffee for awhile and use it, which I did.

“So for three months we had Postum in place of coffee without ever having one of my old spells, but was always healthy and vigorous Instead. “Husband kept saying he was convinced It was coffee that caused those spells, but even then I wouldn’t believe it until one day we got out of Postum and as we lived two miles from town I thought to use the coffee we had In the house. "The result of a week’s use of coffee again was that I had another terrible spell of agony and distress, proving that It was the coffee and nothing else. That settled It and I said good-bye to Coffee forever and sliice then Postum alone has been our hot u&ealtlme drink. “My friends all say/ I am looking worlds better -and my complexion Is much Improved. All the other members of our family have been benefited, too, by Pdstuoa In place of the old drink, coffee.’? Name given by Postum Co., Battle)Creek, Mich. Ten'days’ trial of Postum In place of coffae' or tea is the wise thing for ev-C-ry coffee drinker. Buch a trial tejls the exact truth often where coffee Is not suspected. Look In each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellvlll*"

COMMEPCIAL AND FINANCIAL

“ ~ 7~| Advices indicate ,littla lOfn. Change during the week ~ 1 in the general trade situation, jobbing reporting active business, several lines showing good gains over a year ago. In many instances these gains are sufficient to compensate for losses sustained early in the season. The outlook is generally encouraging, reports from all centers indicating a more hopeful feeling than prevailed a month ago. While there is the natural uncertainty of the Presidential year, there are few “blue spots” in the country. At the West business is active. Future deliveries in clothing, shoes, men’s furnishings, and some branches of dry goods compare favorably with a year ago. Sections where mills have shut down reflect some depression, but this Is not unusual for “inventory week.” Owing to the rush work of a year ago, and consequent postponement of repairs needed then, the period of inaction this year may, be somewhat prolonged. Except for the hardship to employes this interference is not likely to prove of much inconvenience. The labor situation at the West has unquestionably improved. Employers and employes are working in greater harmony than at this date for years past \

The more confident tone noted a week ago in the iron industry continues, and the belief gains ground that the improvement will gradually, extend to all branches of the trade. Some Improvement is noted in Newt England, where general trade is picking up slightly and merchants appear somewhat more hopeful. The Indianapolis district reports fair trade in all lines excepting dry goods, where sales average less than a year ago. Collections In that territory are still slow. In certain sections of the South trade has fallen off slightly, although business in general is well up to the test year’s total. Crop conditions everywhere have shown improvement, the government report confirming the encouraging tone of private advices to the effect that the outlook was excellent for a record cotton yield.

~ Dun’s Review of the GillMOO. week’s trade, published — by R. G. Dun & Co., says: Bank exchanges increased and mercantile money was liberally invested In high-grade securities. The July disbursements reached a larger aggregate than heretofore and the settlements proceeded smoothly among the financial institutions. Commercial loans remained in moderate request, but indications developed suggesting a freer use of accommodation in the near future. Aside from an improved volufhe of retail trade, business in the producing and distributing lines has undergone no Important change. Country buyers have shown less hesitancy in selecting future requirements. Railroad traffic reports disclose gains, although slight, in the westbound movement of general merchandise. Iron and steel products assumed more firmness in prices. There has be'n some curtailment in production, and the general demand was without especial feature, except in pig iron, orders for which were numerous, indicating that consumers' stocks are very low. Other manufacturing branches have maintained fair activity and there was less closing down of plants for repairs than expected. Grain shipments, 1,538,098 bushels, are 13 per cent under those a yenr ago. Current receipts run light, but are ample for the demand. Reports of damage to wheat caused by excessive rainfall in the central valleys forced a sharp rise.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 o $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $5.45; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.06; corn, No. 2,47 cto 40c; oats, standard, 80c to 40c; rye, No. 2,68 cto 70c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $14.00; prairie, $6.00 to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 40c to 50c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04; corn, No. 2 white, 48c to 40c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c. St Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.30; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,07 cto $1.00; corn. No. 2, 48c to 40c; oats. No. 2,30 cto 40c; rye. No. 2,00 cto 08c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.04 to $1.07; corn, No. 2 mixed, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 2, 65c to 67c; clover seed, prime, $0.25. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.30; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5-80; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.76; lambs, common to choice, $5.75 to $7.50. ‘ New York—Cattle. $3.50 to $7.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.55; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.07; corn. No. 2,52 cto 53c; oats, No. 2 white. 46c to 48c; butter, cregmery, 16c to 18c; eggs, western, 15c to 18c.