Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — BIG LAKE SHIPMENTS. [ARTICLE]

BIG LAKE SHIPMENTS.

INCREASE IN COMMERCE DURING JULY. Strike la Like Superior Ore Region Falla to Deerenoe Movement aa a j Whole —Robber* Dynamite Safe of Sooth Dakota Bank. Considerable gains in lake commerce during July'are shown by receipts of leading classes of merchandise at the various lake ports, compared with the earlier months of the year and corresponding periods of the preceding two years. The strike in the Lake Superior ore region did not result in a decrease of tbe commercial movement as a whole. Total receipts during July amounting to ’11,098,373 tons, were G per cent in excess of those of 190 G and 19 per cent in excess of corresponding 1905 figures. As a result of the strike, wheat rates from Duluth to lower lake ports, which had been about 2% ceqjs a bushel, fell to 1 Cent, and! increased the wheat shipment* from Duluth and Superior by over 80 per cent, from 2,210,205 to 4,029,805 bushels. Receipts of ore from domestic porta vbow a shrinkage of about a quarter of a million tons,, falling from 5,093,234 tons during July, 190 G, to 5,408,147. Dumber receipts also are smaller than a year ago, the greatest losses being recorded by Lake Superior ports. An interesting point revealed is tbe increase in the average size of the vessels plying on the great lakes, amounting to over 100 tons for tbe year.

BASE BALL. STANDINGS. Cimti Won and Loat by Club* In Principal Lraguea. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L ~7~~’ 7 W. L. Chicago ..;.93 38 Brooklyn ...50 68 Pittsburg ..76 52 Cincinnati ..54 75 New York. .74 52 Boston .7.. .45 11 Phil’delphia 67 55 St. Louis 40-~iH AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Phil’delphia 76 48 New Y0rk...56 68 Detroit .... 75 48 Boston ..... 56 72 Chicago ....74 53 St. Louis.. ..51 73 Cleveland ..73 54 Washington. 38 83 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. *W. b. W. L. Columbus . .86 61 Indianapolis 71 76 Toledo .... .85 61 Kansas City.7o 75 Minneapolis 74 70 Milwaukee ..68 75 Louisville ..72 74 St. Pau1....56 90 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Omaha ....75 57 Denver .....62 63 Des Moines.7l 54 Pueblo 58 70 Lincoln ....60 56 Sioux City.. 47 48

ROBBERS DYNAMITE BANK. Gaarda Hold Onlookers at Bey 'While Safeblowera Fire Seven Chararen. Robbers dynamited the James River bank at Frankfort, S. D„ early Friday morning, secured SS,OOO in cash, and escaped. Seven charges of dynamite were used in blowing up the vault and the safe. Persons aroused by the explosion were prevented from interfering by guards who were stationed in front and rear of the bank. Frank Fitspatrick, a hotel guest, who sought to break through the line of CQards, was shot. His wound is not dangerous. Many shots were fired to hold onlookers at bay. After looting the bank the robbers broke into a section bouse on the Chicago and Northwestern railway and secured a handcar, on which they made their escape. A posse is seeking the robbers. Barton la Named for Mayor. Congressman Theodore E. Burton, chairman of the House committee on rivers and harbors, was nominated by acclamation for Mayor of Cleveland at the Republican city convention. Francis W. Treadway was nominated for Vice Mayor. President Name* New Chief. President Roosevelt has appointed Lety Tiger as chief of the five tribes of Creek Indians, to succeed Chief Pleasant Porter, who died at Muskogee, I. T., the other day. '

f75 t 000 l ire in TtXM Town. A long-distance telephone message from Decatur, Texas, states that fire at the town of Alvord destroyed nearly a dozen buildings and a large lumber yard. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Leap* from Niagara Bridge. Wh’le hundreds of persons were standing on the suspension bridge across the river at Niagara Falls an unknown man leaped from the structure, his body disappearing in the rapids, 192 feet below. Waterloo Bugler'* Wife Dies. Mrs. Isabella F. Brinkman, the wife of • Waterloo veteran, died in Washington. It is claimed by her daughters that there ia now no woman living whose husband participated in that great battle. Mine firs Kill* 27 Workmen. Twenty-seven miners were burned to death in a fire at Musquix, Coahuila, Mexico. The fire occurred in one of the .. . aiinaa -at the Esperantos group, and was caused by an explosion of fire damp. Oldest Mason 100 Tear* Old. James Bellow McGregor, said to be the oldest Mason in the world, celebrated his 106th birthday with a public reception at Mount Sunapee, N. U. Hie joining of the Masonic order in 1827 makes him a member of eighty years’ standing. Bock 1* Hart la Train Wreck. Gov. Hoch was injured in a railroad arrack on the Hants ye at Wakaruaa, Kan. The car in which he was riding was partly overturned. The Governor kicked out a window and assisted in the •rork of rescuing women and children.