Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1907 — GERMAN EXPORTS CUT DOWN. [ARTICLE]

GERMAN EXPORTS CUT DOWN.

Flnuncial Disturbance in i'nlted States Hurts Dealers. ■ German financial writers are of the •pinion that the monetary situation- in the United States will diminish exports to the United States. The Berliner Tage- - blatt has gathered interviews with exporters to the United States and with the heads of firms whose business consists in part of manufacturing for the American marker. Jhe men who have expressed their views represent firms in the linen and knit goods business, leather and metal wares, gas motors, dress goods, glass, and Other lines. The orders now’on hand for ■ome lines will run until August or September, but beyond this buyers show hesitation. One ini]»ortant firm in the leather traile declares that-bnsiheggL, a ' rcn ' l - v has been seriously damaged and that almost no orders have been taken in since the beginning of the disturbance. There have been extraordinarily large exports of fur to the United States this season, and as a result stocks in Europe are materially reduced. The large fur dealers have agreed to raise prices otj, Jan. 1. Americans seem to lx* going in for furs rather than for diamond*. HIGH RATES SHUT MILLS. Wlfneaueu ... merer Board Accnae Railroad*. That scores of mills have been compelled to shut down because of excessive railroad rates in the Northwest was alleged in the interstate commerce lumber—inquiry in Washington. Witnesses testified that they were unable to place their product on the market east of the Rocky mountains at a profit and that they could not depend upon the local market in their territory to provide for them such a market as would enable them to maintain their business. The line of cross-examina-tion indicated the purpose of the railroads to show that the rates were not exorbitant, but really were fair and equitable compared with the rates given producers of manufactured lumber in the so-called yellow pine district.

CHILD LABOR LAW IS INVALID. ■ 11 "■ ■» Ohio Circuit Court Decides flie Measure Is I'nconstitutional. The Ohio State child labor law, which forbids the employment of children Under 14 years in any factory or other heavy tnnnual labor, was declared unconstitutional by the Circuit Court in session at St. Clairsville, Ohio. The reason handed down by the court was that the law curtails the liberty of the i>cople granted by the constitution of the State and the ■United States. The case at issue was that of the State against T. A. Rodefer, proprietor of the Rodefer Glass Works, Bellaire, Ohio. lie was charged'with employing boys after legal hours.; ** GAS STOVE KILLS TWO WOMEN. Servant* in Rich Mnn’« Home Are Asphyxiated. 1 Mrs. Edmona Creasey and Miss Mamie Livesay, servants, were asphyxiated at the home of John Grimes, a prominent business man of Portsmouth. Ohio. The women were close friends, and at first there were strong hints of a -suicide agreement between them, but this theory has been disproved. The small gas stove in the room of the women was found to be turned on. Mrs. Creasey leaves three children at Concord Junction, Va. Miss Livesay was a native of Fort Gay, W. Va.

Murderer Put to Death. Richard E. Walton, colored, was hanged in the county jail in Chicago, and the murder of Mrs. Lillian Grant White, the kindergarten teacher, was avenged so far as the law could do so. Justice in this case was as swift as it was certain, for in less than three months after the crime was committed Walton had paid the extreme penalty. Eloping Woman Tries Suicide. Mrs. Mary Russell, who has. been in Cleveland for several days under the name of Mrs. F. R. Feurlicht. attempted to commit suicide on Euclid avenue by taking carbolic acid. She was taken to a hospital, where it is said she will recover. Mrs. Russell admits having eloped from New York with a theatrical man. $600,000 Bank Looter Seined. William F. Walker, absconding treasurer of the New Britain (Conn.) Savings bank, has been arrested in the mountains of Mexico, according to a well authenticated report, and is now on his way to Loe Angeles, Cal., in charge of detectives.

Falla to Shoot Wife; la Suicide. William Shields, a steamboat man, committed suicide in I’arkersburjr, W. Va.. by ■booting, after failing to kill his wife, whom be ehot through the band. Dl«*grcei Over Sunday CloainK. The first Sunday closing jury in Chicago failed to reach a verdict, standing eight for acquittal, and was discharged after twenty-four hours’ deliberation. Schooner Lanson Wrecked. Huge schooner Thomas W. Lawson v»t wrecked off the Scilly Islands and only three of the drew of eighteen men were saved. Immigration Rreuka Record. Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner of Immigration, says immigration for year ending June 10, 1907, surpassed all previous tecords. Quurnntlned jn Railway Station. F. Smith of Kansas City, said to be a prominent capitalist, is quarantined in the railroad station in Brownsville, Tex., •a a smallpox patient. He was taken off 1 a Southern Pacific train. Wreck oa Lake Erie. With her rodder gone, the tfig Leits of Cleveland limped into Sandusky, Ohio. Daring the night the tug lost the dredge Detroit No. 2. off Cedar Point, and one man. Samual Simpson of Cleveland, was drowned. A terrific storm raged on Lake