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have been completed for refunding the entire mortgage debt of the Uhi-cago Northwestern railroad upon a rate of 3% per cent intercut. The is but the beginning of a movement which ia likely to include aomo thousands of millions of mortgages before it reaches its consummatiu'u, and which will have a decided influence upon the character and safety of stock investments in general.Dur.’s Keview for .July 17, in speaking of the financial situation says: “Excepting the great coal miners’ strike, which may terminate at any time, there is scarcely a feature of the business outlook which is not eneour-; aging, the season considered. Crop, prospects have been improved by . needed rains in some regions, and foreign advices continue to promise a largo demand. In many home industries, particularly in building, there is more activity than in any year since 1892, and the week has brought a better demand in boots and shoes and in woolens, while the movement of freight, mainly iron ore, through Sault Ste. Marie canal is the largest in its history. With money markets unclouded, there is nothing in eight to hinder rapid improvement when uncertainty about legislation has been removed, for the miners' stiike could not last loqg if business and industries should become active.”MINOR MENTION.The Woodford county Endeavorers will meet in aunuai session in Eureka August in and 14.The M. E. camp meeting in Watseka will tliie year commence August 181 and continue till the 29th.The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kelly,near Kankakee,was struck by lightning and instantly killed last] i Friday.Blackberries are ripe in abundance | in the region of Mahomet and are sell- | iing at $1*60 per bushel with prospect | of lower pi ices.The members of the Country club of Peoria formally opened their club j house Saturday afternoon with a reception from 2 to G.All Kansas on Monday celebrated the 80th birthday of “Mother’' Bick-erdyke, the famous army nurse. “Mother” Bickerdyke liven at Bunker Hill, and there hundreds cf veterans assembled to do her honor.The story about Mrs. Mary E. Lsaso’s candidacy for governor was started by a local newspaper man as a joke She does not deny it, for that is the kind of advertising she needs in her business, that of a platfom speaker. ■She has no intention of running for governor.
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Bloomington Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Tue, Jul 20, 1897
Page 4
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