Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 January 1896 — Page 1
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VETERINARY SHOEING SHOP.
Having made a study of the horses foot 25 years past, 10 years of which I was a practical horse shoer, I am fully convinced that nine out of ten cases of lameness can be traced to the foot. The following are some of the diseases and habits I cure, prevent or remedy:
Corns, Seedy Toe, Toe and Quarter Cracks, Bruises, Ossified Cartilages, Thrush, Cankers, Hard and Brittle ||4 Feet, Quitter, Over reaching, Forging, Pigeon Toes,
Nigger Heels, Interfering, Arm Cutters, Knee Bangers ftHd many other things for which I charge nothing extra. My shop is in the rear of Jeffries & Son's livery barn. I have in my employ a general blacksmith and can also do all kinds of repair work in wood or iron on short notice.
PRICES AS LOW AS THE LOWEST
UlI solicit a share of your patronage. Stalls in connection t^ifor horses while waiting their turns. Horses in the city sent for and returned. GOOD WORK OR NO PAY.
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TO THE BERMUDAS.
The Supposed Destination of the Flying Squadron.
THE INFORMATION NOT OFFICIAL.
The British War Department or the Colonial Office in London Will Neither Confirm or Deny the Rumor—Such a Movement, It Is Said, Would Not He Approved by Our Government.
PORTSMOUTH, Eng., Jan. 18.—The flying squadron, consisting of the battleships Revenge, flagship, Rear Admiral Alfred T. Dale the battteship Royal Oak, the first class cruisers Gibraltar and Theseus, and the second class cruisers Cliaribdis and Hermione, together with six first class torpedo boat destroyers, assembled at Spit Head at noon yesterday. It is reported that the destination of this squadron, after leaving Bantry bay, Ireland, will be Bermudas.
NOT BELIEVED IN WASHINGTON.
Sucli a Demonstration Would Not Be Favorably Received.
WASHINGTON*, Jan. 18.—The cable reports from Portsmouth, Eng., whence the British flying squadron is about to set sail, that its destination may be the Bermudas, can not be confirmed in any official quarters here and the report is taken with considerable allowance. No information on the subject has come to the departments of the British embassy.
The British squadron already at and about the Bermudas consists of 16 ships, viz.: Buzzard, Canada, Cordelia, Crescent, Magicienne, Mohawk, Partridge, Pelican, Tartar, Terror, Tourmaline. Urgent, Acorn, Barracouta, Eeagle and Retribution. These are cruisers, some of thorn of 7,000 tons displacement. Should the Portsmouth report prove true, it would increase this squadron to 22 ships, or 28, including the six torpedo catchers.
It is doubted that Great Britain would send such a powerful fleet into American waters at this time, when their presence in force sufficient to overcome our north Atlantic squadron almost certainly would be regarded as a hostile demonstration certainly not called for as long as diplomacy has not yet exhausted its resources in the settlement of the differences between the United States and Great Britain.
The Bermudas, lying between six and seven hundred miles off our coast, would afford an admirable base of operations against any point from Cape Cod down to Key West, and while the islands are part of the British empire the assemblage of a powerful fleet there could not be regarded with indifference by the United States government unless its presence was explained satisfactorily.
Neither Confirmed Nor Denied.
LONDON, Jan. 18.—All the morning papers this morning publish the report which was cabled to the Associated Press that the flying squadron will go to Bermuda. No official confirmation of this report is probable.
Rear Admiral Alfred T. Dale, in command of the squadron, will receive final and definite instructions when the completed squadron assembles at Berehaven.
TO COIN SILVER BULLION.
Carlisle Will Soon Set the Philadelphia Mint Going.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Philadelphia mint is to have a boom. The secretary of the treasury contemplates the coinage of a portion of the silver bullion in the treasury.
At the beginning of the present administration there were in the treasury 28,894,000 coined silver dollars available for redemption of notes of 1890. Since then there has been some coinage. The redemption of notes of 1890 in silver since then has reduced these coins to $18,563,000.
It is the intention of the secretary to coin enough of the bullion held against the notes of 1890 to at least restore the amount of coined silver dollars to what it was at the beginning of the administration.
This will involve the coinage of between 15 and 16 million dollars and the profit from the coinage will be added to the free silver in the treasury.
The coinage will be done in the mints of Philadelphia aad New Orleans, most of it probably in Philadelphia.
Requisitions Issued.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills., Jan. 18.—Governor Altgeld yesterday issued a requisition on the governor of Mississippi for the extradition of William Conners, under arrest at Jackson, Miss., and also issued a requisition on the governor of Ohio for the requisition of Richard Howard, under arrest at Dayton, O. The men are charged with the robbery of Campbell & Cunningham's bank at Danville, Ills. The robbers secured $8,600.
Bank Suspended.
PORTSMOUTH, O., Jan. 18.—The Farmers' National bank of this city suspended payment at noon yesterday by order of the comptroller of currency. It has been impossible for the bank to realize on assets in time to meet current maturing obligations. Depositors will be paid in full, as assets far exceed liabilities. No statement is yet permitted by the comptroller.
Scaffolding Gave Way.
LEBANON, O., Jan. 18.—By the breaking of the scaffolding in the standpipe for the new water works yesterday, Otto Hoesley of Youngstown and Eugene Eckert of Crawford, Pa., were fatally injured. Hoesley'a head was crushed and Ecker received injuries to the spine that paralyzed the lower part of his body and legs.
Somnambulistic Burglar.
OOLUMBOS. O., Jan. 18.—Joshua D. Mathlott, a very wealthy citizen of Sci* otoville, was placed in the state prison yesterday to serve two years for burglary. It is thought that he committed the deed while in somn qmbul ist^o fit.
R. G. Dun & Company's Weekly Report on the Condition of Business.
NEW YOKK, Jan. 18.—R. G. Dun & Company's weekly review of trade says: The situation could hardly be more perplexing for business men. Practical merchants, manufacturers or bankers can have little sympathy for those who minimize their difficulties. None doubt that the government will raise money to meet obligations, but how far the money market will be disturbed or the treasury reserve first diminished no one can say. The business world can not know as yet how far foreign questions may upset calculations, though there seems every reason to expect peaceful settlement. Jt can not know what may be the duties on any important class of imports a month hence, whether imports are likely to exceed exports and draw away gold, whether the deficit of revenue will continue, or what other taxation will be levied.
Failure of the senate thus far to take any action upon financial measures proposed by the president or those passed bv the house affects unfavorably all branches of business. Under such adverse circumstances it is actually encouraging that shrinkage in transactions and resulting commercial disasters have not been greater. But four large failures within a day or two indicate that the same condition can not continue without much embarrassment.
Speculation in products was not very active, and wheat was practically unchanged, though Atlantic exports for two weeks, flour included, have been 4,483,190 bushels, against 4,273,125 last year. Western receipts still make short crop pi*edictions ridiculous, amounting for two weeks of January to 5,421,976 bushels, against 2.559,122 last year.
Corn receipts were also liberal and exports about five times last year's. Cotton receipts still indicate a yield neither as small as Mr. Neill's reiterated estimate of 6,500,000 bales, nor as large as the 7,000,000 bales estimated by others, but it is yet to be seen whether supplies held for better prices are of consequence. The price declined an eighth with accounts of narrower demand by spinners abroad and declining prices'for goods in this country.
No branch of manufacture has progress, for all are unavoidably waiting, both for settlement of financial doubts and for a demand which does not yet appeal*. Cotton goods are not quotably lower, but concessions to secure business are reported in many instances, and many of the mills have been running largely in anticipation of orders not yet received. There is a little better inquiry for staples, with indications that dealers' stocks are running low.
The 6pening of fine and fancy woolens has brought no change in pryjes, and revisions caused by recent openings of worsteds have been generally toward lower p: There lias been somewhat more demand, but not enough to keep most of the mills running full. Sales of wool in two weeks have been 4,994,300 pounds domestic and 6,823,300 foreign, against 6,269,615 domestic and 4,410,200 foreign last year.
The pig iron weekly output Jan. 1 207,481 tons, a decrease of 9,316, or 4.3 per cent, in December, and unsold stocks increased 91,125 tons, or over 20,000 weekly, while the great steel companies whose stocks are not reported produced in December 342,936 tons. The production is so far beyond the present demand for finished products that temporary stoppages of many furnaces is expected. Yet pig iron is higher, Bessemer about 50 cents, and grey forge and anthracite 25 cents, although finished products are generally weaker, with less demand.
Controllers of the 'coke and ore output are said to have f» maintain prices above those of 18U-), wi'ic.i means dearer pig iron, but if orders for finished products do not materially increase the advance in materials can hardly be maintained.
Minor metals are weaker, with copper at 9.75 cents, about 5,000 tons of lead at 3 cents and tin at 13 cents.
Failures for the past week have been much larger in magnitude, numbering 395 in the United States, against 373 last year, and 81 in Canada, against 60 last year.
EXPIRED IN HER COFFIN.
Evidence That a Young Iady WM Placed in a Vault Alive.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 18.—It has justcome to light that Josephine Slike, who was supposed to ha ye died Dec. 22. expired in her coffin after a fearful struggle. The body was placed in a vault, and when the relatives went to bury it the lid was unscrewed. The girl'6 face was found to be horribly distorted, the features scratched and the hands clasped.
The doctor who attended her claims he did not pronounce her dead before the funeral arrangements were made, but saw her in the coffin before it was taken to the vault, and she seemed to be dead. It is supposed that she was in a trance.
Express Company Tax.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 18.—The cases brought against the American, Adams and United States Express companies to collect the excise tax on corporations for 1894, reached the supreme court yesterday on error from the lower courts of this county. The common pleas and circuit courts gave opinions sustaining the law and the companies have carried the cases up. The cases involve the constitutionality of the law prescribing an excise tax of
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ness originating within the state.
Thirty Indictments.
CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Jan. 18.—Yesterday the grand jury returned 80 or more indictments against different persons for illicit sale of intoxicants. The whisky men are stirred up, as it is thought to be the commencement of a raid upon "speak-easies."
Fireman Injured.
ZANESVILLE, O., Jan. 18.—Frank McOormick, fireman stationed at the Third Ward station, was thrown from the hose carriage and received probably fatal injuries while responding to afire yesterday.. ,.
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