Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1898 — Page 7

THE L. A. KINSEY CO., INCORPORATED. * CAPITAL, *25,000 FI LL PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions, New York Stocks. long Distance Telephone, 1375 and 1592. 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office, Room ♦, Carlisle Building. CONSOLIDATION RUMORS THE OITGROWTH OF CONTEMPLATED TRAFFIC ALLIANCES. ♦ ... Rumor* of Impending Change* on the Pennsylvania Line* Eaat—General and Pemonal Note*. ♦ Rumors are still current of a consolidation of the Monon and the Big Four lines, and yesterday the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton was included, although it is a wellknown fact that the courts after a bitter contest decided that the Big Four and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton could not be legally consolidated. Those best informed are of opinion that a traffic alliance is to be formed for the purpose of filing and maintaining rates in the Chicago and Ohio River Traffic Association territory. In connection with this consolidation scheme the following telegram was received yesterday from New York: “A controlling interest in the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad. better known as the Monon, has been acquired by the Big Four, Bays the Herald, and negotiations are under way for the acquisition of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Daytcn. The latter deal, however, has not yet been perfected, although it Is believed In Wall street that it is only a question of a few days before an agreement will be reached. The Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Louis Railroad is controlled by the Vanderbilts and is operated in such close connection with the Chesapeake & Ohio that gossip has intimated that it is a part of the deal that the Chesapeake road shall be eventually taken into the enlarged Big Four system. Strictly speaking, a majority of the Monon stock has been acquired by the financial interests that control the Big Four, not by the railroad proper, although the effect is the same, and it is understood to be the intention to turn the property over to the Big Four at no distant date. “The acquisition of the Monon will give the Big Four an entrance of its own into Chicago over the Chicago & Western Indiana Jphe Big Four has been dependent on the Illinois Central for an entrance to Chicago, having to pay for the use of fifty-six miles of tracks. The acquisition of the Monon will add 535 more miles to the Big Four's system of 1,838 miles, and if it secures the Cincinnati, Hamilton, & Dayton, which has 641 miles, it will have a combined mileage of 3,015 miles. In addition to this the Big Four operates nearly four hundred miles of other tracks. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton traverses much of the territory of the Big Four, but it would add much new territory to the Vanderbilt system. It is calculated that a combination of the two systems would lead to greater uniformity of rates, and that the companies would be gainer. The Big Four has no line into Toledo, and if it acquires the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road the latter will afford a short and convenient connection between the Big Four and Lake Shore for connection with Michigan points.” President Thomas, of the Monon, referring yesterday to the rumors of the absorption of that road by the Big Four, said that while there have been several conferences between officials of the two roads, nothing definite has been done yet. Pennsylvania Change*. The Philadelphia Press is authority for the statement that there are to be a number of changes on the Pennsylvania Railroad on Sept. 1, chiefly promotions in the /superintendent’s department. It is stated that F. Wolcott Jackson, who has been the general superintendent of the United Railroads of New Jersey division, as well as president of the same organization, is going to devote himself to the duties of 'the president, and F. L. Sheppard, the present general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad division, is to be transferred to the position of general superintendent of the United Railroads of New Jersey, with headquarters at Jersey City. It is said that J. M. Wallis, the general superintendent of the Northern Central and Philadelphia & Erie division, is to be taken away from this position and fiven that now held by Mr. Sheppard. t is also stated that Mr. Wallis was reluctant to make the change, but was prevailed on to do so. Owing to these promotions the vacancies created will be filled by those who are in line and competent to do the work. B. F. Brooks, the present superintendent of the New York division, is mentioned as one of the officials to be moved up. Mr. Sheppard, who is in poor health, is at Atlantic City, and the change, so far as he is concerned, is made so that he may have a less exacting position. Personal. Local and General Note*. J. J. Turner, general manager of the Vandalia lines, will go to Mackinac on Monday to remain a month. The Cleveland & Pittsburg, a Pennsylvania line, has declared a 1% -per-cent, quarterly dividend, payable Sept. L The picnic of the Panhandle employes at Idlewild Park. Newark, 0.. on Aug. 16. promises to be largely attended. C. S. Blackman, general Eastern agent of the Big Four, who has been in the city for a few days, returned last night to Buffalo. James McCrea, first vice president of the Pennsylvania lines west, with his family, is spending a month in the Adirondacks. On Sept. 1 the demerit system of discipline will be adopted on the Erie lines. The system now in use on the Wabash will "be used. Assistant General Freight Agents Holliday and Ford Wood, of the Big Four, have gene to Pennsylvania for a few days’ recreation. Late rumors are that the Vanderbilts are securing a strong hold on the securities of the Boston & Albany, and it is exciting comment. John Davis has been appointed special detective of the Pennsylvania lines on the Erie and Ashtabula division, vice Albert Rofleeker, resigned. W. P. Burnett, traveling passenger agent for the Missouri. Kansas & Texas, has resigned, and will on Sept. 1 enter the service of the Chicago & Alton. Matthew Herrington, well known in railroad circles, and brother of Joseph Herrington, conductor on the M., K. & TANARUS., died at 3t. Louis on Wednesday. On Sunday the new interlocking plant at the junction of the Big Four and the Chisago & Eastern Illinois, near Terre Haute, Will be put in operation. v . M. Sohryver, general passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio lines east of the Ohio river, with a party of friends, has gone to Colorado on a pleasure trip. C. H. Peters, the veteran yardmaster of the Pennsylvania lines at Sharpsvilie, worked on the construction train which built the Steubenville & Indiana road. J S. Bartel, who has just retired as general freight agent of the Indiana, Illinois & lowa, goes to New York city Sept. 1 to represent the Santa Fe as Its general agent. G. H. Logan, traveling auditor of the Mislouri Pacific, has* received the appointment Df paymaster in the United States army and has been assigned for service in the Philippine islands. C. A. Taylor, traffic manager of the Richmond. Fredtricksburg & Potomac, is dead. He entered the service of the road in 1873, and on Den'. 1, 1889, was appointed its traffic' manager. The past season over two thousand carloads of harvest machinery have been shipped from points on the Panhandle system. exceeding all former records in this line of shipments. "TtW activity In the securities of the Toledo. St/ Louis & Kansas City is attracting attention. Large sales of the securities have been made in the last few days at an advtsfiep frpm 82 to 90. Jonathan M. Nesbitt, general live stock agent of the Chicago & Alton for thirtyseven years past, was buried at St. Ixniis yesterday. He died suddenly on Tuesday of neuralgia of the heart. John A. Sargent, who created to much of ft surprise by resigning as general freight

agent of the Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf, is to accept a more lucrative position on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The rates asked by the authorities of the Omaha Exposition are so low that the roads have deckled not to grant them, notwithstanding the fact that the railways centering at Omaha were large contributors to the enterprise. On Sept. 1 another of the dining cars of the Big Four will be rurned out of the shops at Brightwood. Five of the company’s eight dining cars will then be new and three rebuilt, all after the most modern plan, and square vestibuled. The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City in the first week of August earned $43,153: since July 1 the road has earned $229,855, a decrease of but $3,905 when compared with the unprecedentedly large warnings the road was making at the corresponding period of 1897. The official Investigation of the wreck on the Vandalia at Waveland lasi week, which caused the death of Engineer Higly, begun at Terre Haute yesterday. Engineer Baiersdorf assumes all the blame for the accident, which was caused by his forgetfulness. The latter is almost insane over the matter. H. Tandy, who. on Aug. 1., resigned as superintendent of the Brooks locomotive works, goes to Kingston, Ont., to accept the superintendency of the Canadian locomotive works. The employes of the Brooks locomotive works, on his retiring, presented him with an elegant gold-headed ebony cane. The managers of the Joint Traffic Association have announced special passenger excursions as ‘follows: G. A. R. National Encampment. Cincinnati. Sept. 5 to 10; Union Veterans’ Legion National Encampment, Williamsport, Pa., Sept. 12 to 16, and Libor Day excursions to Niagara Falls. W. H. Lynch, assistant general passenger agent of the Big Four, deserves much credit for the manner he secured the Pullman cars to carry the One-hundred-and-sixty-first Regiment to Jacksonville. Fla. The notice to get the equipment was short, and the Pullman Company as well as the Wagner Company had Its extra cars a good deal scattered. The Toledo & Ohio Central is taking its position as one of the strong lines of Ohio. The company has just received from the Brooks locomotive works five sixty-one-ton locomotives of the highest standard, and of the 800 ’gondola cars building for the line 200 have been received. Within the past few months the entire western division has been heavily ballasted with gravel, and a like Improvement is now in progress on the eastern division. The Baltimore & Ohio is moving to secure a large per cent, of the west-bound business out of Pittsburg, and is giving the Panhandle some warm competition. The B. & O. put on a fast freight to carry merchandise. The train makes fast time to Columbus, 0., and on reaching that city It is divided for Indianapolis, Cincinnati and other Western points, and faster trains have been put on to distribute the business. The Chicago business is diverted at Newark. FINE L. A. W. WEATHER. Another Pretty Day Predieted by the Local Forecanter. Foreeast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending at 11 p. m. Aug. 12—Fair weather on Friday. General Conditions Yesterday—Low barometric pressure continues from beyond the lakes south of the gulf; moderately high pressure near the Atlantic coast and west of the Mississippi. The temperature fell slightly except near the gulf and Atlantic coasts. Fair weather prevailed except near the Atlantic and gulf coasts, where rain fell. FORECAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. For Ohio - Partly cloudy weather, preceded by showers on the lakes: fresh south to southwest winds, diminishing. For Indiana and Illinois—Fair; northwesterly winds Local Observations Thursday. Bar. Ther. H.H. Wind Weather. Pre. 7a. m. .29.90 69 83 South Pt. Cloudy 000 7 p.m..29.88 79 60 West Cloudy 0.03 Maximum temperature, 84; minimum temperature. 66. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation on Aug. 11: Tera. Pre. Normal 75 0.11 Mean 75 O.OJ Departure from normal 0 —ll Departure from Aug. 1 —lB *.15 Departure from Jan. 1 *354 *1.12 •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, * Local Forecast Official. VITAL STATISTICS—AUG. 11. Birth;*. Louise and William Bauer. 2607 North Illinois street, girl. Kate and August Daum, 316 Blake street, boy. Anna and Isaac Shaflobski, 1817 Capitol avenue, girl. Minnie and Martin Hill, 1109 Maple street, boy. Nellie and Michael Mahoney, 517 Buchanan street, girl. Death*. Malle Healey, thirty-two years, 941 Bates street, tuberculosis. Robert Hendrick, fifty-four years. North East street, embolism. James P. Shields, seventy years, 616 Homo place, natural causes. Laura Whilan, twenty-seven years, 1201% East Michigan street, typho-malarlal fever. Marriage License*. Richard M. Voigt and Hattie Huber. William Haas and Ida E. Long. Albert L. Rochelle and Lizzie E. Haverstick. Simon Winkleman and Sarah R. Cohen. SALES OF REAL ESTATE. Six Transfer*, with a Total Con*lderatlon of *0.109.00. Instruments filed for record in the recorder’s office of Marion county. Indiana, for the twentyfour hours ending at 5 p. m. Aug. 11. 1898, as furnished by Theo. Stein, abstracter of titles, corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, Indianapolis, Suite 229, first office floor. The Lemrke. Telephone 1760: Alma M. Simpson to Lillie E. Miller, part of Lot 23, Minter's subdivision of Seidenstteker & Naltner's addition $600.00 Christina Jaleski to Regina Obergfell, part of Lot 8, Henderson's addition 1,200.00 William H. H. Miller et al. to Thomas Dow, part of Lots 1 and 2, Morris's subdivision of Square 88 719.66 Thomas Moorhous to Katharine L. Niemeyer et al., part of west half of northeast quarter of Section 14. Township 15, Range 4 5,700.00 Carrie B. Heaton to Morris Kahan, part of Lot 1, Julian, Johnson, Rawles & Goode's subdivision and addition to Irvington 250.00 William H. Ream to Anna Erwin, Lot 87, Douglass Park 700.00 Transfers, 6; consideration $9,169.66 New Officer* of the A. P. A. SCRANTON. Pa.. Aug. 11.—The national convention of the American Protestant Association finished its business this afternoon and adjourned until next August at Pittsburg. where will be celebrated the semicentennial of the organization of the order. Officers were elected as follows: Charles Kicker, Missouri, grand master; William Cunningham, Philadelphia, vice grand master: L. H. Luedemann, Ohio, secretary; Theodore T. Massey, Pennsylvania, assistant secretary; James P. Park, Philadelphia, treasurer; James Armstrong, Philadelphia, rhaplain; J. Bain, Pittsburg, conductor; John G. Smith. New Jersey, assistant conductor; John Klinger. Pennsylvania, inside tyler; T. J. Major. Pennsylvania, outside tyler. The proposed amendment to increase the number of degrees was defeated, but it was decided to give a prize of SIOO to the member submitting any degree work substitute which may be adopted by the Pittsburg convention. A national death benefit fund plan was adopted to substitute the present system of payment by lodges. Building; Permit*. Kate Breen, frame house. Gall street, $575. Jennie Shoemaker, repairs, 10 Dearborn street, S2O. Peter Disher, frame house. 1228 Kleth street, SI,OOO. J. L. Major, shed, 1029 West Walnut street. s’>o. Michael Callahan, frame house, Vinton and West streets, $S$3. Mary Turk, frame addition, 716 East Morris street, $525. C. R. Jones, addition. 2214 East Michigan street. S2OO. I'nlted Presbyterian Church, brick church. Park avenue and Twenty-second street, sß,ooi>. Peace. Too. Hrlng* Tear*. Rough are the steps, slow-hewn in flintiest rock. States climb to power by; slippery these with gold Down which they stumble to eternal mock: No charterer's hand shell long the sceptre hold. Who. given a Fate to shape, would sell the block. Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win Death’s royal purple in the foeman's line-: Peace, too. brings ten*; and 'mid th battle-din The wiser ear some text of God divines. For the sheathed blade may rust with darker sin. God give us peace!—not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh, and brow with purpose knit! And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep. Her port* all up, her battle-lantern* lit. And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap! —James Russeil Lowell.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1898.

HEAVY DAY’S BUSINESS LARGEST TOTAL OF STOCK SALES RECORDED IN MONTHS. * Large Order* for Western Railroad Share* and AH Lo**eH Practically Recovered—Local Trade Quiet. ♦ At New York yesterday money on call was firm at lVz<&3 per cent.; last loan, 2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 3%04% per cent. Sterling exchange was steady, with actual business in bankers’ bills at $4.55%@ 4.85*4 for demand and at $4-W%@4.54 for sixty days; posted rates, and $4.86&> 4.86&; commercial bills, $4.83%. Silver certificates, 58%@59%c; bar silver, 59%c; Mexican dollars, At London bar silver closed steady at 27 5-16d an ounce. Total sales of stocks, 545,600 .shares, including: Atchison, 5,077; Atchison preferred, 40,550; Chesapeake & Ohio, 8,090; C., B. & Q., 32,772; C., C.. C. & St. L., 8,598; Denver & Rio Grande preferred, 5,271; Louisville & Nashville, 9,835; Manhattan, 15.815; Reading preferred, 3,840; Missouri Pacific, 8,305; Missouri, Kansas & Texas preferred, 8,475; N. Y. C., 4,524; Northern Pacific, 52,375; Northern Pacific preferred, 10,476; Ontario & Western, 4,557; Rock Island, 24,950; Union Pacific, 5,238; St. Paul, 57,220; Southern preferred, 5,788; Texas & Pacific, 3,150; Union Pacific preferred, 19,480; Cotton Oil, 3,000; Tobacco, 11,830; Chicago Great Western, 3,950; People’s Gas, 26,300; General Electric, 4,851; Pacific Mail, 5,660; Sugar, 37,786; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 7,800; Leather preferred, 21,720; Rubber, 7,990; Western Union, 17,780. Yesterday's business on the New York Stock Exchange was the largest for many months. Trading was very broad and comprehensive and the tone of speculation extremely varied. The general undertone continued unmistakably strong. The decline in prices was not allowed to proceed to any great length before dullness ensued, and m a short time a renewed demand would carry prices upward again, generally on a much smaller volume of business than that on which they had declined. Business was so large and was so widely distributed that movements of special stocks had little influence on the general list and the market at times showed excessive irregularity. Even while large realizing was going on at one point an eager demand would spring up at another and keep the balance about even. Considering the large total of the day s transactions net changes are small. Orders placed with commission houses to buy stocks were larger in the morning and more generally distributed than at any time since the rise set in. This outside demand was fed with a steady stream of stocks, which obliterated the opening gain before the end of the first hour. A large part of the outside orders, especially in the grangers, was attributed to Western account. This buying was induced by the unexpectedly favorable character of the government crop report. Realizing was on a greater scale in Burlington and Rock Island, than in the other grangers, possibly due to the comparatively less favorable showing of the corn crop. The advance in Atchison preferred brought out such a flood of offerings that the demand seemed to be abandoned largely and turned to other low priced stocks. A number of preferred railroad stocks which have not yet come to the full dividend to which they are entitled and some of the junior stocks, on which a surplus over preferred stock has been earned but not disbursed, were especially prominent. Northern Pacific common was the leader in the late speculation at an advance of two points, and Denever preferred rose at one time 1%. The industrial specialties were irregular, moving up and down in an erratic manner without regard to the general course of prices. Sugar was at one time above 140, while Manhattan fell as low as 105, and was depressed all day. Depression was manifest also at other points in the industrial list. Prices were not maintained at the best in any case, but the railroads all showed good resistance to pressure and closed above the lowest. Net gains of consequence were shown in only a few cases. There were heavy offerings of bonds at times, especially of recently reorganized roads, a considerable part of the selling being atrrihuted to foreign account. Total sales, $4,320,000. United States fours, coupon, declined % and the threes, when issued, advanced % in the bid price. The following table, prepared by L. W. Louis. Room 11, Board of Trade, shows the range of quotations: Open- High- Low- ClosName. ing. eat. est. ing. Adams Express 103 American Express 134 American Spirits 13% 13% 13% 13% American Spirits pref 37% American Sugar 139 140% 13% 138% American Sugar pref 114% American Tobacco ~.129% 131% 129% 129% American Tobacco pref.v 125 Atchison 14% 14% 14% 11% Atchison pref 36% 36% 35% 35% Baltimore & Ohio 16 Canada Pacific 84 Canada Southern 54% 54% 54 64 Central Pacific 17% Chesapeake & Ohio 25 25 24% 24% Chicago & Alton 159 Chi, Ind. & Louts 9% Chi., Ind. & Louis, pref 33 C., B. & Q 114% 115% 114 114% C. &E. 1..... .... .... 44% Chicago Gas m3 103% 101% 102% C. C., C. & St. L 43 45% 44% 45 Commercial Cable Cos 170 Consolidated Gas 198 Cotton Oil 28% Cotton 0. pref 83 Delaware & Hudson 108 D. L. & W 152% Denver & Rio grande 13% Denver & Rio Grande pref 52% Erie 13% Erie first pref 36% Fort Wayne 172 General Electric 41% 41% 40% 40% Great Northern pref.. 131% Hocking V Uey 4% Illinois Central 108% Kansas & Texas pref 36-% 37% 36% 36% Lake Erie & Western 14 Lake Erie & Western pref . 71% Lake Shore 194 Lead Trust 27% 37% 36% 36% Louisville & Nashville 56% .. u . 56% 56% Manhattan 106 106% 105 105% Michigan Central 108% Missouri Pacific 38% 38% 37% 37% New Jersey Central 92% 93 92% 92% New York Central 120 120% 119% 119% Northern Pacific 32 33% 32 33% Northern Pacific pref 73% 74 73% 73% Northwestern 134% 134% 133% 133% Northwestern pref 175% Pacific Mail 32% 33% 32% 32% Pullman Palace 189 Reading 18% 18% 18% 18% Rock Island 103% 103% 1u2% 102% St. Paul 105% 106% 105% 105% St. Paul pref 1,54 St. Paul & Omaha 85% 85% 84 84 St. Paul & Omaha pref 1,55 Southern Pacific 22 Tennessee Coal and 1r0n... 2S 28% 27'% 27% Texas Pacific 13 I’nlon Pacific 25% 95% 25% 25% Union Pacific pref 63% 64% 63% 63% U. S. Express 41 IT. S. Leather 7% U. S. Leather pref 71% 71% 69% fiß% U. S. Rubber fi% U. S. Rubber pref 9,8% Wabash, St. L. & P 7% Wabash, St. L. * P. pref 30% Wells-Fargo Express 119 Western Union 94% 94% 93% 94% Wheeling & Lake Erie i% Wheeling & Dike Erie pref 12% U. S. Fours, reg 111% U. S. Fours, coup 111% U. S. Fours, new, reg 127% U. S. Fours, new, coup 127% ThurNilny'* Bunk. Clearings. At Chicago—Clearings. $16,071,900; balances. 11.892.000. New York exchange. 10c discount. Sterling exchange, posted. $4.84% and $4.86: actual, $4.84 and $4.85%; sixty days. $4.53%®4.84%. At New York—Clearings, $140,461,690; balances, $7,463,423. At New Orleans—Clearings. $865,029. 1 Baltimore—Clearings. $2,523,522; balances, $59.3,061. At Memphis—4’learings, $198,113: balances, $76,579. At Philadelphia—Clearings, $11,062,616; balances, $2,085,567. At Cincinnati—Clearings. $2,049,450. At St. Louis —Clearings, $4,318,355; balances $620,265. At Boston—Clearings, $15,446,353; balances, $2,146,390. * LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODICE. Trade Moving; Along Smoot lily, with Price* Hilling Firm. Very seldom does business on the wholesale streets and on Commission row move along as evenly and satisfactorily as at the present time. The time for fall trade to set ih has not been reached. In prices yesterday no changes of importance are to be noted. Sugar Is very firm at the advance of Tuesday. All staple groceries are in strong position. Leather dealers are experiencing a good trade and prices are tending upwards. Oft Commission row a good business is in progress, tli* volume of trade being fully 50 per cent, better than laet August. Good stock is bringing good prices, but inferior fruit and vegetables sell slow

and at low figures. The htde market Is active and prices steady. The local grain market is more active than last week. Receipts are larger. Track bids yesterday, as reported by the secretary of the Board of Trade, ruled as follows: Wheat—No. 2 red. 68%c; No. 3 red, 66%@67%c; first half August. 6s%c; wagon wheat, 69c. Corn—No. 1 white. 33c; No. 3 white (one color), 33c; No. 4 white. 30c; No. 2 white mixed. 32%c; No. 3 white mixed. 32%c; No. 4 white mixei. 29%c; No. 2 yellow, 32%c; No. 3 yellow, 32%c; No. 2 mixed, 32%c; No. 3 mixed. 32%c; No. 4 mixed, 29%c; ear corn, 32%c. Oats—No. 2 White. 25c: No. 3 white. 24c; No. 2 mixed, 23c; No. 3 mixed, 24c. Hay—No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, S6©S.SO. Inspections—Wheat: No. 2 red, 3 cars: No. 3,7: rejected. 2; total, 13 cars. Corn: No. 3 white. 33 cars; No. 4. 1; No. 3 yellow. 10; No. 3 mixed. 6; total, 50 cars. Oats: Rejected, 3 cats. Poultry and Ottyer Produce. Prices paid by shippers.) Butter—Country, choice. 10c; mixed, Poultry—Hens, 7c; spring chickens. 7%@8%c; cocks, 3c; hen turkeys, 6c; toms. 4; ducks, old, 4c; young. 4c; geese, 40c for full feathered, 30c for plucked. Cheer e—New York full cream, 10c; skims, 6®Bc; domestic Swiss. 12%c; brick, 10c; limburger, 10c. Eggs—Candled, 10c per doz. Feathers —Prime geese, SOc per lb; prime duck, lo@l7c per lb Beeswax—3oc for yellow, 25c for dark. Wool —Mediurq, unwashed, 17® 18c; tub-washed, 20@25c; burry and unmerchantable, oc less. Honey—lo@l3c per lb. HIDES, TALLOW. ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1. 9%c; No. 2, B%c; No. 1 calf, 10%c; No. 2 calf, 9c. Grease- White, 3c; yellow, 2%c; brown, 2%c. Tallow—No. 1. 3c; No. 2, 2%c. Bones—Dry, $12@13 per ton. ( * THE JOBBING TRADE. (The quotations given below are the selling prices ot the wholesale dealers.) Candles and Nuts. Candies—Stick, 6%@6%c per lb; common mixed, 6%@7c; G. A. R. mixed, 6%c; Banner twist stick, 8c; cream mixed, 9c; old-time mixed, 7c. Nuts—Soft-shelled almonds, ll@13c; English walnuts, 9® 12c; Brazil nuts. 10c; filberts, 11c; peanuts, roasted, 7@Bc; mixed nuts, 10c. Canned Goods. Corn, [email protected]. Peaches—Standard 3-lb, $1.50® 1.75; seconds, [email protected]; 3-lb pie, 85@90c; California, standard, $1.75®2; California seconds, $1.40 @1.50. Miscellaneous —Blackberries, 2-lb, 65@70c; raspberries, 2-lb, 90@95c: pineapple, standard, 2-lb, [email protected]; choi®, [email protected]; cove oysters, I-lb, full weight, 85@95c; light, 60@65c; string beans, 70®90c; Lima beans, [email protected]; peas, marrowfats. [email protected]; early June, 90c@$1.10; lobsters, $1.85@2; red cherries, 90c@$l; strawberries, 90® 95c; ealmon, 1-lb, 90c@$l.S5; 3-lb tomatoes, $1.15 @1.20. Drugs. Alcohol, [email protected]; asafetida. 25@30c; alum, 2% @4e; camphor, 40@44c; cochineal, 00@55c; chloroform, 58@65c; copperae, bris, 75@S5c; cream tartar, pure, So@33c; indigo, 65@80c; licorice, Calab., genuine. 30@40c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz, 25@30c; morphine, P. & W., per oz., [email protected]; madder, 14 @l6e; oil, castor, per gal, [email protected]; oil, bergamot, per lb, $2.75; opium. $4@4.?5; quinine, P. A W., per oz, 29@34c; balsam copaiba. 50@60c; soap, castile, Fr., 12@16c; soda, bicarb., 4%@6c; salts. Epsom, 4@oc; sulphur, flour, s@6c; saltpeter, 8® 14c; turpentine, 29@35c; glycerine. 15@17c; iodide potassium, [email protected]; bromide potassium, 50@60c; chlorate potash, 20c; borax, 9@l2c; clnchonida, 20 @2sc; carbolic acid, 30@32c. Oils—Linseed, 37@390 per gal; coal oil, legal test, 7@l4c; bank, 40c; best straits, 50c; Labrador, 60c; West Virginia, lubricating, 20@30c; miners’, 40c; lard oils, winter strained, in brls, 40c per gal; half brls, 3c per gal extra. Dry Good*. Bleached Sheetings Androscoggin L, sc; Berkley, No. 60, 7c; Cabot, sc; Capitol, 4%c; Cumberland, 5%c; Dwight Anchor, 6c; Fruit of the Loom, 6c; Farweil, 5%c; FitchviUe, 5%c; Full Width, 4c; Gilt Edge, 4%c; Gilded Age. 4c; Hill, 5%c; Hope, 5%c; Linwood, 5%c; Lonsdale, 6c; Peabody, 4c; Pride of the West, 10%c; Ten Strike, sc; Pepperell, 9-4, 15c; Pepperell, 10-4, 16yc; Androscoggin, 9-4, 15%c; Androscoggin, 10-4, 17c. Brown Sheetings—Atlantic A, 5%c; Argyle, 4%c; Boott C, 4c; Buck’s Head, sc; Clifton CCC, 4%c; Constitution, 40-inch, 5%c; Carlisle, 40-inch, 7%c; Dwight’s Star. 6%c; Great Balls E, sc; Great Falls J, 4%c; Hill Fine, 5%c; Indian Head, 5%c; Pepperell R, 4%c; Pepperell, 10-4, 15c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 14%c; Androscoggin. 10-4, 16c. Prints—Allen dress styles, 4%c; Allen’s staples, 4c; Allen TR, 4c; Allen’s rooes, 4c; American indigo, 4c; Arnold long cloth B. 7%c; Arnold LLC, 6%c; Cocheco fancy, 4c; Cocheco madders. 4c; Hamilton fancy, 4%c; Merrimae pinks and purples, 4%c; Pacific fancy. 4%c; Simpson's mourning, 3%c; Simpson's Berlin solids, sc; Simpson's oil finish, 6c; American shirting, 3%c; black white, 3%c; grays, 3%c. Ginghams—Amoskeag staples. 4%c; Amoskeag Persian dress, 6c; Bates Warwick dress. 5%c; Lancaster, 4%c; Lancaster Normandles, 6c; Renfrew dress styles. 6c. Kid-finished Cambrics —Edwards, 3c; Warren, 2%c; Slater, 3c; Genesee, 3c. Grain Bags—Amoskeag. $13.50; American, $13.50; Harmony, $13.50; Stark, sl6. Tickings—Amoskeag ACA, 9%c: Conestoga BF, ll%c; Cordis, 140, 9%c; Cordis FT, 9%c; Cordis ACE. 10c; Hamilton awnings. Sc; Kimono fancy, 17c; Lenox Fancy, 18c; Muthuen AA. 10c: Oakland AF, 5%c; Portsmouth, 10%c; Susquehanna, ll%c; Shetueket SVV, 6%c; Shetucket F, 7c; Swift River, 4%c. Ftonr. Straight grades. $4.50®4.75; fancy grades, $5.75® 6.25; patent flour, [email protected]; low grades, [email protected]; spring wheat patents, [email protected], Groceries. Sugar—City prices—Dominoes. 6.13 c; cut-loaf, 6.13 c; crushed. 6.13 c: powdered, 0.88 c; XXXX powdered. 5.94 c; standard granulated, 5.63 c; fine granulated. 5.63 c; extra fine granulated. 5.75 c; coarse granulated, 5.75 c; cubes, 5.88 c: mold A, 5.88 c; diamond A, 5.63 c; confectioners' A. 5.50 c; 1 Columbia a— Keystone A. 5.31 c; 2 Windsor A— American A. 5.31 c; 3 Ridgewood A—Centennial A, 5.31 c; 4 Phoenix A—California A. 5.25 c; 5 Empire A—Franklin B, 5.19 c; 6 Ideal golden ex. C—Keystone B, 5.13 c; 7 Windsor ex. C—American B, 5.13 c; s Ridgewood ex. C—Centennial B. oc; 9 yellow ex. C—California B, 4.94 c; 10 yellow C— Franklin ex. C, 4.88 c; 11 yellow—Keystone ex. C, 4.88 c; 13 yellow—American ex. C 4.73 c; 13 yellow—Centennial ex. C, 4.69 c; 14 yellow—California ex. C, 4.63 c; 15 yellow, 4.56 c; 16 yellow, 4.50 c. Coffee—Good, 10® 12c; prime, 12@14c; strictly prime, 14® 16c; fancy green and yellow, 18@22c; Java, 28@32c. Roasted—Old government Java, 32%@33c; Golden Rio, 24c; Bourbon Santos, 24c; Gilded Santos, 24c; prime Santos, 23c. Package coffee —city prices—Ariosa, 10.15 c; Lion. 9.15 c; Jersey, 9.15 c; Caracas. 9.15 c; Dillworth. 10.15 c: King Bee, 10.15 c; Cordova, 10.15 c; Mail Pouch, 9.65 c. Flour Sacks (paper)—Plain. 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $3.50; 1-16 brl, sc; % brl, $8; % brl. sl6; No. 2 drab, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $4.25: 1-16 brl, $6.50; % brl. $10: % brl, S2O: No. 1 cream, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $7; 1-16 brl, $8.75; % brl. $14.50; % brl, $28.50. Extra charge for printing, [email protected]. Salt—ln car lots. 80@S5c; small lots. 85@90c. Spices—Pepper, 12@18c; allspice, 15@18c; cloves, 18025 c; cassia, 13@15c; nutmegs, 65@75c per lb. Beans—Choice hand-picked navy, [email protected] per bu; Limas, California, 4%@4%c per lb. Woodenware—No. 1 tubs, $5.75@6; No. 2 tubs, $4.75@5; No. 3 tubs, $3.75@4- 3-hoop pails, [email protected]; 2-hoop pails, *1.200)1.25: double washboards. $2.25®2.75; common washboards, $1.25® 1.50; clothes pins. 50@60c per box. Molasses and New Orleans molasses, fair to prime. 28@33c; choice, 35@40c; syrups. 18® 35c. Shot—[email protected] per bag for drop. Lead—6%@7c for pressed bars. Twine—Hemp. 12@18c per lb; wool. 8@10c: flax, 20@30c; paper, 25c; jute, 12@15c; cotton. 18@25c. Wood Dishes—No. 1, per 1,000, [email protected]; No. 2, $2.2.i®2.5: No. 3. $2.5002.75; No. 5. [email protected]. Rice—Louisiana, 4%@6%c; Carolina, 6%@>B%c. Iron und Steel. Bar Iron —1.50® 1.60 c; horseshoe bar, 2%@2%c; nail rod, 7c; plow slabs, 2%c; American cast steel. 9@llc; tire steel, 2%@3c; spring steel, 4% @sc. Leather. Leather—Oak sole, 27@30c; hemlock sole, 24® 26c; harness, 32®37c: skirting. 3S@42c; single strap, 38@41c; city kip, 60®5c; French kip, 90c@ $1.20; city calfskin, 90c@$1.10: French calfskin, [email protected]. Nall* and Horsexhoe*. Steel cut nails, $1.75; wire nails, from store, $1.90@2 rates; from mill, $1.75 rates. Horseshoes, per keg, $3.50; mule shoes, per keg, $4.50; horse nails, s4@s per box. Barb wire, galvanized, $2; painted, $1.75. Produce, Fruits and Vegetable*. Lemons—Messina, choice, 3CO to box, $5; fancy. $5.30. Oranges—California seedlings, [email protected]. Bananas—Per bunch. No. 1, [email protected]. Cocoanuts—4s@soc per doz. Pineapples—sl.7s per doz. Peaches—lndiana and Kentucky, [email protected] per bu; Georgia freestone, $1.20 per 6-basket crate. Red Plums—7sc per bu; Damson, $1.50 per bu. Wild Goose Plums —75c per bu. Apples— $3.50@4 per brl. Pears—Bartlett pears, 75c per bu. Watermelons—l2@ 16c. Gem Melons—3o® 4tc per basket. Cantaloupes—[email protected] per brl; crates, 50@60c; Osage melons, 90c. Blackberries —Michigan, 16-quart crate, 85@90c. Cabbage—New, [email protected] irer crate; brl, 75c@'$l. Celery—Michigan, 15@20c per bunch. Tomatoes—Home grown, 65@75c per bu. Sweet Potatoes—Baltimore, new, $2; Red Bermuda. ,i.25 per bu. Potatoes—New, $1.75@2 per brl. Beans—Wax. 60@75c per bu. Lima Beans—3o® 60c per gal. Cucumbers—l2'-@lsc doz. Onions —$1.50 per brl. i’roviMlnii*. Hams —Sugar-cured, 18 to 20 lbs average, B%@9c; 15 lbs average. 9%@9%c; 12 lbs average, 9%@lu%c; Bacon—Clear sides, 40 to 50 lbs average, 7%c; 30 to 40 lbs average, 7%c: 20 to 30 lbs average. 7%c; bellies. 25 lbs average. 7%c; 18 to 23 lbs average. 7%c; i4 to 16 lbs average, Bc. Clear backs, 18 to 22 lbs average. 7%c; 14 to 18 lbs average. 7%c; 8 to 10 lbs average, 7%c. In dry £olt, %c less. Shoulders —18 to 20 lbs average, 6%c; 15 lbs average, 6%c; 10 to 12 lbs average. 7c. Lard—Kettle-rendered. 6%c; pure lard, 6%c. Pork—Bean, clear, sl4; rump, $10.50. Seed*. Clover—Choice, recleaned. 60 lbs, $2.75@3; prime. [email protected]: English, choice, *[email protected]; alsdke, choice, $4.50@5; alfalfa, choice. $3.75@4; crimson or scarlet clover. [email protected]; timothy, 45 lbs, $1.35® 1.40; strictly prime. [email protected]; fancy Kentucky, 14 lbs, $1; extra clean. 60®75c; orchard grass, extra, $1.10®1.30: red top. choice, 80c®$1.40; English bluegrass, 24 lbs. 11.1i5a1.70; German millet, [email protected]; Western millet, 60@85c; common millet, 40@ 60c. PniMion* for Veteran*. Certificates have been issued to the following named lndianians: Original—Jonathan Beare, Frankfort. $•;. Restoration and Additional—Minos Miller (deceased), Indianapolis, sl2. Increase—John Dever, Sullivan. sl4 to sl7; Charles R. McCoy. Derby. st> to $8; James E. Russell. Philadelphia, sl2 to sl7; Daniel S. Clefford. Wheeler. s*• to SS. Reissue—John W. Byrket. Kokomo. $lO. Original Widows, etc.—Emily Edwards, Indianapolis, SB,

CASH WHEAT SCARCITY ♦ REPORTED FROM KANSAS, CAUSING FRESH DEMAND AT CHICAGO. Improvement in Government’s Report on Sprint? Wheat—Corn Was Lower and Pork Unchanged. ♦ CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Kansas reports of scarcity of cash wheat caused a buying irr.petus here to-day which rescued the market from a decline. September closed %c higher and December %c lower. Corn lost Vi@%c. Oats are unchanged to *%c down. Pork left off unchanged, lard gained 2%!g5c and ribs 2 1 ,sc. Instead of showing deterioration in the condition of spring wheat during the month, as expected, the government crop report made an improvement of 1.5 points. That caused the price of September to drop %c under yesterday’s close, opening trades being at 65!c to 65c. After this expression of bearish feeling the market commenced to mend a little, jthe receipts at various Western markets indicating that no increase in the movement had yet set in. Receipts here were 112 cars, whereas 147 were received for the same day last year. Minneapolis and Duluth received sixty-six cars, against 166 last year. The aggregate at the principal primary markets was 380,500 bushels, against 807,000 bushels the year before. This striking deficiency, together with an eager demand for shipping parcels, worked the price of September up to 65%c. It was reported from Kansas City that No. 2 hard was up 4c a bushel there, and as there appeared a probability of another decrease in the visible the market became very strong after many changes of front. December was depressed from beginning to end and wound up lower for the day. The Atlantic and gulf ports cleared wheat and flour to the amount of 695,050 bushels. September opened %<ht%c lower at 65<&65%c, declined to 65c, advanced to t>6%c and closed at 66%c bid. December started %@%c down at 63%@64c, sold off to 63%e, firmed up to 64%@64%c and closed at 64%<£t64%c. Corn was mfiuenced by the government report showing only 3.5 reduction in condition after all that had been heard of serious damage. There were many who scouted the idea of the correctness of the government statement, as it differed very materially from state reports. Elevator people and commission houses sold freely. The recuperative buoyancy of wheat near the close brought out some buying orders in corn, and the closing figures for the coarser grain were the best of the day. September opened %c lower at 32%@32%c, declined to 32c and firmed up to 32%(h32%c and closed at 32%c. Oats followed the other grains. September opened %c down at 20%c, rose to 20%c and closed at 20%®20%c. Provisions started weak with corn. A good cash demand later, however, turned the market strong. September pork opened unchanged to 5c lower at $9.12%@9.17%, declined to 19.10, advanced to $9.20 and left off at $9.17%. The range in lard and ribs was narrow. Estimated receipts for to-morrow—Wheat, 115 cars; corn, 404 cars; oats, 342 cars; hogs, 20.000 head. m Leading futures ranged as follows: Open- High- Low- 'ClosArticles. ing. est. est. ing. Wheat—Aug 69 69% 68% 69% Sept 65% 66% 65 66% Dec 64 64% 63% 64% May 66% 66% 65% 66% Corn—Aug 32% 32% 31% 32% Sept 32% 32% 32 32% Dec 32% 32% 32% 32% May 35 35% 34% 35 Oats—Sept 20% 20% 20% 20% May 23% 23% 23% 23% Pork—Sept $9.12% $9.20 $9.10 $9.17% Oct 9.10 9.20 9.10 9.17% Dec 9.15 9.22% 9.12% 9.22% Lard—Sept : 5.35 5.42% 5.35 5.40 Oct 5.40 5.47% 6.40 5.45 Dec 5.45 5.50 5.42% 6.50 Ribs—Sept 5.30 5.37% 5.30 5.35 Oct 5.33% 5.37% 5.30 5.35 Cash -uotations were as follows: Flour easy. No. 3 spring wheat. 70@72c; No. 2 red, 72c. No. 2 corn. 32%@32%c; No. 2 yellow, 33@33%c. No. 2 oats. 22c; No. 2 white, 26®28c; No. 3 white 25 @27c. No. 2 rye. 45@45%c. No. 2 barley, 36®45c. No. 1 flaxseed, 88c; new. 90c. Prime timothy seed, $2.55. -less i>ork, per brl, [email protected]. Lard, per 100 lbs, [email protected]%. Short-rib sides (loose), $5.25@ 5.50; dry-salted shoulders (boxed). $4.62%@4.57%; short-clear sides (boxed), [email protected]. Receipts—Flour, 8,400 brls; wheat, 85,800 bu; corn, 417,600 bu; oats, 284,300 bu; rye, 9,600 bu; barley, 8,200 bu. Shipments—Flour, 6.900 brls; wheat, 291,600 bu; corn, 689,900 bu; oats, 218,700 bu; barley, 7,900 bu. AT NEW YORK. Railing Prices In Produce at the Seaboard's Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Flour—Receipts, 14,790 brls: exports, 15,088 brls. Market weak and quoted s@loe lower, but rallied a little near the close with wheat. Corn meal firm; yellow Western, 75c. Barley malt dull. Wheat—Receipts, 40,750 bu; exports, 98,982 bu. Spot firm; No. 2 red, 79c, f. o. b. afloat, to arrive: No. 2 red, 75%c. Options weak and most of the da” were influenced by the bearish government report, persistent short selling and lack of support. Near the close shorts were alarmed over strength of outside markets, smaller receipts, good ■clearances and fair export developments, causing a rally that closed September %c higher and December l%c net lower; September, 70%@71%c, closed at 71c. Corn—Receipts none; exports. 187,664 bu. Spot firm; No. 2, 38%c, f. o. b. afloat. Options at first weak and lower on the crop report, but eventually recovered much of the loss with wheat ajid closed %@%c net lower; September, 36 11-16® 37%c, closed at 37%e. Oats—Receipts, 30,000 bu. Spot firmer; No. 2, 29%®30c; No. 2 white, 32%@33%c. Options neglected and barely steady, closing %c net lower; September closed at 25%c. Tallow firm. Cotton-seed oil quiet; prime crude nominal; prime yellow, 21%@24c. Coffee—Options opened steady at 5 points decline, with subsiding speculative intetest fo.low’ng unsatisfactory cables and disinclination of spot buyers to follow late advances; weaker general undertone; some realizing and renewed selling for short account; closed steady at 5@15 points lower. Sales. 18,170 bags, including: August, [email protected]; September. [email protected]. Spot coffee—Rio quiet and steady: No. 7. invoice 6%c, jobbing 6%c. Mild steady; Cordova, B®lse; fair trade in jobbing and invoice lots on private terms. Sugar—Raw strong and active: fair refining. 3%e; centrifugal. 96 test, 4%c; good business on basis of above prices; refined strong. a TRADE IN GENERAL. Quotation** at St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Other Places. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11.—Flour steady. Wheat steady to strong and higher, with August unchanged, September 1%@1%c, December %c and May Vc above yesterday's close. Spot firm; No. 2 red. cash, elevator. 71%c bid; track. 73®74e; August. 70%c; September, 68c bid; December. 65%c bid; May, 67%c bid; No. 2 hard. cash. 70@71%c. Corn fractionally lower for futures. Spot lower; No. 2, cash, 32c bid; August. 32%c; September. 31%c —u; December. 31%c; May, 32%e. Oats irregular, September being %@%c higher and May steady to %c lower for the day. Spot nominal; No. 2, cash. 23%c; track. 25c; August. 23%c; September, 20%@20%c; May, 24c; No. 2 white. 30c. Rye lower at 44c. Flaxseed firm at 88c. Prime timothy seed, $2.50. Corn meal easy at $1.75®1.80. Bran steady and firm: sacked, east track, 51@52c. Hay steady to firm; timothy. $9®9.50. Butter firm; creamery, 17@20c: dairy. 13@17c. Eggs firm at 12c, loss off. Whisky steady at $1.25. Pork higher; standard mess. Jobbing. $9.25. Lard steadv; prime steam. $5.10; choice. $5.20. Drv-sa'.t meats—Boxed shoulders. $5; extra short-clear. $5.50; ribs, $5.62%; shorts, $5.75. Bacon—Boxed shoulders. $5.50; extra short-clear and ribs. $6; shorts. $6.25®6.37%. Receipts—Flour, 5.000 brls; wheat. 57,000 bu; corn. 96.000 bu; oats. 24.000 bu. Shipments—Flour. 5,000 brls; wheat, 26.000 bu: corn, 44,000 bu; oats, 1,000 bu. BALTIMORE, Aug. ll.—Flour dull and unchanged; receipts, 8,047 brls exports, 2,170 brls. Wheat unsettled; spot. 76%®76%e; month, 75%® 75%c; September. 71%®72%c; steamer No. 2 red 74%®74%c; receipts, 88.450 bu; exports. 170.681 bu; Southern wheat by sample. 70®77%c; Southern wheat on grade. 75@77c. Corn steady; spot. 37%® 38c; month. 36%®36%c; September. 36%®36%c; steamer mixed. 36%®37c; receipts. 134.302 bu; exports, 304.373 bu; Southern white com. 38®39c; Southern yellow. 40c asked. Oats easier: No. 2 white Western, old. 30%®31%c; No. 2 mixed Western. old. 28%®29%e; quotations for new oats are %®2e under prices of old; receipts. 39,900 bu; exports. 30.000 bu. Butter steady and unchanged. Eggs firm and unchanged. Cheese steadv and unchanged. CINCINNATI. Aug. ll.—Flour dull. Wheat strong; No. 2 red. 73®74c. Corn quiet; No. 2 mixed 34c. Oats steady; No. 2 mixed. 23%®24c. Rye ouiet; No. 2. 43c. Lard firm and higher at $5.20. Bulk meats firm at $5.60. Bacon firm at $6.55. Whisky steady at $1.25. Butter steady. Sugar easy. Eggs firmer at 9c. Cheese steady. TOLEDO. Aug. 11.—Wheat lower ami active; No. 2. cash. 72%c; September, 64%e. Com dull and lower; No. 2 mixed, 33%e. Oats dull, but steady: No. 2 mixed. 22%c. Rye dull; No. 2, cash. 46c. Clover seed active and lower; prime, cash. $3.15. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 11.—Wheat dull, but firm; August. 88c; September, 64%®64%c; December. 61%c: No. 1 hard. 90%c; No. 1 Northern, BS%c; No. 2 Northern, 84%*. Dry Goocln. NEW YORK. Aug. 11.—The presence of many buyers .ia kept business in the dry goods district active, especially In jobbing stores. First-hand dealers have also felt the Influence In this increasing trading, though not to such a great extent. Mail orders are about as numerous as they were

COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE USITED STATES BRANCH OF THE Lancashire Insurance Com’ny On the 30th day of June, 1898. Honie Office, Manchester, England. C. B. GILBERT, Manager, Chicago. 111. jl The amount of its capital is The amount of Its capital paid up is 1.554.5K56.00 ; THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY I* THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOWSt Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $48,499 69 Real estate unincumbered aSo.aSo.j. Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., secured as follows: United States bonds, market value iSi'SHS State, county and municipal bonds, market value i Railroad stocks and bonds, market value *99.3^1-g Debts for premiums 398,397. Total assets $2,309,094.81 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due IH’SSS’?? Losses unadjusted Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof All other claims against the company JlAmount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks ma.whw Total liabilities sM>99.slsjj State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. j, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is A correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company, on the 30th day of June, 1898. as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal thli [SEAL.] 2d day of August, 1898. A. C. DAILY. Auditor of_state l __ COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Spring Garden Insurance Company On the 30th day of June, 1898. It is located at No. 431 Walnut street, Philadelphia. CHARLES ROBERTS, President. CLARENCE E. PORTER, Secretary. The amount of its capital is The amount of its capital paid up is THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWSt Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons Real estate unincumbered • • v sh.uw. aj Bonds and stocks owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., as per schedule filed, market value •• ••••■ ■;•••••••• 933.5j3.44 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior Incumbrance l-8.-oO.Qfl Debts otherwise secured iScii Debts for premiums All other securities t>,4a6.i Total assets LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due st’a!o2 Losses unadjusted •„ c Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof -n ™ All other claims against the company Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks mo, j i>3. Total liabilities $969,381.11 The greatest amount in any one risk, slo,odo. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is £ correct conv of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 30th da/ of June, 1898, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement ts now on file in thjs ®™'J^ nony whereo f f j hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this [SEAL.] Bth day of August. 1898, AC. DAlLY^Auditor_of_State^^

earlier tn the week and their character has changed slightly in that there has been a somewhat freer demand for staple cotton lines and staple prints. The gatn in cotton goods has not been paralleled by an increase in the demand In woolen goods of any description. The market for men’s wear fabrics has shown some slight mcrease in interest. Print cloths show no ment worthy of note. Extras at 2c are eliciting few bids. Contract lots are said to be readily obtained at this price. Odd goods are also quiet and featureless. In staple cottons the steady market for bleached goods continues. Batter, Eggs and Cheese. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Butter—Receipts, 3,302 packages. Market steady; Western creamery. 14% ®l9c; imitation creamery. 13@lbc; Elgins, 19c, factory, ll@l4c. Eggs—Receipts. 5,9.1 itackages. Market steady; Western, 14%c. Cheese firm; large white, 7%c; small white, 7%c; large colored, 7%@7%c; small colored, 7%e. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 11.—Butter steady; separator, 16%@18c; dairy, 16c. Eggs firm; fresh candled Missouri and Kansas stock. 10c, cases returned; seconds, 6c. Supply rather light. CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was firm; creamery, 13%@i8%c; dairy. 12@16c. Eggs firm; fresh. 12c. PHII-.,DELPHI A, Aug. 11.-Butter firm; fancy Western creamery. 20c. Kggs firm; fresh Western, 14®14%c. Cheese quiet, but steady. Metals. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—The upward movement in metals continues without the least sign or abating. Nearly all departments to-day exhibited pronounced strength and unusual activity. Bullish reports from the English market are partially responsible for the better feeling. At the close the Metal Exchange called pig iron warrants firm at $6.70 bid and $6.80 asked. Lake copper strong and higher at 11.75 c bid and 12c asked. Tin unsettled at 16.20 c bid and 16.30 c asked. Lead strong and higher at 4.05 c bid and 4.10 c asked. Spelter steady at 4.50 c bid and 4.60 c asked. The firm naming the settling price for leading Western miners and smelters quotes lead at 3.85 c. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11.—Lead strong at 3.90 c bid. Spelter firm, but dull at 4.25 c. Os Im, SAVANNAH. Aug. 11.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 26%c. Rosin firm; A, B, C, D, $1; E, si.O,i; F. $1.15; G, $1.30: H, I. $1.40; K, $1.50; N. $1.75; window glass, $1.90; water white, $2.35. WILMINGTON, Aug. 11.—Splrtts of turpentine firm at 25%@26c. Rosin steady and prices unchanged. Crude turpentine steady and prices unchanged. Tar steady at $1.15. OIL CITY, Aug. 11.—Credit balances, 96c; certificates, sales of 10,000 brls cash oil at 95%c; closed at 95%c bid; shipments. 80,115 brls; runs, 92,313 brls. Dried Frail*. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—California dried fruits dull; apnles. common. 6®Bc; prime wire tray. 8% ®B%c; choice. B%®9c; fancy, 9%c. Prunes. 4%c. Apricots—Royal, 8%®10c; Moor Park, 10@12c. Peaches —Unpeeled, s@Sc; peeled, 12@16c. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 11.—Cotton steady; sales. I, bales; ordinary, 4%0; good ordinary, 4%c; low middling, 5 3-16 c, middling, 5 11-16 c: good middling. 6c; middling fair, 6 7-16 c; receipts, 139 bales; stock, j 4.063 bales. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Scarce and Stronger-H)ig St roan and Higher—Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 11.—Cattle—Receipts, 250; shipments, 100. There was a very light supply. The market was stronger on all decent grades. Exports $4.90® 5.25 Killers, medium to good 4.50® 4.80 Killers, common to fair 4.00® 4.40 Feeders, good to choice 4.00® 4.40 Stockers, common to good 3.25® 4.25 Heuers, good to choice 4.20® 4.60 Heifers, fair to medium 3.50® 4.00 Heifers, common and light 3.00® 3.40 Cows, good to choice 3.60® 3.85 Cows, fair to medium 3.00® 3.40 Cows, common and old 2.00® 2.75 Veals, gcod to choice 5.00® 6.50 Veals, common to medium 3.00® 4.50 Bulls, good to cnoice 3.60® 4.00 Bulls, common to medium 2.75® 3.25 Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to medium [email protected] Hogs—Receipts, 3,000; shipments. 2,300. Owing to the light supply the market opened strong and higher grades ruled active at the close. Heavy packing and shipping [email protected] Mixed packing and shipping 3.90®3.97% Light 3.8503.97% Pigs 3.2503.75 Roughs [email protected] Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 800; shipments, 500. There was a good demand for fat grades and a few fancy lambs sold at $6, but most of the sales were made at $4.5005.50. Sheep and yearlings, medium to g00d—[email protected] Sheen and yearlings, common to fair— 2.75®3.50 Bucks, per head 3.00®3.60 Spring lambs 4.00®4.50 E’sewhere. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 11.—Cattie— Receipts, 3,340 natives and 1,380 Texans. General demand good at steady prices and the recent advance well maintained; choice heavy steers, $5.10®5.35; medium [email protected]: light weights. $1.25®5.10; stockers and feeders, $3.40®5.10; butcher cows and heifers, $2.87@5; butcher bulls. [email protected]; Western sters. Texas steers, [email protected]; Texas butcher cows, [email protected]; native and Texas canners, $2.25 @2.85. Hogs—Receipts, 8,960. Trade opened active, everybody being eager to buy, the lively competition causing prices to advance about 10c; heavy hogs, $3.80®8.95; mixed, [email protected]; light, $3.50® 3.75. Sheep—Receipts, 1,700. The demand for sheep was active as ever. Pi tees strong on killing sheep and stockers and feeders higher; spring lambs. ss@fl; native muttons, $4.10®4..50; range wethers. [email protected]; range stock lambs. [email protected]; Western stockers and feeders. $3.60®4.15. CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—There was a good demand for cattle to-day at steady prices; choice stre*s, [email protected]>6: medium. $4.804(4.9.5; beef step's, $4.20 @4.75; stockers and feeders, $3.25®3; built $2.60® 4.25; cows and heifers, $3.50®4.26: calves, $3.50@7; Western rangers, $3®4.75; Texans. $2.25@2.!0. There was an active demand for hogs from packers and Eastern shtpiers. Prices ruled strong and 5® 10c higher; fair tc choice. $3.87%® 4.05: packers, [email protected]: butchers, $.1.7004; mixed. *[email protected]%; lights, $3 5503.97%; pigs. [email protected]. Trade in sheep was brisk and prices ruled generally steady and unchanged: native sheep, s2® 4.70; Western rangers. 53.7.5®4.25, yearlings. $4.50 @4.65; common to choice lambs. $4®6.50; choice Western range lambs. $6.25. Receipts—Cattle, 10.500; hogs, 22,000; sheep, 11, ST. LOUIS. Aug. 11.—Cattle— Receipts. 1.600. including 500 Texans: shipments. 900. Market active and steady; fair to fancy native shipping and export steers, $4.5f1@,5.40, bulk at $4.80® 5.30; dressed beef and butcher steers. [email protected]. bulk at s4.Hv*.2o; steers under 1,000 lbs. $3,804)5, hulk at Hgi.W; stockers and feeders, [email protected], bulk u

OPTICIANS. _______ ( J V sI3N.FENN.ST. DENISON HOUSE, f INDIANAPOLIS- IND. smS I—gULBg SAFE DEPOSITS. S. A. FLETCHER & CO.’S SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, 30 East WaHhington Street. Absolute safety against fire and burglar. Piv lieeman day and night on guard. Designed for safe keeping of Money, Bonds. Wills. Deeds, Abstracts, Silver Plate, Jewels and valuable Trunks, Packages, etc. Contains 2,100 boxes. Kent $5 to $43 per year. I JOHN S. TARKINGTON Manager, SEALS. STENCILS. STAMPS. SfiERrSEALS^MI! STENCILS,STAMPS^ CATALOGUE FREE BADGES. CHECKS &C @j4 v TEU3B&. 155-MERIQIANSLQrouhpFioor.I 1 ON and after Sunday, July 24, 1898, trains will run as follows: (Central Standard Time.) All trains enter UNION RAILWAY STATION. —P. M. Time in Black Face Figures.— Trains marked thus: I)y—Daily, S—Sleeper, P—Parlor Car, C—Chair Car, D—Dining Car. CLOVE., CIN., CHI. & ST. LOl’lß R’Y. Cleveland Division—Blj? Four. DEPART ARRIVft New York ex, dy s. 4:25 U City & W ac, dy. 9:25 Muncie & B H ex.. 6:35 S'wst'n Ilm, dy, and s.U:;!0 Cleveland mail 10:50 B.H. & Muncie ex 3:10 And’on & B H ex..11:15 Cleveland ex 0100 U C & W ac, dy.. 4.50 B.H. & And’n ex. 8:45 Knlck'b’r, dy, ands. 0:35 N. Y. ex. dy, s...lG:si> St. Louie Dlvielon—Big; Four. St Louis expr 7:30j New York ex, dy, s. 4:05 S’wst'n 11m, dy, ands. 11:451 Mat &T H acc 10:30 T. H. St Mat. ac.. 4:30 St. Louis express..s:4o T H & Mat acc, ; Kn'fcb r sp, a s.dy 0:10 Sunday only 0:15; NY & StL ex.dy sll:20 Cincinnati Division—Blr Fonr. Cincinnati fl, dy s. 3:45 Grecnsburg acc 9:o# St L & Cln f 1, dy, s 4:15 Cln'ti acc, dy 11:15 Cincinnati accom... 7:00 C & St L mail, dy Cincinnati accom... 10:E0 ! and sand p 11.40 Cincinnati dy p—3:45 Chi. Llm.. p 4:13 Ureensdurg acc... 0:30 Cin & Index, p... 0:40 C'ti & Wash. F. L, C I&StL ex, dy s. 11:05 dy, and, sand p... 0:30 Chicago dy s 11:50 Louisville Line. Louisv f 1 dy s 3:45 Louisv f 1 dy 5...11:50 Lou Is v day expr... 2:46 Louisv day expr...11:411 ChlcuKO Division—Ulr Four. Lafayette accom.... 7:10 Cln f 1, dy. s 3:3® Chi fm. dy, and p 11:45 Lafayette acc0m...10:30 Chi. Lim, and p 4:15 Cln. mall,p and, dy. 2:35 Lafayette acc 5t15, Lafayette acc 5t45 Chi F L. dy s 12:051 C'ti & Wash, dp. 6:10 Michigan Division—Blr Four. Benton Harbor ex.. 6:35! Wabash acc. dy.... 9:2| Mich mail and ex..11:15; B.Karbr m'l ex... 3:10 Wabash acc, dy.. 4:50 Michigan expr.... t*:-*5 Peoria Div.. West—Bit? Four. Peoria ex and mail. 7:25[ Col & Cln ex, dy. s. 3:3® Weet’n ex, dy, p...11:451 Champaign accom..lo:2# Champaign acc... 4:35 N.Y. ex & mail... 2:418 Peoria ex. dy. 5.. l 1:13, Peoria ex, dy. p.. 6*lo Peoriu I)iv„ East—Blr Four. Columbus exprees.. 5:10 Snrlngfleld expr 11:38 Su'field & Col. ex.3:20. Columbus expr...10:418 FITTS., CIN., CHI. * ST. LOl IS H’Y. Indianapolis Division—Pennn Line. Eastern ex, dy. 5... 6:50 Llm'u mail, dy s d.B:OJ Columbus accom 8:20 Richmond accom... 9''# Richmond acc ... 1:30 St L ox. dy, ds. 12:25 Atl'c ex, dy, and 5..2:110 Ind'p’ls acc 3:15 Day ex, dy 5:00 Mail express, dy.. 6:51> 3tL&NY, dy sand.. 7:10 ' West'n ex, dy, s.. 10:00 Cliictlfgo Division—Penuu H. It. Lou & Chi ex. dy p.11:35| Chi & Lou f ex.dy 5.3:3# Lou& Chi f ex.dy ■ 12:0511'hi & Lo ex, dy p. 3:45 Louisville Div ision—Pennn It. R. Lou & So spl, dy. s. 3:30 Mad *■ Ind acc 10-2® Lou & Mad ac, dy s 8:15 St L & C f 1, dy, p.ll:"5 Ind & Mad accom. Mad, & Ind. acc..5:35 Sunday only 7:00 Ind & Pitts, dy. s 7 :(K> Ind. & Mad. ac... 3:35 Mad. Ind acc., L & At'a, dy, p..4:041 Sunday only :1Q Louisville acc 7:10 L & chi ex. ays.ll:44# VAN!)ALIA LINE. T Terre Haute ex. dy. 7:201 New York ex, dy s. 6:4# NY & StL, dy sand. 8:10 Effingham accom,,.lo:o# StL ex. dy, s d'p.12:35 T Haute ex, dy. 1:24> Effingham acc... 4:00 Atl'c ex. dy, ands p.2:25 Fast Mall, dy 7:05 i Fast Line, datlv. 4:13 Western ex, dy s 11:2U StL & NY, dy. sand 7:03 INDIANAPOLIS A VINCENNES It. It. fro & V'nes ex, dy 8:151 Vincennes expr 10:4# Martlnsv'le ac. dy.ll:4o| Cairo expr. dy 4:50 Vincennes expr....4:20 Ma:t sv'le ac, dy 0:55 CINCINNATI, HAMILTON A DAYT’S R*Y Cin veet. dy, s c.... 3:ss|Cln vest, dy, s 12:4$ Fast mail. dy. 5.... 8:05 Fast mall, dy. a.... 6:5® Cin & D’tr’t ex 10:45 Cintl ex., d.v, p 11:45 Cintl expr. p 2:45 Cin vest, and p 3:20 Cln v'st'bl, dy and p 4:43 Cln & Ind acc 7:50 Cin & D’trt ex. dy 7:07 Cinti ex. dy, a. c.10:33 LAKE ERIE A WESTERN It. It. Mall and expr TANARUS, D & M C ex, dy 1:20 Mall and expr — 2:25 Evening expr 7:00 Toledo expr 0:04) INDIANA. DECATUR A WESTERN R'V* Mail and expr 8:15! Fast expr. dy, a c.. 3:5# Chicago express 11:50 TuscJda acc 10:40 Tuscola accom.... 3:45 Chicago expr 2:10 Fast ex, dy. s c,.11t05 Mail and expr— 4:44) C'., I. A L. It’Y. (Munon Route.) Chi night ex, dy, a. 12:551 Cin vest, dr. s 3:3# Fast mail, dy, a.... 7:00 Fast mail, dy. a.... 7:55 chi expr, p 11:50 Cln vest, dy, and p. 4 :3T Chi vest, and p 3:35 Chicago expr 2:44) $3.5004.40; cows and heifers, 1201.90. bulk of cows, [email protected]); Texan and Indian steers, $3.10®4.50, bulk at $3.30&4.25; cows and hetfera, s2.4o@S..'i(>. j Hogs—Receipts. 4,6(8); shipments. 1.300. Market s@loc higher; Yorkers. $3.>[email protected]); packers. $3.Mi) 3.95; butchers. $3.90@4. Sheep—receipts. 2,6:8); snipments, 1,600. Market steady; native muttons. $3,864)4.25; lamia*. $4.10 @6.10. NEW YORK. Aug. U. —Beevea— Receipts. 1.177; no trading. Keeling steady. Cables lower, Hr cattle. 9%@10c; tops, l#%c; refrigeraJtor beef. B%C. Exports, 150 cattle (_ wives--Receipts. 50. Market steady; veals. $5®6.85; buttermiiKs. $4; na Westerns. Hogs— Receipts. 749. No sales reported. Market nominally Heady at $4.2004.45. Sheep— Receipts, 2,?82. Hheep firmer; iambs 20U) 25c higher: sheep, [email protected]®: export wetheyg, $4; lambs $6.75® 7.75. Aug. 11.-CatUe steady at KM I Hogs active and strong at $3,204)4. Sheep higher at [email protected]; lambs strong an 4 higher at )4.Mjf6,75.

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