Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1898 — Page 7

THE L. A. KINSEY CO., INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, *26,OOO—FILL PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions, New York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone, 1375 and 1532. 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office, Room 4. Carlisle Building. DISCARDED LOCOMOTIVES . RAILWAY OFFICIALS UNABLE TO DSL. CIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THEM. Consolidation of Vanderbilt Linen Thrown Many Men Ont. of Position* —General and Perwonul. a Superintendents of motive power and master mechanics are trying to decide what It is best to do with the older locomotives which are too light for the present service, and consequently not worth rebuilding. Occasionally, as In the case of the Vandalia, one can be rebuilt and sold to some new road in a sparsely settled country where heavy trains are not. likely to be hauled for some* years at least; few, however, of the engines built between 1860 and 1880 are of any service In handling trains of the present day, and on systems like the Big Four and the Pennsylvania lines these engines are beginning to occupy too much space on side tracks. At Brightwood the Big Four has over twenty of this class of engines, and at the terminals of any important road large numbers of the discarded engines are to be found. When railroad building was going on briskly it was possible to put such engines in repair and dispose of them to be used in hauling construction trains, but time Is demonstrating that it’s no object to move trains at the present day with these light engines. The engines now in service haul two to three times as many cars with the same number of trainmen, with about the same quantity of fuel, and it is much easier and safer for a train dispatcher to look after the movement of one train of forty to fifty cars than three trains of sixteen to twenty cars, the number the best of the freight engines of twenty years ago would haul. So different is the construction of locomotives of the present day that no part of an old type of loeon otive can be utilized. The Wabash Haw a Surplus. The annual meeting of the stockholders (and debenture bondholders) of the Wabash Railroad Company will be held at the general offices In St. Louis next Tuesday. The ninth annual report of the directors will be submitted at the meeting. A condensed statement of the operations of the company for the fiacal year ending June 30. 1898, gives the following result: Gross earnings, $13,207,862.43; total receipts, $13,388,618.40. Deducting operating expenses, taxes, miscellaneous expenses, leaves the net earnings applicable to Interest, $3,096,040.91; surplus, $4Ol 459.91. As compared with the traffic operations of the previous fiscal year the changes are as follows: Gross earnings, Increase, $1,681,075.07; operating expenses, increase, $1,325,620: taxes, decrease, $30,484.02; miscellaneous receipts, increase, $67,351.31; balances of joint track rentals, increase, $80,126.92; net earnings, applicable to interest, increase. $373.163 48. The surplus net earnings of the year, amounting to $401,495.91, has been carried to the credit of profit and loss account, in accordance with the vote of the directors, which decided that the flouting debt of the company should be paid before dividends should be .•laimed by the holders of debenture mortgage bonds. This application ot the surplus earnings of the year has enabled the company to pay off $400,000 of the floating debt, which has been reduced to $400,000 at the end of the fiscal year. Within the ensuing six a large part of this can be liquidated. Poor’* Manual on Railroad*. Poor s Manual of Railroads for 1898 shows the increase in railroad mileage in the United States for 1867 to have been 2,094. making the total miles In operation 184.&J3. The increase by groups of States was as follows: New England, 46.79; Middle, 236.90: Central Northern, 381.81; South Atlantic, 310.46; gulf and Mississippi valley, 407.98; Southwestern, 415.62; Northwestern, 107.39; Pacific, 281.48. The following comparisons are in millions, omitting the last three figures- Tons of flight moved increased 14,516; freight mileage increased 3.956,715; passengers carried decreased 31,014; passenger mileage decreased 569,fc52; earnings from freight increased $9,927; earnings from passengers decreased $11,755; total gross earnings decreased $2,085; net earnings increased $5,83. The earnings per ton per miie decreased .023 cent, or 2.8 pep cent. Share capital increased $248,152,828, or 4.6 per cent. Funded debt increased $54,199,694, or .99 per cent.

Personal, Local and General Rotes. The members of the Central Passenger Association will meet in Chicago on Sept. F. F. Hildreth, assistant engineer of the Vandalia lines, has returned from his vacation. The Northwestern lines will on Sept. 21 advance rates between Chicago and Omaha 13.50. Freight officials of Northwestern lines say that there is more business in sight than has been known for many years. Plans have been prepared by the Pennsylvania Company for a large new freighthouse and transfer building at Fort Wayne. James Donnelly, formerly superintendent of the Lehigh Valley road’s eastern division, has been appointed general agent of the company. H. I. Miller, superintendent of the Vandalia main line, is said to have the largest and most complete library of any man of his age in this State. Four employes on the Vandalia were discharged at Terre Haute on Thursday for disobeying the rules of the company as to loitering about saloons. Engine tt, on Labor day, hauled twenty coaches, crowded to their capacity, from Chicago to Cedar Lake Park, over the Mellon, in one hour and thirty-five minutes. An official of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe says the year 1900 will see through trains running from Chicago to San Francisco over their own lines. , Long trains of empty coaches and tourist cars are being sent East over the Panhandle os extra sections of the regular trains, preparatory to bringing troops West. The passenger revenue of the Grand Rapids & Indiana in the month of August was $32,420 in excess of that of August, 1897. and freight traffic cn the road was very heavy. The Philadelphia & Reading has put on fast freight service scheduled at passenger train time. The trains are made ur> exclusively of the best cars, equipped with air brakes. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois will put In a turntable at Terre Haute long enough to turn Its new large freight engines, which are now in use only between Danville and Chicago. It is stated that for four consecutive miles Train 20. on the Panhandle, was hauled at a speed of seventy-eight miles an hour on Tuesday. Eight cars are hauled on this train. George Lowell, general superintendent of the Monon lines, claims that, as a whole, the engines of the Monon are in better condition for service than are those of any other road entering Chicago. The Illinois Central, in the year ending June 30, earned 11 per cent, on its common stock, and some of the stockholders are urging that the company again resume paying 8-per-cent, dividends. The annual meeting of the Wabash lines Will be held In St. Louis next week and President Ashley Is quoted as saying that there will be no changes in the directory or the general management. It is stated that through the consolidation of the Vanderbilt fast freight lines 255 men Who have long been in freight service are thrown out of positions, most of them having been with the lines twenty to twentyfjva years. The manner the Big Four handled Ks Grand Army business at Cincinnati reflects much credit on the management of the road. There a* no congestion of passenger trains at the Grand Central Station, and rot • freight train won cut off. The Mill Cr jk

fi eight yards were utilized for storing passenger cars, the through freights being sent over to the Chesapeake & Ohio as they arrived at Cincinnati. The Mill Creek yards were 30 arranged that a full train couid be made up, iced, supplied with water and gas tn thirty minutes after ordered. The Pennsylvania has decided to build a sufficient number of Class L engines, with eighty-inch driving wheels, to haul all Us fast express trains, and the Classes P and O engines will be used in hauling accommodation trains and on branch lines. The Pittsburg & Lake Erie is building at McKeesport a bridge and viaduct that is to cost ilGu.isA/. The structure will be nearly 1.160 feet long. The stone masonry will be completed by Oct. 15, and within another month the steel work will be m position. The receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio are at work on their annual report, which will be a more complete document than that of last year. It Is said the train mileage statistics will be of much interest and will show marked progress during the year ending June 30. T. J. Kucher, private secretary of C. D. Law, superintendent of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, who four months ago resigned on account of poor health, is much better and resumed his old place on Wednesday. While absent the position was filled by H. C. Rippe. The Schenectady locomotive works yesterday notified William Garstang, superintendent of motive power of the Big Four, that on Monday two large new passenger engines would be shipped. They w ill be put In service hauling the Southwestern limited and the Knickerbocker express trains between Indianapolis and St. Louis. The ten-wheeled freight engines of the Big Four lines were built with cylinders nineteen inches on the inside. Recently a number of these engines have been put in the shops at Brightwood and the cylinders increased to nineteen and three-quarter Inches, and as a result these engines are now hauling 150 to 160 tons more to the train than before enlarged. The Pennsylvania Company has contracted with the Westinghouse Company for an electric motor with which to operate the draw of the bridge crossing the Ohio river between Jeffersonville and Louisville. The Pennsylvania has several turntables which are operated by electric power, and this new venture is looked forward to with more than ordinary interest. As neither the representative of the North Shore Dispatch, O. R. Johnson, or Chauncey Watson, representing the Blue and Canada Southern lines, was called to the conference of Thursday in this city the impression is that they will not be disturbed 1 by the new deal. The Blue line send business over the Monon; the North Shore Dispatch and Midland lines over the Lake Erie & Western and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and it is statd that the general managers of the roads named ask that there be no change in policy in relation to the fast freight lines operating over the respective roads. Boston Advertiser: "There is a story afloat that the cause of the failure of the Big Four consolidation scheme was the discovery by an expert that the earnings of the C., H. & D. were not so great as the annual reports of that company indicated, and that the C., H. & D. has been carrying as assets on its balance sheet sums which are actually rebates to shippers. If any further attempt at consolidation is made the terms upon which the C., H. & D. Is admitted, it is said, will be radically changed.” The facts In the case are that the parties negotiating for control of the road would not pay the price the Woodford syndicate demanded, and there never was any investigation of the financial affairs of the company. There was in the case of the Monon, but not in that of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton.

LIVE STOCK. Good Cattle Strong—Hoyra Active and Higher—Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 9.-Cattle—Receipts. 1,200; shipments. 500. There was a fair supply of all grades and the market was strong on good fat kinds and a few of this class sold above quotations, while others were barely steady. Exports,■egood to choice $5.10# 5.40 Killers, medium to good 4.65® 5.00 Killers, common to fair 4.25® 4.50 Feeders, good to choice 4.20® 4.50 Stockers, common to good 3.25® 4.25 Heifers, good to choice 4.20® 4.50 Heifers, fair to medium 3.60® 4.00 Heifers, common and light 3.00® 4.40 Cows, good to medium 3.75® 4.25 Cows, fair to medium 3.20® 3.60 Cows, common and old 2.00® 3.00 Veals, good to choice 5.00® 6.50 Veals, common to medium 3.00® 4.50 Bulls, good to choice 3.40® 3.75 Bulls, common to medium 2.50® 3.20 Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to medium [email protected] Hogs—Receipts, 3,500; shipments, 2,(00. The quality was generally good. The market opened active and higher and closed strong at the advance, with all sold. Light $3.9503.97% Mixed [email protected] Heavy 3.90®3.95 Pi vs 2.50®3.40 Roughs 3.00®3.65 Sheep—Receipts light; shipments light. The market was active at about steady prices. Sheep, good to choice $3.7E®4.25 Sheep, fair to medium [email protected] Stockers, common to good 2.50®3.50 Bucks, per head [email protected] Spring lambs, good to choice 4.75©5.25 Spring lambs, common to medium [email protected] Elsewhere. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. —Beeves—Receipts, 2,850; on sale, 23% cars. Market active and good steers a shade higher; rough stuff Arm to 25c higher; all sold; native steers - . $4.80®5.50; Westerns, $4.65; oxen and stags, $2.9004.75; bulls, $2.75@3; cows. $1.80®3.75. Cables slow; live cattle, iO%@ll%c, dressed weight; refrigerator beef, 814 c. Exports to-day none; to-morrow. 806 cattle and 2,694 quarters of beef. Calves—Receipts, 176: on sale, 300; veals firm; buttermilks higher; about all sold; veal?, ss©B; bobs, s4® 4.50; buttermilks, $4.25® 4.75; coarse Westerns, $3.50. Hogs—Receipts. 1.882; on sale, one car. Market steady at $4.1004.40. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts. 3.807: on sale, 15% cars. Market active and firm; sheep higher; good lambs 25c higher; common and medium 50c higher; aii sold; sheep, $3®4.75; lambs, $0.50@ 6.6212; culls, $4. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 9.—Cattle—Receipts, 4,160 natives and 1,520 Texans. Active demand; moderate supply soon absorbed at strong prices; choice heavy steers. $5.1005.35; medium. $5.10® 5.25; lights, $4.40®5.10; stockers and feeders, $3.35 @4.75: butcher cows and heifers, *[email protected]; butcher bulls, [email protected]; Western steers, [email protected]%; Texas steers, [email protected]; Texas butcher cows, $2.80 @3.25; canning stock, [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts, 7,030. Packers and shippers were active buyers at s@loc higher prices; heavy, [email protected]; mixed. [email protected]; lights, [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 4,525. Light supply stimulated trade; slaughtering grades active and steady; stock and feeding sheep a shade higher: lambs, }4.75© 5.50; muttons. $3.7604.20; range muttons, [email protected]; range stock lambs, [email protected]; range feeding sheep, [email protected]. CHICAGO. Sept. 9.—Trade in cattle to-day was fairly active at steady prices; choice steers, $5.15 @5.70; medium, $4.7004.80: beef steers, [email protected]; stockers and feeders, [email protected]; bulls, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $3.5004.25; calves, $4.5007 Western rangers. |[email protected]; fed Western steers.’ $4.10@5: Texans, $4.25©4.85. There was a good demand for hogs at an advance of 5c in values; fair to choice, $3.87%®4: packing lots, [email protected]%; butchers, $3.9004; mixed, [email protected]%; light, [email protected]; pigs, $2.90 @3.70. The supply of sheep exceeded the cemand and prices ruled weak; native sheep. $3.75®4.30; culls,J 203.50; native lambs. [email protected]; choice lots. *6. Receipts—Cattle. 2,600; hogs, 20,000; sheep, 12,000. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9.—Cattle—Receipts, 1.200, Including 755 Texans; shipments. 1,200. Market steady to weak and slow; fair to fancy native shipping and export steers, [email protected], bulk at [email protected]; dressed beef and butcher steers, s4@ 5.60. bulk at $4.1003.15; steers under 1,000 lbs, $3.50@5.£0; stocke-s and feeders. $2.5004.75, hulk at [email protected]; cows and heifers. $206: Texas and Indian steers, $304.15, bulk at $3.5003.85; cows and heifers. $2.6503.25 Hogs—Receipts. 6.000- shipments. 3,300. Market strong; Yorkers. [email protected]; packers, $3.9-®3.96 - butchers, $3.90©4. Sheep—Receipts, 1,000; shipments, 800. Market steady; native muttons, [email protected]; lambs, $4.70 @6: stockers, $3.3003.55. CINCINNATI, Sept. 9. Cattle steady at $2.75 @5. Hogs steady at [email protected]%. Sheep steady at [email protected]; lambs higher at $3.50 @S.SC. SALES OF REAL ESTATE. Eight Transfers, with a Total Consideration of *15,0H0. Instruments filed for record in the recorder’s office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twentyfour hours ending at 5 p. m. Sept. 9, 1898, as furnished by Tlieo. Stein, abstracter of titles, corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, Indianapolis. Suite 229. first office floor. The Leintke. Telephone 1760: George Wolf et al. to Gertrude Singer. Lot 30. in Windhorst Place, an addition to Indianapolis S4OO Hannah Chamberlain to Felix T. McWhirter, Lot 124, tn Clark & Osgood s addition to Indianapolis 1,000 William L. Milner to Eugene Rollins. Lot 26, in Joseph W. Beck s subdivision to part of Blocks 2 and 3, in W. A. Rhodes s North llllnoiß-street addition to Indianapolis 2,500 Frank M. Page to Mona E. Hitz, Lot 4, in W. M. Thrasher’s subdivision of Lot 156, in Ingram Fletcher's fourth addition. 1,600 Eva Voegeli to Henry Bose. Lot 3, In Seidensticker & Naltner’s addition to Indianapolis 2,100 Addison H. Nordyke to Harry M. Johnson, Lot 16, Block 2. in Nordyke et aL"s Grandview addition 1,200 Anna Kiwin et al. to Myrtle iM. Murphy, Lot 87. in Douglass Park addition 3,000 Maria B. Wright (adminls’.ratrix) to George U. Bear, part of Let 4. In Chaiard's subdivision of part of Outlot 62..... 3.330 Transfer*, 8; consideration SI£.7TO

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898.

LIQUIDATION IN STOCKS HEAVY SALES BY PROFESSIONALS FOR PROFITS ACCRUED. * Continued Flow of Cash to the Interior and Easier Tone to Money Market—Local Trade Active. At New York yesterday money on call was firm at 2%@4 per cent.; last loan, 3 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4@4% per cent. Sterling exchange was firm, with actual business in bankers' bills at [email protected]% for demand and at [email protected]% for sixty days; posted rates, $4.83% and $4.55%@4.86; commercial bills, $4.81® 4.81%. Silver certificates, 60%@61c; bar silver, 69%c; Mexican dollars, 46%c. At London bar silver closed steady at 28d an ounce. Total sales stocks, 570,700 shares, including 14.100 Atchison preferred, 5,390 Baltimore & Ohio, 3.100 Chesapeake & Ohio, 29,140 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 3,947 Illinois Central, 9,750 Louisville & Nashville, 14,750 Manhattan, 8,870 Metropolitan, 3,350 Reading preferred, 7,000 Missouri Pacific, 3,120 New York Central, 28,920 Northern Pacific, 30,150 Northern Pacific preferred, 17,920 Rock Island, 15,295 Union Pacific, 84,844 St. Paul, 3,433 Southern preferred, 24,750 Union Pacific preferred, 3,210 Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf, 3,020 Cotton Oil, 37,945 Tobacco, 9,240 Chicago Great Western, 18,570 People’s Gas, 4,300 General Electric, 70,420 Sugar, 7,070 Tennessee Coal and Iron, 7,420 Leather preferred, 7,275 Rubber, 4,350 Western Union. There was further drastic liquidation tn the stock market yesterday at an expense to the price of stocks of between $1 and $2 a share in a great many cases. Disappointment over the fixing of the St. Paul dividend at only 2% per cent, continued the prevailing Influence and no attention was paid to favorable developments or to tne indications of an easier condition in money. The selling was evidently in the nature of speculative profit taking and came from an element that has persisted In the confidence that prices were certain of a further advance. A great part of this confidence has been based on the supposition that the St. Paul dividend would be Increased and would waken general activity and widespread outside interest, as was the case with the increase in the Burlington dividend. There was a short-lived period of firmness to prices early In the day on a demand to cover some of the -shorts put out yesterday. This movement was encouraged by the failure of the London market to reflect any violent depression on account of the St. Paul dividend, but the advance in prices was met by continued heavy offerings and by noon the movement to throw over stocks was in full force again and prices were tumbling throughout the list. Early gains in a few special cases were almost completely wiped out. Among those stocks which have recently been subject to attack on account of individual causes of weakness there was a noticeable hesitancy on the part of the bears about putting out short lines. Manhattan and Brooklyn Transit were conspicuous examples. It was in fact evident that fresh commitments either on the short or long side weie not In order and the activity of the market was almost entirely liquidation pure and simple, due to the hardness of the money market. There was also some disposition to apply the ultra-conservative standard adopted by the St. Paul directors to somo other properties which have made more liberal disbursements of expanded earnings, and to question somewhat the integrity of the dividends thus established. The distinctly easier tone of money In the afternoon brought recovery In prices aside from that due to covering by the room traders. How far the easier tone in money is due to the increase in new government bonds available as security to release cash from the treasury, and how far to the contraction of loans Incident to the stock market liquidation itself is not clear. The reduction of the call loan rate to 2% per cent, resulted In the steadying of foreign exchange and a check to the advance oi the London money rate. New York banks continue to lose cash very heavily to the subtreasury and the shipments of currency to the interior show a large increase over those of last week. The bond market showed the effects of liquidation, though to a less degree than in stocks. Total sales, $4,000,000. United States twos advanced % and the new twos %, while the new threes, when issued, declined % in the bid price. There were large sales of new threes, with prices ranging from 105 1 down to 105% at the close. The following table, prepared by L. W. Louis, Room 11. Board of Trade, shows the range of quotations: Open- High- Low- ClosName. ing. est. est. ing. Adams Express 110 American Express 130 American Spirits 12% 12% 12% 12% American Spirits pref 36% American Sugar 138% 139% 135% 136% American Sugar pref 115 American Tobacco 139% 139% 136 137% American Tobacco pref 128 Atchison 13% 13% 13% 13% Atchison pref 35% 36 34% 34% Baltimore & Ohio 44% Canada Pacific 86% Canada Southern 63% 53% 63% 53% Central Pacific 21% Chesapeake & Ohio 2o* 23% 23 23% Chicago & Alton 159 C.. I. & L 8% C., I. & L. pref 30 C., B. & Q 116% 116% 114% 115% C. & E. 1 54% C. C., C. & St. L 42 42 41 41% Commercial Cable Cos 170 Consolidated Gas 186 Cotton Oil 36 Cotton Oil pref 80% Delaware A Hudson 107 D. L. & W 151% Denver & Rio Grande 15 Denver & Rio Grande pref 55% Erie 14 Erie first pref 36 Fort Wayne 172 General Electric 44% 44% 43% 44% Great Northern' pref 134 Hocking Valley 6 Illinois Central 112 Kansas & Texas pref 33% 34% 33% 33% Lake Erie & Western 18 Lake Erie & Western pref 73 Lake Shore 193 Lead Trust 35% 35% 35 35 Louisville & Nashville 57% 58 57 67% Manhattan 96% 96% 95% 96% Michigan Central 106 Missouri Pacific 35% 35% 32% 33% New Jersey Central 9t 91 90 90 New York Central 117% 117% 116% 11G% Northern Pacific 38% 38% 37% 38 Northern Pacific pref 77% 77% 76% 76% Northwestern 133% 133% 131% 131% Northwestern pref 175 Pacific Mail 34 34 32% 33% People's Gas 105% 105% 103% 104 Pullman Palace 186% Reading 18% 18% 18 18% Rock Island 103% 103% 102% 102% St. Paul 111% 111% 108% 10914 St. Paul pref 156% St. Paul A Omaha 82% 82% 81% 82 St. Paul A Omaha pref 157 Southern Pacific 22 Tennessee Coal and 1r0n... 29% 30 28% 28% Texas Pacific 14 Union Pacific 32% 32% 30% 31% Union Pacific pref 65% 66 64 % 64% IT. S. Express 40 IT. S. Leather 7% U. S. Leather pref 70% 70% 69 69% I'. S. Rubber 40% IT. S. Rubber pref 101% Wabash, St. L. & P s% Wabash, St. L. & P. pref 20% Wells-Fargo Express 120 Western Union 93% 93% 93 93% ■Wheeling A Lake Erie 2% Wheeling A Lake Erie pref 14% U. S. Fours, reg 110% U. S. Fours, coup 111% U. S. Fours, new, reg 127% U. S. Fours, new, coup 127% Condition of the Treasury. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $307,361,016; gold reserve, $232,394,594. Table of Weekly Clenrliijg*. The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended Sept. 8, with the percentage of increase or decrease. as compared with the corresponding week last year. New York $671,456,173 Botton 82.295,874 Dec.. 6.6 Chicago 90.349,476 Dec.. 2.0 Philadelphia 60.070.843 Inc.. 6.4 St. Louis 26,295.130 Dec.. 1.1 Pittsburg 17.792.965 Baltimore 14.255.325 Dec.. 24.4 San Francisco 15,562.277 1nc..17.8 Cincinnati 6.929.550 Dec.. 7.7 Kansas City 10,436,568 Dec.. 1,1 New Orleans 4,656,583 Dec.. 10.5 Minneapolis 7,220,260 Dec.. 8.9 Detroit 6,589.867 Cleveland 6,971,144 1nc..27.4 Louisville 5,866,888 Inc.. 9.5 Providence 3,894,500 Dec.. 1.4 Milwaukee 4.001,130 Dec.. 7.7 St. Paul 3,651,030 1nc..10.0 Buffalo 3.764.678 Dec.. 18.7 Omaha 6.710,918 1nc..15.9 Indianapolis 6,032.759 Dec.. 2.1 Columbus. 0 3.084,200 Inc.. 7.2 Denver 2.676,497 1nc..25.8 Memphis 1.412.713 Inc.. 4.9 Washington 1,8.61.146 Inc.. 17.2 Peoria 1,378,414 Dec.. 16.8 Portland. Ore 1,402,038 De0..28.1 St. Joseph 2.4*5,543 1nc..44.0

Nashville 1.113,146 Inc.. 3.2 Grand Rapids 866,706 1r.c..30.6 Dayton, 0 717,250 1nc,.34.2 Seattle 1,124.319 1nc..50.2 Tacoma 635,190 Inc.. 17.8 Bpokar.e 848,318 Dec.. 6.5 Sioux City 772.642 1nc..22.5 Knoxville, Tenn 675,120 1nc..13.1 Topeka 474,222 Dec.. 1.6 Wichita 378,356 1nc..26.4 Lincoln 370,972 Dec.. 4.4 Lexington, Ky 552.712 1nc..64.5 Jacksonville, Fla 198,305 1nc..25.3 Kalamazoo 241,417 Dec.. 4.7 Akron 252.400 1nc..24.7 Bay City 102.954 Dec.. 22.1 Chattanooga 297,953 1nc..26.9 Rockford, 111 156,643 Dec.. 9.3 Canton, 0 147,400 Inc.. 2.0 Springfield, 0 170,999 Dec.. 25.0 Toledo 1,575,282 Inc.. 3.7 Totals, United States $1,106,874,363 Totals outside New York.... 436,418,190 LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Trade Increasing; and Prices Improving, Covers the Situation. In all departments trade this week has shown some improvement and better prices are being realized. Wholesale grocers report no abatement in the demand for sugar and in other lines there is an increased activity. Fruits are not in so large supply and apples and peaches are bringing better prices. Choice butter is in good request. The egg market with the cooler weather is taking better shape. Good sized young chickens are in active request. The demand for lemons is decreasing. Vegetables are selling well, but at low prices. Provisions are steady and in better request, especially hams and bacon. Other lines are featureless. Receipts of grain are somewhat heavier, but still below the demand and all arrivals w-ere readily taken yesterday at the following range of prices, as furnished by the secretary of the Board of Trade: Wheat—No. 2 red, 61c; No. 3 red, 56@60c; September, 61c; wagon wheat, 606. Corn —No. 1 wnite, 29%c; No. 3 white (one color), 29%c; No. 4 white, 26%c; No. 2 white mixed. 29%c; No. 3 white mixed, 29%c; No. 4 white mixed, 26%c; No. 2 yellow, 29%c; No. 3 yellow, 29%c; No. 2 mixed, 29%c; No. 3 mixed, 29%c; No. 4 mixed, 26%c; ear corn, 29%c. Oats—No. 2 white, 22c; No. 3 white, 22c; No. 1 mixed, 21c; No. 2 mixed, 20c. Hay—No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, s6® 6.50. Inspections—Wheat: No. 2 red, 2 cars: No. 3,7; No. 4,1; rejected, 1; total, 11 cars. Corn: No. 3 white. 4 cars; No. 3 yellow, 1; No. 3 mixed, 2; no established grade, 1; total, 8 cars. Oats: No. 3 white, 3 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Poultry Hens, 7c; spring chickens, 7c; locks, 3c; hen turkeys, 7c; toras, 6c; ducks, old, 4c; young, 4c; geese, 40c for full feathered, 30c for plucked. Cheese—New York full cream, 10@llc; skims, 6©Bc; domestic Swiss, 12%c; brick, 12c; llmburger, 10c. Butter— 8%@9%c; Elgin creamery, 21c. Eggs—Candled, 12c per dot. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck, 10@17c per lb. Beeswax—3oc for yellow, 25c for dark. Wool—Medium, unwashed. 17@18c: tub-washed, 20023 c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. Honey—lo® 13c per lb. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1, 9%c; No. 2, B%c; No. 1 calf, 10c; No. 2 calf, B%c. Grease—White, 3c; yellow, 2%c; brown, 2%c. Tallow—No. 1,3 c; No. 2, 2%c. Bones—Dry, $12@13 per ton.

THE JOBBING TRADE. (The quotations given below are the selling prices of the wholesale dealers.) Candles and Nnts. Candles —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, lie; 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, 85090 c; California, standard, $1.7502; California seconds, $1.90 @2.10. Miscellaneous—Blackberries, 2-lb, 65@70c; raspberries, 2-lb, 90@95c; pineapple, standard, 2-lb, [email protected]; choice. $202.50: cove oysters, 1-lb, full weight, 85095 c; light. 60@65c; string beans, 70@90c; Lima beans, $1.1001.20; peas, marrowfats, 85c@$1.10; early June, 90c@$1.10; lobsters, $1.86@2: red cherries, 90c@$l; strawberries, 90® 95c; salmon, 1-lb, [email protected]; 3-lb tomatoes, 90@95c. Drags. Alcohol, [email protected]; asafetida, 25030 c; alum, 2% @4e; camphor, 40@44c; cochineal, 50@55c; chloroform, 58@65c; copperas, brls, 75@85c; cream tartar, pure, 30033 c; Indigo, 65@80c; licorice, Calab., genuine, 30@40c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz, 25030 c; morphine, P & W., per oz, [email protected]; madder, 14 @l6c; oil, castor, per gal. $1.1201.15; oil, bergamot, per lb, $2.75; opium, $404.26; quinine, P. & W., per oz, 29@34c; balsam copaiba, 50@60c; soap, castile, Fr., 12@16e; soda, bicarb., 4%@6c; salts, Epsom, 4@sc; sulphur, flour, s@6c; saltpeter, 8® 14c; turpentine, 29@35e; glycerine, 15@17c; iodile potassium, [email protected]; bromide potassium, 50@60c; chlorate potash, 20c; borax, 9@l2c; cinchonida, 20 @2sc; carbolic acid, 30@32c. Oils—Linseed, 34@36c per gal; coal oil, legal test, 7@l4c; hank, 40c; best straits, 50c: Labrador, 60c; West Virginia, lubricating, 20@30c; miners', 40c; lard oils, winter strained, in brls, 40c per gal; half brlß, 3c per gal extra. Dry Good*. Bleached Sheetings Androscoggin L, 6c; Berkley, No. 60, 7c; Cabot, 5%c; Capitol, 4%c; Cumberland, 5%c; Dwight Anchor, 6c; Fruit of the Loom, 6c; Farwell, 5%c; FitchvlUe, 6%c; Full Width. 4c; Gilt Edge, 4%c; Gilded Age, 4c; Hill, 6%c; Hope, 5%c; Linwood, 5%c; Lonsdale, 6c; Peabody, 4c; Pride of the West, 10%c; Ten Strike, sc; Fepperell, 9-4, 15c: Pepperell, 10-4, 16%c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 16%c; Androscoggin, 10-4, 17c. Brown Sheetings—Atlantic A. 5%c: Argyle, 4%c; Boott C, 4c; Buck’s Head, 6c; Clifton CCC, 4%c; Constitution. 40-inch, 5%c; Carlisle, 40-inoh, 6%c; Dwight’s Star, 6%c; Great Falls E. sc; Great Falls J, 4%c; Hill Fine, 5%c; Indian Head, 6%c; Penperell R, 4%c; Pepperell, 10-4, 15c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 14c; Androscoggin, 10-4, 15%c. ,Prints—Allen dress styles, 4%c; Allen’s staples, 4c; Allen TR, 4c; Allen's robes, 4c; American indigo, 4c; Arnold long cloth B. 7%c; Arnold LLC, 6%c; Cocheco fancy, 4c; Cocheco madders, 4c; Hamilton fancy, 4%c; Merrimac 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, B%c. Ginghama—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; Cordi3 FT, 9%e; Cordis ACE, 10c; Hamilton awnings. 8c; Kimono fancy, 17c; Lenox Fancy, 18c; Muthuen AA. 10c; Oakland AF, 5%c; Portsmouth, 10%e; Susquehanna, ll%c; Shetucket SW, 6%c; Shetucket F, 7c; Swift River, 4%c. Flour. Straight grades, [email protected]: fancy grades. $5.73® 6.25; patent flour, [email protected]; low grades, [email protected]; spring wheat patents, [email protected]. Groceries. Sugar—City Prices—Dominoes, 6.19 c; cut-loaf, 6.19 c; crushed, 6.19 c; powdered, 6c; XXXX powdered, 6.06 c; standard granulated, 5.75 c; fine granulated, 5.75 c; extra fine granulated, 5.88 c; coarse granulated, 6.88 c; cubes, 6c; mold A, 6c; diamond A, 5.75 c; confectioners' A, 5.63 c: 1 Columbia A—Keystone A, 5.44 e; 2 Windsor A— American A, 5.44 c; 3 Ridgewood A—Centennial A, 5.44 c; 4 Phoenix A—California A. 5.44 c; 6 Empire A—Franklin B, 5.38 c: 6 Ideal golden ex. C—Keystone B, 5.31 c; 7 Windsor ex. C—American B, 5.19 c; 8 Ridgewood ex. C—Centennial B, sc; 9 yellow ex. C—California B. 4.94 c; 10 yellow ex. C Franklin ex. C, 4.94 c; 11 yellow—Keystone ex. C, 4.88 c; 12 yellow—American ex- C, 4.88 c; 13 yellow— Centennial ex. C, 4.75 c; 14 yellow—California ex. C, 4.69 c; 15 yellow, 4.63 c; 16 yellow, *i.fc3c. Coffee—Good, 10012 c; prime, 12@llc; strictly prime, 14@16c; fancy green and yellow, l£@22e; 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. 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, So@BDc; small lots. 85090 c. Spices—Pepper, 12@18e; allspice, 15@18c: cloves, 18@25e; cassia, 12@15c; nutmegs, 65075 c per lb. Beans—Choice hand-picked navy, [email protected] per bu; Limas, California, 4%®4%c per lb. Woodenware—No. 1 tubs, $3.7506; No. 2 tubs, 34.75@5; No. 3 tubs, $3.75@4; 3-hoop pails, $1.40® 1.50: 2-hoop pails. $1.2001.25; double washboards, [email protected]: common washboards, [email protected]; clothes pins. 50@600 per box. Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 28@33c; choice, 36@40c; syrups, 18® 36c. Shot—sl.2s® 1.30 per bag for drop. Lead—6%@7e for pressed bars. Twine —Hemp, 12@18c per lb; wool, 8@10c: flax, 20@30e; paper, 2, r c; Jute, 12@15c; cotton, 18@25c. Wood Dishes—No. 1. per 1.000. $202.25; No. 2, $2.2502.50; No. 3. $2.6002.75; No. 5. $303.25. Rice —Louisiana, 4%@6%c; Carolina, 6%@8%c. Iron nnd Steel, Bar Iron—[email protected]; horseshoe bar, 2%@2%c; nail rod. 7c; plow slabs. 2%c; American cast steel, 9@llc; tire steel, 2%@3c; spring steel, 4% @3c. Leather. Leather—Oak sole, 27@30c; hemlock sole, 24® 26c; harness, 32@37c: skirting, 38@42c; single strap, 3S@4lc: city kip, 60@83c; French kip, 90c@ $1.20; city calfskin, 90c@$1.10; French calfskin, $1.2001.85. Produce, Fruit* and Vegetable*. Apples—Common to good, s2@3. Peaches—lndiana and Kentucky, [email protected] per bu; Michigan, $1.2501.50, Pears—Bartlett pears, $1; Duchess, 90c per bu. Red Plums—7sc per bu; Damsons, $1.25 per bu. Wild Goose Plums—76c per bu. Grapes— 10c per 8-lb basket. Oranges—California seedling, [email protected]. Lemons—Messina, choice. 300 to box, $6; fancy, $6. Quinces—sl per bu. Bananas—Per bunch. No. 1, $101.75. Cocoanuts—ls@soc per doz. Pineapples—sl.7s per doz. Cantaloupes—soc per brl; crates, He. Gem Melon*—2oo per basket. Watermelons—3@l( J. Potatoes—*l.sool.• per brl. Tomatoes—Home grown, 50c per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—Baltimore, new. 73c per bu; brl, $2.25; Red Bermuda, 60®75c per bu; $2 per brl. Cabbage—New, 40@50c per brl. Onions—sl.3o per brl. Celery—Michigan, 15@20c per bunch. Beans—Wax, CCli~sc per bu. Lima Beans—so©6oc per gal. Provisions. Hams—Sugar cured, 18 to 20 lbs average. 9@9%c; 16 lbs average, 9®9%c; 12 lbs average, 9‘,s@loc. 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; 14 to 16 lbs average, 7%c. Clear backs, IS to 22 lbs average, 7%c; 14 to 18 lbs average, 7Vic; 8 to 10 lbs average, 7%c. In dry salt, %c less. Shoulders—lß to 20 lbs average. 6V*c; 15 lbs average, 6%c; 10 to 12 lbs average, 7%c. Lard—Kettle-rendered, 6%c; pure lard, 6%c. Pork—Bean, clear, 114; rump, $10.30. Seeds. Clover —Choice, $3.75; prime. [email protected]; English, choice, $3.25©3.50; alsike. choice, $4.56©5; alfalfa, choice, $4.25(34.50; crimson or scarlet clover, $2.76® 3; timothy, 43 lbs, prime, [email protected]; light prime, $1.20® 1.25; choice, $1.25©1.30; fancy Kentucky, 14 lbs, $1.15; extra clean, 60©73c; orchard grass, extra, $1.15® 1.30; red top, choice, 80c© 51.40; English bluegrass, 24 lbs. $1.15® 1.75; German millet, [email protected]; Western millet, 60@85c; common millet, 40© 60c. BIG VOLUME OF TRADE FOREIGNERS ACTIVE BIDDERS FOR AMERICAN SECURITIES. Prices on Staples Higher than for Five Years—Weekly Reports byDan & Cos. and Bradstreet. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade will say to-morrow: The volume of business Is larger than it ever has been. Investors across the water have caught the cue and their purchases of American bonds and stocks have been heavy for several weeks. Wheat has been about lc higher in price for spot, with Western receipts only about as large as those of last year for the week. No doubt seme farmers have learned that it is a poor business to hold back for higher prices, and yet very many are doing It, and so are making Inevitable a more disastrous decline in prices after a time. Atlantic exports for the week have been 2,325,100 bu, against 4,243,386 last year, flour included, and Pacific exports, 163,192 bu, against 713,434 last year. Corn is a shade higher, one estimate promising only 1,750,000,000 bu. The cotton year has closed, according to the Financial Chronicle, with a yield of 11,180,960 bales in 1897, of which 7,646,085 were exported, 1,856,000 were consumed in Northern mills, 1,227,939 in Southern mills, 420,079 were added to Northern mills’ stocks and 98,991 to commercial stocks. It is but fair to say that the Financial Chronicle makes no calculation of the quantity produced, but not marketed, which the New Orleans Cotton Exchange reckons at 330,000 bales, presumably including cotton owned by Southern mills, but not yet consumed. The European mill stocks, according to Mr. Ellison, are 770.000 bales, against 398,000 a year ago, the American 499,775, against 79,696 a year ago, the commercial stocks here and abroad, 1,641,000 bales, against 68,5,000 a year ago, and other allowances leave on hand for the coming year 3,031,000 bales, about as much as was estimated a month ago, and indicate a consumption of 3,083,939 bales In this country, against 2,893,353 in the largest previous year. The Increase of 44 per cent, in Southern consumption during the past three years, with a decrease of nearly 9.3 per cent, in Northern, is significant. Nobody can guess how great the demand iron and steel products may be a month hence, but the manufacturer has the rare good sense to wait for the actual orders before hoisting prices. So far the advance has been remarkably moderate, in the average of all products only 3.3 per cent, from the lowest price this year, while pig iron has risen less than 3 per cent. Orders this week Include 10,000 tons of rails at Chicago, 5,000 tons of pipe at Boston, with 16,000 to 24,000 tons coming at Philadelphia; 10,000 tons plate for a Baltimore shipyard and heavy orders for bars, rods and especially sheets at all markets. The sales of wool have been only 2,289,500 lbs at the three chief markets, against 18,010,400 for the same week last year and 8,812,000 for the same week In 1592. The feeling grows that the prices demanded at the West cannot be maintained and until wool sells at materially lower prices the manufacturer cannot meet the existing market for goods. Prices for goods do not change and a considerable number of the mills will shortly shut down unless the situation Improves, In the cotton manufacture there is still a fairly strong demand, with print cloths and staple goods unchanged in price, but the stoppage of some Eastern mills continues. Failures for the first week of September have been in amount of liabilities, $1,111,593; manufacturing, $224,602, and trading, $703,991. Failures for the week have been 164 in the United States, against 215 last year, and sixteen in Canada, against thirty-five last year. Bradstreet’n Review of Trade. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Bradstreet will to-mor-row say: Heat and holidays have Imparted an irregular appearance to speculative and general distributive trade this week and therefore to bank clearing returns, more particularly at the East, but with the arrival of cooler temperatures seme improvement is reported at these markets. Generally speaking favorable basic features already noted still continue most in evidence and the altitude of quiet confidence in future good trade is unabated. Unabated activity is reported at Chicago and dry goods shipments cannot be made fast enough. Small but numerous advances In prices of different classes of steel are reported from that city and St. Louis. Railroads are reported buying two to three months ahead of time. Business is active at Kansas City, Omaha, Cleveland, Louisville and throughout the entire Northwest. On the Pacific coast San Francisco reports merchants interested in developing trade with Hawaii. Healthful activity exists In distribution at Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. Some check to trade is reported In the lower Mississippi valley, caused by reports of yellow fever and heavy rains on the South Atlantic coast are said to have impaired cotton crop prospects and to have checked trs.de and collections, but the report from the South as a whole is still good, based partly on last season’s immense yield and confidence in another heavy crop this year. Southern mills have done well during the season Just closed, contrasting sharply with Northern mills in this respect, but the need of an increased foreign outlet for American goods is unmistakable. In the East more is doing in lumber, drugs, paints and glass at Philadelphia. General trade is quiet at Baltimore. Hot weather and holidays checked business in dry goods at New York, but cooler weather has brought an improved spot demand. Wool saleß have again fallen oIT at Boston. Cotton goods are quiet, but steady, and the demand for men's wear woolens is not up to expectations. Wheat shipments for the week, including flour, aggregate 3,100,208 bu, as against 3,687.040 last week, 5,461,506 in this week one year ago, 3,799,141 in 1896, 1,810,039 in 1896 and 2,789,000 In 1894. Since July 1 this year wheat exports aggregate 32,493,800 bu, against 38,311,752 during the same period of 1897. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,868,869 bu, against 1,661,700 last week, 4,943,348 in the corresponding week of 1897, 2,265,448 in 1896, 849,502 In 1895 and 69,570 In U 94. Since July 1 this year the exports of corn aggregate 28,407,870 bu, compared with 30.476,757 last year. Business failures in the United States number 142, against 164 last week, 173 in this week a year ago, 306 in 1896, 213 in 1895 and 223 in 1894. Business failures in the Dominion of Canada number 17, against 23 last week, 32 In this week a year ago, 41 in 1896, 22 in 1895 and 28 in 1894. VITAL STATISTICS-SEPT. 9. Births. Martha and Abe Arnold, 1608 Newman street, boy. Harry Sloan and wife, 1213 Fletcher avenue, girl. Louis Sues* and wife, city, boy. S. C. Grossman and wife. 336 Ogden street, girl. May and Harvey Coy, 2404 Hovey street, girl. Louella and Harry Amstead, 1826 Arrow avenue, boy. Deaths. William H. Tucker, fifty-four years, 926 Fletcher avenue, gunshot wound In brain. Vcmba Meek, two years, 1861 Thalman street, gastro-enteritis. Mary E. Leake, thirty-nine years, 516 North Alabama street, heart disease. Dorothea Moeller, eighty-six oAears, 910 North Alabama street, hemorrhage. ; Sister Mary, twenty-four yeai! |*Uoinc of Good Shepherd, phthisis pulmonaiis.

lO CENT CIGAR HOOSIER POET lO CENT. CIGAR JOHN RAUCH, Manufacturer, Indianapolis.

BULLS RAN THE MARKET WHEAT FUTURES SCORE GAINS OF 1 1-2 C AND CLOSED AT THE TOP. ♦ Corn Wan Affected by Reported FreegIng; Weather Threatened—Provisions Alone Were YVetlicr. CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—The strength of wheat in the Northwest to-day, In addition to a reported shortage of the Russian crop, caused a sharp rally in wheat values here. September closed 1%®1%C higher and December gained l%c. Com Improved %c. Oats rose %c. Provisions ruled weak. Pork left oft 2%c down, lard 10c and ribs 7%@10c. Wheat started strong and forced its way up In the course of the first hour's trading lc above yesterday's close. The Liverpool market opened %@%d higher and increased the gain to from %and to Id soon after business started here. That caused a general rush of shorts to cover, with so little wheat for sale that competition was sharp and bids were gradually advanced. Chicago received 191 cars, against 269 last year. The arrivals at Minneapolis and Duluth were 844 cars, compared with 496 a year ago. Atlantic port clearances were again heavy and that drew attention once more to the excessive proportion of European requirements that continued to be supplied from this side. Perhaps the greatest stimulus to the buying that advanced prices of wheat here arose from the great strength of the cash wheat markets in the Northwest during the first half of the session. Liverpool showed advances at the close of 1%@1%d and It was thought the strength there was In great part owing to further continuation of Russian crop damage and desire of Russian exporters to cancel sales they had made for September shipment as reported here yesterday. The market here was more active and broader than for some time back. The government crop report, which is due to-morrow, had some influence on the bull side, contrary to experience of Us usual effect. The market ruled strong right up to the tap of the bell and closed near the highest point of the session. September opened %@%c higher at 627ic, advanced gradually to 64c and closed at 63%c, sellers. December opened %@%c up at 61%©61%c, sold up to 62@2%c and closed at 62c, buyers. Low temperatures, together with predictions of frost to-night, strengthened corn. The crowd had gone short last night and consequently when it found itself confronted by a decidedly bullish wheat market to-day it became alarmed. A scramble to cover ensued and competition easily forced an advance. A report that the government crop report to-morrow would drop the corn condition 6 per cent, was also an Influence. The market ruled strong throughout the session and closed within a fraction of the highest point of the day. December began %@%c up at 30V4@30%c, advanced to 30%c and closed at 30?4c, buyers. Oats were firm and higher in sympathy with other grains. There was a fair amount of business done, wrlth heavy covering by shorts. May opened unchanged*®) Ho up at 21%£"51%c and advanced to 22%c. Provisions opened fairly steady, but turned weak on heavy selling by prominent packing houses. There was also considerable realizing by traders who had bought lower down on the decline. Very good buying, however, sprang up on the break and the market closed fairly steady with part of the loss recovered. December pork opened 5c lower at $8.65, declined to $8.45 and then rallied to $8.57%, the closing price. December lard started unchanged at $5.05, weakened to $4.90 and firmed up to $4.95 at the close. October ribs began unchanged at $5.30, sold off to $6.15 and improved to [email protected]%, the closing figure. Estimated receipts to-morrow—Wheat, 276 cars; corn, 470 cars; oats, 370 cars; hogs, 15,000. Leading futures ranged as follows: Open- High- Low- ClosArticles. lng. est. est. lng. "Wheat—Sept 62% 64 62% 63% Dec 61% 62% 61% 62 May 63% 64% 63% 64% Corn—Sept 30% 30% 30% 30% Dec 30% 30% 30% 30% May 32% 33% 32% 33% Oats-Sept 19% 20% 19% 20% Dec 19% 20% 19% 20 May 21% 22% 21% 22% Pork-Oct $8.42% $8.47% $8.40 $8.47% Dec 8.55 8.57% 8.45 8.57% Jan 9.35 9.35 9.25 9.30 Lerd-Oct 5.02% 6.02% 4.82% 4.90 Dec 5.05 6.05 4.92% 4.95 Jan 6.12% 6.15 E.OO 6.02% Ribs-Sept 5.22% Oct 6.30 5.30 5.15 6.22% Jan 4.77% 4.77% 4.70 4.75 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour quiet. No. 3 spring wheat, 59%@63%c; No. 2 red, 66© 65%c. No. 2 corn. 31c: No. 2 yellow, 31 %c. No. 2 oats, 20%c; No. 2 white, 24c; No. 3 white, 22%©) 23%c. No. 2 rye, 45c. No. 2 barley, 38@42c. No. 1 flaxseed, 88%c; new, 90®90%c. Prime timothy seed, ?2.50. Mess pork, per brl, [email protected]. Lard, per 100 lbs, s4.Bf>@s. Short-rib sides floose), $5.05 @5.30; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), [email protected]; short-clear sides (boxed), [email protected]. Receipts—Flour, 6,100 brls; wheat, 221,400 bu; corn, 273.500 bu; oats, 431,200 bu; rye, 15.100 bu; barley, 115,500 bu. Shipments—Flour, 7,500 brls; wheat, 99,700 bu; corn, 265,800 bu; oats, 489,700 bu; rye, 9.5C0 bu; barley, 3,100 bu. — - AT NEW YORK. Ruling; Prices in Produce at the Seaboard's Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Flour—Receipts, 22,147 brls; exports, 2,428 brls. Market quiet, but firmly held. Corn meal firm. Barley malt firm. Wheat—Receipts, 70,450 bu; exports, 28,000 bu. Spot strong; No. 2 red, 70%@70%c, f. o. b. afloat, to arrive. Options opened stronger on cables and foreign buying. Demand later grew general and more vigorous on bullish Russian crop news, renewed cash demand in the Northwest, bullish tips on the government report and active export trade; closed l@l%c net higher; No. 2 red, May, 67%@68%c, closed at 68%c; September, 67%@69c, closed at 69c; December, 65%@65%c, closed at 65%c. Com—Receipts, 277,525 bu; exports, 295,000 bu. Spot firm; No. 2, 37%c, f. o. b. afloat. Options opened firm and advanced on firmness abroad, predictions of a bullish crop report, frost talk and export demand; close was strong at %c net advance; May closed at 37%c; September closed at 35c; December, 25@35%c, closed at 35%c. Oats—Receipts, 82,800 bu. Spot quiet; No. 2, 25c; No. 2 white, 27c. Options followed other products and closed firm at %c net advance; September closed at 25%c. Cotton-seed oil easy; prime yellow, 22%c asked. Coffee—Options opened steady at unchanged prices to 5 points lower: ruled quiet and featureless with local contingent in control; tendency of prices downward under bearish European cables and absence of news from Brazilian markets; our speculative Interest still dominant and professional contingent timid; closed steady and unchanged to 5 points lower. Sales. 17.750 bags, including: September, 5.45 c; October, 5.50 c. Spot coffee—Rio dull and nominal. Mild quiet; Cordova, B@lse. Sugar—Raw strong and held higher; fair refining. 313-16® 37tc; centrifugal, 96 test, 4%c; molasses, 3 9-16@3%c; refined strong. TRADE IN GENERAL. Quotations at St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Other Places. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9.—Flour dull, heavy and unchanged. Wheat closed better, with September and December lc and May l%c up from yesterday. Spot firmer; No. 2 red, cash, elevator, 66c bid; track. 68@69%c; September. 65%c; December. 64%@64%c; May, 66%c; No. 2 hard, cash. 61c bid. Corn—Futures fractionally higher. Spot steady; No. 2, cash. 29%c bid: September, 29%c bid; December, 29%0; May, 31%@31%c. Oats—Futures firm and fractionally higher. Spot higher: No. 2, cash. 21c bid; track. 22c: September, 21 %c; December, 2lc; May, 2%c; No. 2 white. 25%c. Rye higher at 42%@48c. Flaxseed higher at Bs%c. Prime timothy seed firm, but scarce and unchanged. Corn meal quiet at $1.65© 1.70. Bran quiet and basely steady; sacked, east track, 42%c. Hay—Timothy steady at [email protected]; prairie weak at $4.50®6.50. Butter firm; creamery, 16®19%c; dairy, 13@17%c. Eggs higher a: 14c, loss off. Whisky steady at $1.25. Cctton ties. 72@73c; bagging, lP4©7%c. Pork lower; standard mess, jobbing, $8.50. Lard lower: prime steam. $4.80; choice, $4.85. Dry-salt meats—Boxed shoulders, $5; extra short-clear.and ribs. $5.62%; shorts, $5.75. Bacon— Boxed shoulders. $5.50*/-5.62%; extra ehort-clear and ribs, $6.25; shorts. $6.37%. Receipts—Flour. S.OfO brls; wheat. 60,000 bu; com. 28,010 bu; oats, 52.000 bu. Shipments—Flour, 7.000 brls; wheat, 61.0C0 bu; corn, 52,000 bu; oats, 6,000 bu. BA LTIMORIi, Sept. 9.—Flour dull and unchanged; receipts, 18,101 brls; exports, MS brls.

Wheat inactive and higher; spot and month. October and December. 67%@67%c; steamer No. 2 red. 62%©62%c; receipts. 37,503 bu; exports none; Southern wheat by sample. 62@62%c. Corn firmer; spot and month. 34%©56%c: October, 34%© S4%c; May, 33%c asked; steamer mixed, 33%# 33%c; receipts. 87,150 bu; exports none; Southern white corn, 34%©36c. Oats steady: No. 2 whits Western, 27c; No. 2 mixed Western. 24@24%c; receipts, 10.761 bu; exports none. Butter steady and unchanged. Eggs firm and unchanged. Cheese steady and unchanged. CINCINNATI. Sept. 9.—Flour dull and easy. Wheat quiet and steady; No. 3 red. 65c. Corn firm; No. 2 mixed, 31c. Oats steady; No. 2 mixed, 22%c. Rye quiet and steady; No. 2, 45©4?c. Lard easy at $4.75. Bulk meats easy at $5.70. Bacon quiet and easy at $6.15. Whisky firm at $1.25. Butter firm. Sugar steady. Eggs dull and easy at 12c. Cheese firm. TOLEDO, Sept. 9.—Wheat active and higher; No. 2, cash and September, 65%c; December, 64%c. Corn dull, but higher; No. 2 mixed, 31 %c. Oats dull, but steady; No. 2 mixed, 20c. Rye dull, but higher; No. 2. cash, 40c. Clover seed active and steady; prime, cash, $3.40, old; October, $3.86 bid. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 9.—Wheat strong; December, 58%@58%c; September, 58%c; May, 61%c; No. 2 Northern. 57@68%c. Flour unchanged. Bran, In bulk, $7®7.50. Dry Goods. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Dry goods trading In local stores by visiting buyers is still on an improved basis. There are a large number of there buyers in the city and some of them have manifest’d an Intention of trading more freely since the cool weather has set In. The Improvement is noticeable more directly in the jobbing stores, where there has been a breadth to the buying which It did not formerly have. Another feature which has added to the activity of the market has been an Increased demand for staple sheeting and drills for export. The demand for China has Increased In greater proportion than that for South American consumption. Print cloths have maintained a strong position throughout the week. Extras are quoted at 2 l-16c, with practically only spot to be obtained. Odd goodß are also firm. Other staple cottons than those before mentioned have shown only slight gains. Batter, Eggs and Cheese. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Butter—Receipts, 4.486 packages. Market firm; Western creamery, 14% @l9c; Elglns, 19c; factory, ll@l4c. Eggs—Receipts, 6,949 packages. Cheese quiet; large white, 7%@7%c; small white, 7%c; large colored. 7%© 7%c; small colored, 7%c. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 9.—Butter firm; separator, 16@1Sc; dairy, 15c. Eggs firm; fresh candled Missouri and Kansas stock, Xl%c, cases returned; seconds, Bc. CHICAGO. Sept. 9.—On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was steady; creamery, "’Bc; dairy, 11%©15c. Eggs steady; fresh, 12© 12%C. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.-Butter Arm; fancy Western creamery, 19c. Eggs steady; fresh Western, 15© 16c. Cheese quiet, but steady. Metals. NEW YORK. July 9.—Both lead and spelter developed positive weakness In to-day’s market, due in a measure to an absence of buyers and increased offerings. The other departments were neglected for the most part and devoid of lnta*estlng new feature. News averaged up In favor of buyers. At the close the Metal Exchange called pig iron warrants dull at $6.80 bid and $6.95 asked. Lake copper unchanged at 12.25 c bid and 12.37%0 asked. Tin quiet at 16.10 c bid and 16.200 asked. Lend weaker at 8.97%0 bid and 4.02%c asked. Spelter easier at 4.75 c bid and 4.800 asked. The firm that fixes the settling price for miners and smelters quotes lead at 3.85 c. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9.—Lead easy at 3.850. Spelter quiet at 4.65 c. Wool. BOSTON, Sept. 9.—The Commercial Bulletin will say to-morrow of the wool market: Business has been quiet and little Interest In offerings has been shown by the manufacturers. The auctlcn sale commanded general attention. It was well attended and fairly good prices were realized. The sales of the week are: 1,162,000 lbs domestic and 271,000 foreign and 100,000 at auction, a total of 2.433,000 lbs, against 2,047,000 last week and 11.099,300 for the same week last year. The sales to date show a decrease of 85,131,300 lbs domestic and 118,476,800 foreign from the sales to the same date in 1897. The receipts to date show a decrease of 163,182 bales domestic and 382,607 foreign.

The Cotton Etimatea. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9.—Secretary Heater 1 ■ New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement to-day shows that the amount brought into sight during the week ended to-day is 86,434 bales, against 133,045 last year. Total for the nine days of tha season, 103,CCS bales, against 131.288 last year. Receipts at all ports since Sept. 1 were 66,470 bales, against 96,868 last year; overland to Northern mills and Canada, 2,390 bales, against 265 last year. His estimate of the world’s visible supply is given as 1,577,066 bales, against 1,018,890 last year. Os this the total of American cotton 1a I. bales, against 802,690 last year. Oils. OIL CITY, Sept. o.—Credit balances, *1; cer-\ tlflcates, tales, 3,000 brls cash at 99%c; 18,000 brls at 99%c; closed at S9%c bid for cash; total sales, 21,000 brls; shipments, 103,433 brls; runs, 83,182 brls. v WILMINGTON, Sept. 9.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 28*@2S\c. Rosin dull at f 1.0501.10. Crude turpentine firm at (1.1001.60. Tar firm at 11. SAVANNAH, Sept. 9.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 28Vio. Rosin firm and unchanged. Dried Fruits. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—California dried fruits steady; evaporated apples, common, 6®Bc; prime wire tray, 9c; choice, 9tfec; fancy, Mioloc. Prunes. 4ti'Bo. Apricots—Royal, 11013 c; Moor Park, 130 16c. Peaches—Unpeeled, 709 c; peeled, 12016 c. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9.—Cotton steady; sales, 750 bales; ordinary, 3Tic; good ordinary, 4 9-16 c; low middling, 4 15-16 c; middling, 5 5-16 c; good middling, 69ie; middling fair, 6 l-16c; receipts, 3,061 bales; stack, 56,667 bales. FORECAST FOR TO-DAY. Cooler Weather, with Occasional Showers, Likely. Local forecast fsr twenty-four hours ending 11 p. m., Sept. 10—Cooler; increasing cloudiness and occasional showers. General Conditions—An exceedingly large high barometric area covers the country east of the Rocky mountains, a very unusual occurrence at this time of the year. West o! the Mississippi the temperature fell from 10 to 32 degrees; it fell also in the lake regions. Local rains fell in Wyoming, South Dakota. Nebraska. Kansas, lowa, near Lake Michigan, near the eastern gulf coast and in Florida. FORECAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Forecast for Saturday; For Indiana and Illinois—Light showers In the early morning, followed by fair; cooler in southern portions; northerly winds. For Ohio—Threatening weather, with showers on the lakes; cooler; light to fresn northerly winds. Friday’* Local Observations. Bar.Ther. R.H. Wind. Wea. Prec. 7a. m... 30.28 60 69 S’west Clear 0.00 7p. m... 30.31 66 56 North Clear 000 Maximum temperature, 78; minimum temperate; e, 57. Following Is a comparative statement of temperature and precipitation on Sept. 9: „ , Tem. Prec. Moan 66 0.00 Departure from normal —4 —0 10 Departure from Sept. 1 *2B *0 49 Departure from Jan. 1 *433 *0 81 •Pius. C. F. R. WAPPHNHANB, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’s Temperatures. Stations 7 a.ra. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta. Ga 64 72 70 Bismarck, N. D 28 Buffalo. N. Y 58 74 60 Calgary. N. W. T 66 62 Cairo, ill 56 70 72 Cheyenne, Wyo 32 36 32 Chicago, 111 56 64 56 Cincinnati, 0 52 78 74 Concordia. Kan 46 52 46 Davenport, la 50 o 54 Des Moines, Ja 60 52 52 Galveston, Tex 70 84 82 Helena, Mont 40 62 60 Jacksonville, Fla 74 82 76 Kansas City, Mo 48 66 60 Little Rook, Ark 60 80 76 Marquette, Mich 42 50 46 Memphis, Tcnn..... 58 80 76 Mmnedosa. Man 24 Moorhead, Minn 30 Nashville, Tenn 54 82 76 New Orleuns, La 72 80 74 New York. N. Y 60 74 68 North Platte, Neb 40 42 40 Oklahoma. O. T 54 80 74 Pittsburg. Pa 52 78 72 Qu’ Appclle, N. W. T... 24 5S 54 Rapid City, S. D 34 42 40 Salt Lake City, Utah... 54 76 74 St. Louis, Mo 60 78 70 St. Paul. Minn..... 38 60 64 Springfield, 111 50 72 60 Springfield, Mo 54 74 68 Vicksburg, Miss.. 60 76 72 Washington, D. C 52 76 64

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