Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1899 — Page 7

Marion Trust Cos. Northeast Corner of Monument Place and Market Street. Acts as - s ADMINISTRATOR, EXECUTOR, GUARDIAN, RECEIVER, ASSIGNEE. Loans Money. Receives deposits of $1 and up. 3 per cent, interest compounded semi-annually on savtnjrs deposits. THE L. A. KINSEY CO . INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, fKR.OOO—FULL PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions, New York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone, 1375 and 1592. 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office, Room 4. Carlisle Building. IMONFY 4 '/2% to(s %■ /wlv/ilLrfl sl,(j(iO and upward, loaned on Improved Property. Interest graded according to location and character of security. Ko delay. C. F. SAYLES, 135 East Market St. ALLIED AGAINST TARIFFS SHIPPERS SAID TO HAVE FORMED ALLIANCE TO BREAK HATES. ♦ The Mistnke In Operating? the I.nke Erie & Western—General and Per(tonal Hallway Sews. ♦ It is reported that the men who are paid bijar salaries 'by the glucose and tin-plate trusts, the packing houses, wholesale mercantile lirms and other institutions having heavy freight snlpments to secure cheap rates, have formed an alliance to batter down the present tariff rates. These traffic managers say that they will not accept any more rebates from the railroads in violation of the interstate-commerce law, but they want the railroads to openly make the same rates they have heretofore made secretly. They say that if the railroads do not do this they will pick out a certain railroad and give all their business to it. They think this plan would soon cause the other roads to openly reduce their rates. Agents of |he Eastern lines say this scheme will not work with them; that it has been played on them too often in the past. They say it will be simply impossible for any one railroad to carry the traffic controlled by the alleged combination of traffic managers. It is certain that the agents of the Eastern roads will keep close watch on each other, and it is almost certain that somebody will soon discover what he thinks is sufficient warrant for reducing rates openly.

As Viewed by Financier*. The necessity that has compelled the passing of dividends by the L E. & W. for at least two years calls attention again to the folly, from the stockholders' standpoint, of maintaining the dividend rate at the expense of the deterioration of the property. There is always a pressure upon a railroad management for dividends. Stockholders want to see some return for their investment, but in the long run the conservative course is the more profitable. In the case of the I* E. & W., had the sums necessary for the proper maintenance of the road and equipment been feet aside for that purpose from year to year, they would not have aggregated an amount equal to that which must now be expended. A Road Without a Debt. The Washington & Waynesburg Railroad Company, a Pennsylvania line, held its annual meeting on Wednesday at the office of S. B. Liggett, secretary of the Pennsylvania Company, and the report made a remarkably good financial showing. This road enjoys the distinction of being the only one in the United States which has no indebtedness, shown to be in first-class shape. i Personal. Local and General Notes. On Sunday the Cincinnati Northern will establish double dally passenger train service on Its recently acquired Michigan division. The receipts from sales of tickets at the union station on Massachusetts avenue for the year IS9S were 16 per cent, in excess of those of 1897. * W. A. Cox, general agent of the Chicago & Northwestern for central Ohio, has been In the city for a few days, coming here to attend the funeral of his mother. Q. 1,. Peck, superintendent of the Pittsburg division of the Panhandle lines, accompanied by his wife, has gone to San Diego to be absent several weeks. Sidney Van Dusen, traveling passenger agent of the St. louis & San Francisco, will be married on Feb. 14, and his friends in Pittsburg on Wednesday night gave him a banquet. The Big Four expects to have its new passenger station at Terre Haute ready for occupancy by May 1. The rooms are ready for plastering and the eighty-foot tower is nearly finished. Private advices received in New York state that the suit brought by the State of Texas for the forfeiture of the charter of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas, of Texas, has been settled out of court. Oscar G. Murray, who is on a Western trip, says the rate situation is now better than it has been for many years, and the B. & O. officials, as well as officials of competing lines, are well pleased. The Wabash is so pressed with business that it has leased from the Big Four four freight locomotives, from the Monon two and from the Cincinnati Northern two for service between Peru and Detroit. W. L. Mitchell, agent of the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago, who died a few days ago from the effects of a mad dog's bite, has been succeeded as agent at Shields by his widow, Mrs. Nora Mitchell. An official of the Wabash writes the Wabash has more freight offered than it can handle and the road is now in the market for twelve more heavy freight locomotives to clear the congested sidetracks. The Wabash has purchased at Peru a large tract of land which it will utilize for additional tracks at that i>olnt. the present yards not being of sufficient capacity now • that Andrews has been abandoned as a division point. The Golden Gate special, of the Pennsylvania road, left New York on Wednesday with over one hundred tourists, in charge of Tourist Agent Murphy. The tour covers thirty-five days, nineteen of which will be spent in California. Mechanics and machinists employed in the shops of tie Wabash at Fort Wayne who have been with the company more than one year have been notified of an increase in wages of from 10 to 18 per cent., according to the term of service. The pay rolls of the Panhandle and the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago for January are the largest in the history of either line. Some of the engineers will draw for their month's service ftSe to $173, and some of the conductors $l5O. The consolidation of the West Shore and the New York Central places General Passenger Agent Daniels. who, after April 1, will be passenger traffic manager, in a position to carry out his policy of "a common time and common fare.” Albert S. White, formerly general freight •gent of the Big Four, now freight traffic manager of the American Tobacco Company, who came West to attend the funeral Os Mrs. Cox. his wife’s mother, returned yesterday to New York. T. B. Blacksfone, president of the Chicago & Alton, in thirty years of railroad •ervice has never accepted a pass for any member of his family from any road and never been paid a dollar for filling the position of president of that road. C. D. Simonson, who has represented the Banta Fe lines in New York, has resigned

to take charge of the business department of Leonard's Railroad News, a paper started by John Leonard, formerly railroad reporter of the New York Mail and Express. Beginning with this week all trainmen on the Pennsylvania lines are paid from the time they report at the places for starting until they return. Heretofore their pay began from tlu time they received their orders at the office, or when they left to make up the train. “Larry” Malloy, for many years superintendent of the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific, but who resigned shortly after the present company took possession of the road, has been made superintendent of the Montana division of the Oregon Shortline, with headquarters at Pocatello, Ida. The Indiana Car and Foundry Company of this city is arranging to go into building cars on a larger scale than at any former pernai in its history. The declaring of a 3 per cent, dividend, making 6 per cent, in the last twelve months, has created quite an interest among ihe stockholders, who at their annual meeting on Tuesday gave authority to the general manager to push things. I>. S. Gray, who represents the Pennsylvania lines in the Joint Traffic Association, and who on Wednesday celebrated his seventieth birthday and his fiftieth year in railroad service, received a letter flora James McCrea. first vice presiden. of the I eunsyivania Company, which in part read: "I realize that the events you are to celebrate are altogether different. You have reached three score years and ten in fine health, with the vigor of a much younger man, and the high regard, respect and esteem of all who know your record in £he chosen work of your life is without a blemish, and one which you can pass down to your children with pride.” WILL NOT GIVE UP RACING. L. A. \V. Will Continue It* Circuit— Next Meeting l*luce. PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Feb. 9.—The great question of the continued control of racing by the- League of American Wheelmen came very near being settled in short order and without debate at the meeting to-day. Only an act of courtesy on the part of one or two delegates who are strongly opposed to the giving up of racing allowed the matter to stand and gave the advocates of the proposed amendment to the constitution an opportunity to discuss the matter, which they will do this morning. The regular routine work of the assembly passed off with remarkable smoothness, with only a short debate on some of the reports and no contest whatever on the officers, so that it was not until late in the day that the spirit for debate became manifest in the discussion over the next assembly place. It took nearly two hours to decide the matter, as a very pretty three-cornered fight developed between Jacksonville, Fla., Philadelphia and Detroit. The assembly, however, decided to seek a warmer climate next year and chose Jacksonville. Then came sudtjemy on the meeting the racing quesetion. and before three-quarters of those present realized it the previous question on the motion to reject the amendments had been made and carried and the delegates were brought face to face with the main question without hearing a single speech for or against racing. The advocates of the amendments pleaded hard for delay and a chance to debate, and after a while, knowing their superiority as far as numbers were concerned and the certainty of an ultimate victory, the opponents yielded, and to-morrow the league will spend the day in discussing the whole matter. There is not the slightest doubi that the league will have charge of the racing next year, for all the opponents of the new amendments have to gather is seventy-four • oi >s, and to-day’s meeting, witn the West so.id in favor of racing, shows there are ’leaily ninety negative votes, which leaves :he advocates with considerably less than the requistie two-thirds. The result of the < ection of new officers caused great satisfaction, and the new president, Mr. Keenen, of Pittsburg, showed much ability in handling the convention during the stormy discussion of the afternoon. Sterling Elliott, of'Massachusetts, will have charge of the debate on the side of the amendments and C. J. Mears, of Ohio, and Van Valkenburg, of Wisconsin, will lead the opposition. Thomas J. Keenan, of Pittsburg, was elected president this afternoon. Herbert W. Foltz, of New Jersey, first vice president; Robert T. Kinsbury, of New Hampshire, second vice president; James W. Tattersall, treasurer; auditing committee, Howard L. Perkins, of Portland; Thomas H. Skiles, of Maryland, and Clarence S. Small, of Portland, Me. SCHLEY DISOBEYED ORDERS.

Secretury Lons’* R‘ti*on* for Recoramendintf Sampson'* Preferment. NEW” YORK. Feb. 9—A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says: “Officials of the Navy Department maintain the greatest secrecy as to Secretary Long's reply to the Senate resolutions calling upon him for an explanation of the nomination for advancement of Rear Admiral Sampson over Rear Admiral Schley. However, secret details have been obtained. The secretary received on Monday the data and explanatory remarks of the board, consisting of Captain R. D. Evans, fo-.merly commanding the Iowa; Captain .denry Taylor, commanding the Indiana; Lieut. J. H. Sears, flag lieutenant on the staff of Admiral Schley, and Ensign H. H. Ward, of the Bureau of Navigation. Though Lieutenant Sears was placed on the board as a direct representative of Admiral Schley, he made no minority report against the data which were collated by the board and furnished to the secretary. The board expressed no opinion on the case, but simply furnished information with explanations to the secretary, which he transmitted to the Senate. The most important point W'hieh the secretary makes against Admiral Schley deals with the latter’s action in signaling to the fleet to proceed to Key West atter he had received, on May 27, a dispatch from the department informing him that ail the department’s information indicated that the Spanish division was still at Santiago, and that ’the department looks to you to ascertain facts, and that the enemy, if therein, does not leave without a decisive action.’ “The secretary quotes Admiral Schley’s answer: Much to be regretted, can’t obey orders of department. Have striven earnestly. Forced to proceed for coal to Key West by way of Yucatan passage.’ The secretary shows that there was no necessity for the squadron proceeding to Key West for coal, as each vessel with Admiral Schley, with the exception of the Eagle, which had been sent to Jamaica, had sufficient coal in her bunkers to last at least six days, the lowa having on board on May 27 752 tons and the Texas at 12 o’clock on May 29 529 tons. The coaling of the squadron from the collier after Admiral Schley cabled that it was impossible to do so is referred to and the opportunity given to the enemy to escape is carefully described. The secretary believes that the department was justified in promoting Admiral Schley, but below Sampson, because of his conduct in the battle with Cervera’s fleet, but he declares his positve opinion that the commander-in-chief is entitled to the reward given him by the President.” Price of Pump* Raised. CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—The Pump Manufacturers’ Association, In session here to-day, resolved to raise the price of all pumps from 15 to 20 per cent. The reason given is that the cost of material has considerably advanced. Ninety-five per cent, of the manufacturers of the country were represented. The following officers were elected: President, S. S. Gourds, Senega Falls, N. Y.; vice president, W. F. Deling. Salem, O.; secretary and treasurer, E. H. Sleight, of Moline, 111. The Latest Tru*t. Boston Commercial Bulletin. ‘What’s dis yere copper combination dey talks of in de papers?” "Bome new move of de p’lice commission, I s’pose.” ••The White Man’* Burden." Take down the white man’s burden—this Is the boon I plead— This is the thing, I’m thinking, of which he Blands in need; The white man and the red man. the rellow and the black. All bear unwieldy burdens upon each aching back. From Phoenix. Arizona, to far-off Hindoostan. A weight of grief unmeasured bears down on every man; On every living being that breathes the breath of life, On married men and single, mother, sister, wife. This earth is full of grieving and moanings of distress; Since Adam ate the apple, all sorrow more or less, one trouble or another is ever on our track— A demon haunts our footsteps that can t be beaten back. In life’s gr<git field of battle one lesson we must learn. To take the good and evil with stoic unconcern; Since man is born to suffer, the only way, I think. To take down white men’s burden is with a pen and Ink. —Nebraska State Journal.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899.

STOCK TRADING LIGHT ♦ COUNTRY ORDERS TO BUY AT THE OPENING BROUGHT ADVANCES. Drilling* Were Len* on New York ’Change than on Any Day for Several Weeks—Local Trade at a Standstill. ♦ At New York yesotrday money on call was steady at 2% per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 2%@3 1 i per cent. Sterling exchange was strong, with actual business in bankers’ bills at $4.85%© 4.85%. for demand and at $4.83%@4.83% for sixty days; posted rates, $4.84©d.54% and [email protected]%; commercial bills. $4.82%!&4.83 , %. Silver certificates, bar silver, 59%c; Mexican dollars, 47Lc. At London bar silver was steady at 27 7-16d an ounce. Total shares of stocks, 590,300 shares, including: Atchison, 3,915; Atchison preferred, 25,140; Central Pacific, 9,755; C. & 0., 5,190; Burlington, 60,102; C., C., C. & St. L., 3,225; L. E. & W. preferred, 3,900: L. & N., 3,560; Manhattan, 9,750; Metropolitan, 11,840; Reading, 18,200; Missouri Pacific, 16,450; M., K. & T.. 3,060; M., K. & T. preferred, 11,100; Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville preferred, 8,070; New York Central, 9.049; North American, 10,700; Northern Pacific, 23,610; Ontario & Western, 500; Reading, 3,500; Rock Island, 7,930; Union Pacific, 9,504; St. Paul, 11,170; Southern Pacific, 3,420; Texas & Pacific, 28,025; Union Pacific preferred, 9,150; Tobacco, 8,590; Steel, 21,665; Steel preferred, 10,725; People's Gas, 8,595; Consumers’ Gas, 7,010; Brooklyn Transit, 21,130; Pacific Mail, 9,250; Sugar, 26,270; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 8,230; Rubber, 3,955; St. L. & S. W. preferred, 13,520; Chicago Great Western, 10,095. New York stock prices advanced yesterday except for periods of temporary hesitation, pretty generally until the last quarter of an hour, when professional pressure left many shares only slightly above Wednesday. Commission houses were said to have orders to buy iiberally if the market at the opening was weak. As it was. many commission house customers were disposed to repurchase stock recently sold. Chicago houses were credited with being sellers, while purchases and sales for foreign account were about even. Large operators were said to have purchasing orders in the specialties and traders bought for a turn. There was some evening up of accounts Loth ways, in anticipation of the holidays on Saturday and Monday. The advance brought prices up a point in many instances and above that in some cases. There was a recession in prices which was dissipated by a renewed advance, led by the coaler.-, and Burlington, the former being affected by the cold weather, which, it was assumed, would cause dealers to replenish stock, thus assuring increased traffic. The strength of the Fiower group of stocks was a proiiounceu feature. There were conspicuous advances in the standard stocks, including Pennsylvania, the Vanderbilts, the grangers. Southwestern shares, Lake Erie & Western, Twin City Rapid Transit and the industrials and specialties generally, except Tobacco, which was weak on the prospect of increased competition. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville preferred and General Electric were strong on dividend talk. The dealings for the day were less than at any time in many weeks. The closing was heavy. Transactions in bonds were on a relatively larger scale than stocks, footing up to $6.275,G0U. The great bulk of the dealings was concentrated in the speculative issues, with Kansas & Texas and Texas Pacific conditions rising sharply. The market generally displayed a strong tone, purchasing for out-of-town irterests being very extensive. United States new fours, registered, declined % 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. est. est. ing. Atchison 21% 21% 21% 21% Atchison pref 61%, 61% 60% 60% Baltimore A: Ohio 68 Canada Pacific r;

Canada Southern 61% 61% 60 60 Central Pacific f,i% Chesapeake & Ohio 29% 29% 28% 28% Chicago & Alton 17U C-. B. & Q 134 135% 133% 134% C. & E. 1 66% C. & E. I. pref us c., C„ C. & St. L 59 60 59 59% C., C., C. * St. L. pref 96 " Chicago Great Western ih Chi., Ind. & L 10% Chi., Ind. & L. pref 43 Chicago & Northwestern...l49% 149% 148% 148% Delaware & Hudson 111% D . L. & W X 59 Denver & Rio Grande I>enver & Rio Grande pref 734^ Erie 14% Erie first pref 38% Fort Wayne 173 Great Northern pref j>,4 Hocking Valley 37^ Illinois Central 115% Lake Erie & Western ” 20 Lake Erie & Western pref 66 Lake Shore ’’ 200% Louisville & Nashville 65 65% 64% 64% Manhattan 111% 112% m% m% Michigan Central 114% Missouri Pacific 44 45% 43% 44% Mo.. Kan. At Texas pref.... 38 39% 3s 35% New Jersey Central 106% 102% 106% 102 Northern Pacific 51% 52% 51% 51% Northern Pacific pref 78% 78% 78% 78% Reading 21% 22% 21% 22 Rending first pref 59% Rock Island 116% 116% 1i.5% 11;,% St- Paul 12574 126% 123% 125% St. Paul pref 168% St. Paul & Omaha 92% 92% 92% 92% St. Paul & Omaha pref p-,9 Southern Pacific 35% Texas Pacific 21% Union Pacific pref 79% 79% 79% 79% Wabash * Wabash pref 21% Wheeling A8 Lake Erie n% Wheeling & Lake Erie pref 32% EXPRESS COMPANIES. Adams Express ms American Express m U. S. Express ■ 341^ Wells-Fargo Express 125 MISCELLANEOUS. American Cotton Oil 35% American Cotton Oil pref i% American Spirits 13% 13% 13 13 American Spirits pref 35% American Tobacco 141% 141% 138% 139 American Tobacco pref 133 People’s Gas 112% 113% 111% 112% Brooklyn Transit 91% Consolidated Gas 208 Commercial Cable Cos jgg Genera! Electric 109% ill 109% ill Federal Steel 4774 Federal Steel pref 86 Lead 37 37 36% 36% Lead pref 113% Pacific Mail 52% 53 52% 52% Pullman Palace 159 Sugar 130% 131% 129% 129% Sugar pref 111% Tennessee Coal and 1r0n... 42% 42% 41% 42% U. S. Leather .... 6% U. S. Leather pref 71% 72% 71 71% V. S. Rubber 50 U. S. Rubber pref 116 Western Union 95 95 94% 95 UNITED STATES BONDS. U. S. fours, reg 112% U. S. fours, coup 112% U. S. fours, new, reg i2s% U. S. fours, new. coup 128% U. S. fives, reg 111% U. S. fives, coup iu% U. S. threes, coup 107% 'Change Closed Three Day*. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The governing; committee of the New York Stock Exchange has decided to close the ex change on Saturday and Monday, thus making a three days' Lincoln holiday. Thursday’* Bank Clearing;!*. At Chicago—Clearings, $19,522,648; balances, $2,610,427. New York exchange, 25c discount. Sterling exchange: Posted, $4.84% and $4.86%; actual, $4.83% and $4.85%; sixty days, $4.82% and $4.84%. At New York—Clearings, $194,718,927; balances, $9,359,876. At Boston—Clearings, $21,276,307; balances, $2,455,866. At Philadelphia—Gearings, $16,490,730; balances, $2,348,683. At Baltimore—Clearings, $3,533,718; balances, $345,578. At New Orleans—Clearings, $1,173,852. At St. Louis—Clearings, $4,696,458; balances, $868,586. At Cincinnati —Clearings. $2,117,600. LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Trade Rather 4suiet—Price* I 11elinnged—Sugar Unsettled. Seldom is there a day in which so little business was transacted on the wholesale streets as yesterday and the commission mercliants practically did nothing, it being too cold to ship fiuits or vegetables. Apples, oranges, poultry and eggs are all very firm at quotations, but sugar seems unsettled at the revißed quotations of Wednesday morning. The Iron and leather dealers are about the only lines that are unaffected by the severe cold spell. There were really no special features

In the local markets yesterday except the advance in eggs, shipjien? jiaying 20c a dozen. The local grain market continues fairly active, receipts of corn being large and of other cereals light. Track bids yesterday, as resorted by the secretary of the Board of Trade, ruled as follows: Wheat —No. 2 red, 7Cc: No. 3 red, 63®69e; Februatv, 70c; wagon wheat, 70c. Corn—No. 1 white, 34%c; No. 3 white tone color), 34%c; No. 4 white. 30%@32%c; No. 2 white mixed, 34%c; No. 3 white mixed. 34%0: No. 4 w hite mixed, 30%©32%c; >o. 2 yellow. 34%0; No. 3 yellow. T.4%c; No. 4 yellow. 30%©32%e; No. 2 mixed, 34%e; No. 3 mixed, 34%c; No. 4 mixed, 30%@32%c; ear corn. 33%c. Oats—No. 2 white. 31c; No. 3 white, 30%c; No. 2 mixed, 29c; No. 3 mixed, 28%0. Hay—No. 1 timothy. Is; No. 2 timothy. $6.50©7. Inspections—Wheat: No. 3 red, 4 cars. < ora: No. 3 white, 15 cars; No. 3 yellow, 5; No. 3 mixed, 5; total, 28 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers. 1 Poultry—Hens, 7c; spring chickens, 8c; cocks, 3%c: hen turkeys, young and fat, 8c; young toms, 6%c; old hens. 6c; toms, sc; ducks, sc; geese, 4c for full feathered, 3c for pluck.d; capons, fat, ltc; small, 6©Sc. Cheese —New York full cream, IOSHc; skims. C®Bc; domestic Swiss, 12%c; brick, 12c; Umburger, 10c. Butter—Choice, 10c; poor, s@7c; Elgin creamery. 21c. Eggs—2oc. 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, 20®25c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. Honey—lo©)l3c per lb. Game—Rabbits, 65©70c. Venison, 18@20c per lb. Opossum, 20©25c apiece. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides —No. 1,9 c; No. C. 8c; 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.) Caudle* and Nuts. Candies—Stick, 6%©6%e pet ib; common mixed, 6%®7c; G. A. R. mixed, 6%c; Banner twist stick, 8c; cream mixed, 9c; old-time mixed, 7c. Nuts—Soft-shelied almonds, 11(513c-; English walnuts, 9® 12c; Brazil nuts. 10c; filberts, 11c; peanuts, roasted, 7©Sc; mixed nuts, 10c. Coal and Coke. Anthracite, per ton, $7; Brazil block, $3; Island City lump, $2.75; Paragon lump, $2.75; Jackson lump. $4; Pittsburg lump. $4: C. <& O. Kanawha lump, $4; Winlfrede lump, $4; Blossburg smithing, $5; smokeless, $4; lump coke, per bushel, 10c; crushed coke, per bushel, 12e. Canned Good*. Corn, [email protected]. Peaches —Eastern standard 3-lb, $1.75® 2; 3-ib seconas, $1.25®1.5G; California standard, $2.10©2.40; Calirornia seconds, $1.75@2. Miscellaneous—Blackberries; 2-lb, 65®70c; raspberries, 3-lb, 90® 95c; pineapples, standard, 2-lb, $1.10®1.20; choice, $1.6([email protected]; cove oysters, 1-lb, full weight, 85©95c; light, 60©65c; siring bear.s, 70®) 90c; Lima beans, sl.lo® 1.20; peas, marrowfats, •sc©sl.lo; early June. 90c®$1.10; lobsters, $1.85®2; red cherries, 90e@$l; strawberries, 85@90c; salmon, 1-lb, [email protected]; 3-lb tomatoes, 90®95c. Drugt. Alcohol, $2.56®>2.68; asafetida, 20@30c; alum, 2% ©4c; camphor, 50©55c; cochineal, 50®55c; chloroform, 58©65c; copperas, brls, 75® 85c; cream tartar, pure, 50®33c; indigo, 65@b0c; licorice, Calab., genuine, 30®40c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz, 25@30c; morphine, P. & \V., per oz., [email protected]; madder, 14 ©10c; oil, castor, pet gal, $l©l.lo; oil, bet gamut, per lb, $2.25; opium, $4; quinine, P. & W., per oz, 33®>3&c; 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, St)©s6c; glycerine, 14®17e; iodide potassium, [email protected]; bromide )>otassium, 65®60c, chlorate potash, 20c; borax, 9®>l2c; cinchonida, 22 ©27c; caibollc acid, 30®32c. Oils—Linseed, 41©43c 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— Andioscoggin L, 5%c; Berkley, No. 60, 6%c; Cabot, 5%c; Capitol, 4%c; Cumberland, 5%e; Dwight Anchor, 6c; Fruit of the Loom, 6c; Farwell, 5%c; Fitehville, s Vic; Full Width, 4'Ac; Gilt Edge, 4%c; Gilded Age, 3%c; Hill, 5%c; Hope, 5%c; Linwood, 5%c; Lonsdale, 6c; Peabody, 4c; Pride of the West, 9%c; Ten Strike, 5%c; Pepperell, 9-4. 15c; Peppered, 10-4, 16%c; 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%e; Constitution. 40-incb, 6%c; Carlisle, 40-inch, 6c; Dwight's Star, 6c Great Falls E, 4%c, Great Falls J 4%c; Hill Fine, 5%c; Indian Head, 6%c; Pepperell R, 4%e; Pepperell. 10-4. 15c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 14c; Andrcscoggin, 10-4. 15%c. Prints—Allen dress styles, 4c; Allen's staples, 4c; Allen TR, 4c; Allen's robes, 4%c; American Indigo, 4c; Arnold long cloth B. 7%c; Arnold LLO, 6%c; Coeheco fancy, 4c; Cocheco madders, 4c; Hamilton fancy, 4%c; Merriniac pinks and purples. 4%c; Pacific fancy, 4%e; Simpson’s mourning, 4c; Simpson's Berlin solids, sc; Simpson’s oil finish, 6c; American shirting, 3%c; black white, 3%c; grays, 3%c. Ginghams—Amoskeag staples, sc; Amoskeag Persian dress, 6c; Bates Warwick dress, 5%c; Lancaster, sc; Normandies, 6c; Renfrew dress styles, 6c. Kid-fnlshed Cambrics —Edwards, 3o; Warren, 2%c; Slater, 3c; Genesee, 3c. Grain Bags—Amoskeag, sl4; American, sl4; Harmony, $13.50; Stark, sl6. Tickings—Amoskeag AOA, 9c; Conestoga BF, ll%e; Cordis, 140, 9%c; Cordis FT, 9%c; Cordis ACE, 9%c; Hamilton awnings, 8c; Kimono fancy, 17c; Lenox fancy. 18c; Muthuen AA, 9%c; Oakland AF, 5%c; Portsmouth, 10%c ; : Susquehanna, ll%c; ShetucketSSr,W r , 5%c; Shetucket F, 6c; Swift River, 4%c. Flour. Straight grades, $4.50©4.75; fancy grades. $5.75© 6.25; patent flour, [email protected]; low grades, $2.75©3.75; spring wheat patents, $6.50®6.75. Groceries. Sugars—City Prices—Dominoes, 5.50 c; cut-loaf, 5.75 c; jiowdered, 5.38 c; XXXX powdered, 5.50 c; standard granulated, 5.25 c; fine granulated, 6.2.',c; granulated—five-pound bags, 5.3ic; extra fine granulated. 5.38 c; coarse granulated, 5.38 c; cubes, 5.38 c; mold A, 5.50 c: diamond A, 5.31 c; confectioners' A, 5.13 c; I ( oiumb.a A—Keystone A, 4.88 c; 2 Windsor A—American A. 4.sxe: 3 Ridgewood A— Centennial A, 4.88 c; 4 Phoenix A —California A, 4.81 c; 5 Empire A —Franklin B, 4.75 e; 6 Ideal golden ex. C—Keystone B, 4 69c; 7 Windsor ex. C —American B, 4.63 c; 8 Ridgewood ex. C—Centennial B, 4.56 c; 9 yellow ex. O—California B, 4.50 c; 10 yellow C—Franklin ex. C, 4.50 c; 11 yellow —Keystone ex. (\ 4 44c; 12 yollow—American ex. C, 4.44 c; 13 yellow"—Centennial ex. C, 4.44 c; 14 yellow—California ex. C, 4.44 c; 15 yellow, 4.44 c; 16 yellow, 4.44 c. Coffee—Good, 10@12c; prime, 12® 14c; strictly prime, 14®16c; fancy green and yellow, 18©22c; Java, 28©;!2c. Roasted—Old government Java, 32V®33c; Golden Rio, 24c; Bourbon Santos, 24c; Gilded Santos, 24c; prime Santos, 23c. Package coffee—city prices—Ariosa, lie; Lion. 10c; Jersey, 10.65 c; Caracas, 10 50c: Dutch Java blend. 13c; DUlworth’s, 11c; King Bee. lie; Mail Pouch, lie. Flour Sacks (paper)—Plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $3.50; 1-16 brl, $5; % brl, SS; % brl, sl6; No 2 drab, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $4.25; 1-16 brl, $6.5); % brl, $10; Vi 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©85c; small lots, 90®95c. Spices—Pepper, I2@18c; allspice, 15© 18c; cloves, 18©)25c; cassia, 15©18c; nutmegs, 65©75c per lb. Beans—Choice hand-picked navy, [email protected] per bu: Limas. California, 4V'2©4>ic per lb Woodenware —No. 1 tubs, $5.75®6; No. 2 tubs, $4.75®5; No. 2 tubs, $3.75©4; 3-hoop pails, $1.40©) 1.50; 2-hoop pails, $1.20®1.25; double washboards, [email protected]; common washboards, $1.25©!.50; clothes pins, 50© 60c per box. Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 28®33c; choice, 35©40e: svrups, 18© 35c Shot—st.3o©l.3s per hag for drop. Lead—6%@7c for pressed bars. Twine —Hemp, 12©18c per lb; wool, 8®10c: flax, 20©20c; paper, 25c; jute. 12@fl.*c; cotton, 18@25e. Wood Dishes—No. 1, ler 1.0(H). $2®2.25; No. 2, $2.25©2.50: No. 3. $2.50©2.75; No. 5. $3©>3.25. Rice—Louisiana, 4%©6%c; Carolina, 6%@8%c. Iron un(l Steel. Bar Iron —1.50® 1.60 c; horseshoe bar. 2%@2%c; nail rod, 7c; plow slabs, 2%c; American cast steel, 9@lle; tire seel, 2%@3c; spring steel, 4% @sc. Lentlter. Leather—Oak sole, 27©30c; hemlock sole, 24© 26c; harness, 32® 37c; skirting, 38@42c; single strap, 38®41c; city kip, 60®85c; French kip, 90o© $1.20; city calfskin, 90c@$1.10; French calfskin, [email protected]. Nail* anti Hor*e*ltoe*. Steel cut nails, $1.75; wire nails, from store, $1.90(02 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 Vegetables. Apples—Common, $3; good, $4; fancy, $4.50. New Tomatoes—s3.so per 6-basket crate. Grapes—Malaga grains, $6.75 per brl. Lettuce—ll© 12%c per lb. Figs—California, <1.65 per box; mat figs, B®9c. Cranberries —[email protected] per brl; [email protected] per crate. Oranges—Caliioinia navels, $2.73©3. Lemons—Messina, choice. 360 to box, $3.50; fancy, $4. Bananas —Per bunch. No. 1, $1®1.75. Coeoanuts —50c per doz. Lima Beans—sc per !b. Potatoes—soc per bu; red, $1.50 per brl. Sweet Potatoes—Jersey sweets, $i bu; brl, $3; Illinois, $2 brl; 70c bu. Cabbage—Holland seed, $1.50 per 100 lbs; homegrown. 75c© $1 per brl. Onions—sl7s per brl; Spanish onions, $1.50 Turnips—7s©9oc rer brl. Parsnips—sl 50 per brl. Celery—Michigan and northern Indiana. 39®40c. per bunch; California. 40©<5c. Honey—White, 15c per lb; dark, 12c per lb. Cider—s4.so per brl; half brl, $2.50. Provision*. Hams—Sugar-cured, 18 to 20 lbs average, BU<g) 9%c; 15 lbs average, S%@9Vc; 12 lbs average, '5% Bacon—Clear sides, 40 to 50 lbs average, 6%c----30 to 40 lbs average, 6%c: 20 to 30 lbs average.’ 6%c; bellies. 25 lbs average, 6%c; is to 23 n, s average, 6%c; 14 to 16 lbs average, 7%c. Cleur backs. 18 to 22 lbs average, 6%c; 14 to IS lbs average, 6%c; Bto 10 lbs average. 6%c. j n r y Uo less. .shoulders—lß to 20 lbs average, 5%c; 15 lbs average. 6c; 10 to 12 lbs average. 6%c. Lard—Kettle-rendered, 7c; pure lard, 6%c. Pork—Bean, clear, sl3; rump, $10.60. seed*. Clover—Choice, $3.75; prime. *3.50; English choice. $3.25© 3.50; alsike, choice, allalfa. choice. $4.25© 4.50: crlmsun or scarlet clover. $2.75©3: timothy, 45 lbs, prime, $1.10®i.20, light prime. $1.20©1.25; choice, $1.25®1.30; tancy Kentucky, 14 lbs. $1.15; extra clean, 60®75c; orchard grass, extra, [email protected]: red top, choice, 80c ©51.40, English bluegrass, 24 lbs. $1.15®1.75; German millet, sl®l 25; Western millet, 60©$5c; common millet. 40® 60c.

CROP DAMAGE STORIES * - ♦- THE I\FLIE\CE THAT CAISED A SMART ADVANCE IN WHEAT. * Receipts Fulling; Off Dnrlntt tlie Cold Spell and Winter Crop Said to Be l’oorly I-'roteeted--Corn Was Lower. * CHICAGO. Feb. 9.—Cold weather to-day and crop damage theories controlled the price of wheat. May, at one time during the session, got l%c above yesterday's final figures, but realizing caused a setback and the net gain at the end was %c. Corn and oats led off at a slight decline. Pork lost 10 ©I2V.sC, lard sc, and ribs 2%@5c. Intensely cold weather, which created fresh fears for the winter plant, started wheat strong. May opened %©>4C higher, at 73%@T3%c, touched 73%c, then proceeded to modify the with which it began. Apart from the weather considerations the early news was by no means striking, ar.d even in that respect the Price Current made somewhat light of the supposed damage, remarking that late Southwestern wheat was doubtless more or less damaged, but otherwise the outlook was still promising. Northwestern receipts were comparatively light, Minneapolis and Duluth reporting 310 cars, against 415 the corresponding day of last year. Chicago received 80 cars, compared with 89 a year ago. Liverpool was firm, while, on the other hand, Paris reported a sharp decline in February wheat and unchanged for later deliveries. Local interests were persistently against the advance and after touching 73%c near the start, May wheat gradually sold dow r n to 72%c. At that point, however, the market began to show’ considerable strength, as the West and Southwest continued to send reports of serious damage to the winter plant. To add emphasis to this news, St. Louis sent heavy buying orders, and May rose quickly to 74%c. On the bulge, however, considerable long wheat was for sale and May slipped off to Atlantic port clearances were equal, in wheat and flour, to 629,000 bushels. Primary receipts were 454,00 u bushels, compared with 429,000 bushels last year. The market closed steady with May bringing 73VaC sellers. Under free offerings by several prominent houses, which met a slow demand, corn developed a lower tendency. Country offerings continued light, although receipts of 4aß cars were in excess of the estimates. May opened %©%c higher, at 37%c, firmed up to 3i Vs'a.'PTie, gold off to 3u-> s ©3ti%c and closed at 36“4©36%c buyers. In the absence of any sort of independent motive, oats followed corn. Receipts were 175 cars. May began a shade higher at 2S%c, declined to 28 Vs®2Bl4c and closed at 28%c. A good export demand for meats and higher prices at the yards started provisions strong. The market subsequently eased off, however, on selling cf pork and ribs by packers. May pork opened 2%c higher, at $10.20® 10.22V2, and declined to SIO.OP/i, the closing price. The range in lard and ribs was very small. Estimates to-morrow—Wheat, 83 cars; corn, 475 cars; oats, 140 cars; hogs, 19,000 head. Leading futures ranged as follows: Oi>en- High- Low- ClosArticles. ing. eat. est. ing. WheatMay.... 73%-73% 74% 72*4 73>4 July.... 71=8-72 73 71% 72%-72% CornMay.... 37‘4 37V8-37>4 3fi%-36% 36%-30% July.... 37% 37% 37 -37 % 37% Sept.... 37% 37%-37% 37% 37%-37% Oats— May.,.. 28% 28% 2R%-28% 28% July.... 20% 26% 26% 26% PorkMay.... $10.20 $10.22% $10.07% $10.07% LardMay.... 5.77% 5.77% 5.70 5.72% July 6.82% Sept.... 6.00 6.00 5.92% 5.92% Rite— May 5.10 5.10 5.02% 5.05 July.... 5.17% 5.17% 5.15 6.15 Sept.... 5.30 5.30 5.27% 5.27% Cash quotations were as follows: Flour dull and neglected. No. 2 spring wheat, 67@71%c; No. 3 spring wheat, 64©71%c: No. 2 red. 72073 c. No. 2 corn, 35%#35%c; No. 2 yellow, 35%@30%c. No. 2 oats, 28c; No. 2 white. 30%@31c: No. 3 white, 30# 3014 c. No. 2 rye, 55%@55%c. No. 2 barley, 51c. No. 1 flaxseed, $1.15; Northwestern. $1.19. Prime timothy seed, $2.40© 2.42%. Clover seed, contract, $6.23; March, $6.30. Mess pork, per brl, $9.9009.95. Lard, per 100 lbs, $5.52%@5.57%. Shcrt-rib sides (loose), $4.7504.95; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), $4.25© 4.37%; short-clear sides (boxed), $5.0605.15. Whisky, distillers’ finished goods, per gal, $1.25. Receipts—Flour, 13,000 brls; wheat. 98,000 bu; corn. 578.100 bu; oats, 27,9,000 bu; rye, 5,000 bu; barley, 47,000 bu. Shipmnets—Flour, 15,000 brls; wheat, 7.000 bu; corn, 194.000 bu; oats, 191,000 bu; rye, 3,000 bu; barley, 4,000 bu. ♦ AT NEW YORK. Ruling' l’ricc* in Produce at the Seahoard's Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK. Feb. 9.-Flour—Receipts. 12.485 brls; exiwrts, 32,140 brls. Market neglected, but held steady, widening still further the gap between buyers and sellers; -winter straights, $3.40# 3.70; Minnesota patents, S4O 4.25. Corn meal steady; yellow Western, 83@S4e. Rye quiet; No. 2 Western, 65c, f. o. b. afloat. Barley malt steady; Western, 60®70c. Wheat—Receipts, 22,400 bu; exi>orts, 119,285 bu. Spot firm; No. 2 red, 83%@84%c, f. o. b. afloat. Options opened stronger on weather news. In fact, this item and the oversold condition of traders was largely responsible for all of the strength which followed later in the day. St. Louis sent most of the crop damage stories. In addition Liverpool closed strong and damage reports came from Russia. Late in the afternoon prices broke under realizing and closed unsettled at %©%<• net advance. Sales included; No. 2, March, 8(%®80%c, closed at 80%c. Corn —Receipts. 17,550 bu; exports, 92.492 bu. Spot firm; No. 2. 43%@43%c, f. o. b. afloat. Options firm early in the day on g<x>d export demand and sympathy with wheat, closing a little easy from realizing at unchanged prices; May, 41 7-16® 41%c, closed at 41%c. Oats—Receipts. 19,200 bu; exports, 1,925 bu. Spot steady; No. 2,34 a 4c; No. 2 white, 36%c. Options dull. Tallow firm; city. 4%c. Cotton-seed oil steady; prime, 2". c. Coffee—Options opened steady and unchanged to 5c lower, but later rallied on light local buying, broadening warehouse movement and absence of selling pressure; foreign markets sent conflicting cables; statistical situation about unchanged; outside public manifested utmost indifference; closed steady and unchanged to 5 points lower. Sales. 16,500 bags, including: March, 5.50 c; April, 5.60 c: May, 5.65 c; September. 5.90 c; October, 5.90 c; November. 5.95© 6c; December. 6.10®6.15c. Spot coffee—Rio dull and easy; No. 7. invoice 6%e, jobbing 7c. Mild dull: Cordova. 7%@14e. Sugar—Raw' firm; fair refining, 313-16 c; centrifugal. 96 test, 4 5-16 c; molasses sugar, 39-16 c, Sales, 616 bags muscovado at 313-16 c. Refined steady. TRADE IN GENERAL. quotations at St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati anti Other Place*. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9.—Flour quiet, steady and unchanged. Wheat—Options strong and higher. Spot dull; No. 2 red, cash, elevator, 74c; track. 74®75c; February, 74c; May. 76%c asked; July, 71%e asked; No. 2, bard, 66%®67%c. Corn—Options easy. Spot nominal; No. 2. cash. 34%c; track, 34%®35c; February, 34%c; May, 34%c bid; July, 35%c. Oats —Options fractionally higher. Spot steady; No. 2, cash. 28%c; track, 28%c; February, 28%c; May, 29%c; No. 2 white, 30%c. Rye firm at 65%c. Flaxseed quiet at $1.11%. Prime timothy seed nominal. Corn meal, $1 [email protected]. Bran firm; sacked, east track. 58c. Hay dull, but steady; timothy, $7.5009; prairie, $7. Whisky steady at 31.26. Butter firm; creamery, 18@22o; dairy, 13® 16c. Eggs higher at 19c. Cotton ties, 60c; bagging higher at 5%@6%c. Pork steady; standard mess, jobbing, old. $9.25; new, $lO. Lar.l steady; prime steam. $5.35; choice. $5.45. Dry-salt meats—Boxed shoulders, $4; extra shorts. $4.75; ribs, $5; shorts, $5.12%. Bacon- Boxed shoulders, $4.62%; extra shorts, $5.25; ribs, $5.50; shorts, $5.62%. Receipts—Flour, 6,00 brls; wheat. 16.000 bu; corn, 46,000 bu; oats, 25.000 bu. Shipments— Flour. 6,0n0 brls; wheat. 22,000 bu; com, 15,000 bu; oats, 29.000 bu. BALTIMORE, Feb. 9.—Flour dull and unchanged; receipts. 3.651 brls; exports. 14.202 brls. Wheat firmer; s;ot and month, 75%®75%c; March, 76%®76%c; steamer No. 2 red. 72%®73e; receipts, 39,900 bu; exports. 16.000 bu; Southern wheat by sample, 70®76c; Southern wheat on grade. 72\® 75%c. Corn steady; spot and month, 39@39%c; March, 39%®29%c; steamer mixed. 37%®S8e; receipts, 178,154 bu; exports. 68,571 bu; Southern white and yellow corn, 37@39%c. Oats quiet; No. 2 white. 3536 c; No. 2 mixed. 33@33%c; receipts. 19,455 bu; exports. 102.857 bu. Butter steady and unchanged. Fggs flint and unchanged. Cheese steady and unchanged. CINCINNATI, Felt. 9.—Flour quiet. Wheat firm and higher; No. 2 red, 74%c. Corn easy: No. 2 mixed. 35%c. Oats firm; No. 2 mixed. 30%c. Rye firm; No. 2. 63c l>ard steady at 85.40. Bulk meats firm at $4.95. Bacon dull at $5.75. Whisky steady at *1.26. Butter quiet and firm. Sugar steady. Eggs firm and higher at 17c. Cheese firm. TOLECO, Feb. 9.—Wheat higher and easy; No. 2. cash. 730: May, 73%c. Coin active and steady; No. 2 mixed, 35%c. Oats dull, but steady: No. 2 mixed, 29c. Rye dull, but steady; No. 2. cash 56c bid. Clever seed higher and steady; prime! cash, old. $3.71; new. cash and February, $4.05. MINNEAPOLIS. Feb. 9.—Wheat dull; February. 71%c; July, 72%c; cn track, No. 1 hard, 72c; No. 1 Northern. 71c; No. 2 Northern. 68c! There was moderate business in flour; first pat-

ents, $3.70®3.80; second patents. $3.5004.60; first clear, $2.6.'©2.75. Uran unchanged. flutter, Eggs nntl (hee*e. NEW YORK. Feb. 9.—Butter—Receipts. 2.772 packages. Market firm; Western creamery, 15% ©2o%c; Elgin*. 20%c; factory. 11%@14e. Cheese— Receipts. 926 packages. Market steady; large white. 10%e: small white. ll@ll%c: large colt red, 10%c; small colored. ll@ll%c. Eggs—Fieccii ts, 5,587 packages. Maiket firm; Western, 21c; Southern, 19©2Cc. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 9—Butter steady; creamery. 16©20c: dairy, 15c. Eggs—Receipts light and a firm feeling prevailed. There Is some surplus rtock; fresh Kansas and Missouri stock higher at 16c a dozen. CHICAGO. Feb. 9.—On {he Produce Exchange to-dav the butter market was firm; creamery, 14®20c; dairy, 11 ©l7c. Eggs steady; fresh, 20c. Cheese unchanged. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 9.—Butter firmer; fancy Western creamery, 20%c; fancy We tern prints, 21c. Eggs firm and lc higher; fiesh Western, 20c. Cheese tiim. Metal*. NEW YORK. Feb. 9—At the close the Metal Exchange called pig iron warrants firm at $' 50. Lake copper strong at 17.75 c bid and 18c asked. Tin unsettled at 2.i.250 bid and 23.35 c asked. Lead unsettled and nominal at 4.50 c. Spelter firm at 6c bid and 6.103 asked. The brokers' price for lead is 4.30 c and for copper 18@18%e. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9.—Lead lower at 4.SOc. Spelter firm at S.BCc. Oil*. WILMINGTON. Feb 9.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 42©42%c bid. Rosin firm at 90@95c bid. Crude turpentine quiet at $1.35®2.40. Tar steady at sl. OIL CITV, Feb. 9.—Credit balances, $1.15; certificates. no bids; shipments, 54,475 brls; runs, 76,937 brls. SAVANNAH, Feb. 9.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 42%e. Rosin firm and unchanged. Dry Good*. NEW YORK. Feh. 9—The demand for both staple and fancy cotton goods to-day has been above recent average. Mall orders have been liberal and spot business better than on previous riavs of the week. Bujers complain of increasing difficulty in securing ready supplies, even at full advanced prices. Tone of market very strong, with no check to the general upward tendency. Leading makes of 4-4 bleached cottons likely to move up still further shortly. Men’s wear woolens in fair demand. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9.—Cotton steady; sales, 2,000 bales; ordinary, 4 5-16 c; good ordinary, 4%c; low middling. 5%c; middling, 5%c; good middling. 6%c; middling fair, 6%c; receipts, 2,339 bales; stock, 457,031 bales. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Cotton quiet; middling, 6 7-16 c. Dried Fruit*. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—California dried fruits firm; evai>orated apples, common. 7@Bc; prime wire tray, s%@9c; choice, 9%©9%c; fancy, 9*@loc. Prunes, 4@loc. Apricots—Royal, ll®14c; Moor Bark, 13017 c. Readies— Unpeeied, 9011 c; peeled, 23@20c. LIVE STOCK. Cuttle Scarce and Stronger—Hop;* Active and Higher-Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 9.—Cattle—Receipts, 306, shipments light. There was only a fair supply. The demand was good at stronger prices on all grades. Exports, good to choice 5 55 Fillers, medium to good 4.0® e.oo Killers, common to fair 4.00® 4.40 Feeders, good to caoice 4,(X)<s 4.40 Stockers, common to good 3 06® 4.00 Heifers, good to choice 3.90® 4.25 Heifers, fair to medium 3. o® 3.80 Heifers, common and light 3.ov® 3.2. Cows, good to choice 3.60® 4.0) Cows, fair to medium 3.000 Cows, common and old f-j™™ " * eals. good to choice 5.00® 6.W Veals, common to medium 3.00® 4.;>0 Bulls, good to choice 3.50® 4.00 \iulls. common to medium 2.50© 3.25 Milkers, good to choice 35.0004 E Milkers, common to medium [email protected] Hogs—Receipts, 3,000; shipments, 1,500. The maiket opened active, with packers and shippers buying at from 2%c to 5c stronger prices, and closed firm, with all sold. Heavies .....$3.85®3.95 Mixed [email protected] Lights [email protected]% Pig H 3.2503.70 Roughs 3.10© 3.65 Sheep and Lambs—Receipts light; shipments none. There were scarcely enough here to establish a range in prices. The market was considered steady. Sheep, good to choice $3.i>0®4.00 Sheep, fair to medium 3.2003.50 Stockers, common to medium 2.00®3.00 Bucks, per head [email protected] Spring lambs, good to choice 4.25®0.00 Spring lambs, common to medium 3.26®4.00 Elsewhere. CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—The few cattle on sale to-day were taken quite readily, it being too cold for buyers and sellers to waste any time in discussing prices; fancy cattle, $5.90®6.10; choice steers, [email protected]; medium steers, $4.80®5.10; beef steers, [email protected]; stockers and feeders. $3.300 4.75; bulls, $2.7504.25; cows and heifers, $3.30(8)4; West-ern-fed steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, $3.50®5.10; calves, $5®7.26. Trade in hogs was brisk at an average advance of sc; fair to choice. [email protected]; packing lots, $3.60 @3.77%; mixed. [email protected]; butchers, [email protected]; light, $3.60©3.87%; pigs, [email protected]. There was a good demand for sheep and the market ruled firm at unchanged prices; poor to prime sheep, $2.. 00 4.50. principally at $3.50®4.50; ewes, $3.26©4. chiefly at $3.60© 3.95; yearlings. $4.15 @4.55; p.K>r to prime lambs, s4©s, chiefly at s4‘Bo ©4.95. Receipts—Cattle, 7,000; hogs, 27.000; sheep, 10,000. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 9.—Cattle— Receipts, 3,660 natives and BCO Texans. Light supply and good demand advanced prices on best grades of slaughtering cattle about 10c, while common lightweight unfinished stock sold about steady; heavy native steers, [email protected]; medium. $4.5005.40; light weights, $4.3006; stockers and feeders, $3.50®4.75; butcher cows and heifers, $304.25; earners, $2.25 @3; Western steers. $3.7505; Texans, S3.GO@S. Hogs-Receipts. 10,560. Light supply, with good general demand from packers and shippers at 5® 10c advance in prices: heavies, [email protected]; mixed, [email protected]; lights. [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts. 1,670. Moderate supply of very good qualltv; trade was brisk at steady prices; lambs, $4.50©0; muttons, $3.5004.20; feeding sheep, [email protected]; stockers, $203.25. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9.—Cattle— Receipts, 6.000, including 2,500 Texans. Maiket steady; fair to fancy native shipping and export steers, $4.66® 6.lo,'bulk at [email protected]; dressed beef and butcher steers. [email protected], bulk at. $4.2r,©6.i0); steers under 1,000 lbs, $3©4.80. bulk at $3.30©4 60; stockers and feeders, [email protected], bulk at $3.26@ 1.40; cows and heifers, [email protected], bulk of cows. $2.1603.80: Texas and Indian steers. s3©-5, bulk at $3.2504.70; cows and heifers, $2 4003.60. Hogs—Receipts. 7,900. Market strong to Sc higher; pigs and lights, $3.6503.75; packers, $3.60® 3.90; butchers, $3.2503.95. Sheep—Receipts, 1.800. Native muttons. $404.25; stockers, $2.7503; culls and bucks, $1.7503.50; lambs, $4.75©5.25. NEW YORK, Feb. 9 —Beeves—Receipts, 288; no sales; feeling steady. Cables quote American cattle lower at ll@U%c; tops, ll a 4o; refrigerator bef, 8%0. No exports to-day. Calves—Receipts, 272. Veals firm, other calves steady; three cars of Westerns unsold; veals, $5.5008; Westerns. $3.75. Hogs—Receipts, 3,663. Market firm at [email protected]. Sheep steady; lambs firm to 5c higher; sheep, fair to prime, $404.50; lambs, good to prime, $5.50 @5.65 CINCINNATI. Feb. 9 —Cattle steady at $2.5005. Hogs active and higher at $3.35®4. Sheep steady at $2.2504.25; lambs dull and lower at $405.25. SALES OF HEAL ESTATE. Seven Transfer*, with n Total Consideration of $18,500. Instruments filed for record in the recorder’s office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twentyfour hours ending at 5 p. m. Feb. 9, 1899, as furnished by Theo. Stein, abstracter of titles, corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, Indianapolis, Suite 229, first office floor. The Ijemcke. Telephone 1760: Thomas R. Hubbartt (trustee) to Eliza J. Hubbartt et ah. part of Lot 1, Martindale & Co.’s addition SI,OOO Thomas R. Hubbartt (trustee) to Everett H. Miller, part of Lot 1, Martindale & Co.’s addition 1.200 Columbus N. Hamilton to Edgar Pugh, Lot 19. Hadley’s Grandview addition 2,560 William J. Roach to James E. Miller and wife, Lot 10, I6quare IS. Lincoln Park addition 3,000 Frank R Waters to William F. Kuhn, Lots 100 and 101, Yeiser (guarJlan’s) addition 2,500 Albert W. Wishard to William N. Wishard, Lot 8, Gtlh'sple’s subdivision of Square 8.. 7,500 Austin J. Morris to Ada B. Smith, Lot 114, Johnson & Hogshire’s East Washingtonstreet addition 800 Transfers, 7; consideration .....$18,500 Pension* for Veleran*. Certificates have been Issued to the fol-lowing-named Indianians: Original—William S. Huss, Blackford, sl2. Additional—Jacob K. Smith, River Vale, $6 to sl<). Supplemental—Willis Miller, Indianapolis, $2. Restoration and Supplemental—Edward Johnson (deceased). Igansport, $lO. Restoration. Reissue and Increase —Martin V. Sipe (deceased), Saratoga, sl2 to sl6. Increase—Nicholas Katzenbach, Terre Haute, sls to sl7; Jacob Rhein, Fort Wayne, $lO to sl2; Samuel H. Wheeler. Montezuma, $8 to $10; John Miller, Newville, $6 to $10; Thomas M. Small. Lebanon. sl2 to sl6; Elijah Hopper. National Military Home, Marion. $6 to $8; Arthur Helton, Brazil, sl2 to sl7; Thomas E. Hamilton, Williamsport, $6 to sl7; William Ginde(sparger. Kendall vtlte, $8 to $10; W illiam J. Pool, North Vernon, sl2 to sl4; James Quinn, Columbia City, $lO to sl7; Robert Joliiff, Mount Carmel, $lO to sl4; John A. Mathewe, Jeffersonville, $lO to

sl4; Henry Chaney. Martz. $8 to $10; Charles Stigner, Wawaka. $6 to $lO. Reissue—David Peters, Roann, $6. Reissue and Increase— Snedekcr, Soldiers' Home, Lafayette, $6 to SB. Original Widows, etc.— Maria J. Helmick, Kokomo. $8; Elizabeth K. Hakethorn, Atkinsville, $8; (reissue) Alice Huffman, Elwood. sl2; (reissue) Mary Feely (mother), Daleville. sl2. Mexican War Survivor—(lncrease) John Caliahan, Indianapolis, $x to sl2. VITAL STATISTICS—FEB. 9. * Ilirth*. Fred Bremer and wife. Sherman Drive, girl. Rose and Ora Van Winkle, 724 Harrison street, girl. Ollle and Sydney McKay, 1212 West Eugene Street, gill. Saiah and Edgar Cawley, 403 North Illinois street, boy. I.uella and Thomas J. Culley, 1285 Silver avenue. girl. Salffe and R. A. West, 1303 Brookslde avenue, boy. Pella and Charles Burkle. 40 Oxford street, girl. Louise and Will Battle, 1332 Southeastern avenue. girl. Maggie and C. J. Roberts. 936 West Washington street, boy. Dentil*. Zoe Gollihoe, thirty-five years, city, cerebral abscess. Michael Murphy, eleven years, 624 South Missouri street, obstruction of bowels. Kate Hendrickson, twenty-six years, 913 Chadwick street, conaumption. Howard Toole, six years, 125 Decatur street, scarlet fever. John Matthews, forty-nine years, 2924 Cornell avenue, heart disease. Catherine Walker, twenty-four years, 510 Blake street, consumption. Mary K. Ruhlman, thirty-eight years, 745 East Market street, exhaustion. Sophia Warmeling, sixty-seven years, 727 Madison avenue, bronchitis. Marriage License*. Henry A. Niemann and Margaret C. Weis. William O. Simpson and Hitchcock. Edgar W. Bailey and Gertrude M. Forrest. John Franklin Slevin and Louise Raab. saws'AND MILL SCPPUBL^^ E. C. ATKINS & C - C#l \l/C Manufacturers and Re- \\ pairers of all kinds of Olfice and Factory, Soutj and Illinois Streets India nil pol I*. Ind. £2 I li7C BELTING and O A W EMERY WHEELS SPECIALTIES OF W. B. Barry Saw and Supply Cos 132 S. PENN. BT. All kinds of Saws repaired. THEODORE STEIN. ABSTRACTER of TITLES Corner Market and Pennsylvania street* 1 indlanapjlls. Suite 229, First Office Fioo„. *’Th Lemcke.*’ Telephone 1760. DR. C. I. FLETCHER, RESIDENCE—IO23 North Pennsylvania street. OFFICE—7I3 South Meridian street. Office Hours—9 to 10 a. m.; 2 to 4 p. m.; 7 to $ p. m. Telephones—Office, 907: residence, 427. Dr. W. B. Fletcher’s SANATORIUM Mental and Nervous Dlsenses. 218 NORTH ALABAMA STREET. DR. WILLIAM F. CLF:VENGER, 229 N. Penn. st. Phone 2503. THROAT. NOSE nnd FAR. pirn j SEALsm\ ISTENCILS .STAMPS, FREE BADGES.CHECKS &C. Union Stock Yards R. R. Slilel A Co.’s Antl-Tru*t Live Stuck Market Report. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9, 1899. We had good receipts, about one-fourth of all hogs here to-day. The market was strong, especially on light weights. We could have used all the hogs here if the Trust would have sold them to us. Our customers in the East who have been getting their orders filled in Cleveland, Buffalo and Pittsburg, will have to go West for the next three months when we can’t get them here. All shippers east of St. Louis and south of Chicago can make money by billing their hogs to ua, as our freights are six cents less than St. Lout*, and two cents less than Chicago. We have about all the parties that buy in St. Louis and Chicago as our customers and will have us buy here when we can get them. Always ship your stock where the expenses are the lowest, and where It costa less to get the stock to the consumer. Why ship vour stock west to St. Louis or north to Chicago and go IUO or 200 miles out of the direct route, and pav 7c to 15c more freights, when you can ship the shortest and direct route and save freights and time. We are one day quicker in time than St. Louis and twelve hours less than Chicago. Any shipper in Illinois and western Indiana who ships to St. Louis or Chicago is surely one dav longer in getting to Boston, New York or Baltimore than it is to ship here. We will guarantee our prices for the next three months equal to Chicago, and more than the difference in freights over St. Louis. Then there is 2%0 saved on commission, as you have to pay $6 for having your stock sold in those markets, and only $3 if billed to us. We quote: 250 to 350 average at $3.90 to $3.95. and 200 to 230 at $3.85 or $3.90, and 160 to 190 at $3.75 to $3.85. Pigs and light Yorkers. $3.55 to $3.70. Consign your hogs to us or come in and give us a show to buy them. We cannot get too many for the next three months.

n AIL HO AD TIME TABLE. ON and after Sunday, Nov. 20. 1898, trains will run as follows: (Central Standard Time.) All trains enter 1 INION RAILWAY STATION. —' M. Time in Black Face Figures.— Trains marked thus: Dy—Daily. S—Sleeper, P—Parlor Car, C—Chair Car, D—Dining Car. CLE\E.. CIS., CHI. A ST. LOUS R’Y. Cleveland Division—Blur Four. DEPART; ARRIVB New York ex, dy s. 4:23 U City A W ac, dy. 9:25 Muncle & B H ex.. 6:35 S'wst’n 11m, dy, and s.ll:?0 Cleveland mail 10:60 B.H. A Muncle ex 3:10 And’on ii 8 H ex..ll:l6iCleveland ex. 0:00 UC4W ac, dy.. 4.50 B.H. & And'n ex. 5:45 Knlck’b'r, dy, ands. 41:25 N. Y. ex. dy, 5...10:50 St. Louis Division—Hlk Four. St Louis expr 7:30| New York ex, dy, s. 4:05 S'wst’n litn, dy, and 8.11:45j Mat A T H acc 10:30 T. H. A Mat. ac.. 4:30 St. Louis express..s:4o T H A Mat acc. Kn'kb'r sp, and s.dy 6:10 Sunday only 6:15 1 NY & StL ex.dy sll:20< Cincinnati Division—Bl Four. Cincinnati fl, dy s. 3:45, Greensburg acc 9:00 St L & Cln f 1, dy, s 4:15: Cin'ti acc, dy 11:16 Cincinnati accom... 7:00| C & St L mail, dy Cincinnati accom...lo:sfij and sand p... 11:40 Cincinnati dy p....2:45 Chi. Lim., p 4:15 Greensburg acc... S:3O;CInA Index, p... 4i:40 C’tl A Wash. F. L, C IAStL ex, dy s.l 1:05 dy, and, sand p... 41:20! Chicago dy a 11:50 Louisville Line. Louisv f 1 dy s 3:45; Louisv f 1 dy 5...11:50 Louisv day expr...2:45 Louisv day expr...11:40 Clilcuko Division—Bi|g Four. Lafayette accom.... 7:10; Cln f 1, dy, s 3:30 Chi f m, dy, and p... .11:45 Lafayette acc0m...10:30 Cht. Lim, and p 4:15 Cln mull,p and, dy. 2:35 Lafayette acc 5:15 Lafayette acc 5:45 Chi F I/, dr s 12:05 C’tl & Wash, dp. 41:10 Michigan Division—Bi(c Four. Benton Harbor ex.. 6:35! Wabash acc, dy.... 9:25 Mich mall and ex..11:15) B.Harbr m'l ex... 3:10 Wabash acc, dy.. 4:50! Michigan expr — 8:45 Peoria Dlv.. West—Big; Fonr. Peoria ex and mall. 7:25 : Col & ("In ex. dy, a. 3:30 West'n ex, dy, p.. .1! :4. r \ Champaign accom..lo:2o Champaign acc... 4:35 N.Y. ex & ma 11... 2:42 Peoria ex. dy, 5..11:J5 Peoria ex. dv. p.. 6?1 Peorln Dlv.. East-Uiir Four. Columbus express.. 5:10 Springfield expr 11:35 Sp'field & Col. ex.3:20 Columbus expr... 10:40 PITTS., ( IS., CHI. A ST. LOI IS R’Y. Indluunpolls Division—Penna Line. Eastern ex, dy, 5... 5:50 Fast ex, dy 7:55 Fast ex, dy 8:25 Llm'u mail, dy s d.8:05 Columbus accom ... 8:30 St L ex, dy, d5.12t25 Atl'o ex. dy, and 5..2:30 Ind'p’lsacc 3:15 l ay ex, dy 5:00 Mall express, dy.. 0:50 StLANY, dy a d.. 7:10 West'n ex, dy, s..10:00 ('hieugo Division—Pennn It. It. Lou A Chi ex. dy p. 11:35! Chi A Lou f ex.dy 5.3:20 LouA Chi t ex.dy s 12:05 Chi A Lo ek, dy p. 3:45 Louisville Division—Pennn H. It. Lou A So spl, dy. s. 3:30> Mad A Ind acc 10:2# Lou A Mad ac. dy s 8:15 St L A C f I, dy, p. 11:26 Ind A Mad accom, 1 Mad A Ind acc...5:40 Sundav only 7:00 Ind A Pitts, dy, 8 7:00 Tnd A Mad ac....3i30 Mad. A Ind. acc., L AAt a, dy. p..4:00 Sunday only 0:10 Louisville acc 7:10 L A Chi ex dy a. 11:30 VAX DALI A LINE. St Louis ex. dy.... 7:20, New York ex. dy s. 5:4# NY A StL. dy sand. 8:10; Casey accom 10:0# StL ex, dy, sd p. 12:35 St Louis ex. dy 8:20 Casey acc 4:00 Atl'c ex. dy, d5p.2:25 Fast Mail, dy 7:05 Fast Line, dally. 4:45 Western ex dy s. 11:35 StL A NY, dy, id 7tUS INDIANAPOLIS and VINCENNES It. R. C'ro A Vnes ex. dy 8:15' Vincennes expr 10:4# Vincennes expr....4:20 Cairo expr, dy 4:50 CINC INNATI, HAMILTON A IIAIT'X R’Y Ticket Office. 25 W. Washington St. •Cln ex 3:55 *<Tn ex 12:45 •('in fast mall 8:05 *<’ln fast mail €:'o ••Cln A l>etroit ex..10:4 *Cln A Detroit ex..11:45 ••i'in A Dayt’n ax.2:l' *Cln A Dayt’n ex.3:20 •Cln A Dayt'n 1im.4:4 Cln A D'y’n lim. 10:35 •Cln. Tol. A r>et..7:o. ••Cln. Tol A Det 7:50 •Dally •• Ex. Sunday. LAKE ERIK A WESTERN R. It. Mall und expr 7:00| Ind'pls ex. dy 10:J# T. D A M C ex. dy 1:20 Mail and expr ... 2:33 Evening expr 7:00 Toledo expr ttiOO INDIANA. DEC ATI It A WESTERN R’Y. Mall und expr 8:151 Fast expr. dy. ■ c,. 3:5# Chicago express..... 11:50lTuscola Tuscola accom ... 3:45 Chicago expr...,. 9:40 Fast ex. dy, * e. 11:10 Mall and expr.... 4:40 C., I. A L. R’Y. 4Mouon Route.) Chi night ex, dy, e.12:55|0in vest, dy, 3:3# Fast mall, dy, a.... 7:00 Fast mall. dy. #.... T:SI Chi expr, p 11:50 On vest. dy. and p. 4:37 Chi vest, and p 3:3slChicago expr..... 2:40