Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1899 — Page 7

THE L. A. KINSEY CO. INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, f2S.OOO—FULL PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions, New York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone, 1375 and 1593. 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office, Room 4. Carllole Building. JI/lONFV 4 '/2% t06 %■ iwlvfiNCfl sl,oooand upward, loaned on Improved Property. Interest graded according to location and character of security. No delay. C. F. SAYLES, 135 East Market St. BAD WEEK ON RAILWAYS COLD WEATHER CAUSES A DECLINE IN LOADED-CAR MOVEMENT. e Pennsylvania Line* Ear in the Lead In Eaet-Bonnd Shipment* from Chicago—Movement of Coal.

In the week ending Feb. 11 there were received and forwarded at Indianapolis 22,959 cars, 18,368 being loaded, a falling off as compared with the week ending Feb. 4 of 1,649 loaded cars. In the corresponding week of 1808 there were received and forwarded at this point 23,387 loaded cars, the largest number in any one week in that year with one exception. This heavy traffic in midwinter last year was due to the very low rates then prevailing and the prospects of an early advance. Going back to 1897, 19,901 loaded cars were handled at Indianapolis, in 1896 16,289, in 1895 15,014 and in 1894 14,860. The marked decrease In business last week was due to two things—first, the unprecedentedly severe cold weather, which made the movement of freight slow and expensive, some superintendents going so far as to give Instructions to hold business back until the weather moderated. General Superintendent Graves, of the Indiana, Decatur & Western, Was one of the number, he arguing that thero was no money to the road in hauling freight under such disadvantageous circumstances and the freight would be there to move when the cold spell was over. The car shortage is now as much felt as at any time in months past; especially is this true with the Big Four, which last week handled the fewest loaded cars at Indianapolis In any week since the Debs strike. The Panhandle’s Indianapolis division was the only road that last week handled more loaded cars at Indianapolis than in the corresponding week of 1898. In no February of the last eight years have the Vandalia and the Indianapolis & Vincennes brought in as much coal for Indianapolis as last week. Eastern lines are bringing in more anthracite coal and coke than at any time In several years. Both in through and local business the roads show a heavy decrease. Locally shipments of merchandise were light and the manufacturers were slow in their shipments, whilo the commission houses did practically nothing after Tuesday, as it was impossible to ship fruits and vegetables without them freezing before reaching tneir destination. With the coming of a milder temperature the rush will set in, cars will bo at a premium and the losses of last week soon overcome, .below Is given the car movement for the week ending Feb. 11 and for the corresponding weeks of 1898 and 1897; Name of road. 1899. 1898. 1897. C., I. & L* 400 795 374 1., D. & W 448 488 631 C., H. & D. —lnd’polis div.. 616 847 721 L. E. & W 422 470 411 Penn. —I. & V 805 870 776 Penn.-J., M. & I 827 747 590 Penn.— Chicago div 775 823 662 Penn.—Columbus div 2,058 1,926 1,640 Vandalia 1,829 2,318 2,09 j P. & E.—East div 774 1,018 992 P. & E.—West div 1,058 1,311 1,258 Big Four—Chicago div 1,969 3,472 2,408 Big Four—Cincinnati div... 2,679 3,747 2,989 Big Four —St. Douis div.... 1,731 2,284 1,776 Big Four—Cleveland div.... 1,965 2,561 2,415 Totals 18,368 23.357 19,901 Empty cars i 4,591 5,953 6,421 Total car movement 22,959 29,340 26,325 East-bound shipments from Chicago last week amounted to 93,700 tons, as compared with 97,961 tons for the previous week and 76,418 tons for the corresponding week last year. The Fort Wayne led with 18,130 tons. The Michigan Central carried 8,968; Wabash, 6.764; Lake Shore, 10,290; Panhandle, 10,793; Baltimore & Ohio, 7,132; Grand Trunk, 15,S5; Nickel-plate, 5,141; Erie, 9,630, and the ig Four, 2,606. The Pride of the Sonth. The Southern Railway has become the largest system south of the Ohio river, and compares favorably with either of the great railroad systems north of the Ohio, new having a mileage of 5,592 miles, covering the better portion of the Southern States. The map of the Southern Railway is a particularly Interesting exhibit of the advancement of the South. It takes good railroads to make a prosperous country, and it takes good country to maintain a good system of railroads. There is not a city of any consequence south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers that Is not either directly reached by the Southern Railway or by someone of the many through car lines of the system via connecting lines. The policy of the Southern is a broad one, and the company commands the greatest respect in ell circles of business. The passenger trains on all its principal lines are of standard equipment, operated on fast and frequent schedules. There are now In operation by the Southern Railway thirty separate and distinct Pullman sleeping-car lines daily, reaching New York. Washington, Cincinnati, liOuisvllle, Memphis, St. Louis. Kansas City, New Orleans and cities and resorts as far south as Jacksonville and Miami, Fla. The Southern Railway is a giunt system and is doing great things for the South. It spends many thousands of dollars annually advertising the attractions of the South country.

I’assenger Rale* Firm. EL O. McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Big Four lines, says that in his official career he has never known passenger rates so well lived up to as at present, and since the first of the year, when the lines entered into an agreement to restore and maintain passenger rates. This means a good deal, as between reducing passenger rates on the slightest nrett'xt, selling tickets at half fare and dealing with ticket ecalpers, passenger rates were as badly demoralized as were freight rates. Now rules of the Central Passenger Association as regards party rates, those of theatrical troops and other classes of travel are strictly adhered to. This is evidenced in the fact that last week the general passenger agent of an Important line which has been noted as a rate disturber discharged a local ticket agent for cutting a rate. Each day seems to strengthen the new order of things. Belt Road Traffic. In the week ending Feb. 11 there were transferred over the Belt road 14,833 cars, •gainst 17,210 in the preceding week; Belt road engines handled at the stock yards 857 carloads of stock, against 1,130 in the preceding week, and for private switches on its line 736 cars, against 830 in the week ending Feb. 4. Personal, Local and General Note*. A meeting of the Western trunk-line committee has been called on Feb. 16 at St. Louis. There arc this session three railroad engineers in the House of Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania. The tonnage of freight trains on the Panhandle lines has been reduced nearly onehalf since the severe cold weather set In C. Skimmer, who on Thursday took the position of master mechanic on the Toledo, Bt. Louis & Kansas City, comes from the Alabama Great Southern. Frank Stadtiander, passenger conductor on *tes> Big Four, who recently, through the

death of an uncle, received $20,000, has decided to quit railroading and engage in some commercial pursuit. Friends of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois say that the company will, on April 1. begin paying dividends on its common stock at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. The Chicago & West Michigan has started a land and industrial department, to begin operations Feb. 15, with H. H. Howe in charge, with headquarters at Grand Rapids. The annual report of the Chicago & Alton will, it is stated, show a decrease in gross earnings for 1898 as compared with 1897 of s4oo,Quo and a decrease in net earnings of sloojooo. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four, who has been in Washington since Thursday, will to-morrow go to New York and on Thursday attend the meeting of the presidents of the trunk lines. The Vandalia last week handled but 1,829 loaded cars at Indianapolis, which was 519 fewer than in the corresponding week of 1998 and the lightest business the road has handled at Indianapolis in any week of many months. The highest price ever paid for a railroad bond in this country was on Wednesday, when one of the Pennsylvania Railroad general mortgage 6 per cent, registered bonds sold In Philadelphia for $132.50, the bond maturing in 1910. The Pennsylvania lines handled at this point last week 4,386 loaded cars, 109 more than in the corresponding week of 1898. The gain was with the Indianapolis division, this division bringing in 910 and forwarding east 1,148 loaded cars. ? The Illinois Central earned in January $2,394,119. an increase over the corresponding month in 1898 of $y7.429. Since July 1 the road has earned $16,793,904. an increase over the corresponding seven months ending with Jan. 31, 1898, of $429,683. The old railroad project known as the Cincinnati. Hillsboro & Wellston has been revived and may be built on the line surveyed about a year ago. The plan to get into Cincinnati is to use fourteen miles of the Little Miami from Milford into Cincinnati. Charles Johnson, formerly district passenger agent of the Northern Pacific at Pittsburg, who resigned some months ago to go to Klondike, has returned and is making his home at Zanesvilles, 0., expecting to return to railroad work when opportunity offers. As soon as the weather moderates the Panhandle will put in service its new steam motor car on the Xenia & Springfield branch. The *car, it is said, will run fifty miles an hour on one and one-third tons of coal and will haul two coaches easily and make forty miles an hour. I. P. Bowman and Frank Parrish, engineers, who, during the Debs strike, lost their positions on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, have at last secured locomotives to run on the Missouri Pacific, which are said to be their first employment on a railroad since the A. R. U. trouble. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is row employing more men at its shops in Altoona than at any time since the shops were built, each week increasing the number. This company will at once build five of the new type of passenger locomotives, with eighty-five-inch driving wheels. Joseph Sanger, for twenty years the general vardmaster of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago at this point, and for years secretary of the National Yardmasters’ Association and one of its founders, died at Washington on Thursday and was yesterday buried at Sudbury, Mass., the home of his childhood. Frank D. Underwood, the now general manager of the Baltimore & Ohio lines, on Friday made his first trip over the Wheeling division. This week he will, in company with Receiver Oscar Murray, make a trip over the Baltimore & Ohio lines west of the Ohio river, including the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern. The Big Four lines handled at Indianapolis last week but 8<334 loaded cars, a falling off of 4,373 cars compared with corresponding week of 1898; but it should be said, that the corresponding week with the Big Four proper last year was one in which it handled the largest number of loaded cars, with but one exception, of any week in its history. An agent froth cne of the Mexican roads has been in this section for some days hiring engineers to take positions on Mexican roads. Six of the engineers on the Toledo & Ohio Central road have already gone, and their places have been filled on that road by promotion of firemen. Some of the engineers on the Hocking Valley road have such a step under consideration. For several years the Pennsylvania Company has been trying to secure a tract of land in Chicago, between One-hundred-and-sixth and Oue-hundred-and-tweifth streets, to be used for yards and a shop site, and has at last succeeded in securing It. The ground was purchased by E. H. Bucklen, who has sold it to the Pennsylvania Company for $143,817. The company will this spring construct extensive yards on the ground. The big passenger engines on the Big Four are making fine records this cold weather. Last fall, when these engines were placed in service, Wm, Garstang, superintendent of motive power, dropped a note to President Ingalls citing two or three runs one of them had made with a heavy fast passenger train. President Ingalls made a note at the bottom of the letter, returning it, writing “wait until the weather gets below' zero and see what they will do.’’ The trains hauled by these engines make their time. The Baltimore & Ohio has introduced a new feature in its sleeping car service, arranging to attach an ordinary sleeper in addition to the regular first-class sleep-r now in service on through trains, commencing with Feb. 13. The innovation will be that in these ordinary sleepers Pullman rates are reduced one-half, so that passengers have the choice of paying the highest price Pullman rate or take advantage of the cheaper rate offered in ordinary cars. The Baltimore & Ohio is the first line to introduce this service, and its popularity has been predicted.

Wlint the National Connell Will Do. Washington Post. V Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis, of New York, three of the leading women of to-day in the advocacy of reforms and philanthropic work, are at the Arlington. Mrs. Sewall is president of the National Association of Women, which meets every three years, and which convenes in this city for a week’s session, beginning Monday. This is the third triennial meeting of the convention. In speaking of the convention, Mrs. Sewall, who is known as one of the profoundest thinkers of her sex, said to a reporter of the Post: “This promises to be an unusually interesting meeting, for some matters of vital importance to our Nation and to the whole world will be discussed. There will be two symposiums, one for debate between expansionists and anti-expansion-ists, and the other for discussion of the proper attitude of women on the proposition of the Czar of Russia to disband the great standing armies of the world.” “Will the ease of Congressman-elect Roberts be taken up by your convention?” “Yes, I think so, for that is a matter about w'hich the women of this country feel deeply. I have been working on this Roberts question, but as there are some delegates from Mormon organizations within our association I do not mean to say anything in advance that might be mortifying to them, for they are not believers in polygamy. There are Mormons just as sincerely opposed to plural marriages as any gentiles, and for this class I feel profound respect." There will be three sessions of the association each day, and the public, if it chooses to listen, will hear the views of some of the most cultivated and intellectual women of the United States. Pensions for Veterans. Certificates have been issued to the follow-ing-named Indiar.ians: Original—William Drum. Huntington, SS; William \V. Watson, Parker, SB. Additional—Henry Ault, Rochester, $4 to SG. Increase—James P. Sands, Spring Hill. si2 to sl4; Humbleton Spain. Fort Wayne, $8 to $10; Harry Ruilman, Vincennes, $6 to sl4; William D. Drummond. Decatur, $6 to $8; Daniel Wilt, Indianapolis, $8 to sl2; Martin I*. Williams. Noblesville, $lO to sl4. Reissue—John McAedle, National Military Home, $6. Reissue and Increase —William O. Bryant, Burns City. $S to sl4. Original Widows, etc.—Special Feb. 1, Asa Woodniar.see. father. Seymour. sl2; special Jan. 31. Mary J. Ewbank, Miehigantown, SB. Intere*ting \Yt*li. Kansas City Journal. “What would you wish as the greatest invention of the next century?” asked a Garden City school ma’am of her pupils. Our idea of the greatest invention of the next century sees the time when a man can take an old tomato can, go down to the apothecary shop, buy 5 cents' worth of doodlesox and 5 cents’ worth of muddlewax, mix them up in the can. stomp them down, stick tn two wires and generate enough electricity to run all the motors in the world. ‘Never can do it? How do you know? Rut, Perhapa Feet Don’t Count. Chicago News. Paris is going to have a beauty show' next month and three American women—Mrs. De la Mar and Mrs. George Law, of New York, uud Mrs. Collins, of Boston—huve decided to compete. Here is a sparkling opportunity for some Chicago lady to take advantage of a “lure thing.”-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1899.

MONEY IS STILL CHEAP . BANK STATEMENT A SURPRISE TO YU ALL-STREET FRATERNITY. ♦- Decrease In the Surplus Reserve on Account of M ithdraxval* by Capitalists—Local Trade Quiet. At New York, Saturday, money on call was steady at 2®2*/s per cent. Sterling exchange was dull with actual business in bankers’ bills at Jl.SlVj'al.bS for demand and at $4.83s for sixty days; posted rates, $4.84Vi'54.86 1 /s; commercial bills, 212143 per cent. Bar silver. 69%c; Mexican dollars, 47%c. At London Lar silver closed quiet at 27*£d an ounce. The exports of specie from the port of New York for the week amounted to $4,000 in gold and $1,019,825 In silver. The imports were: Gold. $215,674, and silver, $51,674. Tlie imports of dry goods for the week were $2,906,217. The New York weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus reserve, decrease $1,910,850 Loans, Increase 8,516,700 Specie, increase 1,293,500 Legal tenders, decrease 1,225,200 Deposits, increase 8,036,600 Circulation, decrease 68,000 The banks now hold $36,511,823 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. The New York Financier says; “The statement of the associated banks of New Y'ork, for the week ending Feb. 11, was again at variance with supposed operations covering the past six days. Instead of a gain of something like two millions in cash reserves, due to known receipts from the interior, the actual increase was practically nothing, losses in legal tenders offsetting specie expansion. Whether the actual condition of the banks i3 reflected In the statement Is doubtful. At any rate special causes contributed so largely in determining the totals that analysis is rather difficult. Os the total gain of $8,500,000 in deposits, the National City Bank alone is responsible for nearly $5,250,000, and with the National Park Bank more than accounts for the entire increase. So in loans the National City reports an expansion of $6,500,000 and the remainder of the $5,000,000 gain is made up by one or two other banks. In other words, while there has been more or less shifting of funds among the other institutions, their averages do not vary much in the aggregate from the previous week. What has brought about this showing cannot be determined accurately. It is known that the return of American securities from Europe Is responsible for some difference in the totals. Then, too. the rapid formation of industrial combinations is requiring more extensive financing. Stock Exchange transactions for the week were very much under the enormous dealings of the previous fortnight and while a loan expansion of some magnitude had been considered probable, the cash changes are disappointing and confusing. Still, the idle surplus of the New Y'ork banks is above the average and there is no reason to anticipate that rates will show any change over the coming week on legitimate business. There is a notable activity in commercial paper at prevailing quotations. The banks, however, are inclined to discriminate against the wholesale offerings of industrial collateral of uncertain value, and are exercising some caution in taking lines that have not proved their intrinsic value through actual operation. Talk of concerted action in forming a common policy with reference to these offerings, however, is not borne out by facts, as the banks will exercise their individual judgment in dealing with the matter.”

Views* of Henry Clews. Banker Clews, of New York, in discussing the fluctuations on the New York Stock Exchange last week and the drop in prices, says: ‘‘The large operators appear to liave realized on a considerable portion of their holdings, which is undoubtedly an element of weakness, as the ex-holders may be expected to use more or less Influence in making a lower range of prices, as a basis of buying for a fresh rise. A transitional state of things is thus introduced, the outcome of which it is not easy to foresee; but it plainly suggests the prudence of operators following a policy of buying and selling for quick turns only. So far, this change in the market has not shown its effects in any very marked change in prices. The following statement will show the highest figures on the 25th of January and the lowest on the Bth of February: High- Lowest, est, Jan. 25, Feb. 8, 1599 1899 Canadian Pacific Central of New Jersey 104 9S*.£ Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.l39% 131% Chicago & Northwestern.......ls2 147*4 Chicago Great Western 18 15*2 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. P... 127% 124% Chicago, Rock Island & Pac...120 115 St. Paul. Min. & Omaha 97% 91 C., C., C. & St. Louis 61% 58 Delaware, Lack. & Western...l6l% 157*4 Erie 15% 14% Illinois Central 120% 114% Louisville & Nashville 67% 63% Manhattan con 117*/2 110% M., K. & T. pref 38 36% New York. Ontario & W 24 20-% Norfolk & Western pref 68% 67 Wabash pref 24% 21*4 Pitts., C., C. & St. Louis 74 66 "Os the nineteen stocks here quoted eighteen have declined, and the average fall has been 4.3 points. This certainly Is no important decline, considering that prices were rA their highest at the earlier date cited am! about at their lowest on the later date. There are causes which make it remarkable that the decline has not been greater. The amount of stocks and bonds that have been sold here on foreign account within the last six or seven weeks is extraordinary. From the best information obtainable from foreign houses making these negotiations, there can be no doubt that, since the Ist of January, stocks and railroad mortgages have been sent here from Europe which, taken at their market value, aggregate $60,000,000, besides widen some $5,000,000 additional are now on their way home, while the amount exported within the same period has been quite nominal. The wonder is that the pressure of this flood of supply, steadily pouring in from external sources, has not produced a greater impression on prices. There may be room for question whether the market has yet digested and assimilated these new supplies. or whether, not having yet done so, some further decline is to be expected. Had the money market been in a different position the effect might have been more marked than it has; but with the present plethora of money the banks are not likely to withhold any needful funds for earrving these securities until they find a more permanent form of ownership, It can hardly be expected that any important portion of these securities will be returned to Europe at the present range of prices; there is no idea, however, among houses directly connected with these realizations, that they are intended to be permanent, but rather that any important drop in prices would bring out considerable buying orders from London and Berlin.” Saturday’* Bank Clearing*. At Chicago—Clearings, $17,466,500; balances, $2,845,218. Sterling exchange; Bankers’ bill*. $4.85% 4;4.86; sixty days, $4.53%@4.84. New York exchange, 10c discount. At St. Louis—Clearings, $3,787,066; balances. $384,479. At Philadelphia—Clearings, $15,418,034; balanoes, $1,500,681. At Baltimore —Clearings, $3,825,741; balances $623,590. At Memphis—Clearings, $321,939; balances $136,804. At Cincinnati—Clearings, $1,454,500. At New Orleans —Clearings, $1,472,507. At New York—Clearings, $187,781,895; balances $10,052,689. At Eoston—Clearings, $22,508,795; balances $2,106,312. LOCAL GRAIN’ AND PRODUCE. Severe Cold Weather Curtailed Trade —Price* Strong. As would be expected with the thermometer below zero most of the week, trade was disappointing in its volume, but prices in most lines have a hardening tendency. Still no material advances were established during the week unless in fruits, vegetables and eggs and poultry. Sugar fluctuated somewhat, but the fluctuations were not of much importance. Mild weather, however, will Bet the trade .wheels again In motion and the latter part of the month busint'.ss will overcome probably the shortage of the first half, as conditions ate exceedingly favorable for active trade in all departments. Note sharp advance in jtotatoes and cabbage. The local grain market through the week was •cUva. Receipt* of corn were large, but of ether

cereals light. The change in prices of the several cereals fluctuated little. The week closed with much the same prices as it began. Track bids, as reported by the secretary of the Board of Trade on Saturday, ruled as follows: Wheat—No. 2 ted. 79c; No. 3 red, 63®69c; February, 70c; wagon wheat, 70c. Corn—No. 1 white, 34%c; No. 3 white (one color), 34%c; No. 4 white, 30%@32%c; No. 2 white mixed. 34c; Nc. 3 white mixed. 34c; No. 4 white mixed, 30032 c; No. 2 yellow', 34%c; No. 3 yellow, 34%c; No. 4 yellow. 30%®32’,4c; No. 2 mixed, 34c; No. 3 mixed. 34c; No. 4 mixed, 30®32c; ear com. 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, $8; No. 2 timothy, *6.50®7. Inspections—Wheat: No. 2 red, 1 car; No. 4,1; rejected, 1; total, 3 cars. Corn; No. 3 white, 10 cars; N*o. 4,1; No. 3 yellow. 2; No. 3 rnrtxed, 7; No. 4. 3; total, 23 cars. Oats; No. 2 mixed, 1 car. Poultry ami Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Poultry—Hens, 7c; spring chickens, 8c; cocks, B%c; hen turkeys, young and fat, 8c; young toms, tiv-c; old hens, 6c; toms, sc; ducks, sc; geese, 4c for full feathered, 3c for plucked; capons, fat, 10c; small. 6®Bc. Cheese—New York full cream. 10011 c: skims, 6®Bc; domestic Swiss, 12*,ic; brick, 12c; limburger, 10c. Butter—Choice. 10c; poor, s@7c; Elgin creamery, 2ic. Eggs—2oc. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck 10017 c per lb. Beeswax —30c for yellow; 25c for dark. Wool—Medium, unwashed, 17®18c; tub-washed, 20®25c; burry and unmerchantable, 6c less. Honey—lo@l3e per lb. Game—Rabbits, 65®70c. Venison, 18@20c per lb. Opossum, 20025 c apiece. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1, Sc; No. 2. 8c; No. 1 calf, 10c; No. 2 calf, S%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 JODBI.VG TRADE. (The quotations given below are the selling prices of the wholesale dealers.) Candle* and Not*. Candies—Stick, 6Vi@6%c per iu; common mixed, 6%@7c; G. A. R. mixed, 6%c; Banner tw'ist stick, 8c; cream mixed, 9c; old-time mixed, 7c. Nuts—Soft-shelled almonds. ll®13c; English walnuts, 9@l2c: Brazil nuts, 10c; filberts, Xlc; peanuts, roasted, 7®o; mixed nuts, 10c. Coal and Coke. Anthracite, per ton, $7; Brazil block, $3; Island City lump, $2.75; Paragon lump, $2.73; Jackson lump, $4; Pittsburg lump, $4; C. & O. Kanawha lump, $4; Winifrede lump, $4; Biossburg smithing, $5; smokeless, $4; lump coke, per bushel, IQc; crushed coke, per bushel, 12c. Canned Goods.

Corn, [email protected]. Peaches—Eastern standard 8-lb, $1.75@2; 3-lb seconds, $1.2501.50; California standard, [email protected]; California seconds, $1.75®2. Miscellaneous—Blackberries, 2-lb, 65@70c; raspberries, 3-lb, 90®95c; pineapples, standard, 2-lb, $1.1C®1.20: choice, [email protected]; cove oysters, 1-lb, full weight, 85035 c; light, 60®65c; string beans, 70®) 90c; Lima beans, $1.1001.20; peas, marrowfats, 85c@$1.10; early June, 90c@$1.10; lobsters, $1.85@2; red cherries, 99c®$l; strawberries, Ss@9oc; salmon, 1-lb, 90c®51.85; 3-lb tomatoes, 90@S5c. Drags. Alcohol, $2.56@2 68; asafetida, 25030 c; alum, 2% @4c; camphor, 50®55c; cochineal, 50®55c; chloroform, 58®65c; copperas, brls, 75@S5e; cream tartar, pure, 30®33c; indigo, 6o@Soc; licorice, Calab., genuine, 30®40c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz, 25@30e; morphine, P. & W., per oz., $2.3002.55; madder, 14 ®l6c; oil, castor, per gal. $101.10; oil, bergamot, per lb, $2.25; opium, $4; quinine, I’. & W., per oz, 33®J8c: balsam copaiba, 50060 c; soap, castile, Fr., 12@16c; soda bicarb., 4M>@6c; salts, Epsom, 4®sc; sulphur, flour, s@6c; saltpeter, 8® 14c; turpentine, 50®55c; glycerine, 14®17c; iodide potassium, $2.60®2.60; bromide potassium, 65@60c, chlorate potash, £oc; borax, 9® 1.2 c; cinchonida, 22 ®27c; carbolic acid, 30@32c. Oils—Linseed, 41®43c per gal; coal oil. legal test, 7@l4c; bank, 40c; best straits. 60c; Labrador, 60c; West Virginia, lubricating, 20®30c; miners’, 40o; lard oils, winter strained, In brls, 40c per gal; half brls, 3c per gai extra. Dry Goods. Bleached Sheetings—Androscoggin L, 5%c; Berkley, No. 60, 6%e; Cabot, s’ac; Capitol, 4 Vic; Cumberland. EVic; Dwight Anchor, 6c, Fruit of the Loom, 6c; Farwell, s*/j>c; Fitchville, 5%c; Full Width, 40c; Gilt Edge, 4*4c; Gilded Age, 3M>c; Hill, s*4c; Hope, 5%c; Lin wood. 5%e; Lonsdale, 6c; Peabody, 4c; Pride of the West, 9!ac; Ten Strike, 6*ic; Pepperell, 9-4, loc; Pepperell, 10-4, IGViC; Androscoggin, 9-4, 15Vic; Androscoggin, 10-4, 170. Brown Sheetings—Atlantic A, 5%c; Argyle, 4Vic; Boott C, 4c; Buck’s Head, sc; Clifton CCC, 4Vfec; Constitution, 40-incb, 6%c; Carlisle, 40-inch, 6c; Dwight's Star, 6e, Great Falls E, 4V4C, Great Falls J 4%c; Hill Fine, 6%c; Indian Head, s*/ic; Pepperell It, 4*/-iC; Pepperell. 10-4. 15c; Andr scoggin, 9-4, 14c; Androscoggin, 10-4, laVic. Prints—Allen dress styles, 4c; Allen’s staples, 4c; Allen TR, 4c; Allen’s robes, 4‘4c; American indigo, 4c; Arnold long cloth B, 7V4c; Arnold LLG. 6V4C; Cocheco fancy, 4c; Cocheco madders, 4c; Hamilton fancy, 4V;c; Merrimac pinks and purples. 4%c; Pacific fancy, 4 s ,ic; Simpson's mourning, 4c: Simpson’s Berlin solids, sc; Simpson’s oil finish, 6c; American shirting, 3Vic; black white, 3Vic; grays, S'/ic. Ginghams—Amoskeag staples, sc: Amoskeag Persian dress, 6c: Bates Warwick dress, 5%c; Lancaster, sc; Lancaster Normandles, 6c; Renfrew dres3 styles. 6c. Kid-finished Cambrics—Edwards, 3c; Warren, 2%c; Slater, 3c; Genesee, 3c. Grain Bags—Amoskeag, sl4; American, sl4; Harmony, $13.50; Stark, sl6. Tickings—Amoskeag ACA, 9c; Conestoga BF, U*/ic; Cordis, 140, 9V£c; Cordis FT, 916 c; Cordis ACE, 9Vic; Hamilton awnings, 8c; Kimono fancy, 17c; Lenox fancy, 18c; Muthuen AA, 9*/6c; Oakland AF, 6V2C; Portsmouth, 10lie; Susquehanna, llVic; Shetucket SW, slic; Shetucket F, 6c; Swift River, 4%c. Flour. Straight grades, $4.5004.75; fancy grades, $5.75® 6.26; patent flour, [email protected]; low grades, $2.75®3.75; spring w'heat patents, $6.50®'6.70. Grocerie*. Sugars—City Prices —Dominoes, 5.50 c; cut-loaf, 6.75 c; powdered, 5.38 c; XXXX powdered, 5.50 c; standard granulated, 5.25 c; fine granulated, 5.25 c; granulated—five-pound bags, 5.31 c; extra fine granulated, 5.38 c; coarse granulated, 5.38 c; cubes, 6.38 c: mold A, 5.60 c; diamond A, 5.31 c; confectioners’ A, 5.13 c; 1 Columbia A—Keystone A, 4.88 c; 2 Windsor A—American A, 4.88 c; 3 Ridgewood A— Centennial A, 4.88 c; 4 Phoenix A —California A, 4.81 c; 5 Empire A—Franklin B, 4.75 c; 6 Ideal golden ex. C —Keystone B. 4.69 c; 7 Windsor ex. C —American B, 4.C3c; 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. C, 4 44c; 12 yellow—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, 12014 c; strictly prime, 14016 c; fancy green and yellow, IS®22c; Java, 28032 c. Roasted—Old government Java, 32Vi®33c; Golden Rio, 24c; Bourbon Santos, 24c; Gilded Sartos, 24c; prime Santos, 23c. Package coffee —city prices—-Ariose, 11c; Lion. 10c; Jersey, 10.65 c; Caracas, 10.50 c; Dutch Java blend, 13c; Dillworth’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; *4 brl, sl6; No. 2 drab, plain, 1-32 brl. per 1,000. $4.25; 1-16 brl, $6.50; Vi brl, $10; Vi brl, S2O: No. 1 cream, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $7; 1-16 brl, $8.75; Vs brl, $14.50; Vi brl, $28.50. Extra charge for printing, $1.1001.15. Salt—ln car lots, 80@S5c; small lots, 90©95c. Spices—Pepper, 12018 c; allspice, 15@18c; cloves, 18@25c; cassia, 15®18c; nutmegs, 65075 c per lb. Beans—Choice hand-picked navy, $1.30® 1.35 per bu; Limas, California, 4%®4*c per lb. Woodenware —No. 1 tubs, $5.7506; No. 2 tubs. $4.7505; No. 2 tubs, $3.7504 : 3-hoop paiis. $1.40® 1.50; 2-hoop fiails, $1.2001.25; double washboards, $2.2502.75; common washboards, [email protected]; clothes pins, 50060 c p>er box. Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 2S@33c; choice, 35040 c; syrups, is® 25c * 5h0t—51.3001.35 per bag for drop. Lead—6',-07c for pressed bars. Twine—Hemp, 12@18c per lb; wool, 8®10c; flax, 20©30c; paper, 25c; jute, 12015 c; cotton, 18@25c. Wood Dishes—No. 1. per 1.000, $202.25; No. 2, $2.2502.50; No. 3. $2.5002.75; No. 5, $303 25. Rice—Louisiana, 4*i®C%c; Carolina, 6Vt@S%c. Iron and Steel. Bar Iron —1.50®1.60c; horseshoe bar. 2Vi@2%c; nail rod, 7c; plow slabs, 2Vfec; American cast steel, 9@llc; tire seel, 2Va@3c; spring steel, 4Va @uc. _ ._ Leather. Leather —Oak sole, 27030 c; hemlock sole, 24® 26c; harness, 320:37c; skirting, 38®42e; single strap, 38041 c; city kip, 6<>oßsc; French kip, 90c® $1.20; city calfskin, 90c@$1.10; French calfskin, $1.20® 1.85. Nail* and llor*e*lioe*. Steel cut nails, $1.75; wire nails, from store, $1.90®2 rates; from mill; $1.75 rates. Horseshoes, per keg, $3.50; mule shoes, per keg, $4.50; horse nails, $405 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 grapes, $6.75 per brl. Lettuce —11® 12Vic j-er lb. Figs—California, $1.65 per box; mat figs, B®9c. Cranberries —[email protected] per bri; [email protected] per crate. Oranges—California navels, $2.75®3. Lemons—Messina, choice, 360 to box, $3.50; fancy, $4. Bananas—Per bunch, No, 1, $1®1.75. Cocoamits—soc per doz. Lima Beans —5c per lb. ’ Potatoes—6so7sc per bu; red, $202.25 per brl. Sweet Potatoes— Jersey sweets, $1 bu; brl, $3; Illinois, $2 brl; 75c bu. Cabbage—Holland seed, $2 per 100 lbs; homegrown, $1 per brl. Onions—42 per brl; Spanish onions, $1.50. Turnips—7so9oc per brl. Parsnips—s2.2s per brl. Celery—Michigan and northern Indiana, 30040 c. per bunch; California, 400 75c. Honev—White. 15c per lb; dark. 12c per lb. Cider—s4.so per brl; half brl, $2.60. l*ru\ Isions. Hams—Sugar-cured, 18 to 20 lbs average, B*i@ 9*ic; 15 lbs average, BV4@BV*c; 12 lbs average, 5 1 * ®9ViC. Bacon —Clear sides, 40 to 50 lbs average SKc 30 to 40 lbs average, 6%c; 20 to 30 lbs average’ 6vc; bellies, 25 lbs average, 6%c; Is to 23 it. 4 average, <C*e; 14 to 16 lbs average, 7Vic. Clear backs, IS to 22 lbs average, 6%c; 14 to IS lbs average, 6%c; Bto 10 lbs average, 6% c . in dry salt, Vsc less. oboulders —IS to 20 lbs average, sVic; 15 lbs average, 6c; 10 to 12 lbs average, 6Vc. Lard—Kettle-rendered. 7c; pure lard, 6%c. Pork—Bean, clear, sl3; rump. $10.50. Seed*. Clover—Choice, $3.75; prime, $3.50; English choice, $3.250 3.50; altlke, choice, s4.so®i, taifa. choice, $4.2504.50; crimson or scarlet clover, $2.7503; timothy, 45 lbs, prime, sl.ii®i or light prime, $1.20®1.25; choice. $1.25®1.30; fancy Kentucky, 14 lbs, $1.15: extra clean, 6e®7sc; orchard grass, extra, $1.1501.30; red top, choice, 800 ®51.40; English bluegrr.s*. 24 lbs. $1.15®1.75; German millet. slOl 26; Western millet, 60®550; common millet, 40060 c.

CROP DAMAGE REPORTS * STRENGTHENING FACTOR TIIAT CAUSED AN ADVANCE IN WHEAT. Coarse Grain Also More in Demand by Reason of the Cold Weather—Provisions Show Firmness. CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—Numerous crop damage reports to-day, light receipts, heavy clearances at the Atlantic coast and higher cables all worked toward establishing better pi ices in the wheat pit. Shorts were forced to cover and May closed with a gain of %c. Corn advanced and oats Pork left off with an improvement of 10® 12%c, lard 5©7%c and ribs T%C. Light receipts and continued cold weather gave wheat a strong start. May opened J' : c higher at 73@73%c, and as Liverpool quoted %and advance notwithstanding yesterday’s decline on this side, was an unpleasant surprise for traders, who went home short last night, the price was bid up quickly to 73%c. Chicago receipts were 77 cars, of which only five graded contract. Minneapolis and Duluth received 311 cars, compared with 602 a week ago. The aggregate number of bushels received at Western primary markets showed a marked falling off, amounting to only 404,000 bu. Atlantic port clearances, on the other hand, were large, equaling 188,000 bu, and Bradstreet reported 6,870,000 bu from both coasts for the week. Crop damage reports were numerous, and this tended to keep the feeling nervous, especially when another cold wave was said to be on the way. The market was fairly active, but the range rather narrow, with May hesitating around 73%@73%c most of the day, and closing at 73%c. I Corn w ; as very strong andi did much to sustain wheat in times of depression. The Increased amount of corn that must necessarily bo consumed on account of the severe cold was a strengthening Influence. Considerable long property was accumulated by several commission houses. Under such buying the market broadened and confidence in corn was more openly talked of than for some time. Receipts were 481 cars. May opened bio higher, at 37%(&37 1 / ic and advanced to 37%c, the closing price. There was an excellent demand from outside In oats anti the market was very broad. The cash demand was good and shorts covered freely. The advance, however, brought about considerable realizing for profits by scalpers and a slight reduction took place. Receipts were 208 cars. May began higher, at 28%(&25%c, advanced to 29c, then eased off to 28%c at the close. Provisions were exceedingly dull until near the close, when they fell into line with the generally hopeful sentiment prevailing in the grain markets and a slight rally set in all around. May pork opened a shade higher, at $10.02%, sold at $lO, then rose to $10.02% at the close. The range in lard and ribs was narrow., Estimated receipts for Monday: Wheat, 60 cars; corn, 510; oats, 170; hogs, 37,000 head. Holiday Monday on account of Lincoln’s birthday. Leading futures ranged as follows: Open- High- Low- ClosArtlcles. ing. est. est. ing. WheatMay.... 73 -73% 73% 73 73% July.... 71%-71% 72% 71% 72%-72% Corn— ’ May.... 37%-37% 37% 37% 37% July.... 37% 37%-37% 37% 37%-37% Sept.... 38 -38% 38% 38% 38% Oats— May.... 28%-25% 29 28% 28% July.... 26% 26% 26% 26%-26% PorkMay.... $10.02% $10.12% SIO.OO $10.12% Lard— May.... 5.65 6.72% 6.65 5.72% July.... 5.77% 6.82% 6.75 5.82% Sept.... 5.90 6.92% 6.87% 6.92% Ribs— May.... 5.00 6.07% 6.00 5.07% July.... 6.15 5.17% 6.12% 6.17% Sept.... 5.25 6.30 5.25 6.30 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady; winter patents, [email protected]; straights, $3.40#3.60; clears. [email protected]; spring specials, $4-20; hard patents, $3.60613.70; soft. $3.40#3.50; hard straights, [email protected]; bakers, $2.40<g2.60. No. 2 spring wheat, 68@71%c; No. 3 spring wheat. 65#71%c; No. 2 red, 72%@73%c. No. 2 corn, 35%@>36%e; No. 4J yeilow, 36@36%c. No. 2 oats, 28%c; No. 2 white, 30U# 31%e; No. 3 white, 30%#30%c. No. 2 rye, 55%c. No. 2 barley, 41#52c. No. 1 flaxseed. $1.16; Northwestern, $1.20. Prime timothy seed, $2.42%# 2.47%. Clover seed, contract grade and March. $6.50. Mess pork, per brl, $U.93@10. Lard, per 100 lbs, $5.52%@5.55. Short-rib sides (loose), $4.75# 4.95; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), $4.25#4.37%; short-clear sides (boxed), [email protected]. ’Whisky, distillers’ finished goods, per gal, $1.25. Sugars—Cutloaf, 5.70 c; granulated, 5.20 c. Receipts—Flour, 11,000 brls; wheat, 76,500 bu; com, 482,000 bu; oats, 294,000 bu; rye, 24,000 bu; barley, 26.400 bu. Shipments—Flour. 22,000 brls; wheat, 3,000 bu; corn, 238,000 bu; oats, 158,000 bu; rye, 9,000 bu; barley, 226,000 bu.

AT NEW YORK. Rnliner Prices In Produce at the Seahoard’s Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Flour—Receipts, 8,702 brls; exports, 21,908 brls. Market Inactive, but steady. Minnesota patents, s4@ $4.25; Minnesota bakers’, [email protected]; winter patents, $3.75@4; winter straights, $3.60 @3.70; winter extras, $2.90@3; winter low grades, [email protected]. Corn meal steady; yellow Western, S3@S4c. Rye firm; No. 2 Western, 650 f. o. b. afloat Barley malt steady; Western, 60@70c. Wheat—Receipts, 8,000 bu; exports, 123,047 bu. Spot firm; No. 2, red, f. o. b. afloat. Options opened firm and were advanced on severe cold weather news, higher Liverpool markets and covering in anticipation of the holiday; closed firm at %@I%C net advance. Sales included No. 2 red, March, SoV4@Bl*4c, closing at 81c. Corn—Receipts, 48,750 bu; exports, 63,282 bu. Spot firm; No. 2, 4-iVs@4sl4c, new and old, f. o. b. afloat. Options strong all the morning, supported by reports of light receipts, of good feeding demand west and general covering; closed firm at !4@%c advance. May, 41 9-16@4214c, closed at 42>4c. Oats Receipts, 13,20) bu; exports, 13,765 bu. Spot firm; No. 2,35 c; No. 2 white, Options dull. Hops steady; State common to choice, 1896 crop, 7@Bc; 1897 crop, ll@13c; 1898 crop, 18@ 19c; Pacific coast 1896 crop, 7@Sc; 1897 crop, 11'a 13c; IS9B crop, 18@20c. Hides firm; Galveston, 1614 c; Texas dry, 121ic; California, lS!4c. Tallow firm; city, country, 4%@4%c. Cotton-seed Oil—The market was inactive, but possessed of continued firmness. Prime crude, 20@20 1 4c; prime crude, f. o. b. mills, 17@lS14c; prime summer yellow, 25@25%c; off summer yellow, 23Mj<&24c; butter grades, 29 @32e; prime winter yellow, 30@31c; prime white, 31@32c. Rice firm; fair to extra, 4!4@7c; Japan, sc. Molasses firm; New Orleans open kettle, good to choice, 32@27c. Coffee Options opened steady and unchanged, ruled irregular, with downward tendency under adverse cables, tame trade in spot department, rumors of increased crop estimates, light selling pressure and more bearish statistical outlook, full Brazilian receipts, counterbalanced by large warehouse deliveries, and closed steady from unchanged to 5 points lower. Sales, 7,000 bags, including March, 5.5(Xg0.55c; August, 5.85 c; September, S.SOc; December. 6.10 c; January, 6.15 c. Spot coffee—Rio dull; No. 7 invoice, 6V4c; No. 7 jobbing 7c. Mild dull; Cordova, 7% @l4c. Sugar—Raw steady; fair refining, 3 13-lfic; centrifugal, '96 test, 4 5-16 c; molasses sugar, 39-16 c. Refined steady; mold A, Stic; standard A and confectioners’ A, 4 7 /ac; cutloaf and crushed, stsc; powdered and cubes, 5V4c; granulated, sc. TRADE IN GENERAL. Quotations at St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Other Places. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 11.—Flour quiet and steady. Wheat firm and fractionally higher for options. Spot firm; No. 2 red. cash, elevator, 74‘4c; track, 704 c; February, T4V*c; May. 76%c asked; July, 718sc; No. 2 hard. 68® 684 c. Corn firm apd higher for spot and options; No. 2. cash, 34'4c; track, 35c; February, 34%c; May, 35H@35%c hid; July, 36c. Oats steady to firm: No. 2. cash. 284 c; track. 29®29Vic; February, 284 c; May, 294 c bid; No. 2 white, 304 c. Rye firm at 56c. Flaxseed better at $1.12. Prime timothy seed nominal. Corn meal. $1.75@150. Bran firm; sacked, east track, 58c. Hay dull, hut steady; timothy, s7©9; prairie, s6®7. Whisky steady at $1.26. Butter firm; creamery, 18@22c; dairy, 14® 17c. Eggs hleher at 23c. Cotton ties and bagging unchanged. Pork firm; standard mess, jobbing, old, <9.25; new, $lO. Lard quiet; prime steam. $3.35; choice. $5.40. Dry-salt meats— Boxed shoulders. *4; extra shorts. $4,75; ribs, $5; shorts, |s.l2Vj. Bacon—Boxed shoulders, $4,624; extra sMkts. $5.25; ribs, $5.50; shorts, $6,624- Receipt*—■bur, 4,600 brls; wheat, $6,001) bu; ooro.

47,000 bu; oats, 23,000 bu. Shipments—Flour, 5,000 brls; wheat, 15,000 bu; com. 33,000 bu; oats, 10,000 bu. LIVERPOOL. Feb. IL—Wheat-Spot steady; No. 3 red Western winter. 6s; No. 1 red Northern spring, 5s 10%d. Corn—Spot steady; American mixed, new. 3s 7d: old, 3s Sd; futures. February, nothing quoted; March steady at 3s 5%d; May steady at 3s 5%d. Flour—St. Louis fancy winter dull at 7s 6d. Beef dull; extra India mess, 655; prime mess. 60s. Pork dull; prime mess, fine Western. 50s; prime mess, medium Western. 47a 6d. Hams— Short-cut firm at 355. Bacon firm at 2bs6d; short-ribs dull at 27s 6d; long-clear middles, light, steady at 28s; long-clear middles, heavy, steady at 27s 6d; short-clear backs steady at 28s; clear bellies dull at 31s. Shoulders— Square steady at 265. Lard—Prime Western dull at 28s 9d. Cheese steady; American finest white and colored, 4s. Tallow —Prime city strong at 235. Butter—Finest United States. 86s. BALTIMORE. Feb. 11.—Flour dull and unchanged: receipts, 6,287 brls; exports, 181 brls. Wheat firm; spot and month, 7"> 3 i#73%c; March, 76%fc76%c; steamer No. 2 red, 72%c bid; receipts, 15,425 bu; exports, 32,000 bu; Southern wheat by sample, 7</#76c: Southern wheat on grade, 72%@ 75%c. Corn firmer; spot and month, 39%@39%c; March, 39%@40c; steamer mixed, 38%©38%c; receipts, 129,294 bu; exports. 103.297 bu; Southern white and yellow corn. 37©39%c. Oats firmer; No. 2 white, 36#36%c; No. 2 mixed. 33#34c; receipts, 5.597 bu; exports none. Butter steady and unchanged. Egg- firm and unchanged. Cheese steady and unchanged. CINCINNATI. Feb. 11—Flour firm. Wheat firmer; No. 2 red, 75c bid. Corn quiet; No. 2 mixed. 86c. Oats quiet; No. 2 mixed. 36%c. Rye firm; No. 2,64 c. Lard steady at $5.35#6.40. Bulk meats firm at $4.90. Bacon dull at $5.75. Whisky steady at $1.26. Butter firm. Sugar steady. Cheese firm. TOLEDO, Feb. 11.—Wheat dull, but steady; No. 2, cash, 73%c; May, 76c bid. Corn dull, but higher; No. 2 mixed, 36%c. Oats dull, but steady; No. 2 mixed, 29%e. Rye dull, but steady; No. 2, cash, 67c bid. Clover seed higher and steady; prime, cash, old, $3.50; new, cash and February, $4.12%. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 11.—Flour—First patents, $3.70®3.80; second patents, $3.60#3.60; first clear, $2.65#2.7f>. Bran unchanged. Wheat dull and stead;; February, 71c; May. 71%#71%c; July, 71% ©7l%c; No. 1 hard, 72c; No. 1 Northern, 71c; No. 2 Northern, 69c. Batter, Eggs and Cheese. NEW YORK. Feb. 11.—Butter—Receipts, 3,266 packages. Market firm; Western creamery, 16@ 22c; Elglns, 22c; factory, U%#l4c. Cheese—Receipts, 971 packages. Market steady; large white, 10%c; small white, U%c; large colored. 10%c; small colored. ll#ll%c. Eggs—Receipts, 6,902 packages. Market firmer; Western, 24c; Southern, 23%c. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 11.—Butter steady; creamery. 16@20c; dairy, 15c. Eggs—Market excited and 2c higher and unless the weather moderates soon the highest price of the winter will be reached; receipts are small and the demand holds up well; fresh candled Missouri and Kansas stock sold today at 20c, cases returned. PHILADELPHIA, P’eb. 11.—Butter firm and 2c higher; fancy Western creamery, 23c; fancy Western. prints, 24c. Eggs firm and 2c higher; fresh Western, 24c; fresh Southwestern, 23c. Cheese firm. CHICAGO, Feb. 11. —On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was firm; creamery, 14@20c: dairy, ll#l7c. Eggs firm; fresh, 21c. Cheese steady; creamery, 9%#11c. Dry Goods. NEW YORK. Feb. 11.—The sales of print cloths during the week have not been heavy. All available extras have been sold ahead up to March and there is neither much demand nor much pressure to sell evident at Fall River. Odd goods are in steady demand and a fair amount of these have changed hands during the week at prices on a parity with the price for extras. 2%c or above that figure. In staple cottons the advances in the market have continued steadily. Buying and shipments have been hampered somewhat by the cold weather of the week. The demand In general, though, is brisk and along diversified lines. Converters aro heavier buyers than recently. The buying for export has been free and well sustained, but actual shipments are lighter than heretofore, Metals. NEW YORK. Feb. 11.—Pig iron firm; Southern, $11.25<g>12.50; Northern $10.75# 12.50. Copper steady; lake, brokers, 1S 1 4 @18%c. Lead steady; domestic, brokers, 4.20 c. Tin plates strong. The Metal Exchange issued no report to-day. The brokers’ price for lead is 4.20 c and for copper 18%@18%c. ST. LOTTS, Feb. 11.—Lead higher at 4.15# 4.17%c. Spelter strong at 6.80 c. Oils. ■WILMINGTON, Feb. 11.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 42%#43c. Rosin firm at 90#95c. Crude turpentine quiet at $1.35#2.40. Tar steady at $L OIL CITY, Feb. 11.—Credit/balances. $1.15; certificates, no bids or offerings; runs, 62,686 brls; shipments, 85,741 brls. SAVANNAH, Feb. 11.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 42%c. Rosin firm and unchanged. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11.—Cotton steady; sales, 2,600 bales; ordinary, 4 5-16 c; good ordinary, 4%c; low middling, 5%c; goed middling. 6 7-lCe; middling fair, 6 15-16 c; receipts, 6,325 bales; stock, 442,757 bales. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Cotton steady; middling, 6%c.

Dried Fruits. NEW YORK. Feb. 11.—California dried fruits Steady; evaporated apples, common, 7®6c; prime wire tray, choice, 9 l i@9%c; fancy, 94*@ 10c. Prunes, 4@loc. Apricots—Royal, ll@J4c; Moor Park, 13® 17c. Peaches—Unpeeled, 9ylie; peeled, 24@26c. Tone on all steady. Wool. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Wool firm; Texas, 12 ©lsc. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Scarce and Strong;—Hogs Active and Lower—Sheep Sternly. INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 11.—Cattle-Receipts light; shipments light. Receipts were light and the market was a shade stronger, favoring a steady market for next week. Exports, good to choice $5.10© 6.65 Killers, medium to good 4.00© 6.00 Killers, common to fair 4.Go® 4. 40 Feeders, good to choice 4.00© 4.40 Stockers, common to good 3.00© 4.00 Heifers, good to choice 3.90© 4.25 Heifers, fair to medium 3.50© 3.80 Heifers, common and light 3.00© 3.25 Cows, good to choice B.GO® 4.00 Cows, fair to medium 3.50® 3.50 Cows, common and old 1.50® 2.50 Veals, good to choice 5.00® 6.00 Veals, common to medium 3.00® 4.50 Bulls, good to choiqe 3.50® 4.00 Bulls, common to medium 2.50® 3.25 Milkers, good to choice 35.00®45.00 Milkers, common to medium 20.00®30.00 Hcgs—Receipts, 2,000; shipments light. The quality was fair. The market opened fairly active, with fair demand from all sources, and all were soon sold at a decline of fully 6c. There were no fancy heavies on sale. Heavies $3.90®4.00 Mixed 3.85©3.90 Lights [email protected] Pigs 3.35®3.70 Roughs [email protected] Sheep and Lambs—Receipts light; shipments none. Nothing doing for want of stock. The market was active at steady prices. Sheep, good to choice .~.53.50©4.00 Sheep, fair to medium 3.20®3.50 Stockers, common to medium [email protected] Bucks, per head 3,00©3.50 Spring lambs, good to choice 4.25®5.00 Spring lambs, common to medium [email protected] Elsewhere. CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—The limited supply of cattle received to-day were disposed of at unchanged prices, the average sales being 13c higher than those paid a week ago; fancy cattle brought s6® 6.15; medium steers. [email protected]: choice steers, $5.50 ©5 95; beef steers. $4.15®4.75; Stockers and feeders, $3,304/4.75; bulls, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $3.50 @4; Western-fed steers. [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; calves, $5®7.50, The run of hogs was heavier than expected In view of the severe weather and buyers forced prices 2Vi@sc lower; fair to choice, [email protected]; packing lots, $3.60© 3.80; mixed, $3.6503.874; butchers, $3.70®3.95; light, [email protected]; pigs, $2.35 ©3.70. There was barely enough sheep offered to make a market and prices ruled unchanged; poor to prime sheep, [email protected]; yearlings. $4.20®4.60; inferior to choice lambs, s4@s, largely at $4.80©4.95. Receipts—Cattle, 400; hogs, 18.000; sheep, 500. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 11.—Cattle—Receipts light and prices unchanged. Cold weather this week has materially shortened receipts; demand tor good grades of slaughtering cattle is extra good and prices are 15@25c higher; common grades a shade higher; heavy native steers, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; light weights, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, $3.50®5; butcher cows and heifers, $3®4.80; canners, $2.25@3; bulls. s3@4; Western steers, $3.75®5.26; Texans, $3.50©5. Hogs—Receipts, 2,610. Prices to-day average 60 lower. The demand for packing grades this week very strong and prices have advanced 6®loc; heavies, $3.70®3.80; mixed, $3.55@3.?5; lights, $3.45 ©3.65. Sheep—Receipts for the week very light; good slaughtering muttons 10c higher; receipts of lambs large; the desirable flocks steady, while unfinished bunches are slow to 10c lower: lambs, $4.50 @5; muttons. [email protected]; feeding lambs, $3.75©4; feeding sheep, $3©3.50; stockers. [email protected]. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 11.-Cattle—Receipts. 600, Including 300 Texans. Market steady; fair to fancy native shipping and expert steers. $4.75©6, bulk at $5.1G©5.40; dressed beef and butcher steers. $3.65 ©5.35. bulk at [email protected]; steers under 1,(M) lbs, [email protected]. bulk at $4©4.25; stockers and feeders. $3 ©4.56, bulk at $3.50®4.36; cows and mixed, $2©G, bulk of cows, $2.60 $3.35, bulk of heifers, $3.50® 3.90: Texas and Indian steers, s3@s, bulk at *3.26 @4.70; cow a and heifers, $2.25@4. Hogs—Receipts, 4,500. Market s®loc lower; pigs and lights, [email protected]; packers, [email protected]; butchers. [email protected] I *. Sheep—Receipts, 1.200. Market dull and quiet; native muttons. [email protected]; stockers, $2.26®3; culls and bucks. $3©3.50; lambs, [email protected]; fed Texas sheep, $3.70. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Beeves—Receipts. 195; no trading; feeling steady. Cables unchanged. Exports, 629 cattle, 140 sheep and 1,238 quarters of lees. Calves—Receipts, 130. Veals steady at $6©8.60; Southern calves lower; Westerns steady at $3.50; city dressed veals, sS®l2. Hogs—Receipts, 1,291. No trade; market nominally firm at $4.10©4.50. ttMee a Lsuabe—Receipt*, m fiheep un-

SAWS AND MILL SUTPLIES. E. C. ATKINS & CO. Manufacturers and Re- x ;£l \\ pairers of all kinds of Office sod Factory. South and Illinois Street* Indlannpolla, Ind. c | la7CL BELTING Olid OA W O EMEUY WHEELS SPECIALTIES OF W. B. Barry Saw and Supply Cos 132 S. PENN. ST. All kind* of Saw repaired. 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.; 7to I p. m. Telephones—Office. 907; residence. 427. Dr. W. B. Fletcher’s SANA ri)R lUM Mental and Xerrons Diseases. 218 NORTH ALABAMA STREET iPfO T MATCH* SEALS^fI H STENCILS .STAKPSj FRES BADGES. CHECKS AC. TEL I38&. 15 SHERIDIAN St Qrouwo FlooiiJ RAILROAD TIME TABLE. ON and after Sunday, Nov. 20, 1898, trains will run as follows: (Central Standard Time ) All trains enter l MO\ RAILWAY STATION. —F. M. Time in Black Face Figures.— Trains marked thus: Dy—Daily, B—Sleeper* P—Parlor Car, C—Chair Car, D-Dining Car. CLKIE., ON., CHI. & ST. LOUIS K'Y. Cleveland Division—Big; Four. DEPART! ARRIV* New York ex, dy s. 4:25 U City & W ac, dy. 9:3* Muncle & B H ex.. 6:35 S'wst’n lim, dy. and 5.11:3# Cleveland mail 10:50* B.H. & Muncle ex 3:10 And’on & B H ex.. 11:15 Cleveland ex 6*oo U C & W ac, dy.. 4.50 B.H. & And n ex. 8:45 Knick’b’r, dy, ands. 0:25 N. Y. ex. dy, a...10:50 St. Louis Division—Bi* Four. St Louis expr 7:3o|New York ex, dy, s. 4:05 S'wst'n 11m. dy, and 6.11:45! Mat & T H acc 10:30 T. 11. & Mat. ac.. 4:30’ St. Louis express..s(4o T H & Mat acc. I Kn'kb'r sp, <i s.dy Uill) Sunday only 0:15' NY & StL ex.dy sll:20' Cincinnati Division—Bits Four. Cincinnati fl, dy s. 8.45 Oreensbuig acc 9:o# St L &. Cin f 1, dy, s 4:15! Cln’tl acc. dy U;ls Cincinnati aecom... 7:00 C & St L mail, dy Cincinnati accom...lo:so' and sand p..... 11:40 Cincinnati dy p....2:45 Chi. Liin., p 4i15 Greensbuig acc... 5:30 Oin & Ind ex, p... os4o C’tl & Wash, F. L, C I&StL ex, dy 5.1105 dy, and, sand p... 0:20 Chicago dy a 11:50 Louisville Line. Louisv f 1 dy s 3:45 Loutsv t 1 dy a... 11:50 Louisv day expr...2:45 Louisv day expr...11:40 Chicago Division—Bis Four. Lafayette accom.... 7:101 Cin f 1, dy. s 3:30 Chi fm, dy. and p 11:45 Lafayette acc0m...10:30 Chi. Lim, and p 4:15 i Oin. mail,p and, dy. 2:35 Lafayette acc 5:15* Lafayette acc 5i45 Chi F L. dr s 12:05 C’tl & Wash, dp. 6:10 Michigan Division—Big Four. Benton Harbor ex.. 6:35 Wabash ace. dy.... 9:2S Mich mall and ex..11:15 B.Harbr m l ex... 3:10 Wabash acc, dy.. 4:50 Michigan expr.... 8:45 Peoria Uiv„ West—Big Four. Peoria ex and mail. 7:25 Col & Cin ex, dy, s. 3:30 West’n ex, dy. p... 11:45 Champaign accom..lo:2o Champaign acc... 4:35 N.Y. ex & mail... 2:43 Peoria ex. dy, 5..11:15 Peoria ex, dy, p.. 0:16 Peoria Div.. East—Blr Four. Columbus express.. 6:lo!Springfield expr 11:38 Sp'field & Col. ex.3:20 Columbus expr...10:40 PITTS., CIN., CHI. A ST. LOUIS R’Y. Indianapolis Division—Penua Line. Eastern ex. dy, 5... 5:50; Fast ex, dy 7:5* Fast ex, dy 8:2oj Lim'u mail, dy s d.s:os Colu. thus accom.... 8:30 St L ex. dy, and 5.12:25 Atl’c ex. dy, and 5..2:34i1 Ind’p’ls acc 3:15 Dar ex, dr 5:00 Mail express, dy.. 6:50 BtL&NY, dy sand.. 7:10 West’n ex, dy. a..10:00 Chicago DtvlMlon—Penua R. R. Lou & Chi ex. dy p.11:35| Chi & Lou f ex.dy s.:2# Lou& Chi r ex.dy a 12:05IChi & Lo ex, dy p. 3:45 Louisville Division—Penna R. 11. Lou & So spl, dy, a. 3:30 Mad & Ind acc 10:3# I,cu & Mad ac, dy s 8:15 St L & C f 1, dy, p.11:25 Ind & Mad accom, Mad & Ind acc...5:40 Sundav only 7:00 Ind & Pitta, dy, a 7:00 Ind & Mad ac....3:30 Mad. A Ind. see., L Sc At’a. dy. p.. 4:001 Sunday only BtlO Louisville acc..... 7:10 1 L & Chi ex dy s.lliSO V AND ALIA LINE. St Louis ex. dy.... 7:20 New York ex. dy s. 5:4# NY & StL. dr sand. 8:10 Casey accom 10:0# jttL ex. dy. sd p. 12:35 St Loula ex, dy.... B:3# Casey acc 4:00 Atl’c ex, dy, and a p.2:25 Fast Mail, dy 7:05 Fast Line, dally. 4:45 Western ex dy s 11:35 StL & NY. dy, sand 7:05 INDIANAPOLIS & VINCENNES R. R. C’ro A V’nes ex, dy 8:15| Vincennes expr 10:4* Vincennes expr... 4:20 Cairo expr, dy 4:50 CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYT’N R’Y Ticket Office, 25 W. Washington St. •Cin ex 3:55 *Cln ex 12:4* •Cin fast mail 8:0f> *Cln fast mall 6:60 ••Cin & Detroit *x..10:4 *Cin A Detroit ex..11:45 ••Oin & Davt’n ex.2:44 **Cln & Dayt’n ex.3:20 •fin & Dayt’n 1im.4:41 *Cin & D’y’n 11m. 10:35 •Cin, Tol. & Det..7:o* ••Cin, Tol & Det. 7:50 • Daily. •• Ex. Sunday. LAKE ERIE * WESTERN R. R. Mail and expr 7:00! Ind’pls ex, dy 10:3# T D & M C ex. dy 1:20!Mail and expr.... 2:35 Evening expr 7 :<MiToledo expr 0:410 INDIANA, DECATUR A WESTERN R’Y. Mail and expr 8:15 Fast expr, dy. ■ e.. 3:60 ( hlcago express 11 '-50 Tuscola acc 10:40 Tuscola accom.... 3:45 Chicago expr 2:40 Fast ex. dr, a c. 11:10 Mall and sxpr.... 4:40 C., I. & L. R’Y. (Monon Route.) Chi night ex. dy. 5.12:55 Cin veEt, dy, s 3:3• Fast mall, dy, 5.... 7:00 Fast mall, dy. *.... 7:M Chi expr, p 11:60 Cin vest, dy. and p. 4:37 Chi vest, and p 3:35 Chicago expr 2:40

changed; lambs slow and barely steady; fair t® prime sheep, $4©4.50; medium to prime lambs, $5.25©5.G0. CINCINNATI, Feb. 11.—Cattle easy at $8.6006. Hogs steady at [email protected]. Sheep steady at [email protected]; lambs dull at $4®6.8 e SALES OF REAL ESTATE. Nine Transfers, with, a Total Consideration of #30,833. Instruments filed for record in the recordst** office of Marlon county, Indiana, for the twenty* four hours ending at 6 p. m. Feb. 11, 1889, as furnished by Theo. Stein, abstracter of title*, corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets. In* dlanapolls. Suite 229, first office floor. The Lemcke. Telephone 1760: W. N. Jackson to Sophia Bctzner, part of Lots 33 and 34, Block 15, S. A. Fletcher’s northeast addition #6o© William E. Stevenson to Lafayette A. Jackson, Lot 4, Rhodes’s subdivision of Rhodes's North Illlnols-street addition.... 1,293 United States Encaustic Tile Works to John J. Cooper, Lots 1, 2 and 3 and part of Lots 4, 6. 7,8, 9, 10 and 11, U. S. Encaustic Tile Works udditlon 4,000 George H. McCaslin (trustee) to Walter C. Clarke, Lot 278. Ogle et al.’s East Park addition; also Pickens’s northeast addition, and Lots 40 and 41 In first addition to Keystone Park; also Lots 23 and 45, same addition.... 2,30® Deloss A. Lamport to George S. Dunn, Lots 3,4, 6, 14, 15 and parts of Lots 2 and 16, In the town of Lawrence, formerly Lonesvtlle; also part of northeast quarter of Section 13. Township 16, Range 4, and part of southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 16, Range 4 14® Wesley I). McNeely to W. B. Holton Manufacturing Company, Lot 200, Cross’s Clif-ford-avenue addition 80® John N. Carey (administrator) to Roman Oehler, part of southeast quarter of Section 23, Township 13, Range 3 4,50® Theodore Eck, Jr., to Etta B. Lloyd, port of Lot 1, Square 27 13,000 William H. Daggett to A. Kiefer Drug Company (trustee), part of Lot 4, Square 2. Bruce’s North Park addition 3,000 Transfers, 9; consideration $30,933 A SOCIETY OF BENEFICENCE. Dilllcult Problem of Charity Solved in Holland. North American Review. The difficult problem of assisting th® poor without pauperizing them seems to hav® been successfully met by the Dutch. A. model In miniature exists of a communßjn .vhere those who have lost their hold on prosperity are restored to at least a sem-l blance of self-support, family ties are pre-1 served, education is afforded the young, I and, in short, the utmost possible is made of ' the most unpromising material. The poor colonies of Holland, four in number, are not, as might be supposed, a government institution, though at one time co-opera-tion with the government was attempted which resulted quite injuriously to the undertaking. These colonies owe their origin entirely to a Society of Beneficence ("Ataatschappy van Veldadigheld”), organized in 1818 to meet the exigencies of destitution entailed on Holland in common with th® rest of Europe by the wars of the Napoleonic era. The necessitous individual forced to enter on life as a beneficiary of the society is provided with a home for himself and his family: also with the immediate necessities of living, and. above all, with work, from the proceds of which he begin® to repay in small weekly installments th® advances made to him. Wages such as ar® current at the time in the neighborhood ar® paid weekly, and there is deducted from them, as an installment on the debt, houi® rent, not exceeding 3) cents, 1-cent Infirmary fee for each Inmate of th® home, 4 cents for a clothing fund, and a sum amounting to 10 per cent, of the gross earnings for a reserve fund against family emergencies. A valuable contribution to each household is the ewe sheep provided by the colony, and also to be paid for by due economy. Its milk, equal to goat’® milk in quality, supplies food, and Its wool is wooven into garments. The family, it will be observed, is always maintained In Its entirety, the Importance of the family Ilf® being, as is known, ever highly esteemed in Holland, white the large infusion of Jewish blood, into th© Dutch is believed to hav® also a strong and favorable influence upon th® system. -

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