Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1899 — Page 7

THE L. A. KINSEY CO. incorporated. CAPITAL, 92.1.000—FULL PAID. —BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions, New York Stocks. E>lt*nc Telephone. 1375 and 159 X 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office, Room 4. Carlisle Building. Money loaned on Improved Property. Interest graded according to location and character of security. No delay. C. F. SAYLES, 135 East Market St. AWTOX TANARUS( >1 JJL>, 7 Ingalls Block, Stocks and Bonds Member Chicago Stock Exchange. Government bonds all issues bought and sold, Indiana Trust Company stock wanted. THEY WANT DIVIDENDS < ♦- > *. THE ALLEGED GRIEVANCES OF PANHANDLE STOCKHOLDERS. * . Future of the Motion More Promising —Missouri Pacific Acquiring Ronds in the Soothvtent. • The grievance of the Panhandle stockholders appears to be that the directors of the company have expended a portion of their earnings in permanent improvements, Instead of distributing dividends. The articles of incorporation, it is claimed, provide that net earnings as declared by the directors shall each year be paid in dividends. Each annual report has shown large net earnings, yet no dividends have been declared since 1805. Now the stockholders have petitioned the court to appoint a receiver to distribute the surplus fund—that is, the present surplus fund of 13,000,000. The minority stockholders claim that over 38,000,000 has been diverted from dividends into improvements. Those informed as to the matter question whether the expenditure of $8,000,000 in improvements can in any manner be construed to be a grievance, taking the position that, had the money been distributed in dividends, the stockholders would simply have put it into one pocket and taken it out of another; that either the property ■would have deteriorated or an added burden of fixed charges would have been placed before the stock. It is stated, however, that the directors might have avoided the controversy by charging the permanent improvement® to operating expenses before declaring net earnings, as did President Ingalls with the Chesapeake & Ohio.

A Good Word for the Monon. There is talk of an early resumption of dividends by the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville road. The reorganization two years ago gave the company over $2,000,000 in cash, with which it settled the floating debt, equipped its rolling stock with air brakes according to law, purchased new terminal facilities and generally improved the physical condition of the road by reducing grades, curves, etc. The property is now in a better condition than ever before, and earnings show a good increase. For the first five months of the present fiscal year net earnings were $511,198. Interest and rentals for tha same period aggregated about $400,000, leaving to be credited to the preferred stock $111,198, which is a little more than 2 per cent. As the necessity for extraordinary betterment charges has passed, the road should continue to earn 4 per cent, on the preferred stock under prevailing conditions. Increaulng Its Mileage. The Missouri Pacific is buying railroads. Vice President Warner authorizes the announcement that the company has purchased the Central branch lines west of Waterville, Kan. These lines are the Atchison, Colorado & Pacific and the Atchison, Jewell County & Western. The Missouri Pacific has been operating these lines for eighteen years under a lease of the Central branch lines of the Union Pacific system, and the purchase will not make any change In the plans of operation. In connection with the purchase of these lines it is also rumored that negotiations are under way for the Missouri Pacific to absorb the Texas Pacific, with which the former has close traffic arrangements. Personal, Local and General Notes. General Manager Pomeroy, of the Vanderbilt fast freight lines, is in the city. From all quarters come complaints of scarcity of switchmen who are experienced. R. D. Hughen, general superintendent of the American Express Company, is in the city. R. P. Rifenberick, claim and tax agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines, is in the city. Lewis Baker has Just completed his thirtieth year as a passenger conductor on the Panhandle. M. E. Ingalls, president of tfce Big Four, •who has been in the East for several days, will return to-morrow. H. G. Stiles, general agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at this point, yesterday returned from New Orleans. Since July 1 the Big Four’s gross earnings have been $9,075,518, against $8,784,845 in the year ending Feb. 1, 1898, and $7,992,508 in 1897. The Queen & Crescent shows an Increase in net earnings for January over 1898 of $102,847; since July 1 an increase of $972,506 is shown. The Pennsylvania has given notice that on Account of an accumulation of hay at Baltimore all shipments from the West must be ■topped until further orders. The Niagara Fails & Lewiston Railroad Company, otherwise known as the Gorge road, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The company will be reorganized. The Pennsylvania and the Big Four lines yesterday started all east-bound freights on their regular schedules, reports showing thgj the snow blockade had been overcome. Andy Walker, the veteran engineer on the Vandalia, has been obliged to give up his engine again on account of rheumatism. He will not resume work until warmer weather. John Sheehy has run an engine on the Big Four since February, 1871. He weighs 315 pounds, never has been in but one accident and was then unharmed and helped clear up the wreck. The rumor that William Green, vice president of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, has been offered the vice presidency of the Chicago & Rock Island is said to have some foundation. John Chesborough, assistant general passenger agent of the Vandalia, and Harrv Miller, superintendent of the main line, were In the city yesterday for a conference with Receiver Maiott. R. L. Fox, for some years chief clerk of A. Galloway, superintendent of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati divisions of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, was buried at Cincinnati yesterday. The Panhandle, which for several days past has been refusing to receive perishable freights for points east owing to the blockade, has withdrawn the order and is now taking freights for all Eastern points. A. S. Crane, general traffic manager of the Fitchburg road, has appointed Edward Shattuek, jr., general foreign freight agent of the road and of the fast freight lines operating over the Fitchburg system. Charles T. Ames succeeds Mr. Shattuek. T. J. Walsh, secretary to General Manager Waldo, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton lines, last evening delivered an address b fore the railroad branch of the Young Men's Christian Association at Cincinnati. His subject was ’’The Stage.” With each year the Big Four is getting A larger per cent, of the through man service between New York and St. Louis, and with the putting on of two additional mail oars between Cleveland and St. Louis the revenue from this source will be increased. It is now two years since the Monon occupied its present city freight depot at Indiauuapolhi and had independent terminals,

and Its business the first year increased handsomely over 1896, while the second year shows an increase of nearly 23 per cent, ever 1897. Hiram D. Harris, superintendent of the Big Four wrecking crew of the Chicago division, has held that position since 1873, and Buys he has never known a year when there were as few accidents and as unimportant as In 1898. All over the Big Four system there was an unprecedented exemption from train accidents. H. Roseman, general freight and passenger agent of the Southern Indiana Railway, vaa in the city yesterday. H< reports the business of the new road as being fully up to the ■expectations of the management, and thinks it will further Improve when the improvements for interchange of traffic at Greensburg are completed.The meeting of railroad men which was to have been held in Chicago to-day and be addressed by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of New \ ork, has been postponed, as Mr. Depew wired the committee that he was confined to the house by an attack of laryngitis. The meeting will not be held untli Mr. Depew can be present. George Lowell, general superintendent of the Monon lines, is elated over the record their fast trains made during the recent severe cold weather. Their four trains, two of which are five-hour 1 rains between Chicago and Indianapolis, with one exception, arrived at Indianapolis on schedule t'tne, and that exception was but forty minutes late. All north-and-south lines did better than the east-and-west lines in adhering to time schedules. Vice President W. H. Truesdale, of the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific, has returned from the East. He confirms the report that he has been offered the presidency of the Delaware, Lackqawanna <fe Western by the directors, with whom he talked while in New York. He states that he has the matter under advisement, and is not prepared to give even a hint as to the conclusion he may reach. A Rock Island director says, however, that Mr. Truesdaie’s resignation as general manager of that road is prepared. It will be accepted. Repairing and rebuilding present lines, rather than the construction of new ones, seems to be the policy adopted by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road for the coming year. As little repairing as possible was done during the years of depression, but now that better conditions prevail, with a largely increased business and enhanced income, the neglected work will receive attention. Mention was made a few weeks ago of projected improvements of about $250,000, and now it is announced that the Atchison & Nebraska line of the system is to be rebuilt. This Is considered to be about as important a piece of work as any projected by a Western road. This line extends from Lincoln. Neb., to Atchison, Kan., a distance of 148 miles. Charles W. Buck has the first time card issued by the Cincinnati & Indianapolis Junction Railway, now the Fort Wayne branch of the Lake Erie & Western system, and it bore the date of Feb. 17, 1870, just twenty-nine years ago. On that day a company inaugurated a train service on the completed portion of its line between Fort Wayne and Bluffton. When Mr. Buck was twenty-one years old, in 1851, he moved from New Y’ork to Zanesville, 0., and shortly afterward took a position on the Ohio Southern Railroad. Six months later he took a position on the Mad River where he also worked six months. 1 hen he went to Toledo and was employed on the Lake Shore for a short time. His next service was in lowa., where he remained four years and then came back and took a position as conductor on the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago. Later he was roadmaster.. When the Fort Wayne, Richmond Cincinnati was under construction Mr. Buck was one of the contractors, and built two miles of the line in the vicinity of Monmouth. north of Decatur. After the northern portion of the road was completed he was the first conductor to take a train over it- *5 1874 Mr - accepted a position on the Wabash road and held it for many years. He has been in railroad service forty-fpur years.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Feb. 10, 181)!F—John vs, 1-14. Crucial times had coine. John Baptist was martyred. At a drunken monarch’s call. At a dancing woman's beck. They had severed the stubborn neck. Prudence suggested retirement. Weariness demanded it. The retreat would also afford the apostles an opportunity to report more minutely to the Master the experiences of their trial trip two and two through Galilee, from which they had Just returned. So the boat which had been chartered for Jesus and “waited upon Him,’’ was employed to put the weary tollers beyond the reach of the multitudes that pressed upon them even at meal times. Head winds probably drove the little bark near the shore and retarded Its progress. Clandestine as the departure had been it failed of its purpose. An ever-augmenting throng hurried around the head of the lake and probably apprised some pilgrim caravans to the passover of the coming of the Great Nazarene. So when Jesus’ boat ran its keel upon the pebbly shore there stood five thousand men, not to mention the women and children. So far from being irritated by the failing of His plans, Jesus’ heart was touched to pity at sight of the shepherdless flock, and He began at once to instruct them in many phases of the doctrine of grace. In the absorbing interest of the theme neither Teacher no taught observed how the sun was dipping to the western horizon. But the commissary of the apostolic college suddenly awoke to the situation. Five regiments! and no stores on hand or any country to forage upon. After some questions on Jesus’ part, calculated to test His disciples’ faith, but to which they responded with phenomenal obtuseness. He proposes to work what in some respects was His most remarkable and significant miracle. The material basis of the miracle was paltry in the extreme: But one poor fisher’s rude and scanty store Is all He asks (and more than needs). Who men and angels daily feeds. There Is a vivid descriptive touch in the Greek which does not appear In our version. Under Jesus’ direction the confused throng was resolved Into the order of a French parterre. He had them sit platwlse, so that they looked In their highcolored garments like veritable flower beds with green turf Intervening. After the cheerful grace which Jesus never omits, he puts a morsel of bread and fish In the hands of each apostle, and sends him forth to serve. What each breaks off Is larger far than what remains. But that which remains is iindtminUhed. And all are fed and filled. Asa lesson in frugality the unused fragments are ordered to he gathered up. Each hesitating apostle holds in his hands the tangible evidence of the reality and magnitude of the miracle wrought. THE TEACHER’S LANTERN. First—Lovely evidence is here of the implicit confidence which maintained between Jesus and His apostles. They come to Him. They told Him what they had done, what they had taught. They were sure of His sympatliy. If they needed correction they knew It would be done in love. Second—These eldest disciples have no monopoly, however, of Jesus’ sympathy. He is touched with a feeling for us, too. We can come to Him, also; to “tell Jesus’* Is still the disciples’ blissful recourse. Third —The same eonslderatetiess which Jesus showed for the health and comfort of His tollers He still feels for those who in this latter day are engaged In His service. A church Imitates the Master when it gives an industrious j>astor a vacation. It says: “Go apart and rest a while.” Seasons of respite are indispensable for the highest effectiveness. Fourth—But apostles nor preachers have a monopoly of Jesus’ sympathy. There’s a wideness In His mercy Like the wideness of the sea. It sweeps out to inclose all sorts and conditions of men. Jesus was as compassionate toward the five thousand as toward the twelve. So His Savior-heart goes out toward the great unchurched masses to-day. Fifth—Five crackers and two dried herringtalk of feeding five thousand wi:h them! But add to the crackers and fish the almightiness of Christ and the proposition ceases to be ridiculous. The resources of the church for spiritual sustenance are palpably Inadequate until the Savior's power and blessing are added to this equation. Then there is enough and to spare. Sixth—The heavenliness of this miracle Is evident in Its orderliness. There was no unseemly scramble, inequality or waste. All was precision, method, order. Seventh—Grace at meals Is one of the sweetest and most impressive services of family religion. We have Jesus’ example for it, and if Paul could observe It in the midst of a shipwreck, there can scarcely be a domestic emergency which would Justify its omission. Eighth—The spiritual significance of this whole scene is finely set forth in Mary A. Lathbury's noble hymn: Break thou the bread of life, dear Lord, to me, As thou didst break the loaves beside the sea. \ Cana for Kanstins. Knnsak City Journal. On one train there arrived in Wichita the other day twenty-six carloads of glass fruit jars, which had been ordered by the merchants of the town for their trade in the coming summer. These jars were manufactured in Muncie, Ind., and on the same train, when it left the East, were ten carloads of the same jars for Topeka. In all there were in the Wichita shipments 24,000 cases, each case holding one dozen jars, or the enormous total of 288.000 separate pieces of glassware. Along with these jars came twenty barrels of rubber bands, each barrel holding 300 pounds, or a total of 6 000 pounds. These figures become interesting’ as Indicating in a faint sort of way the enormous amount of fruit put up each year by the good wives of Kansas, If Wichita alone can consume 288,000 Jars, averaging a quart each, In one season, what must be the grand total for the whole State?

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1899.

THE BULLS IN CONTROL * 4 STOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTION SELLING HIGHER OX ’CHANGE. Burlington Continues Its Sensational Upward Movement —Local Trade Active and Trices l'p. At New York yesterday money on call was steady at 2%®2% per cent.; last loan, 2% per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 2%®3% per cent. Sterling exchange was steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at [email protected]% for demand and at $4.84®4.84% for sixty days; posted rates, $4.85 and $4.87; commercial bills, $4.83®4.83%. Silver certificates, 55%®60%; bar silver, 59%c; Mexican dollars, 47%c. At London bar silver closed steady at 27(id an ounce. Total sales of stocks, 945,200 shares, Including 6,000 Atchison, 28,900 Atchison preferred, 40,750 Central Pacific, 169,900 Burlington, 4,900 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, 9,140 Denver & Rio Grande. 3.520 Illinois Central, 6,420 Louisville & Nashville, 6,120 Manhattan, 13,520 Metropolitan, 36,000 Reading preferred, 10,800 Missouri Pacific, 4,450 Missouri, Kansas & Texas preferred. 6,000 Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, 4,400 New Jersey Central, 15,300 New York Central, 26,700 Northern Pacific, 4,920 Northern Pacific preferred, 5,137 Ontario & Western, 3,920 Reading preferred, 24,500 Rock Island, 18,120 Union Pacific, 81,521 St. Paul, 20,320 Southern Pacific, 3,700 Southern, 8,870 Southern preferred, 14,000 Union Pacific preferred, 13.600 Cotton Oil, 67,700 Tobacco, 43,800 Federal Steel, 24,000 Federal Steel preferred, 12,650 People’s Gas, 26,2<X) Brooklyn Transit, 22,100 Sugar, 4,000 Tennessee Coal and Iron, 3,200 Leather preferred, 4,900 Rubber, 5,600 St. Louis & Southwestern preferred, 9,650 Chicago Great Western. There were advances in stock prices on New York ‘Change yesterday which were material in the standard stocks and the market left off buoyant at the best. Transactions reached nearly a million shares for the first time in two weeks. Some hesitancy was manifested at the opening in view of the possibility of foreign developments which might follow the death of th# President of the French republic. The fractional declines in the London and local markets were checked when Paris appeared as a buyer In London, which had a reassuring effect. Noticeably weak features in the early trading were Bugar, Tobacco and Burlington. These stocks one after another were taken in hand and carried well above Thursday night, the rise from the lowest reaching 7% in Tobacco and 6% in Burlington. Many traders viewed the action of Thursday's market as indicating a resumption of a bull movement and purchased stocks. The fact that St. Paul’s earnings for the second week in February increased somewhat in spite of the snowstorm along its route rendered it a leader in the day's strength and it advanced 2%, and Rock Island, too, rose over two points. Among the high-class investment shares, w’hich were generally strong, Pennsylvania advanced 2%. Central and Southern Pacific's strength was a reflection of the exceptatlon of a settlement with the government. Missouri Pacific also was strong, while Union and Northern Pacific showed heaviness throughout. The plans which are supposed to be under way to better regulate the anthracite trade seemed to affect Reading first preferred, which advanced about tw’o points. Philadelphia advices of new subscription privileges for stock lifted Metropolitan Street-railway some five points, while Third Avenue rose even more. Among the usually inactive stocks there was a rise of 5% in Long Island Railway. London was a moderate seller on balance. Many of the large brokers were instrumental In advancing prices to-day and com-mission-house business was considerably larger than of late, with many sold-out bulls taking hold again.

The bond market betrayed a healthy tone In all quarters, with the absorption of the speculative issues very marked. Total sales, $5,125,000. United States threes and the new fours decline! % 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 22% 23 22% 22% Atchison pref 62% 63% 62% 63% Baltimore & Ohio 70 Canada Pacific 89% Canada Southern 60 Central Pacific 64% Chesapeake & Ohio 29 29% 29 29 Chicago & Alton ....’ 171% C., B. & Q 141 148% 142 147% C. & E. 1 66% C. & E. L pref 118% C.. C., C. & St. L 61 61% 60% 61% C. C., C. & St. L. pref 98% Chicago Great Western.... 150*14 151% 150% 151% Chi., Ind. & L 9% Chi., Ind. & L. pref 45% Chicago & Northwestern 151% Delaware A Hudson 113 D. L. & W 160 Denver & Rio Grande 23 Denver & Rio Grande pref 74% Erie 14% Erie first pref 39% Fort Wayne 178 Great Northern pref 182 Hocking Valley 3 Illinois Central 117% Lake Erie & Western 20% Lake Erie & Western pref 68% Lake Shore 200% Louisville & Nashville 65% 65% 65 65', 2 Manhattan 111% 112% HI IU% Michigan Central 118 Missouri Pacific 45% 46% 45% 46% Mo., Kan. & Texas pref.... 39 39% 38% 39% New Jersey Central 104% 105 104% 104% New York Central 139% 139% 139% 139% Northern Pacific 54% 64% 53% 54 Northern Pacific pref 79% 79% 79% 79% Reading 22% 22% 22% 22% Reading first pref 63% Rock Island 118% 120% 118% 120'% £>t. Paul 128 130% 128 130 St. Paul pref 169 St. Paul & Omaha 94% 94% 91 94 St. Paul & Omaha pref 171 Southern Pacific i. 41% Texas Pacific 21% Union Pacific com 45% 48% 48 48% Union Pacific pref 81% 81% 80% 81 Wabash 8% Wabash pref . 23% Wheeling A I.ake Erie 117s Wheeling & Lake Erie pref 32% EXPRESS COMPANIES. Adams Express U 0 American Express 140 U. S. Express 55 Wells-Fargo Express 125 MISCELLANEOUS. American Cotton Oil 37 American Cotton Oil pref 91% American Spirits 13% 13% 13% 13% American Spirits pref 36% American Tobacco 134 140 132% 138% American Tol*cco pref 135 People’s Gas 113 114'% 113 114% Brooklyn Transit 94% Consolidated Gas JW6 Commercial Cable Cos ISS General Electric 112 112% 112 112% Federal Steel 51% Federal Steel pref 87% Lead 36% 36% 36 36% Lead pref 114% Pacific Mall 51% 52 61% 61% Pullman Palace 161 Sugar 133% 134% 132'% 134 Sugar pref 113 Tennessee Coal and 1r0n.... 43% 43% 42% 43 U. S. Leather 7 U. S. Leather pref 71% 71% 71% 71% U. S. Rubber 53 IT. S. Rubber pref 117% Western Union 95% 95% 95 95% UNITED STATES BONDS. U. S. fours, reg 112% IT. S. fours, coup 112% U. S. fours, new, reg 127% U. S. fours, new, coup 127% U. S. fives, reg 111% U. S. fives, coup 111% U. S. threes, coup 106% LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Fine AVenttier Brinies Brisk Trade and Strong- Prices. It Is very seldom that the wholesale streets present a more active appearance than they did yesterday, and with this prices ruled strong In most lines. Changes In values are few and slight. Dry goods and groceries are in strong position and the dry goods houses are doing a good business for February. Druggists are quite busy and wholesale confectioners report their trade improving. On Commission row with the milder weather more is doing and the receipts at the produce houses are on the Increase. The local grain market presents no new features. Receipts of corn are very fair and of other cereals light. Track bids, as rei*>rted by the secretary of the Board of Trade, ruled as follows: Wheat—No. 2 red, 70c; No. 5 red, 63®69c; February, 70c; wagon wheat, 70c. Corn—No. 1 white, 34c; No. 3 white (one color?. 34c; No. 4 white, 30©32c; No. 2 white mixed, 33%c; No. 3 white mixed. 33%c; No. 4 white mixed. 29%®&1%c; No. 2 yellow. 33%c; No. 3 yellow, 33%c; No. 4 yellow. 29%©31%c; No. 2 mixed. 33%c; No. 3 mixed, 33%c; No. 4 mixed, 29%®>31%c; ear corn, S3c. Oats—No. 2 white, 31c; No. 3 white, 30%c; No. 2 mixed, 29c; No, 3 mixed. 2U£c. Hay—No. 1 timothy, s7.cO®4i;, No. 2 timothy, $6,50®7. Inspections—Wheat; No. 2 red, 1 car, No. 3,1; rejected, 1; total, I cars. Coro: No. 3 white, 17

cars; No. 3 mixed, 15; No. 4,2; total, 34 cars. Oats; No. 3 mixed, 3 cars; rejected, 1; total, 4 cars. Poultry nml Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Poultry—Henp, 7c; spring chickens, Sc; 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 plucked; capons, fat, 10c; small. 6® sc. Cheese—New York full cream. 10®llc; skims, C@ac; domestic Swiss, 12%c; brick, 12c; iimburger, 10c. Butter—Choice, 10c; poor, s®7c; Elgin creamery, 21c. Eggs—lßc. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck 10® 17c per lb. Beeswax—3oc for yellow; 25c for dark. Wool—Medium, unwashed, 17@*Sc; tub-washed, 20® 25c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. Honey—lo® 13c per lb. Game—Rabbits, 65® 70c. Venison, 18@20c per lb. Opossum, 26® 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%e; brown, 2%c. Tallow—No. 1. 3c; No. 2, 2%c. Bones—Dry, sl2® 13 per ton. " —♦ ■"* THE JOBBING TRADE. (The quotations given below are the selling prices of the wholesale dealers.) Caudles and Nuts. Candles—Stick, 6%®6%c per lb; common mixed, 6%@7c; G. A. R. mixed, 6%c; Banner twist stick, 8c; cream mixed. 9c; old-time mixed, 7c. Nuts—Soft-shelled almonds. ll®13e; English walnuts, 9<§l2c; Brazil nuts. 10c; filberts, lie; peanuts, roasted, 7@Bc; mixed nuts, 10c. Coal and Coke. Anthracite, per ton, $7; Brazil block, $3.50; Island City lump, $3.25; Paragon lump, $3.25; Jackson lump, $4.50; Pittsburg lump, $4.50; C. & O. Kanawha lump, $4.50; Winifrede lump, $4-50; Blossburg smithing, $5; smokeless, $4.50; lump coke, per bu, 10c; crushed coke, per bu, 12c. Canned Goods. Corn, 75c®51.25. Peaches—Eastern standard 3-lb, $1.75®2; 3-lb seconds, $1.2i®1.50; California standard, $2.10©2.40; California seconds, $1.75®2. Miscellaneous—Blackberries, 2-)b, 65®70c; raspberries, 3-lb, 90@95c; pineapples, standard, 2-lb, $1.10®1.20; choice, $1.60®2.50; cove oysters, 1-lb, full weight, 85@95c; light, 60®65c; string beans, 70®) < 9ue; Lima beaus, [email protected]; peas, marrowfats, 85c@$1.10; early June, 90c®$1.10; lobsters, $1.85@2; red cherries, 90e®<$l; strawberries, 85@90c; salmon, 1-Ib, [email protected]; 3-lb tomatoes, 90@95c. Drugs, Alcohol, [email protected]; asafetida, 25@30c; alum, 2% @4c; camphor, 65®60c; cochineal, 50®55c; chloroform, 58®65c; copperas, brls, 75®85c; cream tartar, pure, 30®33c; indigo, 65®>80c; licorice, Calab., genuine, 30®40c; magnesia, curb., 2-oz, 26®30c; morphine, P. & W., per oz., $2.30®2.55; madder, 14 ®l6c; oil, castor, per gal, $1®1.10; oil, bergamot, per lb, $2.25; opium, $3.75; quinine, P. & W„ per oz, 37@42c; balsam copaiba, 50©60c; soap, castile, Fr., 12® 16c; soda bicarb., 4%®6c; salts, Epsom, 4@sc; sulphur, flour, s©6c; saltpeter, 8® 14c; turpentine, 50@55c; glycerine, 14@17c: lodide potassium, $2.50®2.60; bromide potassium, 55®60c, chlorate potash, 20c; borax, 9©120; cinchonida, 22 ©27c; carbolic acid, 30©32c. Oils —Linseed, 41©43c per gal; coal oil, legal test, 7© 14c; 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 Goods. Bleached Sheetings—Androscoggin L, 5%c; Berkley, No. 60, 6%c; Cabot, 6%e; Capitol, 4%c; Cumberland, 5%c; Dwight Anchor, 6c; Fruit of the Loom, 6c; Farwell, 5%c; Fitchville, 5%c; Full Width, 4'%c; Gilt Edge, 4%c; Gilded Age, 3%c; Hill, 5%c; Hope, 6%c; Linwood, 5%c; Lonsdale, 6c; Peabody, 4c; Pride of the IVest, 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%c; Constitution, 40-inch, 5%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; Peppered R, 4%c; Pepperell. 10-4. 15c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 14c; Androscoggin, 10-4, 16%c. Prints—Allen dress styles, 4c; Allen’s staples. 4c; Allen TR, 4c; Allen’s robes, 4%c; American indigo, 4%c: Arnold lbng cloth B. 7%c; Arnold LLC, 6%c; Cocheco fancy, 4c; Cocheco madders.4c; Hamilton fancy, 4 1 go; Merrimac pinks and purples. 4%c; Pacific fancy. 4%c: Simpson’s mourning, 4c; Simpson's Berlin solids, oc; Simpson's oil finish, 6c; American shirting, 3%c; black white, 3%c; grays, 3%c. Ginghams—Amcskeag staples, sc; Amoskeag Persian dress, 6c; Bates Warwick dress, 5%c; Lancaster, 6c; Lancaster Normandies, 6c; Renfrew dress 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 AOA, 9%c; Conestoga BP, 11'ie; Cordis, 140, 9%c; Cordis FT, 9%e; Cordis ACE, 9%e; Hamilton awnings, 8c; Kimono fancy, 17c; Lenox fancy, ISc; Muthuen AA, o%c; Oakland AF, s Vic; Portsmouth, 10%c; Susquehanna, ll%c; Shetuelcet SW, 6Vic; Shetucket F, 6c; Swift River. 4%c. Floor, Straight grades, [email protected]; fancy grades, $5.75® 6.25; patent Hour, $6®6.50; low grades, $2.75®3.76; spring wheat patents, $6.5006.75. Groceries. Sugars—City Prices—Dominpes, 5.50 c; cut-loaf, 5.75 c; powdered, 5.38 c; XXXX powdered, 5.50 c; standard granulated, 5.25 c; fine granulated, 6.25 c; granulated—ft ve-iKtund bags, 5.31 c; 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; 1 Columbia A —Keystone A, 4.88 c; 2 WindsoiCA —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, 4.63 c; 8 Ridgewood ex. C—Centennial B, 4.56 c; 9 yellow ex. U—California B, 4.50 c; 10 yellow C —Franklin ex. C, 4.50 c; 11 yellow —Keystone ex. C, 4.44 c; 12 yellow—American ex. C, 4.41 c; 13 yellow—Centennial ex. C, 4.44 c; 14 yellow—California ex. C, 4.44 c; 15 yellow, 4.44 c; 13 yellow, 4.44 e. Coffee— Good, 10@12c; prime, 12@14e; strictly prime, 14@16c; fancy green and yellow, 18@22c; Java, 28©32c. Roasted—Old government Java, 32%®33c; Golden Rio, 24c; Bourbon Santos, 24c; Gilded Santos, 24c; prime Santos, 23c. Package coffee —city prices—Ariosa. 11c; Lion, 10c; Jersey, 10.65 c; Caracas, 10.50 c; Dutch Java blend, 13c; Dillworth’s, 11c; King Bee. 11c; Mail Pouch, lie. Flour Sacks (paper)—Plain, 1-32 brl, per 1.000. $3.50; 1-16 brl, $5; % brl, $8; % brl, sl6; No. 2 drab, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $4-25; 1-16 brl, $6.5'; % brl, $10; % brl, S2O; No. 1 cream, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $7; 1-16 brl, $8.75; % brl, $14.60; % brl. $28.50. Extra charge for printing, $1.1001.15. Salt—ln car lots, 80@85c; small lots. 90@95c. Spices—Pepper, 12@18c; allspice, 15® 18c; cloves, 18®23c; cassia. 15®18c; nutmegs, 65®75c per lb. Beans—Choice hand-picked navy, [email protected] per bu; Limas, California, 4 per ll> 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, [email protected]; clothes pins. sC®6oc per box. Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 28®33c; choice, 35®'40c; syrups, 18® 25c Shot—[email protected] per bag for drop. Lead—6%©7c for pressed bars. Twine —Hetnp, 12®18c per lb; wool. 8@10e; flax, 20®30c; paper, 25c; Jute. 12@15c; cotton. lS@2sc. Wood Dishes—No. 1, per 1,000, $2®2.25; No. 2, $2.25®2.50; No. 3, $2.5002.75; No. 5, *3®3.25. Rice—Louisiana, 4%®6%c; Carolina, 6%®S%c. Iron anil Steel. Bar Iron—[email protected]; horseshoe bar. 2%@2%c; nail rod. 7c; plow slabs, 2Vi;c; American cast steel, 9®'llc; tire seel, 2%@3c; spring steel, 4% @sc. Lentlier. Leather—Oak sole, 27@30e; hemlock sole, 24® 26c; harness, 32@37c; skirting, 38®42c; single strap, 38@41c; city kip, 60@85c; French kip, 90e@ $1.20; city calfskin, 90c@$1.10; French calfskin, $1.20® 1.85. Xniln anil Horseshoe*. Steel cut nails, $1.75; wire nails, from store, $1.90®2 rates: from mill; $1.75 rates. Horseshoes, per keg, $3.50; mule shoes, per keg, $4.50; horse nails, s4®s per box. Barb wire, galvanized, $2; painted. $1.75. I’roiluee, Frnits anil 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—ll© 12V2C per lb. Figs—California. $1.65 per box; mat figs, B®9c. Cranberries —[email protected] i>er brl; $2®2.50 per crate. Oranges—California navels, $2.75@3. Lemons—Messina, choice, 360 to box, $3.50; fancy, $4. Bananas—Per -hunch. No. 1, [email protected]. Cocoanuts—soc per doz. Lima Beans—sc per lb. Potatoes—7sc per bU. Sweet Potatoes —Jersey sweets, $1 bu; brl, $3; Illinois, $2.25 brl; 75c bu. Cabbage—Holland seed, $2 per 100 lbs; homegrown, $1 per brl. Onions—Red, $2.25 per brl; yellow, $2 per brl; Spanish onions, $1.50. Turnips—sl per brl. Parsnips—s 2 per brl. Celery—Michigan and northern Indiana, 30®40c. per bunch; California, 40®75c. Honey—White. 15c per lb; dark. 12c per lb. Cider—s4.so per brl; half brl. $2.60. Provisions. Hams—Sugar-cured, 18 to 20 lbs average, B%® 9%e; 15 lbs average, BVx@9%c; 12 lbs average, 9% ©9%C. Bacoh—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%e; IS to 23 lbs average, 6%c; 14 to 16 lbs average, 7%c. Clear backs, 18 to 22 lbs average, 6%c; 14 to 18 lbs average. 6%c; 8 to 10 lbs average, 6%e. In dry salt, %c less. Shoulders—lß to 20 lbs average, 5%c; 15 lbs average, 6c; 10 to 12 lbs average, 6%e. Lard—Kettle-rendered, 7c; pure lard, 6%c. Pork—Bean, clear, sl3; rump, $10.50. Seeds. Clover—Choice, $3.?5; prime, $3.50; English, choice, $3.25® 3.50; alsike, choice, $4.50@5; alfalfa, choice, $4.25® 4.50; crimson or scarlet clover, $2.75@3; timothy, 4* IDs, prune, $1.15©1.20; light prime. $1.20©1.25; choice, [email protected]; tancy Kentucky, 14 lbs, $1.15; extra clean, 6ti®7sc; orchard grass, extra, t1.15Q1.30; red top, choice. 80c ®51.40; English bluegrass, 24 lbs, $1.15®1,75; German millet, $1©1.25; Western millet, 60@85c; common millet. 40®60c, Sale of Trotters. NEW YORK, F*b. 17.—A number of valuable horses were sold at Mudison-square Garden yesterday by Pasig & Cos. The feature of the day was the sale of the champion five-year-old pacing mare Bessie Bonehill, owned by George Castle, of Chicago. Rubenstein, the fastest son of Baron Wiikea and the winner of the fastest seven-heat race ever paced by a four-year-old, and Pilot Boy, with a record of 2:09%. Bessie Rotvehill was sold for $1,875. Rubenstein was bought by Abe Johnson, of Brockton. Mass., for $6,000, and Pilot Boy brought $5,700, being purchased by Frank Work.

WEAKER GRAIN MARKET * INCREASED STOCKS BROKE THE SPIRIT OF BILLS YESTERDAY. Corn Wa* Heavy All Day and Led In tlie Decline—Hogs Were Plentiful and Pork Lower, CHICAGO. Feb. 17.—Accumulating stocks and enlarging farmers' deliveries broke the spirit of the bulls in corn to-day and the heaviness of corn depressed wheat, each cereal closing with a loss of Tie. Oats were %c lower. Provisions are a shade lower all around. There was considerable steadiness In wheat during the first half hour’s trading. Early Liverpool and New York quotations showed a marked advance, while there was a good deal of nervousness among local traders growing out of the sudden death of the President of France and the country contingencies which might follow. May opened higher at 73%c and as there was a disposition to even up, there was good business transacted at the top figure. The news and conditions, however, finally began to favor the bear side and early buyers lost confidence and withdrew their support. Liverpool lost part of Its early advance and Indications at stock-taking centers pointed towards an increase in the visible supply. Taking the latter in connection with a considerbale weakness developed by corn, the wheat market began to lose ground. Longs began to liquidate and more wheat was thrown on the market than could be readily absorbed, forcing May off to 72%c. Chicago received sixty-five cars, of which ten graded contract. Minneapolis and Duluth receipts amounted to 394 cars, compared with 245 the corresponding day a year ago. The aggregate receipts at Western primary markets equaled 607,000 bushels, whereas only 303,000 were received a year ago. The market ruled heavy at the decline, but toward the close a slight reaction set in on reports of an improvement in the export demand and May rose and closed at 72%c, buyers. Heavy receipts, with an absence of shipping demand and accumulating stocks, for which there were no buyers outside of the speculators, oppressed corn. Heavy liquidation of lines held by prominent houses was accompanied by active raiding by traders, who have been the market s chief support for months, and the weight of the offerings carried prices off %c before any material resistance was encountered. Covering by shorts to secure profits and commission-house buying finally checked the decline. Receipts were 621 cars. May opened unchanged at 36%@36%c, declined to 35%#36c and closed at 3Gc, buyers. Heavy selling by professionals on the prospect of a big increase in the visible, due to the discovery of about 1,000,000 bushels not heretofore reported, weakened oats. Receipts were 280 cars. May began unchanged at 28%c, sold off to 27%c and closed at 27%@27vic. A too plentiful supply of hogs was the source of a good deal of bearishness in provisions, and liquidation of small scattered holdings kept coming on the market in excess of the demand. Toward the close, however, a slight reaction set in, owing to a good cash demand for lard and meats. May pork opened a shade lower at $9.92%, sold off to $9.85, recovered to $9.95 and closed at $9.92%. The range In lard and ribs was small. Estimated receipts for Saturday—Wheat, 73 cars; corn, 675 cars; oats, 270 cars; hogs, 20,000. Leading futures ranged as follows: Articles. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. May.... 73*4-73% 73% 72% 72% July.... 72 72 -72% 70%-70% 71 Corn— Mav.... 3fi%-86% 86%-38% 55%-36 Sfi July.... 37 -37*4 37%-37% 86% 20% Sept 37%-37% 37%-$7% 37 37 Oats— May.... 28% 28% 27% 27%-27% July.... 26 26 25% 25%-26 PorkMay.... $9.92% $9.95 $9.85 $9.92% LardMay 5.57% 5.57% 5.52% 5.57% July.... 6.07% 6.67% 6.05 5.67% Sept.... 0.77% 6.80 6.77% 6.80 Ribs— May.... 4.95 4.95 4.92 % 4.95 July .... 6.07% Sept.... 6.17% 6.20 5.17 % 6.20 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour dull and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 67@70c; No. 3 spring wheat, 65@70c; No. 2 red, 72%@?3c. No. 2 corn, 36%@38c; No. 2 yellow, 35®35%c. No. 2 oats. 27%c; No. 2 white, 30%@31c; No. 3 white, 2%(g> 3t)%c. No. 2 rye, 55%c. No. 2 barley, 42@51c. No. 1 flaxseed, $1.17; Northwestern, $1.20. Prime timothy seed, $2.45. Clover seed, contract grade, $6.50. Mess pork, per brl, [email protected]. Lard, per 100 lbs, [email protected]. Short-rib sides (loose), $4-65@>4.85; drysalted shoulders (boxed), $t.25#4.37%; short-clear sides (boxed), $5®5.10. Whisky, distillers’ finished goods, per gal, $1.25. Sugars—-Cut-loaf, 5.70 c; granulated, 5.20 c. Receipts—Flour, 10,000 brls; wheat, 60,000 bu; corn, 372,000 bu; oats, 336,000 bu; rye, 4,000 bu; barley, 36,000 bu. Shipments—Flour, 10,000 brls; wheat, 38,000 bu; corn, 212,000 bu; oats, 120,000 bu; rye, 2,000 bu; barley, 17,000 bu.

AT NEW YORK. Ruling: Price* in Produce nt the Seaboard’s Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Flour-Receipts, 7,450 brie; exports, 10,365 brls. Market disclosed a weak undertone, with buyers and sellers 10#20o apart and very little demand. Corn meal steady. Rye firm; No. 2 Western, 66c, f. o. b. afloat. Barley malt dull. Wheat—Receipts, 12,000 bu; exports, 157,100 bu. Spot firm; No. 2 red, 85%c, f. o. b. afloat. Options had a firm start on foreign demand for March, but soon developed a weakness that lasted all day. In addition to crop news of a bearish character, long wheat came out more freely and bears extended short accounts by hammering the market vigorously; closed %<§%c net lower and weak; March, 83@84%c, closed at 83%c. Corn—Receipts, 7,800 bu; exports, 74,900 bu. Spot firm; No. 2, 42%@44%c, f. o. b. afloat. Options weakened badly to-day by liquidation resulting from prospective big receipts next week, a heavy Chicago stock and the break in wheat, closing %c net lower; May, 40%#41%c, closed at 40%c. Oats—Receipts, 13,000 bu; exports, 1,400 bu. Spot quiet: No. 2, 35%c; No. 2 white, 37c. Options inactive. Hides firm; Galveston, 16%c. Cotton-seed oil steady; prime crude, 20#20%c; yellow, 25@2Cc. Coffee —Options opened steady nt unchanged prices, ruled moderately active; trading restrained by closing Havre market on account of President Faure’s death; local evening up caused more activity in afternoon, but markets scarcely varied five points all day; closed steady and unchanged. Sales, 13,750 bags, including: March, 5.45 c; August, 5.80 c; October, 5.95 c; November, 6c; January, 6.15 c. Spot coffee —Rio dull; No. 7, Invoice 6%c, jobbing 7c. Mild quiet; Cordova, 7%#14c. Sugar—Raw firm; fair refining, 313-16 c: centrifugal. 96 test, 6 5-16 c; molasses sugar, 3%c; refined steady. a TRADE IN GENERAL. Quotations at St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Other Places. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 17.—Flour steady. WheatOptions fractions lower. Spot dull and nominal; No. 2 red. cash, elevator, 73%c; track, 73%c; February, 73%c; May, 75%#75%c; July, 70c; No. 2 hard,-i67#6Bc. Corn —Options weak and lower. Spot lower; No. 2. cash, 33%e; track, 34'-nc; February, 33%c: May, 34c; July, 34%c bid. Oats—Options 'fractions lower. Spot dull; No. 2, cash, 28%c;~*track, 28%#28%c; February, 28%c; May, 2£%0 asked; July, 25%c; No. 2 white, 30!jc. Rye lower at 56c. Flaxseed, no market. Prime timothy seed nominal. Corn meal, [email protected]. Bran firm; sacked, east track, 60#61%C. Hay dull, but steady; timothy, $6.50#0; prairie. $6.50#7. Whisky steady at $1.26. Butter firm; creamery, 20#24c; dairy, 14#18c. Eggs lower at 19%c. Cotton ties and bagging unchanged. Pork steady; standard mess, Jobbing, new, $lO. Lard lower; prime steam, $5.25; choice, $5.30. Dry-sait 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, 4.000 brls; wheat, 17,000 bu; corn, 43,000 bu; oats, 42,000 bu. Shipments—Flour, 3,oC<> brls; wheat, IS,OOO bu; corn, 10,000 bu; oats, 11,000 bu. BALTIMORE. Feb. 17.—Flour firm nnd unchanged; receipts. 4,365 brls; exports, 700 brls. Wheat dull; No. 2 red, spot and month, 75%# 75%c; March, 76#76%c; steamer No. 2 red, 73# 73%e; receipts. 1,191 bu; exports none; Southern wheat by sample, 71©76%c; Southern wheat on grade, 73#76c. Corn easy; mixed, spot, 35%#38%c; March, 38%#38%c; steamer mixed, 37%#37%c; receipts, 16,682 bu; exports. 94,285 bu; Southern white and yellow corn, 37#39%c. Oats quiet; No. 2 white Western, 37#37%c; No. 2 mixed Western, 34%@30c; receipts. 1,0)0 bu; exports non*. Butter, eggs and cheete firm. CINCINNATI, Feb. 17.—Flour quiet. WheatNo. 2 red, 75c. Corn dull; No. 2 mixed, 34#34%c. Oats easy: No. 2 mixed, 30#31c. Rye steady; No. 2,63 c. Lard easy at $5.20. Bulk meats steady at $4.90. Bacon quiet at *6 75. WKlsky quiet at $1.26. Butter firm. Sugar steady. Eggs easier and lower at 18c. Chees* firm. TOLEDO. Feb. 17.—Wheat steady; No. 2, cash, 72%c; May, 75%c. Corn lower and steady; No. 2 mixed, 35c.. Oats dull: No. 3 mixed, cash and May, 29c. Rye dull, but higher; No. 2, cash, $5.85. Clover seed active; prime, cash, old. $3-60 asked; new. $3.95. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 17.—Wheat steady at 70% #7o%c; July, 70%#710; on track. No. 1 hard, 70%c;

SMOKE MELROSE CIGAR. Price sc. Ask your dealer for one. JOHN RAUCH, Manufacturer, - - - Indianapolis.

No. 1 Northern, 69%c; No. 2 Northern, 67%c. Flour dull and unchanged. Bran steady. Butter, Eggs ami Cheese. NEW YORK. Feb. 17.—r.utter—Receipts. 6.467 packages. Market steady; Western creamery. 16 ©22c; Elglns, 22c; factory. 11%@14c. Cheese—Receipts. 3,811 packages. Market steady; large white, 10%e: small white, ll@ll%c; large colored. 10%c; small colored, ll@llVc. Eggs—Receipts, 3,391 packages. Market steady; Western, 24c; Southern, 24c. KANSAS (TTY. Feb. 17.—Butter about steady; creamery, 16#31c; dairy, 17c. Eggs—Market lower on heavy receipts; fresh candled Missouri and Kansas stock, 18c, cases returned; 18%c in new white wood cases, cases Included. CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—0n the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was firm; creamery, 14@23c; dairy, ll%@lßc. • Eggs firm; fresh, 2t?c. Cheese steady; creamery, 9%@11c. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 17.—Butter steady and in fair demand; fancy Western creamery, 26? Eggs dull and lo lower; fresh Western, 23c. Cheese firm. Wool. BOSTON, Feb. 17.—The Boston Commercial Bulletin will say to-morrow of the wool market: Trading has been in a large measure restricted by the storm and the developments for the week are not significant. The features of the week have been a large single purchase of territories and the sale of nearly half a million pounds of Irish at low edge of quotations. The sales of the week are: 2,855,000 lbs domestic and 1,087,500 foreign, a total of 3,942,500 lbs, against 4,264,000 last week and 3,681,000 for the same week last year. The sales to date show a decrease of 676.000 lbs domestic and 3,770,500 foreign from the sales to the same date In 1888. The receipts to date show an increase of 4,654 bales domestic and a decrease of 14,463 bales foreign. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—W00l steady; fleece, 17® 22c; Texas, 12® 15c. Dry Good*. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—There is no check to the strong tone of the market for cotton goods. The demand to-day has been of fully average dimensions, even though storm obstructions have not all been removed. Utica and Mohawk wide sheetings advanced 5 per cent, and some leading makes of Eastern drills advanced %c per yard. Prints are very strong and orders for goods not In stock taken at value only. Print cloths arc bid for at 2%c for regulars without sellers. Ka change in woolen goods situation. * Metals. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—At the close the Metal Exchange called pig iron warrants firm at $8.50 nominal. Lake copper unchanged at 17.75 c bid and 18c asked. Tin quiet at 23.23 c bid and 23.500 asked. Lead firm for spot, with 4.500 bid and 4.60 c asked. Spelter strong at 6.25 c. Brokers’ price for lead is 4.20 c and for copper [email protected]. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 17.—Lead quiet at 4.32%<g4.35c. Spelter firm at 5.95©6c. Oils. WILMINGTON, Feb. 17.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 43%@44c. Rosin firm at 90@95c. Crude turpentine, nothing doing. Tar steady at sl. OIL CITY, Feb. 17.—Credit balances, $1.15; certificates, no bids; shipments, 62,995 brls; runs, 81,145 brls. SAVANNAH, Feb. 17.—Spirits of turpentine firm at 44c. Rosin firm and unchanged. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 17. Cotton, quiet and steady; sales, 2,350 bales: ordinary, 4%c; good ordinary, 5 l-16c; low middling, 5 7-16 e; middling, 6c; good middling, 6%c; middling fair, 7%e; receipts, 4,899 bales; stock, 398,894 bales. •*■ • LIVE STOCK. Cattle Active and Steady—Hog* Active and Higher—Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 17.—Cattle—Receipts, 650; shipments, 400. There was a light supply. The market was fairly active at steady prices, except on heifers, which sold a shade lower. Everything was sold at the close. Exports, good to choice $3.10# 5.65 Killers, medium to good 4.00# 5.00 Killers, common to good 4.00# 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 3.60# 4.00 Cows, fair to medium 3.50# 3.80 Cows, common and old 1.50# 2.50 Veals, good to choice 6.00# 6.00 Veals, common to medium 3.00# 4.50 Bulls, good to choice 3.50# 4.00 Bulls, common to medium 2.50# 3.25 Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to medium 20.00#30.00 Hogs—Receipts, 6,500; shipments, 3,000. The quality was generally good. The market opened fairly active, with a fair demand from both packers and shippers at an advance of 6c. Heavies $3.86#3.92% Mixed [email protected] Lights 3.650(3.75 I’igs 3.00#3.6a Roughs 3.10(53.65 Sheep and Lambs —Receipts, 100; shipments none. There were but few on sale. Good grades sold at steady prices, while others were dull. Sheep, good to choice $3.50#4.00 Sheep, fair to medium 3.20#3.50 Stockers, common to medium 2.00#3.00 Bucks, per head 3.00#3.50 Spring lambs, good to choice 4.25#5.00

Elsewhere. CHICAGO, Feb. 17,-Trade in cattle to-day was slow and most of the offerings sold at low prices, the average quality being poor. Average sales were about 15c lower than late sales last week. Fan'-y cattle brought $5.80#6; choice steers, $5.40 #5.75; medium steers, [email protected]; stockers and feeders, $3.50#4.70; bulls, $2.75#4.25; cows and heifers, $3.30®4; Western-fed steers, $4.10#5.50; Texas steers, $3.50@5; calves, [email protected]. Hogs—Early sales of hogs were made at steady prices, but after the offerings were largely disposed of the market weakened about 2%c; fair to choice, $3.75#3.90; packing lots. $3.55#3.72%; mixed, [email protected]; butchers, $3.60#3.85; lights, $3.55 @3.80; pigs, $3.25(53.70. There was a fairly good demand for sheep and prices ruled steady; poor to prime sheep sold at [email protected], chiefly at [email protected]; yearlings, $4-25# 4.70; lambs, s4<?/5.05, largely at $4.70#6. Receipts—Cattle, 2,500; hogs, 28,000; sheep, 7,000. KANSAS (TTY, Feb. 17.—Cattle—Receipts, 1.640 natives and 1,040 Texans; light supply; all grades in good demand at steady prices; heavy native steers, $5.25#5.50; medium, $4.55®5.25; light weights, [email protected]; stockers and feeders, $3.75#5; butcher cows and heifers, [email protected]; canners, $2.25 @3; Western steers, $3.75#4.90; Texans, $3.35#4.63. Hogs—Receipts, 13,290. Good demand from packers and shippers; packing grades active and a shade higher; butcher weights 5c higher; heavy hogs, [email protected]; mixed, [email protected]; Nghts, $3.40# 8.65. Sheep—Receipts, 4,570. Excellent demand; the liberal supply quickly absorbed at steady prices for lambs and steady to 10c higher for muttons; lambs. [email protected]; muttons. $4#4.40; feeding lambs, $3.60@4; feeding sheep, $2.75#3.60; stockers, s2# 3.50. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Beeves—Receipts, 2.800. Market opened 10c lower on steers and steady to 15c lower on rough stuff; steers closed 15c lower, cows 15#25c lower; steers, fair to choice, $5.30# 5.90; oxen and stags, [email protected]; bulls, $3.50#4.40, cows, $2.2>@4.15. Cables steady. Exports none. Calves—Receipts, 400; veals 25#60c lower; other calves steady; veals, $5#8.50; choice, $8.75; tops, $9; no Southern or Western calves. Hogs—Receipts. 8,200. Market slow and 20c lower at [email protected]. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 12,800. Sheep slow and 15@230 lower; lambs 40c lower and closed weak; sheep, $3#4.50; few selected export sheep, $5; lambs, $5#5.45, with most of the sales at $5.25 #6.35. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 17.—Cattle—Receipts, 2.300. Market steady to lower; fair to fancy native shipping and export steers, $4.60#6.10, bulk at $4 §o# 5.40; dressed beef and butcher steers, $3.60#f>,35, bulk at $4.30#5.30; steers under 1,000 lbs, $3#4.80, bulk at $3.35#4.10; stockers and feeders, $3#4.75, bulk at $3.25#4.75; cows and mixed, [email protected], bulk of cows, $2.40#3.15, bulk of hvifers, $3.15#3.90; Texas and Indian steers, s3#s, bulk at $3.35#4.85, cows and heifers, $2 35#3.75. Hogs—Receipts, 4,500. Market steady; pigs and lights, $3.60#3.70; packers, [email protected]; butchers, $3. So@ 3.85. Sheep—Receipts. 400. Market steady: native muttons, [email protected]; culls, $3.25; lambs, $4.25#5.25. CINCINNATI, Feb. 17. —Cattle quiet at $2,50#5. Hogs active at $3.35© 3.95. Sheep steady at $2.25#4.25; lambs, $4#6.25. SALES OF REAL ESTATE. ■Six Transfer*, with a. Total Consideration of *1,275. Instruments filed for record in the recorder's offioe of Marlon county, Indiana, for the tw-nty-four hours ending at 5 p. m. Feb. 17, 1899, as furnished by Theo. Stein, abstracter of itles, corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, Indianapolis. Suite 229, first office floor. The Lemcke. Telephone 1760: Vincent Askln to George E. Wasson, part of south half of northwest quarter of Section 17, Township 14, Range 4 $42.50 Same to Samuel E. Hamilton, port of south half of northwest quarter of Section 17, Township 14, Range 4 32.50 Henry F. Neerman to James P, McHaflle, Lot 200, Jackson Park addition 400.00 James P. McHattie to Thomas F. Brewer, same lot 1,000.00 Martha Hamilton to John Hamilton, part of west half of southwest quarter of Section 15, Township 16, Range 5 2,400 00 More Hastings to WlU|am 11. Adams and wife, Lots 26, 27 and 28, New Bethel.... 400 00 Transfers, •; consideration $4,275.00

SAWS AM) MILL SUPPLIES. E. C. ATKINS & CO. C Manufacturers and Re- IiUL W pairers of all kiuds of Office and Factory, South and Illinois Streets Indiana polls, Ind. cTTi/ C BKI TIINO and ' oA W 3 EMERY WHEELS SPECIALTIES OF VV. B. Barry Saw and Supply Cos 132 S. PENN. ST. All kinds of Saws repaired. OPTICIAN*. ‘ [ l l - OPTICIAN J V PILPEWILSt DEM ISON HOUSE. f INPIAHAPOU3-IND. ’abstracter of TITLES. THEODORE TEIN. ABSTRACTER of TITLES Corner Market and Pennsylvania streets Indianapolis. Suite 229, First Office Fiooi, "ThO Lemcke.'* Telephone 1760. ' U ———■—l 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 SANATORIUM Mental nnd Xervon* Dlneose*. 218 NORTH ALABAMA STREET. SEALS, STENCII.S.ST AMPjL jpVn T MiSFJEL seals H STENCILS, STAMPSj -ACATALOGUE FREE BADGES. CHECKS &C. . RAILROAD TIME TABLE. ON and after 6unday, Nov. 20, 1898, trains wilt run kb follows: (Central Standard Time.) All trains enter UNION RAILWAY STATION. —P. M. Time In Black Face Figures Trajns marked thus: Dy—Daily, S—Sleeper. P—Parlor Car, C—Chair Car, D—Dining Car. CLEVE., ON., 4 HI. Jt ST. LOUIS R’Y. Cleveland Division—Uig; Four. DEPART | ARRIVH New York ex, dy s. 4:25 U City & W ac, dy. 9:25 Muncie & B H ex.. 6:15 S’wst'n lim, dy, and s.U:3O Cleveland mall 10:50 B.H. & Muncie ex 3:10 And'on & B H ex..11:15 Cleveland ex 0:00 U C & W ac, dy.. 4.50 B.H. & And’n ex. 8:415 Knick'b'r. dy. ands. 0:25 N. Y. ex. dy, 5...10:50 St. Loalß Di via lon—Big; Four. St Louis expr 7:30 New York ex. dy, s. 4:05 S’wst'n Urn. dy, and *.11:43 Mat & T H acc 10:30 T. H. & Mat ac.. 4:30 St. Louis express..s:4o T H & Mat acc, Kn’kb'r ap, and s,dy 0:10 Sunday only Gils NY StL ex.dy sIX :S4U Cincinnati Division— B!r Foar. Cincinnati ft, dy s. 3.45 Greensburg acc 9:o* St L & Oln f 1, ay, s 4:15 Cln’ti acc, dy 11:1* Cincinnati accom... 7:00 C & St L mail, dy Cincinnati accom... 10:50 and sand p”........11:46 Cincinnati d.y p....34:45 Chi. Lim., p 4:1(5 Greensburg acc... 5:30 Cin & Ind ex, p... 6:40 C'tl & Wash, F. L. C I&StL ex, ay 8.11:05 dy, and, sand p... 0:20 Chicago dy a 11:5(8 Louisville Line. Louisv f 1 dy b 3:451 Loutsv f 1 dy ... 11:50 Louisv day expr...2:45 Louisv day expr...11:40 Ckluago Division—Bl|f Four. Lafayette accom.... 7:10 Cln f 1, dy, 5........ 3:30 Chi fm. dy, and y 11:45 Lafayette accom... 10:30 Chi Lim, and p 4:15 Cln. mall.p and, dj . 2:35 Lafavette acc 5:15 Lafayette acc 5:45 Chi F L. dv s 12:05 C’tl & Wash, dp. 6:10 Michlran Division—Blr Four. Benton Harbor ex.. 6:35| Wabash acc, dy..,. 9:25 Mich mail and ex. .11:15 B.Harbr m'l ex... 3:TOWabash acc, dy.. 4:so'Michigan expr.... 6:45 Peorin Div., West—Big; Four. Peoria ex and mail. 7:25 Col & Cin ex. dy. a. 3:30 West’n ex, dy, p... 11:45 Champaign accom..lo:2o Champaign acc... 4:35 N.Y. ex & mail... 2:42 Peoria ex, dy, 5.. l 1:15; Peoria ex, dy, p.. 6(10 Peoria Div.. East-Big Four. Columbus express.. 6:10: Springfield expr 11:35 So'field & Col. ex.3:20; Columbus expr...10:40 PITTS., CIN'., CHI. A ST. LOUIS H’Y. Indianapolis Division—Penn* Line. Eastern ex, dy, 5... 6:501 Fast ex, dy 7:35 Fast ex, dy B:2St Lim’u mail, dy s d.B:OS Columbus accom.... 8:30;St L ex, dy, and 8.12:25 Atl’c ex, dy. and 5..2:3 Tnd’p’lsacc 1:15 Day ex, dy B|4H> Mail express, dy.. 6:50 BtLANY, dy sand.. 7:10 ' West’n ex, dy, s..10:00 Chicago Division—Penns R. R. Lou & Chi ex, dy p.11:36| Chi & Lou f ex,dy 5.3:20 Lou& Chi f ex.dy • 12:05lChi &Lo ex. dy p. 3:43 Louisville Division—Penn* R. R. Lou & So spl. dy, s. 3:30 Mad & Ind acc 10:20 Lou St Mad ac, dy s 8:15 St L & C f 1, dy. p. 11:25 Ind & Mad accom, Mad & Ind acc...6:40 Sundav only 7:00 Ind & Pitts, dy. s 7:00 Iml & Mad ac 3:3o!Mnd. A Ind. acc., L & At’a dy, p..4:00 Sunday only 0:10 Louisville acc 7:10 L & Chi ex dy s.11:30 VANDALIA LINE. St Louts ex. dy.... 7:20 New York ex, dy 8. 5:44 NY & StL, dv sand. 8:10 Casey accom 10:09 StL ex dy. ■d p. 12:35 St Louis ex, andy — 8:29 ' Oaser aco 4:00 Atl’c ex, dy, dap. 3:35 Fist Mall dy..... 7:05 Fast Line, daily. 4:45 Western ex dy 8.11:35 StL & NY, dy, sand 7:05 INDIANAPOLIS & VINCENNES R. R. C’ro & V’nes ex, dy 8:15f Vincennes expr 10:44 Vincennes expr....4:20 Cairo txpr, dy 4:50 CINCINNATI, HAMILTON A DAYT’N ICY Ticket Office, 25 W. Washington St. •pi n ~..3:55 •Cin ex 12:45 •Cln fast mall 8:05 *Cin fast mall 6:54 ••Cin & Detroit ex. .10:4" *Cin & Detroit ex. .11:45. ••(fin & Davt’n ex.2:4r **Cin & Dayt’n ex.3:20 •Cin & Dayt’n 11m.4:4f *Cin & D’y’n 1im.10:35 •Cin. Tol. & Det. .7:o' ••Cln, Tot & Det. 7:50 • Daliv. •• Ex. Sunday. LAKE ERIE A WESTERN R. R. Mall and expr 7.00 j Ind’ pis ex, dy .10:24 T D A- M C ex. dy 1:20 Mail and expr.... 2:35 Evening expr 7:001 Toledo expr 6:00 INDIANA, DECATUR & WESTERN R’Y. Mail and expr 8:13| Fast expr, dy, s c.. 3:50 Chicago express ll:so|Tuscola acc 10:44 Tuscola accom ... 3:4sjChlcago expr 2:40 Fast ex dy, sc.11:10 Mail and expr 4:40 C., I. A L. R’Y. (Monon Route.) Chi night ex, dy. 5.12:55 Cin vest, dy, s 3:34 Fast mail, dy, 5.... 7:00 Fast mail. dy. a.... 7:54 Chi expr, p 11:50 Cin vest, dy, and p. 4:37 Chi vest, and p 3:35 Chicago expr..... 2:40 VITAL STATISTICS—FEB. 17. Birth*. j vnd Levi B. Anderson, 422 Downing sti oy. . and John Buser, 876 River avenue, boy. . ...els and Alois Rais, 512 Blake street, boy. Bertha and George Carson, 2704 Bellefontain* street, boy. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Riley, 2040 Alvord street, girl. Mr. and Mrs. C. Enans, 2369 Southeastern avenue, girl. Bettie and Hezekiah Logan, 953 West Walnut street, boy. Sadie and R. S. Smiley, 1037 Tecumseh street, boy. Mattie and Harry B. Newby, 46% North Pennsylvania street, boy. Grace and Carl M. Light, 1421 Columbia avenue, boa. Rose and Thomas Dobson, 2GO Temple avenue, girl. Malel and Frank Schmidt, 1228 East Seventeenth street, girl. Cora and E. M. Haggard, 1122 Bellefontaint street, boy. Eva and George Morris, city, boy. Carrie and Harry M. King, 6(0 North Ptn* street, girl. Effle and Thomas Robinson, 508 North Davidson street, girl. Monroe Reeves and wife, 20 Temple avenue, boy. A. C. Ward and wife. 20 Tacoma avenue, boy. Clara and WUllam-Pettrls, 1013 West Thirtieth street, girl. Laura and Joseph Christy, 2439 East Washington street, boy. Pauline and Daniel Meyer, 1631 Fenneman street, girl. Clara and Henry Steinmetz, 1522 Shelby street, girl. Rose and Jacob Kreeb, Union street, boy. Hattie and Fred Bauert, 1426 Remington street, girl. Elsie and Anton Kuhn. 929 Mulberry street, boy. Kate and Albert Kempe, 920 West New York street, girl. Emily and J. G. Spohr, 114 East Pratt street, boy. Deaths. Sadie Blake, thirty-four years, HO South Nobio street, erysipelas. Michael Cavanaugh, seven days, 224 Gelsendorff street, cold. Viola McGee, eight days, 613 South Missouri street, convulsions. Ella Higgins, forty-four years, 427 North Nobis street, exhaustion. Carolina Poppenslcker. sixty-five years, 683 Reno street, peritonitis. Enoa liege, sixty years. North New Jersey street, phthisis. Adolf Schleicher, forty-flve years, 1914 North Delaware street, accident. Marriage License. William H. Wood and Grace Braunuan. Bulldiniff Permit. Gregory A Appel, remodel store front, ISI East Market street, s3o*

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