Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1899 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1899.

SAFE DEPOSITS.

S. A, FLETCHER & CO.'S SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT 30 East Washington street. Absolute safety against fire and burglar. Policeman day and niht on guard. Lestjcned for safe keeping cf Money. Bonds, Wills. Deeds, Abstracts. Silver Plate, Jewels an.l valuable Trucks, Packages, etc. Contains 2.100 boxes. Rent 55 to $45 per year. JOHN S. T.HKIGTO. Manager. QUEER BANK STATEMENT JSEW YORK FCXDS LOWER IX PROPORTION Til AS SINCE 18J3. Taking of Profits) In Stocks Canned a Slight Reaction Daring the Fast Week-Local Trade. At New YorJc Saturday money on call uras steady at 4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 3Q4 per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $1.&74.S7V; for demand and at 4.S4'i4.S5 for sixty days; posted rates, K.Wii4.& and $4.88; commercial bills, 14.85. Silver certificates, G0Q61c; bar silver. GOftc; llexlcan dollars, 4714c. New York experts of gold and silver to ell countries for the week aggregated JTJS,4ZZ in silver bars and coin and $274,150 in Cold. The imports of specie wer9 $23,283 gold and $44,830 silver. The imports of dry goods and general merchandise at the port of New York for the week were valued at $S,617,7S0. The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus reserve, decrease J3.212.073 Loans, Increase C.yto.fO') Specie, decrease Legal tenders, decrease 4,310.800 Deposits, decrease 21S.!d0 Circulation. Increase 40,700 The banks now hold $5,002,475 In excess of the requirements. The New York Financier says: 'The associated banks of New York, if their statement for the week ending July 8 be accepted as correct, have le&s surplus cath on hand than at any time, with the exception of September, 1WS, since the 1S33 panic. But the current exhibit Is so complicated by Incidents due to July disbursements and also by the system of averages employed In making it, that its totals do not possess tLe significance that otherwise might attach to them. The losa of about ten millions in cash, for instance, is very much more than known operations called for and the expansion of nearly seven millions In loans muflt reflect the present week a business. The demands for accommodation within the past four days certainly did not necessitate this violent rise. As the stateKent stands it plainly indicates that every dollar of the loans has been taken from the banks in cash and withdrawal of deposits has been by a similar operation. Manifestly this Is an Impossible contingency. A more detailed explanation shows that of the loss In cash, the National City and the Chase National Banks are responsible for the entire reduction, the National City's less having been about JG.OOO.OOO and Its increase In loans more than $6,000,000. CONDITION OF BANKS. It Is Interesting to note In this connection that, whereas the average reserve In all the banks Is now 25.5 per cent., a loss of 1 per cent., the reserve, exclusive of the Institution named, is 26 per cent. In other words, lxty-two of the sixty-three banks have within a small fraction of 1 per cent, as much paper money as reported at the opening of July. The refusal of call money to advance perceptibly in the face of the showing made by the banks proves that the situation is pretty well understood and that no fears are entertained as to the future. Purlng the next week the banks will gain heavily In casn, not only on government account, but from other sources as well. It Is no exaggeration to say that at the close of business Saturday the various institutions were In much better shape In every way than their statements would Imply. The maintenance of a 4 per cent, rate on call money is of Itself enough to Induce a movement of currency In this direction." Total sales of stocks were 2M),437 shares, Including: American Steel and Wire, 2,2oo; Sugar, 15,800; Tobacco. 3.100: Atchison. 16.C00; Atchlaon preferred, 71.900; Baltimore & Ohio preferred, 3.300; Brooklyn Rapid Transit. 10,000; Chesapeake & Ohio. 6,700; Chicago, Burlington A Quincy. 11.200; Colorado Fuel and Iron, 3.600; Federal Steel, 2,000; Federal Steel preferred, 2,000: Louisville & Nashville. 3.2O0: Manhattan. 24.200; Mexican Central. 2,400; North. Pacific. 8.100; Ontario &. Western, 4.000; Pennsylvania. 6,000; People's Gas, 2,200; Rock Island, 7,400; St. Louis Southwestern. 4.000; St. Paul. 11,800; Southern Pacific, 2,900; Tennessee Coal and Iron, .500; Texas Pacific, 4,000; Union Pacific, 8,400. The character of the trading in stocks was much confused throughout Saturday's session. There were points of aggressive strength which encouraged the maintenance of prices, but the certainty of an unfavorable bank statement encouraged the continuance of profit-taking in some of the stocks which have recently advanced several points. On the publication of the bank statement the whole market sold off and net gains were preserved In only a few cases. The liquidation was by no means heavy and the bears covered short contracts at the decline, causing a rally from the low point. The denials of the reported alliance between Pennsylvania and New York Central caused the advance in those stocks, but the amount of selling was remarkably small. The bank statement, on Its surface, presents an extraordinary situation. It is almost unprecedented to have the cash reserves down to within a little over $5,000,000 of the 25 per cent, required by law at this time of year. Yet the banks expanded their loans during the week nearly $7,u0, when they were already at the highest figure on record last week. The conclusion is unavoidable that the bank authorities see prompt relief in certain prospect. In fact, the easing tendency of money during the latter part of the week shows that the relief is already at hand. It comes in large fart from the release of funds that had een accumulated for the disbursement of semi-annual obligations. It is also taken Into consideration that Interior points are better supplied with money than ever before, so that the conviction is held in banking circles that tightness In the New York money market would bring funds from interior points to New York. ONE WEEK IN STOCKS. The action of the stock market during' the past week has Justified the confidence of those who bought securities the previous week In the belief that opportunity would be offered to realize profits quickly. The expected demand for stocks was forthcoming, but It was so freely fed with offerings accumulated the previous week that the strengthening effect on prices was offset and the tide turned in favor of reaction. Thus, In spite of a very active market for the short week, after a long holiday period, the net changes are not conspicuous in the majority of cases. The profit-taking was most effective early In the week in Pennsylvania nd New York Central and the Vandtjrbllts. Belling was not heavy In either of these, but the large and confident buying of laat week was discontinued and prices were not supported. The early disposition to take profits in the grangers was offset by the statement of St. Paul's earnings for the fourth week in June, showing an Increase of nearly $300,000 over the corresponding week of last year. With the largest earning in its history, thus recorded for the fqurth week, the month of June and the fiscal year 1&9, the effect was encouraging for the new fiscal year Just opening, the more so as all reports of railroad earnings received during the week showed the same prosperous conditions on railroads in all sections of the country. Much stress is laid on the large amount of the year's earnings that have been reinvested in railroad properties, resulting in higher efficiency and paving the way for future reductions in the ratio of operating expenses. There were incidents corroborative of the earlier rumors of far-reaching combinations of control of railroad systems, calculated to make possible more economical administration and to facilitate co-operative measures for conducting traffic, but, in plte of these factors of strength in the general outlook, the tendency toward reaction in the railroads prevailed, owing to the recent conditions. Profit taking was the main factor. But there was, in addition, some apprehension that spring wheat had been damaged by heavy rains and there were fears of damage to railroad property bythe Texas floods. The most potent influence toward reactions was the failure of the money market to weaken as expected under the distribution d Hzlijtzxly taterejt and dividend dis

bursements. Time money could readily be had at ZkiZhi per cent. But call loans were slow to ylild below 6 per cent. In London both call money and the discount rate fell below 2 per cent., reflecting the relaxation of pressure for the half-yearly settlement. Enormous Ioac,s were liquidated both at the Bank of England and the Bank of France. The strain on the money market In Berlin and Vienna was not so much felleved, exchanges continuing to run against London. But confidence was shown that the stringency there would also relax soon, and that no further demand would be made on New York for gold. The easier money conditions in London brought large buying of stocks in New York for London account, until money rates there began to harden again. The week's trading on the Stock Exchange has been distinguished by some reawakening of Interest In Industrial i?sues. as the market for railroad stocks fell into dullness on the reaction. The older dividend paying industrials have been favorites, but some of the newer ore and metal combinations have also shown signs of life, notably the coppers. Amalgamated Copper has moved up several points In the outside market, but Is still well below the original subscription price, and Anaconda has been active and strong. Bond3 have shown increased activity and strength. United States new fours advanced Vz. the threes Vi and the fives A In the bid price. The following table, prepared by L. W. Louis, Room 11, Board of Trade, shows the range of quotations: Op'n- IH'h- L'w- CTsing. est. est. lng. Atchison 2tH 21 hi 203i 204 Atchison preferred .... 61& 62 611 s 61 Baltimore & Ohio 4 Canada Pacific Canada Southern 54 Central Pacific 52 Chesapeake & Ohio... 29 29 s 23 284 Chicago & Alton 150 C, B. & Q 74 C & E. 1 137V4 137i,4 136H li C. & E. I preferred 74 C., C, C. & St. L 5S1, 55ft 53 53 C. C, C. & St. L. prof .... .... 96 Chicago Great W'st'rn 14' C71iB aiid Chi., Ind. & L. pref 39 Chic'go & N'th'w'st'n.lGOU IGOVi 160 1W4 Delaware & Hudson 1234 i).. l. & w m Denver & Rio Grande 214 D. & R. G. preferred T1 Erie Erie first preferred 37 tort V 3yn 14 Great Northern pref 1714 Illinois Central 115 Lake ErJe & Western 17 f L. E. & W. pref .... .... .... 73Va Lake Shore 200 Louisville & Nashville. 724 72g 71i 714 Manhattan 120 120 11S 119 Michigan Central Ill Missouri Pacific 46 46 45 45 M K. & T. pref 344 34 344 34 New Jersey Central 117 New York Central 129 139 13S 138 Northern Pacific 50 50 43 50 Northern Pacific pref 77 Reading '. 21 Reading first pref ' 61 Rock Island 117 1174 11CH 117 8t. Paul 132 132 131 131 St. Paul pref 174 St. Paul & Omaha 106 St. Paul & Omaha pref 175 Southern Pacific 32 Texas Pacific ...v 23 Union Pacific com 44 44 43 43 Union Pacific pref 77 77 77 77 Wabash .... 7 Wabash pref .... .... .... 22 Wheeling & Lake Erie 9 Wheeling & L. E. pref 24 EXPRESS COMPANIES. Adams Express ...... .... .... .... Ill L. S. Xxpress. ...... .. .... .... .... 49 American Express 137 Wells-Fargo Express .... 129 MISCELLANEOUS. American Wire ........ .... .... & American Wire pref 95 American Cotton Oil 38 Am'ric'n C't'n Oil pref 92 American Spirits 6 6 6 6 Am'ric'n Spirits pref 29 American Tobacco ... 97 97 97 97 Am'ric'n Tobacco pref 142 People's Gas 120 120 120 120 Brooklyn Transit 116 Consolidated Gas 184 Commercial Cable Co .... .... .... 179 General Electric ...... .... ... .... 118 Federal Steel $ Federal Steel pref .... 1 Liead 29 Lead pref 112 Paciflc Mall 4S 4S 43 4S Pullman Palace 10 Sugar : 15S 159 157 157 Sugar pref 117 Tern. Coal & Iron 70 70 69 69 IT. S. leather 72 72 71 71 IT. S. Rubber 52 U. S. Rubber pref 117 Western Union 90 9o 90 90 UNITED STATES BONDS. TT. S. Fours, reg .... .... 112 IT. S. Fours, coup .... .... 112 IT. S. Fours, new, reg 130 IT. S. Fours, new, coup 10 IT. S. Fives, tcz 112 U. S. Fives, coup 112 U. S. Threes, reg 10S U. S. Threes, coup 109 Saturday's Dank Clearings. At Chicago Clearings. $20,756,627: balances, $2,344,512. Sterling exchange posted, $4.SC and $4.SS: actual, $4.84 and $4.86; documentary. $4.48 and $4.86; New York exchange, 25 cents discount. At St. Louis Clearings, $4,428,840; balances, $646,550. x At Cincinnati Clearings. $1,613,100. At New York Clearings, $226,743,619: balances. $10,911,834. At Boston Clearings, $29,916,654; balances, At"Balt!more Clearings, $4,456,090; balances, $536,748. At Phllade'phla Clearings, $19,102,482; balances, $3,115,845. LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. The Month Shows Active Trade for Midsummer and Firm Prices. Wholesale merchants are delightfully surprised at the way business has opened with July and Indications are that the month la to be a recordbreaker as to volume. Dry goods houses report sale unusually large for July. Wholesale grocers are crowded with business. Druggists report business unusually good and confectioners are having good trade for the season. On Commission row a very satisfactory trade la In progress and prices on most articles are better than at the corresponding period last year. Of late there haa been a marked Increase in demand for provisions, poultry especially. Young chickens are in good request, as are eggs, prices now being better than at the corresponding period last year. Seed merchants report their trade Improving. The flour market la quiet and prices easier. The local grain market is quite active, the inspections of the week having been the largest of any one week In months. All cereals are in food request at the following range of prices, as furnished by the secretary of the Board of Trade: Wheat No. 2 red. 71c; No. X red, 6&ff70c; July, 7lc: wagon wheat. 71e. Corn No. 1 white. 34c; No. 3 white (one color). 34c; No. 4 white, 31033c; No. 2 white mixed, 334c; No. S white mixed. 33c; No. 4 white mixed. 30Htt32VC; No. 2 yellow, 33;c; No. 3 yellow, 33c; No. 4 yellow. Zl'ffZZc; No. 2 mixed. 33c; No. 3 mixed, 33c; No. 4 mixed, 30wg324c; ear corn. 33VaC. Oats No. 2 white, 29c; No. S white, 23e; Now 2 mixed. 27c; No. 3 mixed, 26lic. Hay No. 1 timothy, $Stf9.50; No. 2 timothy. 3VB8.50. Inspections Theat: No. 2 red. 34 cars; No. 3, S: rejected, 1; .total. 3i cars. Corn: No. 3 white, 21 cars; No. 4. 1; No. 3 yellow, 2; No. 3 mixed. 7; No. 4, 1; no grade, 2; total, 34 cars. Oats: Rejected. 3 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. (Prices paid by ahippera.) Poultry Hens. Sc; cocks. 3c; young chickens. 13314c: hen turkeys, young and fat, 7c; young toms, 5c; young ducks. 8c; geese. 4c for full feathered, 3c for plucked. Cheese New Ycrk full cream, lOQllc; skims, CfrSc; domestic Swiss, 10$lc; brick, 9c; llniburger, 10c. Butter Choice. Ho; poor. 87c; Elgin creamery. 21c. Eggs Candled. 11c. Feathers Prima geese, soc par lb; prima duck. 10617c per lb. Beeswax 30c for yellow; 25c for dark. Wool Medium, unwashed. lffl9c; tub-washed. 2025c; burry and unmerchantable. 5c leas. HIDES. TALLOW. ETC. Green-salted Hides No. 1. ic; No. 2, 7 Vie; No. 1 calf. 10c; No. 2 calf. 8c. Grease White, 3c; yellow, 2c; brown. 2ia Tallow No. 1. 3c: No. 2. 2VsO. Bone Dry. $12312 per ton. TUB JOBBING TRADE, (The quotations given below are the selling prices cf the wholesale dealers.) Candles and ' a t Candles Stick, 6a6c per lb; common mixed, S'silTc; O. A. K. mixed. Cc; Banner twlat stick. 8c; cream mixed. 9c; old-time mixed. 7c. Nuts Soft-shelled almonds, UQ13c; English walnuts, 8'312c; Brazil nuts. 10c; Alberts. 11c; peanut, roasted, "ti Sc ; mixed nuts. 10c. Oils Linseed. Wasc per gal; coal oil, legal test. 7ft He; bank. 4ic; 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. Canned Goods. Corn, ?5c$1.2S. Peaches Eastern standard, Mb. 1 1.7-3:; 3-lb seconds. I1.15C1.C0; California standard. I2.10tf2.40; California seconds. il.7i&2. Miscellaneous Ulackberries. 2-Ib, 65Cr70c: raspberries, 3-lb, 90il95c; plneapplea, standard, 2-lb, SI. 103 1.20; choice. fl.GiXg2.M: cova oysters, l-lb. full weight. UQ'JZc; light. 'i&c; string beans. 70 Cj'c; Lima beans. $1.1031.20; peas, marrowfats. &C&S1.10; early June. Wc'uSMO; lobsters. $LSitj2; red cherries, JOcJl: strawberries, SSgtWc; salmon, l-lb. 0crSl.S5: l-lb. tomatoes, 90&Kc. Coal and Coke. Anthracite, per tea. $7j Brazil block, 13.50; Xalaad Clt lump, (3.234 Parafoa tun f3.2l

Jackson lump. $4.50: Pittsburg lump, $4.60; C. A O. Kanawha lump, $4-50; Winlfrede lump, $4.50; Blossburg smithing. $5; smokeless, $4.50: lump coke, per bu, 10c; crushed coke, per bu, 12c Drafts. Alcohol. $2.5632.6.5: asafetlda, 25330c; alum, 2i C4c; camphor. if6"c; cochineal, 50SKc; chloroform. Sifre'-c; roppras. brls. 75S5c: cream tartar, pure, 3033c; ir.Jigo. iifrSOc; llcoilce, Calab., genuine, 10340c; magnesia, carb., 2 02, 2i30c; morphine, P. & W.. per oz. $2.3C2.55. madder, 14 Cite; oil. castor, per gal, $11.10; oil. bergamot, per lb, $2.25: opium, $3.50; quinine. P. & W., per oz. 43343c ; balsam copaiba. WKgtiOc; soap, castlle. Fr.. 1231Rc; soda bicarb., 44r6c; salts. Epsom, 4fi5c; sulphur flour. Kite; saltpeter, S5J 14c; turpentine, 4Cjj0c; glycerine, 14&17c; iodide potassium. S2.5032.40; bromide potassium, KtfCOc; chlorate potash, 20c; borax. 3l2c; clnchonida, 25 C30c; cai colic acid, 30332c. Dry Goods. Bleached Sheetings Androscoggin 6c; Berkley, No. 60, lc; Cabot. Cc; Capitol. 44c; Cumberland, 6c; D wight Anchor. Sc; Fruit of the Loom. 64c; Farwell. 6c: Fltchville. 5Hc; Full Width. 4Vsc; Gilt Edge. 4,c; Gilded Age. 4c; Hill, 6c; Hope, 5ic; Llnwood. 640: Lonsdale, 6ic; Peabody. 4!c; Pride of the West, S'c; Ten Strike, 5ic; PepperelJ, 9-4, lc; Pepperell. 10-4. 20c; Androscoggin, S-4. lSc; Androscoggin, 10-4, 2G4C. Brown Sheetings Atlantic A, 6c; Argyle. 4;c; 2-vjtt C. 4c; Buck's Head. 5c: Clifton CCC. 5C; C-mttution. 40-iDch, 54c: Carlisle, 40-inch, 6c; DwigM's Star, c; Great Falls E. 4iC; Great Falls J, 4Hc; Hill Fine. 5Vic; Indian Head. SVsC; Pepperell It. 4&c; Pepperell, 10-4. 18c; Androscoggin. 9-4, lo: Androscoggin, 10-4. ISc. Prints Allen dress styles, 44c ; Allen's staples. 4Hc; Allen TR. 4',c: Allen's robes. 4'c; American Indies. 44c; Arnold long cloth B. 72c; Arnold LLC. 64c; Cocheco fancy. 5Vc; Hamilton fancy. 4'ic; Sierrimac pinks and purples, 54c; Pacific fancy, 54c; Simpson's mourning, ihto; Simpson's Berlin solids. 5c; Simpson's oil finish. 6c; American ahlrtlng, 3c; Mack white, 45c; grays. 4Vic. Ginghams Amrwkeag staples, 5'4c; Amoskeag dress, 6c; Persian dress. 6c; Bates Warwick drees, Hid Lancaster. 5ic; Lancaster Nonnandles, 6c; Renfrew dress styles, 6c. Kid-finished Cambrics Edwards, S'fcc; Warren, 34c; Slater. 34c; Genesee, 3ic Grain Bags Amoskeag. $14; American, $14; Harmony. $13.50; Stark. $16. Tickings Amoskeag ACA, 9,c; Coneetoga BF, 114c: Cordis, 140. 94c; Cordis FT. 94c: Cordis ACE. 94c; Hamilton awnings. $c; Kimono fancy. 17c: Lenox fancy. 18c; Muthuen AA. 94c; Oakland AF, 54c; Portsmouth, 104c; Susquehanna, 114c; Shetucket BW, 54c; Shetuckat F, 6c; Swift River. 44c Floor. Straight grades, $3.4033.60; fancy rrades, $3.60 3.75: patent flour, $434.50; low grades, $2.2:33; spring wheat patents, $535.25. Groceries. Coffee Good. 10312c; prime. 12314c; strictly prime. 14jrl6c; fancy green and yellow. 18322c; Java. 2&'f32c. Roasted Old government Java, 324333c; Golden Rio, 24c; Bourbon Santos, 24c; Gilded Santos, 24c; prime Santoa, 23c. Package coffee city prices Ariosa, 10.16c; Lion. 9.65c; Jersey, 10.15c; Caracas, 9.65c; Dlllworth's, 9.65c; Mall Pouch. 9.65c: Gates s blended Java, 9.65c. Sugars City Prices Dominoes, 6c; cut-loaf, 6.13c ; powdered, 5.88c; XXXX powdered. 6c; standard granulated, 5.75c; fine granulated, 5.75c; granulated five-pound bags, 5.81.; granulated two-pound bags. 6.81c; granulated five-pound cartons, 6.81c; granulated two-pound cartons, 6.Klc; extra fine granulated, 5.83c; cubes, 6 S8c; mold A, 6c: confectioners' A. 5.50c; 1 Columbia A Keystone A. 5.25c; 2 WHidsor A American A, 6.2c; 3 Rldgewood A Centennial A, 6.25c; 4 Phoenix A California A. 5.13c; 5 Empire A Franklin B. 6.13c: 6 Ideal golden ex. C Keystone B, 5.0c; 7 Windsor ex. C American B, Cc; 8 Rldgewood ex. C Centennial B, 4.94c; 9 yellow ex. C California B, 4.8c: 10 yellow C Franklin ex. C, 4.75c: 11 yellow Keystone ex. C. 4.63c: 12 yellow American ex. C, 4.56c; 13 yellow Centennial ex. C, 4.56c; 14 yellow California ex. C, 4.60c; 15 yellow, 4.50c; 16 yellow. 4.50c. Salt In car lots, 808S5c: small lots, 9035c. Spices Pepper, 12nSc; allspice, 15918c; cloves, 18Ti25c; cassia, 13318c; nutmegs, 65375c per lb. Flour Sacks (paper) Plain. 1-22 brl, per 1.000. $3.50; 1-16 brl. $5; 4 brl, $3; brl, $16; No. 2 drab, plain, 1-32 brl. per 1.000. $4.25; 1-16 brl. $6.50; 4 brl. $10: U brl. $20; No. 1 cream, plain. 1-32 brl. per 1.000. $7; 1-16 brl, $8.75; 4 brl, $14.50: 14 brl, $28.50. Extra charge for printing, $L101.15. Screened Beans $1.3101.40. Beans Choice hand-picked navy, SL4531.50 per bu; Limas, California, 66 54 per lb. Molasses and Syrups New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 2$ 3 30c; choice. 35340c; syrups, is 85c. Iflce Louisiana, 44364c: Carolina, 643340. Shot $1.30f 1.35 per bag for drop. Lead 6437c for pressed bars. Woodenware No. 1 tubs. $636.25; No. t tubs, $535.25; No. 3 tubs. $434.25; 3-hoop palls, $1,503 1.60; 2-hoop palls, SL3031.35; double washboards, $2.2532.75: common washboards, $1.2531.50; clothes pins, 60360c per box. Twine Hemp. 12318c per lb; wool, $10c: flax, 2030c; paper. 25c; Jute, 12315c: cotton. 18025c. Wood Dishes No. 1. per 1.000. $22.25; No. 2, $2.2502.50; No. 3. $2.5032.75; No, 6, $333.25. Iron and Steel. Bar Iron 2.1032.30c; horseshoe bar. 8034o; nail rod, 7c; plow slabs, Sc; American cast steel, 9011c; tire steel. 8034c: spring steel. 4405c. Leather. Leather Oak sole. 27030c; hemlock sole, 240 26c; harness. 22337c; skirting. 38342c: single strap. 38341c: city kip. 60izS5c; French kip, 9Oc0$1.20; city calfskin, 9Oc0$LlO; French calfskin, S1.2O01.S5. Nails and Horseshoes. Steel cut nalle, 2; wire nails, from store, $2.50 02.70 rates; from mill. $150 rates. Horseshoes, per keg. $4; mule shoes, per keg. M.EO; horse nails, $435 per box. Barb wire, galvaa.zed. $3.40; painted. $2.90. Produce, Fruits and Vegetables. Apples 25050c peck box. Red Raspberries $1.25 1.50 per 24-pInt case. Bananas Per bunch. No. 1. $101.50. Lemsns Messina, choice. iOO to box. $404.50; fancy, $5. Oranges California seedling oranges. $4.50, Pineapples $1.5002 per doz. Currants $1.25 per 24-quart case. Gooseberries $1.25 per crate. Blackberries $131.25. Cherries $1.50 per 24-quart crate. Blackberries $1.25512. Figs California, $1.65 per box; mat figs, 8iMc; fancy. $3.7504.25. New Potatoes 6O07Oo per bu; $3 per brl. Cucumbers 30c per dozen. New Beets 124015c per dozen bunches, Green Beans $1 per bushel. Wax Beans $1 per bushel. Lima Beans 6c per lb. Green Peas-75c3$l per bu. Tomatoes 50065c per crate of four baskets. Honey White, 15c per lb. Provisions. Bacon Clear sides. 40 to 60 lbs average. 64o; 30 to 40 lbs average, 6c; 20 to 30 lbs average, 74c: bellies, 25 lbs average. 6Hc; 18 to 23 lbs average, 6Tc: 14 to 16 lbs average. 7c. Clear backs, 20 to 25 lbs average. 64c; 12 to 16 lbs average, 6c; 6 to 9 lbs average, 7c. In dry salt, 4c less. Hams Sugar-cured, 18 to 20 lbs average, 10c; 15 lbs average, 10c; 12 lbs average, 11 10 lbs average. 114c. Lard Kettle rendered, 64c; pure lard, 64c Pork Bean, clear. $13; rump, $10. Shoulders 18 to 20 lbs average, 6c; 15 lbs average, 74c; 10 to 12 lbs average, 74c Seeds. Clover Choice, $3.75; prime, $4.25; English choice $3.7534; alsike. choice. $4.6035; alfalfa, choloe. $4.2504.50; crimson or scarlet clover, S3; timothy. 45 lbs. prime. $1.30fl.S5: light rrime. $1.3501.40; choice, $1.2501.30: fancy Kentucky, 14 lbs. $1.15; extra clean. CO075c; orchard grass, extra. $101.10; red top. choice. 80c$1.40; English bluegrass. 24 lbs. $1.1501.75; German millet. $101.25; Western millet, 60085c; common millet. 40060c. e TRADES IN GENERAL.

Quotations at St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Other Places. LIVERPOOL, July 8.-Wheat-Spot, No. 2 red Western winter, stocks exhausted; No. 1 red northern Duluth steady at 6s 4d. Corn Spot. American mixed, new, firm at 3s44d; old steady at 3s 64d: futures quiet; July, 3s 4;d; September, 8s 54d. Flour dull at 8s for St. Louis fancy. Beef steady; extra India mess, 60s; prime mess, 55s. Pork firm; prime mesa, Western. 15s. Hams Short-cut. 14 to 16 lb, firm at 47s. BaconCumberland cut. 23 to 30 lbs. firm at 2Ss 41; shortribs. 18 to 20 lbs, steady at 29s 6d; long-clear middles, light, 30 to 25 lbs, firm at 29s; long-clear middles, heavy, 35 to 40 lbs. firm at 2Ss 6d; shortclear backs, 16 to IS lbs, firm at 2Ss; clear bellies, 14 to 16 lbs, steady at 2?s 6d. Shoulders Square, 12 to 14 lbs, firm at 25s 6d. Lard steady; prime Western, in tierces, 26s 3d; American refined, in palls. 26s 6d. Butter Good United States. 62s. Cheese American finest steady at 42s. TallowPrime steady at 22s 6d; Australian (In London) steady at 25s 3d. Wheat Futures closed quiet; July, 5s$Hd; September, 6s llUd; December, 6s Hd. ST. LOUIS, July 8. Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat No. 2 red, cash, 72c; July. 73?ic; September, 74;074Tc; December, 77c; No. 2 hard, 71c. Corn No. 2, cash. 34c; July, 334c: September. 334o. Oats No. 2. cash. 264c; July, 234c; September, 204c; No. 2 white, 294c. Pork firm at $9. Lard higher; prime steam, $5.05: choice. $5.10. Timothy eed, $1.7502.13. Ctorn meal steady at S1.M01.SS. Bran scarce and firm; sacked, east track. 614c. Hay steady; timothy. $7.50010.50; prairie, new, $8.5037; old. $5.50. Whisky steady at $1.26. Cotton ties and bagging unchanged. Dry-salt meats nominal: boxed shoulders. $5,124: extra shorts. $5,124: clear ribs. 65.25; clear sides. 15.50. Bacon fttrong; boxed shoulders, $5.50; extra shorts, $5,624; clear ribs, $3,874: clear sides, $1124. Receipts Flour. 3.000 brls; wheat. 24.000 bu; corn. 28.000 bu; oats. 22.009 bu. Shipments Flour, 6.000 brls; wheat, 8,000 bu; corn, $5,000 bu; cats, 12,000 bu. BALTIMORE. July 8. Flour quiet and unchanged; receipts. 4,458 brls; exports. 12,137 brls. Wheat firmer; spot and July, 744071Hc; August. 75lc: steamer No. 2 red. 7OU07OHC: receipts. 37,100 bu; Southern .wheat by sample. 700754c; Southern wheat on grade, 7140754c Corn firmer; spot and July. 37?037c: August 37i038c; Sptember. 3S338V4C: steamer mixed. 35V4S357c; Southern white corn. 41fr4l4c; Southern yellow, 420424c: receipt. 166.017 bu; exports. 4.891 bu. Oats dull; No. 3 white. 320324c; No. 2 mixed. 30 0304c. TOLEDO July I. Wheat lower and weak; No. 2. cash and July. 734c; Sentember, 75Sc Corn dull, but higher; No. 2 mixed. 354c Oats active and higher; No. 2 mixed. 234c Rye dull; No. 2. cash. 58c nominal. Clover seed active and steady; prime, cash. new. $3,974: October, $4 674. CINCINNATI, July 8. Flour steady. Wheat steady; No. 2 red, 71372c Corn firm; No. 2 mixed. 36c. Oats firm; No. 2 mixed. 2JS284C Rye quiet; No. 2. 6Sc I-ard strong and higher at S5i 5.05. ISulk meats firm at $4.95. Bacon strong at $5.70. Whisky steady at 11.26. Butter, EsTsTs nd Cheese. ' NEW TORK. July 1 Butter Receipts, $.723 paoxages, ilarkat sulet jYeeteoi ersamaxj, uu

lS4e; factory. 12014c. Cheese Receipts. 1.S05 packages. Market firmer; large white, Sc: small white, guc; large colored, 8c; small colored. 4c Bggs Receipts. 4.376 packages. Market firm for fancy and demoralized for Inferior; Western, 144 0154c; no more Southern. PHILADELPHIA, July 8.-Butter steady: fancy Western creamery, 184019c; fancy Western prints, 20c Eggs unchanged; fresh near-by and Western, 143144c: fresh Southwestern, WrfUc; fresh Southern. 114312c. Cheese dull. KANSAS CITY, July 8. Eggs unchanged: good local Inquiry, but storage demand fallen off considerably; fresh Missouri and Kansas stock, firsts, 10c, cases returned. CHICAGO. July 8. On the Produce Exchang-to-day the butter market was weak; creamery, 1343 19c Cheepe firm at S4Q9C Eggs steady at 124c CINCINNATI. July S.-Butter steady. Eggs dull at 94c Cheese firm. BALTIMORE. July 8. Cheese steady. Butter steady. Eggs quiet.

Wool. LONDON, July 8. At the wool auction sales today 12.141 bales were offered. A good showing of Queensland and Port Philip merinos caused eager competition. The continent bought 'large quantities of scoured. New Zealand sllres and low cross-breds were taken principally by the home trade. Following are the sales In detail: New South Wales 600 bales; scoured. 9d01s 10d; greasy. Hd31s. Queensland 1.900 bales; scoured, Is 44d 01sll4d; greasy. 84d01s 2d. Victoria 1,100 bales; scoured. Is 4d01s 74d; greasy, 54d01s 24d. Scuth Australia 6o0 bales; greasy, 5d01s Id. Tasmania 100 bales; scoured, Hd01s 2d. New Zealand 7,700 bales; scoured, 6eils94d: greasy, SdSls. Cape of Good Hope and Natal 6,200 bales; greasy, 74094d. NEW YORK, July 8. Wool steady; domestic fleece. 19024c; Texas, 12016c Oils. NEW YORK, July 8. Petroleum firm; refined. New York. 7.40c; Philadelphia and Baltimore, 7.35c; Philadelphia and Baltimore, in bulk. 4.85c. Rosin firm; strained, common to gcod. $1,300 1.324. Spirits of turpentine firm at 420424c. OIL CITY. July 8. Credit balances. $1.19; certificates oiened at $1.20 bid for cash; highest, $1,204: lowest. $1.193; closed at $1.20 bid for cash; sales. 2.000 brls cash at $1,204 and 1,000 brls cash at $1.13; shipments and runs not reported. WILMINGTON, July 8. Spirits of turpentine and rosin steady and unchanged. Crude turpentine firm. Tar firm. SAVANNAH, July 8.-Splrlts of turpentine firm. Rosin firm and unchanged. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS, July 8.-Cotton steady; sales, 750 bales; ordinary, 34c: good ordinary, 4c; low middling. 4 13-16c; middling, 5?ic; good middling. 6c; middling fair, 6o; receipts, 2!6 bales; stock. 184,805 bales. Metals. NEW YORK. July 8.-The brokers' price for lead Is 4.30c and for copper 18.6oo. ST. LOUIS, July 8. Lead higher at 4.72a. NEWS IN SUNDAY'S JOURNAL Resume of Chief Events Printed in the Issue of July 9. Liquid air Is being adapted to commercial uses as a refrigerant and motive force. The Queen of Roumanla has written an interesting book on "Thoughts of a Queen." Gen. Joseph Wheeler will sail from San Francisco for the Philippines on the 2Sth Inst. The steam brlgantlne carrying a party of explorers to the north pole has left Archangel. Engineer Zeke Weatherford was assassinated while sleeping in a coach at Chattanooga, Tenn. Harriman, the American golfer, defeated Champion Douglass, the Scotchman, in the Lake Forest tournament. The new yacht Columbia defeated the old Defender over three minutes in a twenty-six-mile race Saturday. Improved conditions are generally reported from the flooded districts in Texas, and the worst is thought to be over. President Schurman, of the Philippine Commission, denies that there has been any friction between General Otis and himself. The rush of Americans to Europe Is so great that all the Atlantic line companies have ordered from one to four new ships. Revenue officers fought a battle with moonshiners In the mountains of Tennessee and captured three prisoners, wounding one. The Christian Endeavor convention held a peace Jubilee on Belle Isle, a Detroit park, on Saturday, and adopted a memorial in favor of international arbitration. William T. Stead says that the Americans scored cleverly in having presented to the peace conference at The Hague the doctrine of immunity o.I private property at sea. ..... President McKlnley summoned Governor Theodore Roosevelt to Washington on Saturday for a conference in regard to the officering of the new regiments of volunteers. Humors were current that "Teddy had been offered the war portfolio, to succeed Alger, but the reports were discredited. (From Sunday's Second Edition.) No Tln-riate Scale Yet. CHICAGO, July 8. Little progress Is being made by the conference of the American Tin-plate Company and its workmen, though a practically continuous session was held from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. to-day. Adjournment was taken to Monday morning. Both sides are as much at sea as to the final outcome of the conference as they were at the close of the session Friday. The chief cause of the long delay Is the inability of the company to convince the committee of the workmen that it cannot afford to pay the 29 per cent, advance asked for. This advance, it is claimed, is simply the restoration of wages to the old scale that prevailed previous to 1893, when the workmen consented te a reduction of 10 per cent, following- It in 1805 with a further reduction of 15 per cent., both suffered in the hope of nelpine the manufacturers to tide over their difficulties. The company contends that the price of raw material has advanced more than that of the finished product, and that they fear foreign competition. The delegates say that if the company can make it clear that it cannot pay the 20 per cent, at present prices of plate or from prices to be made after the scale is signed, they will willingly accept such lesser rate as can be demonstrated to be proper. A Tennessee "Picnic." NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 8. Near Plkeville, Tenn., at a picnic to-day, a right occurred In which eight men were seriously wounded. On one side were the three Hoge brothers and Eas Hankins; on the other, Carroll Seals, two brothers and his son. Ed Seals was fatally wounded in the breast. Carrol Seals was shot in the shoulder and leg, Ervin Seals is hit in the thigh, while Eas Hankins is wounded In the head, fatally. A man named Willard had his head factured with a club. To Take Power from Axles. TRENTON. N. J.. July 8. The Electrical Axle Light and Power Company, with an authorized capital of $25,000,000, was incorporated to-day. The company is formed for the purpo.e of lighting, heating, ventilating and refrigerating railroad cars by means of an electric current generated by the revolution of the car axle. The company claims it will be able to refrigerate cars without the use of ice. The Continental Compressed Air Power Company, with an authorized capital of $15,000,000, was also incorporated. . Riff Shipments of War Munitions. LONDON, July 9. A special die patch from Rome says the German steamer Reichstag has sailed from Naples with 15,000 rifles, 500 tons of war material and 500 mules for the Transvaal. According to the same dispatch, another steamer, with a similar cargo, will sail July 14 from Arenas. Pensions for Veterans. Certificates have been Issued to the following named Indlanlans: Original William Armstrong, Pimento. $3; John J. Davis. Muncle, $6; Peter A. Bailey. Montgomery, $8. Additional Washington Knoblock, Donaldson, $6 to $8. Increase Enoch M. Bruner. Freeman. $10 to $12; Frederick Schwab, Wawaka, $3 to $12: Jeremiah Noel. Rome City. $12 to $17; James R. Spencer. Birdseye. $12 to $17: Stephen Kline, Mishwaka, $17 to $:4; Mitchell Flnley, Smlthvllle. $6 to $12; John W. Henry, Crawfordsville, $6 to $S: Thomas B. Ray, Indianapolis, $S to $$; Joel Dullng, Trask, $6 to Henry H. Parmer, Green's Fork. $ to $10; John I. A. Haughey, Hamilton, $6 to $12; William F. Baldwin, Westport, $12 to $14; Georre L. Gladden, Haughvilie. $8 to $12; Conrad J. Kochler. Elkhart. $14 to $17; James Dallas, Wolcottville. $10 to $12; Levi H. Melton, Laconia, $$ to $17. Original Widows, Etc. Eliza Willis, Homer, $3; Margaret A. Alben, Peru, $S AVatts in a, Name. Catholic Standard. . Magistrate What's your name? Prisoner Right. Magistrate With a W? Prisoner Sure. Magistrate Well. Mr. Wright - Prisoner My name ain't Wright. Magistrate Come, don't be funny. You said your name was Wright. Prisoner No. I didn't. Magistrate You did, air! I said, 'What's your name?" and Prisoner That's correct. Magistrate Hey? Prisoner I say that's It. Magistrate What's It? Prisoner-Watt.

WHEAT MARKET SAGGED

AFTER EARLY ADVANCE THERE WAS A DECLINE AAD LOSS OF 3-SC. Corn Was Strong: on Heavy Exports, Twice as SInch as Last Year Provisions) in Demand and Higher. CHICAGO, July 8. After an early advance of to-day, wheat turned weak on heavy country offerings and closed with a net decline of He Corn ruled independently strong, and closed Uc higher. Oats lost c. Provisions ruled active and surprisingly strong. Pork advanced 20c, lard 12VsC, and ribs 15c. Wheat opened unchanged to He higher at 72S73ic for September. Traders were Inclined to avoid new committals to either side in view of the government crop report due next Monday. Reports from North Dakota, to the effect that a scourge of grasshoppers was feared, stimulated some buying, but the bulls appeared weak-kneed after getting September up to 74VsC, and there was a grand rush to secure profits. Selling orders poured In from the Northwest, from whence buying orders should naturally have originated had there been any substantial fears of damage from "hoppers." The market became greatly congested and a half hour before the close September slid off to 73Vic. The close was only a shade above the lowest, at 73 73c Primary receipts, while still extremely heavy, showed a steady falling off. They were 82,000 bushels to-day, compared with 1C8.000 bushels a year ago. Chicago received 93 cars, compared with 11 a year ago. Minneapolis and Duluth got 366 cars, compared with 33 last year. Atlantic port clearances footed up only 260,000 bushels, wheat and flour. Corn ruled firm, Influenced principally by the strength In provisions. Local receipts were 968 cars. Crop reports were generally favorable. Total exports for the week of over 4,000,000 bushels, more than twice the amount exported the same week last year, helped strengthen the market. September opened steady at 33c, advanced to 34c and closed at 33vc, a net gain of c. Oats ruled dull and featureless. Cash demand was extremely light and checked speculation. Receipts were 267 cars. September opened ic lower at 20c, sold up to 21c and closed at 204c. Provisions were active and strong from start to finish. An advance of 10c in hogs at the yards stimulated buyers in all departments at the opening. Great improvement was reported in the cash demand, both domestic and foreign. September pork opened 70 higher at $8.62, advanced to $.77H and closed at $$.75. a net gain of 20c. September lard opened 2?c higher at $5.25, advanced to $5.37 and closed at $5.35. a net gain of 12Hc. September ribs opened 5c higher at $4.95, advanced to $5.10 and closed at $5.05, a net gain of 15 cents. Estimated receipts for Monday Wheat, 135 cars; corn, 610 cars; oats, 223 cars; hogs, 40,000 head. Leading futures ranged as follows: Articles. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat lng. est. est. ing. July.... 72 72i 72',i 72 Sept.... 731 74'i 73V4 734 Dec... 75V, 757t 75Vs 5i CornJuly.... S34 33 S3',4 S3'4 Sept.... 33, 34 33 S3T Dec... IZ 83H S3 33H Oats . July.... 23H 23T4 23H 23 Sept.... 20v4 21 20; 2H May.... 22 23 22 22 PorkJuly... $8.55 S8.62H $8.55 $8.60 Sept.... 8.62 $.77 8.62 8.75 LardJuly.... B.17H 5.22 5.15 Sept.... 6.25 6.37'j 6.23 6.20 6.35 RibsJuly.... 4.95 4.93 4.95 4.83 Sept.... 4.95 5.10 4.95 6.10 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady. No. 2 spring wheat. 72Vs73c: No. 2 spring Wheat. 67fe676c; No. 2 red, 2c. No. 2 corn, 33Ti&34Vic; No. 2 yellow, 34434c No. 2 oats, 24Vfl24c; No. 3 white. 25Vifc2Sc. No. 2 rye. 60i61c. No. 1 flaxseed. 99c; Northwestern. $1. Clover seed, contract grade, $4.50. Mess pork, per brl, 27.&0 8. GO. Lard, per 100 lbs, $5.G7V25.20. Short-rib ldes (loose), 14.75 a. 05; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), .255.50; short-clear sides (boxed), $5.75 Whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gal, $1.26. Receipts Flour, 12.000 brls; wheat. 68.000 bu; corn, 52.000 bu: oats, 260,000 bu;.rye. 12.000 bu; barley, 12.000 bu. Shipments Flour,' 16,000 brls; wheat, 136,000 bu; corn, 42,000 bu; oats, 217,000 bu. AT NEW YORK. Ruling Prices In Produce at the Sea hoard's Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK, July 8.-Flour-Recelpts, 30,587 brls; exports, 34,611 brls. Market dull and nominally unchanged; Minnesota patents, $3.904.10; Minnesota bakers', $3.10 325; winter patents, $3.85(34.10; winter straights, $3.453.55; winter extras, $2.553; winter low grades, $2.4552.55. Rye flour dull; good to fair, $3.103.25; choice to fancy, $3.303.50. Corn meal steady; yellow Western, SOQSlc; city, 8182c; Brandywine, $2.152.25. Rye quiet; No. 2 Western, 65c f. o. b. afloat. Barley steady; feeding, 4242c in Buffalo, and malting 47251c delivered. New York. Barley malt steady; Western, 57Q63C ' Wheat Receipts, 123,950 bu; exports, 47,780 bu; sales, 495,000 bu futures and 184,000 bu spot. Spot strong; No. 2 red, &oc f. o. b. .afloat, "S'Jic in elevator; No. 1 Northern, Duluth, 81c f. o. b. afloat, to arrive. Options opened steady on better cables, rumors of grasshopper ravages in the Northwest and email spring wheat receipts. Later the market developed greater strength on a sharp demand from 6horts and closed strong at riVc net advance. July closed at 79Uc; September, 78!&79Vcf closed at 79c; December, ao-jafciiOTsc, closed at fcO'ic. Corn Receipts, 300,300 bu; exports, 156,000 bu. Spot strong; No. 2, 400 f. o. b. afloat. Sb3,iO in elevator. Options steady and moderately active on talk of further export demand and coverings; closed strong, Sc net advance. July closed at 39c; September, 39 1-16S39C closed at 39c. Oats Receipts, 85,800 bu: exports, 40,651 bu. Spot quiet; No. 2, 30c; No. 3, 29c; No. 2 white. 31c; No. 3 white, aoc; track mixed. Western, 3031&c; white, 2136V4C Options dull. Hay steady; shipping, 6065c; good to choice, 80!r90c. Hops steady; State common to choice 1896 crop, 6&7c; li7 crop, ll&13c; 1898 crop, 16tf 17c; Pacific coast lrt crop, 6&7c; 1S97 crop. Ulilic; im crop, 17 18c. Hides steady; Galveston, 20 to 25 lbs, 16U gl7c; Texas dry, 24 to 30 lbs, lZalZc; California. 21 to 25 lbs, l$Vc. Leather steady; hemlock sole, Buenos Ayres light to heavy weight, 2Qla&'21ic; acid, 2Ui 22c. Beef dull; family, $9-310; beef hams, $23.50 824; packet, S9.5O110; city extra India mess, Sll'ilS. Cut meats firm; pickled bellies, $5ti6; pickled shoulders, $5; pickled hams, $9.25 9.75. Lard strong; Western steam, $5.47; refined strong; continent, $5.70; compound. $4.621 4.75. Pork firmer; mess, SS-STH; short-clear. $10 11.75; family, $10. 503 10.75. Tallow steady; city, 4Hc; country, 4c. Rice steady; domestic, fair to extra, 4S8 7c: Japan, 4'5c. Molasses steady; New Orleans open kettle. S2ft26c. Cotton-seed oil quiet but Arm; prime crude. 2Hac; prime crude f. o. b. milis, 17JHSc; prime summer yellow, 2&2CHc; off summer yellow, 25c: butter grades and prime winter yellow, 3033c; prime white, 29Vic CoffeeOptions opened quiet and unchanged, ruled generally inactive and featureless all day. investors and professionals alike being unable to find incentive in foreign market news, the statistical situation or domestic Influence; spot neglected and nominal, closed dull and featureless. Sales, 1,000 bags, including: September. 4.33c; December and January. 5.30c. Spot coffee Rio dull and nominal: No. 7 invoice, 6Hc; No. 7 Jobbing, ec Mild quiet: Cordova. 83 13c. Sugar steady; fair refining. 3 15-lc; centrlf sal, 96 test, 4 7-16c; molasses sugar, 3 lJ-16c. Refined steady to firm and active; No. 6. 4.81c; No. 7, 4c; No. 8. 4fc: No. 9, 4Sc; No. lo. 4Hc; No. 11. 4c; No. 12. 4.31c; No. 13. 4.31c; No. 14. 44c; mold A, 54c; standard A and confectioners' A, 54c; cut loaf, 57c: crushed. 6c; granulated, 5c; cubes and powdered, SHc LIVK STOCK. Cattle Scarce and Quiet Hos;s Active and Illfgher Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, July $. Cattle Receipts light; shipments none. There were but few fresh arrivals. The market was quiet at unchanged prices. K xpert grades $4.90 6.40 Killers, medium to good 4 604 4.80 Killers, common to fan 4.03& 1X5 Feeders, good to choice 4.7LQ 4.6ft fitockera, common to good,.,tMM..Jt S.603 4,69

' COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Franklin Fire Insurance Co. On the 30th day of June, 1899. It Is located at No. CI Walnut street. Philadelphia. Pa. JAS. W. M'ALLITER, President. EZRA T. CR EPSON, Secretary. The amount of Its capital Is l4W.ono.00 The amount of its capital raid up Is 4'Xi.OOO.dO THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IX THE V. S. ARE AS FOLLOWS) Cash on hand and In the hands of agents or other persons $7S.92.11 Cash in banks 13,M..M Real estate unincumbered 24).V0.0 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of per cent., market value.. 2,M4.732.oe Stocks and bonds held as collaterals 34.5'O.Oj Interest due and accrued on collaterals 290.42 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, "worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 1SI.D-"V00 Interest due and accrued on bonds and mortgages 2. 522.27

Total assets $3,lS8,2ii2$ LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due $39.02.C3 Losses resisted 2.1.oo Commission due and to become due to agents and brokers b.lZ2.t Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 1.2&&.43.92

Total liabilities The greatest amount in any one rtek, $15,000.

Etate of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I. the undersigned, auditor of state of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the SOtJa day of June. 1899, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name an.) affix my official seal this SEAL. 7th day of July. 1S99. W. H.-"HART. Auditor of State.

COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Penn Mutual Life InsuranceCompany On the 30th Day of June, 1899, As of December 31, 1898. It is located at Nos. S21-3-5 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Pa. HARRY F. "WEST, President. HENRY C. BROWN, Secretary and Treasurer THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IX THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOWS t Cash on band and in the hands of agents or other persons $515.tll.Il Real estate unincumbered 3.775.379.S1 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of per cent., secured as follows, as per schedule filed, market value lL762.$3C.ti Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same Is mortgaged, and free from any prior Incumbrance 12.157.221.S7 Debts otherwise secured, being loans on collateral , 2,509,113.92 Debt; for premiums, premium notes, loans on policies, etc $.753. 22.83 All other securities 1.031.737.&S Total assets $2Utt.221M LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due, losses unadjusted, losses In suspense, waiting for further proof $l2.Wl.t7 All other claims against the company 97.2fc.S? Legal reserve SO.702.S06.00 Total liabilities $24,942,523.74 The greatest amount in any on risk. $100,000: v Etate of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I. the undersigned, auditor of etate of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the abore Is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company oa the $.1h day of June, 1899, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this SEAL 7th day of July, 1S99. W. H. HART. Auditor of State.

Heifers, food to choice 4.2C 4.75 Heifers, jfair to medium 3.90 4.15 Heifers, common and thin 3.5Cx 3.75 CowS, good to choice 3.8frg: 4.25 Cows, fair to medium 3.40d 3.75 Cows, common and canners 2.506 3.00 Veals, good to choice 6.0041 7.00 Veals, common to medium 3.502 5.00 Bulls, good to choice 3.6.' 4.00 Bulls, common to medium 3.0010 3.40 Milkers, good to choice 35.001745.00 Milkers, common to medium 20.0030.00 Hogs Receipts. 4. 00; shipments, 2,500. The market opened aclfve at 6c advance, packers and shippers being free buyers, and closed steady, with all sold. Heavy $3.SG4.00 Mixed 3.9003.971 Lights 3.93(1 4.00 Pigs 3.233.90 Roughs 3.1503.C5 Sheep and Lambs Receipts llht; shipments none. But few on sale, except some common stockers that bad been held over from day to day, but they were slow sale at mean prices. All desirable grades are selling' at steady prices. Sheep, good to choice $3.5004.00 Sheep, common to medium 2.75&3.40 Yearlings, good to choice 4.505.00 Yearlings, common to medium 3.751.25 Bucks, per head 3. 00 ii 5.00 Spring lambs, 30 lbs and up 4.00 5.60 Elsewhere. KANSAS CITT, July 8. Cattle Receipts. slO natives and 579 Texans. Liberal supply for Sat. urday that sold at unchanged prices. Light supply this week caused a general advance in prices amounting to 1525o for most desirable bunches, with plainer grades steady to 10c higher: heavy native steers brought $5.25(55.60; medium and light. $4.6005.23; stockers and feeders. $3.755.25; butcher cows and belters, $3.255.45; canners, $2.503.25; butcher bulls, $3.254.2a; Texans, $3.60 4.77 Hogs Receipts, 7,700. Trade brisk at strong prices, with local packers and shippers buying; heavy, $3.904.05; mixed, $3.6034; light. $3.704; pigs. $3.503.70. Sheep Receipts, 2,500. Good demand; market ruled firm at unchanged prices; native spring lambs brought $5.25C.tt; muttons, $4 5.50; stockers and feeders, $364.60; culls, $LWQ3. CHICAGO, July 8. There were not enough cattle received to-day to make a market There were scattering sales at $4.4004.95. Prices still holding good despite a little weakening during the past few days. There was an active loeal and shipping demand for hogs to-day, prices advancing 6&l0c per 100 lbs. The supply was well taken at $3.7034.05 for heavy. $3.800 4. 02 V4 for mixed and butcher weights and 13.8534.05 for light weights; pigs brought $3.50 4.02Vs and culls and rough lots $23.70. To-day's supply of sheep was too email to amount to anything, a good sha-e of the supply being consigned direct to local shippers. Prices were little more than nominal at $23 for culls up to $5 C 5.40 for prime flocks; yearlings were quotable at 156.25 and spring lambs at WB W. Receipts Cattle, 200; hogs, 17,000; sheep, 2.000. EAST BUFFALO, July 8. Special. Ransom, Mansfield & Co., live stock commission dealers, report: Cattle Eight cars on sale, mostly Canadas. Market held steady; fat stock firm; veals, $Gfi.50. Hogs Receipts. 20 cars. Market fairly active and Ann at yesterday's closing prices; bulk of Yorkers, $4.10; mixed packers. $4.0734.10; mediums. $4.0704.10; heavy. H054.Q7tt: pigs. $4.10; roughs, $3.50(3.60; stags, $2.9033.10; closed firm at outside prices. Sheep Receipts extremely light, only about two cars. Market steady to strong; best spring lambs quotable at $8.6036.75; common to good. $5.50 6.25; mixed sheep, tops, $4.753 3.50; culls to good, $2.50f4.G5; wethers, $5.105.25. ST. LOUIS. July 8. Cattle Receipts, 200. all Texans. Market steady to firm; fair to choice native shipping and export steers, $4.855.45; steers under 1.000 lbs, $3.755.25; stockers - and feeders, $334.25; cows and heifers, $2gT5; bulls, $2.6634; canners, I1.25S5.S5; Texas and Indian steers. $3.6035; cows and heifers, $2.2534.50. Hogs Receipts, 4.400. Market 5310c hlrher; pigs and lights. $3.9033.95; packers, $3.8534.55; butchers, $3.9C4.05. Sheep Receipts, 8,500. Market steady; native muttons, $4.2534.60; spring lambs, f4.2566.50; culls and bucks. $1.504; stockers. $2.5033.25; Texas muttons, $3.754.10. NEW YORK, July 8. Beeves Receipts. 727. No trading. Market nominally steady. Shipments, 1.072 cattle, 55 sheep and 6,390 quarters of beef. Cables unchanged. Calves Receipts none; 110 State calves on sale. Market dull and unchanged; good buttermilks, $3; veals nominal. Hogs Receipts, 2,178. None for sale; market nominally weak. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 4.223. Sheep and good iambs steady; medium and common dull and weak; sheep, poor to fair, $334.50; common to choice lambs, $537.15. CINCINNATI July 1-Cattle steady at $3.2:J 5.15. Hogs active at $3.25(34.05. Sheep steady at $2.2534.25; lambs dull and lower at $4.2036.75. SALES OF REAL ESTATE. Ela-ht Transfers, with a Total Consideration of S 12,900. Instruments filed for record In the recorder's office of Marlon county, Indiana, for the twentyfour hours ending at 6 p. m. July 8, 1'A as furnished by Theo. Stein, abstracter of titles, corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, Indianapolis, Suite 229, first office floor, The Lemcke. Telephone 1760: Theodore F. Marcey to Oeo. W. Owlngs. Lot 73. Engl e wood addition A. 11. Bennett to E. B. Holllday. part of Lot 13, JamM Morrison's addition 2.000 Thos. J. Hamilton to James R. Davidson, Lots S3 and S6, Metiger's East Michiganstreet addition 600 Henry 11. De Wolf to Rosanna A. Krutsch. Lets 1 to 12 and 26 to 2s. Inclusive. Block 2. and Lot 46 and 47. Block 13 2.00 Isaac S. Ash to Charles M. Hoffman. Lot 175. J&hnson & Hogshlre's East Washington-street addition 1.540 Cornelia M. Dunn to George Bannon. part of west half Section 2c, Township 15, range 4 2.500 Ambrose Dunn to George Bannon, iart of Section 20. Township 15 north. Range 4 east 1.000 Louis Mueller to Cornelius Shine. Lot 206, McCarty's subdivision of Outlot 120 1,600 Transfers. 8; consideration $12,190 A Symbol. Philadelphia Times. Now more than ever the rooster may be the American symbol o political victory because) the sun never seta In our territory.

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