Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1895 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY; OCTOBER 28, 1895. - < w s ■

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THE MARKETS ON MONDAY

COMMENTS ON THE COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SITUATION.

IndtaMPolIa and Cbicniro Live Stock ^••tatloaa — Drokcra’ Goaalp— grain a aad ProTlalona—Local Li , dobbinv ^notaUoaa.

Tb« wheat market opened a trifle firmer, but prices could not hold and •oalpers were the best sellers on the prospects of a rain in the Northwest. Russian shipments were large, 5,120,000 bushels, against 4,000,000 last week. Cables were reported steady at ^4 penny lower. Car lots at Minneapolis and Duluth were about MO cars more than last year. The large Increase In the visible. 4,120,000 bushels, helped to depress prices and several small lines of wheat were thrown overboard. Wheat “on passage” showed an Increase of 523,000 bushels, and the English visible increase 1,200,000. The market dosed heavy at put price. Corn *as a shade easier and prices showed a rood decline in the old corn futures, evw lenUy the shorts having covered on Saturday. The weather continues very favorable for the new crop. Provisions wore inclined to be weak^ on the large run of hogs here, 50,000 at Chicago, with 36,000 estimated for to-morrow. The trade, however, was small, prices y>t changing very much after opening bwer. Dry Goods. In the local Jobbing trade there has >eon little change ir\ situation of the dotoestlc dry goods market for the past ten lays. A few lines are being advanced. Among these are calicoes and some {lasses of dieetings. Denims nave lirengthened somewhat in price. The general Jobbing distribution seems to be •f a satisfactory nature. Underwear and many tines of woolens are scarce. Novelt e« In dress goods, especially imported fabrics, are exceedingly scarce. Jobbers have already placed orders for spring lines #f hosiery, underwear and linens, anticioatlng an early and active spring trade. She recent advance In table oil cloths is •veil sustained, buth by manufacturers and jobbers. Kentucky Jeans have advanced 2 tents a yard within the past twenty ua>s. Jobbers, as well as cutters and conver,■rs, have been liberal buyers of this class ef goods. The Speculative Situation. Boston Commercial Bulletin. The past week In the stock market Itarted out In about as disappointing a manner as a/t any time since this trance Urst commenced. For weeks thare has teen no market. One could go away for hours and return only to find things just Is they were, and the silence of the ticker more profound, If anything. It is useless to go into explanations. The uneasiness over the Kaffirs may have something to do with the stagnation, but the chief reason Is no doubt to be found in ihe fact that the big people are out of the market and do not care to go tn again with Congress jjpon 1° convene, and with the future of currency legislaIton enshrouded In uncertainty. On the other hand, the bears do not |are to sell stocks to any extent because of the generally favorable conditions. Hence, with the bull leaders out of the piai^tet, the bears afraid to sell and the public not u factor, what else could be ixpected different from the situation of ike past month or so. Regarding the Immediate future, we do not know what to say. We should advise caution; nothing can be lost by waiting to see which way the “cat jumps.” It is the Indisposition of the cat to jump, though, which exasperates. Hood news such as heavy Increases In railway earnings, etc., has no effect, but In spite of this, we can ie« nothing to cause a serious decline in dfIcmhb v Speculation as to the work of Congress has already begun. The remark is frohuently heard that both parties will ma--peuver around for position for the presiflentlal election wltnout doing much of anything. We do not see the logic of such a statement, for It seems to ua that the It-publicans, with a big majority In the House, have a splendid opportunity t® br.ng certain victory to their candidate in IW0 and we do not doubt that the opportunity will be embraced. As we have repeatedly stated, w'e have abiding faith that our currency difficulties mil be settled before the 1896 elections, and the nation provided with sufficient revenue. It Is possible that we are too optimistic, but time will show that. It seems to iis. however, that neither party can afford to monkey with the necessities of our national situation. They are such'that they can not wait, and be used; as checkers on the political chessboard of a presidential election. The panic, the depression, the gold exports, the bond Issues, and the constantly recurring gold scares, have educated the very boys in our schools up to the defects In the system, and the people are likely to hold to strict accountability the £arty _whlch delays bringing relief meaaThe Financial Outlook. Boston News Bureau. Sterling exchange Is weaker on freer offerings of bankers’ bills and some offerings of commercial bills. No gold goes cut to-qay, tfhich Is contrary to predicttone made in some quarters earlier in the week. Bankers doubt if any one really conversant with the exchange situation has thought at any time that gold exports were likely. This talk, It is believed, emanated in. speculative circles and for effect upon security prices. Exchange rates stiffen on steamer days, but .at the advance bills become sufficiently plentiful lo satisfy the demand. The exchange lltuation is naturally sensitive when rates hover so closely around the exporting point, but with the manifest disposition to lend , foreign money here and the probability or an Increased outward movement of our products lower rather than higher rates are likely. The foreign markets are reaching such a high level* of prices that Imports are likely to fall off. Europe is fast getting to be a better selling than a buying market. Cotton Is stronger, largely owing to an advance In Liverpool, although In speculative circles reports are given out of a coming smaller crop estimate. Iron is firmer and It is still asserted that the demand Is up to the supply. Speculatively, sentiment is sensitive. This condition may rule for some time lon^.r, but it Is noticeable that any demand quickly advances prices. Attention Is now being dlrscted to the coming settlement in min-

on account of potatoes being cheap. The j large crop has made them very cheap In j the markets, but the farmer should really j be the gainer by this large crop. He can feed his potatoes to his live stock and get 1 good value for them in this way. Roots , are very little grown for feed for live j stock in Manitoba. Not as much as tney ! should be. Potatoes are said to he a very healthy and valuable feed for animal? in the winter season, when they are on dry feed. Hogs will do far better with some mixture of this kind than when feu grain alone. Heavy feeding with grain alone has been known to bring on disease among hogs. Potatoes are particularly recommended by competent authorities for fattenlng hogs, instead of a straight gram diet. The quaiity of the bacon is also said to be greatly improved by a mixed diet of | this kind. Cattle and horses are greatly benefited by a little variety of diet, and authorities say there is nothing better than

potatoes.

Shoes and Leather.

Boston Bulletin.

No Increase of activity appears in the boot and shoe market. Orders are very few, but little straws show that goods are being steadily consumed and that Jobbers are exhausting their stocks. Thus we note an instance where fifty cases were ordered for prompt delivery of a class of shoe of which the buyer thought he had si full season's supply a little while ago. There is no doubt that there is a good business in sight, only we must wait a little longer for it to come. The large sales of leather mentioned be- , low indicate that a basis has been reached In that market, while hides are apparently pretty nearly as low as they can be expected to go. This will restore confidence, which is the omy thing wanting to start business in shoes. The Apple Crop. American Agriculturist. The apple crop In the United States is estimated at 66,256,000 barrels this year, against 57,629,000 last year, and 57,212,000 in, 1893. The New England crop this year ia little more than half of that of ’94, and smaller than in ’89. In New Yotk and Pennsylvania it Is a third larger than last year and double that of ’89. The Ohio crop is two and a quarter times larger than last year, while the Michigan crop is less than two-thirds as large as in ’94. The most remarkable gains over last year’s production are noted in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Canada, as a whole, has not been favored with an abundant yield for several years, although exceptional localities have borne well. This is true regarding the ’95 crop. The Canadian crop is given as 853,268 barrels this year, against 2782138 last year, j and 1,187,665 in 1893. Considerable quanti- | ties of Nova Scotia apples are drifting j into Boston, partly on- commission, and, ! providing the market is right, may be j eventually re-exported to England. The l apjjle crop, taking the world at large, is

clear backs, 8 lbs average. French backs, #>ac; flitches, 8 to 10 ibs average. Stic. Shoulders—’Reliable,” 16 lbs average, 8c: 12 lbs average, Stic; Morgan & Gray, 16 lbs average. 714c; ’’Indiana.” 12 lbs average, 8c. Lard-“Indiana," 6Hc; '’Reliable,” «t*c; ket. tie rendered, 7Kc. Pickled Pork-Bean, clear. $13.50; family, clear backs, $11.50: rump, $10.50; "Porter,” $11.50; "Hughes.” $S.00. Fresh Pork Doina—Short cut, 14 to 20 ibs, 6%c; short cuts. 10 to 13 ibs. 7i*c; short cut, 6 to » lbs, $e. Cottage hams, 6Uc. Skinned shoulders, 6tic. Ham lams or pork roasts. Tenderloin, 13c. Spareribs, 6c. Trimmings, 5c. Hocks, Pic. Small bones, i\ic. Shoulder bones, 2tic. Tall bones. 3%e. Pigs' heads, 3MiC. Dried Beef Hams—Regular sets, 9*lc; out. sides, 744c; Insides, 10*4c; knuckles. 1144c. The Moore Packing Company’s prices are; Hams—20 lbs average and over, lOVic; 15 ibs average, lOV&c; 10 Ibs average, lH4c; skinned,

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Breakfast Bacon—Firsts, llHc; Empire, 1044c. Shoulders—16 lbs average, 8c; 11 lbs average, Stic. Sides—45 lbs average, 7V4c; 25 ibs average, 8c. Bellies—1* to 22 lbs average, 744c; 14 to 16 ibs average, 7tic. Backs—20 lbs average, 744c; 14 lbs averafi, 74*c. Kettle Hard—7'4c; pure lard, 644c. Fresh Loins—8c; sausage, 7c. Coffin, Fletcher & Co.’s prices are: Smoked Meats—8. C. hams, 10 to 12 lbs average, 11c; 15 lbs average, 1044c; 18 lbs average, 1044c; 20 lbs average and over, 1044c; skinned hams, 1144c; boneless hams, none. Hoosler Breakfast Bacon—1044c. English-Cured Breakfast Bacon—Light or medium, 1244c. English-Cured Shoulders—12 lbs average, none. Sugar-Cured Shoulders—744c. Skinned Shoulders—None. California Hams—12 lbs average, 8c. Frnita and Vegetables. Lemons—[email protected]; malagas, $5.50. Oranggs—Malagas, $2.50 a hundred; $7.50 a barrel. Bananas—Single bunches. No. X, [email protected]; No. 2, 75c. Apples—New, $1.50®2.25 a barrel. Cabbage—75c a barrel. Pea Beans—$2.00 a bushel.

Potatoes—35® 40c a bushel.

Peaches—$1.50@l.?5 a bushel.

Celery—20@25c bunch.

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Beet Sugar In Nebraska. Kansas City Star. - Two beet sugar industries in Nebraska will turn out 4,500,000 pounds of sugar b.iffre the season—which began October 1— closes. During the first two weeks the piant at Grand Island manufactured 400.010 pounds of granulated sugar, and that at Norfolk 360,000 pounds. The season lasts about three months, and the two factories pay to farmers $3,000 a d4y, or about $225,000 in the seventy-five working days of the season. The expense of beet growing is not greater than the average cost of crop production, and the success of the Nebraska enterprise points a way for the people to get rid of the rule of the sugar trust. This opportunity exists in Kansas, in Missouri—in every State where the sugar beet may be grown profitably, and tillers of the soli who want the greatest reward for their labor should take example from their brethren in Nebraska.

CITY WHOLESALE QUOTATIONS. ■Dry Good®. Bleached Cottons—"Androscoggin L, 36 inches, 744c; Blackstone, 26 inches, 744c; Cabot, 26 inches, 644o; Dwight Anchor, 36 Inches, $c; Clover, 36 inches, 54ic; Dwight Anchor, 42 Inches, 10c; Dwight Anchor, 5-4, 11c; Dia- . — ■ - - - - 42 ini

o/yv j x ii di, v cmi* iunit,.'*, OTyv » vjrivrziuiciic 36 Inches, 5e; Harvest E, 36 Inches, 6c; Hill, 36 inches, 8c; Lonsdale, 36 inches, 844c; Masonvllle, 36 inches. 844c; New- York Mills. 36 inches, 1044c; Lonsdale Cambric, No. 2, 9C; Pepperell. 8-4, 17c; Pepperell, 9-4, 19c; Pepperell. 10-4, 21c; Sea Island. No. 1. 36 inches, 744c; Sea Island, No. 2, 7c; Sea Island, No. 3. 36 inches, 644c; Utica. 9-4, 2244c; Utica, 10-4, 25c.

Normandie dress styles, 544c; Manchester staples, 4'4c; Park Hill zephyr, 104*c; Toil du Nord, 844c; Warwick. 5c. Colored Cambrics—Edwards, 4c; Slater, 4c; Genessee. 4c; Concords, 3%c; Warren, 3%c. Silesia—Lonsdale, No. 1, 20c; English AA, 1244c; English A, 10c; English B, yc; Argus, 644c: Victory O, 544C. Tickings — Amoskeag ACA, 1144c; Cordis ACE, 1144c; Conestoga BP. Conestoga FF, 1244c; Hamilton stout swnlng, 944c; Lenox fancy, bookfold, I8c; Diamond, bookfold, l2*4c; Oakland AF, 644c; Lewiston, 36 inches, 1244c; Lewiston. 30 Inches. 10c; Warren, bookfold, 144c; Lenox XX, 18c; Thorndyke D, 8c. Cotton Duck—Tallassee, 7 ounces, SO inches, Ic; Tallassee, 8 ounces, 30 inches, 1044c; Tallassee, 10 ounces, 30 inches, 1244c; Savage, 8 ounces, 30 Inches, 944c; Savage, 10 ounces, 30 inches, 1144c. Shirtings, Checks and CheviotB—Amoskeag,

j; pi _ cheviots, -8c; Edinburg, 7*sc; Everett ChamBrown Nitons—Atlantic A, 36 inches, 644c; Atlantic H, 36 inches, 6c; Atlantic P, 36 inches. 5c: Atlantic LL, 36 Inches, 5c; American Mills, 36 inches, 4%c; Armory shirtings, 86 inches; 64ie; Archcry, 26 Inches, 4c; Comet, 38 Inches, 644o; Constitution, 38 inches, 644c; Boot C, 26 Inches. 4%c; Bcot FF. 38 inches, 644c; Boot XX, 36 inches, 644c; Buck's Head, 36 inches, 6c; Badger LL, 36 Inches, 5c; Household Superior, 86 Inches, 5c; Criterion, 36 Inches, 54ic; Long Branch, 36 inches. 444c; Sea Island, 36 inches, 5c; Statue Liberty, 30 inches, CV4c; Pepperell, 8-4, 1544c: Peppered. 9-4, 17c; Pepperell, 10-4, 19c; Utica C, 4c; Utica. 9-4, »o; Utica, 10-4, 2214c. Prints—Allen fancy, 5c; American Indigo,

4*c; ings,

C. w ; _ Berlin three-fourths’ turkey-reds, 6c; Berlin

three-fourths XXXX turkey-reds, 9c; Cocheco fancies. 5c; Cocheco madders. 444c; Portsmouth robes, 644c; Harmony fancies. 4c; Manches-

lo this settlement. Boston Wool Market. Sale* for the week. 4,879,000 pounds. The market this week is decidedly luieter, with limited salea. The pace was loo hot to last. The big worsted mills $re now pretty well stocked with wool ind the little fellows are slow buyers, there is no change In quotations, the Harkening of the demand for wool here kt-ing offset to a certain extent by the huprovement In the Melbourne market. I’hcugh the attendance here has not been targe, there are few houses that have kot at least something to report,and when the recent heavy sales are considered, the total business for the week must be set lown as full up to what could have been expected. The goods market shows slight signs of Improvement. The knitters are not doing M well as might be desired, but this is •ue quite as much to the competition of mttoa as to the competition of foreign foods. The yarnmakers report good, fair eiders, reflecting further orders received by the weavers. There is a good late reorder demand for heavyweight cloths, gnd much hop* is entertained of the combing heavyweight season, especially by the worsted men. Woolen manufacturers, as contrasted with worsted manufacturers, kre vary lugubrious at the prospect, as appear* from a communication in another bolumn. The agents for the foreign dress-goods milis have been selling leavUy again for next season. Feed the Potatoes. Wtnntpeg Commercial. - W® hear It reported that some farmers it re leaving their potatoes in the ground, as the price le eo low that they say it is not worth while digging them. The Commercial Is IncMned to doubt the rellatollUy of such statements, though it may possibly jbe true in a very few isolated oases. At the same time there should be ne less

ter fanclea, 544c; Pacific mousselines, 5c; Pacific mourning*. 5c; Simpson mournings. 644c; Venus oil blue and green, 5c; Windsor fancies, 544c. _ Brown Drill—Boot A. 30 Inches, 644c; Darlington, 30 inches, 644c; Crescent A, 744c; Dwight, 36 inches. No. 250, 9c; Mohawk, 30

inches, 8c. Groceries.

To-day’s Indianapolis prices on sugars are

as follows:

Cut-loaf, dominoes, crushed. 5.65c; powdered. 6.27c; granulated. 5.02e.; coarse granulated and extra fine granulated. 6.15c; cubes. 5.27c; XXXX powdered, 5.52c; mold A, 6.27c; diamond A. 5.02c; confectioners' A, 4.90c; Windsor A and Ridgewood A. 4.T7c; Phoenix A, 4.71c; Empire A. 4.58c; Ideal extra C. 4.52c; Windsor extra C, 4.48c; Ridgewood extra C, 4.39c; yellow extra C, 4.83c; 10 yellow C. 4.87c; 12 yellow 3. 4.15c; 13 yellow 4, 4.09c; 14 yellow 5, 4.02c. Roasted Coffees—Packages: Puritan. Lion, Arbuckle’s XXXX. Jersey and Blended Java. 2l%c. Bulk, in 60-!b bags: Capitol, 22c; Pilot, 21c; Dakota. 20c; Brasil. 1944c. Nuts — Almonds Tarragonia, 15c; almonds, Ivtea, 14c; Hraxtl nuts, new. Sc; filberts, 10ci walnuts, Naples, 15c: walnuts, French, 14c; pecans. Western, 104112c: peanuts, Virginia, best. 8®9c; Virginia, good, 5®*c.. • . Pp Ices—Unground: Allspice, 10® 15c; cassia, 10® 15c; mace, 90c® $1.00; nutmegs. T2©!-0c; cloves, 12® 15c; ginger. *0®26c; pepper, 12©15c. Canned Goods—Blackberries. 2 lb, 18c; cove oysters, 1-ib full weight, Sdc; 1-lb light weight* •; Mb full weight. $1.75411.80; 2-lb light weight, $1.20®1.$O; peaches, standard, 3-lb. $1.8592.08; eeconds. 3-lb $1.35«1.50; pie. 85® 90c; pineapples, standard, 2-lb, $1.2r.ig'l.75; seconds, Mb, $1.00®].10; string beans. 70c; salmon, Mb. tl.<IO®l.$0; pineapples, Bahama, $2.50 ®L75; pease, sifted. $1.5001.75; early June. *2Vfcc®91.24; marrow, 85c; soaked, 70®80c; tomatoes. S-lb. 754990c; corn, sugar, 85c®$l.S7>4: , apple butter, 2-lb. 95c a dozen; 3-lb, $2.00. Dried Fruit*—Apples, sun-dried. 4c; cur- : rants. 344®5c; ettron. 15® 16c; figs. 1344©Hc: | raisins, loose, a box. $1.50; raisins, Valencia, a i lb, 8V4©Sc: evaporated apricots. *4*©1144c; j dates, 444©8c. » Miscellaneous Groceries — New Orleans Mo- | lasses—Fair to prime. SSc; choice. 40©42e. i Sirups—Medium. 24©25e; choice, 35®46c; sorghum. SOe; corn, sirup, bbls. 17c ga 1 -'- h***- I bbls. 19c gal- Vinegar - Malt, 40-grain test, 9® 10c a gal. Beans—Hand-picked pease, $1.50. Rice—Carolina, 8®C44c; Japan. 444®0e. Lake

packages, 5®54*c; corn. Mb pack ^ . Candy — Stick, 644c lb; tsunmon mixed. «4%c. New Picklee—2.400 tn barrels. $5.25; 1,290 In barrets, $4.25; L200 In half-barrel*. $115; 800 in half-barrels, $2.65. Oatmeal—Darrels, $4.73.

Rolled Oats—Barrels, 83.75. « Provision*.

The following is KingAn & Oo.’s price list: Sugar-Cured Hams—"Reliable,” 18 to 39 lbs

Celery—20i@i25c uu uvn. Grapes—20c a basket for Concord; Delawares,

30c.

Quinces—[email protected] a bushel. Onions—Yellow and red. $1.75 a barrel. Persimmons—$1.25 per 24-pint case. New Honey—17@18c. Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, [email protected]; Jersey's, $2.75; Illinois sweets. $2.26. Duffy’s Cider—30-gallon barrels, $4.50; halfbarrels, $2.50. Leading Drug* and OH*. Carbolic acid, 22@26c. Alum, 3@4c. Asafetida, 35®40c. Borax, 10c. Bromide of potash. 45®48c. Camphor, 70®75c, Chloroform.. 60@65c. Opium, gum, $2.00®2.10 a lb; powdered. $2.75© 3.00 a lb. Subnitrate of bismuth, $1.25 a lb. Clnchonidla, 12@16c. Iodide of potash, $2.0C@ 3.00. Quinine, P. & W.’s, 35@40c an ounce; German, 32@37c. Morphine, [email protected]. Cocaine, 55.00® 5.25. Bicarb soda, 3©'5c. Epsom salts, 4®5c. Saltpeter, 8@10c. Resin, a barrel of 200 lbs, $2.50®

2.75.

Castor oil, 96c@$1.00. Lard oil, ex.. No. 1, winter steamer, 65c; No. 1, 55c. Neatsfoot oil, 65c. Fish oil, 49c. Linseed oil, raw, 41c; boiled 43c. Turpentine. 35©40c. White lead, 544c. Alcohol, $2.50®2.60. Oil Of bergamot, $3.00 a lb. Oil of lemon. $1.40®1.75. Dressed Meat*. Beef Carcases—Native steers, tops, 644®744c; native steers, 6U©7c; medium steers, 54i@6c; medium heifers, 544®6c; common, 4‘4®5c; hindquarters, tops. 9@10c; medium, 8@844c; common, 7@744c; foreruarters, tops, 444c; medium, 344®4c; common, 3c. Veal—9®944c. Lamb—8c. Mutton—644®7c. Seed*. Clover—Buying prices; Red, $3.40®3.65. Selling prices; At about 50c advance. Timothy—Selling prices: $2.20. Blue Grass—Fancy, $1; English blue grass, $2.00. , Orchard Grass—[email protected]. Alfalfa—$4.50. Crimson Clover American Seed—Selling price: [email protected]. Tinner*’ Supplies. Best brand charcoal tin. IC, 10x14. 14x20, 12x 12. $5.50®6.00; IX, 10x14, 14x20. 12x12, [email protected]; IC. 14x20. roofing tin. [email protected]; IC. 30X28, $9.00 ( ©10.00; block tin In pigs, 19c; sn bars, 20c. Iron—27 H iron, $3.20; C iron, $3.75; galvanized, I 70 per cent, discount. Sheet zinc, 54i@6c. Cop- 1 per bottoms, 20c. Planished copper. 20c. Solder, ll®12c. Butter, Egg* and Poultry. Shippers’ buying prices: Butter—4® 7c; good, 8c. Eggs—Shippers paying 16c, candled. Live Poultry—Hens. 544c; spring chick’ns, 544c pound; cocks, 3c: turkey hens, 6c; young turkeys, 6c; toms, 5c; ducks, 6c; geese, fullfeathered. $4.50 a dozen.

Hide* and Tallow. Local buyers are now paying: No. 1 green salted hides, 7c; green, 5c. No. 2 green salted hides, «44c; green, 4t4c. No. 1 green salted calf, 844c; green, 7c. No. 2 grean salted calf, 7c; green, 644c. No. 1 tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, 344c. Iron and Steel. Merchant Bar—$1.70®2.09. Cast Steel—9@llc; machinery steel, 2%c; horse-shoes, $3.40®3.60; new card on wire nails, 10s and 60s, advance 50c; base rates, $2.58; steel cut nails, $2.25; base rates, with card rates of extras. Leather. Oak sole, 80@34c; hemlock sole, 24®29c lb; harness, 32@40c; skirting, 40@42c per lb; fair bridle, a dozen, $70.00®75.00; city kip, fiOHSOc, French kip, [email protected]; city calf skin, 85c@$1.10; French calf skin, $1.00®1.90. Jobbing Price* of Floor. Indianapolis Jobbing prices for flour: Low grades, $2.50®2.75 bbl; family, $3.0003.60 bbl; straight grades, $4.2504,50 bbl; winter p&t;n:s, $4.75®5.25 bbl; spring patents, [email protected] bbl. Wool. , The following prices are for wagon lots: Medium, unwashed, 14c; fine Merino, unwashed, 10@12c; choice, tub-washed, 20@23c. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. Cattle and Sheep Quiet—Moderately Active Hog Market. Indianapolis Union Stock Yards. Oct. 28. Cattle—Receipts 100 head. Shipments rono. There was the usual quiet Monday market. Prices quotably steady; outlook not encouraging. Export and shipping cattle we quote: Fat, well-finished, dry-fed steers, 1.4C0 lbs and upward.? 4 50® 5 25 Good to choice shipping and export steers ........l 4 00@ 4 40 Medium to good shipping ^ steer* 3 50® 3 90 Common to fair steers — 3 00® 3 40 Good to choice feeding steers.. 3 40® 3 65 Fair to medium feeding steers 3 00® 3 25 Ccir.mon to good stockers 2 00® 2 75 Butchers’ cattle we quote: Gtod to choice heifers 3 00® 3 75 Fair to medium heifers 2 40® 2 90 Common light heifers 2 00® 2 25 Gcod to choice cows 2 75® 3 50 Fair to medium cows 2 25® 2 50 Common old cows 1 00® 2 00 Veal calves 3 00® 5 25 Heavy calves 1 5e® 2 76 Prime to fancy export bulls.... 2 75® 3 00 Good to choice butcher bulls... 2 25® 2 50 Common to fair bulls 1 25® 2 50 Good ’ to choice cows and calves 25 00®35 00 Common to medium cows and calves 10 00®20 00 Hogs—Receipts 1,000 head. Shipments fair. A moderately active market, with packers the leading buyers. AH sold at a decline of 5 to 10 cents. The close was steady at the decline^ We quote Good to choice medium and heavy $3 75@3 80

average, 10%c; 1244 to 15 lb*. 10%©llc for “Reliable”; 1044®lM»e tor *Tndiana• , ; block bants, Uc for "Reliable’’; 10Qe for “Indiana." Breakfast Bacon—Clear, English-cured "1 lets able,” 11V4C; Morgan A Gray, 10c; “Peer- , le**." 1144."; “Porter." 7 to 8 lb*. 94*c; 10 to 12 :

lbs, 9c; 8 lb*. 9c.

Bacon—Clear side*, about 50 iba average, I T«tc; clear side*. 90 to 40 ibs average, 7*0} clear 1 aide*. 30 to 39 tbs average. TV: clear bellies. 25 to 30 lbs average, S%c; 18 to

bellle*, 14 to

22 lb* Average, 744c- clear

16 lb* average. 7%c: clear bellies, 10 to 12

average. 7%c; clear backs. JO

, average, Tfec; clear back* 18 lb* avaiaae, 7%c;

lb* *v

to 40 lb*

Pigs : 2 50®3 75 Roughs 3 00®3 40 Sheep—Receipts 100 head. Shipments none. A quiet market on account of light receipts and poor quaiity. The demand was best for export grades of choice quality. Good to choice lambs $3 50®4 25 Common to medium lambs 2 00®3 25 Export ewes and wethers 3 25®' 3 50 Good to choice sheep 2 50@3 00 Fair to medium sheep 2 00®2 35 Common sheep 1 00®I 90 Bucks, per head ; 1 50®3 50 Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago, October 28.—Hogs—Receipts 50.000 head; left over 3.000 head. Market , prices 6c lower; fairly active. Prices: 1 Light $3.40®3.82, rough $3.25®3.40, mixed ».40®3.85, heavy $3.2$®3.80. Cattle—Receipts 19,000 head. Market 1 easy. Sheep—Receipts 22,000 head. Market steady. Primary Market*. Primary market receipts of wheat were 1.735.000 bushels, against 1.232,000 bushels the corresponding day of last year. Minneapolis received 1,282 cars wheat and Duluth 422 cars, a total of >,704 cars, against 1,391 cars the corresponding day last year. St Louis: Receipts—Wheat 96,164 bushels, corn 65,720 bushels, oats 76.900 bushels. Shipments—Wheat 22,190 bushels, corn 3,510 bushels, oats 21,750 bushels. Toledo: Receipt*—Wheat 13,617 bushels, corn 33,405 bushels. Shipments—Wheat 5,600 bushels, corn 27,600 bushels. Chicago: Receipts—Wheat 279,000 bushels, corn 225,710 bushels, oats 276,989 bushels. Shipments—Wheat 104,349 bushels, corn 275.000 bushel*, oats 374,373 bushels. Estimatod rec«i«m at Chicago Tuesday:

Wheat 706 cars, corn 560 cars, oats 426 cars, hogs 35,000 head. Omaha received 1,500 hogs and Kansas City 5,000 hogs. Exports of wheat and flour were equivalent to 543,000 bushels wheat; 377)000 bushels corn. Grain and Provision Gossip. New York: Newspaper men are talking about twenty loads of wheat and thirty of corn for export. By W. B. Overman’s Wire. Orange Judd Farmer: The total area of winter wheat assuming that California will seed as much as last year will be about 26,000,000 or 1,500,000 more than last year. Crop was seeded under unfavorable circumstances. The fall has been the dryest on record. Seeding late, germination poor and scattered fields from Ohio to Kansas are yet unsprouted. Prospects in Ohio and Indiana very poor. In Illinois conditions are a little better. In Missouri the crop was seeded dry and drought still continues. The general prospect has not been more discouraging at this date in any recent year. It is late, small in growth and lacking in vitality, and while there is yet time for recovery, it must be secured by an abundance of rain and a late beginning of severe winter weather. To-day's visible supply increase has been exceeded but once before. In 1892, for the week ending October 22, the increase w r as 4 321.000 bushels. Visible supply: Wheat—Increase 4,287,000 bushels. Corn—Decrease 1,674,000 bushels. Oats—Increase 78,000 bushels. Chicago; More selling of provisions by packers and disgusted local longs. If pork breaks $9.00, it is liable to be slumpy. Willard's gossip says: John Inglis says the spring wheat receipts at Minneapolis and Duluth, January 1 to August 1, 1899, •will be larger than the entire primary re-* ceipts of wheat on the last crop for ihe same period. The Thomau crop report says of ihe drought: “The growth of winter wheat has been seriously retarded by drought. Ihe early sowing has come up unevenly, and the late sown has not germinated well. Some reseeding will be necessary. The seed bed was not favorable, being tco dry and lumpy. Only 85 per cent, of ;he fall seeding has been completed, compared with the amount usually completed at this per od. Additional moisture will be needed before seeding can progress further. Owing to unfavorable weather, curtailment in area, as compared with that orlgir ally intended is certain. The drought is general and most severe jn the States cf surplus production. The corn crop will reach 2,400.000,000 bushels. Oats will yield largely In excess of what has been heretofore predicted.” The world’s wheat shipments are announced as 8,000,000 bushels. Of these 5.181,000 bushels are from Russia and Black sea ports, and 2,660,000 bushels from America, Weather Forecast: Illinois and Indiana —Fair and colder. Lower Michigan— Cloudy; snow flurries; warmer Tuesday. Upper Michigan—Snow and colder; warmer Tuesday. Minnesota and Wisconsin— Snow in north; slightly warmer Tuesday. Nebraska, Missouri. Dakotas, KansasFair; slightly rising temperature. Chicago: Heavy Black sea shipments of wheat, 5,180,000 bushels, wlllv lower cables, will likely give us a weak opening this morning.' Against thir the absence of rain in the winter belt will be a hustling factor. On the 12th of this month the price of December wheat was 6044c; it closed at this on Saturday. The receipts at the nine primary points for the same time have been 24,332,000 bushels, against 14,607,000 bushels for’ the corresponding time last year. The visible supply the last three Weeks has gained 6,500.000 bushels, so that about 17.000. 000 bushels have dropped out of sight. , Grain and Provisions at Chicago. Reporltd by James E. Berry, roam 1$, Indianapolis Board of Trad*. Open- High- LowArticles. ing. est. est. —Closing.— WheatDec .... 604* 60% 6044 6044b 6044-% May ....6444 64% 6444-44 64%-% 64% Corn— Dec ....27% 27% 27%-% 27%-% 27%May .... 29% 29% 2944 2944b 28%Oats— May .... 20% , 20% 20% 20% 20% Jan 9 07 9 07 9 00 9 05- 9 12 May 9 37 9 37 9 30 9 37 9 42 Lard— ' ' l V Jan 5 65 6 65 5 62 5 65 5 67 May 5 85 5 85 5 82 6 85 5 45 Ribs— Jan 4 55 4 55 4 50 4 56 4 67 May v ... 4 70 4 75 4 70 4 75 4 80 Closing cash markets: Wheat 39%c, corn 30c, oats 18c, pork $8.00, lard 5.62c, ribs 4.40c. Indianapolis Grain Market. Wheat—Firm; No. 2 red 65c, No. 3 red 61@63c, wagon (5c. Corn—Firm; No. 1 white 31c, No. 2 white 31c, No. 3 white 31c, No. 2 white mixed 30%c, No. 3 white mixed 30%c, No. 2 yellow 31c, No. 3 yellow 81c, No. 2 mixed 30%c, No. 3 mixed 3044c, ear 28c. Oats—Dull; No. 2 white 21%c, No. 8 white 20%c, No. 2 mixed 19c, No. 8 mixed 18c. Hay—No. 1 timothy $13.50®14.G0. No. 2 timothy $12.00® 13.00, No. 1 prairie $9-00® 10.00. ; •> Inspections—Wheat 9 cars, ^corn 25 cars, oats 5 cans, hay 10 cars. Ifew York Provisions. New York, October 28.—Butter—Receipts 7,960 packages; firm; Western dairy 10® 15c, Western creamery 15®23c, Elgin* 23c. Cheese—Receipts 4,266 packages; steady; large®7®10c, small 7%@llc, part skims 3%®744c, full skims 2%9$c. Eggs —Receipts 4,254 packages; steady; State and Pennsylvania 20®21c, Western 18® 20c. Sugar—Raw quiet; fair refinifig 344c, centrifugal (96 degrees test) 84tc; refined steady; crushed 1544c, powdered 4%e, granulated 4®4%c. Coffee—Market quiet; No. 7 15%c. .;■ > *tye, Barley, Flax and Ttasot'hy. Chicago, October 28.—Rye—Cash 38%® 38%c, October 38%c, November 39c, December 39%c bid, 40c asked. May 44c bid, 44%c asked. Barley—Cash No. 2 28c, No. 3 26®3Se, May 2944c. Flax—Cash 89%®90c, October 89%c, December 91@9144c, May 97 ®9744c. Timothy—Cash and October $3.50, January $3.65, February $3.70, March $3.90. Cincinnati Market. Cincinnati, October 2?.—Flour—Steady. Wheat—Firm at 60%c. Corn—Quiet at 32c. Oats—Dull at 20c. Rye—Nominal at 41c. Provisions—Steady. Whisky—Firm; sales 587 barrels at $1.22. STOCKS, MOJTEY AND BONDS. The Bears Influence the Market—Tha Quotations. New York, October 28.—The stock market opened moderately active and weak. Tennessee Coal and Leather preferred were sold heavily and receded 1% and 1% per cent., respectively. The general list was also off to a fractional extent. The pressure to sell abated somewhat about 10:30 o’clock. In the meantime, however, Tobacco declined 1%, Wheeling and Lake Erie preferred 144. Manhattan 1 and other shares a smart fraction. A short covering during the next half hour led to an improvement In Leather preferred of 1% per cent.. Tobacco 1, Tennessee Coal %, Wheeling & Lake Erie preferred 144 and Louisville, Sugar, Chicago Gas and Missouri Pacific % per cent. The bears made a vigorous drive at the market soon after 11 o’clock, and succeeded in forcing prices down generally to the lowest of the day. Sugar was the chief point of attack, and yielded 1% per qpnt. to 101%; Tobacco dropped 1%. Near midday an unimportant rally occurred. The sales to noon were 189,400, Including 104,000 listed and 85,400 unlisted. Money. Money on call nominally 2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper 4®544 per cent. Sterling exchange firm, with actual business in bankers' bills at 48844®48S% for demand and 4874*®487% for sixty days; posted rates 488® 4884s and ,489®489%; commercial bills 486%. Silver certificates 67% 66844; no sales. Bar silver 67%. Mexican doll&ra 54. Bonds. Government bonds steady; new 4s registered 121%, coupon 122%, 5s registered 114%, coupon 115%, 4s registered 111%, coupon 11144, 2s registered 9744, Pacific 6s of ’95 100. Quotationa On Stoclca. Reported by James E. Berry. Room 16 Indl&napoll* Board of Trade. Open- High- Low- ClosNAME. Jog- ««. ««. ing. Am. Cotton Oil Co.. 22% £44 22% Chicago Gas Trust.. 68 68% 67% 68% Am. Sugar Refln'..,.M*44 106% 101% 102%, National Lead, com 33 33% 32% 33% Atchison 80% 20% 80 20% C., B. & Q *% 86 tt 86% Northwestern, com.10644 106% 106% 106 Rock Island 76% 76% 75% 76% PL Paul, com 76% 76% 75% 76% Missouri Pacific .... 88% 18% 8244 33% Union Pacific 12% 12% 12% 12% Western Union .... 91 91% 9o% 91 I^ouisville ft Nash. 58% 58% f8% 88% Erie 13% 18% 18% 13% Canada Southern ..56% 56% 55% 66% Lake Shore in 151 150% 15044 •Manhattan 103 106 105 106 North. Pacific, pfd.. 18% 18% 18 18

Del., Lack, ft West.166% Reading 18 C., 8t. .,P M. ft O.. 42% Eliton Gen. Elec.... 15% Dis. ft C. F. Co 28% Wabash, pfd 21% Pacific Mall 29% Tennessee Coal .... 38

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42% 42% 4244

83% 34% 23% 23% 21% 21% 29% 30% 3744 3844

24

21% 30% 38%

hew York Stock Letter. By S. C. Xgoe & Co.’* Wire. New York, October 28.—Market weak throughout, following London ^*nd strengthening exchange, stop orders caught as decline proceeded. Sugar feature of weakness. Market having been apparently given into bears’ hands as customary each fall, preparatory to Congress. Better class stocks resist most stubbornly. In the fancies Lquidatlon most severe.

LIGHT ON ACETYLENE.

THINGS OF IRTEllRST ABOUT THE NEW ILLUMINATING GAS.

Desertptloa of Its Properties and Its Capabilities Compared With Coal Goa, Which It Excels la Brtghtaea* la Proportloa of 10 to 1.

: alumina in the electric calcium carbide as an

I work, and It wag accidentally by itg giving off acetylene gas when It was placed in water. Mr. W.Uon and the people associated with him have published various statements as to thl' cost 1 at which the calcium carbide can be produced, which estimates vary between $5 ‘ and 849 per ton. If even the highest of these estimates is true, the part which calcium carbide will take in the future In

THE PROSPECT FOR

brokers* Gossip. By S. C. Igoe & Co.’s Wire. New York, October 28.—Americans in London are very weak. Louisville declined %. The Union Pacific, under the new reorganization plan, will hardly ever be worth anything. Weil is again talking very bearish on the market. We should advise purchase of trunk line stocks cr. declines. We do not believe the business will be as bad as bears generally make it. Leather preferred is another "Cordage.” (Insiders trying to support; on any rally sell it. Clearing* In Other Cltie*. Clearings at the principal cities of the United States on Saturday and for the corresponding day the week before were as follows: Oct 26. Oct. 19. New York $106,088,990 $104,901,550 Chicago 14,634.102 14,408,448 Boston 15,763,966 15,806,160 Philadelphia 12,540,553 13,948,613 St. Louis 2,904.990 3,537,340 Baltimore 2,237,241 2,279,516 New Orleans 2,017,486 2,425,242 London: The situation In the mining market is causing much anxiety. There was further sharp fall to-day in the most prominent shares, and several firms are known to be in trouble. It’s considered doubtful if assistance to tide over pay-day will be obtainable, in view of to-day’s drop in prices. Indinnapolla Clearing*. • Oct. 28. Oct. 21. Clearings $831,217 $847,110 Balances 23,679 64,766

HIT BY A BALL BAT.

Charle* W. Hill Struck On the Head By Hi* Stepson.

Charles W. Hill is suffering from concussion of the brain, the result of a blow on the head from a base-ball bat wielded by his stepson, Harry Vandevier. Hill and his wife separated several months ago, and the latter has been living at 395 Capitol avenue, south, with her son. Hill, It is said, went to the house yesterday afternoon and abused a young man who was there, and bocaiqe so boisterous that Vandevier ordered him to leave. He refused to go. He finally asked for a cup of coffee, and Mrs. Hill started to get It on condition that he would leave the house after he drank it. When Mrs. Hill returned to the room with the coffee. It is asserted by Vandevier that his stepfather again became abusive. Vandevier picked up a baseball bat and a second time ordered him to leave. Hill, it is charged, continued to threaten both the woman and her son, and was struck over the head by Vandevier and knocked to the floor. His cries for help aroused the neighborhood, and patrolmen .Barlow and Beckmen arrested Vandevier. He was held without bail for assauk and battery, with intent to kill, awaitiag the result of Hill’s Injuries. ’ Hill was taken to the house of his brother-in-law, George Hess, 281 East Georgia street, where he was attended by Pr. Culver. HU1 is in a critical condiUon to-day, and It ig feared that he will die from the blow. chorusofThildren.

Meeting at Plymouth Church To Consider It* Organisation.

About twenty-five women met in the, reading-room at Plymouth church, tMs forenoon, and talked over plans for forming a children’s chorus. It has been suggested by Professor Arens and others that If the May Music Festival is to be made a permanent institution, steps should oe taken to train the children of the city in dhorus work, so thgt when they are old erough to take the places of those wfio are now singing in the festival chorus they will be better prepared for the work. It is probable that If a large children's chorus is formed, Professor Arens will Instruct it. It Is the desire of those int3rested in the movement to gather together several hundred children. THE FISH STILL POISONED.

Chicago Tribune. There has been of late considerable discussion—much of it based on inexact knowledge—of the new illuminating gas, acetylene, its nature and Its possibilities in connection with the cheap electrical development of Niagara power. The following article upon the subject of the new lllumlnant is written by an expert chemist: “This new illuminating gas burns with a flame which is sixteen times as bright as coal gas. It Is a hydro-carbon, which contains the largest amount of carbon that a gas is capable of holding. It burns with a clear white light, and, on account of Its brightness, it is necessary only to use a trtiraer which allows about onehalf cubic foot to pass through tt in an hour in the place of & burner tip which consumes six or seven cubic feet of coal gas. On account of this remarkable brightness the amount of deleterious gases due to the combustion of a gas in a room which Is well lighted is reduced to about one-eighth of that derived from ordinary Illuminating gas. The heat also will be proportionately less, so that in warm weather the lighting of a house does not mean also the heating of it to an uncomfortable degree. This gas has a distinct odor, so that It can not leak without making the fact apparent, the same as ordinary illuminating gas, but It Is less poisonous. The following is a description of how the gas is made: Calcium carbide is first produced by smelting together lime and coke, Intimately mixed in the electric furnace. Only the Intense heat of the electric current will cause these two' very refractory substances to comotne. The lime 1b broken up into its elements, calcium and oxygen; then calcium combines with a portion of the carbon to produce calcium carbide, while the liberated oxygen gas combines with a further portion of the carbon and is led out of the furnace a* carbonic oxide gas, the blue gas which Is so commonly seen burning from a coke fire. The calcium carbide thus produced while at a blinding white heat is tapped out of the bottom of the furnace and fun into molds, the same as if it ward molten iron. Gas Can Be Shipped. This calcium carbide has the remarkable property, when water 1* brought in conUct with it, of generating a large volume of the gas called acetylene, and leaving. slaked lime as a residue—all the carbon having passed off In the gas, combined with the hydrogen of the water. This reaction IS very rapid! and it generates heal the same as when quicklime is slacked. Tha gas acetylene is very permanent, and is only decomposed at a high temperature. It does not condense by being exposed to zero weather, but by applying a pressure of 800 to 900 pounds to the square Inch It can be condensed to a liquid the same as carbonic acid gas, which Is now supplied to tha soda water trade, compressed to a liquid and shipped in steel cylinders. The calcium carbide can be kept or shipped to any distance when it is packed in packages which will preverit the air coming In contact With it. The moisture in the air Is sufficient to cause a slight reaction to take place the same as with lime, but with calcium carbide this change does noi proceed as rapidly as with lime, as a thin coating of lime soon forms over it* surface, preventing to a certain degree any further reaction. One pound of the calcium carbide will generate about five cubic feet of the acetylene gas, this being about the same volume of gas as generated from a pound

IT IS REGARDED AS SLIGHT - UNUSUALLY DRY YEAR.

Jg

tie* — Plowing Delayed — Apples

Dropping From the Tree*—Disagreeable Wind and DmsL

the field of illuminating gas will be that Similar Conditions In Otker

of supplying to the gas companies a material far superior to coal; and the 1 amount of the material which will be | consumed will require the use of an imI mense amount of power for Us manufac-

1 ture.

Niagara Can Be Utilised.

' It would be strange indeed 4 the Falls of Niagara. Instead of supplying electricity for light over the courttry, would relieve the ccal mines of their duty ef supplying coal for the manufacture of illuminating gas, and instead of a long-distance transmiss on of the electricity by wire for illumination it would store up its energy In the form of calcium carbide, which would be transported to distant points by rail and boat. A* the calcium carbide has ten times the eflic enoy of generating a lighting gas as compared with coal Just In that proportion, at least, will It bear

longer transportation than coal.

Then again, if the calcium carbide Is used to produce acetylene gas In the ; Niagara reg.on, and this gas can be trans-

i mltted undei

The rivers all through

‘would bfpo.Sr.Uh ; 8 '*" “• l0 ’* p «'*” h * ,e

ing gas. This brings out a very 1mortant feature In regard to acetylene, atural gas is already being transmitted profitably under high pressure from the t»aa fields of central Indiana to Chicago, a distance of 150 miles. This gas is used ; only for fuel purposes. In the case of acetylene gas it Is safe to say that It

could profitably lines ten times

“When are we going to get some ralnT** In the question that mm at a loss for conversation are asking. A man who asked It on the street car Mils morning heard some one answer: “Probably not until spring now. Snow’s about due.” It seems that prospects for rain ars slight. Tha weather men who met in Indianapolis ft few days ago arranged fair weather for their meeting, and there is a general belief that they fixed things up so tight that

it can’t rain If it wants to.

Last year was a dry year, the dryest on# since 1890, but the preseat year is -till drier. Indianapolis Is not the only sufferer. The reports that com* in dally to the

po; Ns

Thus It becomes

jer hi^h m-^.Tr in Jrl \?n - I United States weather bureau show tnat J ® r ’ 9 ’ ! all over the State the drought is being se- _ a diameter coukl tr ans- J V€re i y f elt> The rivers all through the

are lower than they

j years. Small creeks are absolutely dry, l and wells and springs give no water. The l lack of water is no Jake to the agr.oulturJ ists. Ever since June of this year it has ; been reported to the weather bureau that farmers all over the State have had 10 ! haul water for their stock, and now, sin. 1 # j the drought has continued, it is almost be transmitted by pipe j imposi:bl# to get enough,

a* far as natural gas. | F\aii plowing ha* been long delayed, and

the farmers have not only been afraid to sow their fall crops for fear of the fly. but those that have sown see their seed lying hard and dry upon the ground where It fell Apples have dropped from the trees on account of the dryness, and though this has given a boom to the cider market it has reduced the winter stock of apples. Tomatoes are reported to have rotted on the vines on account of the lack of rain, and farmers find their enemies, the insects, multiplying with great rapidity and thriving on the burnt-up crops and the dryness. Reports received from different parts of the State this morning Indicate that corn is too dry to husk and that farmers are still praying for rain. In Indianapolis the situation is not so bad as it is in the country, but it Is baa enough. With the drought come strong winds that raise the dust into thick clouds and scatter It over everything green In right. The grass on many well-kept lawns is covered with dust, and one man who prides himself on his garden says that he is sure that the last wind-storm lifted ail of the dust from the Terre Haute race-

track and landed it in his yard. Only One Yenr In Excess.

The normal rainfall for Indianapolis, taking the average ofr twenty-five years, is 44.16 inches. On this basis there has been only one year since 1885 when this city had an excess of rain. That was in 1896. Following Is a table showing the rain-fall for the last ten yean, with Us comparison with the normal rain-fall. Year. Rain-fall Deficiency. Excest

possible for the Niaga

Fails power to Illuminate all the cities , with.n a radius of one thousand miles, at : least, by the use of compressed acetyiene

1 gas.

j The controlling patents of the Cowles 1 Bros, of 1885 and 1886 for electric smelting | have some years yet to run, while valu- . able improvements which they have made i since have been covered by later appli- } cations, until at the present time the ■ electric furnace Of to-uay is capable of I turning out material by the ton, wh.le in ! the near future, with sufficient demand, I it will produce material by the car-load where formerly the output was estimated

in pounds.

POSTAGE STAMP REFORM. Collectors Organising To Boycott Speculative Issnea of Stamps.

New York Sun.

For a long time etamp collectors and dealers have been annoyed by what they consider the objectionable practice of certain governments In making frequent changes In their stamp issues. It is alleged that these changes ore not due to any legitimate postal needs, but are really directed at the pooketbeoks of the col- ! lectors throughout the world, who. to i complete their collections, must buy tnese i ur.necessary and speculative issues. Canj tral American and South American countries have been particular offenders in this ; regard, though other countries and colo-

nies have not been far behind.

In the case of some Central and South American countries peculiar contracts exist with the firms that engrave and print the stamps. .The printers furnish all the stamps required free, and in return are allowed to retain, after an issue becom- s obsolete, all the stamps remaining on ; hand. As they can print as many stamps i as they please during the year the issue ; is in use, there is always a goodly lot left over. These remainders the engravers

j sell.

I Recently so bad has been the evil from j the stamp collectors* point of view, that a , society has been formed in England especially to fight the unnecessary Issues by & great, worid-wlde boycott. This association, Which is known formally as the Seciety for the Suppression of Speculative. 1 Stamps, has its headquarters in. London. It has already commenced active work, and has Issued several circulars denouncing certain varieties and issues of stamps as unnecessary and speculative, and ask-

1885 1886 1887 1888 1SX9 1890 1891 1S92 1893 1894

.39.51

89.88 ,....33.08 4186 38.41 ....54.87 pt.fi S9.77 ...89.36 ...37.82

4.65 4.28

11.08

2.80 5.75

ian

The rainfall this year, up to date i* as follows; January, 3.12; February 0.86; March, i.»- April, 1.96; May l.OT; June 1.49; July, 2.87; August, 1.94; September, 7.46; October, 0.82 inches. This shows the normal for the ten months to be 17.77 inches, the deficiency 15.48 Inches. It would take % 15.6 inch rainfall between now and the end of the year to give Indi-

anapolis all its share.

jcx vi caiiv* nn

ig collectors and stamp dealers to cease oHectlng and dealing in them. It has Iso Issued requests to stamp-collecting

So Farmers Along White River SayGreat Nut Year.

Timothy Griffin, custodian of the Siate House, has returned from a week’s outing on the banks of White river, fifteen milesi south of the city. He says the farmers along the river tell him that every time the river comes up many dead fish are floated down. They ‘believe the fish arc still being poisoned by the offal from factories up the river. Mr. Griffin says there never was such a year in Indiana for nuts of all kinds. “Along the rayjnes down where I was you could gather hickory nuts, butternuts and walnuts with a 1 scoop shovel,” said he. “The late heavy! frosts and the strong winds have caused them all to fall from the trees.” Church Records Searched. W. H. Hobbs, secretary gf the Indiana Humane Society, to-day received a telegram from E. Fellows Jenkins, superintendent of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, asking that the records of St. John’s cathedral, this city, be searched for a statement of the christening of Kate Fitzgerald. The telegram asks that the search be made between the years 1876 and 1882, and gives the names of “Fred and Reddle” as parents. The object of the inquiry will probably be developed In a letter, which will come later. The Rev. Frank H. Gavisk, who searched the church records to-day, was unable to find any of the names mentioned. g10,000 Damages Asked For. Jennie Myers, administratrix of the estate of Frederick Myers, filed a suit for $10,000 damages against the Big Four road this morning. The complaint alleges that Frederick Myers was a brakeman employed on the Big Four road, and that on November 22, 18&2, he wis killed while switching some ears at Fairland, Ind. It is further alleged that the company w-as negligent tn that a car had been left standing on a switch so close to the main track that Myers, in climbing down from the moving car struck the one standing on the switch and was knocked under the train. Death of Mrs. Tevls. Mrs. Mary P. Tevis, wife of the Rev. V, W. Tevis, died at Connersville yesterday afternoon. The body will be brought to th% city to-morrow for burial at Crown Hill cemetery. The funeral Lain will ar-

Uni

and the body

whi

calcium carbide, considering this one feature alone, makes it sixteen times as valuable a* a pound of coal. But this figure must not be taken as a criterion of Its value, for there are other elements in connection with the use of acetylene gas which are of still greater Importance. For Instance, the ordinary extensive gas plants and gas holders would not be needed in it® manufacture, as it would not require heating In retorts, as in the case of coal, to cause It to produce the gas. In the distribution of the acetylene gas, the pipes required for conveying it to different parts of ' the city would be very much smaller, probably not more than oneeighth tha diameter of the pipes at present employed, because, first, the Illuminating value Is sixteen times as great as ordinary* gas, and, second, the acetylene gas can tofl burned under high pressure, enabling a very much larger amount of gas to pass through a given-size pipe. In place of tha large city gas-works with their immense gauiolders and great batteries of retorts, were acetylene used to light a city a comparatively small, compact apparatus would be employed, which would feed water automatically upon a mass of calcium cariblde, the rapidity of the feed of the water being governed 1 by the rate at which

! societies in other countries to work in ual-

i son with it.

In this city the Philatelic Society of ! New York and the National Phtlateltcal ! Society have appointed a special committee to devise ways for the suppression of | speculative stamps. The commit*-i9-£pn-slets of William Herrick, chairman; , Joseph 8. Rich, secretary; J. M. Andrelnl; : R. R. Bogert, G. B. Caiman, Alyah Davison, H. E. Deals, F. W. Hunter and J. W. Scott. A petition has been prepared and copies of it have been forwarded to the President, cabinet, postal officials and statesmen tn the various South and Genital American countries which have issued or are thought likely to Issue speculative series of postage stamps. Ths original of the petition Is in Spanish.

HOW TO LOSE FLESH.

. Wheat Not lujnred. Fred P. Rush, who has received reports on the growing winter wheat from a number of correspondents in this State and Illinois, and who has himself just returned from a four-days’ trip through the best wheat-growing section of Illinois, says that the remarkable fact ev lets that the continued dry weather hall not, as yet, hurt wheat “The truth is.*’ said Mr. Rush, “that wheat is looking unusually well. I have heard of but one place where wheat it reported to be injured, where it le taking

been local rains nearly everywhere except there. While the rains have been slight, they have apparently been sufficient.’^ Franklin Landers and George T. Evans give like reports. WILL BE CHIEF CUBE.

rive at the Union Station at 11:45 a. m.,

body will be taken direct to the

held. The Rev. Mr. Tevis was formerly

cemetery, where short services will be

pastor of Hall Place M. E. church, this ;ity, and Mrs. Tevis had a large circle of

friends here. Far From Being the Sgme.

London Tit-Bits.

Johnnie—What’s the difference between a visit and a visitation? Pa—A visit, my son, is when we go 10 »ee your grandmother on your mother’s

side.

“Yes.” “A visitation is when she comes to see

British Approval. Boston Standard. It seems that the Duke of Marlborough was greatly pleased with Niagara Falls. It is, therefore, assumed that they will go on falling just the same. The World’s Indifference. Somerville Journal. The saddest thing about it is that when two souls have but a single thought it la one In which the world takes very 11; tie interest. Difficulties of Early Penmakers. With the early pen-makers the problem of a point was the most serious, and a long time elapsed before It was deflnlte- ! ly solved.

formation or tne gas renders it particularly valuable for lighting buildings away front the city, such as country hotels, cottages, farm-houses, steamships, and railroad cars. The Origin of Acetylene. The history of aluminum, calcium carbide, and acetylene all seem to have a peculiar connection. It was from the master hand of Sir Humphrey Davy that the world received an exhibition of an electric light between two carbon points ir the laboratory of the Royal Institution of Great Britain about the year 1803. And in this same laboratory Sir Humphrey Davy produced, by the use of electricity, little globules of metallic sodium and potassium, and proved for the world that the salts of the sea contained metals. He at this time suspected that clay and lime contained metals, and he tried to separate them, but failed. He even went so far as to suggest the name aluminle for the aluminum which is now known to tc in all clays. In 1827 Wohlet, a great German chemist, really secured a little aluminum by a method not employing electricity, from a substance called aluminum chloride. In 1836 it was found that when making potassium by distillation from po lassie carbonate and carbon, small quantities of a by-product, consisting of a compound of potassium and carbon, were produced and that this was decomposed by water with liberation of acetylsne. In 1862 Wohler, by fusing an alloy of zinc and calcium with carbon, made calcic carbide and used it a« & source of obtaining acetylene by the action of water. He protolsed, In a short article which he wrote on the subject, that In the near future he would give a detailed analysis and full description of this method of producing acetylene, but Providence decided otherwise, as Dr. Whoier died shortly afterward and never finished the work he had in mind. Future history will probably disclose that the two greatest achievements of his life were the unfolding to the world from the secret* of nature the two products, the metal aluminum and calcium carbide. In 1885 the Cowles Brothers patented their electric furnace and described the reduction of the oxides of aluminum, silicon, and calcium therein, and the production of carbides. These results were published In papers, read in scientific societies by the Cowles brothers, Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, and Prof. Charles 8. Mabery. Cowles brothers are to be given the credit for being the first ever to reduce these refractory earthy oxides, and introduce the electrical furnace into commercial operation, and to apply largo c'ectrical currents from dynamos *0 heating electric furnaces for the purpose of reducing metallic oxides. Their electric "melting works are located at Lockport. For several years they ted the world in having made to suit their requirements the largest dynamos in existence, and it was not until the recent high development of the electric railroad that the construction of larger dynamos was caused. Their work has been followed in certain lines by Moissan In Paris, as he gave in 1893 a very dear description of hi* production of calcium carbide in the electric furnace and the production of therefrom. T. L. Wilson, at Rpray. - following much on the lines of the C< , Bros’ work, whilst attemoting to reduce

The Testimony of One Who Has Suffered and Been Redeemed. Harper’s Bazar. After much study and looking about she determined upon a regimen. She instantly gave up sugar In tea or coffee, and milk at any time. For two months she took for breakfast, luncheon and dinner only beefsteak and toast, and now and then spinach and lettuce; always oranges —oranges in plenty. She drank with this clear coffee or tea. Sometimes she took claret. She limited the amount of water taken through the day to one quart, or at most three pints. Some of this the drank hot before or after meals. Often she squeezed the Juice of a lemon in it. When the two months were over and the flesh had begun to diminish she ate other vegetables and fruit, com. peaches, celery, but never any vegetable* that grew un-derground-potatoes, onions, parsnips/ turmps or beets. She never ate—and this was her most Important rule—she never ate anything fermenting in character, any jars, plums, grapes or sweets. Because read has a fermenting quality in it, she always toasted It dry. Pudding she never touched, sauces nor cake. If any food led to flatulency in any form she knew at once it was a food to be avoided. Bv-and-by, after the first few months, she allowed herself now and then an occasional sweet or an ice, but never as a habit. _ • ~ Experiments In Crossing Rivers. Experiment* in crossing rivers have recently been made by the Austrian cavalry with water-tight haversacks filled with straw. Four of these were formed into a sort of raft, held together by three sabers; on these five men got astride, the foremost steering with a pole, and the horses were led, swimming. It took eight minutes to prepare, sight minutes more to cross a river 660 feet wide and twelve feet deep, and two minutes to resaddle on the opposite bank; *0 the five men were ready for action on tha other side in eighteen minutes after ths order to cross was given. Boats were also made with tke haversacks, stiffened by iron bars or cavalry sabers, In which twelve or fourteen armed men were ferried across. A Tip To the Summer Girl. Atchisoa Globe. The girl who boasts of the number of times she has been engaged makes the discreditable admission that non* of the young men was in earnest.

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Charles Ballon’s Position On tho State Board of Charities.

Charles Ballou, who has been assistant clerk In ths State prison south for thirteen years, will become chief clerk in th« office of the State Board of Charities, November 1. Mr. Ballou has to leave ths employ of the prison because h* is a Democrat. He was notified soon after warden Hert took possession that he must leave, and he handed in his resignation to take effect November 1. Secretary Blcknell. of the Board of State Charities, invited him to take a position with the State Board of Charities. Ballou was appointed to the position from Sullivan county, and is reputed to be one of the most efficient men In the prison service. Miss Carroll, who was formerly with the Board of State Charities, has taken her old position with the Bowen-Merrlll Com- ^ y ^^n va fi c r the po,mon wh,c * , Nat a Political Visit. Ex-Congressman Bynum went to Washington thi* afternoon to represent parties living in Indiana and Illinois In a css* before the Court of Claims. He says there is no politics connected with bis trip.

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