Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1891 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STA'fE SENTINEL

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1 Leading CommoditiesOpen With an Advance And Remain DecidedlyBullish All Day. European Cables Make Wheat Very Strong. Foreign Crops Badly Damaged and the Weather Bad. Provisions Irregular and Excitable and Slightly Higher. Indianapolis. un MOXDAY Kvejciso. March 30. Corn was steady today. Oats were etrong. with good inquiry from local dealers, and wheat firm with a good milling demand. Receipts for the past twenty-four hours, 28 cars, against a total of 36 cara Saturday and Friday. Wheat Stronger; No. 2 red. $1.03 bid; No. 3 red, 9S0Jc bid; rejected, 60(i90c; unmerchantable, 70i7ec Corn Firmer; No, 1 white, 60c bid; No. 2 white, 60c bid; white mixed, CSc bid; No. 3 white, 68309c bid, latter for one color; No. 2 yellow, GSc bid; No. 3 yellow, CSc bid; No. 2 mixed. 6$c bid; No. 3 mixed, G7Jc; sound ear, C6c bid. Oats Fr:i;er; No. 2 white, 56c bid; No. 3 white. 55c ; No. 2 mixed, 55c bid ; rejected, 50s. Bran Strong; receipts light; local dealers are bidding $19. Hay Timothy (choicel, $14 bid; No. 1, $12.75 bid; No. 2, $10.7-5 bid; No. 1 prairie, S7.75 bid ; No. 2 prairie, SO; mixed hay, 5.50. Reeds. "Wholesale prices in seeds are as follows: rer Buihel. Clover, median, recleaoed, fair to good 13 ?534 35 Cloter, mr rtinm, reoleanerl, prime... 4 5(ft$4 8i) Cloeer, medium, recleaned, choice... 4 75fai4 t'5 Clorer, raammoth, recleaned, prirua 4 50(54 75 Timothy, rtcleaued, prime to strietly prima 1 70 Timothy, recleaned, choice 1 t,0(a,l 70 lilue grass, fancy - 2 K53 10 Orchard graa. - 1 60(1 ,c5 Red top - 7f t Knslish bine grass.. 3 50(j,2 70 Gern.an millet - 1 l'-Ci 23 Millet 7:f.l 00 Hungarian Millet 6Cj,1 00 PyODUCE MARKETS. CniCAGO, March 3a The risible supply of train us reported for the Board of Trade ia aa follows: Wheat. 2J.76i.001; decrease. 2a',000; corn. 2,l'S;',0O0; iucrease, 17,000; oate, 2.8X.000; decrease. 1,(00; rye. 47I.0C0; increase, 12.000; barley, U-'j.CO); decrease, 158,OjO. The specnlatiro trade was strongly ia favor of higher prices and opened with immediate advances for al! tkn leading commodities. The tone thus early imparted vai maintained throughout the session, but a considerable advance over the prices paid immediately at the start which subsequently occurred wu afterward dropped so tlmt the gain in the end did not exceed that secured on the fir-t brush. So far as wheat was concerned fine prospects tor the com nij crop in thia country were arruyed against the damage already done tiie crop in Euronu and the day'a reports were strongest in the latter particular. May cpeaed Je hipber than it cl aed Saturday, and at once advanced He more. The cause of the opening biile was not at once ascertainable. Easter Monday is a holiday abroad, eo there were no cable market reports; the weather Itere was rainy, which furn.sned argument on both sides, aud northwestern receipts were 1 beral. Later it was learned thut a private d.'s.atth from Antwerp rjnnted the market there etrongtr, and the rirt bulge was attr bu ed to that. An advance of about lo on such slight foundation was considered too much by the bears and they alouce began seliicir, with the remit th-tt Jjo was knocked of the prices. It was remarked, however, that the market Appeared to have wonderful elasticity and rebound ti It after every slight drot, and it soon bedims kr.own that the Antwerp dispatch referred to was cot the only piece o; foreign news at the bottom of the excelit nt buying. C. A. PilUbury, the Minneapolis uiilier. had a private cablegram quotiii the stocks at Odessa down to a low ebb, liussan farmers unwilling sellers and a considerable damage to the Ilassian crop; and a prominent house received a London di patch describing the English crop as being backward and the weather there frosty. In addition to the fore point; uiws free loading of wheat at San Franeisoo for export was reported and another jump to the highest point of the dny followed. The opening price for the May delivery was 1.04!: and it advanced to $1.01, then declined to $1.04 u'radually, reacted to 1.04?; before making its greatest break to i 1.034. It then adranced to 1.05 in an irreirular way and broke to $1.04,'4'. The free real, zing of profits on early purchases was chiefly responsible for the setback to prices toward the cote. The corn market wan strong and nervous. It started at anywhere from Cs? to 6S?ie for May, but weakened aud sold off' to t7?. There was a very irrefu'ar ran ire in the subsequent fluctuations, but the feelings of strength developed at the opening was tor the greater part of the day fairly maintained. There ras a spurt in the latter half of the le.'j.oo which took May up to ('', a This was caused by the scarcity of the eash offerings compelling one of the heaviest lc-al users of corn to buy from the elevator stocks at 1c over the prue current for May delivery. The July iuture did not respond to the extreme bulge in May, but also ruled firm and occasionally strong. The transactions of oats were very light; the demand whs urgent and there was nothing of consequence for sale, hence an advance of J.'s'o was recorded before the tni'lw became general. Values were fully lc higher early when there was considerable reali'ug which caused a corresponding decline. The anxiety of the shorts to cover turned the tide the other way fora time, but the close was weak with prices higher th in on Saturday. The provision market was excited by the advance in the price of hotrs reported iro.n the stock yards. The pr.ces paid were very irregular but higher. Commission houses found it very difficult to execute orders satisfactory under the rapid running up and down of values. May pork opened anywhere from lii5 to 13. It sold off I12.77K. ari l again advanced to $13.30 and closed at $12.&5. fard and ribs were equally irregular and excited, but closed with tie greater part of the early bulce lost. The leading futures ranged as follows: Artie, a. t,iUin,. i ilxii. nl. Ui ak I Closing, l 02 1 1 C2V i Qy. 1 (fcjj 7 ";s 54 b. 12 M l i 31i 7 00 7 22i fM 11Y. 5 :v, 6 87 Ms... 1 1 Oi liar 67 Juiy. Oats J.ne.. July-. foaa MT J'Hr 12 77i' i s JO 13 bU 8 Xuai si . 7 r j 6 uy. K1 July ... .iM-. May 'July ... 8ept.. 6 8') Cash quotation were aa follows: Flour Firm and unchanged; No. 2 spring wheat, .m,Afa..WM Nc3 soring wheat, 9 ; No. 2 red, fl.03Xr$l.0i; No. 2 oorn, 7 ;e; No. 2 oati, 5.1c; No. 2 rye, 5M(rSe; No. 3 barley, nocaiaJ; No. 1 fXax-ioad. tUO; prima tlm

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othy seed, tl.27(dl.20; mess pork, 'per brl., : tli.'O; lard, per 100 lbs., fi.75; short ribsldca , (loose). ( dry salted shoulders j (boxed), t".oT'CV. 10; short clear sides (boxed), t J-i.-V)f(,i.u0; whisky, distillers' finished goods, per traL, fl.l'i; sugars, cut loaf, unchanged;

xio. 'i white oats, M.Vf'j,v4c; o. 3 do.. o'Wti fj4'o; No. 3 barley, L o. b., lO''iv; No. 4 do., f. 0, b., C7(3-7'Jo. Jlectiytt. HhipmsnU. Flour, brla 13,010 0.0O0 Wheat, bu - 27.000 33.UO Corn, bu. 8S,(A) 9-1.000 Oata, bu 170.(00 131.(0 Kye. ho. 4,0X) is,a Barley, bu 22.000 17.0u0 On the produce exehange today the butter market was quiet and unchanged. Lggs 17 NEW YORK. March 3. Flonr Receipts. 17.971 packages; exports, I.G06 brls, 2J.410 sacki: firm, fairly isctive; sales, L'1.410 brls. Corn-meal Firm, fair demand. Wheat lieceipts, 73 0; exports, 6.17; eales, P40,(i)0 futures; 54 X0 spot; spot market ltj l'?4'e higher, firm, qnict; No. 2 red, Jl.lOM i.Vi'Z elevator; Jl.ls'i alloat: $1.17;4' 1-19U f. o. b.; No.3red,il.to'j; ungraded red. l.liv-i 1.1' j; No. 1 Northern, $1.23;';: No. 1 hard, 1.2t3; options showed good buying through the day larnely on foreign account and prompted by Russian crop reports and cold wave in West. The general course of prices has been almost steadily upward, and tho close is firm at Ci, 210 advance. No. 2 red. March, closing J l.loi:4 ; May, M.Q,V,U doling Juno, ?1.10tl.l0;B,clonng $1.1078; Julv. 1 On 1.09. closmir fl.04; Aug., 1.03 13 10 $1.04. cl .nine ?1.0?i; Sept., (l.C3u&l 04'. closing Jl.Ol1;; Dec. 1.0o.7s. closing $l.0:. Stocks of grain, store and afloat March 2S: Wheat 533,833; com 3ni.02."; oats 794.2J5: rye 16.700; bariey 32,491; mall 185.572; pess 6.32. Harlej Quiet; steady. Rarley msl Dud. Corn Receipts, ft',o; exports, 1,506; sale., 3.316.C00 futures, 73.000 spot; spot market lc up; quiet; lirm; No. 2, 79.4(3 MHj elevator, 81c atloat; unrrnded mixed, 7i)i(n Sic; steamer miscd, TS&OMc; options almost steadily advanced 14("-'o above rJaturday's close in light receipts, supplies offered sparingly, shorts anxious to cover; March. SOc; April. 78o: May. 74C(i 7osc. closing 7lJc; June, July. 71?. 'sJ, clos;nz Aig.. Osts Receipts, 83,000; exports, none; sales, 210,000 futures. 103,0(X spot, potmarketquiet; hither; optioi.s stronger; fairly active: March, 5T;ic; May, 59;rj,o0.' closing f.;iic; July, o.-'C5 '!c. closing ,'9','c; spot No. 2 white, t'O' (ti,6'2e; mixed westera, 5s'C$(2c; white do, 6t'(5.d6c; No. 2 Chicago, 01c. Hay Meaity. Hop Steady ; quiet; state common to choipe, 21030c; Pacific coast, 22i30c. Coriee Options opened duli, 5 points up to 5 points down; closed steady; unchanged to 5 points up; sales, 5,750 bag", inc u I nu March, 17.50c; .Aprii, 17.45c; May, 17.25: 17.30c; Sept., 15.95c; spot Rio dull; easy; fair cargoes, 20c; No 0, 1S7hC. ugar Raw, active; firmer; fair refining, 5 3 165" ic; centrifugal. 90 te-t, 57-sC; sales late SaturJav end today 101 hht. and 1,900 baira Muscovado, 8) test. 3'ic; 51 h!id-. and 2,710 begs do, 60 test, 3,' c p. k t.; I. 4si as ceiitrif'it'als. 96 tet, 5"c; 42,210 baps di, .;J3 c. & f. ; 7.2'. '0 hajs rriolaHsex sucar, 87 and ej lest, 2 13 lCc and 2 15-16c c. & f.; refined dull. Molasses Foreign firm; New Orlean?, firm; fair demand. Eggs Lower; western, 20c; receipt", 5,'-0 packages. Hides l'irm, quiet, Pork Active, h gher; old mess, ll.7.Vi 12.15: rew mess. $13.7514; extra prime, Sll.ror.t 12. Cut Meats Eirm; wanted; pickled bellies. ti'Ce;do shocldtrs, 4't l''4'c; do haras, S'Ci-S'c; mid-lies, pood demand: higher; short clear, $o.5. Lard Mijrhrr, stronger and quiet; western steam, $7.1-; s:tles. lOUierces, 57.12' 5; options, salrs 3.50O tierc-s; May, $7.18.7.2'', c'osing $7.10 bid ; July, 7.47fi 7.48. closing $7.4'5 bid; Ahl'., 7.54'" 7.57, clo.-ing $7.64 aked; Sept., $7.70, closing .f7.72. Butter Quiet; weak; western dairy. 15Tt27c: do creamery. 21 (a :i.m; do factory. 13(5,27e; Elgin, 3 ."f "lrt. Cheese Less demauo; firm; skims, t! (-i, luc ; Ohiotlsfs.Sllp. CINCINNATI. March 2 Floar In fair devaud; laiuily, fr.'5.:,5f"',4.10; lanoy, 4..r)if'i. 4.75. Wheat N-irce, storig; No. 2 red, $1.05 Cil.0t; receipts, 6.C0O; shipments, 5,50. Corn strong, higher; Ho. 2 loixetl, 7--7-?ie. Oats Eirtner; No. 2 mixed, 68c. Pork Stronger, i'12.50. Lard In jrooil demand; 6.50 bid. Jitilk ments strong, higher; short rib, 0.25. R.ieon In lair demand, higher; nhort clear, .7.25. Whisky Meady; e.ile?, 953 barrels finished goods on bafis of $1.1C. Jtuttt?r Steady ; fancy I'lvrin creamery 32(a:VAe; Ohio and Indiani:, 21(25c; pnne dairy, 18(2)c. Linseed oil In good demand, higher, 5K-'". Suqar Weak, dropping; hard refiued, 57h''i6.'4c; New Orleans. 4'i.5c. Eggs Easy, 15c. Cheess In moderate demaud, firmer; choice full creamery Ohio Gat 11(5 II, 4c. TOLEDO, March 30. Wheat Easier; cesh an.l March. 1.06J j; Msy. il.07'; Julyl.t'; Aug., 5!i. Corn Active, steaiJy; cash, 71c; May, 69c. Oats tjniet; ca-h 54' -c. Clover?ed Duli. atendy; cash, ,-4.524; March, ft.50. Receipts I'lour, 6 0; wheat. 10,182; corn, 24,-5-19; rye. 450; cloverseed, 707. Miipments Flour, 420; wheat, COO; corn, 23,400; oats, none; rye, 1,572; cloverseed, 161. INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS. Indianapolis, Ind., 1 Monday Kvexino, March 30. The miserable weather has tended preatly to keep trade down today. As this was Monday and eo early in the week, trade in dry cools has not -et developed the fcnnp hoped for. Stocks are are full and in pood condition. There is a much larger and better a.-ortinent of poods on the market now than there has been, and greater inducements are hedd out to buyers than ever before. No changes worthy of ncto have taken place in fruits and vegetable, and this line of trade has been quiet all day. Business in seeds has been dull, with no new quotations. In drusrs, also in iron and hardware, br.siur-es has been very fair. Poultry continues to prow strong' r, and butter was firm. There was an increase in the receipts of egps. Oranges Fioridas, I2.75Q3.75 per box; California uraia'es, fancy Kivi ri Je, aborted sizs, per box, (33.23; Los Augelcs needling, 2.75(3) nveis, ?5. Potatoes 11.20 per bo. from oar; tL20L35 from store; any rote etd. 41.30 per bushel; early Ohio seed, 2.00 per bushel. Onions .5.25(;,5.50 per bbl.; onion setts, white. $7.00 per bushel; yellow, f3.00 per bushel. Early Tegetables Lettuce, 15(o,18o per lb; ratlinlits, 3Ua,.i5c per dor.; rhubart, 3oi.35o per dox.; onions, 15 'f 20o per; dor.; kale, $1.25 per bbl.; spinach, 1 50 bb.'. Rutabaga 1.5. Cranberries Choice to fancy, medium, fl'll per brl; boxes, fji :'53.50; Jersey s, 1 '0''Vll. lpples Common, $2.25(2.50; ohoice, $4,53 0,5.00; fanoy, $5.73&S.--. .-ir. ri ..' . .vtc it-r quart. Ttirnip-S1.00(1.25 per bbb Lemo'is Choice to fanoy. $3.5' ($LM, Sweet Potatoes Jerseys, $ :.75Q4.00per brl.; Kentucky, 3.00(3.25 per brl; Illinois, 13.75 t.4 0 heetl wecl per brl YeiloW Ji rseys, 2.75: .-onthern Qi.n. fv2.25,'-2..0; Yellow NanerDond. 2.5i; Ken.ueUv .lerevs, $2 50. Cabbage Home rrown, t2.502.75 psr brl.; Florila. t2.15 per arate ; imported, 3a per lb. (irapes Ma aaas, s(,H.5n per bbl. Honey New white comb, one pound seo tions, 20c; dark, lGftflSo. Dat a Fard, 12 lb boxes, V; 0lb boxes, 9(l0c; Persian. 5Vfe. Ems Layer, ISVi' rt15o per lb; bags. 73e, lUnanas J1.00f2.X) per bunoh. OiJer Da y prion jaiee, 7.50 32 fiL bbl; H00M bhh Cocoanuta 5.00Q9 00 per hnndrsd. C'ucuinberi l'er dozen, f 1.75. Hlde, Lttier. Tlmr nn.1 Palta, Tallow No. 1, 4i04o; No. 2, 3a. Hides Market ia.; No. 1 Ulh.vr, 4e; No. 2, 34o; prioes. No. 1 cured, 54o; No. 2 oursJ, 4c; No. 1 green, 4c; No. 2 green, 3c. leather Oak sole, 2Vd,Z4r, hemlook soles, I 13C2Ve; harness. 2433c; skirting, 3334o; ! blaek bridle, per dos $."5W; fair bridle, S504jj0 per dot.; city kip, flOISSo; Frenon kip, 75ofl.I0; oity calf skins, 70olLlO; French call skins, K1.7b. Pheep Shearing, 20(d;30o; lambs, 40(75a. Grease Brown, 2ic; yellow, 3c; white, 4a. Iron nml ll irilirnr. P.ar iron. 11.00(82.00 ; wrought charcoal bar. fS.OoQ.T.OU. lloneahoes bordan. t-1.25; Walker's, 14.25(4.35; mule hoes, $5.25; eut-nail rata lor 50a and 60s, iteel nails, fl.90; horse, 14.50 per box; wire nails, rate $2.40. Itarb-wire Ualvanised, $3.50; plain annealed fence wire, $140; galrsoiied, 00c adtanoe; 19, 11 and 12 aixoa the regular adraacea.

Powder 5.50 for 25-lb. keg. 8hot tl.45 a aek. Loaded shells 12 faujs.tl.60; 10 gauge, f 1.75 per 10a r"rot an. 8MOEF.D MEATS. Reliable" brand Bagar-cured bams 2 libs. average 9) 17 lbs. and nTsrage .. 9 15 lb. average 10 12X lbs. average 104 10 lb. average I0i "Uorgta & Grey" brand io less than " liable."

"KeliaSle" brand, block ham, 13 to IS lb. ar. 10 Boneless ham, "Reliable" brand M 64 Csiilornia nam . it ii r t , u'a a 10 to 14 lbs. average .... 0)1 Breakfast bacon -clear, Knglish cured, "Keliable" brand 10 Morgan 4 Grey . S Martin & Co., very lixht pieces, 9 K u iKti simili ter, cured, rolls 1 7 English shoulders. "Keliable" brand. 11 lbs. average 7 1 Its. average . Cli Morgan A Grey. 11 tb. A V a, leu Hn?ar-cr i 10 12 lbvrsjr t - Baoon Clear sides. 20 to 25 lbs. average... 74 4 ltS. HV fugf 74 Clear bellies, 11 lbs. average 7,V Kanire ot 15 to 3D lbs., same quality and average as heretotore, without se'eot on 74 Clear backs, 8 lbs. average 73 Clear backs, 15 lbs. average Flitobes Short backs, 6 lbs. average ti Dried beef hams Reliable" brand 12 Morgan & Orev 7 Knuckle pieces o inside pieoes adTauce will be chsreed. Beef tongues, each.. 45 I '"iii1' -!l. 5" 't'ltil' inii:ti. Bolozna fckin, large, Co; small, CXc; elotX 5,vc. W'etnerwurit "e, D. S. and pickled meats Clear sides, olear bellies, elear b&oks, Xe less than smoked. Khort fat baoks 7 lb. average C, Itean pork (clear), per brl, 200 lbs fl. 00 Ham and rump pork, per brl, 200 lbs... 12 0 AUo, half barrels, 100 lbs, at half the price of the barrel, adding 50o to oovsr additional oost of package. Lard Pure, kett le-renderedjn tierces, SJ'e; "Inoiitoa" ia tierces. 7 '.o; alto in hardwood tabs of 55 lbs net, same prioe as tierces; hardwood Lto e:, 16 1 s. e , J j over il'-re.'S. Can-, itros weiirhin 50-lb cans, in single oases, or cne rf 2 can', o advauee on priee of tierces; 20-ib- In cases o; 4 cans. e advance oi price of tierces; 10-lb in case ; enns c adTanee on price of tierces; 5-1 b in ease of 12 caus tJc advance on price of tierces; 3-1 b in chw 20 cans, lo advanoe oa prioe of tierces. Fresh Meats (Shipped at buyer's risk.) PorkLoins (all fat trimmed oi closely) 7 Collude hais, lean back pieces weighing 5 " c ns... a Tenderloins 12K Pnnxe-ribs Ai Tnmminrs . 5 Pork saaiage Link Bulk, in 2W b pails. 6' Hokises New Orleans (new crop 5545o; medium sirups, 323 e; choice, 35(3 iOo. Sueir Hard, 7Vh(!o; confectioners A, fiGic; o A, 6i6.v8c; co ee A.OVcgSe; white extra C, 'e; extra C, Skfyw, good yel ow, 4.4Q5c; fair ye. low, 5ls(i5e; yellow, 55'ie. Co.lee Common to good, 2022o; prima to choio, 34Hf25Xe; fancy. 25.' fctJoc; golden Kio, '27dMc; Java, 2'Ji(30Vo; Burner package, 2 '4c; Arbnekle's, 2 v4c; Lyon, 2 Me Spice Pepper, 15Qlfa; allspice. 1213o; cloves, 26iV5G0e; easkia, 1012c; nutmegs, 75 tOo. Starch Refined pearl, 4'SHi'o per lb; champion gloss, one and three-pound packages, 6( CV4c; champion r1os lump. 4i'(ioc; one and three-pound paokagss, Cc; improved corn, 6341370. Halt In ear-loU, 9!e; small lots. $16$1.0o. Miscellaneous Kice, Louisiaua, flifa7o; coal oil, 7S'1,,4C Beans Navy. f2.3 (2.40c; medium, 2.3,2.40; marrowfat, ?3Q3.10. I'ou'.try a ud I'rodaee. Eggs-13c Poultry Hens, fe; spring chickens. Fe; roosters, 3c; turkeys, bene, l"o choice; young turkeys, So; turkeys, old to ins, 6o; geese, full feathered, $5.40(a)G per dor.; ducks, 7c Feathers Prime gea. 35(g3do per lb.; daek. 15(20o. Butter Dealers are bidding for choice roll lJl.-x; fancy creamery, 30(335c; choioe creamery, 18(tJ20c ISJoul. 'V quote farm lots Tnb-washel and picked, 35(3Co; unwashed fine, l?21e; unwashed and medium and common grades, it in good order, 2325c. Fleece Washed, if light, well waahed and in good order, 2J(3lo. SAVED FKOM STARVATION. Conclnded from Fifth race. capital of Isroal, with their armies, o as to starve tho people to death if they would not give up everything to the Syrians. Kead about the preat famine in II Kin.:s, vi, -(-21. W hy did (Jod allow this? Because the people had binned and he wished to lead them to repentance and to return to God, who w;ts waiting to help them. God punished theru jut aa a parent or teacher punishes a child till he is willing to obey, even while they are sorry for the child and do not love to punish. Consider how God tried the faith of even his be oyed'prophet Elisha. lie delayed lon in iulliilin his promise; he allowed him to be in great danger but this was to te.-t and strengthen his faith and lit him for preater usefulness. Head carefully the verses of the lesson. God saw signs of repentance. The king himself was wearing nackcloth in secret as a token of repentance (vi, 30.) Then God promised relief, and the next day it came in a 6trange and wonderful way. Learn some good lessons from those lepers. (1) Kven the poorest and feeblest have opportunities to do good. (!') It is mean to bo BeListi. The wise and good peek to have others enjoy all the good thinjrs they have themselves. Take warning from the man who would not trust in God but mocked at his promises. Review Kxerolsea. f For the Whole School in Concsri 1. "Who besieged Samaria? Ana. The Syrians.under King llenhadad. 2. What was tho result of the eiege? Ans. A terrible famine, o. What did the king do? Ans. lie threatened Klisha with death for not bringing relief from (iod. 4. What did l.li-ha promise? Ans. That God would make food abundant in one day. ft. How wan it fulfilled? Ans. The Syrians thought they heard in tbe nijrht the Bound of upproaching armies, and fled in a panic, (i. What be ell the man that niocked Klisha in unbelief? Ans. The people trod him to death at the gate of the city. Appointed Itank Knmmir. Auditor of State Henderson Wedneaday appointed Senator Harry II. Francis of Michigan City fetato banlf examiner. Mr. Henderson fcaid that the law requires tliat the incumbent ehall not be connected with any bank that would come under his jurisdiction and he deems it best to appoint a man who had no connection with any bank, as the opportunities for knowledge of the inside working of oiher banks miiiht be used by a hanker in the interest , of liia own institution. Mr. Francis auc- ! ceeds James II. Henry of Gosport. This position requires about two months' time ' u ... : : i : i banks organized under the etate banking law which number sixty odd and ia worth from $000 to $S0O a year. Wants h It-.riy Gnaid. (Poru Sentinel. 1 A little, insignificant member of the last legislature from a neighboring county wants Ids constituents to send tiiree good men with him the next time he goes to the legislature aa a sort of body guard to keeD the lobbyists off, and tell "him to come in when it rains.

ADVANCE ANOTHER NOTCH.

SWINE QUOTATIONS STILL GOING UP. Receipts Somewhat Ught, Baying- Directed to Choir Grades A Few Cheep Offered on n Fair M rket Cattle Shipments Light Representative Hog Sales. Ustox Stock f ards, f I.VDIAXAPOLIS, March SO. J CATTLE Receipts, Market firm. Export crades, 1,450 to 1.G50 lbs J3 25Q 5 50 Good to choice shipping, 1,2'J0 to 1.400 lbs 4 75Q 5 10 Fair to Medium shipping. 1,000 to 1.200 Tba 4 15(3 4 60 Common shipoinff, 900 to 1.1"0 ISs.. 3 5i.X$ 4 00 Choice feeders, 1,100 to 1.200. 3 75( 4 25 Common to good stockers, 600 to 800 lbs 3 00 3 25 Export heifers, 1,200 to 1.30O Fs 4 5CC 4 75 Good to choice heifers 3 7'(J 4 25 Common and lieht heifers... 2 0o(g 2 50 Good to choice cows 3 5ov 4 (X) Common to good oows 2 00r5 2 50 Veal oalres . 4 CM.) 5 50 Fancy export bulls 3 4 00 Good butcher 2 5( , 3 25 Common to good bulls 1 75 2 25 Good to common cows and caUes. 20 00(ta- 00 Common to fair cows and calves... 12 0W20 00 BniEP Receipts, 500. Market steady on good nod shade lower on common. Good to choice lambs Jo 506 CO Fair to good lambs - 5 0o(cj)5 60 Common to fair lambs 3 5 (a.5 (K) Good to choice sheep 4 50(5 20 Fair to good sheen 4 OVfoii 55 Common to fair sheep - 3 00 Pelters per head 1 00fa,2 00 Bucks per head 3 00,4 50 Hogs Receipts, 3.000. Market aotive and higher on hest grades of heavy; others about steady. Shippers and packer buying; quality not good. Closed strong. We quote: Choice heavy 1 80(3:5 00 Heavy aud mixed packing 4 6GC$4 K) Choice I ghts 4 4W4 Co Common lights 3 75fil 10 Pigs 3 Ua,3 75 Roughs 3 50&4 15 TtEPRKSKXTATIVE 8ALK3. A'o. Av. Pr.y. . Pr. 72... 22i". U 75 3.") 233 $4 70 10 122 - 3 25 (fi 220 78 12:5 4 20( 71 -140 81 131 4 4(' G'5 P'O 7fJ 141 4 55j 41 212 ELSEWHERE. 5 (0 4 r.o 4 70 4 &0 CHICAGO, March 30. The Evening Journal reports: Cattle Receipts. 11,000 head; shipments, 4,00( head; market active; irregular; steers, prime, fi0..5; others. $4.50(5.85; heifers. S3.10' 4.40; cows, fl.i 3; stockers, 3.504. ligs Receipts, 25,,1'jO; shipments, 12,;00; mtirket active; higher; roagh and common, t4.15(a4.50; mixed and paoked, t4.65'i4.P0; prune heavy and butchers' weights, i.'jOt, 5.10; liht, $4.70( 5. ISheep Receipts, 10.000; shipments, 4.000; market steady; natives, $5(5.75; westerns, $55.75; lambs, $4.755.50. CINCINNATI, March 30.-IIogs-In goo.l deiiiatid; lirm; common and licht, $4,003 4.50; packing and butchers', $4.tO(ij4.70; receipt, 5.3S); sliipnit'iiu, u00. Cattle Active; strong; common, t"2.XQ 3.25; tair to choice buto.l ers' grades, j.XSOf.J 5.25; prime to choice khiipers, 4.25''a,5.jy; receipta, 1,470; shipu.ents, liO. Sheep In fair demand anl steady; common to choice, $.1.50(55.75; extra fat wethers and ycarli;Tj:s, f5.75(&3.UO; rect-lpts, 25; shipments, none. Lambs, spring, in light dem&nd; easier; common to choice, $J.5o(t!.0O per 100 pounds. EAT LIBERTY, Ta., March 30. Cattle Receipts, 8,153; shipments, 1,131: market fairly aciive aud u sha(!e higher than last week. Ten curs shipped to New York today. Hogs Receipts, 7,3f0; shipments, 4.200; market fairly active; IMiiladelphias. i'j'" ').!( ; cood mixed, J4.K(Kr5: best yorker-, 54.75(V; 4.'jQ; common and fair yorkers, f 1.50i 4.0.5; pigs, $4fih25; fifteen cars of hogs shipped to iew York today. Sheep Receipts. 6,000; shipments, 3,800; market very dull; lOo to 15c lower thau last week's prices. NEW YORK, March 30. Beeves Receipts 4.740 head, including 7S cars for sale; market, 103 per 1C0 lbs higher; native steers, !1.5u(t) 0.00; bulls and cows, $2.25 'n 4.25; dressed btet steady, 7)i(xic per lb. Calves Heceipts, 2,372 head; market Jo lower; veals, $."(h 7 per 100 lbs. Sheep Receipts, 10.S1I head; market doll hut steady; sheep, $5b'.50; lambs, $67.85; dressed mtitt' n, lirui, 7j2(jyc; dressed lambs, steady, 7 tY" 10c. Hoes Receipts, 11,549 head including 4 cars for sale; market steady, $ L25(tj, 1.45. NOT PREJUDICED AGAINST CATHOLICS Letter Written by llrnry Clay to Hs Granddaughter About to Take the Veil. The bishop's memorial hall of the university of Notre Dame has received from Archbishop Jansens cf the catholic archdiocese of New Orleans, the original of a letter written by Henry Clay to his granddaughter in 1S40, when she was about to become a nun. This is the full text of the letter: Ashland. Oct. 27, 1849. My Dear Granddaughter I received and read attentively your letter of the 10th inst. My perusal of it touched and affected me frreatly, as it did your grandma. It was full of feeling and sentiment:), so just, conceived iu such a true, Chrirtian spirit and marked by such ai'ectionate attachment to us and to all your relations that we read it with the deepest interest. While we oould not disapprove, we were seriously and sorrowfully concerned by your resolution to adopt the veil and dedicate the rest of your life to the service of God in a convent. We would not disprove it because you say that your determination has been deliberately formed and because you are solemnly convinced that it will be conducive to your present and future happiness. Cut it is a grave and serious step, resembling in the separation from your triends and relations which it involves so much the awful separation which death itself brings about that we could not hut feel intense distress. Your happiness, my dear grandchild dsn ever been an object of intense anxiety and solicitude with ns. If it is to be promoted by the execution of the purpose you have in view, 1 would not, if I could, dissuade you from it. I have no prejudice against the catholic religion. On the contrary, I sincere y believe that catholics, who are truly religious, are as sure of eterual happiness in another world as the most pioos protestanis. AH that I hope is that you will not act ou any sadden impulse or ill-con-Sidered and immature resolution, bflt that you will deliberately and acai-i and again examine your own heart aud consult your best judgment before you consummate your intention. Writa me at akhintrton, and in the event of your taking the veil let me know what provision exists for your support aud comfort and whether any and what pecuniary aid may be proper or expedient from your Irtends. Adieu, my dear grandchild, may God enlighten, guide, and direct you; and if we never meet again in this world may we meet in the region oi eternity and there join my beloved daughter, your lamented mother. Nich also, are the prayers of your grandma. Your atieotionat grandfather, II. Clay. Sugar ltaet In Kansas. Kansas City, Mo., March 28. Special from Saline, Kas., Bays ut a mass meeting of farmers held here today, Dr. b'cheitwiler, of Germany, discussed the sucar beet industry. As u result 150 farmers have decided to plant beets this season. The eeed will be furnished them from Germany. Twenty tons an acre is an 'average crop for which they wid receive $4 per ton. If the industry succeeds a German syndicate will put in a $300,000 sugar factory. A Heavy Failure. London, Ont., March 28. One of the biprpcat failures of late years in Western Ontario is that of the wholesale dry goods houce of John Birrele y Co. of this place, which is announced today.,. The liabilities are estimated at $250,000 and an ofl'er of compromise of 43 cents on the $1 baAbecn made. The assets are estimated at $125,000. The chief creditors are old country firm j and woolen factories in Canada.

DR. HOWARD CROSBY PASSES AWAY.

As the Dells VTere Hinging for the Easter Vasiiera 111 Spirit Went tp Higher. New Yokk, March 29. Dr. Howard Crosby died at 5:30 p. m. today at his residence. Ilis end was peaceful. As the bells were ringing for vesper service of Easter day he aeked by sipi for paper and wrote a few lines to his loved ones, to the absent son and daughter in Egypt and the three members of Lis family at home. The first words of this his last writing were: "I know I have to go." Dr. Howard Crosby waa one of the keenest scholars among the American clergy. The New Testament revision committee recognized thia when he was made one ot its members, lie comes of a good revolutionary family. Lbenezer Crosby, his grandfather, was turgeoa of Oen. Washington's guards. Joseph Crosby, his great-grandfather, was an eld Masachusett3 settler iu tbe early days of the colouy, and the old homestead at Brain tree was ia the tauiiiy for years. His father was Wilnaiu lied low Crost y, the noted philanthropist, who died in New York in 18J5. He, in early youth, was adopted by Col. Henry lluUers. and it was in this way that the Crosbys became connected witn the Rutgers estate. Howard Crosby was born in New York on Feb. 27, 18JG. In 1M4 he craduated from the University of the City of "ew York. At that time his physicians assured him that he could not bve a year. He was informed that ono of his Iuoks was destroyed, and that he would soon did of consumption, but happily for the world thia medical pred.ction did not prove true. Nearly half a coiitury has passed &iuce then, and during these mauy years Dr. Crosby has been one ot New York's leading clergymen robust, strong, helptul. Hut within the last few years he has been very susceptible to colds. He took up posl-graduale studies, aud 1 Sol was made Greek protestor of his alma mater. 1 or e ik lit years he held this chair, and then, in 1850, he wrs ca led to the professorship of Greek in Kutjcis college, Karly in 163 he cave up his chair at Rutgers and accepted the pastorship of the Fourth-uve. presbyterian church. There his best work has beeu done. The "O.d Fourth church" has been tbe center whence his influence has goue abroad into all places. A ripe scholar, a keen thinker, a bold and honest speaker, he has made an impression on the social lite of his time tliat is iu itself a monument. In 1972 be was made chancellor of tbe University of New York the college in which he had studied as a boy and taught as a man. Tl.is position he held until 1881, when he waa succeeded by the Rev. Dr. John Hall. Ever since 1S04, however, he has beeu a member of the university council. In 1S5'J he received a D. P. degree from Harvard, aud in 1671 ha was honored with the highest degree that Columbia can bestow that 01 LU D. He was chosen moderator of the general assembly of the prestyterian church iu 172, and both before that time an J since has been many times a delegate to the assembly. In 1S77 he was a delegate to the first presbytenan general council al Edinburgh. In addition to his church work and the official duties that his ecclesiastical prominence imposed upon him he has been aciive in social arairs aud a prominent supporter of all n:c veineuts that made for K'ood government. For many years he has advocated the principle of temperance as distinguished from tot? I alsiincuce. The Moderation society w&s a direct outcome of his teachings. In 187 be took a leadine part in establishing the Society for the Prevention ot Vice, and he has never hesitated to lend it every assistance in his power. He has done much to influence legislation, and the municipal government of New York owes the inception of many of the regulations it lias made in relation to intemperance aud crime to Dr. Howard Crosby. He has also been actively interested in tbe wellare of the Iniliau wards of the Dation, and all writers owe bitn a debt of gratitude for his eUorts tor the passing of tli international copyright law. As aa author Dr. Crosby has won distinction, and lone after bis dee. 1s are forcoUen his published books will keep his name living among men. His "Lands of the Moslem," written after an extendeil tour iu the Kaet, was published iu 18)1. In the feme year he edited an edition with notes of the "(Kdipns Tyrannua" of Soohocles. Ten years later appeared his wellknown and scholarly "Scholia on the New Testament." Then came these books: "Social Ilints," lf'W; "Life of Jesus," 1S70; "Bible Companion," 170; "Healthy Christian," 1871: "Thooghts on the Pentateuch," 1S73; "Notes on Joshua," 1875; "Commentary on Nehemiah," 1S76; "The Christinu Treacher." 17!: "The Humanity of Christ." i8, and th "Commentary on the New Testament," lSS.1. Aa a theologian and a social reformer Dr. Crosby has writ his name large in the annals of his time. He hna been bold and fearless; a man of brains and well-defined purpose: a man of fine culture and with a lertre love for humanity and such a one as the world can ill allord to lose. Other Dentil. At Chicago D. Charles T. Farkefl, treasurer of the medical collepe. At New York Charles II. Meigs, an old member of the Ftock exch-mge. At New Orleans Co!. John McEnery, prominent democratic politician. At I'ittsburir Nelson P. lieed, editor and proprietor of the Commercial Gazette. At Chicago John M. Douglass, vicepresident of the Illinois Central railroad. At New York Charles Arbuckle, the well-known cofiee merchant. At .Milwaukee John Plankinton, the well-known pork packer and hotel man. A WOMAN'S FRAILTY Costa One Ulan His L tm and Sends Another to Fll-OH. Philadelphia, March 29. At an early hour this morning John IIaye, aged thirty-five years, shot and seriously wounded Andrew McFarland, about the same ape, who boarded with him and whom he caught in a compromising position with his young wif j. Hayes is a locomotive fireman. lie returned home unexpectedly from work this morning and found his wife in McFarland's room. Tho enraged husband grabbed up McFarland's duck gun, which stood in the corner, and placing the weapon almost against the latter's ehoulder pulled the trigger. The large shot with which the gun was loaded tore a frightful idiole in McFarland's choulder. Mrs. Hayes ran screaming into the street in her night clothes. The husband went at once to a station bouse and surrendered himself. McFimand was taken to a hospital, where his arm was amputated at the shoulder. The physician have some hopo of saving his life. Hayes is in prison. Mrs. Hayes and a lady boarder are in custody as witnesses. Hayes says the discovery of his wife's unfaithfulness was a terrible surprise to him, as he had no reason to suspect her. CLOSED STANLEY UP. Tevas People Haven't Forgotten His Desertion of the Lost C'aux. San Antonio, March 27. II. M.Stanley arrived here yesterday, but will not lecture. His manaurer, J. B. Pond, has received a telegram from Ag?nt McKeown, of Austin, which says: "Criticism of Stanley is so eevcre that I havo been compelled to cancel all Texas dates." McKeown is the Texas manager of lecturers and has been trave'ing with Hill Nye. It is thought possible McKeown went to Austin, talked to some of the unreconciled legislators and they inrnpel on Stanley o savagely for his alleged desertion "from the Confederate army that the agent was afraid to let him lecture. A Tuck Trust. Tauntox, Mass., March 28. The oftmentioned movement to effect a combination of the leading tack companies of New Kngland has reached that point that an option on tbe controlling interest of thti Field factories in thia city h been secured and is under consideration. If thia purchase is made the combination will bo eolid.

SOME PROTECTION FACTS.

WHAT M'KINLEY DOES FOR LABOR. The X.tst of Reductions In "Wages, LockOuts and Strikes Slto the New Tariff Took EtTret IIw Lsbor lias lie en Dene filed. "A peculiarity of the tariff discussifti is that, while free-traders are always dwelling on theory, protectionists are always pointing to facts." Thus sag-ly comments the Journal. Every ona wi'l remember that the chief argument on the stump and through tho newspapers in favor of that cap t-heaf of protectionitr, tbe McKinley till, was that its enactment into law would greatly benefit the workingmen. According to the protectionist theory for protectionists theorize occasionally as well as free-traders the pa?g of this bill was to immediate! result in the great advancement of wag-s in all projected industries and with a likefympathetic effect in the unprotected industries. l,et us pee what the effect has actually been. Below will be found some facta taken from the news columns of the Indianapolis papers, showing how labor has been faring eir.ee the McKin'ey act took ed'ect lat October. Not all the reductions that have taken effect have been covered, as a matter of courge. but there are enough lor illustration. They all tend to prove what all so-ca led free-traders believe, that protection tends to make the ri-h richer and the poor poorer. It is not at all probable that the protectionists will bu found "pointing to facta" as found in the following list of labor troubles occurring eince Uct. 1, by months: October. Jacob Schetzberg, cloak manufacturer, New York, reduces wages 10 per cent. Ilaugh, Ketchara N: Co., iron factors, Indianapolis, reduced their working force, Nordyke !c Marraon, Iron factors, Indianapolis, reduced their working time to live hours. Indianapolis car works t-hut down. The Malleable iron works, Indianapolis, reduced its working force. The Woodburn-Sarven wneet works, Indianapolis, reduced wages. Carpet factory, Hartford, Conn., reduced wages 10 per cent. Silk mill, Paterson, N. J., reduction of 0 r er cent. Plush mills, Catasaque, Ta., reduction. Woolen mills. Valley Falls, It. I., reduction of 25 cents a week on girl?. Polk's canning works, Greenwood, Ind., reduction of 1.00 a week ou certain branches Carpenters of Cleveland, O., reduced 2 cents an hour, to take effect Nov. o. Nov, niber. Coal operators at Morris, III., advance prices L'5 cents per ton, but refuse an adVance of 10 cents, for labor. Strike bogun. Twothoupand miners strike for per dav at ISrazil, Ind. Merrimae mills, Lowell, Mass., reduction of 15 cent; -a day ou spoolers. Thompson-Houston company, Lynn, Mas., armature-winders reduced. Woolen mills, Asnland, Pa., waees Ot seventy girls reduced. Cotton-weavers, Imsdale, R. I., reduced 13 cents per c ut and eire of cut increased live yards at the earne time. Ilecrinbt? i . The Lackawanna shuts down all its mines in the vicinity of Wilkf-sbarrc. Two thousand miueis on a btrike in tho vicinity of Fairmount. United States rolling stock compaov, Anneston, A'a., strike because they could not ire t their pay. Oliver iron and steel mills, Pittsburg, ehut down iudetiuitely, throwing out 3,000 men. Carpet tack makers, Birmingham, Conn., reduction of 20 per cent. Underwear miils, Birmingham, Conn., reduction of 20 per cent, on women's wages. Merrimae mills, Lowell, Mass., reduction of 3 cents per 100 on mule spinners. Potters, Trenton, N. J., reduction of from 10 to 20 per cent. Tool works, Plaintield, X. J., reduced the worKing force by discharging a number of their employee. Pull man car works, reduction of 10 per cent., 1,"00 men affected. Shoemakers at Rochester, N. Y., and Massachusetts reduced. Clark's thread mills begin the importation of varn ppuu in Scotland in order to break down organization ot American spinners. Two thousand employes in Carnegie, Phipps Co.'s Homestead steel works reduced 10 per cent. Fairfield Chemical Co.. Bridgeport, Conn., gave their employes a Christmas present of a reduction of 10 per cent in wages, although the McKinley bill takes Fulphuric acid, the principal" product oi this company, off the free list and imposes a duty of one-fourth oi" a cent a pound. Coal miners, Birmingham, Ala., etrike against a reduction of wages. .1 muitry. Fittsburg marble, elate and encaustic tile layers, with their helpers, strike for eight hours and $4 per day. Four hundred men laid off at the Scranton, Pa., etcel mills on account of dullness of trade. Window glaes works at Zanesvi'.le, O., shut down for an indefinite period, throwing out 100 men. Eighty-five weavers in Ciay fe (iroocock's eilk mills. Paterson, N. J., strike against a reduction of 7i per cent on gros grains. v Meding mills, Paterson, N. J., reduction of 7 j per cent. Lackawanna coal and iron company, reduction of 20 cents a day. Cambria iron company, Johnstown, Pa., reduces wages of 5,000 men 10 per cent, to tako effect Feb. 1. Reduction of wages of iron miners, Ishpeming, Mich. Potters in Bell Bros', pottery, Findlay, O., strike against a reduction. 1V11 Bros, are in the recently organized pottery trust. Three hundred and fifty men in sanitary ware potteries, Trenton. N. J., ftrike against a reduction from 10 to 25 percent. South Chicago plant of Illinois fateel company closes down. Iron mines in Marquette county, Michigan, reduce wages 10 per cent. Menominee and dogel ie iron mines discharge several thousand men. Hopedale fabric mills, Hopedale, Mass., reduce wages of weavers 2i cents a yard. Silk mills, Warehouse Point, Onn., reduce wages of winders and doublers from $1,117 to 1 per day. Glass works of United glaj company, Zanesville, O., close for an indefinite time. Scottdale rolling mill and pipe works, Scottdale, Pa., close. Charlotte furnace, Scottdale, Ta., closes, 1,000 men thrown out. Girla in Jarvis' bat factory, Newark, N. J., engaged as trimmers, strike against a reduction of 15 cents a dozen. Bellefont nail works. Bellefont, Pa., general reduction of 25 per ceut. j Potters iu sanitary potteries, Trenton, ' N. J., strike against a reduction. ! Gla- factories at Bio-eburgh, WVlsboro and Covington, Y., ciose. (ConIcerning the closing of these works the Philadelphia iYcu, a high protection

paper, says: "As a result of the shut down mora g!as:-blowt re are peeking employment than at any tiae since 1S.n3.") , t"triry. Miners of Belleville, 111., strike for uniform scale cf 2 cents a bushel. Il irioia Mcel works, South Chicago, ebut down by the strike cf the furnace men for h:gher wages. Puliman car joiners who strike for $2 a day are notified to return to work or bo blacklisted. Chicago bos plasterers decline to accede to the demand oi the union for an advance of S 1.50 to $4 per day after April 1 and the men will ttrike. Miners in Connel'eville coke reeiens strike for an advance cf 12 per cent., and against a reduction of 10 per cent. Still on. Brool.o iron company, Birds borough, ra., closed and 450 men thrown out, because they refused a reduction of about 7 per cent." Fllis A. Lesftig tteel and iron company, rottstown. Pa., eloped. Seven hundred men refuse a reduction of 12 J per cenL sturtevant blower works, Jamaica Plain, Mass., reduction of from 10 to 30 pe cent, Pottstown iron company, Pcttstown, Pa., a reduction of 7 per cent. Bethlehem iron company, Bethlehem, Pa., reduction of 10 per cent. Pennsylvania 6teel company, Steeltoil, Pa., reduction of 8 to 10 per cenL Otia iron and teel company, Cleveland 0., reduction of 30 per cent. Coal miners, Duquoin, 111., reduced 7 cents per ton. Ribbon weavers, Patterson, N. J. reduction of 15 per cent. Coal miners, Leavenworth, Kas., reduction of 11 per cent. Cocheco manufacturing company, weaT ere reduced 4 per cent. Buckeye mower and reaper works, Ale ron, 0., reduction of from 60 to 60 pet cent. Saxony knitting mills, Little Falls, Y reduction of 20 per cent. Weavers in Hargreaves mills, FaH River, Mass., strike against low wages. Tenny's hat factory, Methuen, Masi, reduction of 25 per cent. Southern steel company, Chattanooga, Tenn., reduction of 10 per cenL Iianey & Bergen blaet furnace, Nevf Castle, Pa., reduction of 10 per cent a day for labor and 15 cents for twelve houf men. Smithville cotton mills, Willimantie. Conn., strike against a reduction and sac4 ceed. Bates mills, Lewiston, Me., reduction proposed in beaming department amount in'to three per cent. Operatives strike. Strike in underwear mills, Jacksonville, 111., against a reduction. Coal miners near Hantmgburg, IntLf strike against a reduction of waies. Emma blast furnace, Cleveland, O., reduction of 10 per cent. Adelaide silk mills, Allentown, Pa., re duction of wages Feb. 13. American knifo company, TVaterbury, Conn., reduction of 20 per cent. Fisher's pipe foundry, Ailentown, Pa, H cents a day on outside, and 10 cents oa in side men, March. Three hundred end forty weavers 1 Wausuck mill, Providence, R. I., Btrika against a reduction. Crane iron company, Allentown, Fa., reduce wages 10 per cent Kmployers in coke regions threaten to make a further cut of 10 per cent, in addi tion to the 10 per cent, reduction which caused the Ptrike. Pottstown iron company, PottstDwn, Pa., cut puddiers from $3.t5 to $3.50 per ton. Third cut since Feb. 1. Standard steel company resumes worst with non-union men. Pennsylvania coke miners strike against a reduction of 10 pt r cent., and demand an eight-hour day. Tiiree hundred employes rd th Labaste glass works of Ottawa, IlL, locked out by

j the proprietors. Eu'ht hundred weavers employed at the Atlantic miils, Providence, K. I., strike on actount of excessive fines. Ildnois steel company shuts down Its Joliet works indefinitely on account of the striko in the rolling mill department. Work cn coal mines r.t Rendville, Hocks ing county, Ohio, suspended several weeks. Miners in adcutdute condition. Strikers go back to work at the Coch rane plant near Rainey, Pa., at the old prices. DISASTER AT DEFIANCE. A Water Works t-tanripipa Collapses Doing Great Darting. Defiance, O., March 20. The stand pipe of the Defiance water company coU lapsed about 2:30 this afternoon. Tbe pipe was 140 feet long and twenty four in diameter, and stood on a foundation of solid masonry. The lower fifty feet of the pipe was torn into fragments, one great piece being hurled against tha pump-house a hundred feet away, crushing in the sides of the building, while the water and debris carried by ifi nearly buried the pumping engines and boilers. Engineer Killons was in the pump room and his brother and child were in the boiler room. The engineer was struck in in the face with a brick aud badly cut. The brother, seizing the child in his arms jumped behind the strong brick emoke stack just in time to escape the ru&h of water. Where the pipe parted from the base, the heavy stone masonry crumbled under tho force of the water, and the one-eighth inch steel plates wera curled up like paper. The engineer's house was wrecked and his wife and mother-iu-!aw slightly injured. A vacant Lou-e, filled with water-pipes, had its contents scattered. It is supposed that a great quantity ol ice having formed during the winter became wedged on the upper side of the pipe, and the pumps forcing the water into the space beneath the immovable plug of ice, was too great a strain upoa the pipe. The water company is owned by rri Tate persons, most of its stockholders being Now York men. The loss is about $25,000. FITZ3IMMONS AND HALL. They Will Fight fr the Largest Stake Krer OftVrert. Baltimore, March 20. Bob Fitzsimmons has left Baltimore for Buffalo. He says of the Astoria (Ore.) athletic club purse for a fight between him and Hall: "The chance has come at last, I beat Hall once about two years aga in Australia. I then knew very littlo about fighting. I'll give him the grandest thrashing this time he evei had in hi life, lie is a better man than Demnsey, but Jack wns an easy mark and I had him licked the firt time I punched him. Hall is very heavy' at present and the training he will bo forced to undergo in order to pet down to 154 pounds will take more enemy out of him than a spell of sickness. My engagement with George Clark will clos innin1 weeks, and after a good, long rest I intend to train for the fight." George Clark teleeraphed from Chicago to Charles Iios, his agent here, that he had a guaranteed purse of $17,000, and furthermore that he would back Fitzsimmons for$IO,t00. With an equal backing on the Hall side this w 11 make the largest stake ever fougnt for. ttie total amount being 537,000. Fitzeimmons says if he defeats Hall ho will make Tel Prichard, England' champion, his next mark, and then retire irom the ring.