People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Page 5

ON CURRENT TOPICS.

WHAT PRESS AMD PEOPLE ARC 4 • SAYING. r ■— Denocnti Want to Extra Session ot Cmfr*« —Gov. Alt geld Talks —Senator lihsm G. Harris on tke Situation — Gold Bags Want Everything. The gold bugs are leaving nothing undone to check what they call the “silver craze” in the South and West It is thought now if an extra session of congress is called and the responsibility of the situation thrown on the Republicans it could help their cause. A dispatch from Washington says: “A large percentage of the Democratic party have become convinced of the immediate necessity of an extra session. They urge that it would serve to divert popular attention and cause a temporary cessation *of the silver craze and would place the Republicans in the same attitude of incompetency and imbecility as that ascribed to the Democrats of the Fifty-third congress. It is considered by men of both parties that it will he as impossible for the Republicans to enact financial legislation as the Democrats. The result would be, it is urged, the division of the Republicans into factions which would devour each other. As a consequence, the masses would experience a revulsion of disgust. The Democrats would have nothing to lose and might stand to be greatly benefited by internal. dissensions in the ranks of their rivals. “These arguments, opinions and facts are now, it is said, being daily laid before the president by resident and visiting Democratic leaders, who urge the great party advantage to be gained by calling upon the Fifty-fourth congress to make necessary alterations in the present financial system. They call attention to the situation in New York as a bright and shining illustration of what may be expected when the Republicans come into national control. “It is believed among politicians in this city that the pressure upon the president to call an extra session, will increase rather than diminish. As free silver sentiment spreads, party leaders will become more and more unanimous in pleading with Mr. Cleveland to save the cause by embracing the great opportunity offered of deriving enormous advantage from Republican indifference and indecision.”

* • • / Governor Altgeld has a way of calling things by the right name in a manner that is refreshing. The Democrats in Chicago recently formed what they called an “Honest Money League.” In an interview in which the governor was asked what he thought about it, he said:, “Well, they are apparently starting opt under false colors, and evince an intent to deceive, fbr they know or ought to know that the money system they advocate is the most dishonest and damnable that was ever invented, because it doubled the burdens of the entire producing classes. It broke down the purchasing power of the world and left the laborer without bread because there was no market for his products. These gentlemen also know, or ought to know, that this was done at the instance and for the benefit of the bondholding and salary drawing officials of Europe and the East. Consequently the name ‘Honest Money League’ must have been adopted because it was calculated to deceive the public. You sometimes see a bank or a store or a restaurant with some high-sounding name over it. Did you ever know one that paid a hundred cents on the dollar, or that gave your money’s worth when you ordered apple pie? Now, if these gentlemen were honest In this movement and intended to be candid with the public, they would have called themselves ‘The Paralysis, Panic and Poverty Club.’ Had they done this we could at least respect them.” “Do you think, governor, that this association will be able to accomplish much?”

“No, not as it is now constituted. Mayor Hopkins sized it up in a nut-shell when he pointed out the fact that just one-third of them were federal officeholders and the remainder consisted of some bankers, some corporation lawyers, a few business men, and some ‘hangers-on.’ ” - * * * Senator Isham O. Harris, of Tennessee, thinks that neither of the two old parties will be able to organize the United States senate in the Fifty-fourth congress, but that the Populist senators will hold the balance of power. Speaking of the silver question, he says: “The sentiment in favor of the utilization and the rehabilitation of silver to its position as a money metal and as a money of ultimate redemption; and in connection with gold as the regulator of volume, or amount of that thing called money, is overwhelmingly strong in the South and West, and in my opinion ought to be strong and conclusive everywhere, if people would recognize the undeniable fact that money is purely the creature of law. It is now, Always was, and always must Be, just what the law of its own country makes it, and when it passes beyond the limits of its own country it is not money, but immediately becomes a commodity, which goes upon the market at its market value just as your bale of cotton, hogshead of tobacco or bushel of wheat goes upon the foreign market at its value. “To illustrate: Four hundred and twelve and one-halt-"Ufainp of standard silver, coined into' a dollar and 25.8 grains of gold coined into a dollar, are legal tender dollars anywhere and everywhere in the United States. Within the boundaries of the United States each of these dollars performs precisely the same functions, each pays exact-

ly the same amount of debt aad beys the earn* amount If property. Under the laws of the United States, certain treasury motes have been made legal tender money, owing to which fact the treasury note will perform every function as money that gold or silver coin can perform; will buy as much or pay as much, dollar for dollar, as any other money in the United States. “Now here are three kinds of legal tender money in the United States, and under the laws of the United States every dollar of either can and does perform all the functions of legal tender money, or, in other words, each dollar of which, as money, is the exact equal of any other dollar that the laws of the United States have made a legal tender; and, therefore, the idea of talking about the market value, commercial value or intrinsic value of the material of which money is made is simply absurd, and a device —I will not say a contemptible device (though I think It is) —intended simply to complicate the question and as far as possible to confuse the public mind.” * * * The present attitude of the goldbug3 towards all those who oppose their socalled sound money doctrines reminds us of the story of the mean man who owned a cow in partnership with his brother. The mean man insisted that the hinder half of the cow was his and that the forward part was his brother’s, which he was in duty bound to feed and care for. The mean mah refused to divide any of the milk, refused to pay for any of the feed, and then sued his brother for damage when the cow hooked him. All the bankers and sound money want Is to give them bonds on which to base their banknotes, pay them interest on the bonds, pay interest on their notes, pay interest on the deposits, demand no security from them, and all of their notes that become destroyed to bocome a clear gain to them. This is the “Sound Money” dictrine that is being preached all over the country.

• * * The plutocrats seem to be getting their eyes open. In the American Banker of March 20, we find the following significant paragraph: “Of particular interest this week was the arguments made before the United States supreme court in defense of the constitutionality of the income tax. Aside from the purely legal problems which are involved there were utterances made by lawyers of eminence in favor of the tax which were inspired by exaggerated conceptions of the growth and power of revolutionary sentiment in this country. Attorney General Olney intimated that unless the court sustains congress in this case there might come by and by a revolution which would sweep the court as at present organised out of existence, and Mr. Carter ,of New York, argued to the effect that the rich men ought to be made to pay a much- larger share of their possessions in the way of taxes than the poor, and that a dangerous social uprising might be avoided by enforcing this principle.” That is about the right view of the situation, and coming from such men as Olney and Carter ought to have much weight with those who seem to think that if the law and the courts are on their side they constitute a perfect refuge of safety. The people know that either the court or constitution is wrong and they have a strong suspicion that it is the court, hence, as Mr. Olney intimated, there is danger of the people wiping out the court. The court is made by and for the people and the honorable judges don’t want to lose sight of this fact

* * * This so-called international conference is becoming the greatest fraud of the age. There is not much likelihood of there being any international conference, and if there was nothing would be done. England will never consent to silver coinage from the fact she is a creditor nation and wants dear money. Ue Rothschild made this fact perfectly plain at the last conference at Brussels. Senator Cockrell sizes up the situation in pretty good shape in the following words: “Their desire is to make silver merely a subisdiary currency, redeemable in gold. In fact, they want everything under the sun redeemable in gold. The gold of the world is held by a syndicate of bankers, and the elevation of the gold standard will make more profit for the owners of the gold than any other employment to which that metal can be placed. They regard silver as currency, and even the president in his letter today speaks of it as such.”

Overproduction of Wheat.

The best answer tp the theory that overproduction of wheat is the cause of its low price is to be found in the "Corn Trade Year Book,” England, probably the most reliable authority published. According to that authority the world’s wheat crop for 1891 Was 2,456,000,000 bushels, and the average price was sl.ll per bushel. In 1892 the crop was 2,440,000,000 bushels, but the price had fallen to 90 cents. In 1893 the crop was the same as in 1891, but the price had fallen to a fraction lees than 30 cents. In 1894 both crop and price were smaller than any of the foregoing figures, the price the lowest on record. The same authority also Bhows that in the period of 1874-84 the populatfon of the chief wheat producing countries was 397,000,000, and the production of rye and wheat in those countries per head, of population was 7.08 bushels. In the next period of ten years, 1885-9 s, with the tlon increased to 434,000,000. i luction of both these crops po d of population was only 6.84 bushels. The dollar that is constantly increasing in value is a dishonest dollar, and that ts the dollar that the gold bugs want

THE PEOPLE S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1895.

The German reichatag defeated the anti-revolutionary biU, a pet measure of Gmpecor William. • *f" It ia claimed that after the last battle between the Japanese and Chinese troops the Japanese butchered all their helpless prisoners. The Cuban rebels are reported to have won a great victory over the Spanish troops. A big demonstration was held In Phoenix park, Dublin, Sunday. Resolutions asking the government to free the political prisoners were passed. Japan has made overtures for a treaty with Nicaragua by which she will have equal share with other nations in the proposed canal. American capital has a splendid show for investment in China. Japan will retain Port Arthur for a number of years. Her diplomats have scored a victory in the peace negotiations. A telegram from Algiers says Sir Frederick Leighton, before reported dying, is now recovering. John Laurence Toole, the well-known English actor, is. suffering from paralysis, and will permanently retire from the stage. United States Vlqe Consul Dreler was tendered a bar iet at Copenhagen by the members of the Royal Danish commission and the Danish exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition. The Spanish Minister at Washington has asked the Secretary of State to locate, if possible, a Spanish boy who ran away from his school In Madrid. His name is Jose Osorio y Moray, aged 16 years, short of stature, with brown eyes and hair, wearing a gray suit and a yachting cap. The boy speaks Spanish, French, German and English.

At Plainfield, Ind., Palmer Carter, a red 19, accldei y shot dead his L; other, aged I*. A. D. McDonald and James Mabrlnto were mangled to pieces In the ‘•'■aft of the Rarus mine near Butte, Mont., and William Bowen was dangerously hurt. Three men were killed in a railroad wreck on the Erie road near Hornellvllle, N. Y. Two children at Saylersvllle, Ky., poured powder on hot coals. Both will die. Five men were seriously hurt at Chicago by the falling of a wall of a building which they were tearing down. Samuel Oson of Spokane, Wash., was riding a pony and had the picket rope tied around his body. The pony became frightened, threw the boy off, and dragged him to death. A man was killed at Lyons, N. Y.. while walking on the Central railroad tracks. A notebook contained the name, M. E. Avery, Detroit. The Imperial Varnish company, Akron, 0., lost $60,000 by fire. Insurance $30,000. A forty-foot gasoline launch built for Ralph Granger, a National City banker, exploded while on its trial trip In San Francisco bay. Frank Fitzpatrick was fatally hurt.

Over 900 wage-earners In mills at Norristown and Bridgeport, Pa., are In Idleness owing to strides. The strike at the Illinois steel works at South Chicago is about ended. The Oliver Iron and Steel company of Pittsburg has granted the amalgamated scale In all departments of the mill, and the men will return to work at once. Four thousand iron and steel workers • employed in the Riverside and Wheeling, Belmont and Top mills In West Virginia have been given an increase in wages averaging 10 per cent. The miners at the Shelburn (Ind.) mine have adjusted their dis oces in regard to dues of the organization and notified the operators they are ready to resume work immediately. Wages for furnace men at Sharpsvllle and Middlesex, Pa., have been raised. In the various Ohio coal mines some of the mines have resumed work at 60 cents pending agreement on a general wage scale; at other mines they refuse. At Indianapolis, Ind., all the union molders went on strike, demanding a rigid scale of $2.26 to $2.60 per dey. They are now receiving from $2 to $2:40. The differences at Princeton, 111., between the government employes, and foremen on the Hennepin canal have been practically settled by a large number of the men resigning.

Louis Pischitt was sentenced at Menominee, Mich., to five years in prison for arson. W. G. Sherman, recently elected assessor, committed suicide by hanging at Oshkosh, Wis. William Anderson stabbed John Lorton in a fight at Ramsey, 111., and Lorton is not expected to live. Julius Lichtenberg, ex-school inspector, was convicted at Detroit, Mich., of accepting a bribe of slooin awarding a contract for school fiifVtiture. H. J. Lephardt was convicted on a similar charge, James Walsh acquitted, and M. H. Davis fled the country. A steerage passenger r ir-f Stapel on the Adript'o, from New York to Liverpool, committed suicide May 3 by jumping overboard. Joseph Bruyere, 67 years of age, a merchant of Green Bay, Wis., committed suicide by hanging in his barn. Volney Beard was shot and killed in Lexington, Ky., by Albert C. Hail. The latter had discovered illicit relations between his wife and Beard. August Teffer, married, shot and killed Clara Herbold, aged 26, and then killed himself at Philadelphia, Pa. She would not elope with him. John Flood, ex-cashler of the defunct Kelly Bank at San Francisco, accused of embezzling $167,600, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. It Is claimed that regularities amounting to over $1,000,000 have been discovered In Chicago’s pay rolls. A big sensation is promised in the Investigation. Thomas Barnes, a tourist from Jacksonville, 111., was found dead in a chair In his lodging house at Los Angeles, Cal The coroner is investigating. At Wampoo, Ark., an attempt was made by Constable John Green to serve a warrant on Milt Harper. Green received ten buckshot and Harper twen-ty-three. Both men died, i Benjamin. Radcliffe, who shot and killed the entire school board of Park county, Colo., was removed from Buena Vlstajall to escape an attempt at lynching by vtgll&nUs.

FOREIGN.

CASUALTIES.

LABOR NOTES.

CRIME.

SPORTING NOTES.

A London, Eng., club Is considering the advisability of offering a purse for Corbett and Peter Jaokfecm to fight for. Virginia is after the Corbett-Fits-simmons fight if the men can be brought together. The race trade at Hawthorne, 111., was raided by Chicago Civic Federation, and many bookmakers arrested. John S. Johnson, the bicycle rider, has been declared a professional. He will likely go to France to race for money. The Corbett-Fltssimmons fight Is now thought to be off. The men cannot meet in Florida and it is not expected they will fight anywhere else.

MISCELLANEOUS. The American Protective Association, before adjournment, organized what will be known as the “Junior A. P. A.” It Is to be composed of boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18. It Is claimed that Louisiana farmers have been kidnaping negroes in Arkansas and taking them across the line. A race war Is threatened. The Evening Journal of Frankfort, Ky., has been sold by George A. Kendrick to Moses O’Connor, who will make it a stanch republican paper. The Dominion steamer Petrel made a raid upon the gill nets set in Canadian waters in Lake Erie by Cleveland fishermen. In all there were 182 gill nets seized. The fishermen say they did not know they were fishing in Canadian waters. J. A. Scott, who celebrated his 100th birthday a few days ago, died at Charleston, W. Va. Bishop Dubs of Chicago dedicated at Bethlehem the first church built In Pennsylvania by the United Evangelists. Dr. W. M. L. Coplin of the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, has been elected professor of pathology In the Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn. The San Antonio & Gulf railway muddle resulted In the appointment of Judge Henry Terrell, at one time minister to Germany, as receiver, and he has taken charge of the property. At the laying of the cornerstone of a Catholic church In Allegheny, Pa., Bishop Phelan objected to the presence of a band, thereupon members of the Board of Erin and the Hibernian Rifles refused to take part in the ceremonies. Delegates to the Southern Baptist convention occupied the pulpits of churches In Washington, Baltimore and Richmond. A large audience attended the memorial meeting for Rev. John A. Broadi ..

Gross receipts of the life Insurance companies doing business In New York are $1,056,331,682, an Increase of $84,474,459. The liabilities of the several companies, excepting $8,970,500 of capital stock, are $916,591,138. Gov. Watson will probably appoint a man as senator from Delaware to succeed Senator Higgins. This causes a general speculation as to the appointee” chances of being seated, as the governor’s right to appoint, when the legislature has failed to elect, would be Involved. Conflicting reports of Injury to crops are received. It is thought the frost has hot done much serious damage. Dr. Julius H. Seelye, ex-presldent of Amherst college, Is dead. ■ Gen. Harrison Is to take a trip to New York. He denies It has any political significance. In the United States court J. G. Harley of South McAlester, I. T., was appointed United States commissioner, vice Samuel A. Wilkinson, resigned. Philip W. Moen of Worcester, Mass., confirms the reported purchase by the Washburn and Moen company of the wire rope department of the California Wire Rope works of San Francisco. A severe sandstorm raged in some parts of Kansas and Oklahoma Friday. No casuallties are reported. It Is said that English capital Is being invested In the breweries of this country. Dun’s Review of Trade reports business In a generally prosperous condition. The rumor that Secretary of State Gresham is to resign and be succeeded by Don M. Dickinson, is pronounced untrue. Gov. Morrill of Kansas has not been arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses, as was threatened. The election of Senator Dupont of Delawore is considered valid by eminent legal authorities. The American Protective Association has decided to make the order worldwide. Traynor was re-elected president. Thursday was the hottest day In May for sever:: years. All through the west the heat was the san e as is usually experienced In July. Crops were not injured. The Tennessee House rejected, 60 to 30, the bill appropriating $300,000 for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. A motion to reconsider was made. It Is probable an extra session of the

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to prtme.sl.Bs @6.00 Hogs—Spring grades 2.60 @4.80 Sheep—Fair to choice .... 2.75 @6.00 Wheat—No. 2 red 61%@ .62% Corn—No. 2 50%@ .51 Oats 28%@ .28% Rye—No. 2 63 @ .64% Eggs 11..@ .12 Potatoes—Per bu 45 @ .56 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 2 66 @ .66% Corn—No. 2 yellow 63%@ .55 Oats—No. 2 white 35%@ .35% PEORIA. Rye—No. 2 64 @ .65 Corn—No. 3 white. 49 @ .49% Oats—No. 2 white .31%® .31% ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2.25 @6.25 Hogs 4.20 @4.60 Wheat—No. 2 red .... .64 @ .64% Corn—No. 2 47%@ 48 Oats—No. 2 27 @ .27% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 spring 63 @ .63. Corn —No. 2 .50 @ .60% Oats—No. 2 white 32 @ .32% Barley—No. 2 60 @ .50% Rye—No. 1 .... .64 @ .64% KANSAS CITY. Cattle 2.00 @5.40 Hogs 4.05 @4.55 Sheep 3.50 @6.80 NEW YORK. Wheat—No. 2 red 65%@ .66% Corn —No. 2 55%@ .55% Oats 32%@ .32% Butter 7 @ .18 TOLEDO. Wheat... 67 @ .67% Corn—No. 2 mixed 51 @ .57 Oats—No. 2 mixed 31 0 .21

CLOSES WITH A GAIN.

WHEAT 1 3-8 C HIGHER THAN ON TUESDAY. C**p Complaint* Principally Accountable tor the Advance —Corn Cp Nearly 1 Cent —Provision* Firmer —Day in Wall Street. Chicago, May 15.—There was a great waking up in wheat again this morning. The local trade succeeded in forcing the July price %c under last night, when the market took a strong turn and advanced about lc the first hour artd then moved up nearly lc further before midday. Speculation has increased wonderfully; manipulation is certain; the shorts will not stand punishment. The upturn was largely due to the indiscretion of sellers late yesterday and the first half hour to-day. Several houses in the trade had mail and wire reports of crop injury. As a rule this information was used quietly, but not circulated. There were enough outside orders to take the local offerings at the opening. Then offerings became scarce. Then buyers got excited. The July opened 65c and off to 64%c, sold 65c and 64%c several times, got a lift to 65%c, sold 65%c, then 65%c and 66%c, then 65%c to 65%c to 66c to 65%c to 66%c to 65%c to 66%c to 66c to 66%c to 65%c, and held 66%c an hour before the close. There was no dumping of wheat before the close. The July closed nearly over yesterday at 66%c. September touched 66%c, and closed 66%c. May or cash was at 65%c, the best point in eighteen months. Cash sales were limited to about 115,000 bu for shipment, for export and for milling. There were no boatloads for export reported by seaboard. Sentiment held the market after the shorts advanced the price. Corn opened easier. The reports from all quarters Indicate excellent con. dltions for the planted crop. Local receipts were heavy for Wednesday at 223 cars. Local shipments yesterday were 50,000 bu less than receipts. Western markets showed lighter forward movement to seaboard. Out Inspection here was limited at 85,000 bu. Estimated cars for to-morrow were heavy at 356. With these conditions July corn sold a fraction lower at 50%0. Then wheat got on the rampage. New York cleared 158,000 bu. Two cash cargoes were reported sold here for Liverpool. July was advanced from 60%c to 61 %c, September from 61 %c to 62c. Corn closed at best prices at 51%@ 51%c July, 62%c seller September. Provisions were irregular for the session. When grain markets started heavy pork broke 10c to $11.82*4, July to $12.02% September. Before the close the bull feeling in grain markets spread to products and caused a rally. Pork advanced sharply to $12.06 July to $12.25 September. Lard lost 7%c to 10c early, rallied a little but closed 6c off at $6.65 and $6.80 July and September. Ribs closed with little change at $6.07% and $6.22% same months. Quotations were: Articles— High. Low. —Close.— Wheat—No. ,2 Mayls.Mayl4, May ...$ .65% $ .63% $ .65% $ .64% July ... .66% .64% .66% .65 Sept ... .66% .64% .66% .65% Corn—No. 2 May ... .61 .50%' .50% .60% July ... .61% .60% .61% .50% Sept. .. .62% .61% .52 .61% Oats—No. 2 May ... .28% .27% .28% .27% June .. .28% .27% .28% .27% July ... .28% .28% .28% .28 Sept ... .26% .26 .26% .26% May, 96 .29% .29% .29% .30 PorkMay ... 11.92% 11.87% 11.92% 11.77% July ... 12.05 11.82% 12.05 11.92% Sept ... 12.25 12.02% 12.26 12.16 Lard— May ... .' 6.62% 6.57% July ... 6.67% 6.62% 6.65 6.70 Sept ... 6.80 6.75 6.80 6.85 Short Ribs— May 6.00 5.95 July ... 6.10 6.02% 6.07% 6.07% Sept ... 6.22% 6.15 6.22% 6.20

Wall Street. New York, May 15.—The stock market opened weak. Stocks continued to recede for a brief time after 10:15. Good buying then set In and Cordage guaranteed advanced 1 per cent, Sugar %, Chicago Gas 1%, Distilling, New England and Southern preferred %, and the other shares dealt In %@%. Thirty thousand dollars silver certificates were traded In at 67%. The market became Irregular after 11 o'clock and prices moved both ways, leaning mostly toward lower figures. At noon Tobacco, New England and Manhattan receded %, but the general list was steady. Money on call easy at I@l% per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 2%@4% per cent. Sterling exchange fairly steady, with actual business In bankers' bills at 487@487% for demand and at 486® 486% for sixty days; posted rates, 486% @487% and 488@488%; commercial bills, 485%@485%. Silver certificates, 67%; sales, $30,000. Bar silver, 66%. Mexican dollars, 62%. Government bonds firm. Closing quotations were:

Atchison 7% Manhattan Con .116 Am. Cotton Oil. 29 Missouri Pac.... 28% Amer. T0bac....106% Michigan Cent 101% Baltimore &O. 68 Northern Pac.. 6% Can. Pacific 58 North Pac pfd... 22% C., B. andQ 77%;N. Y. Central.. lio% C. ftSt.L.. 48 Northwestern... 97 Cordage 5% N. Y.& N. E 4u% Chicago Gas 74 IN. American... 5% Chesap’k&O.... 21% Omaha.... 36% Del ft Hudson... Omaha pfd D. L. ft W 161%;0nt. ftWeafn.. 17% DistCatlFd C.. 28 I Pacific Mail 26% Den & R G pfd.. 47% Pullman 174% Erie 12% Reading 18% East’n Illinois.. 55% Rock Island 67% East Tennessee Richmond Ter Illinois Central.. 96% Silver Cer 67% Jersey Central.. 98 Sugar Refinery.. 115% Kan ft Tex pfd.. 81% St. Paul 60% Lead. 84% St. Paul pfd 121 L., N. A ft C 9% Texas ft Pa cilic. 12% L. ft N 58% Union Pacfiic... 13% Linseed OIL .... 25 Western Union. 91% Lake Erie ft W.. 20% Wabash 8% L. E. ft W. pfd.. 77% Wabash pfd.... 18% Lake Shore 146 Wiscon’n Cent Government bonds stand at the following bid prices: Registered 25... 97 Currency 65,’97.106 Registered4s....ll2% Currency 6s, ’98.109 Coupon 4s 113 Currency 6s, ’99.111 Currency 6s, ’95.100 Coupon 5s Currency 6s, '96.102% Regist’d ssexl

Chicago Produce Market.

The following quotations are for large lots only; small quantities are usually sold at advanced prices: Vegetables—Asparagus, home-grown, 60@75c per doz; beets, 25@40c per bu; cauliflower, [email protected] per crate of 1 doz; cucumbers, 40@65c per doz; green on-

1.25 per bu; lettuce, home-grown, 500750 per tub of 4 dos; new cabbage, $3,500 4.00 per cratt; onions, Michigan*, SI,OOO 1.75 per brl; pieplant, 25c per 50 lbs; radishes, 25075 c per bu; string beans, green, $1.2501.50 per bu box; wax, $1.50 02.25; turnips, rutabagas, 18023 c per bu; tomatoes, Floridas, $3.0005.00 per case of 7 baskets. Butter—Creameries, extra, 16c per lb; firsts, 14@15%c; seconds, 15c; third, 12c; dairies, extra, 16c; firsts, 15c; seconds, 10c; Imitation creameries, extra, 15c; ladles, extra, 10@12c; firsts, 9c; seconds, 7c; packing stock, fresh, 7c; grease, 3@sc. Cheese—Young Americans, choice, 9@9%c; bricks, choice to fine, 11%@12c; Llmburger, 7%c; Swiss, new, 10011 c. Live Poultry—Turkeys, choice, B%@ 9c per lb; fair to good, 7@Bc; ducks, fair to choice, 7@9c; geese, s3@4 per doz. Apples—s2.soo3.so per brl. Potatoes —Hebrons, 45050 c per bu; rose, 45048 c; peerless, 45048 c; Burbanks, 50054 c; sweet potatoes, Illinois, $2.75 per brl. Eggs—Salable at ll%c per doz when cases are returned; 12c case included.

Lite Stock. Chicago, May 15.—Cattle—Receipts, 115,000; calves, 500. Cattle weighing 850 to 1,550 tbs sold at $406, few lots going above $5.75, and fair to good 1,0500 1.250-tb steers sold at $4.7505.25. Butchers' stuff was fairly active and steady, and there were good sales of cows and heifers at $1.7505, the bulk selling at $2.5004. Bulls sold at $2.50 04.25, and veal calves were again in good demand at $4.25 05.50 for good ones, the bulk selling at $505.25. Hogs—Receipts, 38,000. The offerings included a large proportion of superior hogs, and sales were mostly made within a rather narrow range, the bulk going for $4.40 04.50. Sales were made of common to choice heavy hogs at $4,250 4.60; light and mixed at $4.3004.60, and culls at $204. Light hogs of a choice quality and fat medium weights /sold the best. Sheep—Receipts, 14,000. Prices averaged 26c per 100 lbs higher than at the close of last week, inferior to choice sheep selling at $2.5004.65, with a few as high as $4.86. The bulk were western. Utah, Texas and Mexican sheep. Wooled Mexican lambs weighing 65080 tbs found purchasers at $506. _ Spring lambs that weighed 50 to 55 lbs brought $5.5006 per 100 lbs.

Wheat and Corn. Closing prices of wheat and corn at the following named cities were: Wheat—New York—May, 69%c; July, 70%c; September, 70%c. St. Louis— May, 67%c; July, 65c. Duluth—July, 70c; September, 67%c. Minneapolis—July, 68%c; September, 65%c. Baltimore —May, 70c; July, 69%c. Toledo—Cash, 69%c; July, 66%c. Detroit—Cash, 69%c; July, 67%c. Corn—New York—May, 66%c; July, 68%c. St. Louis-May, 48%c; July, 60c. Baltimore —May, 56c; July, 66%c. Liverpool. Liverpool, May 15.—Wheat —Spot, No. 2 red winter, 5s 2%d; No. 2 red spring, 5s 6%d; No. 1 hard Manitoba, 6s 7d; No. I California, 6s 2d. Futures, May, 5s 2d; June, 6s 2%d; July, 5s 3%d; August, 5s 3%d; September, 6s 4d; October, 6s 4%d. Corn—Spot, American mixed new, 4s 9d. Futureß, May, 4b 7%d{ June, 4s 7%d; July, 4s 7%d; August, 4s 7%d; September, 4s 7%d; October, 4s 7%d. Flour—St. Louis fancy winter, 6s 6d. Peoria. Peoria, 111., May 15.—Corn—No. 2, 60%c; No. 3,60 c. Oats—No. 2 white, 30@30%c; No. 3 white, 30%@30%c. Rye —No. 2,63064 c. Whisky—High proof spirits, $1.24; finished goods, $1.23. Receipts—Wheat, 4,200 bu; corn, 68,000 bu; oats, 81,000 bu; rye, none; barley, 1,400 bu. Shipments—Wheat, none; corn, 24,700 bu; oats, 39,600 bu; rye, none; barley, 700 bu. New York. New York, May 16.— Butter—Receipts, 16,677 pkgs; western dairy, 7012 c; western creamery, 11017 c; Elgins, 17c. Eggs—Receipts, 8,171 pkgs; western, 13%@14c. Coffee—Steady. Toledo. Toledo, Ohio, May 15.—Wheat—Cash, May and June, 69%c bid July, 67%; August, 67%c; September, 67%c; No. 3 soft, 68%c. Corn—Cash, 61%c. Oats—Cash, 30c.

MAY BE THE KATE KELL Y.

Wreck of a Vessel Located Near h Point, Off Racine. Chicago, May 15.—Capt. Wil 3. Marshall of the tug Jesse Spal rived this morning from Keno' 1 reported that the schooner Kat' r was undoubtedly lost. Wrecka i description has been found shores of Kenosha, some bearname of the lost vessel. Bh< crew of five men besides the H. J. Hatch. Racine, Wls., May 15.—The v a vessel was located this mor the life-saving crew two miles North Point. It lay in ten fat water, with the topmast sticl at several feet. It is believed tc ue wreck of a canal schooner, but there is nothing to indicate the name. It is in the vicinity where the farmers saw a vessel founder Monday afternoon. ■ It is thought the boat may be the Kate Keiiy. -

Hawaii Upholds Thurston.

Honolulu, May 8, via San Francisco, May 15.—Minister Hatch has handed to Minister Willis his answer in regard to the recall of Minister Thurston which will go forward by this mail. It is a lengthy document and makes a general denial of the charges against the Hawaiian minister. The latter's course is upheld in every particular. Secretary Gresham is informed that Thurston will not be returned to Washington, but does not name his successor.

Sulcide of City Treasurer.

Manitowoc, Wis., May 15.—Frederick Hcukohl, city treasurer of Manitowoc, slot himself through the head this m ing. Death was instantaneous. I!.< ol was well known in this part of i,;e state, and was re-elected city treasurer last spring by the largest majority ever given to a republican. A shortage in his accounts is believed to be the cause.

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