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CHARLES A. DAM DEAD

THE GREAT KDlTOft OF TJ9B NEW YORK SUN BREATHES HIS LAST. feffjg- tf! ir fvf

Be Was. the Sole Survivor of That Group if Editors Who Founded the New York Newspapers

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DANA WAS ALMOST AN OCTOGENARIAN

flI3 WOKDERFCL MIND CLEAR UNTIL.

THE END CAME.

Kob« Could Surpass Him la Virility tof Thought or Elefanee of Diction.

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?. New York, Oct. 17.—Charlep A. Dana,

editor of the New York Sun, died at his

home at Glencove, Long Island, at 1:20

o'clock this afternoon*

Dr. Dana's death had been expected for

several hours, and his family and physicians

were at his bedside when the end came. His

condition had been such for several months

that the members of bis family had kept

themselves in constant readiness to go to

his bedside at any moment. On Saturday

morning he had a relapse and

was appar

ent that recovery was impossible. SeveraJ

times, however, he rallied, but toward night began to sink. During the night there were feeble rallies, but they did not last long. This morning it was seen that ihe end was but a few hours off and his attendants remained almost constantly at his bedslle. The end came quietly. The extreme heat of Saturday and Friday had much to do with hastening death. Paul Dana and his sisters, Mrs. Draper, Mrs. Underhill and Mrs. Branan were at the bedside when death came.

The cause of Mr. Dana's death was cirrhoisis of the liver. On June 0th he wasat his office apparently strong and healthy. The next day he was taken ill and h® never afterward visited New York. He was 78 years old. Preparations for the burial have

not yet been completed.

SKETCH OF DANA'S LIFE.

The Impress of His Guiding Spirit Shown in tho "Sun."

The following recent account of the getius Who has Just passed away, wric'.en by McTavish, gives insight into Dana's marvelous aental powers:

Charles A. Dana came nearer to death this week than ever before or than he ever will again until the final summons. One day his demise was even announced as a fact, and there was a universal query, "What will fcecom? of the Sun now?"

The question must be answered some time Boon, in the nature of things, for Mr. Dana has turned four score and a man at that time of life does not go through such an ordeal as his last has been without drawing very heavily on his reserve. He has been strong, hearty man all his life, and his dream has been to get a good look at the twentieth century. So strong and hopeful has he been, so secure in his own strength, that, as I heard a gushing school girl say the other day, "It would Just kill him to die."

Nobody looking at him any time in the ten years since he passed the biblical three score and ten could associate him with the thought of death. Though the cartoonists always for some reason, draw him little, he is a big man, tall and wide, with noble, square shoulders and long, straight legs. His town house is in Madison avenue and a good two miles above his office, but almost any night lb the last decade he has done the distance .of evenings, on foot.

A STATUESQUE FIGURE.

There was'tio finer sight in the metropolis for many years than this fine, statuesque llgure leaving the shabby old Sun building and starting homeward. At 5 o'clock in the evening Park Row is a raging torrent of humanity, and he who walks therein must «lbow his own way. Mr. Dana used to come to the door alone, stand for a moment, like a diver hesitating before his plunge, then buttoning his coat and taking a new grip on bis stick—in he went, and presently his •white beard was seen floating on the current here and there till presently beard and owner came ashore on the other side. 'Then at a four-mile stride the old editor started across the city hall park, shoulders well back, form swinging steadily and the sturdy legs cleaving their way. If you were close enough you might have heard the whistling aria of a new opera or a line from the divine comedy, uttered in fine mellow tones —for all the world as if the walker were a healthy youth of 20.

Of recent years you may have noticed that there has been leas in the Sun's editorial page about the "youths of 70," less about the glory of living to Dfcor 100 years. I have been told that Mr. Dana has lately said less and thought more of death than formerly. How much truth there may be in this I don't kaow, but I remember with something like a pang that the last time I saw him mount, his own stairway in che Sun office is step for the first time seemed rickety. It may be that this latest illness was the nut ward expression of an inward falling that lias long been known to him. He is not tho man to talk of such things. Indeed, though he had his share of egotism, he was nevei* responsive to questions about himself that failed to touch a kindly chord.

A QUIET LUNCHEON.

For some years it was Mr. Dana's practice to eat his luncheon in the Sun building the office of Mr. Laffan, the publisher ind the editor's closest associate, if we exjept Paul Dana, who has had the good fortune to have been brought up as his illustrious father's intimate friend and "pal These luncheons, however, were rigidly exclusive. A waiter brought in from a neighboring restaurant a brace of shops and a bottle of claret, and over this simple fare the two men spent an hour of give and take at—the Lord knows what conversation. Laffan is a wire-edged north of Ireland man, though educated at Black Rock and in France. It is said—and I think t'ruly—that lie owes his intimate association with Mr. Dana to the fact that he can talk Chinese Inscriptions, pottery, Paul Verlaine or alnost anything else as well us Dana. Bdth wen like the late M. Thiers, have the foiile of omniscience," and of that boundless jtore of recondite and useless information hhich marks the deeply .learned each had )us share. Laffan came to the Sun as art fcnd theatrical critic, having failed in Baltimore publishing a penny paper. He advanced speedily from that somewhat ornamental position to be business manager or

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ublisherand so near to the editor that noon the Sun ever cared to try issues With him for priority. It is oflly an occasional genius who can do business and Chinese pottery, too, but Laffin is of that sort, *nd everybody attributes his success in the Sun office to that versatility.

A few years ago when the Sun and World were at each other hammer *and

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World used to declare every day or so that "'this m^n Laffin" hypnotized Dana and would conie into ihe Sua as owner when the editor died. As for the "hypnotism," I think my explanation is truer. The succession to the property iS &nother matter, of which, I doubt, nobody'^knows very much save those who have a right to. Whoever owns the paper, there isn't any question that Mr. Dana controls it* and has for many years without question of his authority. It was he ho bolted. Cleveland in 1884 and came out in that absurd campaign for Ben Butler. "A MILLION A WEEK." fer

And this I know he did against the advice and desire of all his associates who foresaw the disaster that followed. Up. to this time the Sun had a field of its own, all to itself. It was the only 2-clnt morning paper in New York and used 4o lay .great stress in its advertisements on its circulation of "a million a week." There was no other such circulation in America then. The Sun was then a four-page paper, daily and a perfect model of compactness and typographical beauty—if you had eyes to read solid agate.

The bolt to Butler happened opportunely for the World, and when the campaign was over the World was found to have helped itself to a good share of that "million a week." Especially in the south, where the name of Butler was poison, the Dana, paper lost all its grip. Four years later it had by no means gained what it had lost in 1884, whereas the World had kept booming on. Yet the Sun continued tp pound Cleveland, though it was a fight purely personal to Mr. Dana and waged once more against the will of his partners, who shared in the losses but not in the fun. The defeat of Cleveland softened the effect of this bolt, but in 1892, by Whioh time the paper had broken out of its four-page limit and like:its neighbor was printing the once despised "blanket sheets" Mr. Dana weffe ready once more to club Cleveland and indirectly to throw his supposedly Democratic paper into the Republican column.

I happen to know to a certainty that nothing but the importunity of Paul Dana and Mr. Laffin, telegraphed from Chicago Just after the nomination, kept the editor from renewing the assault on Grover. As it was, you will remember, be set up the cry of "No force bill, no negro domination," and then after the election, with characteristic naivete, claimed the credit for Democratic success.

AMOS CUMMINGS' DIVIDENDS. It is an open secret in Park Row that the Sun has made no great fortune since ten years ago it borrowed $176,000 for new machinery on that mortgage the World made so much of. Amos Cummings told me in Washington a few years back (he owns a few shares in the paper he used to serve managing editor, compositor, Washington correspondent, eta) that he hadn't seen a. penny of dividends since the Butler bolt. Still Mr. Dana and a few others about the establishment show no evidence of poverty. This is explained by the (reputed) fact that the two Danag, Laffan and Thomas Hitchcock have a majority of the shares and vote themselves salaries Urge enough to eat up most of the earnings. The elder Dana is said to have drawn. $50,000 a year, his eon $15,000 a year, Mr. Laffan $25,000 and Mr. Hitchcok $20,000. This accounts for a good deal more than the morning Sun is said to have earned for some years, but the evening paper has more than made good the deficit.

Evening papers are-the best properties in New York Journalism nowadays, and the Evening Sun is one of the best of them. It costs much less than its morning namesake, has a bigger circulation and advertising patronage. Just so the Evening Post in New York, with a circulation of only 20,000, is considered one of the best properties in town. The Evening World is said to have helped the morning World out of a hole a year or so ago, when under stress of new competition the latter cut its price from 2 cents to 1. The Evening Sun has been the especial creation and pet of Mr.' Laffan, 'and he has made a howling success of it, almosE without seeming to try.

COSTLY ANIMOSITIES.

I have seen men try to compute what Mr. Dana's pet animosities have cost the Sun in the way of circulation—which means income. They have been numerous—these little weaknesses of a big man. The way he hunted General Grant lnte the hereafter beyond the •grave ougl^t to be forgotten, but isn't. Twenty years ago everybody knew the reason for this hatred—it.was something about an "appointment that Dana, Ranted and thought lie had eartoedf/By his s^vices, in the War.

He has never ctfrisidered liose services fully Requited by the government. I know a man Who says he has seen a letter from Dana to "Andy" Johnson fairly begging to be appointed collector of the port of New York. He was not appointed and he didn't get what he wanted of Johnson's successor. Then he began to call himself a Democrat, though he never supported a Democratic candidate except Tilden. All -the rest he helped to slaughter, and was tlie more effective by reason of his Democratic mask.

In late years E. L. Godkln, of the New York Evening Post and Grover Cleveland have divided the, honor of being the best hated of Mr. Dana's enemies. Dr. Parkhurst and the Springfield Republican got their share of drubbing tOS but Cleveland and Godkin, Dana seemed really to hate with a deep and personal hatred. He has consistently hatod all reform movements and all forms of mugwumpery and seemed to respect open and candid demotion to spoils. Tammany was his- ideal for many a year, but he dropped it like a hot potato in the autumn of 1896, when the silver question came to the front, and instead of building monuments of Croker and Sheehan the Sun has been pounding them day and night and Sundays as public malefactors.

MASTER OF INVECTIVE.

If the editor of the Sun had never done anything else he would be remembered forever as the king and master of the art of calling named. That art' may almost be salt to have been invented by him. Prentice and McCullagh wefe, each in his way, past masters of this sort of work, but really their efforts seem tatxie and ineffectual compared with Dana's. They were wielders of the bludgeon and meat ax. Dana could use these weapons, too, but he also knew the rapier and stiletto and could smile and smile in the face of a victim whose life blood he was draining with relentless hand. He has another gift also in its perfection—ridicule. By a single sentence he could set all the world's laughing at an opponent and therebyhurt that unfortunate where a thousand blows could not have been felt.

For example, when he fixed upon Cleveland the epithet of the "stuffed prophet" he punctured the pachydermatous covering of that statesman where all else had failed, I have it from eye-witnesses that Q. C. roared and snorted more over that Ignominious title than at all else said or done against him.

Dr. Parkhumt. the least offensive and least ambitious of men, so far as notoriety is concerned, because known to the world as a scheming, foxlike hypocrite, an apostle of hypocrisy, because with a few skillfully chosen words the editor of ,the Sun so depicted him. It was rank and cruel Injustice, but it "went," and a whole lifetime of such virtue as the apostles* could not remove the impression.

WHO MATTHEW MARSHAL!

The Mr. Hitchcock referred to is best known by two circumstanec*. 1. He is the author of those famous Matthew Marshall letters on finance in the Monday morning Sun. 2. He is the father of Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., one at the greatest polo players and germaa leaders In New York's 400. The father doesn't ride polo ponies to any great extent. He looks lifer:* Cancer or country

"general storekeeper," and is said to be worth ten or more millions, chiefly made In Wall street. In spite of his wealth the Joy of his" life is to Write that column and a half of "stuff" every week (mighty interesting stuff too) and to run over the Sun's ledgers with a long lead pencil, as he may be seen doing almost any day in the week. He is a great "pal" of Mr. Dana's too, because, while he can't read Chinese inscriptions, he knowg a heap of more useful tilings, and talks, as he writes, on anything and everything. The brains standard seems to go in the Sup office.

So if Mr. Dana were to "crane a cropper," as young Tommy Hitchcock might say, this time and cease to be, the Sun would by no means stop shining. Every- year for more than a decade lie has spent two or three months of the twelve in Europe, Asia or Africa, searching out recondite places and! queer languages to learn. In his absence the paper goes on as before, and "Old Subscriber" meeting his ancient friend "Constant Reader" points out for their mutual enjoyment editorial passages which they both recognize as in "that inimitable vein off Dana's." Nor is this so paradoxical—say two—young men in the Sun office who oan write in that "inimitable style" with almost perfect success, repeating the characteristic trait of their chief's "matchless fiction." Very well it is a matchless diction and a stayle inimitable for all that. If you think otherwise try to match it. Try your powers of memory and see.

SIX HOURS A DAY*

I don't know how much Mr. Dana has written for the Sun of late, but I am told his product has grown less and 'f«3. as the years wore by. Yet until his n., ytes and except for the vacations mentioned he has regularly come to the office and regularly sepnt six or more hours at his desk. This has been his practice for many years, and surely there could be no better proof of his force of character as a writer and as a man than that in this contact young men of high talents have gladly surrendered their literary style to his hands and seen it formed upon his model. It may or may not be a great style, but it is unique. The profoundest learning and the lightest froth from street life the severest accuracy and the most frolicsome fun allusion, the most recondite the daintiest paraphrases ind he bluntest, broadest Jest—what indeed is not to be found In that wonderful conglomerate that is known as the Sun's style to all the English speaking world? Whatever its merIts or demerits it has had the virtue of originality and power—the power to set all the world to talking baout this or that trifle, as the writer willed. And that is what is meant when men say, as they often do, the Sun has a circulation of 70,000,000.

Mr. Dana has always been a prodigious reader of newspapers or exchanges. He has an abnormal capacity for getting the cream of a paper at one scoop, leaving the skimmed product to others for laborious consumption. His favorite working place is at one of the windows on the third floor, overlooking City Hall Park. He has a sort of shelf or bracket fastened to the window frame which serves him as a desk. Here you may find him in his working hours, a heap of "exchanges" by his side and one of them in his hand, undergoing the process of being skinned alive. A sweeping glance at the printed page, a spasmodic movement of the scissors hand, and lo! the pearl of the oyster is rescued, and the shell lies in the heap of "discards." Many a gem has been rescued, many an inspiration found for a leader witty and learned. Many a "poem worth reading" from the pen of a poet hitherto unknown was thus rescued from oblivion.

Whatever it says is read, in Its own columns or those of other newspapers, by all the reading world.

How long this feature (which is indeed the distinctive feature of the Sun) will survive after Mr. Dana's death, it will be interesting to watch. The great editor is the last of his race. By this I mean not only that he is the sole survivor of that distinguished coterie, Greeley, Weed, Ripley, Raymond, Gordon Bennttt the first, Prentice, McCullagh, et al., but that he is the last of the great editors remaining, at least, in New York. Other New York papers have passed under the rod and entered upon the new order. Cheap white paper, fast printing machines, type-setting machines and the page "ad" have made all the Sun's contemporaries over into purely commercial enterprises operated exactly as a mercantile establishment, directed from the counting room, the editorial department being, like' the composing room or press room, merely an adjunct. To this order the Sun has not yet succumbed. To this day, though most of the paper Is printed frofn type set by machinery, the editorial page and some others are set by hand because Mr. Dana would not brook the mechanical restrictions Imposed by machine composition. From every department the lines of authority run, not to the counting room but to the editor's chair.

WHO WILL TAKE HIS PLACE? How will it be in the near future, when another sits in that famous seat at the window overlooking City Hall park, whence the lively philosopher (and his office oat) have watched one whole generation come and go, rebuking them as they passed, laughing at (and with) them, scolding, admonishing, inciting, restraining them, but always loving them as fellow sinners prone to error, but after all not so bad as might have been—who will take his place? It is no serious reflection on the others to- say that there is no man in sight armed and equipped as Mr. Dana was when he assumed the seat. Qther men there are of great gifts and wide knowledge, but who can combine with these the wealth of experience that he won in the stirring days of his young manhood?

The German philosopher, who died happy because he felt that he had completed the cycle of his experience had seen no such variety and depth of human lire as he. What a career! Graduated at Harvard in time to join with Bronson Alcott, Emerson, Hecker, George William Curtis and that Ilk in the foolish, glorious colony at Brook Farm apprentice, then partner, then master of Greeley tourist In Europe when men still traveled post chaise and a spectator of the great wars, which, though of our own century, belong to another epoch of history in our civil struggle the intimate of Lincoln and Stanton, Grant and Sherman, and by their sides a witness of all the greet battles of the war—what living man has compassed so much even in fourscore years? Eighty years and not an idle day in one of them. Knowing no rest but that "change of work" in which Gladstone also finds his only relaxation that matchless mind, like Bryon's, "wax to receive and marble to retain," has penetrated every field of knowledge, with sympathies as broad as the sky and as op£n. Who will take the place of such a man as our Bismarck, our Gladstone, our ,Leo XIII. all in one?

INTERVIEW WITH THE POPE. When Mr. Dana visited the Vatican he bad audience with the pope and spent an hour capping Italian verses and quoting alternate lines from the "Inferno." Soon after he returned he attended a prize fight one evening after besting his son at a post-prandial game of billiards. This very year he has added Russian to his list of languages, grown a new rose and written a monograph on the proper culture of mushrooms. In his hours of repose he has collated his experience in the civil war as "Lincoln's reporter" for a magazine, which thus becomes the lucky heritor of one of the greatest books of the century.

The Sun will not cease to shine, because it will fall into hands that will be guided by wisdom and sagacity. Besides, a good newspaper never dies. But never again will it bo "Dana's Sun." On!? one Dana is produced in a century.

TETRKE HAUTE FX PRESS. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19.1897.

How to

Cure Catarrh.

Every sufferer from Catarrh should know that it is impossible to core the disease with sprays, washes, inhalation^ etc., which are universally need. In fact, the experience of growing worse all the while is proof that the treafeient is all wrong. Many who have been undpr treatment fox years and met with disappointment instead of benefit are willing to doubt that tfcere is any cure lor Catarrh.

The trouble is that all of the treatment they have received, has been misdirected, and has not touched their trouble. Catarrh is a stubborn deepseated blood disease, and everybody should know that to simply treat the surface, that is, the local irritation, does not reach the disease.'" A blood remedy is needed, butnt must be a good one a remedy which goes down to the very bottom of the trouble and forces it out. S.S.S. (Swift's Specific) is the only one which can have the slightest effect upon Catarrh, for it is the only one which goes to the seat of the disease, and permanently gets rid of it. This is the only reasonable way to treat Catarrh.

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Mr. fc. P. McAllister, of Harrodsburg, Ky., had Catarrh for years. He writes: "I could see no improvement whatever, though I was constantly treated with sprays and washes, and different inhaling remedies—in fact, I could feel that each winter I was worse than the year previous.

MEinally it was brought to my notice that Catarrh was a blood disease, and after-thinking over the matter, I saw it was unreasonable to expect to be cured by remedies which only reached the surface. I then decided to try S. S. S., and the results were gratifying, for after a few bottles were used, I noticed a perceptible improvement. Continuing to take the remedy, the disease was forced out of my system, and a complete and permanent cure was the result. I advise all who have this dreadful disease to abandon their local treatment, which has never done them any good, and take S.S.S. (Swift's Specific),. a remedy which can reach the disease and cure it."

To continue the wrong treatment for Catarrh is to continue to suffer. Swift's Specific never fails to cure even the most aggravated cases. It is a real blood remedy, and cures Catarrh, Rhetitfiiatism, Contagious Blood Poison, Bczema, Cancer, Scrofula, and all other blood diseases. S. S. S. is guaranteed

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TEN PINS IN THE AIR.

Fight at the Club Saloon—The Former Pro-

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prietor Seriously 111.

For'H'ffew short moments yesterday the air In'liie^ear of the Club saloon was laden with ten pins and rubber balls. The atmosphprp was also permeated with not very goo& English. The cause of all this atmospheric disturbance was a fight in the rear ojf the saloon between the barkeep, FrankySt^nman and a railroad man whose name *iot known to the witnesses of the meleejp The Club saloon was closed temporarily yesterday but the barkeep had occasion to go into the place on some errand. While he was in the house the railroader came 16 h'tad he was at once asked to get out. He (became angry and a fight followed. First th^$ was a scuffle in the house and later the railroader came out of the back door. He was followed by a perfect shower of rubber ten pins and ten pin balls. The fight was renewed in the alley but Stelnman stepped back into the saloon and closed the door before it had resulted in anything serious.

John Ward, who until Saturday night was proprietor of the saloon, is dangerously ill as a result of dissipation. He has been brooding over his losses in Terre Haute and Thursday morning started on a protracted drunk. He refused to eat but It Is not on record that he ever refused any drfnks. He is now suffering from what is known to physician^ as acute alcoholic poisoning and yesterday and last night he was under the care of a physician with the chances about even that he would puil through.

CHARLES HENRY'S LAST TERM.

He Says He Will Not Accept a Congressional Renomination.

Representative Charles L. Henry, of the Eighth district, was in the city yesterday on business connected with the Union Traction company, the presidency of which he has accepted, says the Indianapolis Journal. This company has purchased the franchise and other pvoperty of the Indianapolis, Anderson & Marion company, and will push the electric road from Marion to Anderson to completion. This is Mr. Henry's last term in congress, as he will not be a candidate for renomination. This fact oame out incidentally in conversation with him yesterday. "I have enjoyed my experience in congress very much," said he, "and would like to go back were it not for my business interests. I believe we are in for a great and long-continued business revival and the opportunities for making money in legitimate enterprises are great. I have undertaken the ma*nagement of this company in addition to my other interests, and it is due to tne stockholders connected with me that 1 devote my energies to my business as soon as my term expires. "The political conditions in the district were never better, from a Republican point of view. The heavy manufacturing Interests are all feeling the effects of the good times and there is more work for the men. My successor will be a Republican and the only hard struggle he will have will be to get the' nomlration."

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BULL CLIQUE SELLING

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Oats declined Provisions on the contrary were strong «a*good short coffering, and closed 7tt016a

Wheat was rather weak at the opening, Deeezober starting at 92%@92M,c. Offerings were not heavy, but there was an even smaller demand, the result being a slow decline to 91%@91%c. The Liverpool wheat market responded indifferently to Saturday's advance here, quotations at opening showing the modest gain of %d precental. That had a tendency to make the local bulls cautious at the opening here, asd to correspondingly encourage the bears. Other bearish features were the generous rains in the West and Northwest, and the consequent improvemest in winter wheat prospects, liberal Northwest receipts and the heavy world's shipments for the week of 9,500,000 bushels. Minneapolis and Duluth received 1,494 cars, against 1,470 last week. After the decline to 91%® 91%c, the market lazily swung around in the opposite direction, and up to the time of the receipts of the closl£g Liverpool cables ruled fairly steady at around 92K@92%c. Chicago receipts were 184 cars, and the amount inspected out of store 138,600 bushels. Paris was unchanged at th« opening for wheat, and 40 centimes higher for neartiy deliveries ot flour. The Increase in the visible was only 1,136,000 bushel, compared wltr 2,374,000 bushels a year ago. Tr« present total is 2S,9t0,000 bushels, against 57,112,000 bushel a year ago. The Atlantic port clearanoes for the day wars 6,250,000 bushels. The continental markets closed firm. Antwtrp showing 12% centimes rise, and Paris 10 centimes. Liverpool closed unchanged to V&d lower than Saturday. The market had 1egun to decline abottt the time this come in, and -the loss of the early advance at the foreign market accentuated the weakness. Selling of long wheat generally credited to the old bull clique became quite a feature near the close and had the result of pounding December down to 91c. The close was at 91@91%c.

Corn was rather spasmodic, ruling dull and active at different ptrlods, but with the exceptlln of a brief Interval shortly after the opening was weak all day. The opening was weak on the heavy receipts, 1,339 cars. The market rallied a little with wheat, but when the demand from shorts ceased which was the only support of consequence it received, prices sank rapidly. The heavy visible Increase of 2,793,000 bushels was a decided factor. Charters were for 695.000 bushels. December ranged frlm 26%@26%c to 26c, closing %c loweT at 26%@26%c.

There was a fairly active session in oats with a downward tendency to prices. The visible supply increased 1,499,000 bushels. This and sympathy with corn were the influences in the. decline. Elevator people sold considerable May. Receipts were 487 cars. December ranged from 18%c to 18%@18%c, and closed %c lower at 18%c.

Quite a good business was dose in provisions. Large hog receipts and a decline at the yards caused a small opening decline, but the market rallied sharply. The Cudahys covered on a large Scale, and there was also soma influential commission houses buying, suggesting a renewal of outside interest. Offerings were light. At the close, December pork was 12H@15c righer at $7.87%@7.90: December lard 10c higher at $4,371, and December ribs 7%@10c higher at $4.57%@4.60.

Estimated receipts Tuesday: Wheat. 240 cars corn, 800 cars oats, 480 cars hogs, 22,000 head.

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Good is choice Iambs Common to medium lambs Good to choice sheep Fair to medium sheep .... Common sheep .r Blcks, per head

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Uvsrpool Fa!l«l to Bsspoad to Saturday's Advaoo* tad Ctplni Bates Farther iPspr—S Prtoes.

Chicago, Oct. Is.—Wheat closed today at a IKGUfce decline. It was a very narrow market, and the weakness was not so much due to any new features of tr» general situation as to the smallness of trade and the selling by the bull elicits of about 600,000 bushels long wheat. Cora was very weak oa ihe h«a*7. receipts and visible Increase and declined Kv

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Oct. 18. Oct. 16

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Dec.... 02H-X 92K-9* 91 91-H 02 J4 May.... 89M-H 89% 88« 88* 89K-H COItlS. Dec— 26^-X 26X-* 2«H 26H 26% May..., 30X-K 30H 29« 29X 80*-*

OATS

Dec.... 18K-ft 18 18X-V4 18* 18i£ May.... 21H 21H-X 20» 20 21* romc. Dec 7 63 7 02 7 65 7 87-90 7 75 Jan.... 8 67 8 90 8 67 8 85 8 72

I. AIil, Dec— 4 23 4 40 4 25 4 87 4 27 Jan.... 4 40 4 55 4 40 4 6J 4 43 niBS. Dec.... 4 50 4 60 4 50 4 57-60 4 50 Jan 4 55 4 67 4 55 4 62-65 4 55-57

STOCK AND BOND MARKET.

The Strength of Granger and Vanderblit Stocks the Feature. New York, Cct. 18.—For,the first time In several we^ks prices of .slocks were af no time during the day below the,-,level of those prevailing at th«- close the flight before. There were occasional slight reaction/), today with no better apparent caus^^hai^ sympathy with sugar, which was remarkably. strpng and was turned .backwards at times ©nly by proflt taking. Tlj,e announcement the handing down of the ^decision in the. Nebraska maximum freight rate case had been postponed was followed by a decided increase in the ac--tivity of trading. The strength of the granger stocks and the awakened Interest and improvement in the Vanderbilts were very notable. The vigorous upward movement of this powerfully influential group caustd a strong advance throughout the 'list, net gains in nearly all the active stocks equaling at least a point, and in several special cases equalling or exceeding 2 points. A feature of the market quite as striking as the strength of the railroad stocks was the neglect of ihe Industrials, except sugar, as compared with the recent trading and even sugar showed a falling, off in activity as the day progressed and the trading in the railroad stocks developed greater animation. While sugar was quite active and moved somewhat irregularly within a range of nearly three points it showed sufficient strength to aid the rest of the list by sympathy and closed at a net gain of 2%. The monty market was noticeably easy, which was an additional incentive to a renewal of speculation. The Ciatemeats of rollroad earnings for the secoiid week in October, which were received, all show continued marked increases over the corresponding period last year. While the character or tne trading today did not go outside the professional limits which have marked for several weeks, the undertone of strengtr of the market showed the practlceal cessation of the manipulation by the reactionists.

The bond market was not very active, but prices were generally firm. Sales, Jl,500,000. Money on call easier at 2^2^ per cent closed at 2@2% per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4^4@4% per cent. Sterling exchange easy, with actual business in bankers' bills at 484%@484% for demand, and at 481%@482 for sixty days. Posted rates, 482%@483H and 485. Commercial bills 481. Silver certificates 57

J59c. Bar silver, 5S5&C. Mexican dollars, 44%c. Bonds—Government firm state dull railroad firm.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Cattle Unchanged—Hogs Active at Slight Decline—Sheep Steady. Indianapolis Union Stock Yards, Oct. 18.—. Cattle—Receipts light Shipments none. There was no qmtable change in the cattle market compared wltr the close of last week.

Export and Shipping cattle we quote: Good to prime steers, 1,350 lbs. and upward $ 4 65® 5 15 Fair to medium steers, 1,350 lbs. and upwards 4 35@ 4 65 Good ti choice 1.150 to 1.350 lbs. steers 4 25@ 4 66 Fair to medium, 1,150 to 1,300 lb. steers 4 00® 4 40 Medium to good 900 to 1,100 lb. stetrs -3 65® 4 15 Good to choice feeding steers.....« 3 90® 4 35 Fair to medium steers v.v 3 35® 3 15 Common to good stockera 2 25® 3 25

Butchers' cattle we quote: Good to choice heifers ?, 80® 4 35 Fair to medium heifers 3 35® 3 66 Common light heifers 2 25© 3 23 Good to choice cows 3 00® 3 75 Fair to medluc cows 2 40® 2 90 Common old cows 1 50® 2 26 Prime to fancy export bulls 3 36® 3 60 Good to choice butchers' bulls.... 2 75© 3 25 Common to fair bulls 2 00® 2 65 Good to choice cows and calves.. 30 00#40 00 Common to medium cows and calves 15 00®25 00 Veal calves 4 50® 6 00 Heavy calves 3 00# 5 00

Hogs—Receipts 700 head. Shipments 600 head. On shipping account the bog morket was active and a small supply soon ehanged hands at a shade lower prices. We quote: Good to choice medium and heavy 13 90®4 00 Mixed and h«avy packing 3 80®3 $Q Good to choice lightweights ...... 3 S504 10 Common lightweights 3 85@3 95 Pigs 2 5003 90 Roughs 3 0003 60

Sheep— Receipts light Shipments none. There was no quo?ab change In the sheep and lamb market. Prospect* were steady fOf the near future.

...... 3 3a#3 7i S 90$3 2 00®2 71 3 00®« 01

Baltimore Grain Market.

Baltimore, Oct 18.—'Wheat—'Weak: spot October or November. 96%@95V4c December. »H®96%c steamer No. 1 red, 89%®90c. Corn —Dull and easy mixed spot, October and November. S0%©3©%c new or old, November or December, 30%@30%c steamer mixed. §r88%c. Oats—Firm No. 2 white western. 3SK@2ffc.

New York Coffee and Sacrar Mnritft New York, OeU IS,—Coftaft—Optioiis opened steady at uncraaged 'prices to a define of

points, showed generally weak undertone, .and closed dull with unehanged to 5 points lower. Spot—Ril, dull mild, quiet cordova, .10915c. Sugir-lRaw, neiftifeal refined quiet.

Peoria Corn Warkst.-

Peoria, Oct. 18.—Wheat—No. red winter, sales 98c. Corn—Easy and lower No. 2, 24^o. Oats—Inactive and easy No. 2 white, 21

Whisky—Dull at J1.20. **,

Vic.

Turpentine Mark«.

Savannah, Oct IS.—Turpentine—Steady at 30ttc. Rosin—Firm.

LIST OF UNCLAIMED LETTERS

Letters addressed to parties named below have remained in the Terre Haute postofflce for the week ending October 18. 1897. Unless called for within the ten days allowed by the postofflee department, they will be forwarded to the dead letter office

at Washington, D. C. LADIES. Abranes, Mrs. M. B. Mitchell, Mrs. Clara. Baumann, Kate. Sinclair, Mrs. Naney, Bur-ton, Mrs. Chas. Smith, Mrs. Telitha. $- Curtis, Mrs. 8. J. Warden, Mary. ,,. Houseman, Mrs. Ada. Warren, Maud.

GENTLEMEN. ?_ *£0

Bloom, B. F. Herman, W. M. Chapman, Albert. lludsos, Cabs.^?^^ Cowle, Frank. Laxenard, M. Gltaaore, W. H. Mills, 3. Goodwin, James. McClellan, L. Qreen, Thomas. Packer, C. J. Hawkins, John A. Ray, James. *. Hamerly, J. Terrell, Wm.

Over 2,000 people are here to attend the opening of the convention of the foreign christian missionary convention in Tomlinson Hall tomorrow. The annual reports of the board of managers will show that tho society began the year with $7,900 on hand. From all sources $106,222 was received, an increase of $12,354 over last year. The expenditures for the year were $9!,195. The Sunday schools have passed all previous records both in the number contributing and the amount given. The number of contributing schools is 2,810 as against 2,605 last year. The amount given this year was $30,027.

Notes From Wabash College. Special to the Express. Crawfordsvllle, Ind., Oct. 16.—Saturday was field day at Wabash college. Considering the'brief time for training most of the events were satisfactory. Interest in track athletics- has.'not been so high for •years.•• We have excellent material and promise to• send a teanr that will make it warm for ourv. rivals next spring at the state meet. a-f.•%*

Thei silk banner given by President Burroughs was. won by the- class of 190ft. Tie class of 1902 was second in number-of points and 1901 third.

McCuIlom, 1901, ran the 50 yard dash In five and three-fifths seconds and the 100 yard dash in ten and four-fifths over an uneven track.

Fifty yard dash, McCuIlom, 1901, time 5 3-5 100 yard dash, McCuIlom. 1901, time 10 4-5 220 yard dash, Denny, 1900, time 24 3-5 440 yard race, Denny, 1900, time 57:02 one-half mile, Posten, 1902 putting shot, Gumber, 1902, 33 feet 2 inches throwing b&ll, Mcintosh, 1902, 300 feet 2 inches one-half mile walk, Pape, 1900, 3:50 standing broad jump, McClure, 1900, 4:11 running high jump, McClure, 1900, 4:11 running broad jump. Coon, 1902, 17 feet pole vault, Stafford, 1902, 7 feet 1 inch.

The Club Saloon Cloned.

John Ward ceased to be proprietor of tha Glub saloon on Main street Saturday eventwo months ago and opened up the once ing. Mr. Ward came here from Danville popular place. It had been allowed to run down and the task of building it up again was not an easy one. The entire place was turned over to the Terre Haute Brewing company Saturday night, but this morning it will be reopened by the brewing rompany and a good man placed in charge. The Club is too valuable a place to be left Idle and the brewing company will continue to manage the place until a buyer comes along.

Want a tiaan of Hoodlums Arrested. The police have been asked to arrest a gang of hoodlums which has been making outrageous noises in the neighborhood of Mont Rose Chapel. The gang congregates in the neighborhood every time services are held in the church and keep up such a noise that the worshipers are greatly annoyed. Superintendent Hyland has ordered that a patrolman be In tho neighborhood during the services hereafter.

MONEY TO LOAN-On personal security, real estate or chattels without re-

LECALS.

N1OT1CB

or SALE.

Terms of sale: Cash In hand. Terre Haute. Ind.. October 11th. 1807, Henry J. Baker.

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PACKAGES.

Pearl Pierce. D. J. Sampson. To obtain any of these letters the applicant must call for "advertised" letters and give the date of the list.

If net caUed for in two weeks they will be sent to the dead letter office. Letters to traveling salesmen or transient visitors in the city, where special address may be unknown, should be marked In the left hand corner with the word "transient.'*

F. E. Benjamin, P. M.

Terre Haute, October 18, 1897.

LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

One sise smaller after using Allen's FootEase, a powder to be shaken into the ehoe3. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy gives instant relief to corns and bunlond. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cures and prevents swollen feet,'blisters and sore spots. Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for sweating. hot, aching feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address, Allen 9. Olmstead, L« Roy, N. Y.

-VIST COMMUNION SERVICE.

Four Thousand People! Partake of Br(&4 and Wine in Tomlinson Hall. Indianapolis, Oct. 17.—The most largely attended communion service ever held by the Christian church in this country was conducted in Tomlinson Hall this afternoon, when over 4,000 souls partook of the loaf and wine. The service was the leading feature of the Sunday programme of the Christian conventions. Dr. D. R. Lucas, of this city, led In the service. Thirty-two deacona distributed the loaf and wine and about ten gallons of wine was used.

movel. T.C.SMITH, 128^ S. Sixth StX

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Notice is hereby given that the under-. signed as assignee of the estate of Aaron W. Ostrander, will sell at public vendue the highest bidder on Saturday, November 12th, 1897, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day at the north door of the Court House In tha City of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, the following described real estate s&uate) ./J In Vigo County In the Stat? of Indiana, to-1 wli: Sixty (60) acres off the east side of the southwest quarter of sector* twenty-live (25) in township thirteen (13) north .of range nine (9 west. The inter-% est to be sold being the undivided two~ thirds (2-3) interest therein owned by said assignor Aaron W. Ostrander. Said land to be sold subject to all mortgages and Incumbrances that are liens thereon.

Assignee.