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trade review.
heportkd FOB WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER
21sT, BY DUNN <fc CO., OK NEW TOBK.
R G. Dunn – Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Throughout the country the
sta te of business is encouraging. Stocks
have not quite maintained the recent ad
vance, and have relapsed into dullness,
with sales of less than 90,000 shares for
t be week, the chief cause being the
western railroad wars. The speculation
in breadstuff# and cotton has been slight
ly lower than the range of prices, Oil with
but moderate transactions. specula
tion is a shade stronger, and provision
steady. Reports from cities for the past
week correspond fairly with clearings
outside of New York, which show an in
crease over last year of about four per
cent in the aggregate. At Philadelphia,
money is active aud jobbing m the dry
goods trade continues good; grocery
trade improves, exceeding last year’s;
paper trade decidedly revives; liquor
trade is active, and drugs and chemicals
moderately active; but in wool there is
very little movement. receipts At Chicago there
is a decline in the of wool and
of grain, higher prices for wheat, leading
the farmers to hold back, but there is a
large increase in provisions. merchandise Trade in
dry goods and other is
quiet, after the exceptional activity of
August. For the year thus lur, trade
exceeds last year’s. Milwaukee reports
constantly improving business with ac
tive money. Kansas City reports busi
ness and collections fair, an average sea
son, and Cleveland increasing activity,
especially in iron ore, with prospect for
higher rate for money. At Omaha,
great crops give good Pittsburg business further and col
lections, and at im
provement is seen in Bessemer iron and
steel, in coke and in coal with resumption
of glass works at 5$ per cent, higher
wages. Southern reports also are all en
couraging as to crop propsects and pres
ent trade. These specimens illustrate the
general tenor of the reports. Great in
dustries appear to be gradually improv
ing in condition. While improvement is
slow in wool manufacture, there is clearly
more active demand at Boston, and sales
of wool there during the week were 3,-
258,000 pounds, including some former
tales just made public, fine wished but a larger
movement, mainly in fleece,
has been secured by concessions in prices.
In the iron business confusion increases,
because Southern coke number one foun
dry is offered at $16.75 for delivery to
end of January, while anthracite number
one sells at $17 to $18 and higher for
special brands, but consumption is enor
mous and seems about equal to the large
production. Large contracts for struc
tural iron in Chicago and St. Louis ele
vated roads have been taken in Eastern
Pennsylvania, and tbe orders for rails on
the books September 1, were 1,135,000
tons. Copper has remained dull, and
though 500 tons tin are reported on the
way, spot is still quoted at $21 37. The
partial failure of potato and fruit crops,
and injury to both by recent storms,
cause an advance in prices, and the gen
eral average for commodities is now about
one per cent, higher than Sept. 1. The
movement of cattle and fresh
beef _
to England attracts much attention,
head exports of having been made over 90,000
cattle and 40,000,000 pounds of
fresh beef within three months, ending
with August, besides o
cured or canned beef. O
Steamship cattle line engaged in transporting
rather than passengers, this move
ment seems likely to increase largely.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past week: Num
ber for the United States 177; Canada 31;
total 198, 193 last week.
A FATAL WRECK.
engine crashes into a passenger
COACH—FIVE PEOPLE KILLED.
A frightful disaster to a suburban pas
sender the train occurred Tuesday night in
southern outskirts of Chicago, Ill.
rhe Chicago, Rock Island – Pacific
train, which left the main depot for Blue
bland, was crashed into by a freight
ra 'n at the Lake Shore and Pan Handle
crossings -‘QRlewood. near Eighty-seventh street,
The passenger train was at
«■ toe standstill, one coach projecting over
crossing.. about sixty Into this coach, plunged coutain- the
lei ght train. persons,
The wreck of the passen
WK C ° aC k was instant and complete.
»hen a thorough search through the
ebris had been made, it was found that
ree women and two men had been
killed outright, and a third man was in
a dying condition. Three other persons
were seriously injured. The five dead
were conveyed to Englewood morgue,
jhe McKinzie, hst of the Fred killed lluebner, is: Mrs. Mrs. Brown Kelly,
‘
tin au unknown woman, all of Washing
jured on Heights. Those most seriously in
are: Gus Mulcany, fatally hurt;
p 188 A- K. Steele, Anton Shuberg and
arker Harden. The wreck uppears to
carelessness !e en tireiy uuc to the almost criminal
of the engineer of the fieight
r am, who disregarded signals, and is
apposed to have been drunk, at the time.
DEARLY bought sport.
anticipants in a prize fight held FOE
MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
at ln P r Ahearn’s j n , c 'P a,s in saloon, the recent fatal prize
M ° . which in St. Louis,
lilVe young Jackson was killed,
nW| -i° Daly, P a y Dan dearly for their sport.
Mu ruT^’ a ting editor, Daly, Joseph A.
of 8 P or and a numbei
Kr C S are ^ e ld as accessories to mur
,> se cond degree, which
u arn . charged. with
is The punishment is
aot les 8 than ten in the peniten
tor principals years
j and accessories.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
AN OKLAHOMA RIOT.
AN ATTEMPT
A special from Oklahoma to the Kansas
he city. About six weeks ago a faction
of citizens, after failing to induce the
council to call for a convention for the
purpose of , framing , . an amended charter
tramed one themselves aud called an
election for the people to vote on it. As
it provided for the immediate ousting of
the present city government, United
btates troops, under authority of General
Merritt, prevented the election. The
original charter faction called an election
on their charter for Saturday, a «»ain
without the consent of the mayor'and
council. General Merritt again sent or
ders to Colonel Suyder to prevent the
election, aud Captain Stiles, in command
of the troops, carried out these orders at
the point of the bayonet. The polls
bled. were opened, and a large crowd assem
A number of persons endeavored
to vote, when Captain Stiles threw his
company across the street and gave the
command to charge. The company en
countered no opposition to their prog
ress. Tbe leaders of the Charter faction
then rushed to another place and declared
the polls opened again. Captain Stiles
repeated his charge, and again cleared
the street. This operation was repeated
at other wards where the faction at
tempted to vote, but were routed each
time by the troops. The leaders of the
charter faction, after consulting with
Captain Stiles, then advised the crowd
to disperse. The advice was followed
and the excitement subsided. Nine of
the leaders were afterwards arrested on
the charge of conspiracy against the nu
thority of the United States and city
covernments.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
THE MACHINERY FAILS, AND AN ELECTRIC
CAR DASHES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
An accident occurred Fiiday morning
on the electric railroad running from
the foot to tho top of Mission
Ridge at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The car had nearly reached the top of the
very steep track, when the machinery
failed, and the car started down the
mountain at great speed. The motor
man tried to stop the car with the brakes,
but failing in this, the conductor shouted
to the passengers to jump from the car.
The car contained fifty people all of
whom were visitors to the re-union of
the Army of the Cumberland, one half
the party being ladies. Then there was
a scene of wild excitement and the panic
seizing all on board, they began leaping
rapidly down the mountain side. Five
or six persons who remained on
the car were uninjured, as when
the load was partially removed from the
car it stopped before reaching the foot
of the ridge. Mrs. Mary Adams, of
Casey, Illinois, in jumping from the car,
received injuries from which she died.
Wm. Miuford, of Casey, Illinois, in
jumping from the car, struck in a mass
of barbed wire and was badly cut. About
a dozen others were terribly injured,
and it is feared that some of them will
die.
A DARING ROBBERY.
A BANK SAKE OPENED BY BURGLARS, WHO
MAKE WAY WITH $59,875.
One of the most daring and successful
robberies ever committed in the state, is
reported from Hurley, Wis. $59,895
was taken from a vault in the Iron Ex
change bank, of that city, Saturday
night, which was left at the bank for
safe keeping over night by the United
States bxpress company. The cashier
put the money inside of the iron vault
an d left shortly after 9 o’clock. A light
was left burning in the office, and a few
minutes after 9 o’clock a man was seen
working at the safe, but he had on the
cashier’s office coat, aud nothing was
thought of it by those who passed the
bank? The cashier returned discovered shortly after the
11 o’clock, when he that
money was missing. No trace of the rob
bers has yet been found. The express
company had no receipt for tbe money
officials.
ST. LOUIS IN THE RING.
EFFORTS MADE TO HAVE TnE WORLD’S
FAIR IN THE METROPOLIS OF MISSOURI.
A well attended meeting of prominent
officials of roads centering at St. Louis,
Mo., revealed the fact that great interest
is being taken by them in the World’s
Fair and that active efforts will be made
by them to have it held in that city.
An assessment of $1,000,000 on the rail
roads will be promptly subscribed and in
all likelihood that sum will be exceeded
by them. A meeting of newspaper subscriptions pro
prietors also brought out assessed
lurgoly in excess of the sum
upon them. The individual subscriptions
of the daily papers are: Olobe-Democrat,
$20,000; Republic, $20,000; Post-Dis
patch. $15,000; Star, $5,000; Chronicle ,
$ 2 , 000 . __
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WILL TEST IT.
THE ACT RESTRICTING THE COINAGE OB
SILVER TO BE INVESTIGATED.
The Colorado Mining exchange, Mondaj al
Denver, adopted a resolution on
to investigate the constitutionality of the
act restricting the coinage of silver, and
appointing a committee of thiee, legal witj
authority to employ the necessary
counsel. The committee propose to visit
tho mint at Philadelphia with a hundred
ounces of silver and demand that it be
•oined into dollars. This being refused,
they will bring suit against the director
of the mint for damages, thus bringing
tfce subject to the atention of the United
Btates suorews court.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Chronometers of foreign make are no
longer purchased for the nary.
French metallurgists have made the
polariscope serve as a thermometer.
Mountain lakes have an ephemeral
existence. More than a hundred have
disappeared from the Tyrol during the
last century.
Among precious stones the ruby, the
topaz and the sapphire are composed
mainly of alumina, colored with differ
ent earthly and metallic salts.
An English gentleman has discovered
a method of preventing rabies in dogs.
Give them a vegetarian diet, with un
limited cherries and strawberries.
Dr. Schreibcr, a chemist of Cologne,
has discovered a new explosive “pe
tragit,” more powerful, safer to liaudlo
and less expensive than dynamite.
The successful use of a3besto3 as a
protection against the fierce heat of blaz-
4 ng gas suggests the employment of
suits of this material for firemen and
horses.
Hereafter tho boats to be carried by
Atlantic steamers instead of being made
of wood will be made of steel, in one
piece. Wooden boats rot and are easily
crushed. The new boats will be built
by machinery especiallly made for roll
ing them out in all sizes in a single
plate.
An extensive tract of country in the
Landes in France is now devoted to the
cultivation of pines, and large numbers
of young tree3 are annually shipped to
England to be converted into paper.
Immense quantities of older pines aro
sent over, too, for use in propping Eng
lish coal pits.
Colonel North’s railway from Iquiquo
to Pisanqua in the Chili niter district
is one of the most wonderful in the
world. It zigzags up and down the
Cordilleras in the solid rock for forty
eight miles. The engine drawing cars
on the road aro double-enders, exactly
alike at both ends, with two smoke
stacks and one cab.
Mr. L. S. Lake of Memphis, Tenn.,
has furnished the Department of Agri
culture at Washington with some sam
ples of cotton bagging made out of bear
grass. The Assistant Secretary of the
department, Prof. Willett, expresses
the opinion that bear grass will make
good bagging. The only difficulty in
the way i3 to secure a good decorticating
machine that will lessen tho cost of ma
nipulating.
AU the batteries for the new ships of
our navy are given a coat of bronze col
or as soon as mounted, the guns being a
bright steel color when received from
the proving grounds at Annapolis. It
was at one time the custom to carry
the heavy rifles brightly polished,
but it was found in service
that the glare from the pieces
greatlydisturbel the aim of tho gunner,
besides serving as a reflector to the rays
of the sun aud making known the lo
cality of tho guns.
Three Rude Scamps Well Answered.
Two or three idle young men were
lounging around a street corner the
other evening just as the down town
stores were sending home their employes.
“Let’s have some fun with llio girls,”
said the ringleader of the trio, “See
that girl in the front seat of the grip?
Let’s speak to her.” Then, as the car
stopped at the corner, tho impudent
fellow tipped his hat, with, “Why, how
do you do, Kitty Johnson!" “Why,”
says another, “if that isn’t Kitty John
son!’’ “How d’ye do, Kitty 1” said the
third. The young lady, a young, pretty,
ladylike girl was surprised and indig.
nanfc. Her face grew red and white by
turns. Most of tho passengers under
stood the situation. Finally, tho girl,
her eyes twinkling with merriment, and
conscious of the support of her fellow
passengers, answered in a clear, ringing
voice that every passenger could hear,
“Why, bow do you do, Tom, Dick and
Harry! When did you get out of jail?
Who went bail for you all?" The car
started up amid a storm of applause,
while the dudes on the coiner smiled
sickly grins at each other. — Chicago
Journal.
A Logical Mine.
“Oh, papa! how funny yea are still
alive,” said Master Tommy, aged five,
running up to tho bedside of his father,
who had been attacked by an epidemic
disease. “Why, there’s Mr. Smith,
next door, has just been buried, and he
was took sick a whole week before
vou.”
FISH HATCHERIES.
How the Government Fish Com
mission Does Its Work.
Sixteen Stations for Propagat
ing the Finny Beauties.
When the tourist, in the enjoyment
of his vacation, hooks a carp or trout
from the depths of some shady pond or
cocl mountain stream, or the purveyor
for hotel or household purchases a sup
ply of tempting fish from tho market,
very little, if any, thought is given to
what the government is doing, through
the Fish Commission, in aiding nature
in increasing tho ediblo fishes of the
country.
While a large amount of money is
spent by Congress annually in providing
for the work which is being done mil
lions of fish are annually hatched and
distributed in the public and private
waters of the country, In different
parts of the United States there are al
ready sixteen stations devoted to the
propagation of fish and five more are in
course of construction. From these
stations eighteen different species of
fish are hatched.
Tho principal fish, however are shad,
whitefish, lake trout, carp, salmon, and
several species of the salmon family.
Last year 101,994, 000 shad were dis
tributed to tho public waters of the
United States and 85,000,000 whitefish.
Codfish were hatched to the extent of
8,000,000 and pollock to the number of
7,000,000. There were also distribut
ed 50,190,000 wall-eye pike, over 170,
000 carp, and 159,803 trout of different
varieties.
“Where are the propagating stations
located?” Assistant Commissioner Rath
burn was asked.
“Of tho completed ones two aro in
Maine, one on Grand Lake stream in
eastern Maine, and tho other on Ciaig’s
Pond, East Oriand, Mo. They aro
both devoted to salmon, but of different
variety. Massachusetts has two, at
Gloucester, devoted to codfish, and at
Woods Holl, where attention is paid
to cod and lobster, but
where experiments have been made with
other species. Tho station at Cold
Spring Harbor belongs to New York,
but has largely assisted the United
States in propagating salmon for that
and bordering states. One of tho most
important shad stations is that at Bat
tery Island, at the head of Chesapeake
Bay, and four miles south of Havre de
Grace. At Fort Washington, down the
river, we have a station devoted to
catching shad eggs. These are sent to
the central statiqp on Armory square.
In the Monument reservation there is
also a pond devoted to tho cultivation
of carp and trout and gold fish to a
limited extent. The station at Wythc
ville, Va., like that in New York, is
owned by the State, but is operated for
the United Statc3 in tho propa
gation of salmon, black bass, perch
and carp. In the region of the Great
Lakes there aro three completed stations,
alL devoted to hatching the fresh water
whitefish. These aro at Sandusky,
Ohio, and Northvilla aud Alpena,
Mich. Oa the Pacific coast there are
two stations, one at Baird, Cal., and
the other at McLeod. The former is
devoted to propagating California sal
mon; the other to California or rainbow
trout. On tho east coast again the
steamer Fish Hawk serves as a floating
station for shad on the Delaware river,
the incompletcd stations aro five in
number and are on Like Erie, at Du
luth, Minn.; Leadville, Col.; Neosho,
Mo., and Clackamas river, Oregon."
‘ ‘IIow is the work of artificial hatch
ing done?”
“The eggs are secured by purchase
from the gill or seine fishermen along
tho banks of the stream every year.
These eggs are placed in glass jar3 con
taining about seven quarts each. Tbe
jars aro covered with metal tops,
through whi£h two tubes extend, one
reaching to tho bottom of the jar and
the other only part of the way below the
surface of the water. Through the
longer tube water is forced into the jar,
and the eggs are kept constantly in mo
tion. In this way they are hatched, and
the young fish passes through tho shorter
tube into a tank in which they can swim
about and from which they are after
ward taken and distributed. The hatch
ing season usually extends through May
and June. Hatching requires from
three to eight days.”
“Where are these fish sent?”
“Our report, I think, indicates that
they an distributed in every State
Territory in the United States. Th«
fish are received by private individuals
through their Congressman on applica
tion to us. The carp is very popular in
stocking still ponds. Over 135,00®
were sent out to private persons last
year. The fish is a very hardy one, and
In addition to growing very rapidly
lives largely without having to be fed.
it obtains its sustenance from worms,
larvae and plants. The cultivation of
the gold fish, which is only carried on
in a small way, only 9610 having been
propagated last year, was begun for the
supply of fountains aul public reserva
tions. A good deal has been done by
the Commission in establishing runs of
shad in sections where before they were
not to bo caught. These are in several
tributaries to the Mississippi and in the
waters of the Pacific, in Sac
ramento River, and in Puget
Sound. The whitefish thrive only in
fresh water. They aro taken from
Lakes Erie, Huron and Superior, and
aro sent to all the lakes, and also to
Oregon and Washington Territory. The
increase in the number of shad caught
since 1880 will give some idea of the
work the Commission is doing in in
creasing the supply of that most impor
tant of food fishes. In 1880 the catcli
of shad was 4,140,968. In 1888 it was
7,660,474, an increase in number
amounting to 3,519,506, equal to a
money value of $703,981. The Com
mission has accompli-bed a great deal,
too, in increasing the stock of codfish
and lobsters, both of which have been
on the decrease.”
Tlie Banshee of Ireland.
The single superstition of which every
one has heard, and which is almost uni
versal in Ireland, is of the banshee.
Bcan-sidhe is the Irish name for this
w r onderful creaturo, and it literally
means “the woman of tho fairy man
sions.” Her office is to announce
a coming death. For several nihgt*
she appears, sometimes as a radiant
maiden, sometime! as a decrepid old
woman with long flowing hair, and
wails her plaintive lamentations for tha
approaching death. If the death is to
occur by natural ailment, the “keening”
of the banshee is simply measured and
pathetic; but if accident or untoward
calamity are to be associated with it,
then her lamentations are loud and
clamorous. But she is easily disturbed
and vexed, and if ever frightened away,
will never return during tho same gener
ation. This would bo a calamity; for
while the Irish banshee favors no par
ticular c ars, caste or religion, she only
comes to families of long and respecta
ble line. She comes as a friendly spirit
to these, not as au inimical one, and to
be known as a family deserving and
possessing her pathetic guardianship, is
regarded as an honor of a very tender
and sacre l character. Many truly be
lieve the banshee to bo the spirit of soma
former member of the family. In Mun
ster there is a powerful queen of tho
banshee. Her name is Cliodhna or Cleena
and her powerful spells are well known
to tho peasantry of the south.
Transplanting Icelanders to Alaska.
Says the Chicago Trines: Among
persons of a scientific turn of mind a
certain project of inlernational impor
tance has been quietly discussed. It is
nothing more nor less than the trans
planting of tho entire population of Ice
land 75,003 souls, to the most habitable
part of Alaska. Many of them, it is
said, aro willing to move away to a more
genial climate or at least to a more fruit
ful territory. Their idea is not to go to
a region wholly different, where all the
conditions of life will bo reversed, but
to a land nearly in tho lattitude of Ice
land. The proposition is one of vast im
portance, as it involves the removal of
an entire people, and that of an old, re
nowned and cultivated people. It has
behind it strong influence in high quar
ters. Senator Platt of Connecticut it is
said, has agreed to defray tho expenses
of an Icelandic minister in making the
arrangements. The valuable wood
ed and fertile region on the
great Yakon river is sug
gested as the new habitat of the Ice
landers if the consent of tho parliament
of Iceland and of the Danish govern
ment can be obtained.
He Got His Load.
Brooks—I hear that you and the boys
were out hooking watermelons, Did
you get a good load?
Crooks—You just bet we did, Brooks;
and every bit of it was buckshot, too.