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VOL. li.
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
Tie Sews of tie World Condensed Into
Fitly and Pointed Paragraphs.
lute resting and Instructive to All
Classes of Headers.
Emperor William of German?, has
signed tho military bill.
The board of lady managers of the
World’s fair held a meeting in Chicago,
Tuesday.
Fresh cases of cholera continue to be
reported in Holland and in Marseilles,
though they are few.
Denver, Colorado, has been selected
n ‘? P^ ttce * or bolding the next gener
ai Episcopal convention.
The strikers at Homestead are rapidly
breaking ranks. Three steel workers
applied for work and were accepted Mon
day. f
The international geographical con
gress, held in connection with the Col
umbus exhibition, was opened in Mad
rid. Spain, Tuesday.
Military went into camp at Jackson
park, Chicago, Monday, preparatory to
the grand parade of the dedication exer
cises of the world’s fair.
The Wisconsin legislature met in spe
cial sessiou Monday to reapportion the
state, the last apportionment having been
declared unconstitutional.
Fifteeu buildings, dwellings or stores
were burned at Chicago Tuesday morn
ing. Two persons, at the least, lost
their lives during the conflagration.
The loss is SBO,OOO.
General Stockton, in New Yor'.c, on
Monday asked that a receiver he appoint
ed to take charge of the New Jersey Cen
tral and other roads formiug the coal com
bination. It is thought the prayer will
be granted.
A Washington dispatch says: The su
preme court, by Chief Justice Fuller,
Monday, sustained the constitutionality
of the Minor law providing for the elec
tion of presidential electors in Michigan
by congressional districts.
Fire Sunday morning in a frame tene
ment, No j . 14 to 20 Essex street, Jersey
City, N. J., spread to Heyniger’s carpen
ter shop, Brown & Miller’s Vulcan Iron
Works and Birdsall’s barber shop, caus
ing a loss ef $125,000; insured.
A Washington special of Monday tSys:
Cardinal Ilampelia, papal secretary of
state, has replied to Secretary Foster’s
letter, saying that his holiness, the pope,
will send the Columbus records, and rel
ics, under charge of Mousignor Francisco
Sat alii, to the world’s fair.
President E. Benjamin Andrews, of
Browne university, Providence, R. 1., has
been appointed by the president a dele
gate from the United States to the inter
national monetary congress, in the place
of President F. A. Walker, who was
compelled to decline his appointment.
A Philadelphia special of Tuesday
says: The stockholders of the Bristol,
Penn., rolling mills have decided to
make an assignment. The liabilities of
the company are about SIIO,OOO and the
assets are estimated at $70,000. It is
said anew company will soon be formed..
An Indianapolis dispatch of Monday
says: It is stated that in the event of
democratic success Governor Gray will
be Cleveland’s postmaster general. A
friend of the governor said he had re
ceived positive information that Cleve
land had tendered Gray the place if
elected.
There was a slight temporary improve
ment in Mrs. Harrison’s condition Mon
day and, while it is sadly realized that
this apparent improvement is temporary
only, it served to cheer the president’s
household for the day at least and the
general air of the mansion was iess dis
piriting than it has been for days past.
Judgement was entered against the
Bristol, Pa., rolling mill company Satur
day,* in favor of the Farmers’ national
bank. Other claims urged the mills sus
pended operations indefinitely at noon,
throwing 150 men out of work. The
mills formerly manufactured large quan
tities of cotton ties for southern mar
kets.
Five hundred Swedes wore made
American citizens in a bunch at Rockfork,
111., Friday. Headed by a band and the
stars and stripes, and each wearing a
small American flag on his breast, they
inarched through the streets to the court
house, where they took out their natural
ization papers. Most of them are emplv
ed in Rockford.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: The
Carnegie Steel Company, limited, issued
a circular Tuesday announcing the resig
nation of John A. Potter, as general su
perintendent of the Homestead mills,
and his appointment as chief mechanical
engineer. Chas. ,M. Schwab, general
superintendent Edgar Tompson, plant,
will succeed Potter at Homestead.
At the close of the speaking at a po
litical rally at St. Louis, Saturday night,
fourteen persons were hurt, two fatally,
by the explosion of a sky rocket during
the fireworks display. Michael liatch
ford, a candidate for the legislature, was
struck in the right eye by a flying mis
sile and is fatally hurt. Fritz Marquart
had his skull fractured and will die.
Monday anew system of postal deliv
ery was inaugurated in £t. Louis. The
St. Louis and Suburban Street railway
line will run a regular mail car from its
eastern terminus to Cabauoro. The car
is fitted up with mail racks, and is con
structed especially for the service re
quired. It will deliver the mail at the
sub-stations on its lines. The system
will be extended to other street railway
lines going to *’th e suburbs.
State of id tie letol
While a performance was in progress
in the opera house at Buda Pesth, Friday
night, a woman in the gallery became
suddenly ill. The attention of the audi
ence was attracted by her moans and
struggles. It was discovered that she
had been attacked with cholera. In a
very short time audience was in an
uproar. They arose from their seats en
musse an 1 u panic ousueu. In the mail
ccrymble to escape many persons were
badly bruised. It was some time before
the woman was removed to the hospital.
Two boilers in the rolling mill of the
Burgess Steel and Iron works at Ports
mouth, 0., exploded Friday morning.
The building was completely wrecked.
Richard Fleming, fireman, was killed out
right ; George Bressler, aud employe, had
h.s buk broke i and his skull crushed,
and lias since died. Twelve others are
seriously aud some probably fatally in
jured. A score are more or less injured.
The shock shook the city and many win
dows were broken. At the time4oo men
were at work in the mill and mammoth
rolls were thrown twenty feet from the
foundations. The boilers were said to
be old and very much patched up. The
loss is estimated at SIO,OOO.
REID’S ACCEPTANCE
Of the Republican Vice-Presidential
Aiominat.oii.
A special from New York says:
Whitelaw Reid’s letter of acceptance,
addressed to the chairman of the repub
lican notification committee, was made
public Tuesday night. It is about five
thousand words in length. He begins
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by saying “When the nomination with
which the national convention has hon
ored me, was formally announced by
your committee, I accepted it at once.
In doing so I accepted also the principles
set forth in the resolutions adopted by
the convention ns the basis of my ap
peal to popular suffrage. To do other
or less than this is, to any honorable
man, an impossibility. A political party
is an association of citizens seeking to
have the government conducted in ac
cordance with its views and presenting
candidates whom it strives to elect for
that purpose. To accept its nomination
without intending to carry out its princi
ples would be as dishonorable and as
criminal as to procure goods under false
pretenses.
“There will be no misunderstanding as
to the purposes of the republican party
in this contest, and no doubt as to the
attitude of its candidates. What it in
tended has been set forth in language
that cannot be mistaken, and they will
strive by all lawful means in their power
to enforce its plainly expressed will.”
He points to the tariff and currency
questions os the vital ones in this cam
paign , On the former question he uses
the republican argument that the
democrats favor free trade. lie quotes
Commissioner Peck’s report at some
length, and he dwells at some length up
on the reciprocity features of the republi
can platform. On the subject of cur
rency he says: “The lamented Garfield
proudly claimed in 1880 that our
paper currency is now as national as the
flag; the purpose ol our opponents is to
sectionalize it again.” He dwells on
this us a “time of great prosperity and
general contentment," Of the force
bill question he says, “The clamor
against this principle, if it means any
thing, meaus a purpose to nullify the
fourteenth article of the constitution.”
MRS. LEASE TALKS.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean Has a Three
Column Interview With her.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean of Monday
morning publishes a three-column inter
view with Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the Kan
sas orator and third party organizer, in
which she gives her experience during
her late trip through the south. She
thinks General Weaver did as well as
any one could under the circumstances,
but she asserts that she does not like
Weaver to try to belittle the course of
the southerners. She says the outrages
were not committed by the yiung men
and boys, but in many instances promi
nent menwere leaders in the disturbances;
in somo cases organized party clubs; that
instead of one egg being thrown at them
there were a great many eggs thrown,
and Qot by boys either. She declares
the indignities offered General Weaver
and party were not because of anything
he said or had done, but because he was
advocating the cause of the party that
was threatening the local success of the
democratic party. She says she found
sectional feeling as “violent as ever the
republicans had depicted it.” She
stands by her party, but says that if the
vote for Weaver is to elect Cleveland it
ought not to be given.
WATTERSON ACCEPTS
The Invitation to Deliver the Dedicato
ry Oration at the World’s Fair;
A Chicago dispatch of Friday says:
Since Senator Daniel, of Virginia, has
declined to t-peak on dedication day in
tfcß place of Mr. Breckenridge, it is more
than possible that Henry Watterson will
be offered the place. President Palmer
said that he was going to have a meet
ing of the board of control at once to
have the matter brought up. The pres
ident declared that it would be a good
thing to have Mr. Watterson speak and
he was heartily in favor of the plan.
Other world’s fair authorities expressed
themselves as much in favor of inviting
Mr. Watterson and it is probable that
this will be done.
WATTERSON ACCEPTS.
A later dispatch from Louisville, Ivy.,
says: Henry Watterson, editor of the
Courier-Journal, has accepted an invita
tion to deliver the dedicatory address at
the world’s fair.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21,1892.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
Notes cl Her Process aud Prosperity
Briefly Epitomizei!
And Important Hiippeniqgs from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch sa3s: Forty
thousand dol'ars’ worth of line horses
were killed in a .freight wreck Sunday.
The horses were on their way to Dallas
to run at the fair track.
Hon. Joseph B. Davis, a prominent
resident of Henrico county, Virginia,
died Sunday. He was an ex-member of
the legislature and nephew of ex-United
States Senator Davis of West Virginia.
Joe Shelly arrived in Gslveston, Texas,
Saturday, on a Mallory liner from Key
West, with Encaria Garcia,' brother of
Catarina Garcia, the Mexican revolution
ist . Encaria, at Key West, became pres
ident of the Donata Maramal revolution
ists, formed to invade Cuba.
At a meeting of thq stockholders of
the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas
railroad held at Memphis, Teun., Mon
day, the president and were re
quested to carry out the proposed arti
cles of consideration between Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley and Louisville,
New* Orleans and Texas.
A Chattanooga, Tenn. special says:
The So ldy coal mines, the most exten
sive in this sectiou, changed hands
day. Captain IT. J. Chamberlain and D.
P. Montague, local capitalists, succeed
AI. 11. and J. VV. Clift, as lessees, the
former purchasing outright, the latter.
The new men propose expendiug $40,-
000 in improvements and running the
mines to their fullest capacity.
A special of-Friday from Covington,
Va., says Keadle and the two Birchfields,
members of the Hartfield-McCoy gang,
who, on October 4th, ambushed and kill
ed a farmer,named Meadows and one of
his sons, near the West Virginia line,
have been arrested and are now in jail
through strategy of a detective named
Wm. Napier, alias “Kentucky. Bill.”
They were captured without bloodshed .
Late Saturday evening a petition was
filed in the office of the clerk of the su
perior court at Macon, Ga., asking for
the foreclosure of the mortgage of the
Georgia Southern nnd Florida railroad,
and au immediate sale of .the property
fii# tile'benefit of the bondholders. The
paper is filed by counsel representing the
Mercantile Trust and Deposit company of
Baltimore, trustee for the bondholders of
the road.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of Monday
says: A party ef revenue officers made a
raid it. Cleveland county Saturday and
cut up six illicit stills. They set ljre to
)ho stil’houses and from the burning
houses the fire spread to the woods and
swi pt over the extensive South moun
tain section. The entire population had
to turn out to save their homes and crops
and were kept busy day aud night fight
ing fire.
A Memphis, Tenn., Tues
day says: The trustees hav*' ~
buru Giu and Machine
ing grounds, machinery and buildnT*JL
for $158,000 to satisfy a mortgage to SJF
cure the pnymeut of $147,000 bonds, tlm
outstanding interest having been de
faulted for the past eighteen
The plant was purchased by J. W. Alli
son, president of the Tennessee Cotton
Seed Oil company.
At noon Tuesday seventy-five pounds
of dynamite exploded on a government
dredge boat on the Tennessee river, six
miles from Chattanooga. Charles S.
Senno, a laborer, had his head blown off
aud Sharp and Thompson, laborers
were seriously injured. The
deck was torn off and the boat sank.
The explosives had been placed ready for
use with caps and fuzes attached and be
came ignited by a spark from the engine.
A Norfolk dispatch says: A tremend
ous sensation was created in the second
congressional district of Virginia, Mon
day evening by the announcement that
George E. Bowden, who had served the
district for two terms in congress, and
who had been regularly nominated by the
republican party convention, had with
drawn from the contest. This action of
Bowden was the result of a decision re
cently reached by the national republican
congressional committee, through the ef
forts of Mahone.
Fire at West Point, Miss., Saturday
morning destroyed the finest block in
the city; loss, $70,000; insurance half;
including the following: C. C. Ellis,
confectionery; A. H. Fox, groceries; a
dozen offices occupied by lawyers, doc
tois and dentists, MaSouic hall, Young
Men’s Christian Association gymnasium
Carpenter’s livery stable, including a
large amount of stock, Methodist church,
Knights of Honor hall, Forum of
fices, Knights of Pvthias building,
Chandler building and Leader office.
Henry T. Huffman, of Bullock county,
filed late Saturday afternoon, before
Judge John Bruce, of the United States
district court, at Huntsville, Ala., a pe
tition for a writ of mandamus against
Probate Judge Frazier and the circuit
court clerk of Bullock to compel them to
vacate certain appointments of United
States election inspectors made by them
iu said county. The petition alleges
that in many instances the people’s par
ty had no representative;- while in other
precincts all three of the inspectors are
democrats.
A NAUTICAL VIEW.
Mamma—Don’t you know that your
father is the mainstay of the family?*
Freddy—Golly, ain't he though; and
the spanker, too.—[Brooklyn Life.
RALEIGH’S CENTENNIAL.
he Gala Week Opened With a Grand
Parade.
Balc.gh, N. C., wus oue hundred years
old Tuesday, and celebrated her centen
nial by the most elaborate street pageant 1
ever seen in North Carolina. •
More than a thousand people took part
bi the parade aud over twenty thousand
spectators witnessed it. Oldest inhab
itants, floats, etc. made up the nroces
sjon.
There were thirteen divisions in the
procession, of which Jonn AI. Heck was
chief marshal.
A leaiure of the procession was the
i: st engine run on the Raleigh and Gas
ton railway in 1840. On the engine
Albert JohnstoD, the oldest living
locomotive engineer, and Reuben Cole,
a negro fireman who served on the en
gine.
Raleigh's history.
The city was laid off during the spring
fled summer of 1792. During the previous
years from 1720 the seat of government
had been at more than thirty different
points. In 1788 a convention ordered
that the Capitol should be located at a
pi iiit “within ten miles of the plantation
o' which Isaac Hunter now resides, in
the county of Wake.”
This decision was not made without a
contest, for there was a tie on the ques
tii aof whether the capitol should be
wLere Raleigh, now is or the town of Hay
wood, Chatham county, whicu the speak
er broke by voting for Raleigh. In
171)1 the legislature ratified the ordinance
of the convention. There were purchas
ed April sth. 1702, four hundred acres of
land, and the plan of the city wai laid
out, embracing five public squares and
two hundred aud seventy-six lots. By
the sale of the lots the sum of $50,000
waa raised and with this the capitol was
erected. It was first occupied in 1794.
It was a large and uncouth structure and
thirty years later was greatly improved.
In 1824 the famous statue of Washing
ton by Cauvora was placed in its rotunda,
which LaFayettc viewed with delight
during his visit here the following year.
In 1709 tti6 supreme court was establish
ed, in 1802 the first house for the gov
ernor was built and he was required to
live here. In 1822 there werefbut four
brick buildings inside the c irporatiou,
the governor’s “palace,” built in 1813,
being outside the boundary. The place
had only 976 inhabitants in 1810,
(he of the early occurences of! grea
not ' was the attempt to move the capit
toi by persons concerned in vast frauds
in the sales of public lands in Tennessee
—at the time when that state was part
of North Carolina. In 1798 a messenger
from Tennessee brought news of this
plan to the governor and for months a
heavy guard was kept around the build
ing. But in that same year A negro ser
vant of one of the was
caught afrerWe had capitol
at night anystolen mthe laud rec
ords. He ’las hanged and the next year,
tried for these frauds and convicted.
In 1831 the old capitql was burned
and in 1833 tne cornerstone of the pres
ent one was laid. When completed it
was the handsomest building of a public
character in the United States. It was
many coirs later that other
buildings were added. Now, in
threat semi- circle, there are the insane
asylum, penitentiary, agricultural and
mechanical college, state fair grounds*
experiment farm, two institutions for
deaf mutes and the blind and the Con
federate soldiers’ home, while near the
capitol building are the supreme court
and state library, the agricultural build
ing aud the executive mansion, mine of
these being uotable structures, particu
larly the asylum and the penitentiary.
The city’s industrial growth dates from
about 1866 and the population has quad
rupled since 1860 and now amounts to
17,000.'
TELEGRAPHERS ORDERED OUT
But the Order was a Forgery and They
Return to Their Keys.
A Topeka, Kan., dispatch says: All
the telegraph operatois on the Santa Fee
system, about nine hundred in all, struck
Monday morning in response to an order
from Chief Ramsey, of the order of Rail
way Telegraphers. The trouble is on the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad in
Texas, which is operated by the Santa
Fe. The operators of the Texas line,
several hundred, have had a schedule of
increased wages before the officials, but
the new schedule has not been allowed.
The Santa Fe operators have struck in
sympathy with the Texas operators. No
trains are moving in Texas. Train dis
patchers on the Santa Fe proper are tak
ing stock trains in transit to division
points when they will leave their keys
also.
IT WAS A FORGERY.
A later dispatch e ys: the great strike
of telegraphers of the Santa Fe railway
system was the result of a hoax. The
operators were informed by Chief Ram
say of their order at 9 o’clock Mouday
night that the order directing them to
strike was a forgery and instructed them
to return at once to their positious. Jhe
operators immediately on receiving the
order returned to their keys.
Troops for Coffeyville.
A Topeka, Kan., special of Tuesday
says: Governor Humphrey has sent a
letter to Major-General Miles, at Chicago,
requesting a company of United States
cavalry to be sent to the southern Kansas
border for the protection of citizens from
the remnant of the Dalton gaiig. Ap
plication is made on a petition from the
mayor and council of Coffeyville that ru
mors are now circulating of another at
tack on the town by friends of the des
peradoes.
THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
Interesting Statistics Seat Oat liy tbs
Censns Bum
Georgia Leads in Cotton Manufactar
ing in the Southern States.
The census bureau at Washington is
sued a bulletin Friday on the cotton in
dustry of the United States. The
growth of the cotton manufacturing in
dustry of Jthe United States, says the
bulletin, has been constant. One of the
most gratifying features of the situation
is the extension of this industry in the
south, where a marked addition is shown
in the number i*f cotton mills established
aud successfully operated. The magni
tude of this movement is demonstrated
by the fact that the consumption of raw
cotton in the southern states in 1890 ex
ceeded that of 1880 by 166,308,899
pounds, whlie in New England, the
chief seat of this manufacture, the ex
cess of consumption in 1890 over that of
1880 was only 173,714,834 pounds.
Nevertheless, the development of cot
ton manufacture throughout the country,
measured by any test, wa3 large and
healthy. The tables given do not in
clude returns of special mills employed
in working raw cotton, waste or yarn
into hose, webbing, tapes, mixed goods
or fabrics, which are not classed as spe
cific manufactures of cotton.
A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
- The generul facts attending the in
crease are shown in the following com
parative statement: Number of estab
lishments reported iu 1890, 904; in 1880,
756; percentage of increase 19.58. Cap
ital invested in 1890, $354,020,843; in
1880, $208,280,346; percentage of in
crease 09.97. Employes, including of
ficers and clerks in *IB9O, 221,585; in
1880, 174,659; increase 20.87. Wages
paid in 1890 to operatives, $06,024,538;
in 1880, $42,040,510; increase, 57.05.
Wages paid officers and clerks in 1890,
$3,464,743. Miscellaneous expenses
$17,936,135. No comparisonsup on
the last two items. The cost of ma
terials used in 1890, $154,593,368; in
1880, $102,206,347; increase, 51.26.
Vaiue of the product in 1890, $267,981,-
'724; in 1880, $192,090,110; increase,
39.51. Number of spindles iu 1890, 14,-
j)58,103- Vi in increase
32 24. Number' of'looms in 1890. 5&4,-
806; in 1880, 225,759; increase, 43.90.
Pounds of raw cotton used in 1890,
1,117,945,776; in 1880, 750,343,981; in
crease, 48.99 per cent.
The public is cautioned, however,
touching certain items that more
thorough inquiries employed at the pres
ent census will cause the increase to ap
pear greater thau it really is. Especially
is this the case in regard to wages, which
have increased 57.05 per cent, while the
number of hands employed has increased
26.85 per cent. In both instances the
number of and amount |paid to officers
and clerks are excluded. When com
pared with all hands employed, not in
cluding officers 'and clerks, it will be
seen that the annual earnings in 1890
were $301.65 as against $243,65 in|lßßo,an
increase of SSB a year, 0r23.80 percent.
There has undoubtedly been a positive
increase in these earnings during the de
cade. The increase in wages may not
have been so great as indicated by this
comparison, as the excess of increase in
the number of operatives between 1880
aud 1890 was iu a large measure in the
class earning the highest rate of wages,
namely men, while the number of child
ren employed has hapily decreased.
IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
In the southern states the number of es
tablishments reporting was, in 1890, 239;
in 1880, 161. The capital invested in
1890, $53,827,303; in 1880, $17,375,897.
Number of hands employed in 1890, 37,-
168; in 1880, 16,741. Wages paid in
1890. $7,817,060; in $2,750,986. Cost
of materials in 1890, $27,703,357; in
1880, $9,999.145. Value of products in
1890, $41,513,711; in 1880, $16,356,508.
Number of spindles in 1890, 1,554,000;
in 1880, 542,048. Looms in 1890, 36,-
266; in 1880, 11,898. Bales of cotton
used in 1890. 523,818; in 1880, 182,349.
stands first in these statistics,
reporting in 1890 fifty-three establish
ments, in 1880, forty. Capital in 1890,
$17,664,675; in 1880. 6,348,657. Em
ployes in 1890, 10,530; in 1880, 6,349.
Bales of cotton used in 1890, 145,859;
in 1880, 71,389.
South Carolina stands second with
thirty-four establishments in 1890 against
fourteen in 1880, and $11,141,836 capi
tal In 1890 against $2,855,800 in 1880.
Bales of cotton used in 1890 33,342,
against 33,624, Employes 8,192 against
2,053.
North Carolina stands third in capital,
the number of bales used and value of
products being but a little behind South
Carolina; but she reports ninety-one es
tablishments in 1890 employing 8,742
hands against forty-nine establishments
and 3,343 hands in 1880.
Teunessee’s Exhibit.
A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says:
The schooner Mary, Captain Betles, car
rying Tennessee’s exhibits for the
world’s fair, arrived in the port Thurs
day evening. The craft was loaded
with the products of East Tennessee, in
cluding gold, silver, copper, zinc, fif
teen kinds of marble, onyx and relics
from Tennessee battle fields. The boat
was built at the city of Clinton, on the
Clinch river, and came down the Ten
nessee river to Missssippi, then up to
Illinois and to the cannal, a voyage of
2,000 miles. 1,800 miles of it made by
saiL
FAVORABLE BUSINESS REPORT
Issued by Dun’s Mercantile Agency for
the Past Week,
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly*report says:
Once more it must be said that trada in
dications are entirely favorable. Even
the shrinkage in exports ha* ceased, an
increase of $1,500,000 appearing in New
York last week, while imports continue
surprisingly large, and foreign exchange
declines. Government crop reports for
October Ist were, on the whole, much
more favorablo than was expected, and
the markets disclosed the public belief
that the facts are more favorable than the
government estimates. Trade through
out the country is somewhat larger than
a year ago, although the situation was
then exceptionally favorable, and in all
the great branches of manufacturing
there is extraordinary activity.
Money is in great demand at almost aii
commercial centers, but there is seen no
where any stringency, the supply being
ample for legitimate business, and collec
tions, as a rule, ara exceptionally good.
At Philadelphia the iron market de
cidedly improves and good orders for the
npring trade are reported in dry goods,
while the wool market continues active.
REPORTS FROM BUSINESS CENTERS.
At Baltimore the infrequency of south
ern failures is gratifying. Collections are
more satisfactory and trade in some lines
show a material increase. Pittsburg re
ports a stiffej market for pig iron and
a good demand for manufactured pro
ducts, with improving prospects iu the
glass business, window glass being more
active. Trade is remarkably strong at
Bt. Louis, the com crop proving larger
than anticipated. Business at Nashville
is improving, but at Little Rock is still
dull, though in dry goods better. At
New Orleans business is active, with
brighter and money in large
demand, but a sufficient supply. Cotton,
since a week up, is an eighth lower,
with sales of more than one million
bales for the week.
THE IRON MARKET.
The iron output October Ist 158,027
tons weekly against 151,648 tons, Sep
tember Ist ana it is especially encourag
ing that stocks on hand decreased 85,234
tons during Septenffier. The demand
for pig iron is improving and a general
advance of about 50 cents per ton is re
ported for pig with liberal buying,
while the trade in plates is very satisfac
tory. Bar iron is somewhat better and
structural mills are full of orders.
The coicon and woo/en mills are fully
employed and many of them cannot fill
their orders, though running their ma
chinery night and day. Sales of wool
this year, at three chief markets, have
been 247,000,000 pounds against 194,-
000,000 to same date last year.
The market for dry goods continues en-
couraging, agents having started vigorus
ly in the spring trade and the demand
for spring samples of men’s goods being
urgerit. Trade in blankets was excep
tionally large in September and the lower
grade cannot be supplied fast enough.
Strong buying is seen in cotton and some
makes are largely oversold.
Boot and shoe manufactur i3 equally
busy and shipments from Boston, accord
ing to the Shoe and Leather Reporter,
are 83,000 cases for the week against 64,-
000 last week.
Business failures occuring throughout
the country during the week number fo
the United States 180, to corresponding
week last year 227.
COFFEYVILLE AGAIN EXCITED.
A Report that Followers of the Dalton
Gang will Attack the Place.
Mayor Gregory, of Parsons, Kansas, at
10:30 o’clock Thursday morning, receiv
ed a dispatch from Coffeyville, Kans.,
the scene of the last raid J>y the Dalton
gang, stating that an attack was about
to be made on the town by the remainder
of the gang and asking for assistance.
A large number of citizens were notified
of the receipt of the Coffeyville appeal
and some two hundred volunteered to
form a posse to reinforce the people of
the threatened town. Officials of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway, the
headquarters of which are located at
Parsous, tendered the free use of a special
train and a start was about to be made
when anothet dispatch from Coffeyville
was received stating that.the number of
the attacking party was smaller than had
been previously supposed, and the police
of the town would receive that alone.
The posse then disbanded.
The first message received stated that
it was reported at Coffeyville that friends
of the dead Daltons had been gathering
for several days in the Indian country
south of that town, the object being to
rouse a sufficient force to attack the
town and secure revenge for the killing
of their brother bandits. It is
known that the Daltons had a
numerous following in the territory
among the desperadoes of that country
and it is believed that they are desperate
enough'characters to attempt the bold un
dertaking. It is rumored also that it
was they who held up the Missouri Pa
cific express near Caney, while they were
marching upon Coffeyville as a sort of
diversion.
A Mexican Railroad Strike.
Advices received at San Antonio,Texas,
Tuesday, say that the Mexican Central
railroad is threatened to be tied up with
a strike. Three days ago the American
machinists employed in the shops in the
Citv of Mexico went out on a strike for
an increase of 60 cents per day in wages,
the present rate being $4 per day. At
the shops at San Luis Potosi the men
have walked out. The engineers and
firemen are expected to quit work if the
machinists’ demands are not granted.
NO. 33.