The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-08-05
Telegraphic News.
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New Orleans, August 1.-Flonr
frmer: superfine 50; double extra
s6 % and treble extra S7@7 80.
Corn quiet; yellow 70074; white
7367Sc. Oats steady at 5405Sc.
Hay firm at s32. Pork dull and
lower, nominally at S15015 %.
Racon flat-sides 93010; rib Ola
%; shoulders 73S7sc. Lard in
active-tierce held at 10O115.
Sugar 1240121; whisky quiet at
99SsI OF. Gold 12s. Cotton fir
mer, sales 1900 bales good ordina-
nv at 640163c; low middling, III
6l7ac; middling nominal. Re
ceipts 452 bales; exports none;
stock 1878 bales.
st. Louis, August Cotton
dull and nominal. Middling 100
1919; -four in fair demand, chiefly
for Low and middling grades. Su-
perine s4.2504.50; double extra
S5to5 90. Wheat dull. Corn
dull, unsettled and lower, 40to42c.
Whisky 94c. Pork S14. Bacon
dull and dropping shoulders 62to
&c; sides, rib, SIC; clear sides 81
to9c; lard dull at 103c.
New York, August Flour
steady; wheat dull; corn heavy;
pork dull; mess S13 50to75; lard
quiet. cotton quiet, middling up
lands 192d; Orleans POI. Sales
5000 bales. Gold steady 12s.
Liverpool, August 1.-noon-
Cotton opened quiet; uplands 81;
Orleans 81. Sales 5000 bales.
New York, August 1.-The Sun
says the Spanish under Polenica
were completely defeated by Que
sada few days after landing,
with go killed aud 800 wounded.
Boston, August 1.-The mail
steamer Delta from Bermuda fol
Point q Petrea, Guadalupe, says
that nearly the whole town burn
ed. Thirty thousand people with
out shelter. The sugar ready fol
shipping was destroyed. The town
was rebuilt entirely of wood after
its destruction by earthquake il
1913. Supposed the work of al
incendiary.
Washington, August Mis-:
Phoebe Carey sister of Alice-is
dead.
New York, July 31.--The Sta
ten Island ferryboat Westfeld
crowded with passengers, explod
ed her boiler today in the slip a
Whitehall street. The concussiol
was terrific, SCATTERING the fol
ward part Of the boat and killing
a great number of the people.
New York, July 31.-The West
field was leaving the slip, foot o
Whitehall street, when she ex
ploded. About three hundre'
usual Sundy excursionists wer
aboard. A yawning abyss extend
ed from aloft the engineers rooI
to the stern deck. Dead aud dy
ing in every direction; among tin
bers aud machinery.
The whole upper works wer
shirered into thousands of pieces
Many were blown into the waite
and hauled out by boatmen wit
hooks. a large party are drag
ging the river, constantly bring
ing up dead bodies.
Men, women and children ar
brought in scorched, bruised an
mutilated. Col. Maurchie, forme
partner Of GrribaIdi, badly scalC
ed. A large number of person
fell into the river and were drown
ed. The entire number lost SUI
posed to be about 150.
London, July 30.-John Slide
is dead. az
Navasota, Texas, July %
construction train bound mort
this evening. nine cars and eigl
teen laborers were precIpitate,
into Navasota river. The derric
of the wreckirg car striking tn
lateral brases and rods of tn
bridge caused the accident. tn
supersrructure and first spar wer
carried away and the SECOND
third and fourth spars went
the bottom. Cars and engine
mass Of ruins. Five killed il
stautly and two fatally injured
twelve more less injured. On
man was thrown twenty feet i
AIR and instantly killed.
Wilmington, July 29.-A blood
not occurred at Goldsboro, TO-DAY
Five hundred negroes arrive
there from Newberne and the low
or counties on tie Executive Stat
Commlttee to attend mass NEE