New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-27
HOT AT ST. LOUIS AND MEMPHIS
FATAL CASES OF sUNsrRoKE
A MEMPHIS COAL DEALER DEAF
DEATH IN A DENTISTS CHAIR
NEW YORK.

Fire in a Bonded WHrehOuse-ImpOrters
Loss n Quarter of NiIIion-ThC
Straight Outs-Charles O'COnOr Re.
fuses His Name-Straight Out Demo.
crats-Trip on a WheTry-A London
Bankrupt Arrested In New York.
| New YORK, August GA fire occurred
! this morning in the United States bonded
warehouse of Charles Herst, No So Wash.
| ingtOn street. The loss, which falls prin.
| cipally on importers of liquors, will amount
to fully $25O,000. The origin of the fire was
| accidental.
! Arrived-Eevada. Arrived out-Minne-
| sofa and Hammonia.
| The Herald says editOrially: at is re-
| ported on good authority that Mr.. Charles
| O'COnOr has addressed a letter to the
| Louisville convention of straight-Outs, pro.
| hibiting the use of his name by them for
! presidential or, any other office Mr.
! OCOuOr states that the fee simple of the
world would not induce him to accept the
! nomination
The SIM says Charles O'COnOr, in an in
| terview with James McKenna, who asked
| him if he would become the candidate of
| the Democrats and Liberals fm Governor
of the State said he did not seek the nomi-
nation, but if nominated would accept
A number OF straight out Democrats in
! cluding Senator Stockton, of New Jersey
Henry Thompson, of Pennsylvania, j. r.
| Gilbert, of Kentucky, Wilson II. Curtis
! of Ohio, and Henry williamson, of Mary
land, met at Long Branch to-day to hear
| the report of the executive committee an
| Ointed by the conference held at Long
Branch last June.
After reading long report speech by
Chairman Gilbert and the passage of a So
| ries of resolutions, the following gentlemen
were appointed delegates to the Louisville
convention with instructions to support
Charles OCOnOr as the nominee for the
Presidency: Horace Black, of Delaware:
Henry Williamson, Robert Preston and
Edgar JerrOld, of Maryland; Henry ThOmp-
son and John Applegate, of Pennsylvania;
Richard henderson, of West Virginia; VIII
son Perry, of New Jersey; j. r. Gilbert, of
Kentucky; Rufus Rogers and Theobald
Davis, of Ohio, and Charles Martin, George
Gulden and James O'Brien, of New York
Arthur Stevenson, who started from
Gloucester, Massachusetts,, to row to this
city in a wherry, reached here safely last
Thursday evening. He had to lie
four days windbOund on the passage, and
in rounding Cape Cod rowed thTty-six
hours COnsecutively'
Deputy Sheriff Reese to-day arrested
William Tucker Bond, a London, England,
bankrupt, charged with abscORding with
$4,000 worth of wines and liquors, with in
tentiOn 0fdefrauding his creditors. He was
uelu III p<OUUU Ohtl.
Money closed at to for call loans with
closing business at 5. Time loans are Z,
gold, bid for balance of the year on divi-
dend paying stocks and commission on other
shares. Gold loans quoted at 3s to 7s per
cent for thirty days. Exchange was frmer
in the morning and prime bankers advanced
their rates to ga.
This advance was based on a decline in
gold and ease in cash gold early in the
d ~, but later, when gold was worth
from "a a 19 for borrowing, the market be-
came unsettled. Actual business to day
was at 9. Gold active to day, with fre-
quent fluctuations. 1t opened at 1928; de-
'clined to 1928; afterward advanced to
1929, closing with business at 1928.
Money 406. Sterling higher, 9. Gold
0ll29s. Governments closed dull. Skies
of 1881 Il6; five-twenties of 1862 ia; 1864,
ia; 1865, ll412; new lI3; 1867, Il324; 1863
ll313 new fves ll2h; ten-forties Ill17
Tennessees, old AZ, new 1874; Virginias, old
48, new 5024, cOnsols 81, deferred l512;
LOuisianas, old 49, new As; levee skies
go, eights 20; Alabama eights 3d. ives So;
Georgia skies 20, sevens IS; North CarOlinas
old 1924, new 20, special tax l3: South Caro-
linas 50; new 25, April and October 23