Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-04
French Campaign in Tunis.
MASSACRE AND NCENDIARISM BY TUNIs INsuR-
GENTS.

MASSACkE AND INCENDIARISM BY TUNIS INSUR-
GENTS
LONDON: October "A Paris dispatch to
Reuters Telegram Company says: Gen
eral Fare, minister of war, has
received telegrams confirming the report of the
burning of the railway station at Wadzergha
and the massacreing of a number Of employees.
including several British subjects by the insur-
gents in Tunis. The French troops afterwards
repaired the railway which had been torn up"
A Tunis dispatch to the Times says:-..The at
tack Oh ttAe-ralway station was made 10y the
Arabs who recently attacked Ali Bey. Wadzer-
CHA is the sixth station on the French rail-
way, sixty miles from Tunis. The Arabs
threw the rails into the river. The station
master. who was an ex-lieutenant in the French
army and chevaer of the Legion of Honor
was burned alive, and ten employees, mostly
Maltese and Italians, were massacred. NJ.
ROustan, French minister at Tunis. inv ted the
English and Italian cOnsuls TO assist at an
official inquiry into the disaster. Tie English
and Italian consuls, clerks, doctors etc. have
accordingly gone to WadZergila for that pur-
pose. Six hundred French troops went there
on the 30th ult., but the Arabs disappeared long
before their arrival Tie massacre
was undoubtedly caused by the wholesale
destruction Of olive forests. villa -eS and vine
yards which Gen. Sabater considered necessary
around Zaghouan. The Tunisan authorities are
evidently trying to screen the Arabs accused of
numbering the Maltese and Italians. No arrests
have yet been reported. The Tebessa column
Of French troops have already entered the
regency and captured Gafsa after a severe battle
with the Djerid Arabs. Ali Bey sent messen-
ger stating that he is not able to hold out any
longer and demanding French escort to effect
critical, mutiny having broken out in his camp.
The Markets.
BALTIMORE. October 4.-virginia 4. ss. consols.
81; do. past due coupons, s25s; do. new ten
ding. nkalIX. Flour higher and strong for
westean-Howard street and western super. s. 5Oa
$50; do. extra 675a7 Is; do family. 74Oas25 city
s25as 50 do. Rio brands, sOOaS25 Patapsco family,
$40. Wheat. southern higher; western easier,
s@be4 sDs,ae So Mastere red DO
and md October. 15OHal.5OH; November. i54ka
sInx a;5ax; December, I:5s'lal.5sI. Corn, southern
yellow. Is; western mixed. spot and October,
s5ha.5H; November. 77asa77x: December. s0a
er1 white, 5la5s; do mixed, 4sNa5l; Pennsylvania.
5la53: Rye quiet, Ll3aI.i4. Hay unchanged.
Prov1slons unchanged and firm. Butter firm
dull and unchanged. Cofiee dnll"Rio cargoes.
ordinary ord to fair, skaliA. Sugar firm-A soft.
pool per steamer unchanged. Receipts-aour.
1867 barrels; wheat, &C. 133 bushels; corn, Hs7i
ments-wheat is, 600 bushels; corn. 6sis bushels.
SalesIwheat. 566.425 bushels corn, I2sa5s
. NEW YORK. October 4.-stocks weak. Money
4a6. Exchange-long. 40; short, 4SA<. Stale
bonds Inactive. Governments weak Cotton
NEW YORK, October 4.-Flour steady and
quleI wheat opened a4al Il lower: decline after |
wards nearly recovered. Corn \ az cents lower |
ana more active. Pork firm and quiet, 1a.s7H. /
ESQ; Freights steady
30 LONDON, October L. 1890 p. m.-Consols, |
W ll-l6 for both money and the account. Erie
46S. Reading, 37H. New York, Ontario and /
Western, 33k. Milwaukee and st. Paul common, /
NEW YORK MARKETS THIS AFTERNOON
The following quotations were current in New
York to-day at 2:3O p.m.. as reported by H. H.
Dodge of $50 18th street. by special wIre:-
western Union. S6H: New York Central,
~; Lake Shore, 1209; Michigan Central
SS3s: New York. Lake Erie and Western. 431<: do.
preferred SSas do. seconds l62I: Delaware, Lack
savanna and Western. l251i: New Jersey
Central 93s; Delaware and Hudson. l07z;
111x: Wabash and Pacific, 10: do preferred,
S9H; Onion Pacific. l1sH: Hannibal and ST.
10. preferred. ia: Ohio and Mississippi. AN:
Pacific Mail 49k: C. C. and l. c.. 20H: Northern
Pacific common. 38X: do. preferred 1877:
San Francisco common, Is; do. preferred, s3;
do. first preferred. los; Central Pacific, 9& Rock
Island. l3A; Louisville and Nashville. 93,I:
Western. 514; Manhattan Elevated. q; Nil
n0ts Central. 130x: Canada Southern, 6ak: /
Chicago. burlington and Quincy. l56s<; benver
and Rio 0rande. 81 ST. Paul and Omaha. n:
do. preferred; l61; G. C. C. and {. &: Erie and
Western, ~ Chicago, st. Louis and New
Oriean9 So Col Coal. 81: Ohio Central. s6x:
Texas Hact6c. sos; Texas Pac6c l. g.. 53k.
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