Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-13


through the dOorways and windows. receiving
serious injuries. The fire spread to the Future
| City Oil Works. extending on Plumb street from
Main to the river front and to a warehouse con-
tanning rosin and turpentine. in the same block.
About seventy men were employed in the mill.
all OF whom it is said are accounted for. Several
of them were very badly burned, however and
have been sent to the hospital or taken to their
homes. MIR. Balm says the loss on the mill is
$780, Goo Insurance S120, 900. mainly i'm eastern
offices. The Future City Oil Works were
damaged about $4,000, the principal injury
being to the refinery. The whole establishment
is insured for 945, 600.
The Indian Atrocities in New Mexico.
MEN KILLED AND WOMEN TAKEN CAPTIVE.
DENVER COL, August 13--A special Of yes
terdays date to the Republican. from Mccarthy
n. Mexico, says: Couriers havejust arrived from
La SavOye rancho. 40 miles from here with intel
ligence that Lieut.. Guilfoyle had reached there
last night. They found two men dead and
learned that three women had been carried Off
captives. Lieut. GuifOyle had two fights with
the Indians very recently and captured consid-
cradle stock. besides routing them. The troops
in the field have been travelling night and day
and are very much fatigued. Francis Doran: of
Cambera, is here with large party of Mexi-
cans, but without arms, and asks the govern
ment to furnish ammunition that they NAV at
once commence operations against the Indians
| The hostiles are between La Savoye and the
Datil mountains. Troops are being sent from
Monica and Avera to intercept them, and it is
thought they will succeed in doing SO.
College Students Drowned.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, August 13.-The two
young men who were drowned here last night
were E. NJ. Marks of Rome Ca and c. NJ Cress-
well, OF Mebanesvile, N. c., both students of
Eastman College. The bodies have not yet been
recovered.
Wall Street To-day.
NEW YORK, August 13.-The Posts financial
article GAO p. m. editiOn) says: The day opened
with the Wall street markets very dull, but sub
sequently there was more animated specula-
tOn in stocks on favorable reports from Sara
toga in regard to trunk line affairs which re-
ports, however, could not be authenticated.
Government bonds were steady, state bonds
| firm, and railroad bonds generally a fraction
higher Stocks, after an early decline of 1as4 per
cent, became strong and advanced = to per
cent. The improvement was most marked in
Metropolitan Elevated, Lake Shore, Michigan
Central, the Southwestern shares, st. Paul. Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western, and Western
Union. MOneyhas been easy at 2a3 per cent for
call loans. Time loans and prime mercantile
paper are unchanged. Foreign exchange has
been dull and very weak. with actual business
on the basis of 4S15la4S2I for bankers GO day
bills; 4S4a4S49 for demand; 4S41 Sa4S5 for cables,
and 4SO1sa4So54 for commercial.
Shoe Factory Burned.
Boston. August 13.-A fire at Salem, NH,
yesterday destroyed the shoe factory there owned
by John Day, S. B. Kelly B. p Hall and w
Bradford. Loss $1,000. The insurance had re-
Gently expired and was not renewed.
The Markets.
BALTIMORE, August l3.-Yirginia SIS deferred
by; do. cOnsols, S21s; do second series. 42: do.
past due coupons, a2s<; new ten-forties. 81 bid
BALTIMORE. Angus, l3-Cotton dull-mid-
ding, 17s Flour higher for western and strong
Howard street and western super, 400a4. 1j
fro NlUS do hlaeS <.,tr
mills super. 4O0a450: do. extra. 5O0a55O; do
family. &. .75a7 co. do. Rio brands 200; Patapsco
western excited higher and strong southern
red, 2sal 81 do. amber, l34al. SO; No. Mary
land. 1.35K: No. 2 western winter red, spot and
Der, l.3i 1sal.37A; November. I3aaI. .59N. Corn,
southern quiet; western higher and strong
an1 white and yeew 81
southern, 4osss; western White, aia4s: do. %xed
changed. Provisions unchanged. Butter firm
Petroleum nominal Coffee firm-Rio cargoes.
S Whisky rm. liaisx. sar heirhts aesM %nchansed s
Receipts-four,. l579 bushels; wheat, 100 a2l
bushels; cOrn 43. $50 bushels; oats, $50 bushels;
bushels; corn, 5O, 1853 bushels Sales-wheat, S5OOI
bushels: corn, 4Sl 800 bushels
2ka3. Exchangelong. 4s1a; short. 4s3ss1. Gov
ernments quiet and unchanged.
NEW YORK, august l3.-F1Our nrm and quiet.
Wheat Aa11 cents higher. Corn shade better
LONDON, August Ii, 1870 p. m.-Atlantic
and Great Western first mortgage trustees GER
tifcates 5S4; Atlantic and Great Western second
consols. g. Erie. 451. New York Central,
149N. Illinois Central. i3sakl. Pennsylvania Cen
tral, g. Reading, 50. Milwaukee and St. Paul
common, 119.
NEW YORK MARKETS THIS AFTERNOON
The following quotations were current in New
York to-day at 2:30 pm, as reported by HI. Ha
Dodge. Of $50 18th street. by special wire:-
Western West sS Union ssH; New York Central. lAh;
York, Lake Erie and Western, Ak; Delaware
Lackawanna and Western, 124X:s New Jersey
Central, 96l; Delaware and Hudson. 110h;
Reading, 63X; Northwestern. 125x; St. Paul,
1143S; Wabash and Pacific, 50I; do. preferred,
s9X: Union Pacific. lSsaii N. (; and 2; 4Isx;
preferred, g.; Central Paciac, eK;
Louisville and Nashville, lee: Nashville and
Chattanooga, go; Ontario and Western, 32X;
Manhattan Elevated, 19: Illinois Central l37 i;
Canada Southern. 65x; Denver and Rio Grsnde.
80; ST. Paul and Omaha, AH: do. preferred. lOA
&C. G. and l.. S9k; Col Coal. 53x; Ohio Central
TX; Texas Pacific. 56zs; Texas Pacific L. G. slA
Closing Government Bonds SIS extended, 10eH
a1GS; SIS extended, 1G2al024: 4K's, I3Aa1l3k:
| coupons. u4ka1l4X; As, u6Ha116x.
LITTLE CHIEF, of the Cheyennes, arrived in
,fA- L.