Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-15
Baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE. Oct. 15.-Cotton steady - mid
ding, 10Y. Flour quiet and steady. Wheat
southern steady: Fultz, 95a1o3 Longberry, 9sa
IO5; western steady; No. 3 winter red spot, 100;
October. 100; December, 1027salO3 May, 1857
bid. Corn-southern, nominal; white, 5Sa59; yell
low, Brass; western steady: mixed spot, 30; DC
tober, 50; year. SAL: May, 56s.a514 Oats firm
ungraded southern and Pennsylvania, 43a46: do.
western white, 44a40; do.do. mixed, 43a44;
prime to choice, 76a77; good to fair. 73a75 Hay
frm-prime to choice timothy, 1l.OOall.50. Pro-
visions steady. Butter very firm. Eggs firm
plaza Coffee dull-Rio cargoes fair, .22; No. z,
II. sugar tirm-granulated.6 81. Copper unchan ged
Whisky unchanged Freights to Liverpool per
steamer nominal Receipts-four, AGA barrels;
5000 bushels. Shipments-hOur. 1,O62 barrels;
wheat, 1000 bushels; corn, $1,000 bushels.
Sales-wheat, $4,000 bushels; corn, C6.ooo
bushels.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 15.--Northern Central stock,
66; Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore hrsts,
9SAa091s; consolidated gas stock, 49a49H.
Chicago Markets.
CHICAGO, Oct. Is neutrality-suspicious.,
eok; December. 1929: May. 1908. Corn-Octo-
Der, 491; December a91s; May 52!s; Ca oats1octo-
Der, 9;95: May. ~ 32k. Lardaoctober. 6I71s;
December 6.3a1 May, 6.s7H. Short ribs-octo-
Der, 52o; December, 40: May. COY.
SILVER PURCHASES. amount Of silver
offered for sale at the Treasury today amounted
to 436, 200 ounces and the amounted purchased
275. 900 ounces as follows: $1,000 ounces at
l.0959 200, 600 ounces at L0969.
An Important Railroad Enterprise.
A dispatch from Charleston, WA, to the
New York Times says: "A cbartar has been
issued to the Potomac, Blackwater and Green
brier Railroad Company, an organization Of
New York capitalists with a capital already
subscribed of $4,000, OC0, formed with the pur-
pose of building a railroad from Romney,
Hampshire county, VIVA, along the south
branch of the Potomac to Petersburg, Grant
county, thence along the north fork Of South
Branch river to q point, where the counties Of
Pocahontas. Pen6leton and Randolph meet,
and thence by three separate lines through the
ore and lumber region, one passing through
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs. Three
other branches are also projected, the whole
constituting great and valuable system de-
veloping new country:
The police census. completed yesterday at
ternoon. gives New York city population Of
I.7IO.715. This is an increase Of l97 ,214 over
Mr.. Porter's fgures
wanamaker, L T., has q colored female
j. Hampton Hoge of Christianburg has pur-
chased of A. E. Humphreys of Charleston,
WA, the celebrated tract known as Mountain
Lake situated in Craig and Giles counties, Va,
and Monroe county, Wa Va. Tho tract COM
pr1ses lO3 600 acres, some of il the finest timber
land in the south It abounds in rich deposits
Of IRON ore and manganese. The price paid
was e250, 000
Harry Christian, the negro desperate who
murdered Detective Grow on Elk Horn, Sep
tember 2, has been captured in Logan county,
VIVA A purse Of $500 was made up for bis
captor.
Mother Mary Aphonsius died at the Fran
ciscan Convent in Richmond Monday, aged
forty five years. She came to this country
from England and had resided in Richmond
four years
There are about two hundred Students en-
rolled at the West Virginia Universig st Nor.
gantovn.