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The times., 1897-07-27

Chicago, July 26.-wheat sold up early
OF higher cables and large continental
buying orders Tie general speculative
trade, however, was limited, and after
tie opening bulge the market ruled heavy,
gradually losing 2 cents from the top
prices.
The general tenor of the new was bUlliSh
Reliable crop reports from the Northwest
are less brilliant than they We're up to
a week ago, but still indicate large
yield with favorable conditions from this
on. Rains in various parts of the winter
wheat belt has DELAYED threshing Re-
ceipts at Kansas City today indicate an
increased movement. The situation at
the moment is one Of uncertainty Europe
evidently viii be liberal customer fol
our surplus, but at what price will depend
largely on the out turn of the Northwestern
crop. What that will be remains to be
seen. The chances are it will be good.
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
Corrected daily by W B Hibbs & Co.
Bankers and Brokers. Members of the
N Y. Stock Exchange, 1927 street.
The times., 1897-07-27

I hear OF the likelihood OF an announce
ment of the confirmation of coal deal
in which susquehanna & Western Will
be an important factor. The announce
ment should come this week and ought
to affect the Coalers generally.
The times., 1897-07-27
TIDINGs FROM DAWSON CITY.

Old, Old Story Of Fabulous Wealth
and Spendthrift Miners.
Terre Harte, Ind, July 26.-The parents
Of Frank Lowrey, of Petersburg, Ind,
The times., 1897-07-27
New York Cotton Market.
FINANCIAL.
CORSON & MCCARTNEY,

Members or the New York Stock Ell
change, 1919 F st., Glover building
Correspondents of Messrs Moore X schic5.
80 Broadway.
Bankers ana Dealers In Governmcnt BondA
Deposits Exchange. LoanA
Railroad Stocks and Bonds and all securt
ties listed Oh the exchanges OF New York,
Philadelphia. Boston and baltimore boughs
and sold
A speciality made offnyestments &C curities.
District bonds and all local Railroad. GaA
Insurance and Telephone Stock de alt In
American BELL Telephone stock bougnS
anc sold mn1SR
The times., 1897-07-27

Dow, Jones 8 Co. say: s'The record of
market averages for over twelve years
shows n large preponderance of advances
at the end OF July and the beginning
OF August"
The times., 1897-07-27
New York Stock Market.

Corrected daily by w. B. Hibbs & Co.
Bankers and brokers Members of the
N. 7. Stock Exchange. 1427 r street
The times., 1897-07-27

London was a large seller OF the mar
ket yesterday all over the board.
The times., 1897-07-27

The daily grain letter of Mcintyre 6
wardweli, No. 1920 F street, says: Wheat
The times., 1897-07-27

Mr.. Lindhlom says of wheat: 81 would
secure profits on long wheat Just at the
moment"
The times., 1897-07-27

The New York Times says: "There IS
general feeling in the street, which is
paTticipatedin by some oe the most thought
full men, that, after their rapid advance
and at their present level, stocks are a
tTifle too high to be bought if the pur-
chaser is not prepared to hold on through
a reaction; a feeling that little patience
Will be productive of greater profits and
fewer scares. inasmuch as it will allow
the would-be buyer to get his stocks at
slightly Low er prices than those now pre-
veiling. There is no diminution of the
bullish sentiment of the belief in ultimately
higher prices Wall street is, il anything,
more bulIsh than at any time since the
rise began But there is a well dis
tributed idea that a reaction is long
overdue and must soon make its appear
ance ~
Tobacco also had a great push upward
yesterday, as remarkable as the decline in
Sugar-S4 was reached. A shrewd au-
thority on Tobacco regards the advance as
peculiar aud unwarranted under the cir
curns.ances Certainly the trust was the
least touched by the Dngley bill of them
all. II is even said that the company is
bound to lose, but this 1 do not believe.
The times., 1897-07-27

The earnings Of Louisville and Nashville
for the third week Of July increased S34,-
500. For three weeks in July the increase
was S54, 900
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

The quality of a Legislature depends
upon the disposition of the voters. If
they are Indifferent to good quality
they will bring into existence a danger
GUS Legislature. The main questions
as to a legislative candidate are wheth.
er he is well informed on public needs,
whether he is strictly honest; whether
he is under the control of a clique or a
boss and whether he faithfully will
serve the people or be henchmau of a
boss.
The abuse of State Legislation in this
country is gradually leading to needed
reforms, just as the abuse of municipal
legislation has stimulated the present
great municipal reform movement.
The civil service reform movement in
New York aud other States is one Of
the best indications of the awakening
of the public to the needs of the day.
The spoils of office in New York have
been cut down to the minimum, and
that is a process which cuts down con-
currently the strength of the vicious
political element. We can't get rid of
professional politicians, but it is pos.
sible to cut the claws of the predatory
class among them and starve them out.
Minneapolis Journal.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

young men from near Waverly, had
stopped one evening at McHaney' 8 and
bought some corn for a mule they had,
ana they camped that night near by.
III appears now that Simmons was muir.
uered and robbed, and Huffman is sus.
pected of being his murderer.
Nashville, Jan. 6.-Thieves entered
the residence of w. w. Berry, Presi
dent of the American National Rank,
wnile the family were at supner to.
nignt' n stole $4,000 worth of jew
elry and diamonds.
memphis, Jan. John Vaughn and
gus Homer, armed with pistol and
hhlie. engaged in u duel to death this
morning In this city. Homer is dead
and Vaughn is in a diving condition,
Vaughn quarreled with his wife and
Homer took sides with the
precipating the duel. The m is
under arrest as an accessory.
Knoxville, Jan. 9.-The Working.
mans Building and Savings Associa
ton assigned tonight, The Liabilities
are $40 600; estimated assets the same.
Vi Nhu bupltlHt SOuTI ur-
clarlng that interest above 6 per cent.
was usury caused the filing of many
suits against the Association seeking to
breach contracts for greater premiums.
These suits forced the concern to the
wall. 1t is said it can pay 70 cents on
the dollar. G. NJ. Funck is made
trustee.
Chattanooga, Jan. 9.-The Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railroad Company today
sold 5000 ont of iron to Antwerp,
Bremen, Genoa and Rotterdam. This
brings the total sales of this company
and the Sloss company to European
points since August last to s 1000 tons
of which the Tennessee company sold
5l,OOO and the Sloss company, 80, 900
tons. A sale of 10000 tons has also
been made to Yokohama. This infor-
nation comes from the sales agent of
the company.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13
LET TIE CONTEST GO ON

The country at large is thoroughly
familiar with the d~isgraceful political
conditions that have overtaken the
Centennial State. They know full we'll
that pure and free government has
been subverted, and in its stead ia a
creature of high handed fraud and
reckless violence. The good and de.
cent people of Tennessee, of all party
connections, are deeply Inundated and
mortified that it is 30. At the end of
the frst century of our existence, we
have come to a time when the most
heroic, exemplary and rigorous meas
ures must be employed to break down
the defiant, persistent and powerful
forces OF corruption, or allow a iunta
OF czars, who have grown sleek and fat
on public robbery, to make our govern
ors, legislatures and laws. We must
get out of the clutch of this conscience.
less and ferocious ring or all is lost and
infamy will clothe us as a government.
We believe that,this Is the conclusion
of a majority of the people. We believe
that public sentiment is ripe for a re
form movement-for a thorough cleans
ing from all the %rottenness and filth
which besmears the %State-and that
an investigation of the crimes that pre-
vailed in last November's election is
the proper and most promising initia.
tive in this required renovation.
To be productive of good results for
the present and all the future, the in.
vestigation must be conducted with
bipartisan fairness, without lodges,
subterfuges or evasions, without the
t~echnicalities that are always employed
to conceal and shield crime, and with
the determination that the true vote of
the State shall be honestly ascertained
and the popular will enforced, and that
the finality of the contest shall be the
condign punishment of all those who
may have violated the election statutes.
This kind of an investigation and pu-
r%ification coupled with a swift and
rigid enforcement of the law will evil
dence the fact that the people are
aroused to the fearful dangers that
menace them and will be a guarantee
to the world that they will no longer
submit to the rule of anarchy and the
despotism and villainy of rings and
will have what the Constitution of the
United States guarantees them-a re-
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

THE resumption of work at the cot.
ton mill and the building Of a first
class Touring mill would be a good
starter in the way of business prosperity.
With a dozen other industrial plants,
which Jonesboro has no excuse for not
having, the old town might yet be
saved and become in time a city of note
and commercial Importance. Natural
advantages bring such a possibility
within easy reach, and even home
capital is not lacking for the grand
enterprise. Our citizens are called
upon to settle the question of their
W advancement.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13
Reform Measures,

The best advertisement that Tenues
see a give to the outside world in
connection with her Centennial EXPO.
sition is for her Legislature to pass
such reform measures as will place
her abreast of her most progressive
sister commonwealths in the matter of
State government. Such government
would be the greatest possible induce
ment to immigration. Indeed, if we
could bring it about in its perfection
we should take a tremendous step for
ward in material development without
the aid of outside capital. The taxes
that could be saved by the desired re.
forms, if retained by the people and
put into profitable enterprises, would
soon put the State on the high road to
unparalleled prosperity. -Chattanooga
News,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

publican government in fact as we'll as
in name.
We do not pretend to say that n
searching and exhaustive inquiry will
discover no offenders in the Republican
ranks. Should any be found, they will
receive no sympathy, aid or comfort
from us. At the bar of no man consci.
ence can they be excused or justified.
Let the penalty, inadequate as it is, be
visited upon them.
There is Democratic testimony-piled
Pelion upon Ossa-that in many of the
counties of West Tennessee, where the
Democratic party had absolute control
of the ballot box, that the election of
last November was a s~aturnalia of
fraud and crime. If these charges be
true, and their explicitness and desig-
nation of the precincts where the of.
fences were committed and of the per-
o n who committed them testify to
their correctness, there was not the
least semblance of conformity to the
requirements of the election laws. The
polls were under the absolute super.
vision and control of heelers and poll
list ,manipulators who fixed" the re.
turns so that there should be a positive
certainty of the prearranged victories
of the machine.
The vast interests at stake, affecting
the character of our people and the fu.
ture of the State, and the turpitude OF
the crimes alleged SO openly, explicitly
and repeatedly call for a diligent, pa.
tient and searching inquiry, and those
who regard honest elections and fair
counts as indispensable to pure and
free government will be satisfied with
nothing short of this.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

WHEN the civil service rule is exten.
ded SO as to include every Government
station from the President down to the
postmasters at the county x roads, we
Will be a united, happy, prosperous,
free people, with even chances in the
foot race for the pie counter. This
should be the governing principle, if
the overtasked and hard working party
patriots, who win the victories, are de-.
MED the fruits thereof.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

IHE pie hunters will be very tardy,
cautious in congratulating themselves
upon the fact that the recent extensions
OF the civil service rule have left but
very few offices to be filled at the
request OF Congress. And ever before
the 4th OF next March Grover may so
ape the practices of European royalties
as to deprive a poor, hungry and de.
serving class of these meager and IN.
certain opportunities of making an
honest and decent living.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13
VERY


Sensational Testimony Prouobt TINT In tbe
Patterson Camack Contest.
MemDhis. January 8-Tbn testimonv
given Yesterday i, the pottorson-Car.
mack contest aa To- the Mason box was
much more sensational than any pre-.
viously piysu. S. G. Vnylor. a sound
money Democrat who watched the
voting, was the first witness. He cor
roboratcd what had already been re-
lated as to the number Of Patterson
votes deposited and the theft of the
ballot box BY the five free SILVER elec
ton officers. lie gave the names of
many Republican voters whose tickets
he saw ms they were deposited. lie
copId NOT fell whathar - snbs,in,o h,y
m,,.,
was ,'"P'''0" w '"'Su o'''e'7 VI n"''
"''"''' ""' '""u''" !" ir'"'' '"''
one OF election officers, i. Il PeltuS,
is known by his ueighbors as ''lhe de-
s|troyiry uuraI"-ord the eogj. oftba
To.n, D.....
'''''O ""N'
Lewis Fields, a negro, the uoNl wit
ness, give still more Sensational r,i.
dorca n, T.. r,. +,
t,.,r.n IT, 49,, -.
'''''''' 'L' e"i" Tue negroes ut the
district were solid for Patterson and he
saw them vote FOR Patterson He
showed - s,acir,o, or roLo. a. ..oI
I '0",' ivy uo."'
TIC eNp'a''e" no" the 'alIy OF the lie
publican votes was kept, showing 1917
such votes cast.
Frrthor bo ,oI.+ol u.
~ '""'" ~" "a'7
after the eIectloh ne was warned to
leave the country so as not to testify.
He was also offered remunarotio,i If ho
would lana ..1 49,. ~
NV, an noU ir'uIn' IiP "iu
nUS1 ~ eou'Oo u 'nese e"teats
NH n'moS Snu nio eE,uenco was gwen
Wv '"u0" 'o'u0'@hoe'
Memphis January 9.-The proceed
lngS yesterday at Mason in Upton
County' where taking of evidence. for
Col. Patterson IN his contest for the
seat In Congress against Mr.. Carmack
Is IN progress, developed evidence of Il
more substantial character than even
those mat had proceed them. The
witnesses examined were among the
most lnhuenllal men In that part of the
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

NASHVILLE, TENN. Jan. S~.-Treasurer
Craig has submitted to Gov. Turney a
statement as to the condition of the
State treasury on Jan. /, which shows
hat there was on hand on that date a
balance Of $341 ,075.4S. Deducting the
penitentiary fund, S6O.46 IA, and the
direct tax fund of $21, SAB. 81, leaves a
balance for general purposes of $3.50.
O66 81.
The State has obligations as follows:
Interest due Jan. ........... .S22O,OOO
Criminal costs due lOO.OOO
Due to charitable and educational
institutions, school fund, salar-
les and clerk hire ............. 5000
Total .....,......... $4,000
Leaving a deficit of $l35,933.33,
In addition, the January interest on
school fund was due Jan. /. This is
usually paid during January, but re.
turned by trustees in payment of reve.
u by them.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

1T may not be prophetic of any i'll
lated future events but it is still "a
significant fact" as well as "a startling
coincidence" that the very day the la.
mented and lamenting Bryan struck
Chicago on his lecturing tour, four of
ner biggest banks went down with a
crash.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

SANTA CLAUS on his last annual tour
saw and conversed with General Pros.
perity' He was in good spirits though
making haste slowly. The road was
rough, he was loaded down with good
things for the people, but he was driv.
ing a spanking team of strong pullers,
and was certain he would reach this
country in time to witness the inaugu.
ration of Major Mckinley.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

TENNESSEE will have no claim to a
place in the scheme of modern progress
and civilization as long as she tolorates
the machine or allows those who com.
pose 1t to go unwhipt of justice
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

IHE miserable thing that thirty years
OF Democratic misrule have given to
tennessee no more resembles-free gov.
eminent than a blue bottle fly resem.
oles the soaring monarch of the air.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

The battle royal between fee reform
and a powerful lobby will soon be on.
Hold yourself in readiness for some
juicy scandals.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13
WEDNESDAY,, JAN. 10, 1897.

UP to date the machine has not ap.
piled for space to exhibit its West Ten.
hessee election frauds at the Centen.
NAL.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-13

NOTHING has happened to discourage
inc universal belief that the Third
house OF the Legislature will do the
legislatin' as usual.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
RILEY POOL AND
DRAW POKER ON THE
CUNS'P PREMISES
The Late Isaac Norton, Welburns Cashier, Lost Big
Money in the Te1-Dollar Limit Game of the
Baldwin Annex-A Dollar Limit
Racket for Youngsters

know what is going on in San Francisco.
1t begins to be a question of doubt
whether the Chief of Police knows.
Some people think that he has lost his
old-time cunning and sagacity, while
others fancy that he has lost his nerve
and fears to incur the dispIeasure of a
superior officer.
According to the judgment of the sport
ing fraternity the town is opening out
beautifully. Any sort of a game, from
the nickel-in-the- slot TO S10-limit poker,
can readily be obtained. What is now
offered is only an index of what is prom
ised when the racing season opens. While
Lees and Gunst are Iawsmithing the town
is opening wider and wider
The police impart the statement with a
great flourish that there is not game of
faro running i'll the city. If this state
ment is true the only deduction to be
drawn therefrom is that the faro dealer
cannot compete with the robb!ng devices
in common use.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

This is true story which will explain
why the Cuban League of this city is IN
dienant.
Yellow journalism will be obliged TO
change its tactics. Once more, in its
frantic struggles to cover its SINS and its
color under the cloak of charity, it has
ripped the frail robe from the collar to
hem. The revelation is not pleasing, but
it can hardly be ignored.
Ii the Hearst and Hearstlings would be
content to blow their own horns and
sound to themselves the Gathering Gym.
balls of praise, respectable people could
get out of the way of the discord, but yel-
low journalism's scheme is to furnish
every body borns and wind ana inveigle
all into blowing. 1t has been trying this
trick upon a repui able local society-the
Cuban League-noping to induce it to do
some advertising for yellow journalism;
but it has failed, and there is no way this
time that it can pretend to have sue
ceeded, which makes the case much
sadder,
The Cuban League of this city was in
the days of its youth Endorsed and aided
by THE CALL during the period when
the yellow sheet gave no space
to its affairs and reported none of its
meetings. Now that tail of the Journal
and its understrappers in the legal pro-
fession having been bending all their ener-
gies trying TO induce the officers OF the
society to call a meeting to grow enthusi-
astic over its conduct in freeing Miss Cis-
neros, as described by itself.
Various persons have been induced to
address the president in earnest terms
recommending his speedy action in the
cause of Cuban freedom. Men never be-
fore heard of and men heard of too often,
have been summoned by the yellow news
paper and urged to do all in their power
to awaken TO action a body of men who
were active for the cause of Cuba before
the writers of the letters really knew that
Cuba was in trouble. The following is a
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

rageous. Said he: 1--WE pay taxes as we'll
as the citizens of other portions of the
city, and it doesn't seem right that we
should be Obliged to have this nuisance at
our door-yards.
j. Waters of 3278 Harrison street con-
tlrmed the story told in yesterdays CALL
OF the practice of Italian fruit and vege-
table peddlers of gathering watercress
from these disease-laden swamps, and
said that he had often seen them gather
ing the stuff at an early hour.
4. Stewart of Twenty-fifth and Florida
also mem Der of the club, and Mrs. Ann
Desmond OF 1914 Alabama street, were all
bitter in their denunciation of the exist.
Ing condition of affairs, as was also ]. W
Powers, doing business at the corner of
Precita avenue and Folsom street.
J. b. Wizard, vice. president of the club
said that many cattle had been pastured
in the swamp on the north side of Army
street, between Alabama and the San
Bruno road. Said he: Life is almost un-
beara BILE here in the summer time. The:e
swamps are full of putTid filth and water.
The Bryant-street sewer, between Twenty.
sixth and Army, which is a wooden affair.
is in terrible condition.
1T is leakv and full of holes and the
slime and filth escape and fall to the
marsh below, while the Army-street sewer
at the Intersection of San Bruno avenue
empties right on to the fat of Islais Greek,
by the side of highway traversed eyery
day by thousands of people. Wehave pe-
titioned for its removal and are honeful
our petition will be recognized. THE CALL
is doing great work for us-better than
any OF the other papers-and we are duly
thankful"
a committee has been appointed to at.
tend the next meeting of the Board -
supervisors and urge action on the matter
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

pany and he and his family have large
circle of friends. There were $50 of these
who accepted the invitations and attended
the reception last evening.
The hail was beautifully decorated with
MOWERS and the friends came laden with
presents and the best OF wishes for long
lie and prosperity for the couple VINO
have lived all of these years in peace and
harmony. Emil E. Lsise, the speaker of
the German Free Thought Society, Off
ciated as master OF ceremonies and his ad-
dress was witty and pleasing. Vocal
music was furnished by the singing Sec
tion of the San Francisco Turn Verein.
Alter the prelim inaries were over the
guests were seated at a banquet table,
where verything thai would tempt the
palate was spread. The feast was accom-
panied by toasts. songs and addresses, and
al the conclusion the company epioved a
social dance until late hour in the morn
ing.