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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
THE MARKETS.
waIl street Review

New York, Aug. 25.-,rhe weekly crop
report Of the agricultural department at
Washington was the depressing influence
in the stock market today, us 1t was a
stimulating influence upon the prices Of
wheat and corn. The opinion expressed
in the government report of unfavorable
condition of the corn crop and of impaired
yield from the spring wheat crop was OF
too serious import to the grain carrying
railroads not to have marked effect on
the values. There we're various times dur
ing the day when struggle was made
against the prevalent depression and
when prices seemed embarked upon an
upward course, but the fact would re-
cur that large part of the long ad-
vance in the price of the grain carrying
roads has been predicted upon the abund-
ant grain crop which 1t was expected was
to be moved and prices would turn down.
wards again. The cases where prices
were above yesterdays closing, at any
time during the day are exceptional, and
those where they remained above at the
close are still fewer. The fact that set
tlement day on the London exchange de-
veloped no short interest or covering de-
mand was to some extent disappointing
to the bulls. The heaviness In all depart
nents of the London exchange growing
out of the evidence of serious disaffection
on the northwest frontier of the Indian
empire exercised some sympatneuc riihu-
ence in the local market. Commission
house buying was on much reduced
scale and there were a lull of the activity
on the part of the large moneyed inter-
ests which have been prominent in mar
ket recently. The sales fell to total
of little more than one-third of that
shown by the dealing on some days of re-
cent period of activity. The extreme
dullness at the decline indicated a healthy
tone of the market, the liquidation at no
time being heavy and the resistance at
a given point being very firm. The mar
ket enjoyed an occasional rally under
the leadership of some individual stock
which was influenced by a development
especially affecting it. The total sales
were 292, $50 shares.
Furnished by WILLIAM LINN, AL
LEN & CO, stock brokers, Mears build
ing, rooms 705-706.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26

New York, Aug. 25.-Flour-Quiet but
strongly neld, at some advance; city
mlsl patent, s6.25a6.45: do. clears, $5.4Oa
$50; Minnesota patents, IS. 40a6; do. bak-
ers, M4oa475;- winter patents. sSSSaS,15;
do. low grades, $3.4Oa3.60. Wheat-Spot
firm; No. 2 red s1.0i%4, +. o. b.. a1oat; No.
l northern, Sl.09%, f. o. b., afloat, nomi-
nal; options opened strong, irregular all
day. closing 2Aa3c. net higher; No. red,
August, closed s1.02A; September, Csc a
S.O1R, closed $100A; October, 9SAa99Ac.,
closed S9Ac.; November, eS19c.; December.
96Aa99Ac., closed 9S1ac. Corn-Spot firm;
No. g. St9sc. elevator; 35ssc. afioat options
opened strong, firm all day, closed %a7c.
net higher; May, 4O'ka4oAc, closed 40Ac.;
August closed Si5sc.; September, 9Ss.a
Si7so,,, closed SSHsc.; October '47saS57sc.;
closed S5asc; December, S6a37c., closed
$3.50. Oats-Spot steady; No q 23Ac.; No.
g. 2SAc. No. wi lite, 25a2512c.; No. white,
AMc.; track white, 25a30c.: track mixed,
western, 24s25c; options quiet but firm,
closing &c. higher; august closed 23Sc. ;
September, 2324 4a237sc., closed 237sc. Beef
Firmer. Cut Meats--Firm. Butter-Firm
western creamery 12a19c.; do. factory, IA
a1119c.; Elgins. 19c.: imitation creamery,
10a13c.; state dairy, 10a17c.; do. creamery
12al9c. Cheese-Steady; large white, &c. !;
small white, 9a9Ac.; large colored, &c. !;
small colored, 91ac.; part skins, 5lSa61sc. !;
full skins, 3l2a4c. Eggs-Firm; state and
ernsylvania, 17a19c.; western fresh, 1Gc
Tallow-Very firm. Petroleum-Dull
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
INSANE MAN WITH A RAZOR.
Attacked and Almost Killed u Civil
Engineer in His Office.

Burlington, N. j., Aug. 2J-Charles
Wallace colored, made a murderous as
sau!t on Harry Haines, a popular young
civil engineer of this city, tonight. Wal
lace walked into the office where Haines
was at work and, grabbing the young
man, pinoned him in the chair in which
he was sitting and drew a razor across
his throat Seeing the flashing steel
Haines instinctivey drew his head away
from the man, and thus saved his life,
the razor inflicting a deep though not
serious wound.
Wallace ran from the office and IN
Broad street with a crowd in close pur-
suit He was captured at High street
and locked up.
Wallace is about so years old and was
liberated from the State Insane ASYLUM
some eighteen months ago, and has
since then been running at large in the
city, much to the peoples discomfort.
The insane man is veteran of the late
war, where exposure to the sun unbal-
anced his mind While incarcerated in
the asylum a movement was started to
secure his wife a pension, and the Jury
inquired into his insanity. This, together
with the legal papers associated with
the proceedings, gave the mans disor-
deIed brain a grievance against anyone
sitting at a desk in an open Office. Be-
ing attracted by the legal aspect of
Mr. Haines no doubt precipitated the at
tack.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
Philadelphia Provision Market.
STOCKS.

Philadelphia, Aug. 25 - Wheat-Firm,
3Ac. higher; contract grade, August, ST. 03a
] 03A; September, October and November,
nominal. Corn-Firm, 1c. higher; No. 2
mixed, August and September, 3ia3ilic |;
October and November, nominal Oats
Steady; No. white, August, September,
October and November, 25a26c. Flour-15
a25c. per barrel higher; winter super,
$3,65a3.90: do. extras $S90a415; Pennsyl-
yania roller clear, $4.75a5; do. do. straight,
$5a5,25 western winter clear, A.7Ja5; do
do. straight, $5a5.25; do. do patent, So 25a
$50; spring clear, si.75a5; do straight,
$5,4Oa5.75; do patent, $5.25a6; do. favorite
brands, higher; city mills extra S.90a4 10;
da. clear, 81, 90a5,2 20; do. straight, s.. goa
$40; do. patent, $5.S5a61O. Butter-Firm
fancy western creamery, 1SalSlac.; do.
Pennsylvania prints and do. western
prints, lSc Eggs-Firm and 12c. higher;
fresh, nearby, l5lac.; do western, 15c.
Cheese--Firm, Refined Sugars - In
changed Cottor-Firm and 1-i6c. higher;
middling upands, 5-l6c. Talow-Firm,
fair demand; city prime in hogsheads,
Nc.; country, prime, in barrels, 3isc
dark, do, 224c.; cakes, 3lac.; grease, 24c
Live Poultry-Dull and easier; fowls SEA
&C.; old roosters, 7c.; spring chickens, ya
lie; ducks. 9a9l9c. Dressed Poultry
Steady, fair demand; fowls. choice, lOIac
broilers, large, Liable; do. small and
scalded, SalOc. Receipts-Flour $500 bar
rels, 1900 sacks; wheat, $1,000 bushels;
corn, $4,000 bushels; oats, 1900 bushels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
Chicago Grain Market.

Chicago, Aug. 25.-The leading futures
ranged as follows: Wheat-September,
931aa96&c.; December (new), 9la93Ac.; May,
92laa9iAc. Corn-August, 2SAa29i2c.: Sep
tember, 2SAa29Ac.; December, 30Aa31%c. !;
May, 33Aa547sc. Oats-September, 1Sasa
Pork--september, sS,4Oas'7O; October, $S47ls
$50; December, $S 60aS71a. Lard-Septem-
Der, A.5713a4.7o; October, A.65a475; Decem-
Der, $4.7Oa4. .S5. Ribs-September, S5.3Oa5. 50 /;
October, $5.27laa5.52h Cash quotations
were as follows; Flour-Firm; No. 2
spring wheat 974c.; No. do, slaeSc.; No.
2 red, 97Aa9S%c.; No. 2 corn and No. 2
yellow do, 29Aa29Ac.; No. 2 oats, 1871 a19c, (;
No. white, f. o. b., 21aia23c.; No. white,
T. o. b., 20a22c.; No. rye. SIC; No. bar
ley, nominal; No. 3, f. o. b., 31aA6c. No. a.,
+. o. b., &c; No l flax seed, slO7a1. 0S1a !;
prime timothy seed, s2.S5; mess pork.
S. 70aS 75; lard. $40; short ribs, sides,
$5.35a5.65; dry salted shoulders, 5a5Ac. |;
short clear sides, 5l5a5Asc.; whisky, $1.22;
sugars, unchanged. Receipts-Flour, H.
900 barrels; wheat, 81, 900 bushels; corn,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
New York Produce Market.

Shipments-Wheat, $4,000 bushels; corn,
$4,000 bushels; oats, 5000 bushels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
New York Live stock.

New York, Aug. 25-Beeves-Fairly ac-
tive; good steers, steady; others l0al5c.
lower; oxen, steady; bulls closing lower:
fleshy dry cows, easier; native steers,
t2.75a3.35; dry cows, s1.S0a3.6O. Calves
Active; veals Ac. higher; other calves hc.
higher; veals, $5a7.25; grassers and butter
milks, s3.5Oa4. Sheep and I,ambs-Slow
haAc. lower, except for choice lambs
sheep, s2a375; lambs. a.25a6. Hogs
Higher at S,60a4S5.
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Chicago Live stock,

Chicago, Aug. 25 - Cattle - A.75a5. % ;
choice calves, Stalls per 100 pounds; Texas
cattle, sSa4; western rangers, S9OaA.50i
stockers and feeders, s3.s0a4. .55 western
feeding heifers, $2.9Oa3.2O. Hogs-$3.65a,
25; pigs, s3a320. Sheep and Lambs-Ac-
tive and steady; sheep, slS2iaa2 a225 for tall
ings up to $3.70a3.90 for good to choice ma
feeding lots, $3.50a3,55; lambs. A.5Oa5. is;
extra lots, $5.3Oa5.35; feeding lambs, s4a
so. Receipts-Cattle, 1880 head; hogs,
29OOO head; sheep, q 600 head.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS.
Max MaretZek's Widow TO Undergo
an Operation for Cataract.

New York, Aug. 25.-Mme. Maretzek,
widow of Max Maretzek, the pianist. who
died few months ago, is threatened with
total blindness. She is living at the Mar
etzek homestead in Pleasant Plains, s.
l., and is upward of 70 years of age.
The sight of one of her eys has al
ready failed and she will undergo an
operation next week with the hope of
sewing the sight of the other. cataract
has formed over 1t, and the operation is
to be conducted by New York specialist.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
HOTELS AND SUMNER RE.
SORTS.
HALL,
CRYSTAL LAKE, PA.

The opening of this famous resort un-
der new management will take place
early in June.
Situated in the southern corner Of
Susquehanna county on the shores of
beautiful Crystal Lake, Fern Hall is
one of the most attractive places in the
State of Pennsylvania to spend few
weeks during the heated term.
Every facility Is affordtd for the en-
tertainment of it's guests.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26
Oil Market.

New York, Avg. 5.-Petroleum-Penn
sylvania crude, 10 market, nominally at
IS.
OIL City, Pa, Aug. 25.-Credit balances,
n; certificates, 73; sales, 5000 barrels at
70; shipments, 114,654 barrels; runs, 1873, 636
barrels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-26

1,e7S,ooo bushels; oats, 1,o5s,Oo0 bushels;
rye, $500 bushels; barley, 5000 bushels.
126,000 bushels; corn, $4,000 bushels; oats,
10000. bushels; rye, none; barley, $4,000
bushels.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
DAILY GROWIpG WORSE
 IS TIE YELLOW JACK Mobile Reports One Death and 9 Number of New Cases. THE CONDITION IS ALARMING New Orleans Notes Slight Tmprovement-On1y One
 Deatf.~
FoRTY-sEvEN CASES AT EDWARDS, MISS
pr. Sanders Will Experiment at Whistler in Freezing Out the Germ in Freight Laden Cars---Buetin of Conditions Reported to Surgeon Gen.
 erals Headquarters

Washing ton, Sspt 1S.-A message from pr. Glennan to Surgeon General Wyman received tonight reports eleven new cases of yellow fever at Mobile, making total to date of eighteen, with two deaths. Governor Johnston has au- thorized the use of Mount Vernon bar racks. Surgeon-General Wyman also received a message from Dr. Young, at Memphis, saying that arrangements are being made to retain suspects few miles below the city and that boats are prohibited landing everywhere at pres ent
 Surgeon Sawtelle in message from Atlanta received tonight informs the Surgeon-G General that Atlanta has prac- ticafly become a. distributing point for refugees from the infected districts. He thinks the climatic conditions are such that the fever cannot gain foothold, but says all necessary precautions will be taken. About 250 refugees travelling north have been furnished with health certificates leaving about 800 still in the city. "a.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
MERIDIAN WROUGHT UP
Over the Action of the State Board of Health
 Yesterday

Special to The Age-Herald. ,sTV
 Meridian, Miss, Sept 1S.-There wss considerable indignation manifested in this city today over an order issued by Drs. Hunter and Niger, of the state board of health, relative to the stopping of all trains on the Alabama and Vicass- burg railroad in which order it was made to appear that Meridian was an infected point, this being done, t is charged, as retaliation on the part of these officials for an order to stop thtse trains adopted by the local board.
 There was meeting of citizens in the league in which resolutions strongly condennatcry of the action of Drs. Hunter and Kigar and of the action of Supt Bond, of the Alabama and Vicls- burg in disregarding certain orders pro- mulgated by the local board of heath, were adopted.
 A resolution was also adopted express ing explicit confidence in the local au- thorties to cope with the situation. The city papers contain editorials today clso denunciatory of these officials. The board of health met last night and modi- fled their previous order relative to the Alabama and Vicksburg trains, and permitting that road to run trains through this city provided they will con- form to the same regulations of the quarantine as is exacted of the Mobile and Ohio and the New Orleans and Northeastern. Gov. McLaurin was wired of this action.
 The board met again this morning and decided to establish quarantine around the city for the prevention of any peo- pie from infected points from entering the city. This quarantine will be main tained under the direction of local mili- tary officials and will be according to military discipline, and very rigid.
 About ona-third of the white popula- tion has taken to the woods through fear of an epidemic.
 Dr. Clarke the president of the board, was instructed to wire Governor Me Laurin requesting him to procure, if possible, a modification of the order of Drs. Kriger and Hunter relating to the stopping of trains in Meridian and if the order was not modified by 12 o'clock noon tomorrow an investigation will be demanded and the reasons animating the members of the state board in treat ing Meridian as an infected city will be ascertained.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
RELIEF FOR SHIPPERS.
To Be Suggested by State Health Officer Now
 in Town.

Whistler, Ala, Sept. 1S.--Dr. Sanders, suate health officer of Alabama, will soon convene the committee of public heafdh for the state for the purpose of laying before them and the governor a plan by which the embargo upon the state for the movement of freights caused by yellow fever may be almost removed. The plan consists in using re- frigeartor cars for distributing freigHts from infected localities. The freighis are to be placed in such cars atd the laIt- ter helmeJ'cally sealed and then the tenn peI'ature within reduced to frcezlng point, or below. If a freezing temporal ture will destroy yellow fever germs in November, why not in August or Sep tember. By the time such freigdts reach their destinations they will be harmless. Sulphur fumes might also be used in such cars to disinfect frcigfhts, the cans not to be opeined until they reach their destinations. Cases of blankets, of wooden goods and a few other articles mighlt not be shipped in this way without extra trouble but sub standally all goods could be shipped with impunity that people stand most in need of. By adopting this plan complete solution of the difficulty of moving freigf'ts from infected localities will be reached.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
Algcr.s Novel Proposal.

Washington, Sept. 1S--Secretary AL ger, who has been anixious1y planning Ito geo supplies into the Yukon region this winter to relieve the almost cer- tain starva ton nlow staring the hordes of treasure seekers in the face, has hit upon the novel plan of trying locomo- live sledge to run on the river after the hard freeze sets in. This engine was designed for the northern logging camps and secretary Alger has tried 1t with some sucicess in his own big lumber camps in Michigan. It Is said to travel about twelve miles an hour and is capa- ble of drawing an enormous load. The chief problem is that of fuea, and the secretary has invited Joseph Lhdue, the founder of Dawson, to conference on the practical value Of the pfan4
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

objectionable to their opinions or preju- dices and not one of them or anybody else in the convention discovered that the report of the majority contained an attack on Mir. Cleveland for sending troops to Chicago. He asserts that the charge originated in an antagonistic newspaper press and was readily seized upon by a certain element as a pretext for bolting the democratic ticket.
 In conclusion Senator Daniel expresses his faith in the people of Virginia and his willingness to trust his political for tunes to them, and twits Governor O'Fer- raH with having been repudiated by the very people who had put him in the position he occupies as governor of the state.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
GOVERN NMENT TAKES CHARGE
MOBILE NOW IN THE HANDS OF
 UNCLE SAM.
Official Announcement Yesterday Governor Johnston Offered Use of Mt. Vernon
 Barracks Which Was Accepted.

Special to the Age-Herald.
 Montgomery, Sept. Ex-Governor John ston today received official notification that the United States government had taken charge of the quarantine at Mo- bile and intended to establish camp of detention there.
 The executive promptly offered the government authorities the free use of Mount Vernon barracks which are To- cated in remote locality, some twenty miles from Mobile, having extensive buildings and grounds and being sur rounded by brick wall. It was prompt 1y and cheerfully accepted.
 The reports of Examiner Foster of the offices of the probate judge, sheriff, tax collector and circuit clerk of Colbert county have been filed in the governors S office. He finds that all monies collected by Judge Deloney have been paid into the treasury. Sheriff Crisham's accounts are all correct. All money collected by Collector Rand has been duly reported and paid in except two Collectors Els capes," amounting to $2.25. These two items were overlooked.
 Circuit Clerk J. H. Simpson has paid over all money collected on account of solicitors fees. hi few cases he neg lected to issue executions for feed bills where the prisoner confssed judgment. These amount to $9.5S. For failure to issue executions for feed bills where prisoners were sentenced to hard labor he is charged with $90.7O. The examiner says the office is unusually well con- ducted and the clerk explains his failure to issue these few executions as over sights.
 The governor today wired Capt. M II. Amerine, the head of the state quaran- time. now at Birmingham, to the effect that every line of railway out of Atlanta and reaching into Alabama must be guarded with vigilance. The governor fears that if yellow fever gets into any part of the state except Mobile it will come from Atlanta, owing to the proba- bility of refugees using that city as a channel through which they might enter this state unmorested by quarantine regulations.
 Capt. W. H. Lawson, chief clerk to President Trapp. of the convict depart ment, has gone to his plantation near Matthews today.
 The following appointments were Ina nJded down by the governor:
 J. J. Challin, road supervisor, Chero- kee postofffce. Colbert county.
 Morris Loveman, notary public. Bir- mingham.
 Late reports from Superintendent of
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
To Prosecute tho LyncI,ers

City of Mexico, Sept. lS.--orders have been given to investigate the lynching of Orroyo. President Diaz has decided that the inquiry be most rigorous and that tho guilty parties be severely pun ished as he feels that the act was a reproach to the nation which has taken pride in the fact that the lynch law had been unknown here. Twenty odd men arrested are still in custody and formal papers are being drawn up in their cases
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
HORRORS OF THE ICY TRAIL.
Statistical Expert of the Department of Labor
 Gives Some Experiences.

Washington, Sept. 1S-Mr. Orin w. today gave to the Associated Press a copy of most graphic letter on the terrors of trip across Alaska to the Klondyke gold fields. The letter had ham, statistical expert of the govern ment's department of labor, who had been assignsd by Commissioner Wright to make an investigation of the opportu- mites which the gold regions in the Yukon valley and adjoining territory af- forded for the remunerative employ rnent of a merchant or man of capital.
 Tha letter is dated Lake Lindeman, Alaska, Aug. 16, 1897. MT. Durham says that it has stormed, hailed and sleeted almost ever since he left the coast. The glacial streams cut the steep trail in innumerable places, wash ing down lakes of mud to form almost impossible bogs in every valley and hollow. The trail over the mountain is in many places at 45 degree incline and rendered doubly dangerous by g1a- ciers, crevasses and boulder strewn ledgss overhanging yawning chasms and precipes. Frequent stops have to be made for rest and every few minutes of inaction in the piercing cold goads the traveller on again to keep from freez- ing to death. After struggling with a forty pound pack MT. Durham was forced to pay an Indian $50 to pack it twelve miles from Dyea to Sheep Camp. Sixteen dollars more was paid to carry the same pack from Sheep Camp to Lake Linden.
 He continues: "At the present time the condition of affairs on both trails is terrible, and hundreds of men are bound to starve and freeze to death if they continue to come this way. I passed at least thousand men between Dyea and here and not more than one hundred have got their outfits this side of the summit. Every fifty yards along the trail are piles of goods, and I suppose there are provisions to the value of
  $200,000 scattered along the trail.
 Prices for packing and other services are practically prohibitive for most of those who attempt to cross I never saw so much selfishness anywhere as Is displayed on this trail. You pass hundred people without receiving a re- sponse to your respectful good morning, and soon learn to keep your mouth shut. If you ask for food In nine cases out of ten it will be refused.
 T have made arrangements to 20 down the river with a friend who had made the trip before. He expects to be ready to start in four or five days, and to make the trip in seven days. l. am patiently awaiting the arrival of my outfit, but it cannot be expected until the wea tlIer improves The only steam ship that has brought people up viii have all it can do for at least two trips in carrying the unsuccessful people back to civilization, and there ought to be some way to force them to perform that service without compensation.
 (Signed.) SAMUEL c. DUNHAM."