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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02
NOW CONSOLIDATED GAS
is NUMBERED AMONG STOCKS
THAT HAVE. DROPPED
RAILWAY LISTS EVANES CENT STRENGTH
llhuence Of tie Specialists was Agar 81 it, and
Losses Resulted. Favorable Bank
Statement Checked the
Breik

New York, Oct 1.-The cotton mar
kct opened steady, with prices , to 4
points lower, the latter being III sym
patty with an easier feeling i'll the Liv-
orpool market The bull crowd were
also restrained by Il favorable weather
report from the cotton belt, full re-
ceipts, scattered selling orders from the
South and abroad and the absence Of
support from outside investor Followin
the call, trading was very light, and
prices changed very little from the open
ing figures. Sales of only 5000 bales
of spot cotton at Liverpool, despite
concessions of 1-16d was an important
drawback to extensive new investment
business here.
Spot cotton closed dull, with prices
Jig lower. to the basis of 53s for mid
ding upland aud 53s for middling gulf.
Sales were limited to 20 bales for spin
ncrs
Futures broke sharply at the close
under active liquidation started by es'
Inmates for very heavy receipts next
week and favorable weather prospects.
The bear crowd hammered the whole
list. At the close the market was
steady. having improved on momcn-
tary furry of covering.
The net loss was matter of to )
points.
Estimated receipts at the ports for
the day were 10000 bales. against 81,
1870 last week and 1885 last year.
Estimated receipts at the ports for the
week were 100000. against 214054
last week and PSI 1926 last year At
Memphis. 3.012 against 1876 last
year. and at Houston, 22,616, against
12,29G last year.
NEW YORK.
New York, oct. 1.-Cotton futures opened
cfa 1ty
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RALEIGH COTTON.
NEW YORK MONEY.

NEw YORK., oct. 1.-3 .M.-Money on call
steady at 35a per cent: last loan at -- per
cent Prime mercantile paper 3%a5 per cent.
Sterling exchange firm, with actual business
in bankers bills at S4sla4.8f14 for demand,
and at Sl.s1 zaiSts4 for sixty days. Posted
rates S4.S2d4.52 f-2 and S4.85. Commercial bills
$780,. Silver certificates 6la62. Bar
silver so Isle. Mexican dollars 472s. Govern
ment bonds easier. State bonds firm. Railroad
bonds steady,
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ci American middling, low middling clause:

OTHER COTTON MARKETS.
Galveston, steady, AZ, 10, 47S bales.
Norfolk, steady, 58, 2,401 bales.
Baltimore, nominal, sd, 184 bales
Boston, quiet, 5 7-l6, 81 bales.
Wilmington, steady, "a, 1,746 bales.
Philadelphia, quiet, 55s, = bales.
Savannah, easy, al, ,230 bales.
New Orleans, steady, AZ, 5,50S bales.
Mobile, dull, 1916 1882 bales.
Memphis, steady, 1916, 3,0l2 bales.
Augusta, quiet, 1-16, 1886 bales.
Charleston, steady, 1916 $500 bales.
Cincinnati, quiet, 81, 1870 bales.
Louisville quiet, 5 1-16, - bales.
ST. Louis dull, 5, 1,401 bales.
Houston, steady, ~, 22,6l6 bales.
New York, dull, 51s, - bales.
RALEIGH COTTON.
RALEIGH, N. c., October l.
Receipts 315 bales. Market quiet.
New cotton ....,............. -. 44G5
PRODUCE.
Spring chickens ................... 12h0171s
Eggs ..........,, .......s'.'s.s'.'''' 10 WAo7a
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r!EW YORK.

NEW York, October Flour dull and easy
winter straights $3.45a360; do. patents S375a3 So
Minnesota patents $3.50; Minnesota bakers $3.i5
a3.35; winter low grades S2;25a2.f5.
Rye -four quiet at $2.75m3.20.
Buckwheat -four quiet at $1.65al75
BuckWheat quiet at 40a42.
Corn meal steady; yellow western n; city rs.
Rye easier; No. q 49; State 80.
Barley dull; western choice new mailing 4ia
81 do. feeding 80 Ia.
Barley malt quiet; western 53a61.
Flax seed easy at "a.
tions. March -; May 67zs; December 67&s
Corn, spot steady No. 2, $50; options, May
80: November 49,; December 3i9s
Oats, spot quiet; No. 2, 26; options, dull.
Beef steady; family 1.00i extra mess S8a
$50; beef hams $3.50; packet $9.00alO.O0; city
extra India mess S14.00al500
Cut meats dull; picked bellies 6a7ls;
IL.
Lard easier; western steamed closed S5.12I@;
city $3.50; october $5.O7, nominaI; refned
steady.
Pork dull; mess $s.5Oa9OO; short clear
Sl1 GOAL 1915; family Sl250Gl300
Butter steady; western creamery 10 1-2a20 1-2;
do factory II l-2a14 ii; Elgins 81; imitation
creamery bali; State dairy l4019.
Cheese steady; large white 81; do. small
~; large colOred 10; do. small N; light
skins 64a6 IL; part skins 5}4a5 IL; full skins
2a2l5.
Eggs steady; State and Pennsylvania II LA
10: western fresh II ID.
Potatoes. easy; Jerseys SLIP 81 10;
New York $i.25al. G2 IL; Long Island 81 .50m rs;
Petroleum steady; refined, New York, $3.50;
Philadelphia and Baltimore $3.50; do in bulk
$3.50.
Rosin quiel; strained, common to good, S1.30.
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Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady; winter patents S3.30a350; do.
straights s310a3.20; spriug special brands $500;
spring patents $3.30a3.60; do. straights $4,000
900: bakers S3.t0a3.40. WheatNo. spring -;
No. spring 591a@611s; No. red 81. Corn
No. 2, 291a. Oats-No. 2, 21Aa22; No. 2, white
Is; No 8, white 22I@2j. Rye-No. 2, 45.
BarIey-No q 33a43. Flax seed-No. /, SO.
Prime Timothy seed $2371&. Mess pork, per Dbl,
81 .85a7 80. Lard, per 100, S4.S0a4S21s. Short
rib Sides loose $5.15a5.35 dry sailed shoulders,
boxed, 4j6a4A. Short clear sides, boxed, SODA
$50 Whiskey, $1.25.
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NOTICE or ADMINISTRATION.

Having qualified as administrators of
the estate of Il. T. Boykin, deceased,
late of Wake county n. c.. this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the said estate to present them
70 the undersigned at his office in Raj
eigh. \. c.. on or before the Sd day of
October, 1899, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery, and all
nersons indebted to the said estate viii
please make Immediate payment to the
undersigned
]. G. MAROON, Admr.
Armistead Jones, Attorney.
October LIST, 1898 1t-W6t
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Turpentine quiet at 30 I-2a3l.
rice steady; fair to extra 5ha6%; Japan 57Sa
SIS.
mai. nrime summer yellow q 1-2a22; butter
grades rs; prime winter yellow 27a28.
Molasses steady; New Orleans, open kettle,
Peanuts firm; fancy hand-picked 5; other
C,abbaCe dull; Long Island S3.50a4.00.
Freights to Liverpool steady; cotton by steam
Sod: grain by steam -;
Coffee-Options, October -; spot Rio, steady;
No. 7. invoice Ga No. iobbing ga; mild quiet
and steady; Cordova Sa15..
dning as; centrifugal, 96-test, A; molasses
sugar 81 refined weak and lower; mould A 5]&;
granulated 5 ~.
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Paul, $3.50; Tobacco, $500; Peoples
Gas, 5,545; Consolidated Gas, 5000;
Sugar, 2S, 2S5; L. S. Rubber, 5,195.
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BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE, Md, october 1.-rFlour dull;
western super $2.250250; do. extra $2.90a3.25;
do. family S35Oa4.O0; spring wheat straight
S4.3604.50.
Wheat dull; spot and October 6S3a6S3s; No
yember 6S 1-2a6Ss5: December6SAd 68 < steamer
No. 3 red -; Southern wheat by sample 6ld
$685. do. on grade -.
Corn dull; spot, s396a33l4; October SO %a337a;
November 80 aa33sa; new or old, November or
December 355Sa35zS; steamer mixed - South
ern white corn 35036; yellow -.
Oats firm; No. white western, 2Sa2S ~;
No mixed Is I-2a26.
Rye easier; No. 2near-by 500; No. western
52A
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LIVERPOOL, Oct. IL p. M.-Spot cotton
moderate demand, prices 1-16d lower; AmeTi-
can middng fair 8 i sd; good middling
good ordinary 2sld; ordinary 9-l6d.
The sales of the day were 5000 bales, of which
500 were for speculation and export, and in
American.
Futures opened quiet with a moderate de-
mand and closed quiet but steady at the de-
cline.
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LIVERPOOL.

Spot cotton closed dull at Lie decline;
middling uplands %; middling gulf 53a; sales
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New York, oct. 1.-Cotton futures opened
steady.
Futures closed steady.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-10
RANGE OF SIMPSONS GUNS.
Battle Ships Can Throw Big Shells
Into Santiago City.

WASHINGTON, July 9-Attention has
been turned to the range of guns on our
ships, for on this depends whether the bonn
bardment will be confined to the outer forts
or whether it will be on Santiago itself and
the inner forts. There are five battle ships
and two armored cruisers besides the lesser
ships to open this fire, namely, the battle
ships Iowa, Indiana Massachusetts, oregon,
Texas and armored cruisers New York and
Brooklyn. The Oregon and Iowa are to be
rushed with the eastern squadron to the
coast of Spain and therefore may not take
part in the bombardment. The three battle
ships and two armored cruisers combined
have twenty-six huge thirteen-inch, twelve
inch and eight-inch guns, having range of
ten or eleven miles on an acute elevation
and a range of over six miles on the ele-
walton which can be given in turrets. This
is an elevation which can clear MORO cas-
tie and the harbor batteries and can about
reach the city of Santiago. The maximum
elevation on shipboard is II degrees, which
limits the full range of the heavy guns
about one-half. 1t is only the large guns
above mentioned that have a range which
could get anywhere near the city as the
six-pounders and under have range OF not
over three or four miles, while the Calling
guns are for close range, usually not ex-
ceeding one thousand yards. Naval experts
say that the bombardment will be confined
mainly to the forts and batteries, Tor while
the big guns can about reach the harbor
vet the most effective work can be done
against Moro, Cayo Smith, the Socapa and
other Notifications leading up to the city.
Once these are reduced the way is clear to
Santiago.
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COLORED CHURCH BURNS
ANTIOCH BAPTIST DESTROYED,
PROBABLY BY INCENDfARY.
Loss of $4,000, with a $4,000 Insur-
ance-Trnin and Street Car
Cut Up City Hose.

Antioch Baptist Church. of which Elder
years, was destroyed by fire last night. The
building was situated at the corner of How
ard and Fourteenth streets and was one OF
the best known colored churches in Indian
apolis. The origin of the flames is not
known, although it is believed the match
was applied. AS far as known there had
been no one about the building since Friday
night. when the choir met for practice.
Elder Morton resides three doors east of
the church and was aroused by the cry OF
fire about 11:30 o'clock. When he reached
the church the flames were breaking out
from the southeast corner Immediately
above the room which he used as his study
Within thirty minutes after the fire broke
out the building was a wreck The loss is
estimated at $500, with 81, 500 insurance. In
his study Elder Morton had collection OF
books which were destroyed. 1t was inn
the building. fine cabinet organ built in
imitation of pipe organ was burned. The
congregation had been making arrange
mentS to entertain the General Association
or the colored baptist Church next month,
but will have to make other arrangements
on account of the fire.
Elder Morton said last night that an eff
fort would be made to hold services to-day
under tent in the vacant lot opposite the
church. The firemen worked on the burning
building last night under difficulties. Two
sections of hose which lay across the Big
-Four track were cut by a Big -Four pas
senger train and another section was sew
cred by a street car.
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MUST GIVE UP.
Concluded from First Page

not a desirable adjunt to a battle ship.
From the light manner in which Captain
Evans speaks of the damage, it is not re-
garded as very serious by the officials here,
yet it is probably enough to keep the Iowa
from accompanying the Eastern squadron
to the coast of Spain. A decision as to
whether she will be withdrawn will not be
made until the report is received on the
condition of the ship. Either the Massa-
chusetts or the Indiana will be substituted
for the Iowa if it be found necessary to
make a change. Either of them is as for
midable the Iowa. Their four large guns
are of the thirteen-inch type, while those
of the Iowa are twelve-inch. In other re-
spects their batteries are similar to the
Iowa. They are commonly regarded as
rather better sea-going ships than the Iowa.
The department has not decided to in
crease the number of Watsons ships, as has
been reported, as it is felt that the list an
nounced yesterday is quite ample to take
care OF Admiral Camara's squadron now
returning hastily to protect the coast of
Spain Camaras only armored ships are
the Pelayo and Carlos V, the former of
S,sOo, the latter $3.50 TONS They are out
ranked in every point by the ships of the
American squadron armor armament,
speed, size and number of guns and gem
eral effectiveness.
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Cuba. Our troops now control the APP
proaches TO the town from the south TO the
northeast, and can easily close the semi
circle to the north. In the rear to the west,
however, there are high and rugged hills,
across which the Spaniards might retreat
towards M&nzanilfo. If SIMPSONS vessels
enter the harbor and approach the town
closely, 1t is believed that their guns will
control the line of retreat over those hills
so effectually that were the SpaniardS to at
tempt the passage they would go to certain
destruction.
The Navy Department is having great diff
nculty communicating by wire with Samp-
son, though it is not known whether this
arises from bad cable service or from the
distance at which Sampson lies from the
cable station. All that came from him last
night was a brief report as to the condition
Of the wrecks of the Spanish vessels. The
anime the ships as they lie beached, and the
report is encouraging to the authorities, who
are particularly pleased with the prospects
of recovering some of these vessels and add
ing them to the American navy. The only
approach to this type of armOred cruiser on
our lists are the New York and Brooklyn.
In the terrible running duel OF sixty miles,
July g. the Spanish vessels showed more
than once the possibility not only of escape,
but of making a destructive fight, had they
been handled with anything like the skill
and GOODNESS displayed by our own naval
commanders. The Colon. in particular, came
very near getting away altogether, and
from Captain EVans's recital of the chase,
1t appears that had 1t not been for the ore
CONS splendid speed the crack Spanish
CfulSeF might nave eSCdpSu " tliS WSolW a. u
to give our navy endless trouble before be-
ing run down. The text of Admiral Samp-
sons dispatch is as follows
playa del Este, July Ga preliminary
report from the board ordered to examine
the wrecks states that wrecking appliances
should be got here Immediately. | think
there is no doubt about saving Vizcaya,
Maria Teresa and Cristobal Colon, If haste
be made. The Colon is the most valuable,
being in perfect order. Would recommend
most powerful appliances be sent at once
The department had already arranged
with the Merritt-C Chapman Wrecking COM
pany to undertake the salvage of these yes
sells. and two of the vessels of that COM
pany are now on their way to Santiago
AS Simpsons dispatch makes out much
stronger possibility of saving the ships than
was supposed, copy of it has been sent
to the contractors with the request to has
ten the work and to be prepared to send
additional assistance if it be found neces-
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HER END APPROACHING
FANNY DAvENPORT,s RELATIVES
ARE NOW ATE HER BEDSIDE.
The Actress Rested Well Yesterday,
but Not Expected to Recover
A Berenice Wheeler story.

DUXBURY, Mass, July ga telegram
from Melbourne Hall tonight states that
Mrs Melbourne Mcdowell Granny Daven-
porD passed a quiet day and was resting
easy
The New York Herald says:
THE theater-going public will be grieved
to learn that Miss Fanny Davenport is dy-
ing at her country place at South Duxbury,
Mass, where she has been lying i'll for some
little time. Members of her family have
been summoned and she has sunk so stead
lily during the last few days that it is feared
the end is close at hand and that death
may occur at any moment.
Distinguished physicians have been in
consultation and have done all they could
to assist their patient to rally from this lat
est attack that followed her recent protract-
ed illness in Chicago and Boston, but her
heart is in a greatly weakened condition,
and despite most skillful medical aid and
tendereSt nursing she has fallen into such
utter weakness that she may pass away at
any moment.
Miss Davenport fell ill some months ago
while playing in Chicago, and she was COM
PEELED TO cancel the remaining weeks of her
season. A state of nervous proStration fol-
lowed, in which existing heart affection
became greatly and alarmingly aggravated.
For days her life was deSpaired of, but the
crisis was finally passed, and, though lying
there weak and helpless, her condition
promised ultimate recovery. She begged to
be taken home, to her charming country
house on the SeaShore near Duxbury, and
her opportunities, the almost pitiful appeals
of sick person, were so constant that they
finally carried her to the train on a litter
and so on to Boston. The journey made
her worse. and at the hotel in Boston, where
she stopped for q brief rest on her way to
the home by the sea-, for which she had
been calling, she was again confined to her
room for weeks. She was always asking to
be taken on, always looking to getting to
the sea.
If you will only take me there / will get
we'll she would say. The doctors quoted
her with promises of tomorrow and to-
morrow, until at last she was able to get
around her room a little, but only on crutch-
es She was nervously i'll and weakness
of the heart had SO increased that no one
was permitted in her room except her hrs-
band and family and the nurse. Finally
however, the long looked for day arrived
and very carefully they removed her to her
PRETTY home down by the sea-, for which
she had been so long begging.
THE change did not result in the perma-
nent improvement that had been looked for,
and though she rallied at first she sank
back again into the old state until the mes
sage was sent out that summoned her rela-
tives.
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WASHINGTON, July 9.-Lively interest
is taken by the War Department officials in
the reports regarding the large number OF
refugees who have fled in panic from San
tiago to avoid the horrors of war. Many of
these people, noncombantants, have looked
to General Shafter for assistance, which
may make a severe drain on the commissary
branch of the expedition. Especially is this
so in view of the great difficulty experienced
by the general in getting his supplies from
the transports TO the shore. If the city of
Santiago holds out for a long time and
Shafter has the noncombatants on his hands
to feed the question of their Sustenance
NAV become a serious conundrum for the
government. General Shafter has authority
10 issue rAtions to the hungry people and
he undoubtedly will do so to the grea test
extent without impairing his own resources.
He has full discretion TO act in the matter
and will do his utmost to relieve any suf-
fering that NAV exist. For the time being
he has all the stores necessary for his COM
mand and enough to deal out some supplies
to the CubanS
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sMoKEIEss POWDER NEEDED.
United States Navy at a Disadvantage
in Using the Black Article.

NEW YORK, July "a dispatch to the
Times from Washington says: Later
stories from Santiago about the engage
ment between the fleets of Sampson and
Cervera dwell with particular stress on the
inconvenience and distress caused the
American gunners by the use of the old
fashioned smoking powder. 1t is not
doubted by ordnance experts that the de-
struction Of the flying Spanish ships would
have been accomplished even more prompt
ly than it was had our guns been fired with
smokeless powder AS it was, in the mad
race and swift succession Of shots fired
after the Spanish ships our vessels were SO
enveloped in the smoke of their own guns
that many a shot went wild that otherwise
would have struck home.
Inquiry at the Ordnance Bureau of the
Navy Department as to the prospects of our
war ships being supplied with smokeless
powder elected the information that there
is no probability of this being done gener-
ally for a considerable time to come. Com
mOdore O'Neill, chief of the Ordnance
Bureau, said that the bureau had placed
very large orders with private manufactur-
ers for smokeless powder and that large
consignments of it were being received and
forwarded to the ships off Santiago. 1t
modore said, to supply all the ships, and in
view of the quantities of ammunition likely
to be used there would be difficulty with
the present facilities for manufacturing the
powder of this country to keep them sup.
Piled"
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The Sign of the Times,
New York Evening Sun.


Women with handkerchefs tucked in Their
collars-and wearing the American flag.
Men with handkerchiefs tucked in their col
lars-and wearing the American flag. Men
with sun umbrellas over their heads-and
wearing the American flag. Children with
tin pals and shovels and the joyful sir of
"off for Somewhere''-and wearing the
American flag. Dishevelled, demoralized-
looking bicyclists-both men and women
but sporting the American flag. Fan vendors
patrolling the streets-and wearing the
American flag. Warm and weary bargain
hunters laden down with bundles-and
wearing the American flag. Swarms of
thirsty individuals about the soda fountains.
all wearing the American flag. Parties of
painting human beings who, after sunset.
seek some little respite by boarding open
cars and letting themselves be borne a;Gng
briskly and breeZly. if not always Sc tisfac-
torily, every member of such parties ear
ing the American flag. Sometimes the flags
number two or more. Sometimes the flag is
in the form of jewelled pin, sometimes IL
is nothing more than an inch of cheap. &C /
tony satin, with a safety pin to ncld it in
place. But ii is there; that is the main
point. Everything that we do, or wear. or
say, or think nowadays is done or veorn. or
said or thought with the flag as Witness
The weather and neglige shirts The sun
Umbrellas and the fan vendors may be
signs of the Times but the J. lag is the Sign
OF the Times, and. in the hearts Of the
American people, for all lime