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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-15
HARDSHIPS At THE FRONT.
Story of a Wounded Soldier who Aid
ed in Capturing San Juan Hill.

NEW YORK, July 14-Private James
Carroll, Company M, Seventy-frst Regi-
ment. who was wounded in the battle near
Santiago on July l. and who arrived here
on the steamer Kansas City, said last
night: IF the people here only knew what
the boys have to suffer there would be no
interest in anybody else in this country
With the awful rains that chill through
the night and the sun that blisters all the
day they have not a minute of rest. 1t is
misery to live there. / only had a little of
it, after all, and while I'll have more as
soon as I'm able to go to the front again,
it is only because it is my duty that 1
will go.
lone of the worst experiences l had was
when we were on outpost duty on June 3d.
the day before the bombardment. We had
been soaked through with rain and broied
with the sun half dozen times over, and
finally we were ordered to return to the
base of supplies to get rations for the brig
gade. Incidentally we heard that we would
get the order to start at o'clock in the
morning. 1t was IL en- midnight. We were
told to turn in for little sleep. and did so.
Two hours was not long, but we slept. All
stories about the men not being able to
sleep, except under certain conditions l
believe are yarns. All of us slept, and we
had all sorts of conditions about us. Our
destination San Juan, about eight miles
from where we were
1.-The march was enc of the most difficult
we had in the short time we were away. 1t
was through cactus plants that jagged and
caught us, seemingly. every foot of the
way. Although our orders were to make all
haste possible, we found it all we could do
to travel three-quarters of a mile in an
hour. The natural difficulties were not the
worst, either. Our marching had been dis
covered by the Spanish guerrilas, and,
while we could not see them, they made
their presence felt. They skulked through
the chapparal and kept up a fire that gave
and then some of our boys would be
wounded. The firing kept up all through
the night. which showed that were pur-
sued by those villainous bushwhackerS. At
times we thought we saw their shadows as
they skulked along in the brush that made
our march hell, but which protected
them. When we were not in the open the
plan was to pick off, and, unfortunately,
they succeeded in too many cases.
1--WE only could do the best we could but
could hear a scream follow the crack of one
of our rifles that told that the bullet had
done it's work. but it was hard on us. The
march would have been costly, even If we
had nothing but the difficulties of the way
to fight. When to these was added a fire
from foe that was relentless. you
imagine our condition. The progress was
so slow that 1t was light when we had made
four miles. The firing had got hotter by
this time, and the orders to fight had come.
reeded About O'Clock in the afternoon
the Seventy-first charged the hill at San
Juan. Half way up we got a hot volley
from the SpaniardS that made us stop from
the very force of impact but the stop was
only momentary. The boys kept on and
WON
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AT NEW YORK.
Ruling Prices i'm Produce at the Sea-
boards Commercial MefrOnnIia

NEW YORK, July 14.-Flour-Receipts. 2SO7
brls; exports, 222S brls. Market dull and about
steady. Corn meal dull. Barley malt dull.
Wheat-Receipts 925 bu exports. 75. 555 bu. Spot
easy; No. red, S71z@sSc, f. b. afoat, export
grade SS1ac, f. o. b. afioat and July; SEC in ele-
vator. Options opened steady, but quiet. There
after they ruled inactive, but maintained SUBJ
stantial undertone wet weather predictions and
covering, bullish Price Current report. foreign
buying and export business; closed A@asc higher
on all but July, which Ac net lower. Sales
included: NO red July, SOQ8OAc.
Corn-Receipts 5s.425 bu: exports, so blu. Spot
steady; No. 2. S71ac. Options steady all day on
dry weather news and the Improvement in wheat
closing 9sc net higher july 259sc; September, 36Ss
Q)36Ac closed at 3624c.
Oats-Receipts, 200 bu exports, "a. 4O4 bu
Spot dull; No. q &c; No white, 29c Options
duh and nominally lower in absence of specu-
lative demand, closing &c net lower July closed
at 26c.
Cotton-seed oil was a tri1e easier and very dull !:
prime crude, 1S12c nominal; prime crude, T. o. b.
Mills 16Ql7c; prime summer yellow 23hc; off
summer yellow, 23c; butter oil, 26@2Sc; prime
winter yellow, 2S@29c
Coffee-Opticns opened quiet at unchanged prices
TO points lower; ruled inactive with weak under
tone following bearish set of cables from for
eign markets, heavy Brazilian receipts light spot
demand and small warehouse deliveries; closed
quiet and unchanged to points lower. Sales
4o0O bags, including: September, 5.55@5.60c. Spot
co11ee-Rio dull and nominal mild inactive
Sugar-Raw firm and tending upward; fair re-
nning SEC; centrifugal, SO test 4bc; refined firm
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TRADE IN GENERAL.
Quotations at st. Louis, Baltimore,
Cincinnati and Other Places

ST. LOUIS. July 14.-Flour dull and unchanged
Wheat unsettled and irregular. closing 1c lower
December compared with yesterday. Spot lower;
No. red, cash, elevator, nc bid: track 723c:
July 691sc bid; September 655sQ65Mc; December
oossc bio, NO hard. cash, nominal. Corn-Fu-
lures fractionally higher. Spot dull but steady;
NO 2, cash. Bic; July 307sc; September 307sc bid
Oats irregular for futures which closed fraction
ally lower. Spot higher; No. 2, cash, 23c; track
24024l2c; July. 22l2c asked; September 19AGl9ssc;
No white, 27@2sc. Rye wanted at 45c. Timothy
Corn meal steady at 81. 7O0175. Bran strong and
higher; sacked, east track, 4S05oc. Hay steady;
creamery, 14Q16lsc; dairy 10GI4c Eggs steadv az
SIC loss off. Whisky steady 81 25. Cotton ties
and bagglng un &c Pork quiet; standard
S5.50G575; extra short-clear, $6.12Ih; ribs sa25
shorts. s6.37h. Dry-salt meats-Boxed shoulders
.; extra short-clear. $5.62h ribs, $5.75; shorts,
s5.S7l2. Receipts-F1our. 1000 brls: wheat "a 600
bu; corn, 1000 bu; oats, Il, 600 bu. ShiDments-
Flour LOCO brls; wheat 5000 bu corn. 8. 600 bu;
oats. 10000 blu.
BALTIMORE. July 14-Flour dull and un-
changed; receipts. 5,212 brls; exports, 1873 brIs
Wheat easy; spot, S2AlS3c; month SOGs0hc.
August, 74AG75c: steamer No. 2 red 76I@m7sasc.
receipts. $3.50 bu; exports none; Southern wheat
by sample, 0QS4c; Southern wheat on grade 1871
MSS1ac Corn easy; spot, 35q35lsc; month. S5G
asked; receipts 6.17s bu exports none; Southern
white and yellow corn, 39c Oats steady; No 2
h441 bu; exports none. Butter and cheese steady
and unchanged. Eggs firm and unchanged
CINCINNATI, July H.-Flour quiet Wheat
easy; NO red, nc. Corn firm: No. mixed
No. white, 42c Lard steady al s525 BuIlt
meats strong at $50. Bacon steady at 665.
Whisky irregular at s1.2sQ1.2 Is Butter steady
sugar easy. Eggs quiet at sc. Cheese firm
TOLEDO. July H-wheat active and steady;
No. q cash. Soc old, 76izc new; july 73Ibc hid
Corn cor dull, dull but steady No mixed &c. Oats dull
No. 2 cash, Acc. Glover seed dull but higher:
prime, cash, 1896 bid; October $780,
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Some extra good lambs sold
EIaeWhere.

ST. LOUIS. July 14.-Cattle-Rec eipts $500. in
Guiding 17o0 Texans: shipments. 1000 Market
and export steers. s. 4o@525 bulk at 81 sea5 TO-
dressed beef and butchers steers $4,000, bulk at
at $4O564.45; stockers and feeders, 81. 9oG74, So
bulk ct 3:1093s 0 cows and heifers. S!04.7 bulk
of cows, s250Q340: Texas and Indian steers, So 80
G4SO. bulk at $S.SOQS.sO; cows ano heifers. $3.50
Hogs-Receipts. $500: shipments. 1900. Market
&c lower; Workers sS.75Q3S5; packers, $S.sOaS9O;
active and steady; native muttons, s4G4.75; lambs
s.5QQ6; stockers. s2.75Q3so cuils and bucks $3.50
"a
CHICAGO. July H.-There was active and
general demand for cattle to-day and prices ruled
strong for desirable offerings choice steers. $5O5@
stockers and feeders 81 9Od4-75; bulls, SSG54 20:
and heifers, s3.15G4; calves So 506z: Western
steers, 81 20G5.15; Texas steers s3.75G4.75
Trade in hogs fairly active on LOCAL and
shipping account but buyers forced prices DC
lower on an average; fair to choice. s3S71sQ4.o5;
packers, $3.75G3.S5; butchers, So S0d4 mixed So 70
Q395 lights, So. 70@S.95: pigs s2.7593.so
Gently ruling; choice sheep sSo525 rams n.' so
$50; Western sheep, 50. 75Q4.75; lambs s4Q6.65
Recepts-Cattle. $500; hogs $4,000; sheep 5000.
KANSAS CITY July 14.-Cattle-Receipts ISIS
natives and 2,225 Texans Market fairly active at
steady prices choice native cattle on sale;
a4s6 stockers and feeders. So. 4oa4.7o; butchers'
cows and heiferss $3G4.5o; butchers bulls. 500;
AIS: Texas steers, $S.15G4.S5; Texas butchers
cows. ss@S.5O.
active buyers at the decline. Prices steady to SC
lower; heavy hogs. s5d4: mixed. sS.7OQsS5 light
weights, s3.556375; pigs, $2.75@360.
Sheep-Receipts. 1885, Demand good and de-
sirable focks selling steady to shade higher;
spring lambs. $566; native muttons $4,000; Ari-
zonas, s450@495; stockers and feeders. $33O@3 IS.
NEW YORK, July ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4OS.
One car steers sold at s.. 10 Feeling firm. Cables
slow and steady. Exports none; none tomorrow.
Calves-Receipts, 3,133.
Hogs-Receipts 3,217. Market firm at s4 20@4. so.
Sheep firm; good stock a shade firmer: lambs
25c higher; sheep, medium to good. $4@45O lambs,
good to prime, $675G7.25.
@4.S5
Hogs easy at SO. 2564.
Sheep strong at $4,000; lambs active at $4,000
$40.
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THE CROP NEWS SCARE
AGAIN FRIGHTENED SHORTS, AND
WHEAT PRICES ADVANCED.
Semi-OhiciaI Estimates Reported Sc
we're Damage as shown by
Threshing Returns.

CHICAGO, July 14.-Unfavorable thresh-
ing returns and disappointing crop news
caused covering by shorts to-day in wheat.
September advanced k9Ac, corn rose IA
&c. and oats 1sc. Pork and ribs gained 21ac
each and lard sc.
The Cincinnati Price Current came to the
rescue of the downward tending wheat mar
ket at the start by remarking that the dis
appointment as to yields continued. and
that former estimates were being steadily
reduced. This, together with private adj
vices from some sections of poor threshing
returns infused little courage into be-
levers in small crop. Shorts were also
impressed to the extent of covering some
of the wheat sold during the weak spell
yesterday afternoon. London was likewise
firm and Cd quarter higher for loft coast
and ION passage and as a consequence the
price of September here advanced ssc over
last nights close. An attempt, however, to
secure some profit on the long side caused
12c break, and that was in turn reversed
when prominent bear put brokers in to
buying on the laSt-named decline The
amount of business done in the pit was the
smallest in twelve months, some traders
said in twelve years. This, it was claimed,
was chiefly due to the corroding influence
OF the war tax. Chicago received forty-four
cars, of which thirty-eight were new. Re-
ceipts last year were thirty-one. Minneap-
oils and Duluth got fifty-four cars, against
259 the corresponding time the year previ-
Gus. Atlantic port clearances of wheat and
flour were equal to 217,000 bushels. July
opened unchanged, at 74c, off to 731ac up TO
74c, declined to 7234c, then rallied to 73c,
the closing price. September started I'M
changed to Ac higher, at 671sG67c, advanced
to 671z@675sc, dropped to 66bc, then re-
covered to 67AQ67c asked at the close.
The report of the Price Current that the
corn crop condition was moderately less as
surfing, much of it approaching a critical
strengthened corn. Light receipts were also
at 317s@32c, rose to 321zc, then sold off to
321sc bid at the close.
Oats sympathiZed with the other grains
There was better shipping demand. Sep
TENDER started 1sc higher, at 1910, advanced
to 1915c, declined to 19c then recovered to
191sQ19Ac, the closing price.
good demand for cash products was
productive of a better feeling in privisions
September pork opened &c higher. at 5000
9.95, rose to $40, weakened to 1886, then
rallied to 1921 at the close. September
lard started unchanged, at $780, sold up to
$5.65. declined to $5571a@5.60, then recovered
to $685.. the closing price. September ribs
began unchanged. at $500, sold up to $751;,
then settled to $5.65G5.6715 at the colse.
Estimated receipts for tomorrow: Wheat,
45 cars, corn, 290; oats, 1856; hogs 20, 900 head
Leading futures ranged as follows
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qufring equipping of cars with automatic
couplers and air brakes than any other In
diana road eS per cent. of its cars and all
its locomotives being provided with these
safety appliances.
The new sleeping car line between Louis
vile. indianapolis and northern Michigan
points; over the Pennsylvania to Dayton
ana the Cincinnati. Hamilton e. Dayton
north from there, is doing a big business,
nightly having forty to fifty passengers for
the northern pleasure resorts.
The Rock Island has withdrawn it's notice
10 reduce rates from St. Paul to Chicago
until after the special meeting of the West
ern Passenger Association. which has been
called for next Tuesday An attempt will
then be made to improve the situation with
out resorting to open rate cutting.
w. e: Conklyn, travelling passenger agent
OF the Chesapeake & Ohio. is in the city. He
states that the c. & o. is having heavy
seaboard travel and its local passenger bust
ness is highly satisfactory. But few roads
have developed local travel as rapidly as
mas the c. & o. in the last five years.
William Green general manager of the
baltimore & Ohio lines, has for some days
been on a Western trip. He says the talk
OF the Brice people getting control of the
Pittsburg & Western is absurd. In the re-
organization scheme the Baltimore & Ohio
VIII continue to control the Pittsburg &
Western.
The Interstate-commerce Commission has
decided to make an investigation into the
matter of the rate war between the Amer
lean and Canadian lines on passenger traffic.
l.. The commission came to this decision,
after holding an informal conference with
representatives of number of Western
lines.
Colonel Hinsey, chief claim agent of the
Chicago Milwaukee & ST. Paul, has been in
the city for a day or two He is chief
claim agent of the 5000 miles of road in that
system and receives a salary of $4,000 per
annum. He has 1000 men detectives I'M
der his supervision. Mr.. Hinsey has been
with the Chicago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul in
an official position thirty-three years.
Receivers Cowan and Murray, of the
Baltimore d Ohio, are working plans TO
make it low-grade road between Balti-
more and Chicago. Many cuts are to be
made on the line between Pittsburg and
Chicago The money for these improve
ments will come from the new securities of
the rcorganized company. On the Chicago
division $500 600 is to be expended at once to
make the grade between Chicago and Chi
cago Junction not to exceed eighteen feet
to, the mile, and from Chicago Junction to
Akron 500, 900 will be spent to reduce the
maximum grade to eighteen feet per mile.
Extensive work will be done in reducing the
grades on the Pittsburg & Western con-
trolled by the Baltimore & Ohio
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Hark! the rattling roll of the musketeers
And the ruffied drums and the rallyng cheers,
And the rifles burn with keen desire
Like the cracking whips of hemlock fire,
And the singing shot and the shrieking she'll
And the splintered fire on the shattered hell,
And the great white breaths of the cannon smoke
AS the growing guns by batteries spoke:
And the ragged gaps in the walls of blue
Where the iron surge rolled heavily through,
That the colonel builds with breath again
AS he cleaves the din with his 'Close up. menu
And the groan torn out from the blackened lips.
And the prayer doled slow with the crimsoned
drips
And the beaming look in the dying eye
AS under the cloud the stars go by.
But his soul marched oni the captain said,
For the Boy in Blue never he dead!
And the troopers sit in their saddles all
And they watch the whirl from their breathess
ranks,
And their spurs close to the horses TANKS,
And the fingers work of the saber hand
Oh, to bid them live, and to make them grand.
And the bugle sounds to the charge at last,
And away they plunge. and the front is passed!
And the jackets blue grow red they ride.
And the scabbards, too, that cank by their side,
And the dead soldiers deaden the strokes iron
shod
AS they gallop right on DER the plashy red sod
Right into the cloud all spectral and dim.
Right up to the guns black -throated and GRIM
Right down on the hedges bordered with steel
Right through the dense columns-then Right
about WHEEL
Hurrah new swath through the harvest again.
Hurrah for the Flag To the battle. Amen,
Benjamin r. Taylor.
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GREAT SAVING in FUEL
BIG FOUR PROFITS BY USING SLACK
ON SWITCHING ENGINES.
Extensive improvements to Be Made
on the Ii. & O.'s Western Divi-
sIon--GeneraI and Personal.

c. E. Shaft. general manager of the Big
-Four lines, recently, with William Garstang,
superintendent of motive power. began in
vcstgatng the fuel question, and suggested
that he fit up the switching engines at In
dianapolis with CRATES to burn slack. The
cost of converting an engine which burned
coal into one to burn slack does not exceed
SO. AS a result of this conference the
switching engines at Indianapolis were con-
verted into slack-burners. The result is a
saving to the company of 200 per month
with the switching engines used at Indian-
apolis, and the management has decided to
fit up all its switching engines to burn slack
coal where it can be had. This will effect
a saving in cost of fuel to the road for its
switching engines of several thousand dol
lars a month, and the service will be just
as satisfactory as when the much more ex-
penSiVe coal was used.
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Heayx Busines. Tor six Months.

The business of the Western roads for
the first six months of the present year was
phenomenally heavy Earnings made new
records, the grain traffic alone presenting
surprising aggregates. The deliveries at
Chicago by the Western lines of all kinds
OF grain amounted to 134, 176.C00 bushels, an
increase of 4O, 949, 900 bushels over the CORE
spending period of last year. or gain of
more than 40 per cent. The outward move
ment was equally heavy reaching 135 99S, 600
bushels, an increase of 50 $50 600 bushels. or
over so per cent. The car movement was
the largest on record. aggregating 142, 1888
cars an increase of 5000 cars over the pre-
vious year The Rock Island showed the
largest gain although the Burlington ham
died a greater number of cars.
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PRICES UP WITH A JUMP
FOREIGN TRADERS BANKED ON
sPANIARDS NOT GIVING IN.
Stocks Made Good Gains, and the
Movement I'm Bonds Was Large
and Upyvard-LocaI Trade.

AT New York, yesterday, money on call
was steady at 1G11a per cent; last loan, 112.
Prime mercantile paper, 312@414 per cent.
Sterling exchange was steady with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at
s4.s5A04.s6 for demand and at s4S41sd4 S4s4
for sixty days; commercial bills, $4.S3s4.
Silver certificates 591sQ591kc; bar silver,
591sc; Mexican dollars, 4512c. At London
bar silver closed steady at 2714d an ounce
Total sales of stocks were 22S, 500 shares,
including 24,055 Atchison preferred, 71SS Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy, 5000 Louisville
& Nashville, 1885 Manhattan, 4,540 Missouri
Kansas & Texas preferred, 1886 New Jersey
Central, 5000 New York Central, 1880 Read
ing 500 Rock Island 1855 st. Paul. 1,120
Texas Pacific, 9,312 Union Pacific preferred,
1892 Spirits 1870 Tobacco, 3,775 Peoples Gas,
9,000 Sugar and 10, 400 Rubber.
The stock market showed a firm resist
ance to pressure all day yesterday, and
when the news was received that Santiago
had surrendered on our terms a vigorous
upward movement set in which wiped out a
large part of the losses incurred in Wednes-
days bear raid. The fear of the introduce
ton of yellow fever into this country if it
had as much to do in Wednesdays decline
was indicated by the sharp recovery yes
terday in such stocks as Louisville & Nash
vile and Southern Railway preferred. There
was a brief period of depression al the OPEN
ing due to sympathy with London, where
the belief prevailed that the Spaniards
would refuse to surrender Santiago and thus
necessitate a long siege. The local bears
early evinced uneasiness and bought stocks
to cover short contracts put out with great
confidence yesterday. Their confidence had
been unsettled not only by the confidence
expressed in Washington circles that SAINT
iago would surrender, but also by the fact
that the government loan would have to be
met. The covering movement was aided
by a raid on the anthracite group which
yielded easily and dragged the market back
to near last nights level, about which it
drifted very sluggishly until the final up
ward movements. Net gains in most stocks
were near point and some cases, notably
Omaha and Hawaiian Commercial gains eX-
coed two points. The entire absorption of
the government loan by small subscriptions
seemed practically assured. There is no
doubt that this will release considerable
sums of money held by banks, corporations
and SyndicateS as reserves against bids for
lesson of the wealth and resources of the
country this subscription of a $500, 100000
loan bearing interest below the ruling saw
ings bank rate, is expected to have a strik-
ing effect.
The movement in speculative bonds con-
prices was resumed, traders covering short
contracts put out yesterday. Total sales,
So 5000 United States fives and the old
tours, coupon, declined Il in the bid price.
The following table, prepared by L. w.
Louis, Room II. Board of Trade, shows the
Of afiOnS
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Certificates have been issued to the fol-
lowing-named Indianians:
Additional-John Irwin, Lafayette, so to
$l2; Lemuel Hunt, Modoc, IS to $12.
Restoration and Unconstitutional M.
Duke, dead. Bloomfield. IS to $12; Samuel Z.
Walton, dead, Walton, Sc to $12.
Restoration and Reissue-Washingto
Westfall, Bonneville, $14.
Increase-Mordecai NJ. Mcdowell Vim
cennes, $l2 to S14; George Hill, Silver Lake,
IS to $40; John z. Fitzpatrick. Bloomington,
$la to $50; George W. Steely, West Lebanon,
$40 to $l4; James f. Friel. Frankfort, Sc to
49, Isaac J. Bolton, Oaklandon, IS to So: VIII
liam f. Burgess. Stampers Creek, $40 to S14
Elias Street, Washington, ST TO $24; VIII
liam Il; Stevens. Cambridge City, $l7 to $50;
Levi Rhorer. Bryans Creek, so to $12; Levi
Johnson. National Military Home, Marion,
Sc TO IS; Henry Lebo, Bruce Lake, Sc to IS:
Fielding MCGOWAN. National Military Home
Marion. S. to $12; Wesley Lawrence, Leb-
anon. s. TO $40: Henry Miller, Scipio. IS to
SO: Train c. Mcclure, Wabash Sc to IS:
Elijah Tower. Marengo ST to s24; John r.
Veatch, Mitchell, SIG to 81.
$40 N'' my
Reissue and Increase-Jacob Miller, Ross
vile, SIG to $24