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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-02

> dozen Diamond Unlaundered Shirts
These never sold at less than 81. Our price
for this lot 621ac.
dozen Navy Blue Flannel Shirts. Just
the right thirg for the soldier boys
1 lot of very pretty Tecks and Four-in-
Hands, mostly dark, al silk. Regular 25c
goods for 12l6c.
lot of Colonial Palhrggan Underwear
Shirts and Drswers-postivelv fast coors
Made by the Otis Manufacturing Company,
which is a sufficient guarantee as to q1slity.
Never sell at less than soc the garment Our
price for this sale 33i8c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-02
GOODS
SPECIAL SALE OF
Mems Furnishing Goods
CHAPMAN'S, 424 and 426 KING STREET.

samples MONARCH SHIRTS coled All
SHIRT AT ONE-rHIRD OFF REGULAR PRICE.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-02

lot of Boys Laundered Percale Shirts
full size and made well, at SEC
Another lot of Mems Percale Shirts, separ.
ate collars. Special value soc.
This is Gem. One lot of Mems Percale
soft bosoms. You will think them regular
soc goods. Our price for this sale 25c.
We have added to our large variety of 10c
Linen Collars and 1214c Cuffs many more
new styles All very popular at the new
prices.
Another lot of the justly popular Manhat
tan Shirts, styles exquisite Popular price
$1.50
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20

New York, May 19.-No great success
attended any effort to awaken active
speculative interest in stocks to-day.
There was in fact no very vigorous eff
fort to do so, the powerful influences
in the market being apparently content
to rest on their oars and wait for more
definite information of the operations
of the opposing fleets in West Indian
waters. Tile measures adopted by the
government to shut off all information
on this subject have apparently prov
ed entirely successful, and Wall street
was completely in the dark. Even ru-
mors on the subject, which are likely
to prove plentiful in such circum-
stances, were not Forthcoming and the
market was consequently dull. There
We're a number of conspicuous adj
vances during the day but they were
by no means uniform nor We're they
simultaneous. First one stock, then
another seemed to be the object
of some special demand, but these iso-
lated movements had very little inlu-
ence on the general list. Sugar was
I lIG IIlOSI pIOIlllSllI OI SUCH SlOckS anu
advanced suddenly about points af-
ter period of early hesitation Tobac-
co also had its period of strength. Rock
Island continued to lead the grangers
and rose at one time to 102, the highest
point on the present movement The
| grangers were also quite strong though
the volume of dealings was below that
of the last few days.
| Later in the day Manhattan enjoyed
| period of activity and strength. This
| spotty kind of demand seemed to have
exhausted itself late in the day and the
| semi-stagnation which ensued encour-
aged the bears to make desultory at
| tack on prices which yielded all around,
| in some cases nearly point making
| the closing easy at alevel considerably
below the highest, but with notable net
| gains still remaining for many promi-
nent stocks. Quite a feature of the
| trading was the way in which stocks
| which have lain dormant for
some time were awakened into move
ment and in almost all cases this
movement was sharply upwards. There
was also considerable demand for small
lots of dividend-paying and high-priced
investment stocks, such as is always
concurrent with release of large
Sums of money and an extension of
| credits.
Bonds showed a notable awakening
into activity evidently result of the
more abundant supply of money. The
Missouri Pacific issues were all in de-
mand and were advanced from 15s to
3as per cent. There We're very heavy
dealings also in Union Pacific tours at
a slight concession from last nights
prices. Total sales $2,375, 900.
United States new fours registered
declined u and the coupons u in the
DID price. There was no other change.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
PYTHIAN FIELD DAY.

Some 500 of the Gaily Uniformed
Knights Participated in Exercises at
Derby Yesterday.
Derby, May 18-The Uniformed rank,
Knights of Pythias of Connecticut, held
it's annual convention here to-day and
received a most cordial welcome All
the principal streets were deliberately
decorated with bunting, and vast
crowds assembled to witness the vari-
Gus exercises. The knights arrived on
the morning trains to the number of
nearly 500. Brigadier General r. G..
Chapman arrived last night and estab-
lished headquarters at the Bassett
house. At noon the military parade
moved through the streets of Derby
and Shelton, the line breaking ranks at
Housatonic park and after an inspec-
ton by the officers, and returning to
town for dinner. At the Bassett house
the parade was inspected by city Off
Gals. In the afternoon the competi-
tive drills took place and tonight a
carnival and dance was held at Housa-
tonic park.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20

of a larger history made by two great
world powers, battling for supremacy.
The shade to-day is a greater COM
mentator on one period of the Old Tes-
lament history than the grammar or
the lexicon. The literary form Is
recognized in it's bearing on interpre-
tation. The new conception is all the
time growing. Bible study in the flu
ture can never be what it was in the
past. There will be more reverence,
more accurate method. All of us are
affected by it. Some have wholly given
themselves to the new light that comes
from such a view of the Bible.
(S) The Ideal of the Christian Life.
This is not seen now in the thought OF
getting to heaven or escaping hell.
Salvation is not huge life insurance
scheme, or a fire insurance scheme 1t
is not something that we have to die
to win. A second sphere in which
transition is going on is in the practical
part of church life. The conception of
the church work that we have to-day;
the institutional church has come. 1t
is doing it's work. The redemption of
the whole man concerns us, not only
the soul but the body as we'll; not only
as an individual. but as a social be-
ing. Physically and psychologically he
is solvable, but also socially and so the
civic relations are being leavened, the
social relations looked after, the COM
mercial relations, the Industrial rela-
lions.
The speaker then dwelt upon the
changes that have come about in
church services and the organization in
the church and their relation to the
church.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
THE INDIAN CROCODILE.
Ferocious and Prolific, He is the TIE

Ferocious and Prolific, He is the Ter
ror of the Rivers of the Empire
The Indian crocodile is ferocious
and dangerous animal, and causes
tally in Lower Bengal. In the daily po-
lice reports you seldom fail to see an
account Of some man, woman. child or
animal either carried off or wounded
by crocodile, and numerous cases are
no doubt never reported.
In all the smaller rivers of Jessore
Pubna and other districts the ''ghaut,"
or bathing place, of every village is
protected by palisades, and it is not
safe to venture even into these inclosed
places incautiously, for the cunning
reptile creeps into them at night and
lies in wait. / once saw a crocodile
that had seized little girl by the thigh
in one of these places, and was swim
ming off with her in his mouth, pursued
by the father in a cocoanut- trunk ca
noe, with a bamboo pole. He COM
PEELED the crocodile to drop the child,
but it had torn off one leg from the hip
before doing so.
The blind ferocity of the Indian croc-
odile is well known. I had young
specimen about six inches long, which
I kept in a tub of water. In him was
concentrated all the ferocity of his
race. All attempts to conciliate him
were vain. A stick put into the water
was seized at once and held with the
greatest tenacity. There was no get
ting him to relinquish his hold, and he
snapped with the greatest fury at eve
rything put into the water. Yet, on
the other hand, ! have seen full
grown crocodile who lived in large
pond so tame that he came swimming
up to man, who, standing waist-deep
in water, called him by his name, "Ka-
lay Khan" and dwould take fowl or
piece of flesh out Of his hand without
doing him any harm.
Very often q number of crocodiles
take UP their habitation in pond, and
are not disturbed by the Indians, who
in time come to consider them as sa-
cred animals, and feed them till they
are so tame that they may be ap-
preached and almost handled with i'm
punity.
Crocodiles wander to long distances
on land, chiefly to change their habi-
tations, owing, I suppose, to supplies
falling short. When met on their way
they are invariably dubbed or speared
by the natives, who believe that the
gall-bladder has medicinal virtues and
always try to get one.
A long experience has convinced me
that the head is not the vulnerable part
in an Indian crocodile. Indeed, can
safely say that in the course of my
long experience, in which / have made
notwithstanding a special study for
a while, 1 have never succeeded in
bringing one down dead with shot in
the head, even from heavy rife aimed
from the very short distance of six or
seven yards. The most effective shot is
just behind the shoulder, and with this
shot have never failed to kill dead on
the spot. In one of our tiger-shooting
expeditions we were led to beat along
a branch of the river Kosi, which, COM
ing down from the hills of Nepaul,
flows between the Bhaugulpore and
Purneah districts, through fiat alluvial
plains, and spreads into numerous
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
FELL FROM A TRAIN.

Christopher Hally of Edgar street, a
brakeman on the New London division
of the Consolidated road, fell from a
car last evening near Cedar Hill and
sustained injuries about the scalp, and
back. He was taken to the hospital
where it is expected that he will re-
cover. He is twenty-eight years old
and married
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20

and the good Judgment of my physician
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for years"
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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
Mercantile safe DepoSitGo
CAPITAL, AUTHORIZED CAPITAL,
100000. $1,000,000
The Union Trust Company,

NEW HAVEN
CHARTERED by the State of Connecri-
cut with authority to act as Executor, Ad-
ministrator, Guardian, Receiver or Trustee
under will or deed.
Is legal depository of money paid into
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trustee for Municipalities, Corporations and
Individuals, and administers trusts of all
kinds Empowered to act as registrar Of
stocks, bonds, or other evidences Of indebt-
edness, manage sinking funds, ana do all
business such as is usually done by Trust
Companies.
It also does general Banking business.
collecting checks. notes, coupons, and re.
is invested by itself and kept separate and
apart from the general assets Of the Com
pany.
This Company is by law regularly exam:
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EUGENE s. BRISTOL. Treasurer.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20

BIZ ASKED
At, Top & s. Fe gen As 49,. soy 80
At, Top. s. S. Fe adj. gen 4s... 63A 63N
Brooklyn FL TT. Co. cts IS. -. "a S4&
Brooklyn Rapid Transit 6 IS. -. 90 95A
Central Of n j., g mtg 5s. .112 l12h
Chic, r. I. & Pacific ext IS. .103A 1892
Chesapeake 4 Ohio gen AS. 1874 79A
Erie LIST Con- prior lien 6 4s.... 80 Sil1s
Manhattan Ry Con. mtg 8 4s... 92h 90
Mo-, Kan. & Teas LIST mtg 49,. SSM SS&
Mo-, Kan. & Texas I'd mtg As. COZ 611a
Mobile & Ohio gen mtg As. $50. Is rs
N. Y, Ont. & West. gen mtg As 97A 9S
N. Y, Sus. & West gen mtg 5s. 911a 81
No. Pacific prior gen mtg 49,. 95 95M
Northern Pacific gen lien S.. Soy 60
Oregon Short Line Con. 5s. -. .102 1025a
Phila. & Reading gen mtg 4s... 82s SO
Rio CIR. & West. LIST mtg As. 81 s2a
Southern Ry list Con. 5s...... 911a so
st. Louis 81 Southw LIST mtg IS. q 1874
Texas & Pacific LIST mtg 5s. 80. JOB 1924
Union Pacific 4s............... 92A ops
Wabash Ry Co. LIST mtg IS. 49,. 1868 107
Wabash Ry Co. I'd mtg 5s.... 81 s2h
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20

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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
New York Cotton Exchange.
Chicago Market.

Reported over private wire by n. G.
Friedman & Co., Bankers and Brokers, 10
Wall street, n. Y, and 763 Chapel street,
Room and 3. New Haven. N. A. Tanner
Manager of Local Branch.
Opening Highest Lowest Close
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20

At the First Baptist church Sunday
evening an especially interesting pat
riotic service will be held which will be
attended by the following bodies: Ad-
miral Foote post, G. A. R.; Nathan
Hale camp, Sons of Veterans, and the
Woman's Relief corps.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
NEW YoRK STOCK MARKET.

Opening, Highest, Lowest Quotations
On the New York Stock Exchange reported
by Prince & Whitley, Brokers, Is Center
street, New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
Closing Prices.

Following are the closing prices reported
by Prince & Whitley, Bankers and Brokers,
46 Broadway, New York, and Is Center st.,
New Haven. Bid Asked
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-20
Government Bonds
Quotations of Active Bonds.

Reported by Body, Mcclellan s. Co..
Bankers and Brokers, 81 Broadway, New
York, and 81 Orange Street. New Haven.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-15
SOUTHERN FORGER ARRESTED
HIS FORGERIES AMOUNT TO
NEARLY 100000.
Perry Lee Downs, Relative of Fitz-
hugh Lee and Jefferson Davis,
Wanted at Baltimore.

Chicago, June 14.-Perry Lee Downs,
the Blue and Gray Legion. has been
arrested by deputy sheriffs, charged
with forging railroad bonds to the
value of $3.50, 900. The sheriff acted on
requisition papers from Governor Tan
ner and the governor of Maryland.
Davis is a relative of General FitZ-
hugh Lee and Jefferson Davis. He
was taken to Baltimore by w. B. Lyon,
the special messenger of Maryland's
governor, who came to Chicago to per-
sonally effect Davis arrest. The al
legged forgery occurred three years ago.
Up to three years ago he was above
reproach, but it is said gambling
caused his downfall He squandered
officials say, and in order to recoup
himself he committed forgery after
forgery, until the amount he had OBJ
tanned in this way became so large
that, to avoid arrest, he fed without
notifying his family. His disappear
ance caused a sensation in Baltimore,
but not once was it thought that he
was a fugitive from justice. The first
inkling of the truth came from a brok-
er named Logan, who came to Chicago
to identify the fugitive. Logan had
dealt with Downs in railroad bonds,
and discovered, after the disappear
ance, that the papers were forged.
Within a few weeks, it is asserted, it
was learned that he had forged bonds
worth nearly 100000, and that the
greater part of the money had gone
in speculation in stocks.
Downs is credited with having a re-
markable record as a duelist In Chi
cago, to hide his identity, he is said
to have affected many eccentricities
of personal appearance, notably wear
ing his hair falling to his shoulders.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-15
Merchants License Laid Over

The city council met in special SEES
SIGN to consider the merchants license
ordinance ard the objections thereto.
After some discussion, Councilman
Woolley introduced an entirely new or
dinance. which provides for a uniform
license of $40 a year for retail business,
and $40 for wholesale. This was dis
cussed and numerous amendments pro-
posed, and finally a motion by Ash to
lay it on the table was lost, and the
ordinance passed to first reading. The
merchants were represented by A. w.
Putnam, George c. Bent and c. ]. A.
Lindquist. They spoke in opposition
to the license. especially to a Uniform
license, claiming that IS per cent OF the
merchants OF the city were opposed to
a uniform license, They pointed out
the injustice of making a small bust
ness pay as much tax as a, large one,
and finally the council decided to pro
coed 70 further in the matter until
other representatives. can be heard
from. Council adjourned, after spend
ing about an hour in committee Of the
whole.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-15
ELECTRICITY ON A RAMPAGE
Dan Pugh Receives a Shock-Street
Car system Interefered With.

Dan Pugh had a narrow escape from
electrocution yesterday, and, as it was,
he had an experience which taught him
how it feels to be executed in New
York. About O'Clock Mr.. Pugh went
TO tie his horse to a post near the
southeast corner of Lincoln avenue.
Immediately he was seized in the grip
of powerful electric current, and does
not remember the details of events for
a few minutes. Mr.. Pugh pitched for
ward and fell with his head in a ditch,
he having lost consciousness. A lady
| living in the house on the corner saw
the accident and ran to the mans aid,
summoning other help. Actual I'M
consciousness lasted but a little while,
though MIR. Pugh received such a ter
rife shock that he was well nigh help
less and unable to get home for nearly
an hour.
The post through which the current
came was set in the ground near the
corner, and from it two guy wires were
stretched to the top of a pole belong
ing to the electric light company, but
which was not in use except that from
it two wires reached across the street
and aided in supporting the pole on
the other corner. None of these wires
were supposed to be live wires, but in
some way they had come in contact
with live wires and become surcharged.
Possibly the freaks of the lightning in
the forenoon were responsible for the
disarrangement of the wires. About
$3.50 the wires on South Washington,
near the end of the line, were struck.
The current ran down the line, temper
arily disabling the mechanism of one
of the cars, on which Al Powers was
mot0rman, and likewise damaged the
machinery at the power house to a
Slight degree.
Poles out in the southern portion of
the city were touched and splintered
somewhat, and telephone wires dis
arranged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-15

seemed to have cleared the atmosphere on
the board of trade ana today there was
nothing to remind one of the disturbance
but the lower prices. The Letter deal
buried so far the trading in deferred
futures was concerned, but the obSequieS
of the cash end of that remarkable specu-
lation were still TO be perfected.
Wheat started not far from the closing
prices of the day before for the bulk of
transactions, although a few sales were
made al y cent Improvement in SeDten-
Der and December delivery. Weakness
very soon developed, however, and July
sold down cents and September and
December about IL cents each during the
half hours trading. 1t became rumored
during the forenoon that besides buying
from Letter all the June wheat the latter
had coming to him, Armour had bought
all the cash wheat held by the young
Spectator in Minneapolis and Duluth.
That gave a little frmer tone to the pro-
ceedings in the pit. The gathering
strength was increased when the rumor
received the substantial confirma ton of
the president of the Illinois Trust &
Savings bank. To complete the bullish
combination the weather was still wet in
Texas, where much of the wheat is in
shock, and it rained heavily in Kansas
and other western states. where wheat
cutting had commenced. Liverpool con-
tr1buted a further item of bulliShneSS by
cabling that the wheat troughout east
Central Russia was threatened with total
failure from drought and that the worst
WIS DTODdD-e unless ram renewed Jne
situation within a week. The Liverpool
quotations, however, were anything but
bullish. giving clear indications of the
abandonment of a threatened July corner
in that market July wheat there was
Is Sd per GENITAL or the equivalent of IS
cents a bushel lower tbs morning than it
closed yesterday. but September was only
the equivalent of 1S4 a bushel. and De-
cember sc lower. July at Liverpool had
recovered about cents a bushel of its
early loss before the close. July closed
with loss of IL cents and September Ac
lower.
The continued showery weather and the
more settled feeling in the wheat pit
created a firm tone in corn. July closed
unchanged.
After a weak start oats firmed upon re-
ports of wet weather. Prices at one
time showed a slight advance. The close
was unchanged from yesterday.
Reports OF an improvement in the yell
low fever situation in Mississippi. to-
gether with light receipts of hogs and
higher prices at the yards had a strong
influence in provisions at the start. The
market reacted later on selling by Eng
lsh packing concerns.
Swift was also a seller Pork lost 1711
cents and ribs 2I2 cents. Lard closed I'M
changed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-15
SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS.
Stocks at London.

New York, June 14.-The Evening Posts
London financial cablegram: The stock
markets here were stagnant today. the
brokers being at the Ascot races. Amer
leans Were dull. closing at about the low
est on the collapse of the Letter wheat
deal This caused a semi-panic on the
Liverpool corn exchange, and renewed
rumors as to the solvency of some firms
here.
The SeligmanS announce the details of
the United States government loan and
that they are prepared TO remit subscrip-
tions from here. II is understood that
the Brazilian funding scheme will soon
be submitted to the bondholders by
council of foreign bondholders acting for
the Rothschilds, who, presumably. dislike
fault.
The supply of American bills offered for
discount is again very large.
The difficulties connected with the re-
cent issue of Chilean treasury bills are
in the course of arrangement.