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The courier., 1898-10-29

Henry Drummond OF Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Marshall will give
. luncheon tomorrow evening for Mrs.
Charles o. Robinson Of Chicago.
Mrs. Smith and Miss Smith OF C.av-
tordsville. Indiana. are the guests Of
Mrs. G. w. Chambers.
Mrs. N. Ackerman went to Omaha
this week to attend the Council of Jew
ish women.
Mrs. N. d. Welch, Miss WEIGH. and
Miss Ruth Bryan spent several days this
week at the exposition.
The Round Table will meet Monday
evening 1T the homo Of Mr.. Albert Wat
kins.
Judge and Mn. Frank Irvine will on.
terrain at cards this evening.
Mn. r. N. Howell will give Kensine.
ton Tuesday afternoon. November Let.
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Express Companies Alarmed.

Officials of the various express companies
doing business in st. Louis are much wor-
ried over a pamphlet which has Just been
issued by the National Association of Traffic
Commissioners in regard to the payment of
the war stamp tax on express receipts. and
containing suggestions for the extension of
the parcels post system i'm the United
States. The work Is designed to bring
about a general movement all over the
country to have the interstate-commerce
law changed so as to place express COM
panies under the jurisdiction of the Inter-
late express companies in other ways What
the express companies object to most is a
suggestion to improve and extend the par
GELS post system in the United States. The
pamphlet has not only been mailed to all
commercial organizations, but has also
been sent TO members OF the United States
Senate and House OF Representatives in
Congress. with an appeal to have the neces-
sary Legislation enacted. The National AS
ISOLATION of Traffic Commissioners will hold
its annual meeting i'm Washington In De-
cember. and will make hard fight to have
its suggestions adopted by Congress. The
extension of the parcels post system as pro-
posed would deprive the express. companies
OF nearly half of their revenue. as they
could not compete with the postal rates.
and they will make; determined fight to
prevent the loss of such a large part of
their business.
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SMALLPOX At DAWSON.
Disease as Well as Famine May Work
Havoc in the klOndike.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Oct. 1s-Ac-
cording to a report received from persons
arriving from Dawson on the steam schoon-
er Dirigo. smallpox has developed in the
capital of the Klondike. j. c. McC1oud, of
Seattle who left Dawson Sept 25 says the
night he left it was reported that there
were three cases of smallpox in town. The
patients were quietly removed to a tempo
rary pesthouse. The police had ipaugurated
a thorough search and were taking sanitary
measures to prevent spread of the con-
tagion.
Two hundred and fifty mounted Canadian
police were met at Fort Selxirk on their
way to Dawson. where they will be sta
toned for the winter.
Several lives are reported to have been
lost in the struggle to reach the coast from
the interior The last party who crossed
the glacier lost two whose names have not
Feen ascertaired. One broke through the
snow into q crevice. The other slid into a
chasm hundreds of feet deep.
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STOCK LIST NEGLECTED.
ONLY FEW DULLER DAYS IN HIS
TORY OF NEW YORK CHANGE.
Acute Depression on Foreign Bourses
Felt ON This Sidc-L0caI Mar
kets Steady and Firm.

AT New York yesterday money call was
easier at 2Q2is per cent; last loan, per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. sAG4 per cent.
STERLING exchange steady. with actual busi-
ness 10 bankers bills at s4.s4A @4.s4ls for demand
and at s4s1lz@4.sl% for sixty days; posted rates.
N.sz@4.S2ls and s4.S5; commercial bills. s4SOls
Silver certificates. 6OA@61c; bar silver. coo; Mex
lean dollars. 46s4c. At London bar silver closed
steady at "a l1-lsd an ounce.
Total sales of stocks were 1876 500 shares includ~
ing: Atchison preferred. SPAS: Lake Erie & West
err preferred 1890; Louisville & Nashville 1920:
Manhattan 9.52O Northern Pacific, sI2S Union
Pacific, 5735; St. Paul. $3.50; Southern preferred
4S2s; Union Pacific preferred. 1000; American
Spirits preferred 12.110; Sugar, is. $50.
Only few days in the history of the New York
stock Exchange offer such a record of dull
ness and apathy as that of yesterday. The in
dustrials still continued to lead the market in
volume of transactions, but even in them business
was comparatively Insignificant. The small acute
depression existing in foreign exchanges on &C.
count OF fears that there is possibility for mis-
chief in the Anglo French controversy over the
tue 70 the upper Nile was reflected this side
and drove prices down sharp fraction at the
opening The market was so utterly sluggish and
apathetcs that there possibility of retriev-
ing this early decline and prices dragged along
at the lover level throughout the day. Not the
/
curites in foreign markets is the vagNeness of the
explanations. All the favorable factors in the
business outlook are ignored and there is no
aggressive leadership forthcoming for bull cam
paign 1t is very evident, however, that stocks
are very closely held. that the duIlness of the
| market gives 1t an undertone of strength Lake
Erie & Western preferred reflected doubts over
the dividend which was to be acted on at noon
by an early dip of IA and subsequent rally of
10 points when the declaration of the regular
dividend was announced. There were sharp de-
clines in Lackawanna, New York Ar-brake
Hawaiian Commercial and some strength in
American Steel and Wire. Manhattan and a few
railroad stocks. Some slight feverishness was
also shown in the dealings of Metropolitan Street.
railway. Otherwise the market was without
feature.
The bond market was dull as the stock mar
ket. but prices were better maintained. Total
sales sl,el5,O0O. United States old and new fours
and the fyes. registered, advanced u in the bid
price for the registered issues
The following table. prepared by l.. W. Louis
Room II Board of Trade shows the range Of
quotations
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WAR ON THE SCALPERS
THE GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS
WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHT.
Il. H. a. l.. Sale POstpOned-TroubIe
Brewing for the Express COM
panies-No Differentials.

The General Passenger and Ticket
Agents Association held brief session at
Detroit yesterday. at which ''anti-scalping
legislation" reported on BY a committee
appointed at st. Louis in 1897. was dis
scussed. New recommendations were en-
bodied in the committees report urging
continuance of tho fight for anti-scalping
Legislation by Congress- along the same
lines as heretofore. George III. Daniels. of
the New York Central, who is an active
member of the committee. stated that the
consensus of opinion in the committee is
that the organization indorse and Coop
.erato with the action of the National AS
sociation of Merchants and Travellers, re-
Gently organized in Chicago to work
against ticket scalping. MIR Daniels said
the work of the special committee in Wash
ington would be continued in the future as
it has since the committees appointment.
Time" said Mr.. Daniels, lis nothing in
this work. The society intends to keep
steadily at It until the scalping is entirely
done away with
A resolution offered by j. r. Wood. of the
Pennsylvania. was adopted. recognizing the
efforts of Chicago merchants in leading a
crusade against ticket scalping, thanking
the originators and pledging. the railroads
aid. Resolutions were adopted reciting the
railroads position and urging enactment of
anti-scalping laws. Charles 5. Rec, of the
Northern Pacific. formerly vice president,
was elected president of the association,
and George H. Daniels, of the New York
Central. vice president. A. j. Smith, of the
Lake Shore, who has been the secretary
for more than twenty years, was again re-
elected. Boston was chosen for next year S
meeting. "a
A reception attended by local business
men was held at which the fight for aboli-
ton of ticket scalping was discussed from
the railroads standpoint. Business men
We're urged that ii Is TO their interests to
bring an end to the scalping operations. A.
M. Compton, chairman of the executive
committee of the new Merchants and
Travellers Association. showed LOO samples
of mutilated tickets. After concluding bust
joyed a trip across Lake St. Clair.
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steady to strong: No. 2 red. cash. elevator. zoe;
track. 1Ou7l1zc; December. 707sc; May, 10isc; No:
hard, cash, 66Q6Sc. Corn-Futures strong and
higher Spot strong and advancing: No: 2 cash.
3I2c bid: October. 32c December. 31ssc bid; May,
Sz1sc bid. Oats-Futures fractions better. spot
steady: No. 2. cash. pc bid: track. 2SsG24c; De-
white 25l9Q26c. Rye firm at 4sc bid. Whisky
steady at $1.25. Prime timothy seed nominal at
$3.50. Corn meal, s1.6061.65. Bran stronger;
sacked, east track, SAC. Hay-Timothy steady al
eco Butter firm: creamery, 19q2312c; dairy, l5Q
zoe. Eggs higher at 14c. Cotton ties and bagging
unchanged. Professionalism mess, jobbing. s..
Lard dull: prime steam, $3.50; choice. 81 So Dry
salt meats-Boxed shoulders, $4S1l2: shoulders.
$4.3Il2; extra short-clear $5.2o; ribs, 500 y
shorts, $3.50. Bacon-Boxed shoulders, AS7la;
Receipts-Flour 1900 brs wheat, 81 600 blu; corn.
AZ COO bu; oats. &c. eco bu. Shipments-Fiour, 700
brls wheat 134.O00 bu; 10000 bu; oats, 5000
blu.
BALTIMORE. Oct. 19.-FIour firm and un-
changed; receipts, 20 451 brls; exports, 6yOO brls
Wheat frmer spot, 744G74ssc; receipts, S12s2 ou;
Southern wheat by sample. 69MI5Ac. Corn f1rner;
spot. 1854 Q365sc: receipts. $3.50 bu; Southern
ern, 2s@29lkc; receipts. IS, 100 bu Rye frmer No.
Western. 549c; receipts, 35,947 bu Butter steady
and unchanged. Eggs firm and unchanged.
Cheese steady and unchanged
CINCINNATI. Oct. 19.--Flour quiet. Wheat
firm; No. red. SOC. Corn firm and higher; No Z
mixed. 3112c Oats firm and higher; No mixed,
25@25l9c. Rye firm; No. 2. SIC. Lard firm at
As7A Bulk meats $5:s7is Bacon firm at So @.
steady. Eggs dull at 12c. Cheese firm.
TOLEDO, Oct 1s.-wheat higher and firm: No.
2, cash, October and December. T0bc. Corn high
er; No: mixed, &c Oats active; No; mixed;
2S1sc- Rye dun; No 2, cash, solsc: Clover seed
active and higher; prime, cash. $3.50.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 19-Wheat strong; Octo-
ber 651xc; No. l hard, Sc; No. ! Northern, SEC.
Flour unchanged. Bran unchanged
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A HEROIC COWARD.
A Stranger to Fear Except in One In
stance.

stance
Cleveland Leader.
They were talking about the brave deeds
that men had performed, and Private Abb
hey's action at FL Caney had been espe-
cially alluded to.
Yes said the major, che did a dozen
things that day to convince me that he
was an absolute stranger to fear. saw
him advance beyond the trenches and stand
and deliberately shoot at the trees in which
guerrillas were supposed to be hiding. I'M
mindful of the fact that bullets were kick
ing up the turf all around him. r saw IA M n I'm
ing from one of his wounded comrades to
another for the purpose OF doing what ne
could to diminish their sufferings. and in
other ways he showed his valor. The man
would surely have won a pair OF shoulder
straps if the war had lasted a little longer,
company. II happen to know of time
when he showed the white feather when
he played the part of a coward, and actually
"Pshaw! Impossiblev' the others ex-
claimed. and the major demanded particu-
lars, saying that he was sure the captain
WELL" the latter continued, I'll tell
you the facts, and then you may judge
for yourself When I was recruiting nS Ing my my
that he'd like to enlist, If it wasn't for one
thing. / asked him what that was and he
replied that his wife had told him he mustn' I
do it. / needed men, and so / made light
OF his wife's objections, the result being
that he joined after getting me to promise
that / would send one OF the OtneF boys
to his wife with the news.
II did as he requested. and began drilling
him. He slept in the armory the first night
after he had become soldier, and every
thing was going smoothly when. along about
the middle of the next forenoon. we heard
woman at the door demanding admittance.
"Abbey's face turned pale and without
saying a word he broke from the line and
ran into the basement. where we found
him. three hours afterward, hiding behind
some boxes, and trembling like Gagged
rabbit.
"After that he would always jump at the
sound of a wOmans voice, and he was the
most nervous fellow l ever saw. until we
got started south. Then change came
over him. Nothing could disturb him and
as you all know. he showed conspicuous
bravery at Ell Caney.
but what made him get sick the minute
we started north? Fear. Yes, he confessed
it to me. He didn't have the fever at all.
He was simply scared out of his boots, and
/ shouldn't be surprised to hear at any time
that he had re-enlisted with some company
that was bound for Porto Rico or the Philip
pines or some other far-away place"
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Elsewhere.

CHICAGO, Oct. 19-There was an excellent de-
mand to-day for cattle and the offerings were
mostly disposed of quickly, buyers being in a
hurry to get through in time to witness the jubilee
parade down town. Sales were a basis of
$49065.15: beef steers. $4.2014s5 stockers and
feeders s3@4.7O; bulls. g 5o@4 rs; cows and heif-
s3Q46O; Western fed steers. $495.50 Texans. 1920
@4.25
were disposed of at 5010c advance; fair choice.
ssS5Qss7ls packing lots ss.5Oass21a; mixed. sS.5
There was a good demand for sheep at steady
prices Most of the sheep came from the distant
feeders being in demand at S. 75a4 Is There was
a very good demand for lambs at s4Q45O for the
poorest to S575@6 for choice hocks Feeding
lambs continued in good demand. with sales at
Receipts-cattle, 1900; hogs. $4,000; sheep.
II, 600.
KANSAS CITY. Oct. Seattle Receipts. s.s4O
natives and $50 Texans The supply was , largely
able slaughtering and feeding cattle active and
strong to loc higher Irasny STOCK STEADY no
s4s0@5.30; light weights S4.30Q5.15; stockers and
feeders So 2o@475; butcher cows and heifers. $27o
Q450: Western steers. $S.25Q4.70; Texas steers,
So 1903 81; Texas butcher cows. S2.70Q3.15; cam
ming stock s2.2OQ2.65
Hogs-Receipts, l4.O15. Trade good, with liberal
supply quickly absorbed al &c higher prices;
heavies ss65ds.sO; mixed. sssoQs.sO; lights $3.50
sheep-Receipts. 1926. Supply largely feeders.
that sold readily at steady prices desirable
$50; native muttons, &G460; Western lambs. s.
$3.50; Western muttons. S425@415; range feeding
lambs, S450@475; range feeding sheep, So 1904
stock ewes. $S25d3.75.
ST LOUIS, Oct. 9.-Cattle-Receipts, 5000. in
Guiding 1900 Texans; shipments LOO. Market
steady to strong: fair to fancy native shipping
and export steers. A.65G5.65 bulk at AS5G5. 30:
dressed beef and butcher steers, S.5005.40 bulk
AZ S46565 20: steers under 1000 lbs, &c. 256D4 40
bulk at sS.75Q4.25: stockers and feeders, $500
450 bulk at $3Gl4.40; cows and heifers $204S so.
huIk OF COWS 81 1903. 20; Texas and Indian steers
ss674 25 bulk at Ss10Qs.s0; cows and heifers. s225
03.05
Hogs-Receipts, S400; shipments 500. Market
5ssi0c higher: Workers. s3.65Q3.75; packers. $1,000
3S5: butchers 81 9013. 30.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; shipments none. Market
strong native muttons. s4Q425; lambs, s50590
NEW YORK Oct. -Beeves-Receipts 22l1
Bulls firm: cows orened steady and closed lower
on medium to fair; oxen and stays. {z9o04.s5;
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TACOMA, Wash, Oct. 19.-Charles Farms
worth. Of Massachusetts, has returned from
Kotzebu sound where he went last April
on the schooner Marion from San Fran
cisco. He says the voyage north. with fif-
ty-seven men aboard. was something terri
ble.. Farnsworths party became Disguised
with prospecting late in August and re-
turned to Kotzebu where they found eight
hundred hungry. and. for the most part,
penniless prospectors, living in tents.
Farnsworth says not one in ten had money
to pay his return passage, ard not one. in
fifty had supplies for the winter. He be-
lieVes that before this time starvation ex-
lists among these argonauts. Among them
were several dozen women and children,
who were suffering for food One family
had been living on rice and picked pork
for ten days Farnsworth thinks the Red
Cross Society or the government should
send a steamer to Kotzebu and rescue
these unfortunateS.
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FELL WHILE FIGHTING.
Two Men Tumble from the Roof of a
FOur-StOry Building.

BOSTON, Oct. ls.-Two roofers, Patrick
Rosch, forty-nve years old, and John Crice,
thirty while employed in repairing the roof
OF four-story house on Hudson street.
became engaged in a quarrel yesterday aft
ernoon. and people below saw them strug-
Cling on the roof The men drew gradually
near the edge, and then. TO the horror Of
the spectators. the two rolled over and fell
fifty feet TO the ground. Both were terri
the Emergency Hospital, while the surgeons
were working over them The cause of the
quarrel is unknown. but il is supposed II
resulted from a little dispute about the
VIC
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AT NEW YORK.
Ruling Prices i'm Produce at the Sea-
boards Commercial Metropolis.


NEW YORK, Oct Observation-Disclosures .. 5S5
hrls; exports, 1,S5S brls. Market moderately ac-
tive and firm. Corn meal firm; yellow Western.
75c. Rye strong; No. Western 52hc. i. f.
Buffalo. Barley malt firm; Western. 55d64c
wheat-Receipts, 200 blu. Spot steady; No. 2
red. 77l5c, f. o. b. ahoat. Options were very
strong all day, with foreign houses good buyers
of options and enormous buyers of cash grain at
seaboard points for export. Higher English cables
and buIlish Argentine and Australian crop news
were also features; closed 1AG1lsc higher; No 2
red May, 71%Q72ssc closed at 725hc
Corn-Receipts, 119, $50 blu; exports, 105 4S5 blu.
SPOT firm: No. 3 391zc, (. o. b. afloat Options
fairly active and strong all day on higher cables
the jump in wheat and export business; closed
N61c higher; May, SO 11-16G40Ac. closed at 4OAc
Oats-Receipts 127. 500 blu. Spot stronger OPP
tions Inactive and nominal.
Cotton-seed oil firm; prime crude, 1Sc; yellow.
22hc.
Eoffee-Options opened steady, with prices un-
changed to points lower, ruled tame and feature
less with local professional interest in control;
foreign cables about standoff; changes in
statistical situation unimportant orders few and
far between and demand for spot article still
sluggish: closed unchanged to points lower.
Sales $3.50 bags, including: October. $500. Spot
cofree-Rio quiet and tending downward. Mild,
small local market.
sugar-Raw firm and tending upward on in
creased demand fair refining, sac; centrifugal,
90 test, 4Ac; molasses sugar, 3isc; refined firm.
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Clarence L. Hartwell and Alice Denning
Frank N. Hartman and Ella Hsllahan.
John Vannoy and Stella Van Cleat
Marion Dunn ami Minnie Snider.
Noah G. Baker and Mary Ella Cook:
Charles w. Register and Jessie Craig
Bartholomew ID. Brooks and Mary Amelia
Spiegel.
Charles Brandenhurg and Mary Evelyn Hoetgen-
Rolla FL. Halstead and Maud g. Silcox.
Peter Burt and Eliza Wicklif.
Alexander Mcleod and Magdalena Spades
August c.. Schergens and Emma Catherine
Simon.
Horace Franklin Nixon and Caroline Denny.
Daniel E. Mckenzie and Hattie Cramer.
John b Schramm and Marie Pierson.
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Information received last evening makes
it plain that the vote of the roads in the
Central Traffic Association territory will be
in favor of advancing rates on Nov. / from
Western points to the Atlantic seaboard to
the basis of 2015 cents on grain and grain
products from Chicago to New York. all
rail, and IFS cents per 100 pounds part rail
and part water. If advanced indianapolis
will take SO per cent of the Chicago rate.
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Alexander Everett, frame church, Barth avenue
and Sanders street. $3.50.
w. ID. Engle. repairs. 1912 Kenwood avenue.
$780,
p. c. Laughner. frame house, Andrews street,
near Twenty third street, $1,000.
G. f. Williams repairs, SlS College avenue, 800.
Minnie Landy, frame addition 609 and GIL West
North street, $3.50.
A. G. CIingIer Kitchen sos Patterson street. $40.
C F. Rommel frame house, sSl Cleveland
street, $780,
Nordyke & Marmon Company. brick building.
Kentucky avenue and Morris street. $1,000.
b. d. Brooks frame house. Concord street, near
GrandvieW avenue $500.
Charles Pope, frame house, Chestnut street,
near Palmer street, $500.
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Carrie and Fred Groom, 2S22 Newman street, girl.
Viola and Guy Campbell 2l30 Montcalm street,
boy.
Nora Eta and Oral Brown. I3O Montcalm
street. girl.
Jennie and Henry X. Roberts, 500 Pennsylvania
street. boy.
Elizabeth and Alfred H. Johnson, 3349 North
Pennsylvania street. girl.
Madaline and Lawrence Olive, $40 Elm street.
boy. ~
Florence and Harry Stout. l72o North New Jer-
sey street, boy
Lou and Gustave Sieske 4si Haugh street girl.
Esther and Fleming Showalte, 513 North David
son street. girl.
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CINCINNATI Oct. ia lodge of the
order OF the Elks. composed of colored men.
has been organized in Cincinnati. Grand
Exalted Ruler Calvin, of the order. says
the action is wholly without warrant. and
clearly void. els the constitution provides
that the members shall be white He will
take no action unless the new lodge under
takes TO use the name B. p. o. E. In that
case he viii undertake to enjoin them.
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Metals.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1s.-There was notable
falling off in demand for several of the more i'm
portant metals to-day with the exception of tin,
which continued its skyward movement with
buyers anxious and sellers hard to find. Speltei
and copper retained most of their former firm
features, but pig iron and lead suffered from a
partial reaction At the close the Metal Exchange
called pig iron warrants duh at 81 bid and 81.
asked. Lake copper unchanged; buyers and sell
ers. 1250c. Tin irregular at 1890 bid ana ~ lUc
asked Lead easy at attic bid and 3.S2lac asked
Spelter quiet: buyers and sellers SC. The firm
naming the settling price for leading Western
miners and smelters quotes lead at S.65c.
ST. LOUIS. Oct 19.-Lead weak and lower at
3621s613. 65c Spelter firm at 4S0Q4.S2lac.
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NEW YORK Oct 19.-The market for dry
goods locally was subject to wet weather condi-
lions this morning, many buyers from nearby
centers being kept out for this reason. The re-
ports of storms in various sections hindered the
senders of mail orders. These causes conspired to
make the day. as a whole. a dull one. The print
cloth situation was not much altered Extras
were quoted at &c, but there were few bids at
this figure Odd goods were frmer. 3S1a-inch,
64souaTes being sold readily at 244c and bids for
more than satisfied reported. In staple cot
tons there an unsatisfactory market