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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03

Bulkmeats, easier at 500.
Bacon, easy at $3.50.
Whisky, firm at $123.
Butter, steady.
Sugar, easy.
Eggs, quiet at &c.
Geese, easy.
Philadelphia, June 2.-Wheat DC low
er; contract grade June, S1.lO.
Corn firm; No. mixed June 3IA q
371ac.
Flour dull and 15@25c lower.
Butter, fancy western creamery, Tic;
do prints, 177c.
Eggs steady; fresh nearby, l2c; DC
western, 12c; do southern, lie
Cheese steady.
Toledo O., Jupne 2.-Wheat, active
firm; No. 2 cash s1.06 bid; June $1.O5.
Corn, dull, steady; No. 2 mixed
341Ac.
Oats, dull, lower; No. 2 mixed 25Ac
Rye, dull, lower; No 2 cash 40c.
Cloverseed, dull, steady; prime cash
1925.
Oil, unchanged
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03

receipts, flour, 15,4GO barrels; wheat,
zoo,cUO bushels; corn, 1888, 900 bushels;
oats, 448,6GO bushels; rye, 27,200 bush
els; barley, 4S,S00 bushels.
shipments Flour. 5000 barrels;
wheat. 320,600 bushels; corn, C62, 700
bushels; oats, 1876 bushels; barley,
1900 bushels.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the
butter market was steady; creameries,
l3@16c; diaries, 11@13c
Eggs firm; fresh 91ac.
Cheese unchanged.
New York, June Flour. receipts,
23,300 barrels; exports, l,4O0 barrels;
inactive and weaker.
Wheat, receipts, $40 400 bushels; eX-
ports, $4,000 bushels; spot steady; No.
+. rcd S712c f. 0. b., afloat September l
to 10; options closed 2Ac lower for July
and other months unchanged to Nc
net higher; No. 2 red July closed at
97Ac.
Corn, receipts, 1SS,775 bushels; ex-
ports, 267, 51S bushels; spot firm; No. z,
1874 @40c; options closed &c net hign-
er; July closed at 3SAc
Oats, receipts, 1877 500 bushels; ex-
ports, 167 200 bushels; spot quiet; No 2,
32c; No. 2 white 331ac; options closed
unchanged; May closed at soc.
Hops, steady. ~
Wool, quiet. z
Cheese, quiet.
Tallow, steady.
CCttonseed oil, steady.
Rice, firm.
Molasses, steady.
Coffee, options opened steady, closed
steady and unchanged to 10 points net
higher; sales, 1850 bags.
Sugar, raw, firm; fair refining 3%c;
centrifugal, So test, Size; refined,
firm.
Baltimore, June 2-Flour, weak and
lower.
Wheat, unsettled and lower; spot
S1.10 asked; month $1OS asked July
90@90Ac; receipts, 36,200 bushels; ex-
ports, 100000 bushels
Corn, dull and easy; spot and month
361a@36%c; July 36A 0367sc; receipts,
19S,600 bushels; exports, 10, 700 BUSH
els.
Oats, dull and lower; No. 2 white
western 34@35c; No. mixed do. 800
321ac; receipts, $1,000 bushels; exports,
1896 bushels.
/ Butter, steady.
Eggs, firm; fresh 11@111ac
Cheese, steady.
Cincinnati, O., June Flour, dull.
Wheat, steady; No. 2 red s1.O5.
Corn, easy; No mixed 35c.
Oats, easy and lower; No. mixed
27c.
Rye, nominal; No. 2 soc.
Lard, easy at $685.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03

erai departments to-day, more especial
~ lead and tin, which recently have
SHOWN pronounced strength. At the
cicse pig iron warrants were unchanged
at So.ao Did and $685. asked; tin easier
win Sl4.So bid and SASS asked; spell
teI unchanged with $3.50 bid and $40
asked, and lead a shade easier with
$5.uR bid and $3S2k asked.
The firm fixing the settling price for
miners and smelters quotes lead at
$3.50.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03

government bonds strong.
State bonds dull.
Railroad bonds stronger.
crocks-The tendencies in the stock
market to-day were much mixed and at
ines 50 conflicting as 10 make any
g.reral view confusing and difficult. 1t
i fair to state. however, IN spite of the
rsscrionary course of some stocks, the
under,one of the market was very firm
and even strong.
In a general way it may be stated that
-be high priced leaders of the market,
with the single exception of Sugar.
came to a halt and even receded while
tbe lower priced stocks, both in the
railroad and industrial lists, were lifted
IN q level more commensurate with the
tigh level attained by the leaders. The
grangers. except Burlington, closed
ower than last night. Burlington was
sustained by rumors of approaching ac-
lion towards refunding some Of its high
Interest bearing bonds.
The very cheap rates in money have
in fact reawakened interest in a num-
Der of refunding and reorganlzing pro-
iects which were abandoned upon the
outbreak Of the war. Peoples Gas was
also clearly under pressure of realiz-
ing. The losses in this class of secur-
tiles especially those of reorganized
railroad companies, were taken up in a
vigorous way and very generally adj
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03
DRY GOODS.

New York, June 2.-The most In
terestlng feature Of the dry goods mar
ket IS the weakening price of some
staple cottons. The reduction in blacks
and whites and in grays have been
followed by generally lower prices in
other lines Of the same grade. Print
cloths continue firm. Prints are gen
orally weak and unsatisfactory.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour dull and weak
Wheat, No. spring, S1.0o@1.05; No.
8 spring, 95c@$1.05: No. red, SLOT.
Corn, No. 2, 931sc; No. ? yellow,
331ac.
Oats, No. 2 251ac; No. 2 white, 29@
291ac; No. white, 2S@29c.
Rye. No. 2, 44@45c.
Barley, No. 2, 39049c.
Faxseed, No. l, s1.22; northwest.
$122
Timothy seed, prime, s2S0@2.S5.
Mess pork per barrel, s1O.S0@10.S5.
Lard, per 100 pounds, $6.05@6.O71a.
Short ribs sides Coose), $5.65@6.00.
Dry sailed shoulders (boxed, 80
5Ac.
Short clear sides (boxed). So. 2O06.aO
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03

Trains Nos /, 2. and daily between
cleveland and Uhrichsville. All other
trains daily except Sunday
Electric cars between Bridgeport and
Wheeling. and Bridgeport and Martins
Ferry and Beliaire.
Consult Agents for general information
as to the best routes and passenger rates
to all points.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03
FINANCE AND TRADE.

>.u York. June 2.-The Evening
N Iondon financial cablegram:
FV TstS sock markets here were less ac-
=, - to-day. but of a firm tone: The
t MANY of operators here in Amerl-
uli.0 Vas evidenced by a small rush to
cans ,,o This morning simply because
Iea . work. prices were a little easier.
AgS York however, absorbed all the
Ns ' offered, and prices closed strong
a, The best
vow York. June 2.-Money on call
.-sdv at 1402 per cent; last loan at
s,frIing exchange firm, with actual
business in bankers bills at s4.S6@
p Dssi. fer demand and at $4.84@4.S4A
III posted rates s4s412@4.S5 and s4.S6k
g Numerical bills s4.S3@4SSk.
silver certificates 591a@6Oc. i
Bar silver 5S7sc. s
800 dollars 1E1Lc <
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-03
METAL.

New York, June 2-The market for
metals developed an easier tone il sew
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16

General Sir Herbert Kitchener. the
sirdar Of the Egyptian army. once had
a very extraordinary experience. hav-
ing swallowed bullet with which he
had been wounded and which he now
preserves as a memento. During the
campaign OF 1858. the then Major
Kitchener was hit I'm the side of the
face by a bullet during skirmish near
Suakim. and was taken down the Nile.
and thence to the Citadel Hospital, at
Cairo, where. despite all the efforts OF
the surgeons. the bullet could not be
located. The wound was a healthy one.
and soon healed, and the medical off,
GERS came TO the conclusion that the
bullet had worked It's way out. without
being noticed. on the passage down the
Nile The Majors nurse one day tempt
ed his patients appetite with tasty
beefsteak. which the Major had no
sooner attacked than he put his hand
to his throat, exclaiming: Billion. N
there was no bone In the steak. I've
swallowed that bullet. felt IL 20
down" This proved TO be the case.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
PROGRESS ON PANArIA CANAL
A Railroad Which Charges Fifty
Cents Per Mile.

Although there is not much talk
about 1t in the newspapers. the con-
struction work now in progress on the
Panama Canal is on a scale OF magni-
tude which will bring the enterprise to
a successful ISSUE" said Mr.. b. L. Hew-
son of the Isthmus of Panama, who is
stopping in this city.
There are now over 1000 men en-
ployed on the canal. and the work is be-
ing done in a thorough and scientific
fashion. Had the first company pro-
ceeded as carefully as the present one,
the canal would have been in opera
ton long ere this. but the first COM
pary squandered millions OF dollars
without hardly leaving a thing TO show
for the money that was spent like wa
ter.
"The canal company owns the Pam
anna Railroad that runs across the 18TH
mus, but the active management is in
other hands. All the officers of the
road and higher employees are Ameri-
cans. Ii is a broad-gauged road, forty
seven miles in length, and OF recent
years has done heavy business. Its
passenger tariff is the highest i'm the
world, as the charge for taking one over
the route is $40 In gold, or almost so
cents per mile. le."-washington Post.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
The Little Encyclopedia.

The Bcrmudas export over 1900 900
pounds of onions every year.
A doctor states that tight, unventi-
lated hats are one of the chief causes
OF badness.
Insurance companies claim that cy-
cling is more dangerous than travelling
either by railway or ship.
There are close upon 1000, 900 married
couples In France who have no chill
dren, and as many more with only one
child.
1t has been discovered that oysters
feed only at about the turn OF the tide,
and that the habit of opening periodi-
cally persists even when they are out
of water.
The rate at which Zulus can travel in
an emergency is astonishing. Some
will cover as much as fifty miles in six
hours. Eight miles an hour is an ordi-
nary pace.
The Japanese address their letters In
just the opposite way to other people.
They write the country first, then the
city, the street and the number, ond
the name last OF ALL
or every 1000 inhabitants OF the
globe eos live in Asia. 2s2 In Europe, Ill
In Africa, SO In America. five in Ocean
ica'and the Polar regions, and only two
In Australia. Asia contains more than
one-half of the total population OF the
earth, and Europe nearly one-fourth
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
now cLornEsPINs ARE nADE.
Their Manufacture by No Means the
Least Of American Industries.

There are probably very few people
outside the trade who know anything
concerning the vast number of clothes
pins that arc annually required to sup
ply the millions of housekeepers
throughout the United States" said a
wholesale dealer in such goods I'm New
York TO the writer the other day. 1T
As estimated that as many as 5O,0OO,00O
uozen, or 60v,000.000 single pins, are
manufactured In eastern and western
factories every year. The product Is
superior In workmanship and finish TO
anything OF its kind turned out any
where in the world, and is shipped
largely 10 all parts of Europe. where II
can be sold cheaper than the rough and
poorly home made article.
"Clothespins are made i'm this country
principally out of beech and maple.
Blocks of this wood are fed to a very
ingenious and exceedingly rapid run
ming machine, which has three sepa-
rate compartments. One OF these cuts
a block OF wood up into a dozen or
more pieces, each OF which is suitable
for forming a pin. IL next seizes and
cuts the 'crutel. or place that is TO grip
the wash on the clothesline. and the
final operation turns the neck and head
of the pins and smoothes and finishes
them off by the bushel. ready for use.
The pins are then packed into boxes,
each containing 720, and the boxes are
then nailed mp by another labor saw
ing machine, ready for the market.
There are two grades OF clothespins,
firsts and seconds. The best quality are
worth 35 cents and the inferior ones
sell for rs cents per box wholesale."-
Washington Star.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
THE PAJAMA SQUAD.
One of the Curious Sights to Be Wit.
messed at Old Point Comfort.

One of the most curious sights at the
Point is the convaIescents who come
and go at will in their fluttering paja-
mas that were evidently fashioned for
stouter men. Many are on crutches,
others have an empty sleeve pinned
across their breats, while the rest walk
listlessIy. not yet freed. from the Ian
guor of feverishness. They are known
as "the pajama squad" They are in
terested in everything that takes
place, from the coming In OF the Nor
folk boat to the arrival of more fever
patients from the camps at Newport
News. but the only real enthusiasm
they feel is for mess-call. They begin
getting up from their cots and looking
at their sticks OF crutches ns soon as
the bugler passes through the, hospital
ground, and the first note Of his sum-
mons Ia greeted with a whoop as they
pass over to the mess-hall and settle
down like cloud about the long tables,
which accommodate 800 at sitting.
The food is excellent. and the bill-of-
fare varies every day. but it Is diff
cult to suit all the tastes OF three or
four hundred men just recovering
from desperate illness The article or
diet most approved OF by the men Is
milk. but limit to the quantity procur-
able and the great demand for 1t among
the patients who are too i'll to take
other nourishment make IL utterly inn
possible to give all the convalescents
milk when they can drink coffee. The
conversation between the cenvalescent
and the chief steward To whom the
waiter has appealed will be something
like this: ts.f.8 sss-
'rve got TO have milk. sir. and the
waiter won't bring me none"
Chief ssteward-"Whats the reason
for your drinking milk? You can have
all the coffee you want"
Convalescent--"C doesn't agree
with me sir
CS.--"Coffee doesn't agree with you?"
Cts too hot. SIR
c. s. "Time'li remedy that. Let IT
stand and cool" r.
c. tat venture)-"I'm just getting
over the measles"
c. Swell, n gave you milk you'd
develop the whoopins-cousn. Mar r,
Leslie's Weekly.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
India's Scourge of Snakes.

Snakes are one OF the scourges OF
India. Thousands of people die yearly
from their bite. In the last twenty-five
years the number OF deaths attributed
to this cause has reached the enormous
total OF 433.2s9. Snakes appear TO be
a much more deadly enemy OF man than
wild animals. In the same period wild
animals have only killed 64.ss4 person
On an average In India 10000 people
perish yearly by snakes and wild ami
mails. The number of deaths in recent
years has shown "A marked increase.
In 1875 the number was 2i. 266 I'm 1896 II
had risen TO 24.s35. Bengal is the most
dangerous province TO live In, for the
Bengalese snakes are responsible for
half the deaths from snake bite. The
LOGS OF cattle has also been very great
Since 1875 about a million and n half
animals have been destroyed. Wild
animals are responsible for nine tenths
OF the cattle killed. In 1896, for instance
7.i43 animals died from snake-bite, but
si.397 were killed by wild beasts.--Lon-
don News
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16

The United States illuminates the
world r.ore effectively and completely
each year
Despite the fear so frequently ex-
pressed Of late that the large produc-
,tion OF petroleum in Russia and Dutch
East Indies and the increased use of
electricity for lighting purposes would
reduce our valuable exports of illumi-
mating oils. the year just ended has
shown the greatest expectation OF that
article In the history OF that importan,
branth Of our foreign commerce. and
the flsures for August show the largest
exporfations OF oil for any single month
Oh record. The reports OF the Treasur,
Bureau OF statistics show that the ex.
ports Of mineral oils in the fiscal year
11Ds passed the billion gallon line. tho
tofa1, Including all classes. being 1854.
-. o.e7s gallons. against s7s,sitsis gal.
Ions IN 1891 and sso.45s.ss4 gallons IN
ne larse production OF mineral oils
ce1>< parts Of the world. while II has
5>1Aee1 our s1porsstion. has prob
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
AN EYE TO THE FUTURE.
The Widower rlade Plans for His
Fourth Honey moon.

Included in the wide membership of
the Pacific Union Club is middle aged
man whom everybody knows simply as
'The Widower." He has been 50 fortu-
nate as to outlive three consorts with
out getting tired of any of them. His
many bereavements have given him a
sort of professional standing in the
world of sorrow, and he Is rather proud
of his reputation for constant mourn
ing.
"The widower," whose grief is in
teresting. to ladies. is never ostenta-
tious in his sighings. On the contrary,
he cultivates an air of patient resig-
nation, beautiful to behold. A peculiar
ity about his case is his habit OF asso-
ciating the memory of each dear de-
parted spouse with some spot or resort
about the city or suburban towns.
He was recently showing San Fran
cisco and its environs to a friend from
New York. Over in Berkeley, he re-
marked, sighingly:
Here once walked on flowers. for
my Elizabeth was with me then"
Out in the park. he was careful to i'm
dicate the exact spot where poor Kath-
arine had sketched the landscape with
her right hand, while her left was
clasped in his. At Sutro Heights, he
dropped single tear, developed with
great difficulty. as he gazed on the
beach, where, not so very long ago. he
sat with HIS arm around his sainted
Caroline.
IF I ever marry again" he remark
ed, musingly Il think shall bring her
here. San Francisco News Letter.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16

ably reduced the prices which our pro-
ducers and exporters have been able to
realize. The exports of OF. in the year
1895 were practically double those OF
1858 and three times those OF 1873. but
the money received for them was only
about s5 per cent. greater than that
received either in 1878 or 1888. The
average export value of refined illumi-
mating oil was. in 1872. 249 cents per
gallon; in 1873. 14.4 cents per gallon; in
1885. 7.s cents per gallon. and in 1898.
So cents per gallon. having thus fallen
from 24.s cents to 5.2 cents from 1872 to
1898. Notwithstanding this steady fall
the production and expectation con-
tnues TO increase. the exports having
increased 'over 60 million gallons In the
past year over that OK the preceding
year and over 100 million gallons over
that OF any earlier year. Thus. while
the price has been steadily and rapidly
falling. the quantity produced and the
quantity exported have as steadily and
rapidly increased. The production in
1897 was five times that OF 1876 and the
expectation of last year nearly five
times that of 1876.
Great as the fall In price has been, the
exports OF Illuminating oil bring over
million dollars week into the coun-
try and have in the past twenty years
added a round billion OF dollars to our
foreign sales.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16

II IL not to be feared that the Fifty
sixth Congress will be turned over to
the Democrats and silverites. although
II is not reasonable to hope that the
present Republican strength in the
House will be maintained. This is an
on year. and It is fortunate admins
tration. Indeed. that maintains its hold
20 full strength at such while Presi-
dents have cause for thankfulness IL
the country does not actually turn
against them at the or year elections.
But the country has no cause and
shows no disposition to rebuke the Nc
KinIey administration by electing a
House OF Representatives or the op-
posite party in November next. The
Republican President is strong with the
people. and the Republican Congress-
men As rule deserve to expect that
their constituencies will return them or
others OF their faith. There will be
losses In special instances. Maine and
Vermont have indicated quiet cam
paign even for an or year. The people
are not yet done with their war in
terest. but they will not so far neglect
politics A. to let the Republican Con-
Gress 20 by default.
Meantime the outlook for the next
senate seems particularly bright for
sound money body. and gives the hope
that even with less strong sound
money majority in the lower branch the
upper branch will be turned into a
sound money body. and the Congress
and the administration thus be brought
into political harmony on that issue.
or the vacancies that will occur, fifteen
IRE now filled by Democrats, and In
diana and New York at least look hope
ful for displacing these two Democrats
BY Republicans and sound money men,
The election OF Republicans to all the
eleven vacancies In seats OF that politi-
cal complexion is assured. Altogether
there II az yet no sign OF anything but
good hope for the next Congress. so far
a. the stability OF the national cur
rency is concerned.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
DEATH NOTICES.

BERRY-In Rumford. 18th inst, Jacob
f. Berry, aged rs years.
BOWEN--In this city, 14th inst. Mar
garet, wife Of Michael Bowen.
BROWNIE this city. 18th inst. Sarah
c., wife OF John ID. Brown, and
daughter OF the late Giles S. and
Elizabeth Greene.
BAUGHER--In Sullivan. Mo-. Aug. 9,
]. Ernest Baugher. formerly of this
city, aged 30 years.
CURTIS-In this city. 18th inst. Ray
mond Hallan, son OF John +. and
Margaret j. Curtis, aged 10 years, 2
months and 20 days.
FRAZER-In this city, 18th inst, Liz
sie Ann Frazer of Blanchards road,
Pictou county, Nova Scotia, aged
20 years.
LIVINGSTON--In Bristol, r.. l., 18th
inst, Anna Belle, wife of Charles
Livingston, aged 81 years.
MORGAN-In this city, 18th inst, Mary,
beloved daughter OF Owen and Jen-
ME Morgan, aged months and 10
days.
O'DONNELL~-In this city, 14th inst,
Philip O'Donnell.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-16
STUMP PENCILS ARB nAscors.


Talking of hoodoos and mascots."
said member OF the stock exchange.
''the. boys on the floor OF the exchange
are as superstitious as a lot OF sailors.
II you don't believe II yot look at the
lead pencils they arc using the next
time you are in the building. - ~ "
You won't lind a man using a long
lead pencil. Why? Because, y long
pencil is 'hoodoo' OF the worst kind.
They always cut a new pencil In half
before they sharpen 1t. some OF these
pencils acquire the reputation Of being
lucky. - ~
Less than a week ago / came down
without my pencil. which, by the way.
is a lucky one-every memorandum.
made with that pencil results in a
profit for rne--and l borrowed one from
a friend on the floor. He handed me, a
stump about an inch long, and said:
You can use that; it's a lucky pencil.
Sure enough, l made two deals in
the morning, and each netted me a
handsome profit.
II was about TO make a memofa fandum
of some stock I had bought when my
friend approached and said:
Here. take this pencil and let me
have mine again. I've lost on every
deal since loaned 1t TO YOU.
Sure enough. lost on that deal and
the luck went back TO the owner OF the
pencil.
when you get hold OF lucky PEN
ell you want 10 hang on to It,
some of the boys have little lucky
pencils not more than an inch long, and
they guard them as they would their
lives.
.If YOU. through carelessness or acci-
dent. cause them TO break the lead
point they lose whatever regard they
have for you and forever afterward re-
gard you -as inimical. Some of them
wouldn't take S. for little piece OF
pencil worth considerably less than
cent"-New York Press.