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The Forrest City times., 1898-08-12
The start Up the River.
ALL DENY HooLEY's STORIES.
various Persons Explain How They Came Co Receive Certain Large sum.
 from th. Promoter

LONDON. Aug. lf-On the resump ton of the examination into the affairs of Ernest Hooley, the bankrupt com. pany promoter, the registrar an. nonnced that Mir. Iiooley was Ill. and that his examination mast b. ad. journed It was decided. however. to allow those who have been charged with receiving bribes to make sworn statements
 Mr. Duguid, formerly financial edito, of the Pall Mall Gazette. explained that the f3,0o0 which Hoolry paid him was compensation. explaining thai NIT. hooley appointed him city editor Of a newspaper, but was unable to ful fill his contract.
 Mr. iiooley, upon another occasion. offered the witness fi.000 in share. Of hydraulic company, which he re fused to accept.
 Earl he La Warr was next sworn. He admitted having received es cor through Mr. Broadley, Hoolev's agent. after the hotaeion of the Dunlap com pany, but witness said he had neye, received anything to transmit to ,h, earl of Albemarle, nor had he received ts'OOO for introducing Hooley to Lorc Greville.
 A cable dispatch was read from Lore Norbury denying that he had received Al 900 10 Join the Singer board.
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River News.
THURSDAY. Aug. il. Grain and Provisions.

Grain and Provisions.
 ST LOUIS -Flour-Patents. B s0aago fpsw,. clear $40 e 8 s5: straights 8 50aa69 Wheat No red. 73c; No 8 5og7.e Corn-ya i, mixed. 3ssc; No. white, 33c oats-ya . 2stsUeSc. Hay Prairie. S50a7.eD: mts5 timothy. f5 00fts.00; clear timothy new Alss < s0, old, @ 00D O. Butter Creamery IS 1es<. dairy. is1i5c. Eggs-Fresh. i0.,Gile. Lara- Prime steam.4g5Tc Pork New standard mes, tsSt. Bacon Extra shorts, 5sc clear rbs tisc clear. cbSc. all packed. wooI-Cho!s tab-washed. % G2sc.
 Wheat Futures closed: August. .ss,,e b; ss, tember. e6ss ooa.c; December 65.ca
 Corn Futures closed: August 3slc n: ser tember. sc b; December. 3se a.
 CHICAGO Opening quotations: Wheat-Se,.. tember opened at 65sG67c. declined to sSs5 ceAs rose to 66Ac. then Of to 66sc Dscem. Der began at Se up at o5isG56ssc, and sode to elAc. Corn September opened at ssl .GsSs4 4s sold up to 33isc. Os,s-September started as gic. declined to 2esc. the up again to .el Provisions September pork started at 8 ss and weakened to sseoEs92ts. September lsa began at fae and sold upto sassss Septem-' Der ribs opened at sS.s0, and rose to Gsss
 CHIcAco-Closing quotations: wheat-Au- gust dec September. 65Ae: December 64sS sase' May. c5sc. Corn-August. ssac; Sep tember. SsaGAste. December, phe; Maj S.c. Oats-August. s0Ac september 9ss. May. s3-sc. Pork-August. se. 10; Septenbs. s1 i5ss December. sgesi.. Lard-August hS September. ss.3Sfts.s7ss; October. salv; Decsn.. Der. sa.ss. Short Ribs-Aagust. A30; SettsE- Der. sAass, october. sass1s.
 CHIcAGo-Cash Wheat No 2 red. 74a'S' No. ! ssasoc; No. 2. hard sse: No 8 do. 'x No spring. nothing doing; No do, 'egix No. l northern spring, 7ac. Corn: No. ~ 14e; No ]. 3la.ds3c Oats: So :. s!Ase, As 2. sis1 11e1e.
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has again started as to the convoi<inr oi an extra session of congress, but Presi- dent Mckinley, within the past ?. hours, has said positively that he had no in- tention of calling the house together, though of course the senate will have to meet in extra session to ratify the treaty of peace, unless uufore cen and most improbable delays should occur. The president added that the prelim- mary details incident to a treaty of peace would take so much time that the senate would not have to meet un- til some time in November.
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MORE TROOPS FOR MANILA.
Two Thousand More Troops Sailed from San Francisco, and Five Thousand
 More Ready to Go.

WAsHINeToN. Aug 1.-The war de- partment has received dispatch from San Francisco saying that 2,00O troops sailed to-day for Manila. There are about 5000 more soldiers now at San Francisco who will be sent to Manila us soon as transports can be obtained. Secretary AIger cabled Gen. Merritt asking when the transports now returning from the Philippines to San Francisco should arrive. lie has had an offer of two ships for transports, but the price he deems excessive, and believes the transports now on their return to this country will reach San Francisco in time to take the remaining soldiers to Manila.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Haldane McFall (Mme. Sarah Grand's stepson) has served in zouave regi- ment, and the hero of his forthcoming novel of West Indian life is a zouave. The chief characters in the story are negroes.
 Rider Haggard recently celebrated his forty-second birthday. It is i2 years since King Solomon's Mines" after being scornfully rejected by sev- eral publishers, appeared at the au- thor's own risk.
 M. Jules Claretie, French acade- lnician and manager of the Comedie- Francaise, is writing a novel. dealing with the siege of Paris. He served in the national guard during that period. md his experiences win play part in the book.
 Mir. Gosse is so convinced of the cor rectness of the theory that great men are the products of their time that he asserts that if Tennyson had been born in 1850 or in 1720 "his poetry, had he written in verse, could have had scarcely remote resemblance to what we have now received from his hand.
 The Japs are indeed moving. In or der to show what they read, they are issuing in Tokio magazine called the Hansei-Zasshi, edited solely by Japan csc and yet written in English. From a recent issue we learn that "the writ Ing of the average globe trotter on the subject of the women of Japan is quite unworthy of serious reading"
The Forrest City times., 1898-08-12
THEY STRUCK A LANDSLIDE,
Three Coaches Rolled Down Sixty-Foot Embankment-Twenty Passen-
 gers Injured.

MIDDLEsBoRo. Ky, Aug. 1I-While unbound train was coming from Norton, Va, it struck landslide near Pennington Gap, and three coaches at tached rolled down an embankment 60 feet. About twenty passengers were aboard, all of whom were more or less injured.
 Superintendent J. w. Logsdon,o of the Cumberland Valley division of the Lou isville X Nashville railroad, had a rib broken and was badly bruised.
 Charles P. Perrin, manager of Watts Steel x Iron syndicate, was badly bruised about the head
 w. w. Tinsley, of Knox county, and little son were considerably bruised. MT. Tinsley's wounds may prove fatal.
 Several women were also hurt
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PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY.
sampson and Schley to be Advanced to the the Grade of Rear Admiral
 Other Promotions.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-The president has determined to recommend to con gress that Acting Rear-Admiral Samp- son be advanced eight numbers and Commodore Schley six numbers. This will result in making each a rear admi- ral, but with Commodore Schley ranking immediately below Sampson. Capt. Clark of the Oregon will be recom- mended for an advance of six numbers in the captains grade, and Lieutenant Commander Wainwright will go up eight numbers. Other promotions throughout the aeet will be recon. mended,
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THERE MAY BE A BIG STRIKE.
le Will be Inaugurated Because of Viola ton of the Chicago Agreement
 by Operators.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. Tiff the res olution adopted at the recent general convention of the United Mine Work CTS is obeyed. all diggers in the Pitts burgh district not receiving the district price will quit work at once. 1nasmuch as it is not generally known how many mines are running contrary to the Chicago agree ment's provisions, it can not be es- timated how many diggers the strike order will affect.
 The strike will probably center in the rlver region, where numerous mine owners are alleged to be constantly violating the agreement
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OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

Dr. ]. F. Chiles. aged 70 years. fell dead at his home in Mayfeld, Ky.
 The military tramp Is The latest fraud to make his appearance m the country.
 A creamery has been opened at Lee ton. Mo It will use the produes of 5S dairy farms
 Gen. Merritt. in reporting the en- gagement near Maiate. highly compli- ments the volunteers
 samuel stover. prominent In the his tory of Schuyler county. ILL. died Tuesday. aged ss years
 The fifth biennial conven ton of the Negro National Democratic league is in session in New York.
 John Hernley. aged ~. was instant ly killed by being ran down by a Big Four switch engine al Mancie. Ind
 Isaac vondergsxelle. a TIollander. aged co. committed suicide at Hudson, ILL He was found hanging in a shed.
 c. Mcintyre died at his home in East Oregon. Mo, at the age of ss years. He was one of Holt eounty's earliest set tiers.
 A man who calls himself the only and original ''schlatter.F divine heal. CT, is registered at an Aurora tllLI hotel
 William Goldsmith. a well-known young man of Union Mills. Ind. shot himself through the head with a re- volver.
 Rome Armstead shot and almost in- stantly killed a young man named John Cooper at a wheat threshing at Cham pion, Mo.
 Sidney J. Roberson. motorman. was arrested at St. Louis on a charge of bigamy. He admits having two wives at New Orleans.
 Search for Joe Cummings. the miss. ing stock buyer, has almost been aban. doned at Arcola, III. His wife Is in a critical condition.
 Mrs. William Stevenson. aged 64. died Tuesday at Muncie. Ind. from blood poison. contracted by cutting her foot on piece of glass.
 Augustin Gallagher. chief inspector of the pure -four division of the reve. nue service, will establish his head. quarters in St. Louis.
 The Moran fleet of the river steamers. which have been reported wrecked while en route for the Yukon, are re- ported safe at False Pass
 The funeral of the late Col James O. Broadhead was held in Christ Church cathedral. St Louis, and the remains buried in Bellefontaine cemetery.
 Thomas Doran, aged four. son of James Doran, grocer of Kansas City, Mo. fell from his fathers wagon and broke his neck, dying in a few minutes.
 A fire at the Fontanet powder mill. near Terre Haute, Ind, Tuesday, was subdued before it reached tho explo. sives. The damage amounts to ss, ,OOO.
 l.. T. Cooper, young Quaker, patent medicine salesman, is under arrest al Owensboro, Ky, for violating the state law, requiring physicians to register
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London Press Com men,.

LONDON, Aug. i0.-The afternoon pa- pers comment upon the battle of Ma late as being repetition of the now familiar story: 1.-The Spaniards. brave and incompetent, firing wildly and at tacking too late; the Americans, brave, cool and skillful, notwithstanding that their operations were conducted in the midst of a tropical monsoon"
 The papers also refer to the "omin- ous neutrality of the Filipinos" as be- ing evidence of trouble in store for the Americans.
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NEWS VIA PLAYA DEL ESTE.
vance and Resoiute, tho Latter with tho Marines-The Spanish wrecks.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Aug. 9, via PLAYA DEL ESTE, Province of Santiago de Gu ba-l Delayed in transmission. 1.-The Newark, Scorpion. Suwanee and Resolute, with the marines, sailed this afternoon.
 The Badger and the I. J. Merritt have arrived. The latter, after coal ing. will proceed to the wreck of the Cristobal Colon.
 The Merritt X Chapman wreckers now think the Infanta Maria Teresa is held in position by rock through her bottom forward, but they expect to haul her off soon.
The Forrest City times., 1898-08-12
NEW ARMY CAMP GROUNDS.
They May be Located at Lexington, Ky,. Knoxville, Tenn, and Tryon, N. C.,
 if Found Satisfactory.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The war de. partment has under consideration the establishment of army camps at Lex ington, Ky, Knoxville, Tenn, and Tryon, N. C. Army officers have been detailed and are now examining into the suitability of each of these places, and if their reports are satis- factory the camps will be established and orders issued directing various commands now at Chickamauga to move to the new camps.
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LAST DAY OF GRACE IS NEAR.
Italy's Ultimatum to Colombia in Regard to the Cerruti Claim Ex-
 pires August I3.

COLON, Colombia, Aug. 1l.-vIA GAL WESTON, Text is learned from a re- liable source that the Italian ultima tum demanding the payment of the Cerruti claim expires during the even- ing of August 13.
 Anxiety as to the ultimate action of the new president, Senor Marro- 4uin, who was lnaugurated last Sun day (the anniversary of the battle of Boyaca), and his cabinet, is daily in- creasing.
 It is reported that the Italian war. ship Carlo Alberto is at Curacao.
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Held for Mardsr.

Sr. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-The coroner, jury in the case of Frank Kaeutner who was shot and killed. Monday night while trying to escape iron Special Policemen Leinert and Crem. ms whom he mistook for highway. men returned verdicct holding Pa. trolman Cremins on a charge of hosai. eide.
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A General Taking OF.

CLARENDON, Ark, Aug. II -A ., 2oo strong gathered at the Mo.s county jail, here, Tuesday niob, a'~ .ass therefrom four negroes. one vo.S. - and three men, charged with comnlia;, sa in the murder of John T. Orr =, ~ hanged them. Mrs. Orr, wife o, s ,s. murdered man. who instigated ,s. crime. cheated the gallows by t,kis. X, poison.
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Gomez Wins a yIcto.

KEY WEST, Fla, Auo ',
 uomez has won an important ,;.. oea over the Spanish forces unaa- .'cso'I Jiminez Castellanos, forcing tbs zen between Las Villas and Camca s'0cas Over 300 Spaniards and ,so sKuey ry were killed and many wounded ~ rsSsa' s' sides. on ootil
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Has an Eye on wolcott's Seat.

DENVER, Col. Aug. II l.-Hon. Charles $. Thomas, leading lawyer and for mer democratic national committeeman for Colorado, has formally announced his candidacy for the seat in the United States senate, ROW held by Elward 0. Wolcott
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Dropped Dead on Board the Trsns.ort
 Minnewaska.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug 11.-John H. Lane, storekeeper of the United States Transport Minnewaska, dropped dead on his boat here. The troopshlp was waiting to carry the Third regiment of immunes to Santiago. Lane was 55 years of age and the father of Capt. Lane of the Ninth police precinct, New York
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Me is Mayor of Caldwell. Q.

CALDWELL, O., Aug. 11.-Arthur O. Archer, mentioned in the press dis patches Us the writer of the letter to Mrs. Orr at Clarendon, Ark, is the mayor of this town. and a prominent member of the Noble county bar. He Is about B years os age.
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A Judge a Copvic,

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Aug. 1r-c n
 erts, ex-judge. former membsr . .. 100 s' Arkansas legislature and au,ha - 'as Roberts Criminal Law ws. q victed here. Tuesday. of foroerv;, s0'' nection with the A. K. Ward case, ,us ,'s sentenced to term of three yea year, ~ \ the penitentiary. 'as n
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A somnambull,,..,,..,,

Sr. Louis, Aug. u.-Monroe L. liar ris, travelling salesman for the White Branch X Mcconklin Hat Co. wa. found dead in an areaway In front of his rooming house. iss3 Washington avenue. He was clad only in night clothes, and his body was doubled up. He had walked cut of a window in hi, sleep.
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To Camp in the Hue Gr... r

WASHINGTON, Aug. ll.-Tba baa''''
 par.ment has decided to es,ah''s I ~ar < army camp in the Blue Grass aolIsh ss kentucky, and an order ,o ,h, ,eg'oa a will soon be issued. It is s",s effsa troops ', now at chickamauga p,VOasl' v;I, ! marched to the new camn "iu b'
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Hundreds of Live. Los. in ro,m....

YOKOHAMA, Aug. ll.-Violent storm and floods, it is announced in advice, just received here from the island Q, formosa, have resulted in the loss O. hundreds of lives at Taipeh, that is land. Great damage was done to prop erty there.
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A New Cabinet should Negotiate Peace r

MADRID, Aug. 1.-The Imparcial says in regard to the political situa- tion: The political and military per- sonages who have conferred with Senor Sagasta are generally of tLe opinion that new cabinet should negotiate peace, Senor SAgasta having declared war would find difficulties in negotiat- ing peace
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American Exacllons should be Resisted.

MADRID, Aug. 1.-The Tiempo, con servative, says; "Spain's sovereignty over the Philippine islands should not be abandoned, and American exactions should be resisted. But if surrender is deemed necessary, it should be so done as not to deprive the country of liberty of action in the future"
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Killed In a Runaway.

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 1t.-A special tC the Dispatch from Newark. O.. says Probate Judge David Allen was killed in runaway.
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Sailed for Porto Ricn

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 1.-The Alamo sailed at 3 a. m. for Porto Rico with half of the First Kentucky and Sen. Grant and staff aboard. The Ob- dam is still leading.
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Court Martial for Tora,.

LONDON, Aug. 11.-A Madrid dispatch says that the preliminary steps have been taken for the court martial of Gen. Toral, who surrendered the Span iSh forces in Santiago to Gen. Shafter
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'|HE LOST STEAMER JESSIE.
She Foundered in Kuskokwin River. Alaska, During a Severe
 Storm on July 28.
ALL ON BOARD ARE, SUPPOSEDLY, LOST.
Which xss Composed of weli-to-Dt Young Men Belonging to Kentucky ans Tena-ssee Families. Who were Joined hy others at Seattle.

SEATTLE. Wash, Aug IL -Furthe, details state there were IS persons OF the river steamer Jessie. of the Colum. bian Exploration Co.,, which foun. dered in the kuskok win river, Alaska. during a severe storm, JuIy..2s. It i, thougst all were lost The steamer Jessie at the time Of the disaster had in tow the barg Minerva. loaded with supplies
 The News Brought by Indians.
 The of the disaster was brorgh. Co the headquarters of the Alaska Com mercial Co. by Indians. who had found the loaded barge belonging to the party partly wrecked. The Indians assert that the steamer foundered. and that all of her party perished in the storm that swept down on them before they were well into the river. and only a few hours after they had left the steam CT Laekme. on which they had gone north. The Indians contiseated the supplies.
 The Je..ie's Company.
 The party consisted or the following persons:
 F. S. Lines. Seattle
 A. C. staston. seattle.
 V. J. Murphy. Bowling Green. Ky. kobt F. frierson. Galiatin. Tenn.
 W. T. Payton, Gallatin. Teun.
 II. C. Clifford Hare, Gallatin. Tenn. Engineer kensloclx. Milwaukee.
 -~ smallhoase. Louisville Ky.
 Eli knudson, Genessee. Idaho.
 Harry C. iladrcen, Seattle.
 O Y. Arirod, Seattle
 Doc. Allen. Kentucky
 Rev. R. Weber. Moravian missionary, wife and child
 Two Indian guides
 Mostly From Kentucky ssa Tennessee. The expedition was composed of A number of well-to-do young men oi Kentucky and Tennessee families. who joined tine others in Seattle. They were furnished with the steamer Jes- ste and the barge Minerva bv Richard ehilcotte, of this city There were no marine men in the party
 Improperly Commanded
 Capt. Murphy. of Rowling Green. Ky, got his license after coming here and, it Is said, had never commanded a steamer before. The engineer was from Milwaukee, and had formerly worked on railroad locomotive.
 Tn. start Up the River.
 At Good News bay the boats were to put into the water. and on June s7 were ready to start up the river They left at ten o'clock. and by two were out of sight of the Lakme, which proceed. ed to St Aichaels The rest of the story comes from the Indians.
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An Uncle of Mrs. Mckinley S..
 jured sy h

CANTON, O., Aug. li.-Joseoh an uncle of the wife of prss;a rs aaax'on
 kinley, was struck by a s,rsa. s.ueut Nc seriously injured. He is well .s gar and Tn years, and suffered from dIsanced da.ed nearing His injuries are no, e'ecu's sarily fatal. "o' neces
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Improvement in co,ton.

WASHINGTON, Aug 1.-The cotton crop report shows an average condi- ton of si.2- This IS 43 points higher than August 1, 1897.
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Renominated for Co,Yress

RACINE, Wis, Aug. 1.-The First Wisconsin district republican conven- tion at Elkhorn, renominated H. A. Cooper for congress.
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ENLIGHTENMENT FInger. .re Am Rlght.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-The Daily Mail to-day says: Inquiries made of Paderewski's agent, Mir. William Arlington, prove the statement that he has lost the use of two of his fingers to be unfounded m
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Engineer Regiment for por,o R,.o

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The transport Chester, with the First regiment of vol unteer engineers, numbering about = 200 men, sailed for Porto Rico, clearing the bar at 4:3o a. ID.
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Killed by raH,ag Through an Elevator.

CHICAGO. Arg. 1l.-J. H. Conrad. senior member of the wholesale gro- cery firm of J. H. Conrad S Co, was instantly killed by falling through an elevator shaft in his warehouse, Lake street and Michigan avenue.
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Financial.

NEW YORK. Aug li-Money en ea. .,,s n'', n,rr tyIx 4lss per cent Prime mefesn..- ssesss. ss.afs per cent Sterling excha 7, ss.e with actual business in banker DA., - Al asSs sssss for demand and at ASA atss' t,.sssl sss eez posted rates. ssssGssA. and s'ag' 50 mercial bills. s-sAs Silver esf'iAs-, .,..,.rs G4 sga Bar silver. saS. Mexican a0"
 Government bonds strong ,,-s,r sas
 The stock market opened s.f0ns .. s. Paz influence of an increase of earninss - ,se corr for the first week in August o'e' ssvnpsisI spending perlcd last year, anu !. Trsdsz with gains in Americans in l.ohue-, l.oh..,srs Ths vas active in commission housr srd olsff check Co profit taking in the sransess sr inc pass stock which had been in progfess ses,on ss sag- few days encouraged larger i,...'s,,,ea aEt ing. All the leading stocks wefe '.t as,re s,etzs . sprinkling of the extremely ms e,,t tessEd Decline in prices brought duilhess ,ss stocks q noon there was heavy buying ol - turned ths iron and steel companie> Tnls ',e inc essi marke, generally upward, and niss a''s to noos' prices Of the day. Gales Of stosN
 FPS. .56s shares. ..,cv but o1e'' ings were light
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Crop Conditions.

WAsHINGroS, Aug. II l.-Agricultura, department crop report: Condition of spring wheat, 96.5i corn. SEQ; oats, SAP.
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corea to Adopt the Cola stana..

YOKOHAMA, Aug. l1.-Advices re. eeived here from Seoul say Corca in, 'ends to adopt the gold standard.
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on for A Holiday.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-The marquis of Salisbury left London to-day for the holidays.
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Live stock Market.

ST LoUts Cattle Fancy exports, Nws SEQ. butchers. a sotas0: stocsers. 2oosaa1 cows and heifers. ss.slt550 Hogs PacSla1 us0a3s5; butchers hogs. 3sogioo' ssas e. Ssss3s s0 Shecp-Prlces range at SNsss spring Iambs AU0a6ss per 100 its
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Cotton.

Quotations for middling range ss so''sss o.,,..s Louis. aAe. New York oae. Ne~ s,e bll- lde Memphis. 5Ae. ehafle.eoA'
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As Understood at the White House.

WASHINGTON, Aug. l0-At the White House it was understood that Ambas. sador Cam bon would transmit to Spain . cablegram stating that a complete and immediate acceptance of the terms imposed, without reservation, would be essential to effecting peace under the present terms offered by the United States In this connec- ton, it has developed that just before the Spanish answer was delivered late Tuesday, President Mckinley an. nounced that an extra session of the senate would be held doubtless in No vember.
 With the peace situation at stage where a complete agreement is regard. cd as likely at any moment, discussion