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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12

CHICAGo-The cattle market to-day
was little more than nominal one.
Very few lots were offered, and they
were disposed of at prices unchanged
from yesterday The week has been a
good one for sellers Of we'll fattened
beevcs, holiday cattle bringing high
prices. But receipts OF half fat cattle
have been much too large, and prices
for such lots have declined sharply. The
market, as whole, closed in fairly good
condition.
There was a good demand for hogs
from Chicago packers, and prices, ruled
steady, with sales AZ 50 20q3 40 for com
mon to choice light and 50 25@3 Is for
poor to prime heavyweiEhts, the bulk OF
the hogs selling at SO 32]s@3 Sly. The
best hogs sold 2Isc lower than n week
ago. Most OF the pigs sold at IS 10
GS 30.
Receipts OF sheep and lambs were
very light. and the market in eonse-
quence was almost nominal. Lambs
were quoted at 50 506D5 30; for inferior
10 prime flocks: yeralings sold at 81 90
"a G5 and sheep at 50 OO94 20, few going
Receipts: Cattle. 100 head; hogs, $4,000
head; sheep. 5000 head.
EAST LIBERTY-cattie steady; ex-
ira S. 2515 40; prime 81 90a5 20; com.
NOR 50 9O93 60. Hogs light; prime
Jheavier 50 1898 I5; best mediums
50 IS; Workers. and pigs 50 30; coarse
hogs 81 256S 30; sklps 81 0OS3 l5:roughs
81 OOa3 90. Sheep steady; choice weth-
ers 81 1894 80; common 81 5043 90;
choice lambs So 25d5 so: common 10
good 81 5O95 10; veal calves 81 oO97 So.
CINCINNATI - Hogs active and
steady at 81 9OG3 Is. Cattle steady at
Sc SOFA ~. Sheep steady at 81 1894 90.
Lambs steady at "a OO65 Is.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12
Reduced Rates for the Holidays

For the Christmas and New Year Hol-
days, the Ohio River Railroad will sell
excursion tickets between all ticket sta
lions OF its line. at one fare for the round
trip.
Tickets on sale December %, "a, %, 30
and 81, 1898, and January l, 1899. Good to
return until January ., 1899.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12

NEW YORK-The weekly bank state
ment shows the following changes: Sur
plus reserve. decrease. 1854 $50: loans,
increased, $4.56l,O0O; specie, increased.
s. Goa, 200: legal tenders. decreased.
$lli3,3OO; deposits. increased. S,262 200:
quircmonts Of the % per cent rule.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12

NEW YORK-Plg iron dull: southern
$40 25dll 2j;northern $40 25dii 75, Cop
per quiet brokers 1oMc, Lead quiet:
brokers 81 a.. Tin plate quiet At the
close to-day. the firm HaminE the set
tllnE prices FOR leading miners and
smeltcrg In the west quoted lsnd 1t
50 50; copper SO Is and casting 81 20.
The meInl eXchange lssuGl no rnport
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12

rDIiE MONONGAH ROUTE rs THE
Short Line between Fnirmont and
Clarkshutg Quick Timc--Fast Traing-
Sure Connections, When travelling to or
from ClnrhgburF or West Virginia and
railroad points. gee that your
tickets read via the Monugnhcla River
Railroad. Clogc Connections nj Fnlrmant
with h. & u. trains. and at ClhrkShprg
with H. n o. and w. V. & T., trains, Tick
cts via this route on sale Rt all Il. Z o.
and W., " * =. r. Il. stations
HUGH q. BOWLES, GCa'l SupG
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12

Be sure and use that old and well-trled
remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup for children teething. 1t soothes
the child. softens the gum, allays all
pain. cures wind collie and Is the best
remedy for dIarrhoea, Twenty-Five
cents u bottle. mw&f
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12
THE QUIET SEASON
On Wall Street Incident to the
Holidays.
PROSPECTS OF THE new YEAR

Present a Brilliant outiook-Prospec.
tive Continued Ease of the Money
Market Factor of no Small Dl-
mensions--Rtsc I'm Stocks Predicted
for Jauuary-The Wool Market.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12
WHEELING 4 BIN GROVE RAILROAD.

tDaily, except sunday.
sunday church trains VIII leave slm
Grove al $50 a. 70. and Wheeling az is;l7
u. m. II. ". WElAGERBBR.
General Manager
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12
FINANCE AND TRADE.

ONLY $3.50 to Cincinnati via Ohio
River X II
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12
Articles. open. High. Low. Close.

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour-Stcady: winter patent. 80 400
q 30; strnlghts, 81 1908 20; spring spc-
cinls, 81 1904 90; spring patent, 50 206
. 90; Gtraights, 81 SOa3 90; bakers 81 20
whcat-No. . spring. Gl% d6sc; No. .
red, 67iaG6Sc.
oats.-No. 2, 2s&d27c; No, white,
PIX
Rye-No. ., Sic.
Barlcy-No. .. 3Sd5Sc,
Flaxsced-No. !, 81 on; y, W, 81 O5iA.
neutrality-suspicious. s. 25,
Moss pork, per barrel, s. o50S 10: lard,
per 100 hounds, s. 0im5 1873; short ribs.
lloosc) 81 5594 10. dry sailed shoulders,
tboxcd). Ai6AMc: short clear sides,
(boNed) q s06A 81.
whislSey Disiillcrs' finished goods,
per gallon. 81 60.
sugars = Cutioar. 525c; Eranulated
5.t5c.
Bu,ter-wcal; crcamcrIea, H4l9h;
dnirlcs. l3alSc,
Chccec-stcady. nj Si5TiOHc.
EggE-F'lrm: fresh, @2lAc.
NEW YORK-TIour quiet but firm-r;
Minnesota patent 81 GiG5 So; do bakers
- S5G3 co.; winter patents 81 COOS 50;
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12


Tho movement among the savings
banks 10 reduce their rate Of interest
on deposits naturally attracts attention
as factor bearing upon thevaiue OF Sc
cliritics. In recent years, their interest
allowance has averaged to ~ per
cent II is now proposed TO reduce the
rate TO 3h per cont. which would repre-
cent a cutting down Of fully one-elghth,
or l2i5 per cent. In the interest earnings
Of these institutions. The proposition Is
marked evidence Of the tendency to-
wards n decline In the earnings OF capi-
tai. which has been long evident In the
interest rate Of the national banks, ms
well as IN real estate mortgages and new
issues of railroad bonds. The slgnifi-
canoe OF this tendency TO the stock mar
ket is very evident, For so far as the
rate Of Interest II reduced. the relative
value Of the principal Is Increased: and
thus stocks having fixed dividend rate
~, say 4 or = per cent. bring n higher
price Just In proportion as tho difference
between their rate and tho current aN-
cragc interest rate wldens. Besides, n
reduction In the Interest return OF any
given Investment hns q. tendency to In
duce the holder TO realize upon his Sc
curlty and invest In something that
Yields better result: and II so hnp-
pens that railroad stocks are the pFlncl-
pal available resource FOR making such
reinvestmcnts. Upon the Fnmt prinol-
pie We find the current demand for
railroad mortgages running largely up
on a grade Of per cent bonds selling
at from 10 To 20 points below par THIS
drift Of TeinvcGtmcnt has already rouch-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12
RAILWAY TIME cARD.

Arrival and departure Of trains 81 era
after November S0 iso3 Expl1nat|r at
References Marks: DAILY. fDaily, e4c PC
sunday 1DAily. except Saturday. s1allf
except Monday sunday only. lltafs
Gays only. Eastern Standard Ltmr. l.s
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12

SAll assessments paid.
Fourth assessment paid
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
DRAWING ON THE WALL
A Rome Writer Says the Description
Have Been Exaggerated.

A Rome Writer Says the Description
Have Been Exaggerated.
The Roman correspondent of the Ber-
lin Tageblatt throws cold water on the
exaggerated reports of the discovery
by Prof. Marucchi of o. drawing Of the
crucifxion ON an ancient wall in the
Eternal city. He says that the sketch
is SO faint that the outlines of the
cross, as well as of the persons sur
rounding 1t, can be made out only with
the aid of a magnifying glass, and
then very imperfectly. To decipher the
scene supposed to be represented, to
say nothing of the inscription, requires
\ strong Imagination. So far as the
persons represented are concerned, 1t
is quite possible to make out what they
are doing. The hammer that Prof Ma
rucchi thought he saw in the hands
of one of the soldiers climbing upon the
cross might just as easily be flag.
Beneath this figure is to be read the
name "Mistillus," or something like 1t.
In the upper left-hand corner are to be
seen the Roman numerals XI w. and
V. A ladder is leaning against both
crosses represented, ami it is quite pos
sible that the picture may be of scene
aboard ship. Of the supposed figure of
Christ, the correspondent could see
nothing at all. He could read plainly
the name "Piletus." Plainly, also, ap-
pears through the confused mass Of
half-obliterated Latin and Greek in
scriptions, though party injured by
dilapidation of the wall, the name
"Crestos" (Christus), behind which
large picture of hammer plainly ap-
pears. The entrance to the room where
this Withdrawing is found is under the
so-called Bridge of Caligula."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
ELEPHANT CURIOSITY.
An Animal Which Stands with It's
Feet Embedded In Rocks.

An Animal Which Stands with It's
Feet Embedded In Rocks.
On the Miles Wilbur farm, less than
two miles from Palmyra, Wis, nearly
midway between Bald bluff and the
Curelian spring, on wild, rocky hill
side of the Kettle range of bluffs, may
be found huge rock known far and
near as the "stone elephant" says the
Boston Transcript.
1t is annually visited by large num-
bers of people, some of whom pronounce
it petrifed elephant of monster size,
but the theory NEST generally believed
is that it was hewed out of the solid
rock in which it seemed imbedded CEN
turtles ago by some prehistoric race.
As If to substantiate this latter
theory, from time to time many val
liable tools, relics and implements un-
known to the people of this age have
been found about its base and in that
immediate vicinity. The elephant is
about 20 feet long, six or eight feet
high, of dark gray color and weighs
hundreds of tons. The body only is
above the level of the ground, its legs
being deeply sunk below, holding it
firmly in q standing position.
a tradition believed by many is that
around this huge stone the Indians
gathered to offer sacrifices to the great
spirit and burn their prisoners at the
stake, or make them the victims of
slow torture known only to the In
dams. 1t is long established and gen
orally believed theory that in this inn
mediate vicinity and about Bald bluff
and the Big springs were some of their
most famous battle fields and hunting
grounds.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
A KNOWING DOG.
He Had q Glass Eye and Never
Rubbed 1t Out.

He Had Glass Eye and Never
Rubbed 1t Out.
Marmaduke is dead. He was only q
Henheim spaniel, but he was wonder
full In his way, for he had glass eye.
He was bred by the duchess of Marl-
borough, who takes a great interest
in the famous kennel. AS will occa-
sionally happen to small dogs, he tried
to show his superiority over the feline
race; but on one occasion pugnacious
cat declined to take orders from Mar
maduke, and enforced its refusal by
giving Marmaduke "one in the eye"
with its claws. The result was that
Marmaduke's eye was destroyed. The
duchess then sent the spaniel to a
veterinary surgeon, to be fitted to a
glass eye, as she was especially fond
Of the little fellow, end the sight Of the
empty socket was repugnant. After he
WAS sent back with his new eye, her
grace was made nervous by seeing his
staring artificial eye, it being just a
little previous to . visit Of the earl of
Blandford, and so home was sought
for the unfortunate little blue blood,
which was found with Miss E. L. Moore,
of Denmark Hill, near Woodstock The
glass eye is the right one, and is ex-
actly matched to the other brown, an
mated one. Marmaduke never tried
to scratch or rub out the eye, but
seemed to under stand why it was there.
He was run over by van.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
WAR NEWS

Gen. Woodford the American min
lister at Madrid was at once given his
passports when the u'timatum of the
Y. 5. WAS received. His dismissal
came before he was permitted to pre-
sent the ultimatum- A guard was at
once placed for his protection. He
Immediately set out for France. Az
attempt was made at several points to
hold up his train to arrest his private
secretary, who it was claimed, Is a
Spaniard
On Friday, President Mckinley is
sued a proclamation declaring the
north coast of Cuba in a state Of
blockade and the feet was ordered
there to maintain the blockade. A
Spanish steamer, lumber laden, was
captured by the Nashville. She sur
rendered after one shot was fired at
her. She is tramp steamer. A call
was issued by the president for 1OO,-
0OO men for one years service.
Most OF the fleet had left Key West
by Friday. 1t was learned that the
troop ship, Alfonso MI was on her
way to Havana having 1000 Spanish
soldiers aboard. Bulletins received
here on Saturday announced her caL-
ture by the battleship New York. The
Alfonso is not battleship and her
capture would be comparatively easy
The news of the capture of Il Q
Spanish battleehip Alphonso received
here on Saturday, caused number OF
flags to be flung to the breeze. Pa
triotism may be bit noisy and OBJ
trusive at times in this country, but it
is OF the sterling character when the
times demand it.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28

Centuries ago, people used to fear
what they called the pestilence.
'sBlack Death" was the most terrible
thing in the world to them. They
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
A NARROW ESCAPE

Thankful words written by Mrs.
Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. "Was
taken with bad cold which settled
on my lungs; cough set in and finally
terminated in Consumption. -Four
doctors gave me up, saying 1 could
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would meet my absent ones above.
Ny husband was advised to get DR..
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
ELEPHANT BLOCKED THE WAY.
English Clergyman While Cycling
Has q Strange Experience.

English Clergyman While Cycling
Has a Strange Experience.
This story comes from Birmingham,
England: The clergyman of neigh
boring town was returning home on his
bicycle. He had been preaching in an
adjoining village, and this means of
locomotion was the one most suited to
his tastes and to his convenience. The
night was dark, and the rays of the
reverend gentleman's lamp did not
pierce far into the gloom. Suddenly
something seemed to loom large, vague
and ominous before his eyes. He had
short sensation that he was rushing
on to some unknown doom; there was
collision with something soft and of
shape most curious, and away few the
machine one way and the cleric the
other. When the reverend cyclist had
pulled himself together he heard noises,
and there was CLEAN of lantern
near at hand, Pickering as though in
dicative of much agitation. Through
the darkness came a sleepy-looking
man, rubbing his eyes. From him the
cleric discovered that there was an ele-
plant stretched across the rather mar
row road. The animal had been as
awkward as 'My Lord the Elephant"
OF Rudyard Kipling crea ton. True, he
was not blocking a pass, but he had
fallen in the road on his side, and had
stopped there, refusing to move. lie
belonged to circus, did this trunked
obstruction, in course of transition
from one town to another, and since
his fall had been left in charge of two
men with lanterns, who appear to have
fallen asleep. Beyond few quiet and
quaint utterances, the elephant did not
mind. What the front wheel of the
bicycle thought about it is not known.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
FINDS IN Fill.
Exploration Party Discovers New
Wonders on the Island.

wonders On the Island.
a scientific exploration party in
charge of Prof. Agassiz recently paid
visit to the Fiji islands, making some
discoveries of much general interest,
reports the Japan Gazette. At Maram-
DO they located an extinct volcano. open
on the north side. Dotted over the sur
face of the water in the crater were
numerous mushroom-shaped rocks, and
the water itself in the light of a burn
ing sun revealed to the visitors hitherto
unknown beauties of color. At Toloya
a crater of an extinct volcano was
found, into which the steamer could
enter and sail around. Here, as in other
places the visitors were entertained
with ''miki, miki," which seems to be
something in the nature of a zorro
boree.
ing was resorted to for the purpose of
securing specimens of coral and marine
animalcule. On the rocks at the base
of the Solos lighthouse, near the North
Astrolabe reefs, at Kandava island, two
sea snakes were caught by Capt
Thompson, who saw no less than ten
of them in as many minutes.
The capture Of several live speci-
mems OF bulolo, or coral worms. ap-
peared to have caused much gratifica-
ton to the searchers, who, aided by the
natives in canoes, discovered them in
thousands. The worm is said to dis
solve after being about $50 hours on the
surface. When the results of Prof.
Agassiz's Investigations are made pub
lie they will, doubtless, provide much
Interesting and valuable information.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28

and important organs that bear the burdens
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
SEAL CATCHES KILLIES.
Lightning ~ = Swimmer, Much Faster
Than the Little Fish.


Almost all the larger fishes of the
aquarium like killies to eat when they
can get them, and in this respect the
New Hampshire seal is like the fishes.
There is a great disproportion in size
between the seal and the killie, but
there IS nothing clumsy about the seal,
and, big as it is, it is lightning SWIM
mer, and it can double on itself with
the greatest facility. It is much fast
er than the killie, and the killie is
powerless to escape it, says the New
York Sun.
On being tossed into the pool the
killie makes off from where 1t struck
the water as fast as it can go, with the
seal after it. There are steps at one
end of the pool leading to the platform
on which the seal sleeps at night. The
killie may hug one of these steps, but It
does not thus escape. The seal humps
1t up there and catches and eats it, or
starts it out across the pool again. The
seal can get It practically whenever 1t
wants to. When chasing up the killie
the seal sometimes flaps its side flap
pers like wings, and then it seems like
big bird rushing along under water.
1t would take a good many killies to
make meal for the seal, and they are
rarely fed to it-only when the seal is
little of its feed and needs something
different as an appetizer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-28
GIANTS OF PATAGONIA.
The TehueIches Average But Little
Under Six Feet

Under Six Feet.
The tribes to the east of the Cordil-
lcras, in southern Patagonia, belong to
Araucanian stock, and are a superior
race, says the Boston Transcript. The
Tehuelches-as they call themselves
OF southern and eastern Patagonia are
the people whose unusual stature gave
rise to the fables Of early days to the
effect that the natives of this region
were giants, averaging nine or ten feet
in height. 1t is fact they are the tall
est human beings in the world, the men
averaging but slightly less than six
feet, while individuals of four to six
inches above that mark are not uncom-
mon. They are in reality by no means
savages, but somewhat civilized bar
barians. They are almost unacquaint-
ed with the use of firearms, notwith-
standing some contact with the whites,
but they have plenty of horses and
dogs.
Unsurpassed hunters, they capture
the guanaco and the rhea, or South
American ostrich, and from the skins
of these and other animals they make
clothes and coverings for their tents.
They make beautiful "capes' or man.
ties, of fur and feathers, which are
highly priced by Europeans and find
ready market, most Of the proceeds
being spent for bad whisky, which is
brought into the country in quantities
by traders.