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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
FINANCE AND TRADE
The Street Continues to Favor the
High-Priced Securities.
VOLUME OF BUSINESS NOT LARGE
Buying Of Burlington and Omaha
the Feature of Early Trading.
GENERAL MARKET REPORTS
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Evening Star
NEW YORK. July 11--Today,s stock
market was agsin in an expectant state
lut developed no indications of alarm as
to the character of the news awaited The
volume of business was not large but the
urdertone was enthusiastically strong AT an
parts of the list.
The buying of Burlington and OMAHA
was the feature of the early trading and
had a good effect on all parts OF the mar
ket Renewed inquiries for bonds helped
to sustain prices in the security markets
generally; and served to emphasize tho
pfeVahng commence in the future of
prices.
The buying of Union Pacific Denver ani
Gulf securities was especially pronounced
at times. and was connected. by the room.
with the visit of the receiver of that road,
Atcnison sec1r ties came prominently for
ward during the morning: also sales OF
iarge blocks of the preferred stock, attract
ing especial notice owing to the constant
advance in the prices paid.
The street is uniformly optimistic, hui
continues TO discriminate in favor of the
high-priced diviGend-paying securities and
the low-priced speculative issues. Tha
market is full of attractive issues of the
latter class and campaign in them is rea-
sonabiy certain to follow the receipt of en-
couraging war adyices
Will be remembered that last summer
maj movement was made in stocks selling
under % per cent of their par value The
outbreak of yellow fever on an alarming
scale put an end to that undertaking. TINS
year the impulse to advance the low-priced
issues comes at a time when the yeiiow
fever outbreak is reported to be no longer
a menace to the value of southern railway
shares
There is a growing tendency to look with
increasing favor upon the shares OF the
western roads. The returning mining
traffic from the northwest and an extern
sion of commercial relations with Pacific
coast ports are being pressed forward with
considerable emphasis at this juncture and
with some speculative success.
While the market is more than ever d.
Vided up into groups. there is not single
group positively expected TO decline for
want OF opposite incentive. The coal
shares are suspected Of inside compIica-
tons and cut-rate possibilities but they
are not likely TO do more than lag while
the general market is strong
The public is not in the market and Is
scarcely likely to come in for a few DAYS
AS is usual, with the advent of the outside
legitimate demand, the professional ele-
ment Is likely to take profits at the ex-
pense of the newcomers. Patient holding
however, is almost certain of subsequent
profitable results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Notorman's Testimony.
Cheap and "lfasty."
To the Editor of The Evening Star.

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
The accident on the Capital railway at
Hillsdale last evening is the elimination of
what every thoughtful person has predicted
and feared from the time the road was laid
and the dangerous curve put down to get
around the turn table of the horse cars.
An electric car coming down the
heavy grade of the asylum HILL in order
to avoid the Anacostia horse cars (frem
one to three of which are always at the
terminusD must go on curve that is hard
ly the length of the car In the case of a
runaway car. If it should keep the track
at the commencement OF this curve it
would be sure to leave 1t at it's center and
would then crash into the row of buildings
above Douglass Hail. The buildings are
erected on piles and are of frail construc-
ton, and they and the heavy car would of
necessity be precipitated into the hollow
| below. which is from fifteen to twenty -five
feet deep.
In the accident last night the car jumped
the track before entering dead mans
| curve" and crashed into and demolished
the only AnacoStia horse that hap
rened 70 be there. Douglass Hall, with its
| numerous tenants, was only saved from
utter destruction by the coming in
contact with the iron trolley polo in front
or 1t, which DETECTED the cars course suf-
| ficiently to keep it below the curb
/ suppose there can be no doubt that this
dangerous state of affairs was authorized
ny the DlSlflcL OFFICIALS, ana II now becomes
their duty to prohibit the running of cars
down this hill until the trackage arrange
ments at its foot are changed so as to give
the electric cars clear sweep of straight
track on the level.
The Capital railway was brought into ex-
istence by the urgent work of few citizens
Of Anacostia, VINO believed Mr. Randle
when he said capital was forthcoming and
that we would have. first-cIass double
track electric railway to take the place of
the miserable bob-tail 8car service which
the Anacostia road officials told us was s'as
good as the patronage The charter OBJ
tanned, there has not been one day of sat
isfactory service since-it was built The
underground contact system on the city
side of the road requires a force to keep
1t in repair, both~,day and right. Horses
still pull the heavN ears across the bridge
Notwithstanding the fact that Congress a
month ago authorized the use of the over
head trolley. Two cars, from twenty to
thirty minutes apart, are considered sutti-
cient for the travel in the day time and
an extra car Is put on at nightfan to ac-
commodate thousands of passengers who
seek the cool air of the heights 1t is not
the exception, but the rule, for these cars
to be overcrowded both day and night, and
the lack of sufficient cars and consequent
overcrowding was the prime cause of last
nights accident at the death trap at the
foot of Asylum hill. Cheap and nasty
describes the Capital railway.
I'll. B. DARLING
Anacostia, July II, 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Sleeping on Post.
N the Army and Navy Journal.


Some of our volunteer troops do not ap-
pear TO understand that sleeping post
is one of the most serious offenses a SOL
der can be guilty of; SO grave in fact that
a court can condemn guilty man to death
for the offense. In some emergencies this
may yet be done. In the beginning OF ac-
tive service before the troops are in front
Of the enemy light sentences are perhaps
Justified as the volunteers on guard are not
used to a broken rest during the twenty
fo ur hours of their detail to guard duty.
The system Is a most tiresome and wear
ing one, and men used to steady sleep
of some eight hours find 1t hard at first to
become used to the routine; in fact old
timers usually come off guard completely
broken up. AS plen have now had time to
become broken into the routine of the SER
wee, and may now any day be called upon
to perform duty where sleeping on post
might result in great disaster to our
troops. severe measures will of necessity
be taken against those falling to perform
their duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
THE SAD SIDE OF WAR.
Dead Capt. Fornance's Child Awaits
His Home-Coming

NEW YORK, July 11.-There is a little girl
who sits and plays with her dolls and toys
under the trees on Governors Island limo
cent of blight that has come into her
young life. She has saved the firecrackers
that were given to her for the Fourth. and
says: Il will not fra them off till papa
comes home
Her father was Capt. James Torrance of
Company X, 18th Infantry, who was killed
In the taking Of the Notifications of San
Juan at Santiago.
The little girls mother died a few years
ago, and after that Capt. Torrance was
never the same man. The little girl is six
years old, and was passionately devoted to
her father. She is looking forward 10 MS
coming home, and no one has courage
enough to tell her that she is now an or
chaD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
sKASAGIs TRIAL TRIP.
Japan's Cruiser VIII Make 1t Off New
Hnmpshire This Week

The Japanese protected cruiser Kasagi
sailed from Cramps shipyard al daylight
Saturday morning for her official trial trip,
which will be made off the New Hampshire
coast probably tomorrow
The ship is in charge of Captain Redwood
w Sargent and is manned by crew of ex-
pert mechanics. firemen and sailors from
Cramps shipyards experimenting Engi-
neer Edwin S. Cramp represents the build
ers and the party on board includes the
japanese naval officers who have supervis-
ed the ships construction. In addition,
there are few invited guests. The course
over which the speed trial is to be made is
laid out at the upper end OF the govern
ment trial course and is twenty miles long
The contract calls for forty-mfle run
under forced draught, and the speed re-
quirement is an average of 22h knots an
hour. On her recent builders trial the
Kasasi averaged % knots an hour and IL
is expected that the result of TUESDAYS
trial will prove her to be the fastest ship
of her class in the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
NEXT MEETING.
The Place Being Considered This At
ternOOn.

A merry war is going on over the loca-
ton of the next city for the n. E. A.
Three western cities are competing for the
honor. though there has been some talk
that Boston would like to entertain the
big congress of educators.
Portland, Ore, has strong backing. Salt
Lake City, Utah, is pulling every wire, as
sisted by her senators and representatives,
while California, as she always Does comes
fortified by tons of literature and photo
graphs of her picturesque spots.
Representative Ellis of Oregon met with
the executive committee this afternoon 10
urge the claims of Portland.
DR.. Millspaugh of Salt Lake City set
forth the desirability of accepting Utahs
hospitality, and Los Angeles had Mr. Nc
Donald. Each city had quite list of rail-
road men to back them up with promises
of low rates and excursions to all the
prominent points within hundred of miles
In talking with the delegates at the state
headquarters Los Angeles seemed to be the
choice. The matter was being considered
by the executive as this report closed
with the probability that it would be re-
ferred to the council for final settlement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
The Morse King Bought.

The negotiations for the purchase of the
British freighter Morse King have been
concluded by the engineer bureau of the
Navy Department. The vessel, which is a
large freight steamer, is now at Norfolk
being fitted up as dstillng vessel. The
sale was negotiated by Henry w. Coffin
for the British owners, and the price paid
was about $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
THE COTTON CROP.
Average Condition Reported to the
Agricultural Department..

The cotton returns TO the statstician of
the Department of Agriculture made up
to July l indicate an average condition of
9t.2, as compared with 80 on June i, 1898,
with 90 on July 1. 1897, and with 92.5 on
July 1, 1896.
The averages of the principal states are
as follows: North Carolina, 81; South
Carolina. Georgia and Louisiana, 80; Ala
hama, 81: Texas Tennessee and Oklahoma
o.; Arkansas, e3; Mississippi, a. Indian
territory, 50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Orders to District Mem.

Privates George Shultz, Company N, and
w. II. Stark, Company D. LIST District Of
Columbia Volunteers, now in Cuba, have
been discharged from the service of the
United States.
Private Paul E. Chamberlin, COMPANY q
LIST District of Columbia Volunteer Infan,
try. has been ordered to join his company
near Santiago, Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Artillery DEPARTS.

Battery c, commanded by Capt. Fl. r.
Lemly, and Battery M, Capt. NJ. NJ Nc
Comb, It'll Artillery. stationed at Fort
Myer. Va, left here special train this
afternoon for Tampa. Fla, to await fur
Their orders. They are expected to proceed
to Cuba. Each command has 1I3 men, six
guns, 100 horses and full equipment of
smokeless powder. The men are the first
to start from a home station for the front
provided with khaki or brown canvas uni
FORMS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
lola SENTENCED AGAIN,
Must Pay 1900 Francs Fine for Libel
ing Handwriting Experts.

In the libel suit of the three handwrit-
Ing experts In the Estarhazy case
against n. Emile Zola and NJ Per-
reux, the editor of the Aurore, growing
out OF allegations made by the latter
against the experts VINO testified regarding
Dreyfus documents, the court has sentenced
III. lola to sixteen days Imprisonment and
to pay fine of 1000 francs. The impris-
onment. however, is suspended. In addi-
ton, each of the experts Is awarded 1900
francs damages
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
In n Fight.

William Whitfield and Charles Chunn of
Company a, 4th Regiment of Missouri, now
encamped at Camp Alger, We're slightly
wounded by shooting In the thumb and arm.
respectively, last evening during a fight in a
house AT the corner Of 49, anc C streets
northwest. The wounds were dressed at
the Emergency Hospital, after which the
men went to camp 1t is not known who
did the shooting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
TO BE THE FIRST GARRISON,
First New York Regiment Will he
Stationed at Honolulu.

1t was definitely decided today that the
1st Regiment, New York Volunteer Infan-
try, should constitute the first garrison of
the United States army established at Hon.
olulu. Hawaii.
1t was also decided that the islands
should be included in the military depart
n ent OF California
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
A wholesome Consular Evolution.
from the Review Of Reviews.

1t IS the fashion 10 find a great deal of
fault with our consular and diplomatic
service 1t needs. therefore. 10 be said OF
our Representatives in positions of this
sort that when they are good they are
very good. and when they are bad they
are horrid!' All shat is necessary to make
our diplomatic and consular service equal
10 the hrst in the world is to bring the
whole service up to the level of its best
part And this can he done If the polti-
clans VIII be iitle more patriotic and will
allow the President 10 appoint the best
men ne can IND. We possess already a
oody OF men. either now or at some former
time in diplomatic and consular posts in
the orient, who could furnish plenty of
talent for the re0TganiZa ton and satisfac-
tory government OF u region like the Phil
ipTines- Gradually we are coming to the
point Of eliminating politics from these APP
poi3tments 10 foreign service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Personal Mention.

Lucius z. Gridley of the Treasury De-
partmeat left yesterday for Eric, Pa. via
New York, to attend the funeral OF lis
brother. Capt. C. v Grldley, L. 6. N,
Wednesday, the 18th, at sunset
Gen. Clay and DIR. Henderson left tho
city this morning for two weeks vaca-
ton at trout fishing In the Cheat river
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
THE TOTAL NUMBER LOST.
Latest Report of Casualties by Gen.
eral Shafter.

The adjutant general received a dispatch
from General Shafter this afternoon as
follows:
SIBONEY, Cuba, July 1.-Reports of
casualties In action of July /, 2 and show
Killed, % officers, 20S men; wounded so
officers, ,203 men; missing, 81 men. Grand
total, 1885. Number of missing will be re-
duced. Number by mail giving names.
SHAFTER
Major General Commanding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Coal Miners, Strike Broken.

PIFTSBURG, Pa, July 1.-THE strike of
the coal miners in the third pool is practi-
cally Broken, and most of the men have re-
turned TO work without obtaining the dis
trict price.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Knn,a. civ Porittcinn De,a

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July u.-City Audi
tor Thomas c. Belle, thirty-nine years old.
is dead of typhoid fever after two
months illness. Before entering politics
Mr. Belle was a member of the journal
reportorial stan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Uruguaynns VIII he Enlightened.

froM Tie SaFannak NcWE
1t is reported that a small party OF Ufp.
gGayans have. left for Cuba 10 help the
Spaniar6s fight the United States. Prob.
ably their presence in the ranks OF tho
encniy VIII prove { good thing ShouiS
they come out of the scrap alive, theJ
would go back home and tell their peoph
that Uncle Sam is really bigger and
harder fighter than they thought he was.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

The following are the opening, the high
est and the Low est and the closing prices OF
the New York stock market today as re-
ported by Corson & Mccartney, members
new YORK stock exchange. Correspondents.
Messrs. Van Emburgh q Atterbury. No. ,
Wall St
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Cruiser Harvard Not Yet i'm Port.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., July 11.-Up to 10
o'clock today the United States auxiliary
cruiser Harvard had not arrived here. The
report that she came in last night proves
to be erroneous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Bryan's Regiment Ordered South.

William Jennings Bryan's regiment of
Nebraska infantry today were ordered to
join General Fitzhugh Lees corps at Jack
sonville
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Grain, Provisions and Cotton Markets.

Furnished by w 3. Hibbs &: Co., bankers
and brokers, 1927 F ST., members New York
stock exchange, correspondents Nessrs.
Ladenburg. Thalmanp & c.. New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Government BOND,

Quotations reported by Corson & Macart-
Nc hou
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-11-11
AT Ell CANEY.
Rough Experience Related by the
Major in Seeking for Gen.
Ludlow.

The major had done his work well.
During the fight around Caney, his du-
ties led him several times into the
Jaws of hell, as he says, and he went
in-not without flinching, for the ma
jor is frankfurt he went in. Once he
was sent with guard of five troopers
to find Gen. Ludlow.
1.-The bullets in one lane were like
hail." said the major. 'Don'tgo down
there, sir said a soldier. You'll be
killed. Gen. Ludlow is back there.
l rode back through that awful lane.
Where is Gen. Ludlow" | said to a
soldier. Gen. Ludlow he said, and a
bullet caught him in the forehead and
he fell dead. l was sent to another
place, and another, and I couldn't find
him. Finally went to an old officer.
Colonel said, I've been looking for
Gen. Ludlow for two hours, and can't
find him. I've got five troopers here.
I'm not married myself, and of course
don't care for myself, but they're all
married men and I've got to think of
them. l don't want to risk their lives
-NoNs III u lSldCll lool, anu
ask you frankly what l ought to do?'
Don't you report to your superior Of
ficer,' said the colonel, until you have
found Gen. Ludlow That was enough
for me, and off started, but l said to
the troopers: You needn't come
not one of YOU But every one came.
Once I got ahead of our own line.
heard a click, looked up, and there
was a Spanish picket post not fifty
yards away with their guns leveled. l
lay down on my horse and skipped.
The bullets whistled. but l wasn't
touched. Finally did find him. This
way, Web, my boy he called from the
woods. 1t was hot in there. 'Stoop sir
-stoop,' said a soldier; and as l
stopped the poor fellow himself got a
bullet in the breast. Here you are,
called the general, who was standing
straight with his shoulders squared. !
Strengthened up my backbone, too,
though I never felt so humble in my
life, and gave my message and started
away. When kad got off 5oyards the
general called me back through that
death hole. left again, and if he didn't
call me back again! General I said,
for Gods sake don't call me back any
more He laughed, and didn't; and
here am"
So now that promotions rustic the
Cuban air, the major says frankly, and
with logic and justice: "If am staff
officer, put me back in the rear and
let me be ornamental. If am to have
duties steadily on the firing line and
ahead of it, as l had, and to do them.
as l did-here's So-and-so and So-and
SO being made colonel, brigadier gen
eral, and major general-what do
get?"-Harper's Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-11-11
SMART WIVES OF FARMERS.
They Have Learned a Thing or Two
I'm Dress from City Summer
Residents.

One of the sights that show plainly
the place of the American woman is
familiar to persons who have passed
their vacations in the country. "lt
is more eloquent to me-" said man
who had passed several weeks in the
hills of Connecticut, than all the re-
ports of debating societies, women's
clubs and temperance unions that
could be bound together in a year.
Driving along the country roads will
come a young farmer. The horse, the
wagon and the man will show plainly
that he is small farmer. Probably
he wears pair of dust-covered over
alls that make him look like the poor
est of his hired men. But the woman
who sits beside him in her smart shirt
waist and trim sailor hat would not be
out of place on the beach at Narragan-
sett. He would stand a mighty poor
show there if he appeared in the
clothes in which he is familiar to his
neighbors.
But the young woman has learned
from the summer boarders how to
dress herself just as they do, and she is
usually able to stand we'll the COM
parison with them. If there happens
to be lady in the wagon-and there
usually is one-it will resemble the
mother and not the father in dress. 1t
will be as much done up'in laces and
ribbons as the city babies that are try
ing with their nurses to get its COM
plexion and ruddy beauty.
at is only on Sunday that the father
is likely to show that he has come at
all under the influence of the city Wis
itors in the matter of dress. He may
show it then in the way his scarf is
tied. But the manifestation is never
more apparent than that, and seems
under these circumstances to be sug-
gestion of his wife. But so far as she
and the baby are concerned, she has
learned her lesson from the influence
of the summer residents, and can live
up to tn. Y. Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-11-11
Pitching QuOits.

Quoits is a game that is seen largely
among the working classes. Off in the
mining districts, in the neighborhood
of large building contracts or at the
river side, a group of men playing
quoits is a common sight. 1t requires
affair degree of strength and quickness
and has a peculiar fascination for the
player. A flattened ring of iron is to
be tossed over an iron stake, from
which the player stands distance of
from rs to rs feet. There are two
stakes used, and generally two or four
players take part. The game is not
of much Importance, but 1t has existed
for centuries, and its simplicity
horseshoes being used when the reg
ular quoits cannot be had-will always
give it certain popularity.-N. Y.
Tribune.