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Evening star., 1898-10-07
Stock Market Weak, Dull and Pro-
fessioual in Character.
BAD EFFECT OF ERRAfIC INDUSTRIkLS
Weakness in London Also Affected
Prices on This Side.
GENERAL MARKET REPORT
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star

special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
NEW YORK. October 7.-Today's stock
market WAS similar in character to that OF
previous days, buying and selling for pro-
Iessional account being the principal fea-
tore- London apprehension OF higher money
rates in Berlin and the continent. coupled
with cautious fear Of our fall elections.
mas deprived the local market Of consiaera-
bic support
Inc errauc action of the principal indus
'rials continues to emphasize the irreC-
u-arity and TO encourage a restricted vol.
ume OF business. In a few instances ths-e
is confidence to a degree superior To ihe
pCaru room temperament and purchases
are made on actua. value. In the ordinary
anu strictly routine features OF the markr.
There is nothing discouraHing TO holders OF
long stock.
he duiiness incident to an absence OF A
iesitlmate demand Is frequently oyerrouna
oidy through the medium OF lower prices
IHhIdIty increases with delay and nnally
prompts a selling of Investments in the in
terest of a decreased .nncar,, - - -
future '
The strong financial leaders are kpoup ,o
De IN waiting mood, which, as usual pro-
notes an initiative attitude on the mart of
conservative investment classes
among the professional element however
Such d condition invites short selling and
Stocks not sold by their actual owners and
borrowed and sold 10y speculative interests
Inns E-mllar speSta"ie has been reflected
On the tape dalIy during the present week.
Inc selling OF Northern Pacific common
STOCK presumably Tor German account was
accompanied by rumurs OF internal dissen-
slCns on the question OF dividends
II Is little early to use such AN argu-
ment when II has been a matter of com
mon knowledge that the late winter had
been decided upon as the earliest ueriod
for lnauguratins payments
Profits have been taken BY the interest
winch nrst undertook market contro! of The
stock, and for this reason above all others
the price yielded. At the low prices to-
cay, however, the same interest is credited
Win purchases aSgregaung nearly 10000
shares
The regular quarterly dividend of 1 per
cent was declared on the preferred stock.
metropolitan Traction was advanced IN
der rather good buying OF the semi-manipu-
latlve variety. Earnings are coming in a
trife in excess Of expectations and the
stock is being made TO reflect the improved
value.
Tobacco was advanced temporarily dur
ing the morning as the result Of an effort
to give 1t stable position in the market
The selling of block of long stock forced
sharp break from the best prices and the
day of internal conflict is apparently not
yet over.
Sugar was in moderate demand for both
long and short accounts, an effort TO hold
The price being reported during the first
half Of the session.
The so-called Flower shares are being
bought with more confidence than their
neighborS.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
Took Medicine in Water,
,m the Philadelphia Record


Professional humorists of the past fifty
years and more have told as fanciful joke
a little incident which actually happened a
few days ago. Teddy Ciaherty of Leiper-
vile, Delaware county was not well, and
so consulted Chester physician, who gave
him a simple remedy. Now, remember .
said the doctor, you are to take a tea
spoonful three times day in water"
Teddy answered, 'Au right, sorr," and de-
parted. Several days later George Leiper,
the wel-known quarryman of the town
meeting the physician, asked him what
Dew-fangled ideas in medicine he was prac-
tcing. When asked to explain Mr. Leiper
said Teddy Claherty had gone to Ridley
creek three times a day, and, taking off
his clothes, had waded into the middle of
the creek. where he had poured a LIQUID
into teaspoon from a bottle and drank
it, L watched Teddy wade out in the
morning, continued Mr.. Leiper "and when
he repeated it in the afternoon asked him
what he was doing, and he said the doctor
ordered him to take the medicine in water
an, be COB, sorr, I'm nlindin' the direc-
items, but l can't swhim sthroke, but Pm
telln We If it's the death O. me IN kane
IT up The doctor made an early call on
Teddy, who now drops the medicine in a
glass of water and takes it that way.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
Witnesses Before the Investigating
Commission.
NO SUFFERING IN The PHILIPPINES
The Rough Riders Well Provided
For.
MEDICAL FORCE TOO SMALL

The war investigating committee met at
10 o'clock this morning in the Lemon build
!ng. and half an hour later the examination
Of Gen. F. V. Greene. who was in service
In Manila, was begun. Ex-Governor Bea-
yer announced that he could not remain
with tha commission all the morning. and
that he would prefer that Mr.. DENLY
should conduct the examination. All the
members of the commission were present.
Gen. Greene did not object to being
sworn He testified that he had been ap
pointed colonel of the list New York Regi
ment at the beginning of the war and that
afterward he had been promoted to BE-
brigadier general and was sent to Manila
with $500 troops. whence he had gone
frCm San Francisco on the China and other
transports.
This command took out four months sun
piles. intended 10 bs used in Manila, and
one months supplies to be used on board
the transports. He also took a large
amount of quartermaster's supplies, and in
general the stores were well packed, al
though a few articles came in late and
were just on top of other supplies that
were needed first. In his opinion, both the
medical and commissary supplies were suf-
Evening star., 1898-10-07
HE SA" BRAVE MEN FIGHT
Ihe British Military eAttache on the
Fight at IaCaney
From Scribner's.

i"ui ''CIioler
oh tue northeast side. of Ell Caney is q
smooth, grassy ridge that commands the
edge of the village at arrange not exceed
ing three hundred yards Fifty yards be-
hlld the crest of this ridge is a slightly
suhken road within hedges on both aides.
lhis commanding pointshad necessarily to
be seized. and it was here that the hottest
hshtlhs OF the day OCCURRED. The 1,th
lffahtry advanced uD uhearoad and COM
mehced TO deploy to'-the right through a
sap III the hedge. No sooner. however, did
liley appear in the field beyond than the
i'eau OIL thelr column was struck by d heavy
fire. Colonel Haskell who was leading
was MT three times in a very few seconds,
his quartermaster was killed by his side
ana number of the leading men wee
Knocked over This was evidently not a
good line of advance, and the regiment was
"lthdrdwn into the hollow and extended
III! ther to the right, where ii did excallapt
service for the remainder of the day. rhs
te4- 4t.Ioi.tiy .s.a IuItunale 1t de-
ployed behind the ridge and then advanced
until the firing line extended along
the whole crest. Here it was exnos al to
terrible cross fire from the village itself
and from several of the blockhouses. Hour
aIter hour the men stood it without finch
ing, the herce sun scorching their backs.
ana suffering heavy losses from an enemy
VINO was practically invisible, and to whom
they could not reply effectively
About noon | crossed over to their posi-
tlon, and on nearing the sunken road
noticed that it was full of men lying down.
asked an officer of the regiment who was
coming down the road if those were mis-
reserves | saw, and his reply was some
what startling: No, sir, by God, they are
casualties" And indeed they were ON
reaching the spot l found over 100 killed
and wounded laid out in as many yards of
road, and 50 close were they that one could
Only pass by stepping over them There
was strange silence among these men:
not d Whimper or a groan, but each Law
quletiy nursing his wound with closed eyes
and set teeth only f1inching when the erratic
sieet OF bullets clipped the leaves off the
hedge close above their heads.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
Manufacturers. Take Notice!
rom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Our consuls in different parts Of the
world have been sending home warnings to
manufacturers and exporters that they are
losing promising markets because they do
not take care enough to meet the special
requirements of the foreign customers.
peculiar and suggestive complaint is
that they make their articles too good for
the demand. Accustomed to meet the
wants of home customers, they send the
same kind Of articles abroad, and find that
the people have not been educated up to
them. Goods are sent back because they
are not according to specifications in the
order. The customer acknowledges that
the articles sent are much better than the
Specifications, and 1t is admitted that they
cost no more than the inferior article or
dered, but they are not what the expected
purchasers have been accustomed to. and
are therefore unstable.
If the foreigner wants coarse article
what is the use of sending him fine arti-
Gle at the same price? He distrusts the
serviceableness of the better article, which
he has not been accustomed to. and sticks
to the old style, which is poorer without
being cheaper. The foreign customer may
In time be educated up to the American
standard, but the foreign merchant objects
to stand the cost of the education.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
peSOnaI Mention.

Governor ]. r. Tanner of Illinois, who
was present at the launching of the battle
skip Illinois at Newport News, Tuesday,
was registered yesterday at the Shoreham
Hotel
Mr.. Louis D. Wine is confined to his resi-
dence, No. 1717 Q street northwest, with a
gastric trouble which, while not regarded
as serious, causes him much discomfort
He was reported as being slightly better
today.
Miss Blanche Meegan has returned to her
studio on q street northwest after a busy
summer.
Mr.. Everard Snow left last week for the
Hartford Theological Seminary, Wh4re he
goes to prepare himself for the ministry
MIR. Fred. Z. Warner of Bos ton Mass
spent two days with Mr.. c. w. Little of 6:s7
Florida avenue. He has gone on west and
will visit the Omaha exposition before "a
turning east
Mr.. J. w. Shea of Both street has left on
business for Denver, Col, to be gone sav-
eral months.
Cadet William ID. Leahy, formerly of the
battle ship oregon. and now of the Texas,
is spending few days in Washington.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
An AnecdOte of Gen. Meade.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

Hioiu tHe littSuurS blSpatCH.
AT little village on the Susauehanna
river L met an old soldier who related this
Incident of his experience with Gen Meade
In the late war have forgotten his name
and the place where it occurred. 1t was a
raw night in October, the wind was rather
strong. and Gen. Meade had fixed a stove
in his tent. The soldier was the sentry for
the general. A puff of wind knocked down
the lmproV1sed stove-pipe, and soon the
tent filled with smoke The general came
out and asked the sentry to help him re-
arrange it. The soldier replied that he was
under orders and could not leave his post
of duty.
Yes. yes said Meade: that Is true
but l would like to have that stove-pipe
fixed. You are right" and the general
went at the job himself
L kept pacing my beat" said the soldier
'and enjoyed Meade's efforts to ge. the
pipe back in its place. He made sorry
mess of it, Finally he turned to me and
said: Sentry, you will have to help me-
Will be responsible for you, and if there Is
any trouble about your leaving the beat l
will explain to the commanding officer
In a few minutes we had the pipe in DO
sition. Meade disappeared into the tent
came out with jug of appejack, and
asked me to take a drink Once more / re-
minded him l was on duty. Yes YES he
answered: I know; but you helped me to
fix the stove-pipe.
''He turned on his heel and re-entered the
tent. leaving the jug outside. After time
he came out.
Did you drink? he inquired. I nodded.
L knew you would; but 1 did not see
NJ"
Evening star., 1898-10-07
A Blot on the Country.

Some of the leading newspapers in North
Dakota have begun an agitation for a re-
form of the divorce laws of that state
which have so long been scandal While
there is no doubt that the ease and celerity
of application of these laws hurt the name
of the state, 1t is equally true that these
laws entice the miSmated from all over the
country, so that the Dakota lawyers and
the hotel keepers reap very decided bene-
fit. This fact makes the papers which are
working for reform almost hopeless in re-
gard to their crusade, as they remember
the result of previous appeals to the legis-
lature. Nevertheless, another appeal is to
be made, in support of which attention will
be directed to the incongruity of the di-
vorce law with other statutes in the state
Some of these Inconsistencies are very
marked. 1t is shown that while a resi-
dence of only three months in the state is
required to obtain a divorce, the citizen
who wishes to vote for a pound keeper
must have been a resident for a year or
if he is foreign-bOrn, for six years. 1t
really is time that the people of North Da-
kota awoke to a sense of the decency of
things
Evening star., 1898-10-07
Washington stock Exchange.

Sales-regular call-12 O'Clock m.-Dlstrict Of Co
Trust, at l5l; Capital Fraction, 10 at 7ssi 8
at 7sH4. at Tsa4. 20 at 1SSs United States Elec-
tric Light. 10 At lu9, lo at 10Y, at l0s. 10 at
llO. Mergenthaer Linotype. 10 at IS5. American
Graphophone, so AZ Il, 80 at 1875, 80 at l37s loo
at 1875 100 at 1875, 100 at 1875, 300 at 49, loo
at 13s4 IL at 13A4 American Grapboihonc pfd.
80 at 14A. After call-Lincoln Fire Insurance, 80
District Of Columbia Bonds-2o-year Fund IS,
loo bid. 3O-year Fund. gold 6s 1854 bid. Water
Stock currency as los bid. Fund. currency 3.o5s.
Miscellaneous Bonds.-Metropolitan Railroad IS
l197s bid i2i ask. asked Metropolitan Railroad eonv;
cert indebt.. \. ia bid Metropolitan Railroad
Ecklngton Railroad 6s 100 bid. Washington Gas
Company, ser. a, es. ll4 bid. Washington Gas
trc Light deb imp 100 BID cesspesEe ana 5e eS
tomae Telephone SIS, 1os bid. American Security
and Trust SIS. iooA bid, looH asked. Washington
Market Company imp. 6s. 1l5 bid Washington
Mraket Company eKten; 20; g. lis bid. Masonic Han
National Bang stocks7Rsnk KS Of Washington. 2ss
Farmers and Mechanics, isO bid 100 asked See.
ond. 145 bid. Citizens, las bid. Columbia 1875
bid. Capital. I25 bid; Traders', loo bid. Lin-
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies National
Safe Deposit Dep & and TTust D L, ll5 asked washington
escurity and Trust, $50 hid.
IS bid. Metropolitan 20 bid. CorcOran. SO bid
Potomac. IS bid, 65 asked. Arlington, I25 bid
bid. Columbia, 105s bid. u asked Riggs 7N bid
asked Peoples, 5l4 bid, asked. Lincoln I0l
bid Commercial. bid.
Title Insurance stocks-ReaI Estate Title, 70
bid. Columbia Title, a. hid, 8 asked.
Railroad Stocks.-Capital Traction Company
1874 bid. lsls asked Metropolitan 125 bid, 1874
asked. Columbia, 15 asked.
Gas and Electric Light Stocks.-WashIpyfon Gas
4S. bid, 40 asked. Georgetown Gas 4s asked
United States Electric Light lilo bid III asked
Telephone Stocks.-Chesapenke and Potomac 10
bid. Pennsylvania, 3s bid 45 asked -
Miscellaneous Stocks. - Mergenthaler I5netvne
ls44 bid, 1855 asked. Lansron Monotype lbIk
bid. loz asked American Graphophone 1885 lid
13A asked american Graphopbone pfd., I4L bid
141a asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage Is hid 20
asked. Washington Market 10 bid. Great Fails
Ice, lis bid, 12S asked. Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat, 81 asked. WI
Evening star., 1898-10-07
Contract Surgeons.

This deficiency IN regular medical Off
GERS has made it necessary to employ more
than go contract surgeons. Most of these
doctors from civil life are doing good ser
vice. and many of them are thoroughly
weli-equipped physicians and surgeons,
with ample hospital experience; but II has
been impossible to make a careful selac-
ticn. owing TO the great pressure OF bust
ness in the surgeon generals office and the
urgency has been so great that Il has no.
been practicable to have examining boards
to pass upon their qualifications. i have
endeavored. so far possible to obtain
satisfactory professional Endorsement be-
fore making q contract with an applicant
The number of applicants has been so
great. and the personal visits of applicants
and their friends so numerous as to CON-
Evening star., 1898-10-07
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
Important Action Taken on the First
Application Made.

Mr.. D. J. Murphy, local plumber, sew
eral weeks ago requested permission of the
District Commissioners to run the sewer
age from the Catholic monastery, 18th ana
Philadelphia streets. Brookland. 200 feet
from the building line. and have the sewer
age matter deposited on the surface OF a
cultivated farm. He stated that there was
no way to connect the building with the
sewer
The application was referred to Mr..
Charles B. Ball. the District inspector of
plumbing, who recommended after an ex-
animation of the locality in which 1t was
proposed to place disposal field, that the
desired permission be given, although he
suggested that the subject receive the at
tention of the health officer before the
permit shouri issue.
The health officer. DIR. VIM. c. Woodward
upon the matter being referred to him, re-
ported to the Commissioners that the ap-
plication was rot, in his Judgment, accom-
panied by sufficiently detailed plans. re-
qGired by law, to enable his department to
trteligently pass upon the question as to
whether the proposed system could he
p'aintained without nuisance or danger to
public health.
DR.. Woodward thereupon recommended
that the application be returned to Mr..
of the particular area proposed to be used
the grades thereof and the depth and char
acter of the soil
Mr.. Murphy, in responding to the request
for further particulars, stated that the soil
IN question is composed of clay and sand
that the area on which ii is proposed to dis
tribute the sewage is about eighteen or
twenty acres, about two-thirds being prac-
ttcally level and the rest having a fall of
one in ten feet; that the cistern is proposed
to be located about 2S0 feet distant from
the building, and it's contents distributed in
any part of the field.
Dr. Woodward thereupon reported to the
Commissioners that he does not believe
that the said system can be maintained
without nuisance, or without danger to
public health, required by law. He
therefore recommended that the application
be denied
Evening star., 1898-10-07
BIG STRIKE IN PARIS
Sixty ThousandWor Workmen Parade the
Streets b Ugly Mood,
SITUATION CABE aCoNs4ERNATlON
Fears That a PoIiacal Revolution
May Be tha Result.
TROOPS ORDERED TO CITY

{
PARIS, October THE strike of the la
borers here has extended to nearly all the
building trades, and 1t is feared the rail-
road men will join in the movement. Work
on the exhibition buildings and underground
railroad has completely ceased.
About 10000 men have gone out on strike
and the situation Is causing CONSERVATION
The attitude of the strikers is increasingly
aggressive and fights between strikers and
so-called 'black-iegs'' are incessant in
Volvlng the aforementioned the police. troops
and mounted republican guards, who have
oeen Obliged to repeatedly charge the strik-
er5. The quarters In which rioting has
taken place are patrolled by strong detach-
ments of police and troops
Fears of Revolutions
There are great apprehensions lest the
agitators turn the strike movement to DO
liticaI ends.
The Temps declares that the leaders of
the men are aiming at a general strike. If
not at revolution, and points out what a
ureauIul thlng 1t would be if the exhibition
of 1900 is compromised
IL was reported this morning that the mu-
nlclpal council and the contractors had
come 10 an agreement regarding the de-
nands or the laborers. and hopes were ex-
pressed that the strike would end in a few
oays' put In spite of the hopes entertained
VI termination of the strike, more men
s,r ruch To-Day, and riotous bands of strikers
VISITED various works for the purpose of
iorclls men TO join in the strike.
Additional Troops Called Out.
Inc police dispersed these bands and ar
rested number of the leaders of the dis
tuFbahces Additional reinforcements of
troops nave been drafted into the city
from outlying garrisons
Evening star., 1898-10-07
GRAIN
Baltimore Market.

BALTIMORE. Nd. October 7-Florr sr,, ,,,
ehanged,recsipts; 1888 barrels; exports Iss bar
rels; sales S0o barrels. Wheat strong-spot and
~ SeSlsaSss4 steamer No. 2 red. 84nae5; receipts,
2s6!l bushels; exports, IS 600 bushels: STOCK ssf
81 ousheis sales, 60. 900 bushels Southern whoa,
by sample 64aIoA; do grade 64S,a6gs Corn
sti'ng-spot and month. 33aa a33zs; Noyember as4ts
"a, new or old November or December 33Ii. ian
nary, SSAasSla; steamer mixed. 32s.as25s receints
~ 400 bushels; exports. SO, 4s7 bushels; stock l.
white corn. S5as5ls; do. yellow, 35iza3e, Oats
asmoNo white white % western, 2sa2s; No mixed
So5az: receipts; 825a6 bushels; exports. q. .0a5
higber.No; 2 nearby; 4s&; No. western. SIS;
receipts l4110 bushels; exports. none: stock lIc
800 bushels. Hay frm-No. 1 timothy siosSl0 n
Grain freights very firm. demand fair, rates
STEADY unchanged sugar strong. unchanged Bat
Cheese steady. unchanged. Lettuce UNCHANGED,
Whisky unchanged.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
NAMES MONSTER SCHOONER
Will He the Largest of Her TYNE
Ever Constructed.

From the New York Herald
The largest schooner in the world js in
process of construction at the shipvard oP
h NJ. Bean, at Camden, Me- The vessel
VIII be five masted, and Is being built for
Captain John C. Crowley of Taunton Mass
Some idea of her size may be had when il
Is stated that she could easily contain the
former five maSted and now four rnasted
schooner Governor Ames The Governor
Ames was at the time cf her construction
the largest schooner in the world, but this
new vessel will carry over a thousand tons
more than She
She is the heaviest tfmbered and con-
tains the heaviest material of any yessal
ever built in Maine, and she will be the
largest fore and aft vessel ever built or
now building. The dimensions of this mas
sive craft are as follows: Her keel is 2S2
feet long; from taffrail to forward knight
heads on deck She measure BIS feet.
she will be A feet and inches in width
and 21 feet and inches in depth She will
have two whole decks land a four foot
poop, running to one berth aft of forward
hatch.
The frame is of Virginia oak. and her
planking inside and out will be of Georgia
pine. The cabin will be finished in ash.
mahogany, cypress and sycamore She will
nave five Oregon fnasts, the forward one
being % inches and the remainder 2S inches
in diameter, each liz feet long, and the
other spars in proportion,
1t will take 10000 square yards of canvas
to propel this monster through the water
and when at anchor two 5000 pound
anchors will hold her, attached by two and
three-eighths inch chains
This schooner viii be one of the finest, If
not the finest sailing vessel af1oat She
Will be heated by steam and lighted by
electricity. Steam will be used for hoisting
purposes. and a searchlight viii probably
be added to her equipment. She will have
every modern Improvement.
Her keel was laid on July ID, and she will
be ready for sea during the early part of
December. She will he used exclusively
for carrying coal between Philadelphia
Norfolk, Baltimore and Boston. She will
have a capacity of 4,300 tons.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
PENITENTIARY OFFENSES,
Those Convicted of Them Here to De
Confined Out in Ohio.

Orders were issued this afternoon by
Chief Justice Bingham and Associate JUS
tice Bradley of the District Supreme Court
the presiding judges of the two criminal
branches. to the effect that hereafter all
prisoners from the District convicted of
penitentiary offenses shall be confined in
the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, instead
of in the institutions at Albany N Y and
Trenton, n. J. This action was taken in
response to letter from Attorney General
Grggs