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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-15

the volume of business is 637 per cent
larger than last year and 75.5 larger
than in 1892. the best of all years eX-
cept the last or when failures con-
tinue the smallest ever known, or
when the exports of staples be-
gin to improve materially, or
when railroad business is by far the
best ever known, or when New York
bankers appear in international opera
tions listening to a Russian inquiry
and undertaking Mexican loan.
Even the industrial disputes incident
10 the season, cause less trouble than
usual, the largest of them having been
settled Thursday by the Tin Plate
Company
Iron production in the first week CT
July was 263, 1868 tons for the past two
weeks less, because a strike, July l,
closed seven Shenango furnaces, pro-
ducing 1900 tons daily.
Prices are climbing, but only for trtf-
ing surplus not covered by CONT acts,
SO that quotations represent but an in
significant part of the actual business,
Copper is a shade weaker at Is IA
cent for Lake, government rep lrting
the output in 1898 as 526, 375, 591 pounds.
Tin is strong with London speculation
at 2S.25 cents, and Lead is advanced by
the Smelling Company to 455.
The largest shipments of boots and
shoes in any year for the season, 193,-
$50 cases in two weeks, greater by II
per cent than last year, Sc per cent
than in 1897 and 294 per cent than in
1892 result from very extensive pres
sure to anticipate orders for August
and September, distribution, far ex-
ceeding expectations. But there are
reported with such appeals not nearly
as large though numerous duplicate or
ders Hemlock sole leather sells
largely, but some kinds slowly, with
slight yielding in price.
Though cotton is steady in spite OF
Texas floods, at SO cents, and the gen
eral demand for cotton goods is full
and sustains prices, a reduction OF half
a cent in some fancy prints is reported.
In wool a great speculation is ia pro-
gress sales IN two weeks reaching q,
261.100 pounds, against "a, 572, 800 in 1897,
when the buying was to anticipate new
duties. 1t is worth noticing that no
purchases by manufacturers are men
toned. save one for 100000 pounds,
though there is much calculation that
the manufacturers must buy at any
price asked. Western frenzies some
times make eastern, but as rule con-
sumers make prices in the end.
In striking contrast with official and
otnef wheat reports, are the recorded
receipts at western ports, S,0SS, 146
bushels in two weeks against 1,4T,73
last year. 1t is not strange that prices
have declined l is cents and exports,
-four included, were from Atlantic
ports in July thus far, 4,1S5,914 bushels
against 4,0S3,123 last year, and from
Pacific ports 1,010,4 ASS against S01, 100 last
year, besides 505,oS5 bushels this year
from other ports
Corn exports are also surprising.
5.S05214 bushels in two weeks against
2,077,0SS last year, but less surprising
than western receipts, 10,512,341 bushels
against 4,561071, last year.
Nevertheless, the price advanced
5-Sths of cent. Failures for the week
have been 1859 in the United States
against 215 last year, and "a in Canada
against % last year.
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| Would Not

either if 1 were not the preacher" There
IS moral there. if you only have time to
dig II out. As Burns says: ''Oh wad
some power the giftie gle US to see our
won't tell us your real opinion Of this
~"ad,n because = like the preacher we
wouldn't write it if we didn't feel obliged
to call your attention to the present low
price of wheat and pork and the (too)
high price of corn. Take $25 and buy 1850
bushels of wheat or 100 barrels of pork, or
sell $500 bushels of corn Our free book
tells how; send for it.
Howard. Crosby & Co., g so s81s'i Gs. s.
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Annual Statement
Shows Increase of
Earnings.
LOOKS LIKE TWELVE Per CENT.
Large Sums viii Be Spent
in Construction This
Year.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paups
statement for the first week in July,
showing a large increase in gross earn
ings has emphasized the favorable i'm
preston produced by careful estimates
of the results of the year ended June
30. Taking the returns as they stand
the company appears to have earned
in the fiscal year surplus, after the
payment of the dividend on the pre-
ferred stock, equivalent to not less than
eleven per cent on the common stock
This is three per cent better than the
exhibit for the year 1878. St. Paul,
moreover, habitually charges to oper-
ating expenses large sums put into
permanent Improvements. The indica-
tons are that the actual earning power
of the property in the year 1889 was
certainly IL per cent, and probably 10
or IA per cent on the common stock. ST
Paul divides It's improvement expenses
between capital and earnings In 1898
its charges to capital for additions to
the property amounted to ST. 800, 900, and
the outlay for betterments at the cost
OF operating expenses at the same time
was very liberal
The st. Paul company's financial
management is worthy of emulation in
one respect conspicuously. The full cost
or replacing worn-out equipment is
charged by this road to operating ex-
penses Immediately. Hence no deficien-
cy in equipment numbers ever appears.
Perhaps the easiest way in which to
relieve operating expenses is to neg
lect instant charges for the replace
ment of condemned equipment The St.
Paufs practice in this respect is re-
markedly straightforward
Vice President Bond informs us that
the company this year will expend not
less than S2,500,0O0 for construction
work of various kinds. Three short ex-
tensions of existing lines, two of them
in Iowa and one in Illinois. are now
under contract Whether a lra will be
built from st. Paul to Duluth is still an
open question. Probably not less than
600 will be expended upon the re-
ouction of grades on the lines from
Chicago to Council Bluffs and from
Milwaukee to st. Paul via La Crosse.
Track elevation in Chicago will con
tinue at an expense of not less than
100000 for the calendar year, and $780,
000 more is to be put into ballast
All of the advices from the spring
wheat country are favorable. The pros
poets for the crop never were better.
The st. Paul road has remarkable ad-
vantages in the character of its traffic.
No single commodity amounts to SO
much as 10 per cent of the whole, and
all of the cereals, together make only
~ per cent of the total. The largest
items are found in lumber and other
forest products.
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MARKET NOTES.

The copper companies show enormous
earnings the last six months of this
year, as they are well sold up for this
period at or near the current quota
! tons.
The street expects a big bank state
ment on Saturday the belief is that the
bank reserve viii show an increase all
the way from s., 000, 900 to s10,00O,000.
The dispute between the miners and
the smelters in the Missouri Kansas
zinc district has been settled, and the
miners have resumed operations. The
shelters have accepted the terms of
the miners, and as the demand is very
large, are now bidding more for ore
than the Miners Association schedule
calls for.
We cannot expect gold imports as
are generally expected by us in the au-
tumn, for money is scarce and dear on
the other side, and their banks are So
Letting gold from every quarter and
paying premium.
There is good authority for saying
Missouri Pacific will not pay dividends
this year, but in anticipation of the in
creased earnings and probable divi-
dends that win result from this con-
centration of interests. the stock is
working TO basis which, it Is thought,
will more nearly discount it.
Paris correspondent of London Daily
Mail says: French bounties on sugar
will probably be abolished in October
of next year.
There is a great deal of firmness in
the copper market and it is now
doubted if sellers would accept 1870 for
deliveries late in the fall, while holders
are well sold UP for the balance of the
summer.
Impossible to quote spot lake copper,
as there is little or no cash lake for
sale
Suit of NJ. o. P. Co. and Johnston
Mining Co. against Montana and Butte
over the Pennsylvania case is being
heard in district court at Butte.
The Arcadian people are planning for
the opening of its mill late in July
or early in August with one stamp,
which - treat 500 tons daily. Local
estimates of percentage of refined cop
per which mine will make vary from
pc. to pc.
Elm River stock took a new lease of
life, and advanced to liz on buying by
a Brazer building house
Willet & Gray New York. say rela-
tive TO the sugar market: Raw sugars
during the week declined 1-16 to &c.
refined are unchanged. Net cash quo
tations are: Centrifugals 4.44c, granu-
lated 5.2l difference tic a pound.
Prices remained unchanged, notwith-
standing the weakness and decline of
the raw market, and the difference be-
tween raw and refined has risen to TIC
per 100 lbs No attempt to interfere
with this difference has been made or
is likely to be made by the independent
reftners. They are only too glad to
have arrived at last at a paying basis
for refining. The sugar war is silently
abandoned on ali sides, at least for the
present. and all hands are reaping a
harvest of profits from the immense
demands for sugars from all over the
country.
The $34,500 Nyack IN. W So &c. TO-
year average water bonds were award
cd TO Estabrook & Co. at 104.15, an in
come basis of 3.167 pc.
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He Had To.

As we'll known London clergyman was
recently ascending the steps to his church
an old lady requested his help. With
courtly grace he gave the old lady his
arm. On reaching the top step she
halted breathlessly, and asked him who
replied, giving his own name aoh, dear
said the old lady, "help me down again.
ID rather listen 10 the endless grinding
OF windmill. Help me down again. I'll
not go in" He gently assisted her down
again. remarking as he left her:
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lHoward. crosby 8 Coz Boston Letter.l

CHoward. Crosby & Co.'s Boston Lottery
Boston, July 14.-Wheat opened quietly
today, a shade over Thursday, with vsry
little news to give the market an inclina-
ton one way or the other. Liverpool ca
bles were very indifferent, opening un-
changed to 1ad. lower and closing S to
Nd lower. There was nothing against
the weather. clear In the northwest and
not heavy rain west or south, and there
fore not enough to start wet harvest talk.
Argentine wheat shipments were 1000 600
bushels, which is only $4,000 less than the
week previous. There was very little
commission house buying, and harvest re-
turns, together with the receipts of wheat
at primary markets. seems to indicate a
larger supply than estimated
The stock market was irregular the first
hour, and only a moderate volume of
business but there was fairly firm un-
dertone. Northern Pacific stocks adj
vanced on published story indicating
friendship between the Morgan and Hill
interests in the northwest. The SOUTH
western group also showed sustained
strength; a little weakening generally
followed the best figures, as some solicit
tude is still felt concerning the probable
weakening of money, but prominent bond
h2yAsA lnysating liRaEally " Ranas for in
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vestment purposes would seem to indicate
that they had no misgivings as to the
money situation in the immediate future
Inc market is very professional but iii
spite or probable labor troubles on the
traction systems, it is thought that
iresn snort interest has been created, and
II TINS theory is correct we should not be
surprised to see another bulge Monday TO
catch the public; then that will be the
time to sell. Brooklyn Rapid Transit en-
ployes Will lay their grievances before
the president today, and If they do not
meet with satisfaction the men will tie up
the road. There is a well defined rumor
that Mr.. Gould really intends to centralize
the, management of all of his western
roads in the M. p. Co.
We do not expect to see Missouri Pa
cifc pay dividends this year, but the
steady advance in Missouri Pacific bonds
testiles to the value Of the property In
London American markets opened about
parity, but afterwards sold off fractional
ly IT is hard to see how gold can profita-
Oily De exported tomorrow under the pres
ent conditions, as II exchange conditions
call for gold shipments sterling would be
higher here or lower in Paris and Berlin
Although trade is still within narrow
limits, 1t Is none the less supported by a
activity on the bull side by recent bear
leaders has given little more confident
tone to the market. II is said that Presi-
dent Mellen of the Northern Pacific thinks
that something better than D. c. might
be done on Northern Pacific common II
this Is so II is the best possible evidence to
Justify something better, since his policy
has always been to first spend the money
nsed1A 70 mainfatp tho highest standard
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PROPERTY.
The American Writing Paper Company the

The American Writing Paper Compar
critics:
Beebe & Bedrock Paper Co.
Chester Paper Co.
MaSsaS0it Paper Co.
ESleeck Paper Co.
Eurlbut Paper Mfg Co.
Huribut Stationery Co.
Croker Manufa curing Co.
Oakland Paper Co.
Springdale Paper Co.
Parsons Paper Co.
except It's Ledger Mill No. 2
Norman Paper Co.
Palmer & Porter Paper Mfg Co.
Windsor Paper Co.
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DUN's REPORT.

New York, July AR. G. Dun &
Co. in their weekly review of trade to-
morrow, will say: Because every pros
pect pleases, 1t Is the right time to
watch most closely for signs of trou-
BILE.
But It is not easy to find them when
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-15
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MIGHT

And each day and night during this week
you can get at any druggists Kemp's
Balsam for the throat and lungs, acknowl-
edged to be the most successful remedy
asthma and consumption. Get a bottle
today and keep II always In the house, so
you can check your cold VI once Price.
z5c. and 6oc, Sample bottle FREQ. -.
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Linden Paper Co.
Nonotuck Paper Co.
Harding Paper Co.
H0lyoke Paper Co.
Dickinson Paper Co.
Riverside Paper Co.
Shattuck & Babcock Co.
Albion Paper Co.
SymS & Dudley Paper Co.
Geo. C. Gill Paper Co.
Connecticut River Paper Co.
Agawam Paper Co.
Baton. May & Robbins Paper Co..
Geo. K. Baird Paper Co.
The evening times., 1899-07-26
PATENT RULES Changed
The Commissioner Amends Two I'm
portant Regulations.
A Machine, a Process, and n Product
Hereafter to Be Regarded AN Sep
A Revision Made in the Manner
of Making Oath or Affirmation.

The Commissioner Of Patents has chang
Patent Office, affecting both inventors and
attorneys Rule Al provided that where
several distinct inventions are dependent
upon each other and mutually contribute
to produce single result they may be
claimed in one application for patent.
This rule henceforth will read:
"A machine, process, and a product are
separate and independent inventions, and
claims for each must be presented In a
separate application
The other change affects the manner of
oath or affirmation that the applicant does
verify believe himself to be the first and
original inventor or tiiscoverer of the art
machine, ETC.. and affects foreign appli-
cations. This SNOW amended SO as to
add:
The applicant must distinctly state un-
der oath that the invention has not been
patented to himself, or to others with his
knowledge or consent. in this or any for
elgn country for more than two years prior
to his application, or ON an application for
a patent filed inyany foreign country by
himself or legal representatives OF assigns
more than seven months prior to his ap-
plication. If any application for patent
has been filed in any foreign country, he
shall state the country or countries in
which such application has been filed, Civ
ing the date Of such application, and shall
also state that no application has been
filed in any other country or countries than
those mentioned that the invention has
not BEEN in public use or sale in the
United States. nor described in any print
ed publication or patent in this or any for
eign country"
The evening times., 1899-07-26
A PENSION ATTORNEYS VIEW.
Mr.. Evans Said To he Carrying Out
the Adminis istration,s POLICY

Mr.. Evans Said 10 he Carrying Out
the Administration's Policy
Pension Commissioner H. CLAY Evans
Is simply carrying out the policy of the
Administration on the pension question, :"
remarked one of the best-known pension
attorneys of this city to Times reporter
this morning, 'and while it is true he may
be transferred to some other position
equally important, for political effect. still.
in my opinion, there would be no change
in the administration of affairs in the
Pension Office Before the expiration of
Cleyeland's last term, while Murphy was
commissioner, new cases that were COM
plete were held back for the purpose of
forcing on the Mckinley Administration
a pension deficiency. But the new Admin
istration did not walk into the trap. and
the result is that completed cases, and
there are thousands of them, are still
hung up.
The pension attorneys are having a
hard time of it under Commissioner Evans
The cases allowed are those in which
there is no fee for the attorney. They are
mostly reissues. Here is what the old
soldier doesn't understand For disabili-
ties that were given a $6 rating under pre-
yious Commissioners, thus ensurins the
old fellows pension, a 81 rating is only
allowed now. and although the soldier nay
have three S4 ratings. still his application
is turned down because no one disability
is rated at Sc. I've been pension attorney
for many years, and l must say that never
before has there been such a pronounced
sentiment against a Pension Commissioners
AS some important elections are to be held
this year it will be no surprise if change
is made in the Pension Office before the
fall"
The evening times., 1899-07-26
THE DISTRICT JUDGESHIP.
Reasons Given for the President
Delay i'm Naming the Appointed.

Reasons Given for the Presidents
Delay i'm Naming the Appointed.
Contrary to expectation, the appointment
of a successor to Justice w. S. Cox, of the
Supreme Court bench, was not made to-
day.
Attorney General Griggs announced this
morning, after having consultation with
the President, that the matter would not
be decided before the President returned
from his trip.
1t is generally believed at the City Hall
today that United States Attorney for the
District of Columbia Henry E. Davis is
slated for the vacancy on the bench of the
Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia caused by the retirement of Justice
Cox.
A prominent attorney, who claims to be
on the inside" said today that the Presi-
dent had decided some days ago to lame
Mr. Davis as Justice Cox's successor, hut
| the announcement of the nomination Is
! delayed because of the difficulty in choos-
| ing a successor to Mr.. Davis as District
Attorney. In this connection, it is inti-
mated that Mr.. Mckinley is desirous of
naming an Ohio man as United States At
| torney for the District, and it is stated
that he has even gone so far TO promise
the position to a prominent attorney from
| that State.
On the other hand, it is stated that Sen
ator McComas. who is stanch friend of
MIR. Davis and urged his appointment to
| the District bench, is urging Assistant
| District Attorney Ashley NJ Gould for the
| District Attorneyship. 1t is the solution of
this problem that the President has under
consideration it is said, and until he de-
cides between the unknown 0hioan and Mr..
/ Gould the vacant seat on the bench of t'yi
| District Supreme Court will not be filed.
The evening times., 1899-07-26

The President has commuted the SEN
tence of William X. Reed, colored, who was
TO be hanged August 4, to Imprisonment
fl the penitentiary for life. Reed was con-
victed during the April term of the Su-
preme Court of the District for murder of
Elizabeth Logan, also colored, on Septem-
Der 4, 1888.
Counsel for Reed entered a plea Of in
sanity in defence, and a strong case was
made out. Many persons who had known
the accused from boyhood testified that he
was always considered peculiar" and OF
unsound mind. 1t was also proven that
several of Reeds near relatives had died
insane, and that several of them were
now confined in asylums for the treatment
and care of persons with diseased mental
faculties.
District Attorney Davis, after making a
careful examination of the evidence, rec
commended that the sentence Of Reed be
changed from the death penalty TO life i'm
prisonment. Justice Clabaugh, who pre-
sided at the trial, also. it is understood,
endorsed the recommendation of Mr. Davis.
Attorney General Griggs also recommend
ed the Communication of sentence.
The evening times., 1899-07-26
swindIed With n Bad Check.

Tarrytown, N. Y, July 2s.-George
Fowler, manager for T. Youngs & Son,
was alone in the store yesterday when a
well-dressed man made a number of rur-
chases. His bill amounted to s27. He
handed Mr.. Fowler check for s32.40 on
the Farmers Bank, Hudson. 1t was made
payable to c. A. Perkins, was signed
Charles Rogers, and bore an endorsement
and stamp. Mr.. Fowler accepted the check
and gave the man $40 In change The
customer said he would return for the
goods in the afternoon. He gave his name
as C. A. Tremper. Mr.. Fowler later be-
came suspicious and sent policeman after
Tremper. He, however. had gotten out
of town. Then Mr.. Fowler telephoned to
Hudson. The cashier of the bank came to
Tarrytown and pronounced the check a
forgery.
The evening times., 1899-07-26
IT NEEDS NO LICEN Sc.
Attorney DuvalI's Opinion of Brew
ing Company,s Reauest


ing Company's Request.
The Consumers Brewing Company,
through its president, E. L. Jordan, has
requested the District Commissioners to
state whether license is required for a
foreign corporation to establish an agency
for the sale and delivery of beer at Sew
enth Street and Rock Creek Road north
west The brewing company desired to es-
tablish distributing centre of that charac-
ter, but no beer was to be drunk on the
premises. The location is within one mile
of the Soldiers Home property.
Andrew b. Duvall, the Attorney for the
District, was requested to advise the Com
missioners regarding the legal phases of
the request and he did SO today, stating
that il would be contrary to the act of Feb
ruary %. 1891, to license the establishment
of the agency. This act was intended to
prohibit the granting of liquor licenses
within one mile of the Soldiers Home and
provided that no license whatever for the
sale of liquors should be granted within
that radius. Attorney Duvall also refers
to the law of March 3. 1893, intended tc
regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors.
which does not apply TO the maker brewer
or distiller OF intoxicating liquors who sell
liquor not to be drunk on the premises.
in my opinion states the ATTORNEY
THE Consumers Brewing Company does
not. under the terms OF this act of Con-
gress. require license TO sell its beer. NOT
to be drunk on the premises II, however
a license was required. the Excise Board
is clearly inhibited from granting Il by the
act of Congress, of February 2s. 1891
The evening times., 1899-07-26

NINE. D. LEE, wonderful phyehic. solves mys-
teries. gives facts, admits no peer; helps an;
this week, sittings, sc. SOC, and 81 1912 10th
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