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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-04

The New York Commercial gays; Business
in dry goods during the mouth lust closed
was OF very satisfactory nroportlous The
distribution Of all lines Of goods was larger
chan during the corresponding perod Of that
year The steady tone that prevailed In
every Department OF the trade Is an evidence
OF its healthy condition. while IL furthermore
demonstrates that the production "a not in ak
cess OF the requirements of the consumer aud
but little opportunity Is Afforded for the ac-
emulation OF stock.
The advancing tendency OF prices at frat
hands arrested the attention Of buyers which
resulted IN n large absorption of staple cot
ton goods and free movement In bleached
shirtnrs and cRmbrcs. Tho April trade In
all classes of wash dress stuffs has been IN
excess OF any April during the last six years
The general situation seams iinttering, and
In nearly all lines Of goods Arm undertnnc
prevails. The reports OF collections and the
promptness .of meeting liabilities are very
good, which Is an indication that the con
sumptive demand is gradually absorbing all
that IS helug shipped to the market by the
manufacturers.
Trade in foreign goods Departments has
been. extremely quiet during the past
month Recent mDortatlons include some
new types Of fall dress goods, but ON these
comparatively few orders have been booked
Trade Notes.
LARGE frying chickens are In demand. hut
hens arc very dull.
Prices OF all grades OF sugars have been
advanced Ne per hound
Choice oranges are very scarce. supnllss
are almost unobtainabie.
Strawberries We're little hrmer TODAY. but
liberal receipts Is against any advance ~
this late day
. pewpeyries are scarce and at premium
Early shipments will bring good prices
Eggs are nat at Sc In case lots.
the American Sugar Refining company has
placsn on offer fve-pound boxes OF granu-
lated sugar. same style as their two-pound
Adyiees from San Jose. Cal. to April 81
says: have made trip through santa
cara and ind Druues dronniny worse thnn
had been reported, Ia some places there
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MEALFEp cArrLn.

Denton, roxas. Nav l.--Alwen G Jacks,,.
OF san AaEelo, who are feeding several hnr-
ered mead here, YESTERDAY shirprd cars If
mealfed cattle 10 Chicago 10 sell.
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sss; Missouri Kansas and Texas 2o2 Gulf
erd. Interstate. !; barge Boots, 3ls barge IL
A. Jones. 1914; sch Geo. Lock, 2 Total, 2OsS
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-04

Following are the cearaucss OF the Houston
banks for the week thus far and for the CORE
spending time last year, together with the in.
crease or decrease:
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-04
mAuINE INTELLrGENcp.

Port of Galveston, May B.
ARRIVED.
SIS Menantlc, Mann, New York.
IS Willehad, Nolger, Bremen via New York
CLEARED.
SIS Alamo, HiN. New York,
SIS Pensacola, simmons. Pensacola
So Germania, Lille, Hamburg via Norfolk
SAILED
SIS Alamo. Hix, New York.
sch Henry Lippett, Howes. Providence.
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houston gross receipts u cotton by ths
follows. ns,. ~
Houston and Texas Central ........... 70
International and Great Northern .... il
galveston. Harrisburg aud san Antonio Is
Texas and New orleans.
Houston East and West Texas
Gulf. Colorado and S. Fa........ 90
san Antonio and Ara4sds Pass.........
Missouri. Kansas and Texas. ............ rs
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Please Read This

1--WE have in stock, SORG-
HUM SEED, MILLET SEED,
CLAY PEAS. Ask US for quo
tations or send us your orders
and we will treat you right..n.
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Houston Spot Quotations.


G"lvsston--Sp closed luiet and steady
and unchanged
Low ordInpry...4 Middling 57
Olplhary; .,,..'.i 5-l6 Good middling SIS
Good ordirary...i 1916 Middline fair 6I
Low mid1ling SIX Sales IA
New Orleans Spots closed steady and m
changcu W ~
Lew ordinary. .SH Mindlinr s,.,s
Ordinary ......4 Good mIddi,nc e is
Good ordnArY...4h MiddlInp totr ~ ~
Low md ling 1-t6 Sales '...'',.,' 7snI
new Hork-spots closed quiet and un-
changed
Good ordinarv,.5 l-ls Good middling So
Low mdding. . HIS Mddlllg fair :
Middllne ".6is Sales go ..i2t
- LaIgerp1ol spots closed 1-S2d lower: salee
10000 imnorts 1000
ordinary. ..,..s Is sc Mid. upland IS tl-3c
GOOD ordinary 9 1872 Good mid up 8 1889
Low mlddlnE. 3 5-S9 Am mid fair s7s
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Futures onened nuiet and st,ady Al man
quiet; closed dull Highest tor July 5 So. isw
. 81; high for October $50 low so Follow
ing arc the quotations;
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Vessels Destined for Galveston.
STEANSIIYpg


,eusnslus Palmer, Haskell Baltimore 49,
v ,,l Inof Ames. Walker. At Norfolk. iSo
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New York Nav 3 -Wheat-Receipts q, ISL;
exnorts a sos spot steady: Ma > red III.
ahoat and 79is elevator, No, / Northern. Uu-
luth, S94 fob. anoat to arrive. options closed
weak hc hgher on May. but unchanged
on Others MAY 7SA: July 7Tis Sertember
76h December 777. Hides--Steady Leather
Steady. Wool-Dul Colt seed oil dull
Pig iron warrants quiet with 1915 hid, II 90
asked Lake copper quiet 1918 Ti'-Firm-
err 25S5 bid; % s5 asked. Lead-Flrm; .S7h
bid; i2i5 asked Spelter--unchangei & 10
bid-7.0 asked. The brokers price for lead
is i.l5 and for copper ~ 00flis .t2u.
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LIVE STOCK.
HOUSTON.


Galveston, May 3-The A. p. Norman
Live stock company reports tho market as
follows.
This This This stoc.
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Cargill Richardson say of todays mar
ket; Gables were received today reporting
settlement of the threatened strike in the
Lancashire mills. an advance OF ~ por cent
being agreed upon. caused the cotton mar
kets to show little strength. but the con-
tinued favorable growing weather ri reverted
any advance OF consequence. IL speaks well
Tor the spinning interests that tails advance
mas been made. as Manchester spinner Is
hardheaded and stubborn, AMI has nothing to
give away.
All interest is now centerod in the bureau
report Of the 10th. and while it may oe some
what bulish. as is generally predicted we
doubt its having but temporary effect Con-
tinued line growing weather may cause cot
ION TO ease slightly, but on the other hand
any calamity such as excessive rains some.
thing cotton can do without Ia the m nt1
oil May. would bring about an advance
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GALVESTON COTTON RECEIPTS.
"' bales Galveston, Houston and henderson.
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Futures opened quiet at noon dulI. cIosed
steady Highest for August SIS, low SIS;
hleh for October 9, S6. low 5.s5. Following arc
the quotations for all months,
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Private wiro to cargill g. Richardson.
HOUSTON RANK cLEAR1NCs

EXCHANGE AT HOUSTON.
New York. st, Louis and New Orleans, buy
'ng al par, selling Il premium.
The times., 1899-10-30
STOCK MARKET GOSSIP.
Juch Hopefulness I'm the "street''
Over the Outlook.

NEW YORK, Oct 2e.-Tbere IS much
sopefulness in the street over the stock
market situation 1t is probable that the
bank statement OF yesterday, coming as it
did when q poor statement had been ex-
9eeted generally, DID more for the strength
~ the market than any one factor of the
past month. There was a rush Of the
shorts 10 cover and also an excellent com
mission house demand that can only be
explained on the theory that the public
was pleased with the situation and most
hopeful Of the outlook for the coming
week. The street generally is still at a
loss TO explain the good statement here,
as poor one has been expected. One
theory advanced is that there has been
> very large amount Of investment buying
during the week in which the stocks
We're bought outright and taken out Of
the market. This theory, if il is true,
explains the matter naturally, and it is
also excellent news for the bulls. Every
share of stock that is Withdrawn from
the street makes the situation Of the bears
more precarious and adds to the ease
with which prices may be elevated by good
speculative buying Whatever the eN-
PLANTATION is, however. the fact that less
money was lost by the banks last week
than for many weeks past is most i'm
portant one. and recognized as such by
traders and commission houses generally,
and il is believed by careful people that
its results so evident yesterday VIII be
quite as apparent tomorrow and later this
week. There was a semi-pauic among the
bears in the last half hour OF the session.
More stocks We're bought three times over
than during the entire hour and a half
before the statement. II is quite reason
ably TO be expected that there viii be a
continuance Of the movement tomorrow.
Other bullish influences than the bank
statement were the showing made by Bur-
lingtOn and Reading for the month Of
September, both excellent and both in
line with the invariable trend Of railway
earnings during recent months
Henry Clews. in his weekly financial
letter says Of the situation:
During the past week, there has been
a somewhat improved tone both in lend
ing circles and IN the speculative markets.
In the money market, the recovery is no
so much from any change in the intrinsic
financial position as from a feeling that
we must very soon work out of the fall
stringency which has this year been so
sharp and so protracted. Operators con-
clude that the return OF money from the
interior is now the only condition pre-
cedeut 10 easier money, and taking il for
granted that the reflex movement can
hardly be more than a few days distant
they deem il safe 10 increase their pUr-
chases OF stocks IN preparation for the
boom which almost everybody seems TO be
expecting for e later stage
The times., 1899-10-30
New York Cotton Market.
PROSPERITY AND INSURANCE.
Experts Say That Fire Risks Are
Greater in Good Times.

It is the comment among insurance men
all over the country that, contrary to what
is probably the general belief, prosperity
makes fire insurance risks greater to the
companies. Or in other words, it is said
to be the fact that when everybody is
making money fires are more numerous
than In periods Of depression. Insurance
experts state that official figures made for
different years and periods. giving the total
Of policies issued, the total value of in
suTed property and the total number of
fires and losses prove these assertions
strikiHgly. and show that it is no matter
Of theory simply as might be supposed.
theory on which to base higher rates.
The reason for the fact is something
of a mystery. Perhaps the best explana-
tion so far evolved is that prosperity makes
people careless. In times Of depression
and business stagnation every dollar Of
income ana Outgo is so important and so
little money is made that merchants and
manufacturers are supremely careful of
their property. Their precautions 10 pre-
vent fires are stringent and TO a large
extent successful. On the other hand when
business is booming every energy is di-
rected TO supplying the great demand for
goods, business houses are crowded with
goods manufacturing establishments work
over time, and employ green hands. and
the result is that care is relaxed percepti-
bly,
II is also believed that. whereas the most
careful merchants and manufacturing es-
adjustments continue their insurance
through hard times as well as good less
careful people take out policies when busi-
ness is brisk and profits are large. This
results. if the theory is correct. in making
new insurance in good times less desirable.
from the point of view Of the insurance
company.
The influence Of the trust" on insurance
risks is another matter that is occupying
the attention Of the companies. Insurance.
men are opposed 10 trusts for a special rea-
son in addition 10 all general moral and
financial considerations that may be urged
Il is said that the trust is less careful of its
property than the individual. More fires
occur In corporate concerns run by officers
than in establishments owned and managed
by individuals, and usually by the same
parties. This the experts are willing also
70 demonstrate by figures. 1t is said that
il has been strikngly shown on several oc-
casions in the past two years, where mills
and shops have been burned soon after
joining the new trusts.
The individual owners have sold out to
the combinations, taking cash or stock for
their property. They have ceased to be
Identified with the management. New peo-
pie have been put in charge who are per
haps quite as skillful as the former owners.
but the insurance men say that they are not
so careful. They do not use the same eau
ton in protecting the property Of a corpora
ton that man exercises where his own
possessions are concerned.
The times., 1899-10-30
RESULTS OF ARMoR TESTS.
Comparative Datn Gathered by tn,
Ordnance bureau.

Ordnance Bureau.
The Ordnance Bureau OF the Navy De-
partment has gathered some valuable data
about the relative merits OF armor treated
by the new Krupp process and armor treat
ed by the Harvey process, demonstrated
by EXPERIMENTS with naval guns Of various
calibres With 3-inch gun, at a muzzle
velocity of 5000 foot-seconds, the Krupp
armor was perforated 335 inches and the
Harvey armor 4.19 inches at the muzzIe;
. 238 foot-seconds muzzle velocity Krupp
2.28 inches and Harvey 2.9S inches at 900
yards; 1856 fCot-secOnds, Krupp 10 and
Harvey 2.13 inches, at 1000 yards; .40I
foot-seconds, Krupp 1.22 and Harvey 1852
inches, at 5000 yards. TTias were made
with guns of T. s. 6, s, 10, and II inches
calibre, and in every case the Harvey steel
was penetrated deeper than the p ates
treated by the Krupp process. In the trials
with Pinch guns each weighing fifty
two tons and carrying a projecti'e of $50
pounds, the results in perforation, com
paratively, were as follows:
PerfOration at muzzle: Krupp 1874 and
Harvey 23.42 inches; perforation at 1000
yards, Krupp 1854 and Harvey 2142
inches; perforation at 1000 yards, Krupp
1865 and Harvey 1860 inches. perforation
at 5000 yards, Krupp I4.34 and Harvey
1872 inches.
The times., 1899-10-30
RESULT OF AN ALLEY RAID.
Three Negroes ChurGed With Selling.
Liquor without "A License.

Liquor without n License
Raids were made by the police of the
Sixth precinct station yesterday on sev-
eral alleged speakeasies in Madison Alley.
between First and Second and e and F
Streets northwest. Policemen Bean and
Muller constituted the raiding party. and
three arrests resulted. All the prisoners
are locked up at the Sixth precinct stat. on.
Complaints have been made TO the DO ice
of the disordeTly character of the al. ey
mentioned, and yesterday the policemen
appeared unexpectedly among the dcnizens
Of the place In one house Isaac Johnson
was found, together with three women.
and the party was about TO enjoy some
liquid refreshment from a bottle carried
by Johnson. The latter was taken into
custody and escorted to the station The
women were not arrested. Further up the
alley Charles Bell was encountered. and a
bulge in his pockets betrayed him to the
officers. When arrested Bell had four
pint TASKS OF whisky secreted about his
person. Despite his protests he was taken
liquor without a license was entered
against him.
The policemen next met James Allen,
colored, thirty-five years old, who is al
legged to have conducted an unlicensed bar.
Allen had learned OF the arrest OF his
friends, and was beating a hasty retreat
from the alley when he was apprehended
He protested his innocence, but was taken
TO the station and placed in a cell with his
alleged associates in crime.
The times., 1899-10-30
Story of a Slave

To be bound hand and foot for years bv The
chains Of disease is the worst. form of slavery
George D. Williams, Of Manchester, Mich. tells
how such a slave was made free. He saws; .sNy
wife has been SO helpless for FIVE years that She
could not turn over in bed alone After using
two bottles Of Electric Bittcrs. she is wonder.
fully improved and able 10 do her own work
This supreme remedy for female diseases quickly
cures nervousness, sleeplcssRess, melancholy
headache, backache fainting, and dizzy spells
This miracle working medicine is a godsend to
weak, sicky, run down people. Every bottle
guaranteed. Only SO cents. Sold by Henry
Evans, druggist, 93s street.
The times., 1899-10-30
A Deadly Mosqnito Ritc.

NEW CASTLE, Del, Oct. 29-George w.
Vantine, jr., is suffering from blood poison
ing that may result fatally. While on a
visit to the seashore he injured his left
arm. A mosquito bite in the injured mem
Der caused it TO swell and become painful.
Physicians reduced the swelling, but last
month ii broke out again. A cure was
again apparently effected, but it has again
broken out in nearly the same place.
The times., 1899-10-30
l.. 4. w. Rnnd Rnoo

The annual ten-miIe road race, given by
the District members Of the League of
American Wheelmen, will be held on the
Conduit Road this morning, beginning at II
o'clock The entries include the best road
pluggers of the city. Twelve silver prizes
will be given, three Of which Will 20 to
the contestants making the fastest time.
The times., 1899-10-30
Jnmes l.. Winter III

James L. Winter, forty years old, resid-
ing on Patrick Street, Alexandria, was
taken suddenly i'll at the First precinct
station yesterday afternoon. At his request
the ambulance from the Emergency Hospi-
tai was summoned, and he was conveyed
to that institution. Last night he was
reported as doing well.
The times., 1899-10-30

Transactions on the stock exchange dur
ing the week just ended aggregated $40
467 shares. OF this amount I 500. 764 were
furnished by twelve stocks. leaving sos.
ios as the total Of the other 1s7 properties
IN which there we're dealings. Here are the
Twelve
The times., 1899-10-30
THE IMPORTS OF HAVANA
A War Department Statement of
Two Months Business.

Conditions After American occupn-
tfon-The Bulk of Provisions sent
From the United States-This Conn
try, Spain, and Great britain
Represented in the Order Named.
The times., 1899-10-30

1t is the boast and the pride OF the people of
Washington 10 say TO the world that there is
not another beer equal to Heurich's Maerzen and
Senate. II you want Heurich's in bottles phone
69s, Arlington Bottling Co.
The times., 1899-10-30
Money to Loan
A.os and upwards made
HTTiS nj sAsHl on FUHNITURr
- PIANOS, HORSES.

Wagons. etc, at lowest rates and on the day
You apply. W. are Ioaning on the Building &
Loan Association plan. which makes the cost OF
carving loans much less than you pay else
where and allows you to pay it of in any sized
notes you desire. running from one TO twelve
months. You only nav for the use Of money for
the length Of time YOU carry it. II you have a
loan with some other company We will pay It
off and advance you more money II desired Rates
cheerfully given and no cost to You unless loan
Is made Loans made anywhere in the District.
Car and get rates. Front room, first door, Sci
entihc American Building
National. Mortgage Loan Co.
SIS F Street n. ".
The times., 1899-10-30

The record is most suggestive Of the
change In the tenor OF the market in sew
ersl ways Not decline occurred in the
entire list, the average gain for the twelve
being more than three points Il shows
also that although the general idea has
been that the industrials have been lag
CARDS In the advance. the greatest activi-
y and The greatest gains have been in in
dusirial securities. Leather. common and
preferred, Sugar, Tobacco. and Federal
Stee! are al on the list. the two Leather
securities and Sugar for the best gains
made. Federal Steel is the only one of the
new industrials. however. and as a matter
Of fact the losses On the entire market
list were largely made up Of new indus
trials Atchison preferred. which with
many is the favorite IN the granger group.
is conspicuous. as IS Burlington. Union
Pacific Southern Pacific. and Missouri Pa
cifc represent the Pacific group exceilently
and add much 10 the strength Of thu. recent
argument that this group and other low
priced securities are likely TO lead the rail
way list II the entire stock exchange
list there were seventy-fve stocks that ad
Fanced point OF more and only twenty
four stocks that declined TO the extent OF
point There were only seven railway
securities IN the entire list that declined
point.
The times., 1899-10-30
GOSSIP OF THE eRID1RoN.

On Wednesday afternoon the GaIlaudet
College aud Georgetown University foot
bail teams will meet on the gridiron to
decide the intercollegiate championship of
the District. Last year these eIevens. each
won game and the question of supremacy
IS yet to be settled, This year they will
play but one game, the winner Of which
VIII be the acknowledged champion of the
city. The teams are so evenly matched that
no odds are offered on either eleven in the
betting Georgetown has every advantage
over their opponents. In the college build
ing they have training quarters equipped
win every article necessary for the de-
Felopment OF the players. Besides this
the university provides a training table
where the eleven is given only such food
as is proper for man in training The
varsity boys also have a coach, Mr.. Will
liam Church, who is considered one OF the
finest football instructors in the country.
The Gallaudet eleven has few of these
advantages The men eat in the large col
lege dining room and have no food espec-
tally prepared for them. In their training
quarters they assist each other in rubbing
down. Their coach, Mr. Hall, is a member
OF the faculty, and although he has been
a good player on small teams, he never had
the experience of big team work Not
Wlthstanding all these disadvantages, Cal
!audet, through conscientious training, has
for the last three years captured the Mary
land intercollegiate football championship
and has seldom been defeated The playing
Of the team is greatly Handicapped by the
fact that all her playing is done by series
instead Of signal words.
The times., 1899-10-30
New York stock MnrIet.

Corrected daily by W B. Hibbs & Co,
members Of the New York Exchange,
1z1e F Street
The times., 1899-10-30

MAIE. DAVIS, born clairvoyant and card reader,
tells about Business, removes spells and evil
influences, reunites the separated, snd gives luck
10 ALI cures piles and drunkenness 122S 25th st.
NV Oc9-lmO
The times., 1899-10-30
Chicago Grain nnd Provision Market

Corrected daily by w. B. Hibbs & Co.
members Of the New York Exchange
1913 T Street
The times., 1899-10-30

glance over the records Of the local
teams up to the present time shows that
Gallaudet has played and won the largest
number Of games. All of the District teams
were defeated by the Baltimore Medical
College, against whom Gallaudet made the
best showing. They held the Medicos down
to two touchdowns while both the Y. NJ.
c. A. and the Georgetown teams had three
touchdowns scored against them. The Gal
laudet boys also defeated the University
of Virginia u to 5, which was q triumph
entirely unlocked for. Georgetown win
play the University later in the season.
The Y NJ c. A. has played but two games
this season and has lost both Of them.
The times., 1899-10-30

The results Of the games played by the
big three local teams this season are
as follows:
Georgetown 0, Naval Cadets r.
Georgetown %, ST. Johns 0.
Georgetown 0, Baltimore Medical Col
lege 16.
Y. N. c. A. 0, Baltimore MEDICAL Col
lege II.
Y: NJ, c. A Q, Portsmouth Athletic
Club r.
GaIlaudet 0, Baltimore Medical Col
lege II.
GalIaudet y, Washington College 0.
Gallaudet r. University of Virginia, 8.
Gallaudet p, Eastern High School 0.
The times., 1899-10-30
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The times., 1899-10-30

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