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The times., 1899-06-13
New York stock Market.
Open. High. Low. Clos

Corrected daily by w. B. Hibbs & Co.,
members of the New York Exchange,
1913 Street.
The times., 1899-06-13

to be among the best of the railway issues
during the coming month.
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The granger group of stocks is partic-
ularly worthy of consideration at this time
for several reasons. 1t has been this group
that the bears have been fiercest against
in all their attacks, wordy as well as mar
ketwise The simple truth regarding the
granger roads is that they continue to be
the most prosperous railroads in the coun-
try and more prosperous than they have
ever been before. Their earnings every
week and every month eclipse anything
before in their past history. And another
fact that can be figured out to the salts
faction OF anyone open to conviction is
that the present gains in business by all
these roads are so great that leaving out
their grain hauls entirely they would still
all show increases over the two previous
years 1t is said that the winter crop is in
bad way, and this is undoubtedly true,
although it will probably be much better
than is predicted but if the winter wheat
crop were entirely ruined there is every
reason to believe that the roads would
show still total of business at least equal
to last years. AS an illustration of this
fact, 1t may be stated that the grain and
live stock freight of Rock Island for the
past year made a total of 2172, 526 tons,
against 2,274,016 tons for the previous
year, thus showing an actual decrease,
while on the other hand the total of other
freight, general merchandise, lumber, and
the like for the past year was 4,13s,377
tons, against 3710,S00 for the previous
year, showing n gain of over 400 600 tons.
Rock Island earned a trifle over per cent
on the stock during the past year, as has
been stated heretofore. Something like
Ia per cent was put away for profit and
loss" But Rock Islands showing is not
better in any way than that of the other
grangers, comparatively speaking. The
statement was made as coming from an Of
fetal source yesterday that the earnings Of
st. Paul up to the present time have been
at the rate of II ga per cent on the com
mon stock this year The grangers all
showed net gains yesterday, though wheat
opened 2 cents bushel higher than Sat
urday's price.
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President Rossiter of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company, Is quoted as say
ing yesterday: We are earning divi-
dends. and our gross earnings are increas-
ing each day. Our expenses are being re-
duced as improvements IN, management are
made, and 1t will only be a very few
months before we can operate for 50 per
cent Metropolitan Traction officials
might make virtually the same statement
with truth. Their gross earnings have
been increasing $4,000 a day. and their
operating expenses are being cut down all
the time. These facts as to the condition
of the two systems, together with the be-
lief in the street that a consolidation of
the Greater New York railway lines is
a likely event in thesnear future have made
careful people bulllsh regarding both these
stocks during the past week. Their ac-
tion has been an abundant regard for the
people who bought them. Brooklyn Rapid
Transit sold at los is q week ago, and
Metropolitan at 2l1. Yesterday they closed
respectively at III 1-2 and 22S. The street
is inclined TO believe that much higher
prices will be seen in both before the end
of this month.
The times., 1899-06-13
Chicago Grain and Provision Ararl

Corrected daily by w. 3. Hibbs G. Co.
members of the New York Exchange
The times., 1899-06-13

There was a tip in circulation yesterday
credited to a good source TO the effect that
Tennessee Coal and Iron is to continue its
advance for several points further in the
near future. The earnings of the company
continue to increase. and dividend on the
common stock is likely to be one of the
developments of the next three months.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BONDS

pioihiSi VT ipi1hbia DO-sDl
SIS 1889. "20-year funding" ...-...- 100 .--..
6's 1902 ''30-y year funding gold - -. .....
rs 1901. Water stock currency i05 .....
rs 1903 NV ater stock" currency ... 49,.
Funding currency 36S'S it6L, Ifo
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
TESTIMONY IS CUMULATIVE.
BOARD of Inquiry Goes Back to New
York with Interesting Information.

Board of Irqmiry Goes Back to New
York with Interesting Information.
The members Of the Government in
quiry finished their labors in Chicago and
left for New York. The testimony of
Gov. Theodore Roosevelt will be received,
after which the court will proceed to Gov
crnor's Island. The evidence brought
forth on their last day in Chicago was
largely cumulative in it's character, con-
sisting mainly of criticisms of the canned
beef and refrigerator beef from soldiers
who ate it and watched its effects in
Cuba and Porto Rico. David Weisch-
mann. n bellboy in the Morrison hotel,
told of a visit to the stock yards in COM
pany of an unknown maj whose purpose
he supposed to be an experiment in the
matter of preserving beef by chemical
treatment. Clark Marshall, the provision
specialist, whose testimony was expected
to he sensational, threw no additional
light OH the question, his evidence being
principally the expression of opinion that
canned beef as now put on the market is
totally unfit for human food.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
WEALTHY cHicAooAN SHOT.
ARRAY Takes Place in the Cafe Of the
Auditorium Annex,

ARRAY Takes Place In the Cafe Of the
Auditorium Annex.
In a crowded dining room Of the Audi
forum Annex in Chicago, where there
were nearly 100 guests, most of them
women, H. H. Hammond shot John 7.
Shayne Tuesday afternoon. Three shots
were fred, two Of which took effect.
Hammond made no attempt to escape, but
surrendered to the house detective and
was locked up. Both men are we'll known
in Chicago, Shayne being the head of the
firm of John T. Shayne & Co., furriers.
Hammond is a merchant tailor at 1S9 Wa
bash avenue.
Jealousy of a peculiar nature was the
passion that led Harry Hammond to
wreak vengeance on John 4. Shayne. Mr..
Shayne was dining with the divorced wife
of Hammond and two other ladies'. Since
her divorce Mrs. Hammond had been re-
ceiving the attentions of Shayne, who is
a widower, and it was alleged they were
soon to be married. 1t is not apparent
that Hammond grieved Over the loss Of
his wife by divorce; in fact; he made no
effort to prevent her securing one.
At the commencement of the shooting
the ladies with Mr.. Shayne fed to the
palm gallery at the end of the room. Mrs.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
ASKED TO Law oown ARMS.
American Commission Issues an Al.
dress to the Eilipinos.

American Commission Issues an Ad.
dress to the Filipinos.
A Manila dispatch says: The address
drafted by the American commission em-
b0dying the views Of the President has
been made public. It assures the Filipinos
that the intention of the Americans is 10
develop the powers of self government In
the people. 1t explains that the United
States has assumed International OBJ
legations which it must fulfill.
The commission, it is explained, is to in
terpret tho purposes and intentions Of the
President towards the natives and suggest
the establishment Of a government suited
to the capacity and requirements of the
Filipinos and which will be consistent with
the interests of the United States. The
protection of the United States will not be
exercised in any spirit Of tyrany OF ven.
geance, but, having destroyed the Spanish
power and accepted sovereignty Of the
islands, the United States is bound to re-
store peace in the Philippines. To this end
all the insurgents are invited to lay down
their arms. A majority of the commits
sioners are inaiined toward giving the Fill
pinos a sort Of tribal or provincial local au-
tonomy under a central government, which
will be military until a purely civil sys-
tenn has proved feasible.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
FEAR VAR IN SAMOA.
Differences of Three Powers Have
Reached an Acute Stage.

Difference of Three Powers Have
Reached an Acute Stage.
Differences between the three powers.
in control ut Samoa have reached such
an acute stage that Reputation Of the.
Berlin treaty is more than probable. de-
spite the unanimous testimony of the rep
%resentatives Of the United States and
Great Britain, the German Government
continues to uphold the course of Consul
Rose at Apia. If the present agreement.
is overthrown there is little likelihood Of
a new understanding and the islands will
be at the mercy of whichever party can
muster the greatest strength.
Recent events at Apia have made the
strain more dangerous. Admiral Kautz:
with the approval of the British au,llori-
ties, has sustained the actions of Chief
Justice Chambers. The American naval
commander called a meeting of all Off
Gals for March IL, and, although no news
has been received since that date. many
express the fear that serious results fol-
loved the conference. Should this he the
case the Germans will undoubtedly at
tempt to hold the Americans responsible,
the Berlin theory being that unanimous
action is necessary under the treaty pro.
visions.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
THE WEEK IN TRADE.
Tho Business World as Seen by Dun
Il Co.'s Review.

Tho Business World as Seen by Dun
& Co.'s Review.
II. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade says: business is not frightened,
either by the great capitalization of new
companies or tie wild fluctuations in Wall
Street. No matter how stock operations
in New York may count, business else
where is large enough TO warrant a Won
terful expansion of industries, and that is
the thing most important to observe. In
no considerable branch has production
diminished, but in practically all it has
been increasing during the past week.
Wool is at the doubling point, with large
sales expected from the interior by tired
holders, and some concessions made to Sc
cure transactions in Philadelphia and
Boston, though quota ions show only
moderate decline, and sales at the three
chief markets are almost as large as in
1892. Manufacturers make many inquir-
les, but the prospect of combination is
potent to hinder transactions. The goods
are in better demand than a year ago but
no large class of mills can claim to be
fully employed. The demand for
cotton goods is still strong, but this week
has not materially advanced prices.
The wheat market is just 10Y somewhat
stronger, western receipts for the
week icing 3,359,Ot0 bushels, against
2,557,6 66 last year. Failures for the week
have been 200 in the United States, against
2jl last wear.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
TEN DIE IN 4 9 Val
Negroes Are Ran Down by Mob Of
Whites for Plotting Revenge.

Negroes Are Run Down by Mob or
Whites for Plotting Revenge.
A war OF determination Ia on between
the whites and negroes in Little River
County in the extreme southwest corner
Of Arkansas, and seven of the latter are
known to be dead. Many other negroes.
are missing.
The wholesale. lynching is the result of
the murder of James A. Stockton, a
planter. last Saturday by a big negro CALI
ed General" Duckett. After hiding for.
some time Duckctt gave himself up and
was being taken toward Richmond, the
county seat, when he was taken by IL mob
and lynched. He confessed to u carefully
laid plan by the negroes TO precipitate a
race war, and told of many whites who,
were marked for execution. 1t was learn
ed from Duckett that there were twenty
three negroes in the plot, aud their
were given. Several parties of white men
started out to execute speedy vengeance
on the plotters. The negroes became
panic-stricken and fed in all directions.
Willis Boyd, C. G. Reed and Minor Viii
son, three negroes, were taken from am
officer and lynched near Silver City, in
Yazoo County, Miss. They were the ring
leaders in q race encounter at the Mid
night plantation. After being shot to.
death their bodies were cut down and
thrown into the Yazoo river.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
WINTER WHEAT IS DAMAGED.
Peculiar Weather Conditions Are Re.
sponsiblc for This.

That the winter wheat sown last fall
under the most favorable condition has
been seriously damaged by the peculiar
weather conditions which have prevailed
is shown by reports from all the winter
wheat producing States. The estimates
as To the damage vary in II marked de.
gree, some States reporting almost a total
loss. while others report that the crop
VIII be of fair size, but of Il poor quality.
Ohio, judging from the reports, appears
to have suffered less than other States,
while the conditions in Illinois are un.
favorable. TO say the least. Favorable
weather from now OH may change all this.
however. Apprehension, rather than Sc
rious damage, has been caused ON the Pr
ciic coast 10y lack of moisture, but it is
believed that ut the proper time the West
will come forward with her regular crop.
Winter wheat was SOW last fall under
very generally favorable conditions.
There was abundant moisture over the
whole belt, with excess in but limitde dis.
tricts. Opportunity for carefully prepar.
ing the seed bed was ample and the crop
went into the ground in excellent shape.
The only complaint came from some dis.
tricts in the central valleys, where there
WAS an excess Of moisture. which delayed
seeding and finally resulted in the seed
going into a soil that was too wet at o
date later than is considered desirable.
On the Pacific coast seeding was de.
layed by the absence of the usual fall and
early winter rains. To this review of the
general character of the season little can
lie added in the way of definite statement
of the actual effect on the crop. An.
parently all conditions have been favor.
able to serious and widespread injury.
aud that such has been the result IL The
opinion of at least th%ree-fourths Of the
local observers upon whose data this sc.
ries OF crop reviews ia based.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
WOMEN PERISH in A FIRE.
Blaze in .n Omaha Business Block
Deals Death and Injuries.

SGdiO "a llA 4hJuT1CSs
AS a result of what was at first said to
be an explosion of Il gasoline stove nearly
two score women were imprisoned in the
third story of the Patterson block at
Omaha. Thirteen of the III lcapcd to
the stone pavement below. One was kill
ed instantly and all the others more or less
seriously injured, and a number are ex-
pected to die. The plight of the victims
was witnessed by thousands of people,
who were unable to render MD. The wom-
Ell were forced to jump or Ire burned to
death.
The victims are all members Of the
women's branch of the Royal Neighbors
and of the Maccabces. and at the time the
fire broke out We're in session i'll Labor
Temple, which occupies the top story of
the building. The explosion occurred III
a closet under the stairway lending to the
room occupied by the women, and from
the first their escape from that direction
was cut of. A fire escape vac available
On the opposite side of the building, but
the only woman who had presence of mind
sufficient to reach that point was Mrs.
Brosius, and she tainted from excitement
the moment she reached the ladder and
dropped the full distance.
The victims are all more or less prOmi-
nent, most of them being members of the
knights of the Maccabccs, as well as the
other orders. They were in the lodge
room at their secret work when cries from
the street attracted their attention.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
TELLS OF AWFUL CRIME.
John Moore, Who Killed His Five
Babes, Makes Signed Confession.

John Moore, Who Killed His Five
Babes. Makes Signed Confession.
John Moore, the Hutchinson, Kan, MUIR
dcrer, on Thursday made a signed state
ment Of his horrible crime at Mcpherson.
Moore murdered his five children with Il
hatchet and a knife, then burned the house
over their heads. He and his wife had
quarrelcd, and he claims they were about
to separate. In the statement Moore says:
~ had been feeling pretty bad for the
past two or three days. The children were
all in bed and asleep. 1 turned the lamp
down and went to bed. then had one of
my worst spells and my head hurt me
awfully, and everything seemed floating
before me, and the next thing that l re-
member after this was in trying to get out
of the house. 1 have a recollection of going
through a struggle like a dream that l half
remember. All the recollection 1 have
about this is that l would rather see INV
children dead than to leave them in the
hands Of my wife's people. 1t was like a
dream to me that 1 did something to the
children, but l do not recollcct using the
knife or Ratchet. loved my children and
l lived for them"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
ARKANSAS IDEA OF JUSTICE
Seven Negroes Lynchcl Because One
Killed . White Man.

Killed . White Man,
The widest excitement prevails among
the negroes OF Little River County, Ark,
and seven negro men have been lynchel
by the citizens Of that section. The affair
grew out Of the lynching of u negro named
General Duckett, near Richmond, in that
county, IN March II last. On March IS a
prominent planter named James Stockton
was murdered at his home near Rocky
Comfort by Duckett. The negro
escaped at the time but was captured,
taken to the place where he had killed
Stockton. and after making a confession he
was lynched. After the lynching it was
learned that Duckctt had frequently tried
to get the negroes IN the county to Join
him in q race war against the whites. A
few hours after lie had killed Stockton he
passed several negroes at a farm house and
told them he had killed one white man,
and if they would follow him he would
kill more. 1t is now believed that the
negroes had banded for q race war.
Among those who have fallen victims ia
the wrath of the whites are Edward Good
win, Dan King, Joe Jones, Ben Jones,
Moses Jones and still another whose name
could not he obtained. The last three
named were brothers, were intimate with
the assassin of Stockton, and it was dis
covered that they were leading a scheme to
avenge their comrades death. The as
sault was provoked by the uncarth-
ing of plots that the followers of
General Duckett had concoctcd, and when
the revelation was made the citizens
began their search for the principals.
All OF the victims that have fallen before
the whites were pursued singly over the
country, and met their fate at different
times and in different localities.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 TO 5000; hogs. shipping grades,
$500 to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. 9 red, G9c to zoe;
corn, No. 9, 35c to 3Gc; oats, No. 9. pc
to PIC; rye, No. ., 52c to jIc; butter,
choice creamery. Doe To pic; eggs. fresh,
lie TO 1Sc; potatoes, choice, Cue to CSC
per bushel.
lndianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
500; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $500;
sheep, common to choice. $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. . red, &c to 63c; corn, No. z
white, 34c TO 35c; oats, No. 9 white, Sic
to 32c
st. Louis-Cattlc, $3.50 t o $500; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep. $500 to $4.75:
wheat, No. 2, Zoe to 73c; corn, No. 2
yellow, 81 to 35c; oats, No. 2, &c to Doc;
rye, No. q, 55c to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattlc, $3.50 to SIS; hogs,
$500 TO $4.25; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2, tic to 73c; corn, No. 2
mixed, Sic to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2Sc
TO 29c; rye, No. 2, 5sc to COO.
Detroit-Cattlc, $3.50 to 1915: hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 9, Tic to 72c; corn, No. 2
yellow, 34c to 35c oats, No. 2 white, Bic
to 33c; rye, SIC to SIC.
Tolcdo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed. re to
73c: corn, No. 9 mixed. 34c to 3Gc; oats.
No. 9 white, &c to 2Sc; rye. No. 2. Sac
10 SIC; clover seed, new. $3.45 to $3.55.
Milwaukec-Wheat. No. 9 spring. &c
to Csc; corn, No. 3, 31c to 33c; oats, No.
2 white. Zoe to Bic; rye, No. 1, 55c to SEC;
barley. No. .. 4Gc to 47c; pork, mess,
Ss.75 to 1925.
Buffalo-Cattle, good shipping steers,
$500 to 1915; hogs, common to choice,
1926 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth-
ers, $3.50 to $500; lambs. common to
extra, $3.50 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle. $3.25 to 1915; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to.$5.60;
wheat, No. 2 red, Sic to Sec; corn. No.
2, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to
30c: butter. Creamery, 16c to 28c; eggs
| Western. 14c to 1Sc.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
AVAILABLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN.
Bradstreet's Shows Changes Durin,
the Past Week.

Bradstreet's Shows Changes During
the Past Week.
Special cable and Geographic dispatches
to Bradstreet's indicate the following
changes in the available supply of grain
last Saturday, as compared with the pre-
ccding Saturday:
Wheat Bushels.
United States and Canada, east of the
Rocky Mountains, ncrease......... 1900
Liverpool Corn Trade News, afloat
for and In Europe, increase. 4. {. 300, 600
Total supply, increase. 100000. 81 600
Corn, United States n Canada, east
of the Rocky Mountains, Increase. 1900 O
Oats. United States and Canada, east
Of the Rocky Mountains, increase. SCI .OO0
Among the more important decreases re-
ported to Bradstreet's not given in the Of
fetal visible supply statement are those Of
100000 bushels at Galveston and 100000
bushels at northwestern interior elevators.
The principal increases are those of 174,.
600 bushels at Ontario and Manitoba stor-
age points. The. aggregate stock of wheat
held at Portland, Ore, and Tacoma and
Seattle. Wash, decreased 277,000 bushels
during the week.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31
GERALD LAPINER

GERALD LAPlNER. The boy had been
kept carefully locked up for ten months in
a little out-of-the-way farm house. No
motive has been discovered yet to have
induced the woman to lure the child from
his home, 1895 Prairie avenue Chicago.
last Memorial Day.
Louis Lapiner and his wife, after offer.
ing rewards and following clews all over
the AXE States, had almost given mp hope
OF ever finding the youngest of their three
boys. 1t seemed a Charley Ross case
No. 2" Detectives all over the country
abandoned the chase, and little Gerald,
once SO prominent because of his strange
disappearance, had been well-nigh forgot.
ten.
The real %discoverer of the lost child was
Miss o. G. Ferris. Miss Ferris saw the
child by accident as she passed the win
dow Of b farm house kitchen. He was
tied to the table, crying Justify. AS no
II came to his relief she knocked ut the
door until she convinced herself M one
else was in the house. Then she tried to
open the door, but it was locked. All the
windows were bolted, an unusual thing in
that part of the country.
Next day she set inquiries afoot and
found that an old man and a mysterious
woman had gone to live in the farm house
months before. Her instinct told her it
was II case of kidnapping. She went home
and racked her brain to think of some
case of abduction she had read about in
the newspapers. The only one she could
remember was that of little Gerald Lap
iner. She sought her brother and they
wrote to Chicago, and baby Lapiner was
found
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-31

Hammond had seemed to fear trouble on
observing Hammond enter the cafe, and
had cautioned her companions not to
speak to him. After the first shot the
victim of Hammond's rage dropped under
the table.
"A panic rcigncd in the hotel Immediate
ly. Guests ran into the Hobbies scream-
ing for assistance. and walters sought
places of safety on the second floor. The
~assailant started to leave the room by the
entrance to the lobby, hut was confronted
by the head waiter and chief clerk. He
was led unrcsisting to the private Office of
the Annex. and taken into custody.