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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.

r.. G. Dun az Co. IS Review IN 'oatur-
davis issue saws: sin spite OF moro
wnrlike news about South Africa, tno
Bank of England behaves rs II lne
worst possible had boon fully provided
for. and this country has no reason 10
fear trouble from that source unless
English markets have SO overloaded as
to to need help. The marketing OF
domestic products, both farm and
manufactured, continues surprisingly
large for the season. The now pos
sessions, taken together, arc returning
in revenue already moro than it costs
TO clean and govern them. Inc MeSs
and south still behave as if it would
be impertinent for New York TO oiler
money for crop moving, and are SUN
bidding for commercial loans here.
Neither philosophical explanations
Of tho rise in iron and steel, nor con
slant addition to the number OF 1ur-
naces producing, checks the advances,
which has made Ressemer pig sell 1or
S23 at Pittsburg, Grey Forge for sly. 10
there, Anthracite No. Tor So. ~ ~
Philadelphia, and local coke for S2l.oU
at Chicago. With the whole output OF
its furnaces sold ahead for the year.
tho Valley Association demands s2j. %
at Pittsburg on future contracts, ana
Chicago is selling mainly for delivery
| next year. Finished products arc ao-
yanced in some cases 50 per ton at q
time without checking the demand as
for sheets at Pittsburg. with plates
advanced 50 and wire nails S. per ton.
Bradstreet 3 says" Strength OF staple
prices, activity in fall demand, larg.
railroad earnings, reports OF heavy lake
traffic and of activity in leading In
dustries are tho features. none OF them
necessarily new, but still presenting
themselves in the trade situation this
week.
activity in the iobbing trade or
fall account is specially notable a.
| Western markets. Tobacco is active
at leading Western markets and re
ceipts are heavy, but complaints OF ho
weather damaging the late crop arr
alsu received. Uniformly good trad'
reports come from the Northwest, par
ticularly the spring wheat belt. Ont
of the best reports from tho East come
from the iewelry trade, in which de
mand is reported good, and the oni,
complaint is of backward deliveries oil
orders. Cotton and wooden goods ar
in good demand at Boston and NeS
York, but it is intimated that the in
creased cost of raw material exceed
tho advance shown in wooden goods
business ut the South ranges from fai
TO good Bradstreets correspondent a
San Francisco places the wheat crop c
California at $4,000, 600 bushels and c
barley at 20,000.000 bushels. or NOR
than double the yields reported las
year.
business failures for the week nun
] Der only l23, against l31 last week, IA
in this week year ago, 1T3 in 1881
| 3OS in 1896 and 2l3 in 1895. Bushes
, failures in the Dominion of Canad
, for the week number 81, against
! last week, II in this week year age
80 in 1897, Al in 1896 and % in 1895.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

Baltimore SUI, ohtufuAy.
An adjourned meeting of the in
corporators and stockholders of the
Queen Anne's Ferry and Equipment
Co. was held yesterday. A Board of
directors was elected, composed of the
following: Edward Stabler, Jr., John
S. Cuttings, Henry G. Matthews,
Charles Fl. Tilghman, Frank Ehlen
and E. P. Keech, Jr. The board will
organize some day next week. The
company will operate partly in con-
junction with the Queen Anne's Rail
road Co. One of the directors of the
equipment company said the company's
plans included the building Of termi-
nails at Baltimore, Queenstown, Loves
and Rehoboth Beach, and lease them
to the railroad company. 1t is also in
tended to develop Rehoboth Beach and
make it popular summer resort, and,
unless done by others, tho company
may erect a large hotel at the beach.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14
New Engines for the Il, & o.

The Baldwin locomotive works have
received from the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad an order for 33 compound con
solidated freight engines for December
and January delivery. These machines,
when completed, will represent the
highest class of heavy freight power,
both In pulling capacity and economy
in operation, ever built in this country.
The total weight of engine, exclusive
of tender, is to be 10000 pounds. The
drivers are 81 inches in diameter.
When these locomotives are completed
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will
have 1877 freight engines, each exceed
ing in weight 10000 pounds.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

You frequently hear man say that
there is such email margin OF profit
in his article that he can not afford to
advertise it, says the Advertising
Man. And in the face of this state
ment Sen-Sen, Uneeda Biscuit and
other iiva-cent articles are yenrly wend-
ing their way into popularity through
advertising, establishing trade and
reputation that is national, when,
without the advertising, they would
hardly have been known locally.''
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14
SAMUEL m. rELros HoNoRED,
Elected President OF the Chicago a Alto
Railroad Co,

Railroad Co,
Samuel NJ. FELTON,, son of the late
Samuel NJ FELTON,, who was at one
time president of the p, W. & b.
Railroad Co., has been elected presi-
dent OF the Chicago & Alton Railroad
Co. Z. II. Hartman, who had been
president of the company since the last
annual meeting, resigned to become
chairman Of the executive committee.
1t had been expected that Mr.. FELTON,
would be given the highest place on
the Alton staff and it was so announced
ON Mr.. Harrinan's return from Alaska
last month. Mr.. FELTON, is still receiver
of the Queen d. Crescent road, and also
of the Columbus, Sandusky Y Hooking
Co., and will resign these positions.
Since the Hartman syndicate obtained
control of tho Alton railroad, Mr..
FELTON, has been the expert who has
advised the new owners of tho con
dition of the property, and has hoen
considered Mr.. Harriman's right hand
man.
Mr.. FELTON, is AZ years old and began
railroading as rodman with the engi.
neer corps which made survey for the
Chester Creek railroad in the sixties.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

HOME FROM MANILA.
Survivor OF the Tenth Pennsylvania b
This City.

This City.
Sergeant Charles s, Calvert of Go.
B, Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, who
is the guest of Mrs. Lafayette Marks
at her home, No TOP West street, tells
an interesting story Of his army life
while in the Philippines.
Sergeant Calvert sailed from San
Francisco on June 10Th, 1893, and
landed at Manila on July 18th. After
remaining in Manila Bay for five days
the troops were landed. The night Of
July 2lst was the first time they were
under fire. His regiment was in the
trenches in 4 semi-circle extending
from the bay to small town named
American forces were attacked by
10, 600 Spaniards. The enemy had
charged four times but was driven
back. The ammunition being ex-
hausted, new supply was sent for
and the troops lay in the trenches with
fixed bayonets. The First California
Infantry arrived at the trenches with
the supply of ammunition, thus afford
ing relief that night. The Twenty,
third Utah Infantry held the right of
| the firing line, and hard fighting was
experienced from l to $50 o'clock in
the morning Forty-two Americans
were wounded and nine killed
On August 10th the Tenth Pennsyl-
| vania was ordered into the trenches
again and was under heavy firing at q
distance OF 200 yards for eight hours,
neither side advanced. On the 18th
the Tenth was ordered to return to
camp and placed in the reserve forces
At 8. 10 o'clock of that day Admiral
Dewey's feet opened fire on the city
OF Manila, with the Tenrh Pennsyl-
vania marching up the beach, under
fire from ambush, from o'clock in
the morning unit in the afternoon.
After the capture of the city the
Tenth was ordered to the outskirts to
prevent the insurgents from entering
the city for the purpose of looting and
destroying property.
After the surrender of the city, OF
the night of that eventful day the
Tenth slept on the tile floor of the ole
Santa Cruz Church. On the night Of
February 18th body of 1000 in
surgents attacked the northern portion
of Manila, but was driven back by the
American forces.
Sergeant Calvert states that thu
American officers in the Philippines
are in no way to blame for the out
break Of the natives. as it is entirel,
their own doings The Filipinos thinl
the United States officers want to grail
and rob them of their possessions, bu
this is not the case, as the natives ar
the aegressors. Sergeant Calvert is il
! possession of very handsome media
presented to him by the citizens O
New Brighton, Pa, for honorabl
service in the war. He also will re
ceive in short time a gold media
from the State of Pennsylvania and
silver one from the citizens Of Pitts
burg. The Tenth, with other com
, panies, landed at San Francisco on tn
| transport Senator on August I'd. TIL
) regiment was mustered out of tn
service on the 22d OF August. Sergean
Calvert's home is in New Sheffield. Pa.
t at which place he will return an
o resume his former position with til
{ Z. & X. Railroad Co.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

William II. Weldin died Friday at
his residence, No. 140l jackson street,
at the age of 80 years. His health had
been poor for some time. He was a
brother of Charles Wesley Weldin and
was at one time engaged with him in
the lumber business here. After they
dissolved partnership he become a
member OF the firm of Garman q
Weldin, lumber dealers in Philadel-
phia. Mr.. Weldin married daughter
Of Henry 9. Robinson. She died some
years ago
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

81 am asked to name several good
plants which can be grown in halls
and parlors where the heat is from a
70 to Is degrees. y writes Eben E. Rex
journal. There are few plants which
will stand such heat. 1t is too dry.
The life-giving element has been
burned out of it. The Aspidistra will
be more likely to flourish under such
circumstances than any other plant
that know OF. -
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

By falling down 20-foot embank-
ment II. L. Yengsling, fireman on a
Baltimore & Ohio engine, met with a
serious accident Saturday morning at
Carrcroft. He was brought to this
city and taken to the Delaware Hos
pital in the Phoenix ambulance. Later
he was sent to his home in baltimore.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14
EAsE AND DISEASE.


Disease is the opposite of ease. Webster
defines disease as Lack of ease. uneasiness.
trouble. vexation, disquet," 1t is a condi-
ton due to some arrangement of the physi-
cal organism. A vast majority of the dis
ease" from which people suffer is due to
impure blood. Disease of this kind is cured
by Hoods Sarsaparilla, which puriiies, en-
riches and vitilizes the blood. Hood's Sarsa-
parilla cures scrofula, salt rheum, pimples
and all ernptions. 1t tones the stomach and
creates good appetite, and it gives vigor
and vitality to the whole body. 1t reyerses
the condition of things, giving health, COM
fort and ease in place of 'disease."
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

According to the records of Secretary
Wigglesworth Of the Board OF Health,
were reported in the city during the
week ending at noon Saturday, while for
the same period last year II deaths, s
births and 6 marriages wezS reported.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

The members of City Council are
making arrangements to attend ths
annual convention of the League o! 81
American Municipalities, which WI VII
be held at Syracuse, N. y, from the
18th to the ed of this month. Ihes
will leave on the 18th. Wilmington ID
. member of the league.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

Andrew D. Jones, president of the
Delaware Cotton Co. darlington mills,
has been elected member Of the board
of directors of the Mount Vernon.
Woudberry Cotton Duck Co. He also
has been elected member of the
executive committee.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

Miss Agnes A. Young. aged 70 years,
formerly of Wilmington. died at Mem
phis, Tenn, last Saturday. Her father,
William W. Young, was interested in
the first raper mills at Rockland. -.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

Shonld be provided with good health. and every
ore who would have good health should remen,-
Der that pure, rich blood is the first requisite.
Hoods Sarsaparllla, by giving good blood and
good health, has helped many a man 10 success,
besides giving strength and courage to thou
SANDS oil women who, before taking IL, could not
even see any good In life to win.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23
JUDGE VAN WYCK'S GRIEVANCE.

Some days ago, when the newspapers
teemed with silly stories about Judge
Van Wyck's candidacy for the presi-
dency, this paper said that it happened
to know that the Saratoga meetings
were without the procuring of Judge
Van Wyck. He is a man of sense and
we knew that the stories sent out by
penny -a-liners were annoying to him.
The Brooklyn Eagle, published by St.
Clair McKelway, friend of Judge Van
Wyck, has a pointed editorial plainly
Wyck's friends think that Mr.. German
is the man in hiding behind the per-
sonality of Judge Van Wyck,' ard that
he expects to be ''the beneficiary of the
liberties wantonly beng taken with
Judge Van Wyck's name" The Eagle
adds:
1.-THE townsmen of Judge Van Wyck
have right to know who the man is.
These Southern politicians and these
Western wire-pullers were not born
yesterday, and they are not making a
more or less decent exposure of the.t
wares and Of their words to men whn
were born day before yesterday. They
are trifing, or they are insane.
Augustus Van Wyck is not scandi-
date for President, in his own mind or
in the minds of his friends. No one
has warrant from him to use him as
a stalking horse, a make weight, a
springboard, a proxy, or whatnot, for
anyone else. He is al citizen who is en-
titled to respect for his rights. his po-
sifion, his dignity and his peace. He is
no mans man, and any movement. os-
tensibly for him, can with impunity be
made a movement for no man out of
sight, behind him or at one side"
There is no doubt that the stuff SEN:
out about Judge Van Wyck was either
the work of irresponsible nnya-liners
or the work of an enemy. 1t is, however,
not to be believed that Mr.. German is
engaged in such conduct. Our own opin-
ion is that the whole thing was due to
the officiousness Of small fry politicians
who doomed Van Wyck to get notoriety
for themselves, and the penny-a-liners
who saw a chance to turn a few pennies.
1t is fortunate for Judge Van Wyck
that paper close to him has set him
straight with the world He is too able,
toe honest and too deserving a Demo
crat to be damaged by the wanton use
of his name by those who have axes to
grind Judge Van Wyck has a Just
grievance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23

ally, Otis has, in six months of fighting,
accomplished practically nothing, aud
that battles may still be fought with IN
enemy bod enough to venture within Il
dozen miles of the headquarters of the
general in command. The public. toe,
is advised Of the further fact thar Otis
has disgusted the ahlest officers in lis
army and has won the contempt of the
men in the trenches.
AT the bottom, the misunderstanding
of Otis is with the facts not with the
newspaper men. That he is acting under
instructions from Washington in his pol
icy. not alone of concealment, but of di-
rect misrepresentation, is plainly shown
by his retention in position where his
incompetence has been demonstrated i'll
the wasted lives and depleted ranks of
the American soldiers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23
GENERAL OTIS, CORRESPONDENT.

BY way of Hong Kong some more
facts from the Philippines reach the
American public this morning. OF These
not the least interesting is the revelation
that General Otis, lovingly and famil-
iarly known among his soldiers as
Grandma" has added to the arduons
duties Of long and and safe distance
campaigning and the winning of type
written victories the burdens of the corr
respondent Not content with keeping
the War Department posted as to the
progress of imaginings in the Philippines
General Otis is taking the whole Amer
lean people into his confidence in these
particulars.
1.-THE newspaper" says the General,
is not "A public but a private institu-
ton" This is piece Of special pleading
that amy shyster lawyer would be
ashamed to use in magistrates court.
While the newspaper is a private inst
tuition in the matter of gains and losses
it is in a wider way, under the pres
ent organization of society, a pub
lie institution in the truest sense
of the word; upon the newspaper
that public which pays the bills
of the expensive brutality of be
nevolent assimilation" including the vic
torious cablegrams of General Otis, is
dependent for its knowledge of the pro-
gress of events in the Philippines To
that public even Otis, however bitterly
he may resent it, is responsible; he, as
web as the newspaper representatives,,
is in the Philippines ''by sufferapce."
The autocratic airs of Otis, no more
than his dictated dispatches, can ccli-
ceal from the American public the Ia
inevitable farce and fasco that he has
made of the campaign. Nothing can
hinder the public from clear grasp Of
the bald fact that with a force at al
times equal to and part of the time SUI
pelior TO that of the enemy, AMI With the
most gallant navy in the world as an
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23
RAILROAD INFLUENCE IN POLL
TICS.

II. L. w. in Washington Post.
1t is yet too early in the campaign to
venture prediction as to the vote in
Louisville, and,in fact, neither side is vet
thoroughly organized. The Democrats
have the advantage in the control of the
city government and Of the election ma
chinery. They are opposed, however BY
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, a
powerful corporation, while john Nhal-
len. local Democratic boss, is with the
boilers. The railroad opposition is fac
ter not to he discounted. not only in
Louisville, but throughput the entire
State Every one remembers the power
full and successful influence exerted
against Senator German in Maryland
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The same kind of fight, but even more
bitter and determined, is being maie
in Kentucky by the Louisville and Nash
vile Road against Goebel He i'm turn,
like Gorman, is attacking the road from
the stump. The fight has now reached
that stage where the road will not sell
excursion tickets to any point where
Goebel speaks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23
Spirit of the Press.
100000 or THE INTERRUPTED

100000 OF THE INTERPRETED
Champ Clark.
believe now, and have always he
lieyed, that Bryan was elected ON fair
count of the ballots; but if he was de-
feated it was by methods forbidden in
morals, most corrupt in politics, and ut
terly subyersive of good government
by unprecedented coercing of voters, by
wholesale use of Doodle, and by such
debauchery of the suffrage as made hon
est men everywhere stand aghast.
But, nevertheless and notwithstanding
ing all the odds we fought, thank God,
there were 100000 American rreenlen
who could not he bribed. wheedled. or
bnlIied into voting for the Republican
candidates, aud our peerless Young lead
er received more votes than were ever
before cast for a Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, and stands forth lile
foremost statesman of the age.
If we stand coHrageously and umfal-
teringly by the great principles enunci-
ated in 1896 we will win a decisive We
tory for truth and right and justice and
representative government. and viii earn
not only the approval of our own con-
sciences, but the IAaqIdits of lovers Of
liberty to the remotest generations; but
if we abandon these principles, II we
permit the time servers. double dealers,
and practicers of expodiency to Obscure
these issues, or shunt them TO the rear,
we will mot only lose, hut will he
damned to everlasting fame
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23
NAMING THE PRICE OF COT ON. y

Mr.. A. b. Williams, one of the first
business men Of the Cape Fear section,
has an article in the Fayetteville OBJ
server urging cotton ginners to make
a uniform bale of cotton 24x54 inches.
He adds:
THE round bale people are doing their
uttermost to establish the round bale
and if successful in their efforts, the
cotton farmer will he completely in their
hands The certainty of a royalty to
them of 81 per bale and the manning of
the price to be paid for cotton are what
they are aiming at.
That is it exactly. john Il. Searles
would never have left the sugar trust
and taken hold of the round bale il ne
did not expect to coin millions by corner
ing the cotton market. The Southern
farmers are not averse to Improvement
in baling cotton. They would welcome
all improvements, but they will not put
their neck in the halter of the round
bale trust.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23
STORY OF A SLAVE.

To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease is the worst
form OF slavery. George d. Williams,
of Manchester, Mich, tells how such 4
slave was made Free He says: MY
wife has been SO helpless for five years
that she could not turn over i'm bed alone.
After using two bottles of Electric Bit.
ters she is wonderfully improved and
able to do her own work" This supreme
remedy for female diseases quickly cures
nervousness, sleeplessnesS, melancholy,
headache, backache, fainting and dizzy
spells. This miracle working medicine
is a godsend to the weak, sicllly, run
down people. Every hottie guaranteed.
Only so cents. Sold by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-23
EIGHT YEARS OF
STATES GROWTH
The Flattering Increase in Manufac-
lures Mr. Richards Address.

/
lures Mr. Richards Address.
Greensboro, n. c., Aug. %. Especial
The annual meeting of the Industrial
and immigration Association was held
in the count house last night.
The secretary and treasurer made
"a most iattering report of the
| condition of the association, there being
only few Withdrawals. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President j. w. Fry; first vice
president e. p. Wharton; second vice
president, NJ. l.. Shields; secretary and
treasurer, S. III. Boyd.
Mr. Nj. V. Richards, immigration
agent of the Southern railway, was
present by invitation and after being in
troduced by Mayor Taylor made the adj
dress of the evening.
Referring to the growth in population
in the South, he said that North Caro-
line shows an increase from 1890 to
1898 of at least 10000. In manufacture
ing North Carolina has made a most
gratifying increase in the number of
plants, 1867; capital invested, So,
600; number Of employed, 1924; wages
paid, $7.000,000; with raw material CON
sumed, 22,000,000; finished products,
S40,0000O0. The above is from 1890 to
1898. but" said Mr. Richards, I'VE are
still too near the foot of the ladder for
comfort
Your correspondent learned from Mr..
G. o. McMichael, of Madison, that the
dispensary at that place is working
splendidly Some of its bitterest oppon-
ents now declare it to be good thing.