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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-23
Beers DEFEATED
In a Second Battle Fought Near
Dundss
THEY FLEE IN a PANIC.
They Began tho Enlightenment by
Smelling the British scamp-ThelF
ARTILLERY Soon slIenesa = English
Casualties Only one Man Wounded.
The British Forces SIN Advancing.

LONDON, Oct. 22.-A correspondent
IN Glencoe Camp sendSchhe following.
dispatch under date OF october %.
morning:
',paybreak disclosed the, Dutch 81
around Dundee. AS soon as they were
in position on the hill behind Peter
smiths house. where they posted cam
non, rife fire became general, and to
wake us they put several shots and
shell slap into the camp. causing a
speedy evacuation Of the. tents aud a
forming Of all the ranks outside the
camp. Our guns were Soon In action
and replied with telling eftect.
80 effective was our artillery IRE
that in ten minutes the guns Of the
Beers were all but sllenced. could see
from my position how telling It wac. !
could see members Of their stan going
about their duties as coolly as II the
whole thing were sham battle.
aAs soon as the Roer Ore slaekeRcd,
our artillery, which had been beautiful
" served, trotted into town and posted
themselves. They soon compelled the
enemy to retire. but yet they appeared
like SO many bees In groups on evsry
place Of vantage on the ridge which
SKIRTS the town, while others were
driven toward the coal fields.
"our guns continued to play on
Smiths hill. where beautiful practice
was made. AS the shells burst the
Dutchmen could be SEEM scamperIng
for cover. While our guns were SO en-
gagged the Hussars deployed on the left
flank. Soon the cannOpadlng ceasel
and after Eve minutes sharp work ali
was over. This may be put down as
the first battle Of Dundee.
THE battle was soon. renewed With
great vigor. AT 7;S5 a messenger az
rived telling the camp that 1900 Boers
we're marching on US with the intentio1
of attacking our rear. A heavy mite
which caps the surrounding hills. OBJ
scured their approach, and they nay
be on US any hour. ~ H.
1.-THE only casualty yet known on our
side is the woundlng Of a trumpeter in
the slxty-ninth batteryIi,sq,
AT . o'clock this moEtAhg the war
office posted the followlGs, from Gen
eral Sir Archibald Hunters
"LADYsMITH, Oct. 2l,-S:45 p. NJ
General White rode toward Eland-
slaagtc at $3.50 D. m. The forcs under
General French left here at a. m. by
road and rail to Modders Bridge. By 2
D. IN. it had been gradually strengthen
cd to the following total:FLfth Lancers.
a squadron of the Fifth Dragon
Guard. two field batteries, the Natal
field battery, the Devonshire Regiment.
half the Manchester Regiment, half the
Gordon Hlghlanders. the Imperial Light
Horse and two aquadrons of Natal vol
uRteers, -,,,-r
II remain here in defense OF Lady
smith with the Gloucester regiment,haif
the MANCHESTER. half the Gordon HIsh-
landers, n mountain battery and 500
Natal volunteers. s1E,
Elandslaagte is a small station on thu
railway. about midway hptyeen Glen
coe station and 1adysml The Boera
occupied the place on Thurs lay or FRI
day and cut the railway In o5ster to pre-
vent British troops being Tent either
,,,,,, I,o',v,onr T.advsTnIth and. Glencoe
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-23

ports over imports for nine months this
year g about f7s 90 eee Ices thsn last
months this year are SilS,s $50 less
than last year. according 10 the figures
Of the treasury bureau Of statistics,
The trade balance in our favor uniiqui-
dated by gold payments g therefore
over S37, 100000 greater this year than
last Gold exports under these circum-
stances would mean that in spite Of the
world owing US the largest debt for a
year in our history we are still the bet
ter supplied with money and can atlord
to lend.
The market for bonds has bfoadAned
out during the week and prices, have
improved. United States 2s and old 70
registered advanced X per cent in the
bid price.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-23
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SHlve. tho best In tho world, will kill the
pain and promptly heal II. Cures old
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cOrns, all skin eruptlons Best pile care
on earth, Only 20 cts. box, euro
guaranteed, Sold BY Logan DRUG Co,
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TNREATEsT FACILITIES FOR THE
" Prompt Gop'pleSlSnT q c, Orders atstHa
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-23

NEW YORK, Oct. 2l,-An advance In
the price of rcEular print cloths to 27c
and In other original committee goods
to corresponding basis was the chief
feature of to-dayS market Wide odds
are In good request ana strong, but not
quotably higher The demand Tor
brown cOttous Is moderate at full
prices. Blcachcd cottonS show nd
vauccs very firmly maintained. several
leading lines placed at value only. Wide
shce;ings advancing, No stocks on
hand OF any moment. Denims scarce
ard nfalrst buyers TIcKa and other
coarse colorcd cottons strongly held.
Prints unchanged. Cotton yarns strong.
but demand quietcr than OF late,
worsted and wooden yarns in good de-
maud and very firm.
Metals.
NEW YoRK-Plg iron quiet; north
crn. $40 0OG24 90: southern, so 5Oir24 10.
Copper dull hrokers', sis 90. Lead dull;
brokers'. 44O. Tin plates steady.
Wool.
NEW YoRE-woot quiet; domestic
fleece, 9ld26c. Texas, l4di7c,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-23
DEPART,

Electric ears bridgeport to Wheeling,
BcllRlre and Martins Ferry
Consult AGENTS FOR best routes and low.
'' H. q. CARREL,
General Passenger Agent,
VTNHE MoNoNGAH ROUTE is THE
Short Line between FRlrmont and
CIarksburE, Quick Time Fast Trains
sure Connections. Whom travelling to or
Pittsburgh railroad points. see that your
tickets read via tho MohungAhela River
Railroad. Close Connections at Fairmont
with u, & o, trains. and at ClArksbuTg
with Il, & q, and W., V. & p. trains, Tick
cts Via this route on sale at all d. g. o,
and W., V. 4 =. r. II. stations.
HUGH G. BOWLES, Gon'l Supt
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-23
Total sales Of stocks were 10000 shares


The following quotations were furnished
by Howard Haziett & Son., National Ex-
change hank building:
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
JANEsvILLE, WIS, Oct. 20, '99.

There is no apparent change in local
market conditions. A few crops of '99
mostly hail cut, have been picked up
at from to 4 cents in the bundle. There
is no disposition shown to try the better
grades.
A good rain of recent date has put
hanging tobacco in good case for exami-
nation and the fact is demonstrated that
we need considerable good weather to
cure out the late crops, otherwise there
will be some fat stem.
Some of the crops are curing out with
thick leaf, making them undesirable
for binders. The color and texture of
majority of the leaf is very good, and will
make very desirable goods.
Around the warehouses there has been
general activity and one of the largest
sales ever made in the city was consum-
mated and another is in the process of
consummation. S. B. Heddles sold his
entire packing of 14OOcs of '98 to Spitz-
ner & Childs. The deal involves over
$4,000. F. S. Baines has about closed
the sale of 45Ocs of 9S to Sutter Bros. of
Chicago. j. L. & M. F. Green sold Goes
'97 and '98, G.. II. Rumrill sold 1OOcs '98
and bought the Howell packing of 90cs
'98, S. B. Heddles bought Goes '98 and c.
E. Randall delivered 84cs of '94 to Soul
man and Valentine this week.-Farm
and Home.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
NUMBER As.

that they are losing money on their pack
ings because they turn out at the mar
ketable season quite a different product
from what they thought they had bar
gained for eight months before; but no
sooner do they raise the howl than they
rush up again and repeat what they claim
to have been a disastrous venture But
it is nobody's business but their own. If
they think they can afford to pay from
70 to 3Oc for tobacco in the bundle with
all the chances of pole sweat, mold, white
veins and defective burn, why let them
do so. They are at present favored by
the exceedingly fourishing condition of
the cigar industry and if that industry
should increase it's output during the
tisclal year by thousand millions, as it
looks just now that it will, why any kind
of leaf will have to be worked to satisfy
the demand.
The Sumatra market, too was never
in better condition. Sales continue firm
and far above the average.
The Havana market is likely to be-
come exceedingly brisk again in week
or SO. For this week nearly 300 bales
have arrived of the new crop and as soon
as the proper samples are drawn there
will no doubt be general attack on
hem.-JOurnal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
New York.
New YORK Oct. 21, '99.

The market continues to be animated
by very brisk spirit. Although the
volume of business done is not an extra
ordinary one, for the reason that there
is no superabundance of stock in any
thing on hand, the buying and selling is
being done on a more harmon
ious basis than for years past. Buy
ers buy freely without much dickering,
and they usually pay the price asked,
which under the circumstances is not
altogether too high. The principal sales
made during the week were in 7'97 Wis
consin, of which nearly 1000 boxes went
into consumers hands at about 14c for
strictly binder leaf The 81 Wisconsin
is just now having the preference, be-
cause it takes two years for the Wiscon-
sin to become mature enough for actual
use. And about 1900 boxes of other
types were disposed of in smaller lots.
The only trouble that affects the market
seems to be the investments in the 99
crops. The general complaint is that too
much money is being paid for the 80
New England leaf. A great deal of head
shaking is being done about the riskiness
of that venture. But our packers of the
New England leaf are the most difficult
people to advise. Every year they howl
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS, October 27, 1899.

EDGERToN, WIS, October 81 1899.
The return of casing weather has given
an opportunity for the examination of
the hanging tobacco and considerable
riding is being done in the growing sec
tlons, more probably with the intent of
the buyers to acquaint themselves with
the character of the crop than with a
view of making purchases at pres ent
Yet we are informed some trading is be-
ing done especially in the hail districts
which has been quite generally covered
the week by buyers and several hundred
acres lifted at from to sc. 1t is not
unlikely however that a quiet picking up
of the better grades will ensue as soon as
the crop is in shape to come down.
Old goods of Wisconsin growth are
receiving a good deal of attention in the
eastern markets at present and home
dealers are encouraged at the prospect.
The big deal of the week is the purchase
by H. w. Child of 25OOcs of '98 from
GAINESVILLE packers consisting of 14O0cs
from S. B. Heddles and 900cs of Sover-
hill & Porter and 2OOcs of other dealers.
The continuation of warm weather has
been o. wonderful help in curing out the
late harvested leaf which seems likely
now to escape the dangers of fat stems.
Some of the early shielded is in condi-
tion for stripping now.
The shipments out of storage reach
Total of 9l5cs, about 20 car loads, from
this station to all points for the week.
Since last report less than 125cs of cigar
leaf were exported from New York.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
SToUGHToN, Wis. Oct. 20, '99.

The rains and warm weather of last
week and the week before proved very
favorable for the curing of the new crop
and unless very cold weather sets in in
side of a week or so the whole crop will
have been cured before the end of the
month. Tobacco men and farmers re-
port the new crop to be in fine condition
and of good quality. AS yet there is no
movement of the 99 crop, the few sales
that have come to our knowledge being
of the '98. John Rue sold his '98 crop
and delivered it Tuesday to an Edgerton
buyer at anG DC Last Saturday Lars
Vindlous delivered his crop of '98 tobac-
CO, receiving 71ac.-Courier.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

The early buying of cigar leaf tobacco
not alone in New England and Wiscon-
sin in the fields or on the poles, but in
all the other producing states is a feature
of the market that has not been wit
messed before in many years. The open
ing of the market in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and New York, sets the ball rolling in all
the cigar leaf states now, something that
the oldest dealers can not recall in their
business experience. This can hardly
be accounted for except upon the I'M
proved condition of trade and the meas
ure of prosperity that has affected all
industries It is seldom that the pack
ers are so fortunate in disposing of their
holdings so early in the season, leaving
them free to make new investments.
This is especially true of the local deal
ers. 1t has been many years since they
were sold out so closely at this time of
the year. Then again packers have been
receiving very fair margins on their in
vestments which tends to make them
willing to enter again into speculation.
At least no tobacco crop has sold so
generally throughout the country at so
early date or at time when it's merits
could not be foretold or SO little under
stood as this season. Never before was SO
much tobacco sold before it had safely
passed the curing stage. And this is
another evidence of growing tendency
for speculation.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
Patents Granted.

List of Patents granted to citizens of
Wisconsin for the week ending Oct. 18th,
reported expressly for The Reporter
through the patent and law Office of o.
e. Duffy, 707 G. ST., N. W.. Washington,
d. c., from whom copies can be had for
twenty-fiv cents each:
John FL. Benney, Evansville, tank
heater; Niels A. Christensen, Milwaukee
combined pump and motor.
TOBACCO.
Harry Levy and M. Himoff, New York,
n. Y, tobacco cutting machine; Nicho-
las P. Perkins, Roanoke, Va, machine
for granulating tobacco.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
Lancaster.
LANCASTER New ERA, Oct. II, SO.

LANCASTER New ERA, Oct. II, '99.
Although dealers declare the market a
dull one between buying and selling a.
good deal of trade has been done. Just
now the dealers are quite as busy in buy
ing cased goods in other markets, to'
meet the demand of their trade, as in
selling what they already have. A num-
Der have recently been in other States,
getting such stock as their customers
call for. One-half of this weeks tran
sactions consist of such purchases. The
sales and purchases as brought to our
attention were as follows: Isaac Stirk
& Go. sold 79cs; Henry Shock sold 200cs;
M. M. Fry bought 25Ocs; w. S. Bare sold
Toes and bought 15Ocs, and @. I'll. Wei
chans sold 1O5cs and bought 161cs. For
the corresponding week of last year the
sales reported were 351cs
But more interesting than the sales of
old goods is the fact that during the
past ten days the buying of the 1899 crop
has set in. About dozen firms have
been at work and some of them large,
ones. Trade has been somewhat ham
pered by some farmers refusing to sell
while their tobacco is still hanging ON
the poles, and declining to fix price at
this early stage of the game. We have
obtained no lists of sales, but are in
formed that six, seven and eight cents
are paid for wrappers and two cents for
filters. During the next week OF two"
this buying business will be more fully
developed, and prices likely to assume
something like regular figures The
buying on the poles has never received
much encouragement in this country,
because no man can accurately tell what
he is getting, while it is also fruitful
cause of trouble between buyers and
sellers.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
Baldwinsvi1le, n. Y.

Buying seems to be active though we
get no reports of sales. Buyers are rid
ing and seem ready to do business wher-
ever opportunity offers. We wish cor
respondents would send in reports of
transactions, as the principal business in
leaf seems to be done in the remote sec
tions. Bundle goods are chiefly in de-
mand if reports are true,-Gazette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
New York.

Sales of Seed Leaf Tobacco reported
for The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter by
j. S. Cans Son, Tobacco Broker, No. 1913
Water Street New York, for the week
ending, Oct. %, 1899:
1O0cs '98 N. E. Hav. at 20 to SOC.
4O0cs '98 Flats at Is to 25c.
14Ocs '98 Dutch at 13 to 1415c.
7O0cs '9S Zimmers at 13 to 1890.
4OOcs '98 Wis. Hav. at 81 to lie.
130cs '97 Wis. Hav. at 10 to lie.
475cs '98 Pen. seedleaf at 1917 to 111ac.
15Ocs '97 Sundries 6 to 16c.
Total 2495cs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
Connecticut Valley.

Sales are not as numerous as they were
three weeks ago. One reason for this is
that in some towns it is very nearly
picked up. Those that sold at from IA
to 18c are sitting in the mourners' seats
and urging some one to kick them. Late
ly the bulk of the sales have been at 22c
in the bundle, and this price often raised
to 22c and 25c, and we hear of one still
higher. But these % to 3Cc crops are
fancy leaf. The wrappers are selling of
the similar '98 crop at from Soc to 81 per
pound at wholesale. The growers are.
generally blowing their tobacco fields in
the fail, as it worries, perhaps destroyes,
the chrysalis of the moth that deposits
the eggs which hatch out the green
worms, and possibly the cut worms also,
and this aside from the bettered mechan-
ical condition of the soil for the coming
crop. 1t is quite possible that many are
making preparations for larger acreage
the coming year. If at the same time
they can produce better quality of leaf
they will assuredly add to the value of
the crop. There is such thing as over
doing the thing. Demand and supply
yet rule prices. If the crops of Porto
Rico and the Philippines come in free
(which is doubtful, then there might be
a collapse in the trade, so contrive to-
increase the value of the leaf. This is
worthy ambition, and will increase the
roll of bills without much increasing the
abor. Recollect that good crops of fine,
ight-colored leaf are selling in the bum
lie from 2215 to 3Oc, while low grade
lark leaf is salable only at a low figure.
-Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
MIAMIsBURG, OHIO, Oct. Is, '99.

The market is quiet. The advance in
prices noted last week for the '99 had the
effect of the large houses withdrawing
from the field. More attention has been
paid to the '98 during the week. Light
rains have failed to case tobacco until
the 18th, when casing showers prevailed.
Quotations: For '98 Spanish, to s;
'99 do, to g; seedleaf, to g; Dutch, 6
to 7. Shipments 5 carloads.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27

The internal revenue department has
commenced to pay back the blood money
secured out of local packers and agents
of eastern firms in this state under stress
of prosecution as alleged dealers tax and
penalties in the stupid warehouse tax
ruling. The Inconsistencies of the edict
was apparent to every tobacco man at
first sight but it took the officials of the
department some time to recognize their
blunder, and have started in to rectify
the mistake. The collectors have been
advised to refund all such blood money
and direct that the local dealers make
their claims on a special form. covering
the amount of the special tax eroneously
paid. The nature of the business car
ried on at the warehouse must also be
disclosed in the claim. Deputies have
been sent into the tobacco districts of
late trying to straighten out the tangle
stupid ruling has gotten the department
into. Taking it all together this is one
of the most ridiculous spectacles the
tobacco trade has ever witnessed and
came about through the blundering of
some one high in Office of the Internal
Revenue Commissioner.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
VII HANGS
| ON.

If it was only health, we
might let it cling.
But it is a cough. One cold
no sooner passes off before
another comes. But it's the
same old cough all the time.
And it's the same old story,
too. There is first the cold,
then the cough, then pneu-
monia or consumption with the
long Sickness, and life tremb-
ling in the balance.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27

Some idea of the magnitude of the
cigarette manufacturing business of
this country will be obtained from the
fact that since the beginning of this
year 1913 car loads of cigarettes have
been received at the Pacific coast ports
for shipment to Asiatic countries The
average weight of the contents in cigar
cites of these 1913 cars was 80 ,4SO pounds,
excluding the weight of the cases and
packages, making total of 5,531 ,O40
pounds of cigarettes. On the basis of
$50 cigarettes to the pound, which is as
nearly the correct average weight as can
be estimated, this gives total of 1882
100000 cigarettes. And strange as it
may seem, these figures are somewhat
below the average, as the stocks that
were rushed into Japan just before the
high tariff went into effect, on January
/, have not been consumed. 1t is con-
sidered that the average consumption in
Oriental counties of American cigarettes
amount to approximately 600 carloads,
19,488,OOO pounds, or 4,S72,OO0,OOO in
number.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27

It has been ruled by the revenue de-
partment that leaf tobacco which comes
into the possession of a private indi-
vidual in satisfaction of debt may be
lawfully sold by him without his incur
ring special tax as dealer in leaf to-
bacco. If the party sells the tobacco I'M
der a special permit, he would not be re-
garded as engaged in business as a
dealer in leaf tobacco, nor would he in
cur liability to the special tax imposed
by section 4, act of June 13, 1898. In
the case concerned, the collector has
been advised to issue special permit
authorizing the sale of this tobacco to
qualified dealer in leaf tobacco, or to a
manufacturer of tobacco or cigars, or
the same may be assigned by the party
to a qualified dealer in leaf tobacco for
sale by him on commission.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27

While the internal revenue receipts de-
rived by the government from tobacco
during September were not SO heavy as
those of the preceding month they are
materially ahead of September, 1898, the
totals being, respectfully, S4,993, ,728.89
and 81 237 1869. The showing made by
the different branches of the industry is
a highly satisfactory one, and if due al
lowance is made for the Tampa and
other strikes and consequently derange-
ment of trade, the wonder is that the
receipts from cigars have continued SO
large.