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New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
IRON TRADE CONDITIONS.
The Iron Age" says:

publish this week showing the condition OF the
blast furnaces the 1st inst 1t had been ex-
pected that manufacturers reports would show
not only increase in production. but decided
ly heavy increase in stocks at the furnaces. The
complete statistics however show that the weekly
316l tons less than on March l. This was
largely due to the irreguarity of furnace opera
and in some sections difficulty In securing suf-
ficient supply of iron The condition of stocks
is also somewhat surprising as the increase in all
kinds of pig iron on hand was only l., $50 tons.
These figures go far toward explaining the
parative steadness of prices of pig iron during the
month with consumers so generally remaining out
of the market. The consumption of pig iron is pro-
ceedng heavy scale. and the slight increase
in stocks at furnaces was accompanied necessarily
yards It is believed, taking furnace stocks and
foundrymeu's stocks together, that the supply of
low as any previous period If. indeed, IL is not
considerably lower. The situation is therefore cal
cuated make large buyers apprehensive, all
consumers are conducting a strictly hand 10 mouth
business which is liable TO have its dangerous side.
The position of pig iron abroad constantly grows
stronger advces from Great Britain representing
q continuous reduction of stocks. Withdrawals from
public running up to fifteen hundred tons
dav In some districts of England mime conditions
prevail with respect to pig iron Several sales for
port have been made here during the week. and If
freight could be procured transactions would
Foundry has been sold SIC 80 at furnace for
port which is the full market price The situation
in steel and finished materials is not so assuring
in pig iron. Biets have been reduced 81 per ton at
Pittsburg and weakness prevails in finished prod
ucts generally. except in rails, structural shapes
and sheets Some effort is being made to stifen
the market by the shutting down of steel works
and rolling mills Manufacturers are confident that
q better demand will develop when buyers find that
prevent a serious decline. The foreign demand for
Finished products is excellent. Sales are being
quantities. but an especially large export business
is being done in wire nails and wire.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
CHARACTER OF TRADING.

London bought heavily on balance. and local oper-
ations, while light were on the buying side of
commission house account. Traders covered, fear
ing remain short Of stocks over the triple holi-
day. and many operators bought stocks because
they believe that values will rule higher next week
Union Pacific strong. and 1t was reported that
recent winners in Baltimore and Ohio were buying
this issue. Missouri Pacific enjoyed a further ad-
vance dividend prospects. The traction shares
were neglected. Keene brokers were moderate buy
Of the general list and Standard OH interests
were on the bull side. Pool buying reported In
Atchison preferred and Baltimore and Ohio COM
mon and preferred. 1t said that Baltimore and
Ohio preferred was bought for a financial interest
in close touch with NewYork Central General
Electric made sharp advance. There was a large
buying order for the stock in the market, but only
a small amount of stock could be obtained even
the advance. Insiders sold the steel stocks
these issues furnishing the chief weak features of
the day. Boston houses sold Sugar Refining. and
Standard Oil and Wormser brokers bought. A A.
Housman bid up Missouri Pacific in the afternoon,
and all the Gould stocks moved in sympathy. Nor
folk and Western issues were in demand also all
the Pacific stocks and Atchison issues.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
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THE TRADE IN CHICAGO.

Chicago. April - (SpeciaO.-wheat lost cent 70
day and closed only little over the bottom May
sold at sc and at 66c and closed at 66iac; July 81
67Tsc. Liquidation the influence; not senss-
tlonal selling from any direction. but a per
sistent letting go OF long lines from great many
directions. The severe break In corn had an IN
auence. The approaching holiday Good FridSs,
and the treble holidays abroad probably precipa'eN
tho letting 20 OF some long lines. The Price CUR
rent interpreted the Government report 10 nieA
50 600 OeO bushels more winter wheat than last SeSA
and 20 Coo 600 bushels than the average Tor yen
years Argentine shipments. 27Oo.oo0 business
showed a considerable increase over the week p'e
vious. Liverpool OF nd: Paris on equal 20
cent a bushel Clearances were only S4O,0o ousne
The Northwest had 2s2 cars. against uS cars s'
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
MONEY MARKET FACTORS.

Disbursements in connection with the refunding
of Government bonds and pension payments have
resulted In q gain to the banks far this week
of than So 100000 1t is probable that today's
operations will bring the total loss by the Sub
Treasury to above So 600 600. The money market
apparently is in for long period of easy rates,
and advancing sterling quotations.. with the poss-
bility of gold exports are disturbing the fnan-
cial community. Sterling exchange continued
strong yesterday, but foreign bankers would not
admit the possibility of gold shipments In the i'm
mediate future. International money market con-
ditions make the gold export point higher than the
rate at which the last gold shipments made.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN BONDS.
GOVERNMENT BONDs-Market steady. Final
uuotations follow:
SEX interest.

RAILROAD BONDs-Market strong. Total sales
Bmounted in par value 597 500 against 6s3 900
pn Wednesday. The heaviest dealings were in the
SAtehson and Baltimore and Ohio issues Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern division 3ihs, Central of
Georgia SIS, Central Pacific As. Chesapeake and
Chic sizs, Cleveland, Cincinnati Chicago and ST
Louis general as Colorado and Southern lst As
Mexican Central lst incomes. Missouri. Kansas and
Texas list and ID As Missouri Pacific trust 5s Nor
9olk and Western As. Northern Pacific IS and As
Reading general Is, St Louis and San Francisco
general as st. Louis Southwestern lists and 2ds
Southern Railway 1st SIS. Third Avenue 1st S. To-
5eoo, ST. Louis and Kansas City certificates Wa
bash debenture BIS and Wisconsin Central gem
gral As
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
FOREIGN BANK STATEMENTS.

London April 12-The weekly statement of the
Bank of England shows the following changes
Total reserve decreased H.721.OO0 circulation in
creased f1Si 900, bullion decreased fl $50 other Sc
curtties decreased $685. 0 other deposits increased
f1574000 public deposits decreased fS7100Oo notes
reserve decreased 81 $4,000 and Government Sc
curtties decreased Fl 900. The proportion of the
Bank of England's reserve to liability is 4014 per
cent. Last week 1t was Al. 81 per cent. Rate of
discount unchanged at per cent.
Paris, April 12.-The weekly statement of the
Bank of France shows the following changes
Notes in circulation decreased 14.575.000 francs
Treasury accounts current increased 1790 900
francs gold in hand decreased 2625 900 francs bills
discounted increased 1880 900 francs, silver in hand
decreased 600 francs.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
DOMESTIC EXPORTS FOR MARCH
The March statement OF the exports OF domestic
roducts issued by the Bureau of Statistics shows:
TO IMPROVE ~, c. AND ST. l..

August Belmont. chairman OF the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company Informs shareholders
OF the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway
that an examination made OF the condition and
affairs OF the latter company shows that for many
years dividends have been paid OUT OF funds which
should have been properly devoted to the main
tenancc and extension OF the property; that addi-
ttonal expenditures will be necessary which can
only be met by suspension OF dividends, and that
the company will not be able 10 Resume dividends
for period of least five years.
AS the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
has a large interest In the stock OF the Nash
Vile. Chattanooga and ST. Louis Railway. the Louis
vile and Nashville has decided 10 pronose 10 the
shareholders OF the Nashville. Chattanooga and ST.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
STEEL AND IRON COMPANY AFFAIRS

The president OF the Federal Steel Company said
yesterday that the companys business for the
rent year would show a considerable gain the
profits OF last year The president of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company said that the talk about
the price Of iron and steel falling was, in his opin-
ion, not warranted, buyers spreading such reports
in the hope OF getting their material cheaper The
American Steel and Wire Company has. 1t is
ported, made preparations to build a plant
the Pacific Coast, for the manufacture of the cable
for the proposed Honolulu line The Honolulu cable
bill provides that the cable shall be of American
manufacture. and the American Steel and Wire
Company will be the chief bidder for the work If
cable is authorized by Congress II is said.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13

Chicago-soc discount. st. Louis-2Oc discount. sa-
vannah-Buying 75c; selling. 76o per $1,000.
BANK CLEARINGS. New-York Exchanges.
$2lso1o.6ss; balances. N0124.s10. Baitmore-Ex-
changes. S.l3122o; balances. s627 ia. Boston-Ex-
changes. s22 2s2 3s1 balances 0O74ees Philadelphia
Exchanges. N7,A4,p0o; balances, s212l,70s Chi
cago-Exchangos. go. .ss7 225; balances 81 1872 s25.
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.-Cai money In
London. 543le per cent. Open market discount rate
FOR short bills per cent and for long bills 4q4ls
per cent Berlin discount rate 4as per cent. Berlin
exchange on London, 20 marks 51la pfennigs. Paris
exchange on London, Is francs 21 centimes. Paris
discount rate. 3Ia per cent.
FOREIGN SECURITI ES.-Britsh consos for
money. 10l for the account 101A. French rentes,
lol francs 42ls centmes. Spanish 4s, 72ss
THE SILVER MARK ET.-Bar silver 59Iac. Mexi-
can silver dollars 47a.c silver London 27ssd.
GOLD PREMIUM-In Madrid. 20 70; Lisbon 1850;
Buenos Ayres. 1870; Rome $40
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
QUIET GOOD FRIDAY DOWNTOWN.

Although the banks and the Federal buildings
will be open to-day. the day bids fair to be ex-
ceediHgly quiet in the financial district all
the exchanges will be closed. The Produce Ex-
change Will reopen it's doors tomorrow. but on the
Stock, Cotton and Coffee exchanges business
will be transacted before Monday. The London
Stock Exchange and most OF the Continental
bourses will be closed until Tuesday morning.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD

London. April r. 2. m.-Amercan securities
were firm throughout the session to-day, with
Union Pacific shares showing the most strength.
The closing tone firm. Last prices were: Ca
madam Pacific. 001s; Erie 1fs: Erie first preferred
1855; Illinois Central. 119; Union Pacific preferred
7S1a; st. Paul, 12sTs: New-York Central 141: Penn
sylvania, n1A; Reading, 1915 Northern Pacific pre-
ferred, 7S7s; Atchson, 2SA: Louisville and Nash
Vile, ssas; Grand Trunk sA and Anaconda 10A
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
CENTRAL PACIFIC BONDS.

The Central Pacific Railway Company, in addi-
tion TO the 1923 600 OF its 31 per bonds hereto
fore cancelled. has cancelled 81 $1,000 making
a total cancellation OF 81 sos O0O being upward Of
10 per cent of the entire issue. The cancellations
have been made from the proceeds of securities
formerly in the old Central Pacific sinking funds.
which deposited with the trustee of the 31s
Der cepf
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
sbles.
Bankers' posted rates were:

DOMFSTIC Orleans - Com
rnerctaI 5Oa75c discount; bank. 81 premium. San
Francisco-Sight I71zc; telegraph. 2Oc. Cincinnati
Between banks. ec discount: over the counter. SOC
premium chsreston-Buying. par; selling 1-10c
rrs:lium Boston-l2Azc. 15c and 16 2-Sc discount.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS.-Customs receipts
reported from Washington. $455.OO5 internal revenue
receipts SS7l6S4 miscellaneous receipts $441eO To-
total receipts for the day. s,S7O7SO expenditures
S6S,O00 Receipts for the month to date, Se6441 III
expenditures, $6O60O0; excess ,of receipts 1884 III
Receipts for the fiscal date SAB S07 S79; ex-
penditures 1888 92 SS2 of receipts S4 Ss s97
SS7, 8S4
SUB-TREASURY.-The Sub-Treasury was
debtor at the Clearing House 81 522 57. Its net loss
on balance was SOS9,Sil made up by loss In cur
rency of s3669@ and a loss in coin of s722S04. The
days operations included Receipts S4O39 7i1; paw
ments, s6.l295S2, resulting in general balance of
currency.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
DAY. APRIL Ii. 1900.

Louis to offer them share OF stock OF the Louis
VILE and Nashville for two shares of the NASHVILLE
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railway provided such
stock shall be delivered the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad before July next. Application
will be made to list the stock given IN exchange at
the New-York Stock Exchange.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
STOCKS AS A RULE HIGHER.
RAILROAD ISSUES ACTIVE.
INDUSTRIAL SHARES HEAvY-STERLING
EXCHANGE AGAIN STRONG.
last prices were

Closing prices yesterday OF the principal active
securities and net changes from Wednesdays
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13

Bid. Asked.

Closing quotations the Colorado Springs MIN.
ing Stock Exchange. furnished by William p Bon
bright & Co. of Colorado Springs:
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES.

FURNISHED by Frederic H. Hatch No. 80 BrOad-st)
STOCkS
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
HONEY AND EXCHANGE

MONEY RATES.-Money call. 31aa4 per cent
BIZ per being the ruling rate Time money
SIzQ4 per for sixty days, per cent for three
four and six months railroad collateral. Com
1nercial paper 4q5 per cent for three four and six
months for the best namss. and above for names
not so well known.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE--Mark strong Actual
closing follow
Gables. sisht Sixty days.
Kterling sSi. a4.sszs 4s7hq41< 4S3kqAss
Francs 515A less ll6 516sg6lsa-l-6 2oa5 l8H lie
p,chm.ks g55-i6 s54TS5 2-l6 g4ika9a @ ia
ru,iderr 402IsQ40k 40a 40 i-iB
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
GROWING RAILWAY EARNINGS.

Railroad earnings received yesterday for the first
week in April showed the following gains over the
same week a year ago:
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
THE FEDERAL TREASURY.

Washington, April 12.-The condition OF the
Treasury divisions of issue and redemption at the
beginning of business to-day follows
RESERVE FUND.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
OTHER CITIES.
%Ex dividend.
NEW YOhK

'And interest. TEX coupon.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-13
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE
RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS.

Actual alsales-l-Closng- Shares
IOpen High Low Fin. Bid. Ask sold.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17

Arou-took with its storms ANA blows,
rain. frost. sunshine ana shadows Will
crawl ont from beneath the snow
drifts with record that she is not
ashamed Of. Physicians claim that
the winter has been a remarkably
healthy one. and the undertakers say
there il NJ sale fur baskets. F'inan-
cially the prospects of Aroost"ok
people never Wrrc better. labor has
been in good demand and farm pro-
du,c has sold readily at good prices.
As rule farmers find themselves on
good solid citing again. ola mort
cages have byen paid off MI reduced.
ana the dark days uf Il few years aEn
have gone by. What has brought thu
wonderful change? Well. eight per
sons out OF ten in Ar,ost0ok county
VIII answer that it Was the change
from Democratic cuSsedness t. TIN
wise ana benciiccnt policy of the
present administration.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17

great emaciation. She was so low the
April following that none Of our neigh
hors thought she could live but a few
months. In May, Mr.. c. r. Adams, Of
this place, who had taken Pe-ru-na, told
me if anything would help her Pe-ru-na
would. Her Improvement was very
rapid during the third bottle. / feel
that Pe-ru-na saved her life. My daugb-
tcr's name is Mrs. l.. Keene."
y slight cough, which, without YES
tiCe OF doubt, would soon disappear
with the use Of Pe-ru-na, becomes
chronic bronchitis, which requires q
persistent use Of Pe-ru-na for some time.
l see great many cases of consumption
each year due directly to a neglect of
coughs. colds. etc, which, if Peru-na
had been kept in the house and used ac-
cordin= To directions, would have been
prevented.
Send to the Pc-ru-na Medicine Com
pany, Columbus, o., for DR.. Hartman's
latest free book on chronic catarrh, la
grippe, consumption, coughs, colds, ctr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17
Reflections OF a Bachelor.

ANY married man is rich who gets TWEEN
ty dollars a week more than his wife
knows he gets.
The world Judges a man by what II,
did. but God ana Il good woman Dy what
he meant to do.
\ few women are lonesome because
they aren't married, and lot of men are
lonesome because they are.
If the average man knew half as much
as his wife thinks he knows. he would
know twice AZ much as there is To know
\ man never catches cold that his wife
doesn't spend the next three days telling
him that he knows she told him he ought
not to go out without his overcoat.
\ man can make the woman who loves
him do anything ne doesn't want her TO-
Most men are afraid Of their babies
only they are more afraid to admit it u
their wives.
It is probably just as well that the Bi-
BILE doesn't say anything about what Lot
said when he found his wife had been
turned into pillar of salt.
Only let a girl have cute little giggle
and before marriage only one man in a
hundred will care a rap whether she has
got any brains or not.
You can believe about half a woman
says when she's mad, and about half d
man says when he isn't.
1t costs a man more to dress than a
woman, because he can never sew his old
silk handkerchief up into shirts.
a woman always claims that the first
word her girl baby ever pronounced was
papa Probably what it was trying tt
say was in minute
When you hear one girl telling another
prettier one that her hat isn't on straight
you can be pretty sure that they aren't
on their way to meet some man.
When you see a woman at an off-color
play you can generally be pretty surt
that some one has sent her daughters
tickets. and she feels she ought to fin,
out for herself whether she can let then
go.-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17
Another Gigantic SNindIc Exposed.

How people 90 fall over themselves
and each other in their eagerness to
get buncoed. one exposure follows
auother in quick succession. and yet
the next enterprising rascal finds just
aa many suckers waiting for the hook.
Recently there has been regular cpl
demic of gigantic swindles. This
may be an indication that the Ameri-
can public is growing more gullible.
but it is more likely one result of
prosperous times which has given
people more money to spend. The
latest is the arrest, this week. of a
sclf-styled divine healer in Boston
who did his business chiefly by mail
ana was gathering in the modest sum
of 100000 week. He kept 40 clerks
"treatmcnt' consisted mainly of cir
cular letters and pamphlets. He ad-
vcrtiscd in - papers and 50 he
couldn't help getting rich.
only a few days earlier an enter
prising Bostonian was gathered in by
the law for selling a lucky box, mys-
teriously magnetized by the great Hin
DO worker Of wonders and warranted
to bring the owner all kinds of good
fortune: only few left" He charged
only $1.00 for the boxes. and the Bos-
ton mail was crowded with letters for
him. bringing him hundreds Of dol
lars daily. The boxes We're made III
Lynn and cost less than a cent each.
In both these cases the sWindlers We're
brought up short i'll their careers by the
United States postal authorities on the
charge of using the mail for fraudu-
l,nt purposes. If it wasn't for this
careful oversight on the part of Uncle
sam there is TO knowing to what ex-
tent his foolish children would go.
It was only little earlier that
Miler's $40 per cent. scheme was
brought to a timely end in New York
and even then Jernegan's gold extract
ing project was being laughed about
by the very people who We're caught
by Miller And there have been other
colossal frauds exposed in the same
time, whereby people We're trying &c
get something for nothing, and thus
making rascals rich. The public OBJ
stinately refused to learn by expert
once in such matters. Next week, some
, Yankee who thinks he is too bright to
earn an honest living will invent some
plausible game and rake in a trunkfu
Of money before the authorities dis
cover him and head him off. There i
a public demand for these absurd
frauds. and while this is true there is
not likely to be Il contraction in tht
supply.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17

Ro-a Tyler, Vice President Of the
Illinois Woman's Alliance, speaks i'll
high praise Of Pc-ru-na to restore tired
nerves and weak body. In letter writ
ten to Or. Hartman from 80 East Goth
street, Chicago, ILL.,, she says the fol-
lowing:
During the past year I gradually
lost flesh and strength until l was IN
able to perform my work properly. l
tried different remedies, and finally Pc
ru-na was suggested to me. 1t gave me
new life and restored my strength. !
cannot speak too highly Of it,
Mrs. Arthur L. Hamilton, wife Of
Colonel Hamilton, Of the Seventh Regi-
ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17

West Bath had recently an exciting
experience with a cow which went
mad. She was always possessed of a
bad temper and when her owner sold
her TO butcher she made q grand
strike for freedom. She broke from
her halter which was fastened through
a ring in her nose, and dashed out in
the road. through pastures, over three
pole fences, running against barbed
wire, tearing her skin and causing the
blood to flow from many wounds. The
rope got caught under her feet and
split one Of her hoofs. The COW was
pursued by four men, but, as she had
gone mao, II was an easy matter to
Keep her caDtors at bay, as head
down, eyes atlame and neckS of foam
falling from her mouth, she looked no
KIND creature to approach, no one
daring to get near enough to hit her
IN the head with an axe. Two of her
Captors she kept up trees for half an
hour awaiting her movements. 1t was
dangerous to shoot her as she would
not get in the clearing, and wood
choppers Were at work in that vicinity
and men We're hunting. At last after
five hours from the time she left the
yard she was shot and hauled to Tho
butchers farm.