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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-20

much or more. The changes in the loan
item are slightly problematical, the
liquidation early in the week possibly
having been offset by the later measures
to support the market
The bond market was moderately
active and irregular Total sales (par
value) $2,500,000. United States bonds
were all unchanged on the last call.
Total sales of stocks today were
/, 70S, 100 shares, including Atchison, So,
500: Atchison preferred, $3.50; Chicago
and Great Western $4,000; Erie, 42,SOO;
Erie first preferred, 40; Louisville and
Nashville, 1920: Manhattan, 5000; M.
o. p. 3S.1OO; Ontario and Western, H.
500: Pennsylvania, S,400; Reading 1890;
Reading first preferred, 6,100; Reading
second preferred, 1900; st. Paul, 35,4oo;
Southern Pacific, 154,20O; Southern
Railway, &c, 700; Texas and Pacific, 49,
5OO Union Pacific, 215,S0O; Wabash pre-
ferred, 16, 900. Amalgamated Copper, H.
3O0 Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 1900; Peo-
Piles Gas. 7,1O0; Sugar, 32,4OO; Tennessee
Coal and Iron, 5000; United States steel,
1873. 700: United States Steel preferred,
Sc 100; Western Union, 14,706.
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The BULLS ASSUME
NO LIT TEE bURDEN
They Buy Heavily to Support
the Market.
A LATE BREAK IN PRICES
The Market Closes Weak at the Low
est Of the Day.
HfAvY,sAlES FOR LONDON AND THE WfST
The Steel Stocks Well Supported by Inside In.
terests. The Dealings Large But the
Ma ket Nevertheless Profess
sional colion ower.
The Market Closes Weak at the Low
est Of the Day.
HfAvYsAlEs fORloNDoN AND THE wfs1
sional. Cotton Lower.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, July 19.-The attendance
Of buyers today has been limited and
store trade slow. Other orders have
not been better than previous moderate
average. There has been no change in
brown, bleached or coarse colored cot
tons. Prints and ginghams quiet; print
cloths sold at 25s for regulars. Linens
very firm. but business limited. Bur-
laps quiet without change in prices.
COTTON.
New York, July BLOWER prices
were recorded in the market today,
though weakness was not so much a
feature as during yesterdays session.
New Orleans selling was potent factor
of depression. The early English
cables were a disappointment, not only
displaying full response to our decline
Of last night. but showing pronounced
weakness throughout the list under
heavy Southern selling and uncon-
firmed reports of hard rains over North
ern and Central Texas The market
here opened easy and off to points,
this being a better showing than ex-
pected on the cable news. AS the Off
cial weather reports did not substan-
tiate the private rain reports there was
a sharp rally all along the line at 10: 80
o'clock. Europe stiffened up and sent
fair sized buying orders here while
Wall Street and commercial houses
bought with fair amount of conf
dence. But before midday weather
forecast promising threatening condi-
lions over Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory as well as in Eastern Texas
tomorrow lead to decline. The At
lantic States were shown to be still
flooded with rains and more wet
weather was forecasted for tonight and
tomorrow. Crop reports were very UNI
favorable. noting stunted growth over
the belt west of Georgia and a back
ward condition from the Atlantic Coast
to Western Texas. In the last hour
the market was devoid of special fea-
ture, being inactive and narrow, clos
ing quiet and steady with prices net 2
to points lower.
NEW YORK
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ket in strength and activity today
closing with an advance of VI cent Tor
September on the weather and crop
conditions. Wheat was helped by ex-
ports. the close being Is cents higher
for September. September oats closed
IA to 3-S cents up and provisions 21a
cents improved.
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RALEIGH COTTON.
RALEIGH, n. c., july 10.
NEW YORK MONEY

st adv At aGa3 De-, cent: last loan , Der cent:
ruling rate per cent Prime mercantile
paper Mt 4Q1iK per cent Sterling exchange
days. Posted rates Assn and 4SS. Commercial
bills 484D4.84x. Silver certifcates nominally
Bar silver 581s Mexican dollars 4614. Government
bonds steady; State bonds inactive: Railroad
bonds Irregular.
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VALUABLE DRUG STORE FOR SALE.

VALUABLE DRUG STORE FOR SALE.
Under the terms OF certain mortgage
executed by A. S. McGeachy to the Chris
tian Drug CO., on November Sth, 1900, re-
corded in the Registers office of Wake
county, in book 1853, at page GAS, and also
under the terms of an agreement made
between said parties executed on July
10Th, 1901, the undersigned will sell at
public cutlery at the drug store of said
A. S. McGeachy, No. 1873 Fayetteville St..
in the city OF Raleigh, N. c., at ~ o'clock
m, on Wednesday, August 18th, 1901, the
entire stock of said drug store, consists
ing of all bottles, medicines, prescriptions.
books, soda fountain, showcase, furniture
and fixtures, together with the good will
of said business.
Terms of sales: Cash.
CHRISTIAN DRUG co,
by PERRIN BUSBEE. Attorney.
ALSO VALUABLE SODA FOUNTAIN
FOR SALE.
AT the above sale, on Wednesday,
August 9TH, 1901, at said No. 1873 Fayette-
vile street, Raleigh, N. G., the UNDER
signed will offer at public cutlery, an Onyx
and Fancy Top Esquimo Soda Fountain
with twelve three quart syrup cases, three
draught tubes, two ten gallon steel foun-
tains, one copper drainer, being No. 80
fountain manufactured by James w. Tufts
and originally sold at $1.100. Fountain Is
in perfect condition: used about two years.
Terms of sale: Cash.
AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIN CO.,
by Battle C Mordecai. Attorneys.
CHRISTIAN DRUG CO., AZ
by Perrin Busbee, Attorney
Further particulars can be had by
plication to Perrin Busbee, 800 Fayett
Vile street, Raleigh, N. c.
July IL, 1901. il1Al1 91N
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To Charlotte and return
Firemen's Association,
Via S. A. IL. Ry.

Tickets sold July 81, % and %, good to
return until July q. For fire companies
in uniforms and brass bands, ten or more
on one ticket, rate of s86I per capita
from Raleigh.
For tickets and full information, apply
to c.. H. Gattis, G. T. ami P. A.. Raleigh,
n. c.
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NORFOLK PEANUT MARKET

NORFOLK. Va, July 10. Peanuts quiet: fancy.
40 st ictly prime, 21h@25s; prime, 2(d1h com
mon, -; low grades 1A@lA machine picked,
hG2; Spanish zoe per bushel
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LIVERPOOL, July - p. M.-Spot cotton,
moderate business prite s l-l6d lower; American
miduiing fair s. 32d good middling 2T-32d :
miduiing 1892 low middling Slid; good or
din ,ry 4lsd: ordinary sgd.
The sales OF the day were 1000 bales OF which
5 70 were for speculation and port, and includ :
e 600 American Receipts ] 600 bales, includ-
i.s 100 American.
Futures pene quiet and closad feverish.
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Note-a Daily except Sunday. blast.
ern Time.
Connections at Jacksonville and Tampa.
for all Florida East Coast points, and
Cuba and Porto Rico At New Orleans.
for all points in Texas, Mexico and CAD
fornia.
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
Nos. 81 and 34-Florida and Metropolis
tan Limited. Drawing Room Sleeping,
and Through Day Coaches between New
York and Jacksonville. Through Drawing
Room Buffet Sleeping Cars between New
York and Atlanta.
Nos. 81 and 66-Florida and Atlanta,
Fast Mail. Through Drawing Room
Buffet Sleeping Cars between New York
and Jacksonville, connecting at Hamlet
with Sleeping Car to and from Atlanta.
Tickets on sale to all points, Pullman
Berths Reserved and reservations made on
outgoing steamers from Norfolk Bag
gage checked from hotel and residences
without extra charge at
Uptown Ticket Office,
Marlboro House Building.
C. H. GATTIS, C. T. and P. A.
Bell. Raleigh and Interstate Phones III
H. S. Lizard, T. p. A., Raleigh, N. G.
Il. N. l.. BUNCH, Gen. Pass. Agent
Portsmouth,. Va.
JAS. M. BARR, First Vice President and
General Manager.
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SPECIAL RATES VIA s. A. L. RAILWAY

Thirteenth Annual Convention and Tour
nament, North Carolina State Firemens'
Association, Charlotte N. c., July 2srd
to Goth.
On account of the above occasion the
Seaboard Air Line Railway will sell round
trip tickets to Charlotte at rate of IS 65
from Raleigh. For Fire companies and
brass bands ten or more on one ticket
rate of $685. from Raleigh, tickets sold
July q, % and 20 with final return limit
July 9th.
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@&Mn Cooks Duchess Tablet are successfully
Wk19 used monthly by over 10 900 ladies'. Price,
8m Y 81. BY mail, 31.O6. Send cents for
= sample and particulars. The Cook CO.
253 Woodward ave, Detroit, Mich.
SOLD BY BOBBTTT-WYNNE DRUG ON.
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SEABOARD STOCKS AND BONDS.
BALTIMORE, July l9-Seaboard All Line
G ommon 27as62S; preferred 4S04s4
Bonds As 3d.
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International Convention Brotherhood of
st. Andrew, Detroit, Mich July "a to g.
On account of the above occasion the
Seaboard Air Line Railway will sell round
trip tickets to Detroit, Mich, for one
first class fare for the round trip, rate
from Raleigh, via Richmond and Cincin-
natl $3.50, via Richmond and Washing
ton $1,000. Tickets will be sold July o.
23 and oath. with final limit August End
The final limit of the ticket can be ex-
tended until August 18th on payment fee
so cents.
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Mr.. ]. T. Wicker of Grange, Ga, writes: i am
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"CAPITAL CITY ROUTE."

CAPITAL CITY ROUTE"
Short Line to principal cities Of the
South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba,
Texas, California and Mexico, reaching
the Capitals of six States.
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Annual Meeting Grand Lodge B. p.

Annual Meeting Grand Lodge B. P. o.
Elks, Milwaukee, Wis, July 1925.
On account of the above occasion the
Seaboard Air Line Railway will sell round
trip tickets to Milwaukee at rate of $26.10
from Raleigh, this rate includes $500
membership fee, tickets will be on sale
July 20. q and o. with final return limit
July 2Sth. Tickets can be extended until
August 10th on payment of fee of so cents.
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Meeting National Grand Temple, Mosaic
Templars of America, Birmingham, Ala
July Both to August 4th.
On account of the above occasion the
Seaboard Air Line Railway will sell round
trip tickets from all stations to Birming-
ham and return at reduced rate, rate from
Raleigh $17S5. Tickets to be sold July
2s. 20 and 80. with final return limit
August 9Th.
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Hope is the froth that hides the dregs
in life's cup.
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International Convention B. Y. P. U. Of
America, Chicago, ILL.,, July 1928.
On account of the above occasion the
Seaboard Air Line Railway for $21.55 from
Raleigh via Richmond and Cincinnati.
Tickets sold July %, % and "a with final
return limit July 31st.
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HOW | CURE STRUCTURE.

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NEW YORK
New YORK, July i9.- Cotton futures opened
ERPOOL.

a Spot cotton closed quiet and lilo lower;
ding uplands 57-l6; middling gulf ll-l6;
al baieS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18
ONLY SIX LEFT
OF the Company That Was Playing
When Lincoln Was Shot.

Findlay, Ohio, Sept 1S.-.The calam-
ity that has just fallen upon the people
Of the United States recalls to me the
night that President Lincoln was shot, -
said Mrs. Kathryne NJ. Evans. an act
ress with the Garner Stock company.
last night, in his city.
At that time my husband, J. H.
Evans, and were playing with the
Keene was playing the leading role
and I was taking the part of Mrs
Sharp one of the servants. My hus-
band and I were sitting in the green
room waiting for our call when we
heard a shot that we knew was not a
part of the play. Everybody rushed
frantically to the stage, and as we ar
rived there we saw the presidents head
fall forward on his breast The mem
bers of the company were terribly ex-
cited and refused to believe that the
assassin was an actor, much less that
1t was Booth, as he was loved by every
one who knew him
"A great gloom fell over all theatre
cal people that the deed had been COM
mitted by one of their number, and
many did not go back to Washington
for years. My husband and every body
that had been seen in the company
during the day were put under arrest
on suspicion of being an accessory to
the great crime
of the company that was playing
there that night there are but two wo-
men and four men alive today. I am
on the stage. There are but two men
still before the footlights, M A Ken
nedy and w. J. Ferguson, the latter
starring in A Girl From Japan "
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HIGH SCHOOL GHOSTS.
Policemen Hear Strange and
Peculiar Noises.

Twice within q. week members of the
Topeka police force have gone through
the Harrison street high school building
looking for ghosts.
Policemen Kent Raub and Clel Simpson
made the trip through the building on
the first occasion. Now stories of ''hants'
and COLLINS of all kinds are afioat.
Another tour of the building was made
Monday night by the same officers and
other braves of Chief Stahls force.
Is the high school building haunted?
and what with2
When the police get over their scare
they will find some very human cause to
account for the colored policeman's spook
theory.
When Raub and Simpson determined to
make an exploration of the building. it
was because there was a. mysterious rat
Its chains rafting and clankingi' ex-
claimed Raub. clutching his ebony COM
panion by the arm. Hear them rolling
over the floor, Clel2'
''Yas, sir I hears Um-"
.'They'r re up stairs. Come on, you amt
afraid of ghosts, are you, C1el?"
Moo; reckon not Nav sir" he
snorted. as he felt his backbone stiffen-
ing.
IN. they went and up to the second floor
of the building.
They heard doors slamming furiously,
they. say, on the second floor as they went
up the steps.
But when they reached the top of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18

vice we do not act in that manner.
Many respectable men favor licensing
the liquor traffic for the revenue there
is in It. But God has pronounced his
woe upon the people who support evil
The supporters Of the saloon are re-
sponsible for all the evil it does
Il say the liquor traffic is the enemy
of the merchant. In the town where
the saloon fiourishes. the merchants are
carrying country accounts on their
books while the saloons demand cash.
The saloon is the enemy of the work
ing man Many of the largest corpor-
ations will not employ men who drink .
The speaker took occasion to explain
why he was speaking on the street on
a damp night. He said there might be
no misunderstanding desired to
state that the Central Christian church
was offered to him for five dollars d
night, payable in advance, but that the
people did not feel justified in paying
that price. He also announced that an
effort would be made today to secure
a room for the meeting tonight, and
that the indoor meeting would be pre-
ceded bV a street meeting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18
MORE BOXES OF GOLD,
And rlany 0reenbacks.

To secure additional Information di-
Tectly from the people. it is proposed TO
send little boxes Of gold and greenbacks
TO persons who write the most interest
ing, detailed and truthful descriptions
of their experience on the following
topics:
l. How have you been affected by
coffee drinking and by changing from
coffee to Postum
,. DO you know any one who has
been driven away from Postum because
1t came to the able weak and charact-
erless at the first trial2
3. Did you set such a person right
regarding the easy way to make Pos
tum clear. black. and with a crisp. rich
taste2
4 Have you ever found a better way
to make it than to use four heaping tea
spoonsfuu to the pint of water, let
stand on stove until real boiling be-
gins. then note the clock and allow it
10 continue easy boiling full IS minutes
from that time. stirring down occa-
sionally? "a piece of butter about the
size OF navy bean placed in the pot
VIII prevent boiling over.)
s. Gives names and account of those
you know to have been cured or helped
in health by the dismissal of coffee and
the daily use OF Postum Food Coffee in
Its place.
s. Write names and addresses of 20
friends whom you believe would b.
benefited by leaving Off coffee. CYour
name viii not be dfvulged to them)
Address your letter to the Postum
Cereal Co. Ltd. Battle Creek Mich.
clearly
Be honest and truthful: don't write
poetry or fanciful letters-just plain.
truthful statements.
Decision will ne made between Octo-
her 3oth and November 10th 1901 bv
three judges, not members OF the Pos
tum Cereal Co. and a neaz little box
containing a $40 gold piece sent to each
cf the i've best writers. a box contain
Ing 50 gold piece to each of the 20
text best writer's. a 81 greenbs ok to
zach o. the 100 next best. and 81 green
back to each Of the zoo next best writ
ers, making cash prizes distributed to
BE- persons
food and drink Is willing to have their
name and letter appear in the papers
for such help as IL may offer to the hu-
man race. However, a request to omit
name viii be respected
Every friend Of Postum is urged to
write. and each letter will be held in
nigh esteem by the company. as an evil
denLe Of such friendship while the lit
tie hoes of gold and envelopes Of
money VIII reach many modest writer's
whose plain and sensible letters con-
tain file facts desired, although the
FeTtler may have but srlru faith in
winning at the time Of writing
Talk this subject over with vO1lr
friends and see how MANY among xoia
ran win prizes lit is a good, honest
competition, and in the best kind OF a
cause Cut this statement out, for it
VII net appear again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18
HALF MILLION CHILDREN.
In Schools of New YORK Will Hear
Addresses Today.

New York, Sept. 1S.-Though tomor-
row, when the final funeral services
over the late president viii take place
at Canton, has been officially desig-
mated as the day for national mourn
ing and prayer, there will be many
solemn services in New York city to-
day.
The half million of school children of
Greater New York will gather in their
respective schools at D. m. and listen
to addresses on the life of the msrtyred
president. In nearly all of the schools
the singing of Mr.. McKinIey's favorite
hymns, Nearer My God to Thee" and
Lead, Kindly Light will form part
of the exercises. Speakers living in the
neighborhood of the different sci ools
have been invited by a majority of the
principals to make the address on the
life of the president
At sunrise today a salute of thirteen
guns was fired by the different light
batteries of the National Guard at va
rious points of the city Thereafter at
intervals of 80 minutes zone gun sa-
lutes" will be fired by each of the bat
teries, and at sunset the salute of the
union, As guns, viii be fired
Tonight every National Guard regi-
ment in the city and in the state viii
assemble in its armory in full dress
and hold services. as a mark of re-
SDect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18

Cheyenne. Wyo.. Sept 1s--Ernest G.
Miller. representing a company of
wealthy Chicago men, has secured a
water right and applied to the state
land board for 20 900 acres of land along
the Platte river near Fort Lara mic in
the northern part of the country. The
land VIII be divided into 40-acre tracts
and settled by a colony of Swedes. A
canal 40 miles long. 80 feet wide and
5 feet deep will be dug from the Platte
river above Fort Laramie to water the
land to grow sugar beets A sugar fac
tory to cost 81 100000 viii be built in
the colony. which is on the Alliance
Gurnsey line of the Burlington rail-
road. Five hundred Swedes will be
brought from Chicago to construct the
canal and settle on the ground.
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landing the noises on this floor ceased.
They heard them down stairs now.
Let's go back said Raub. There s
nothin here. It's down stairs now
Yes, let's go down and catch UNI. We
amt afraid. are we2'
NO"
With that the pair started slowly down
the steps. Half way down the noises on
the first floor ceased and began again on
the second. This was too much for the
nerves of the officers. They made a wild
break down the steps and out of the
building. Raub says Simpson started
stampede. Simpson says evidence shows
that Raub gained the clear night air out
side first
Ghosts can have that bundin' all, to
themselves" remarked Simpson when
when they were out again.
Guess they cam, aSsented Raub. MY
beat amt supposed to take me inside the
building"
Monday. night the demonstrations were
somewhat different The night watch re-
ported that he had heard explosions in
the building and that the ghosts were
cutting up high jinks. Several officers
were gathered into a posse and a thor
ough search of the building made.
They found bicycle with tires burst
and gave it out officially that their dis
covery crowned the expedition with sue
cess.
Simpson and Raub are not satisfied
They maintain. along with the colored
night watch, that the building is haunted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18
EASILY DECIDED.
This Question Should Be Answered
Easily by Topeka People.

Which is wiser-to have confidence in
the opinions of your fellow citizens or
depend on statements made by utter
strangers? Read this:
Mr. John A Thomas of S1s Ash street
gardener. says: Il had kidney and
bladder troubles for ten years and be-
ing exposed to all kinds of weather and
in a stopped position most of the time
aggravated the trouble. My back ached
the most about 4 o'clock in the morn
ings and the pain was so severe that I
had to get up and sit in a chair. At
times the secretions from the kidneys
were too frequent and at other times
scanty, highly colored and distressing
learned about Doan's Kidney Pills
two years ago and obtained two boxes.
They helped me wonderfully, relieved
the pain in my back and corrected the
kidney secretions. / had another attack
in the spring of 1899 and got a box OF
Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowley &
Shows drug store. They did the work
for me just as promptly as in the for
mer instance
For sale by all dealers. Price. 50
cents. Foster -Adilburn Co, Buffa o, n.
Y, Sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan sand
take no substitute