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New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
NAVAL STORES.

Ouetness dominated the market for spirits turuentine
made slightly lower price. but trading.
the whole. slow Rosin continues dull and steady
We quote:
TAR-Regulars 50: do oil hhls 81 75.
SPIRITS TCRPENTINE-36 H37c.
ROSIN-Common good strained. 81 60: F. 81 65: F,
81 75; II. 81 SoGst sh; T. 81 snS1 o5: X So
NJ 81 l5ds2 20; y. 50 40: W c. 50 10: W ". 50 30
STOCK ON HAND.
Rosin 1882 bbs
Spirits tuFpenllne <1'lo pnS
savannah March S0.-splrits turpentlne firm 34Ac;
receipts bbs: sales $50; exports. 045. Rosn rn
unchanged receipts. 1885 hbls sales. 2,3O4; exports
1.215
firm unchanged
Wilmington Spirits turpentne quiet 33Is a
80 casks Rosn-NOhing doing: receipts,
turpentne quiet 81 10 and 81 TO- receipts.
3 bbs Tar steady, 81 lj receipts. 122 bbls.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
TWENTY MILLS SHUT DOWN

Fall River, Mass, March 30.-Twenty cotton mills
In this city were shut down to-day, and viii re-
main closed until April for curtailment. These
mills employ some eight thousand hands Six mills
which are closed this week. will resume next Mon
oay and shut down again later.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31

MAY and closed the at 4o7Sc. There an
acV- trade amounting 20oOO bush altogether
m iutures English markets firm at ia Sd net
adNance- Offerings in the local market light and
weather conditions in Western States again rather
orabe for the business amounted
10 only two three loads seaboard points, 20
corn closed 50is" elevator sic ( o h afoat; No
white, 5214c. and No yellow Z o ehOat.
- -oATS-The market firm all day in sympathy
with corn but ruled quiet NeW-YOrk No closed
Sic; No g. 3Olsc No white, 33c, No 3 white 32lec:
track mixed 3OeG3l .c; track white. 32a38c and No
white clips. 33 RYF'-MarIe du,l: No Western.
6lc and No Western. GOi2c b afioat. rye,
o6GoIc. RARLEY-Sarket steady; feeding quot
ed at 4Gg4s9c. and mating 62G7 zoe both New-Yol.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31

CoTToN-To- cotton market active and fever
ish opening decidedly lower but recovering the The
opening was easy al decline of 4g4 points After the
May sold IGSc further decline Of points
and October 7l9c further decline OF point. other
wise the opening prices the lowest OF session.
The early weakness due sensational break
Liverpool where futures closed 42G5 4 64d net lower
and spots closed decline OF 3 32d. rumOTed
that the English market had been forced down in the in
Il the bear contingent on this in the
absence OF anything further bearish
material. shorts o and a
buying started with the result indicated.
closing very steady a advance points
the further increase in the visible supply making
the 53oOO bales the figures OF
the Importance OF this showing being
when considered connection with the
beginning of the statistical the visible
supply 100 bales than the previous year.
made the increase reported st exist receipts being
larger previous consumption smaller.
the time accounts continue indi
a red record area. and this combination Of
buying After change the market declined
points the curb
The Of prices in the local market to-day
follows
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
THE STATE OF TRADE.

Cincinnati March S0.-Fi0ur duh Wheat quiet: No ?
fee 1seG79c. Corn strong and higher. No mixed.
SAC Cats firm; No mixed 2sc. Rye dull: No 55c.
Duluth. March 30.-Nh,at-Cash No hard ~ No
NoTtnern cash. 75i4c. May. 76s4c; july. 77sc; No
AcrtheTn. 69zd73&c. Corn. z2c. Oats. 27d27Ac.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
STOCKS CLOSE STROMG.
ADVANCE IN ROCK|LSLAND-
MONEY.

Closing prices yesterday Of the princlpalSac-
tive securities and net changes from Fridays
final quotations
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31

London March 80 2 p. m.-The market for Amer
lean securities Irregular at small nnal changes.
There a good demand for ST. Paul Ffnai
prices follow: Atcson. s34; Canadian Pacihc so1s'
ST. Paul. 155: Iui,ras Central. 1402: Louisville anu
Nashville, IG2A, Unon Pacific preferred. 81; New
York Central Ia; Erie 37&s: Pennsylvania, ls'
Reading. 1sis E cie Ist preferred. Il; Northern "a
cihc preferred, 50: Grand Trunk. st., and Ana
conda, 9I,.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31

Rlc-conee market steady; No Rio. $4,000 exchange.
II 25-S receipts 5000 bags: cleared for the United
states 1000 cleared for Europe 1900 stock $4,000.
The statistical position
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD.

Toledo. St. Louis and Western As. Waoasn
benture Bs and Wisconsin Central general ~
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
Yester

Foreign coffee markets: Santos-Cofee market weak.
good average santos i$sO0 receipts - 900 bags; stock
mig lower; at 230 unchanged pfennig higher:
sales. 400 bags irre-u-
lar, i-AiR franc lower: u m. at
3 m unchanged: 4:30 p m. unchanged: total sales
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31
SALES A7a.THE STOCK EXCHANGE
RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS.

I-ActuaI sales--l-C1osing- share
iOpen HighII.ow. Fin Bid Ask. sold.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-31

Receipts Of points thousands.
last three cphers omitted Flour bbs grain BUSH
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
TTFS FROM THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
4 DOTTNG THEIR 'SiLECIORE;
ONtTHE WICKEDNEnSS
OF TRUSTS.

Buffalo May &c (SpeciaD.-AmonS 1he intensely
interested spectators at the exposition to-day were
a doting rather and an inqnisipve son. One could
ens.Iv tell that the father thought everything OF
IN. l,o, for he answered in detail every of the
innumerabIe qusVions that the youngster put as
they passed from exhibit to exhibit. They were
I'm the Mines Building. and finally came 10 the elab-
orste display made by the Standard Oil Company
under the direction OF a government bureau
I'VE won't look this wicked exhibit said the
father trying to his sons attention to an
enormous block of coal little further along.
why is it wicked?" demanded the young hope
ful
1T is put here by trust" and the way he ac-
cented the word showed his terror of the new cor
poration bogie of all croakers- Trusts are
wicked, so the exhibit must be the same
The boy saw the painting of Indian scene
taken away lie dragged his father into the elab.
crate green ard gold booth among me Eases % fI 81
series of handsome oil paintings formed the bor-
der of the booth, and the father saw chance TO
MY son, trusts are most wicked things" he
peaceful farms they before the trust struck
oil Then The farms " TeTe e T6 Eeonged to-
the farmers themselves; and they were getting rch
when the trust made them sell out by building all
of the refineries''
Pa what are refneries?"
Those round things you in the picture.
When the trust got all the oil wells It began TO
get very rich and built the big towns you see over
pun those funny locking oil cars Then ii began TO
one makes a thing of oil but this big company.
They make kerosene SO expensive that we have to
hire electric lights home
That amt SO bad; Electric light is lots better
than lamps anyway" insisted the boy.
But don't you the cruel trust makes many
poor people go TO bed II is dark? Then
whenever there is an exhibition they faunt their
wealth with costly exhibit like this. Just see
that little office. Real mahogany. gold candle
II makes sick when think how rich they are
and how little I've GOT
They went on to the next exhibit in silence Then
the boy said: Say, pa. when 1 grow up I'm SoinG
10 De trust
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
THE CHILDRENs DELIGHT.

Buffalo. May 3 (SpeciaD.-The Horticultural
Building at the Rainbow City is a good place for
mothers TO keep away from when showing their
children the sights The display of fruit especially
in the California exhibit. is tempting to
youngsters. and it is next TO impossible for them
10 keep their hands off Il
This is the worst building in the show 10 guard -
said one Of the gray uniformed Pan-American
guards the other day. He had just captured a
youngster who was munching prize Connecticut
apple. and had released him after stormy scene
with the enraged mother.
The youngsters simply can't keep their hands
Oh this fruit. and unless they get glass cases for
everything there won't be much of an exhibit left
by the end Of month. They get their fingers on
q piece Of fruit when you are not looking. and
quickly take bite. What are you going to 90?
aou can put an apple which has been half eaten
Daeh on exhibition. and they too young TO
Even glass cases won't keep the fruit safely
a AoUho little girl yesterday who had succeeded
IN opening one OF the cases exhibited by the Uni
Nerslty or Michigan. She was irving TO decide he
tween a rosy peach and nice. ripe looking nlurn
ssoiiseqnehtIy no damage done She cried like
tcIy @hen insisted on her coming awav I told
ner me iruit was made OF wax but she would moi
pe sstsned until j had allowed her TO touch tbe
pcach which she desired. Later on she succaeSed
n capturing an orange OF the border ~ tbe
& oOs AAseles exhibit. She found Il TO be the real
asstIcis' ana think she went away nrmIv Co..
-'Neo e"at heo 10 her about the wax peaches
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
BOY SHOT IN THE LEG.
wATCHMAN. WHO WAS ARRESTED. SAYS HE
THOUGHT THE LAD WAS GOING TO srr,,I.

wATCHMAN. WHO WAS ARRESTED. SAYS HE
THOUGHT THE LAD WAS GOING TO sTT,lI.
James Sanders. sixteen years old, brass worker
living at No. 6l0 East Seventeenth-st was shot in
the right leg below the knee yesterday afternoon
Cornelius Harrigan. twenty y-nine years old. Of No
51i East Eighteenth-st.. a watchman employed by
Morris Livingston. a dealer i'm second hand building
material at No. COZ East Eighteenth-st was locked
up in the East Twenty-second-st. station charged
with felonious assault. lie Is alleged to have fired
the shot.
The prisoner and the boy who was shot tell con-
iicting stories about the shooting. Sanders saws
street in front of the wood yard and that the hall
other boy after it. scaling fence TO do so
He declares tnat Harrgan then shot him without
any provocation.
Harrigan told the police that while he was in the
yard he heard the boys who the outside
plotting to enter the yard to steal wood. Pres
emily, he said, two boys mounted the fence. One
Of them dropped into the yard, while Sanders
stood the top OF shed which adjoins the fence.
Harrigan declared that the bolder of the boys
grappled with him and that he feared he would be
hurt Therefore he fired his revolver twice to at
tract the attention of the police. Both times he
fired into the air one of the shots struck Sanders
loosed his hold on the intruder, went to tele-
phone and asked Bellevue Hospital for ambu-
lance. Then he returned TO the yard.
The wound is dangerous
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
WONDERFUL LOCOMOTIVE.

Buffalo. May 26 CspeciaD.-The railway exhibit
ts not nearly so full of fancy locomotives Pull
mans and streetcars as il Will be by June l. but
many people find much TO interest them in the
exhibits already in place. big passenger locomo-
tive of a new model with the letters Il Z Ky.
upon the tender. seems TO be attracting the most
attention.
What does I. c. stand for?' asked one man.
why that's for Inter-Colonial," replied one OF
the people who are always ready with an answer
whether they know anything about II or not fou
know we have colonies now"
The next who came along was not inter
ested IN the lettering OF the tender. He looked
the engine over, then looked again. - .
That's the engine young Willie vanderbilt DulIt,
he remarked his companion
DO you mean 10 say that the rich railroad owner
built this big engine himself?'
''Of ne didn't do the actual work. but he
planned the thing That IS his tender The joltinG
OF the engine shoots the coal down upon the fire.
mans plate and lessons the work He made a
number OF Improvements the boiler. too, and
the engine is going TO break records when the show
over"
They should put sign it advised the COM
Apanion. It's twice as interesting when one knows
u that IL is Vanderbilt engine
The next discussion the propriety of
taking up vauaA.e space with the exhibit of an
ordinary freight
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
A CLIMB IN THE ELECTRIC TOWER.

Buffalo. May 26 (SpeciaD.-They were from one Of
the upstate counties and looked the part Of pros
porous farmer and better half For some minutes
they hunted around the base of the tall electric
tower for the elevator. They had read somewhere
that the top Of the the best place from
which to the Pan-American, and they were
anxious to reach the top.
Can you tell me where the elevator 10 this
'shebang' is to be discovered?' the farmer asked
Of the guards who happened along.
The electric lifts haven't been put in yet" was
his answer.
Amt there any way 10 git TO the top?" de-
manded the Wife.
There the stairs: you climb" said tho
guard, pointing TO the spiral stairway which wound
its way upward for several hundred feet.
You don't catch clim In stairs" said the
farmer with much positiveness.
I'm goin to git TO the top" insisted his wife.
You know that Jane Corson's comm here in June
an If she gifts anywhars ] didn't she'll crow for
the rest OF her lifetime. Come along. John / amt
skeered OF few stairs"
John came, and the guard and spectators waited
for the return. Twenty minutes later they reeled
out Of the doorway. The spiral stairway had done
its work. Both were putting and looked dead
tired" They leaned up against "A pillar and the
farmer mopped his brow.
Feels like the time I drank too much hard
cider" he said.
I'VE got to the top. though" said the wife and
she cast gratiaed smile on the guard.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
INTEREST IN ARCHEOLOGY.

Buffalo. May 2s (SpeciaD.-Dr A. L. Benedict
superintendent of the chronological and archaoIogi-
cal exhibit at the Pan-American, is worked up
over the way visitors using the register
through which he hoped TO interesting in
formation. At the time he can hardly holm
being amused at the answers which some people
give in the column headed: Are you Interested in
American archaeology"
During the first few days of the exhibition many
people thought that DR.. Benedict desired their
opinion OF the exposition when he asked the fore
going question. The first impression is thus regis
tered by David Boyle. who put himself down a
member OF the Toronto Board of Education: MANY
people have suffered death for crimes less heinous
lhah piannlng such building this" Promise
OF later visitor, who evidently took the stion
geology had something 10 do with the weather ana
signed something like this: "Damp-bad day-uud -
Buffalo school girl, in a sprawling angular
hand, made a desperate attempt rise to the oc-
caslon and give fitting answer: She wrote: Very
Deatufal thing a man from Maine wrote: ives
i have a small collection of Indian relics WouId
be pleased 10 have you send some more" An ARM,
nurse who Is going 10 Cuba insCribes this request
please send to me for Cuban relics They go into
American archaeology" Many asked: ':NWbat Is
t? One man said he could tell better bout his ;r
terest in the thing If he knew what ii was An
other man insisted that he was Yours IN a
elnder.' And woman is guilty of answering
In love- ms
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
CONVENTION OF MINERAL PAINTERS.

Details regarding the annual convention and ex-
hibition OF the National League of Mineral Paint
were given out yesterday by the correspond
ing secretary of the league, Miss Leta Horlocker
of No 9 West Twenty-second-st. The exhibition
OF the league will he held this year at Buffalo
y. Y, May 81 June 5. The Buffalo Society of
Mineral Painters will entertain the national league
placing the chambers of the Historical Society
Library Building disposal of the league
The business meeting of the league, May 81, will be
held the Women Administration Building,
position grounds Papers will be read follows
The Poetry of Pottery, William A. King, of Buff
fao: The American Artist Potter Professor
Charles F. Binns. Alfred n; y ,,,0rganized
Wis; Primitive Pottery w. T. Holland; "A Plea
for Artistic Tableware Edwin Adee Barker, cura-
tor of the Pennsylvania Museum. Philadelphia
The Value of Exhibitions" Marshall T. Fry. of
NeW-York
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
PLEASE KEEP OFF.
DON'T
CROSS THE BASINi

The basin at this time is knee deep'with water. so
the sign will probably bear fruit.
The number Of Keep off the Grass signs
scattered about the exhibition is entirely out Of
proportion the amount of grass. 1t seems that
so many hundred signs ordered. and a crew
sent out TO fix them at certain places. They doubt
less followed directions for one sign adorns heap
of rocks another is in fresh block OF asphalt
paving and a third is almost buried out of sight
in of the few remaining mud -puddles.
There are thousands of park seats scattered about
the grounds. They made Of narrow strips of
wood and painted sticky green. one always has
to feel before sitting down, and once down does
sit long, for they are uncomfortable. Each
seat bears a sgn-the sign that they made
by So and So out in Chicago In the circumstances
one wonders at the makers nerve.
Picking Flowers Is Prohibited Is a sign
which adorns a field of dandelions in the park.
vet IL holds its head up II there nothing OF
irony about the instruction 1t gives There are
signs of Touch Not" DO Not Handle and Keep
Out to be seen everywhere, but these dis
obeyed with impunity, unless a gray coated police
is in sight.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHT

bunalo. May 26 (SpeciaD-Other oassergers -
the o'clock belt line train knew thar the tue h.5
oeeh drinking They were talking about The ev-
hipiton' and many ''hics' and sizzles ,r hi.
speech betrayed them. They emerged from, ,bo
oarkened Railway Exhibit Building into the ruII
sow OF the brilliantly lighted Plaza with the ,au
e.ee'ilc tower fairly blazing directly in front OF
enem' Ihey started back with dismay. as many a
soeer person had done before
illumination" muttered the hiy man
Sure IL TSP" questioned the little fellow
Course Didn't you read all about II in ,,o
papcrsr' "' F" IN me
RANT fe Elimination" said the shor, man do
coeoy. AN tie lights are same color. am This is
rainbow city. No rainbow round here"
Ashts not all same color. Don't ,,o,, S. ,h. - !,
ones over there and the blue ones here .,d .ba
sieeh ones al the top OF the tower"
=, say you're seem things what amt Course 70
lights all same color" &c
you make me tired" said the big one. ..you
which ways the Midway"
Hair en- hour later they came o,, q, ,,,a o,,,. - i,
on the street Of unslloyed bliss and they shoued
@ we euects OF divers additional drinks The ut,lo
coors ii',.tc i ,t mat there were dozen different
Remember re night we counted re lights ,ro,,
k tan companen agar sEe sP oan3 he asked
,,e aney 2 started in each one taking side The lit
coltqrsl olia and Graphic Arts building and ali hc
least he thought ne had which amounted re- ~ =,
there were tbireee 10 be sure he wasn't whethei
ssSsd the bHdnF when h1e ihe misSi nsars
Ing as fss his sgs He started it, count
eli 70 where he %ss ee5F snd paying no attention
.seyerteen thousand one, seventeen tbon..n,
sna here e. ne was steppss 2ver something
-bhe hao fallen into the Cascades and the ep.r,
Mass sss number that last light e,,,n,.c,
40 nc asa'n stood on solid asphalt.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
he FEARS ITALIANS WANT HIS LIFE

PATERSON MAN. ASSAULTED AND STABBED For
REPRoVING BOY. THINKS HE IS MARKED.
Paterson. May 26.-John Hussey. Of Oliver and
Jersey SITS, believes he is a marked man among
the Italians of lower Jersey-st-. and has asked the
police to protect him
few nights ago Hussey was despatched with
mud by little italian boy. He stopped long
enough 70 tell the boy that ne should be taught
better manners. The lad did not understand Hus-
Sey, and, running home. told his father that an
lrlShmSn had threatened tC kill him.
The father Of the boy gave HuSSey beating. and
Hussey had the Italian arrested. Last night Hus-
sey was on his way home through Jersey-st. when
he was confronted by the same italian who had
already assaulted him This time the Italian had
several of his cOuntrymen with him.
When Hussey approached him the Italian let out
his right hand and. catching him on the jaw. sent
him Sprawling all fOurs HusSey recOnsidered
his first determination 10 do battle and started 10
run AS he did he was stabbed. the knife making
cash three inches long, but very deep on
the right hip.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
THREATS TO ORANGE CITIZENS.
DEMANDS FOR LARGE SUMS IN LETTERS
TO WEALTHY MEN

Orange. May 2S (speciaD-It has been learned
that at three persons in the Oranges have re-
ceived threatening letters Thomas A Edison was
threatened with the abduction of his daughter
Madeline unless SIS. 600 placed in certain spot:
SIS 900 was amount mentioned in the letter to j.
Warren Smith. cashier of the Orange National
Bank and $4,000 was demanded from Victor Bian-
chi q wholesale liquor dealer in Main-st. All these
letters written apparently with a toy type
writer. using rubber type else with small nova
BILE rubber types. The letters written on
brown wrapping paper and inclosed in manila en-
veOpes. They We're all posted at the Orange post
office at about the same time. Two private de-
tectives still at work the case.
The police say they have a the writer of
the letters and they promise arrests soon. The
Edison children went to Sunday school to-day
guarded by Adam APPEL whom Mr.. Edison has had
sworn in as a special policeman, and by Thomas
COnroy, the coachman. while Pinkerton detective
named COnnors had the party always in sight.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
THE PLANT OF A LEMONADE WOMAN

Buffalo, May 2s CspeciaD. you buv soma
lemonadeg
Ihere was something about the way in which the
old woman put the question that attracted tho at
tention of the visitor. She stood inside n little
fruit stand near the Emwood gate of the PAN
American Exposition. one day recently and peered
our on the dusty street between two huge punches
OF green bananas.
sell 1t very cheap. only five cents!' she added
The visitor said he would try a glass
You're my first customer to-day" She said es
she sliced the lemon. do you think the crowd is
coming soon?"
The Exposition is hardly open yet" answered
the visitor. "and the managers seem to have no
doubt that the crowd will be here in time
well. ] DO hope they viii come and come in
Terrible crowds" she said. Two spoonfIls of
sugar or one?' She began stirring IL with a
spoon; "1Sut I'm worried about the crowd Yoi,
see, I've put every cent I've saved in twenty wears
mo this stand They charge Ike fury for rent of
Snls GROUND haven't begun 10 pay expenses so
iar r out then the Exposition is hardly open yet as
The lemonade good
:, i,lo you like ity" she asked And then as the
VISITOR turned away IF the crowd don't come
well II go 10 the poorhouse. / suppose
mere are others who worry as does the ola
iemonade woman. and who face a similar fate
keep coming. - - e' ~