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The Widespread Ifi'ect of the.Steel
Billet Pool Collapse.
CAN’T BE RECONSTRUCTED.
The Moral Effect of the Large Bordon
Purchase of Print Cloths as Regarded
by 1!. G. Dun & Co.——The Money
Market. Continues Easy.
312W YORK, Feb. Iii—B. G.. Dun &
Co. ’s weekly review of trade says:
N 0 other event of the week approaches
in importance the disruption of the steel
rail pool. In two days after it a. greater
tonnage of rails was probably purchased
than the entire production last year, re-
ported as 800,000 tons, and instead of $28
in December and $25 in January $17 is
now the price at which works east and
west are seeking orders, the Carnegie com-
pany even selling at $17 Chicago delivery.
1”The sales will employ many thousand
hands, with an important decrease in tho
cost of track laying or renewals to rail~
roads. Even more important is the result
that reconstruction of the billet pool will
be impossible as long as the contest. over
rails continues, and the manufacture of
structural forms, bars, rods, wire, nails,
tin plates and many other products has a
chance to secure cheap material. In the
near future also is the struggle between
the two great companies producing Mesaba
iron ore, one allied with the Illinois Steel
and the other with the Carnegie company,
which is expected to bring about lower
prices for ore and to push many mines to
their utmost capacity. But in the war of
rival interests wages are already reduced
by some large concerns. »
- Another event of influence is the pur-
chase of 750,000 pieces of print cloths by
M. C. D. Borden at 2.56 cents, which has
already caused an advance to 2.69 cents,
with a stronger tone for prints and other
cotton goods. The moral influence of such
a. purchase, manifesting confidence in the
future, is apt to be great. As the contract
to shut down part time many mills pro-
ducing print cloths is going into eflect,
the productive capacity and wages of
operatives will be for a time reduced. but
if a demand of traders to replenish stocks
is started the effect may be altogether
beneficial. The woolen industry also meets
an increased demand for low and medium
goods, and a. dozen more mills have started
against three stopping for various reasons.
Clay mixtures are reduced to 75 cents,
with other prices maintaind.
Boots, Shoes and Leather. ‘
Boot and shoe works have been getting
more orders. in some kinds of women’s
goods as many as they can profitably take,
and while the demand for men’s goods is
still irregular, most jobbers deferring pur-
chases as long as possible, shipments on
past orders have been slightly larger than
ever before in the first half of February.
Prices have again advanced on several
kinds, and the averageof all about 1.1 per
cent for the week, making it 12 per cent
higher than Jan. 1, 1895. Leather has been
advanced 2 cents for hemlock sole and one-
half cent for Union, and the average of all
qualities 1.1 per cent, making it 18.8 per
cent higher than Jan. 1, 1895. Hides have
also been advanced at Chicago, with report
that packers are making a corner, and the
average is now 31 per cent higher than
Jan. 1, 1895. Except in steel rails, changes
in iron products have been slight advances
in gray forge, wire and cuts nails. Com-
petition reduces American tin plates to
$3.20 against $3. 90 for foreign; tin and
copper are steady, but lead stronger at
3.27% cents.
While large events are affecting all
American industries, the stock market is
principally anxious about what may hap-
pen between Greece and Crete, and prices
have gradually yielded, the average for
railroads 49 cents per share and trusts
$1.28 per share. Earnings for the first
week of February were larger than last
year, and those reported for January
amount in the United States to $31,721,-
969, being 7.4 per cent‘less than last year
and 6.7 per cent less than in 1892. Prob-
ably the influence of speculation in trusts
affects the stock market materially. The
volume of railway traffic is in tonnage
larger than last year and considerably
larger than in 1893. Clearing house pay-
ments are 5.4 per cent larger than last
year, though still 30.8 per cent smaller
than in 1892, when speculation was re-
markably active. The fact that that spec-
ulation is now greatly restricted makes
a material difference in all comparisons
with this season in former years of pros-
perity.
Speculation In Products.
Speculation in products has hardly been
more active than of late. and prices gener-
ally tend downward. Wheat rose a. cent
to Tuesday, but has since declined 2.37
cents. Western receipts are increasing, but
for two weeks have been only 3,191,395
bushels against 5,823,213 last year, while
Altantic exports, flour included, have been
for the week about a quarter larger than
last year and for two weeks 3,855,096
bushels against 3,638,125 last year. About
every week some new speculative guess by
somebody impresses many traders more
than the current records of actual move-
ment. The cotton market has been de-
pressed in like manner by Mr. Ellison’s
estimate that the American crop would
prove 8,650,000 bales, but the quantity
coming into sight has also surpassed pre-
vious guesses and indiéates a larger crop
than most speculators estimate. The cur-
tailment of consumption in the mills is
not a guess, although some overestimate
it, since probably not more than a. fifth of
the spindles will be stopped, a third of each
week, for a quarter of the year. The price
declined only an eighth for spot, but over
a. quarter for the May option.
The money market continues easy, with
money accumulating here so rapidly,
about $1,250,000 having come in from the
, interior, that the permitted retirement of
$3, 000, 000 bank circulation for a month
was reached in less than half of February,
nearly all by New York banks. Rates are
not materially changed, but commercial
offerings are unusually light. Failures
for the past week have been 267 in the
United States against 321 last year and 61
in Canada against 67 last year.
Assignments In Texas.
COMANCHE, Tex., Feb. 13.—The Bee-
man-St. Clair company and the Kansas
City Dry Goods company, firms incorpo-
rated by the same persons, have executed
a general assignment with C. B. Mason
and T. R. Hill assignces. The liabilities
are 390,000 and the assets $110,000.
General Shelby Growing \Vesker. '
ADRIAN, Mo, Feb. 13.—A messenger
from the home of General Joseph 0. Shelby
reports that the genoral’s condition was
unchanged. He was unconscious and grad-
ually growing weaker. '
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‘ THOSE MISSING AUTOGRAPHS.
The Congressional Library Employee.
Held In $3,000.33“.
WasmNGTON, ch. 12.——-Phiiip McEl-
hone, son of the late J. .T. McElhone, for
years official reportci' of the house of rep-
resentative.;, and Louis M. Turner,‘both
employees of the Congressional library,
who were arrested yesterday by secret serv-
ice officers. charged with larceny of auto-
- graph letters from the library, were held
today by the United States commissioner
in $3,000 bail pending examination. They
assert their innocence. The arrests wore
the result of alctter of inquiry from a
New York autograph dealer, who stated
that he had bought certain historical auto-
graph letters and was offered more, but
had become suspicious lest they might
have been abstracted from the government
files. An investigation by Librarian Spof—
ford disclosed that many letters were miss-
ing from the library, among them the
diary of George Washington for 1787, the
year of the constitutional convention, and
letters of John Hancock, Benedict Ar-
nold and George Washington. . When ex-
amined by the treasury department secret
service officers, the young men admitted
having sold the papers, but disclaimed
having stolen them. Turner declared that
he had found thorn outside the capitol
building, and McEl’hone said that Turner
had represented to him that; the letters had
been the property of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Miller, now dead. He said that some-
thing less than 100 letters had been sold to
New York dealers for about 5-500. Both
are young men of hitherto good reputation.
MANUFACTURERS CONSOLIDATE.
The Crompton and Knowles Companies
at \Vorcester Combine.'
WORCESTER, Mass. , Feb. 12. ——The Cromp-
ton Loom works and the Knowles Loom
works have been- Consolidated under one
management as a result of the formation
of the Crompton &. Knowles Loom Works
company. with a. capital of $3,000,000.
These are the two most important loom
factories in the country. The new com-
pany will be under the control of a. board
of directors, with the following officers:
President, C. H. Hutchins, president and
treasurer of the Knowles Loom works;
vice presidents, Charles Crompton, presi-
dent of the Crompton Loom works, and
Frank P. Knowles, vice president of
the Knowles Loom works; treasurer,
George Crompton of the Crompton Loom
works; assistant treasurer, J. M. Rus-
sell, cashier of the Knowles Loom
works; general superintendents, George
F. Hutchins, general superintendent of the
Knowles Loom works, and Horace Wy-
man, general manager of the Crompton
works. As far as possible it is proposed to
use the same cfirps of accountants, sales-
men and foreman that has been with the
two corporations in the past.
Discharge of Suspected Employees.
. NEW YORK, Feb. 121—Charles A. Foley,
the ticket seller, and George E. McCoy,
the ticket chopper at the Ninth street‘sta-
tion of the Third avenue elevated road,
who were arrested last. Thursday on the
charge of being concerned in the 'death
of C. L. Webber, a Fort Wayne cattle
dealer, were discharged from custody to
day. It came out that Webbgr received his
injuries by his head striking the platform
of the station while struggling with Mc-
Coy.
Cook on a Rampage.
ROCKFORD, 1113., Feb. 12. — Charles
Young, the cook at the American House,
in a. fit of jealousy fatally shot Mrs. Ed-
ward E. Everett, the wife of the proprietor,
in the head, wounded Miss Anna Weisen-
dahl in the breast and fired a bullet at
Thompson, the night clerk. He ran out
of the hotel and was soon pursued by a
patrol wagon filled with police. Twice he
stopped to fire at persons, but he was cap
tured.
Naval Statement by Emperor William.
BERLIN, Feb. 12.——In,the reichstag today
the president, Baron von Buol~Barenberg,
announced that the emperor had presented
the reichstag with four tabular statements,
drawn up ‘with his own hand, dealing with
the condition of the novice of Germany,
France, Russia, the United States and
Japan, and that he intended to thank the
emperor on behalf Of the house. The state—
ment was greeted with cheers.
Another Charge Again-t Butler.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.—-A nother com-
plaint has been filed against Butler, alia.
Ashe, the alleged Australian cutthroat, by
Consul General J. W. Warburton, formally
charging him with the murder of Arthur
Preston in Australia, praying for a war-
rant for Butler’s arrest and a decree of
extradition after examination. The new
- complaint is simply an extreme precau-
, tion.
Glass \Vorkers on' Strike.
ELWOOD, Ind., Fob. 12.-—0wing to dif-
ferences between the McBeth Glass com
pany and its employees 400 men went on
strike. The men claim that the glass has
been so bad for several weeks that they
were greatly hampered. The company in-
sists that the material on hand is good. A
committee of glass workers will attempt
an adjustment with the company.
The Steamer Corona Disabled.
HALIFAX, Feb. 12.-——The signal" sta-
tion reported two large steamers mak-
ing for port. one in tow of the other. A11
soon as they were near enough they were
seen to be the Knight Commander, from
Norfolk, Va... for Antwerp, having in tow
the German steamer Corona, from Charles-
ton, for Bremen, the latter with a broken
'shaft.
Receiver For Southern Association.
NASHVILLE, Feb. 12 .——Chancellor H. H.
Cook, upon application made in a general
creditors’ bill, filed to wind up the busi-
ness of the Southern Mutual Building and
Loan association of Atlanta in Tennessee,
has appointed L. D. Palmer of this city re-
ceiver to take charge of all the property of
the association in this state.
Prominent Journalist Dead.
MELROSE, Mass, Feb. 12.—Charles S.
Drew, a. well known Boston newspaper
man, died here today from pneumonia.
He was 48 years old and had been a. polit-
ical writer on several Boston papers.
Three lllen Drowned.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 12. —News has been
received here of the drowning of Andrew
Wilson, Preston Hall and Harry‘Brown in
Pike county. The men started across Big
Sandy river on the ice on their horses.
IIIru. Beecher’s Condition.
STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 12.-—-Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher passed a fairly. comfortable
day and is resting easily.
chafige is noticed in her condition.
Well Known Broker Dead. \
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1:2.—Spencer Er-
vin, the well. know 11 stockbroker, died to-
day of pneumoniz . 1.2 11. . J c-1111 in this city.
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EVERY TOWN SHOULD HAVEA FAIR.
Some Helpfdl Suggestions as to the Proper
\Vay of Conducting Them.
Every community, whether city or
country, should have ’its fair. The
American Agriculturist. in answer to
the question: Are our fairs degenerat~
ing? has this to say:
To one inte1ested in the development
of aglicultuio, improved methods, bet-
ter soil products, and in live stock, this
is an important question, for no one
will deny that a good tab is a. great
educator. Possibly the interest in some
localities is not .as great as formerly,
but good fairs are held every fall. The
almost universal depression of prices,
both for soil products and for live
stock, has discouraged exhibitors and
lessened their enthusiasm. After show-
ing a few times. the novelty wears off,
and if no benefit is derived in the way
of advertising, another attempt will not
be made. Antagonism of leading State
societies often results in poor exhibits.
The horticultural society fights the ag-
ricultural. The dairymen urge on the
row. and the beekeepers accuse all three
of corruption.
The admission of miscellaneous gam-
blers. side Show fakirs of all kinds,
peddlers, etc., is doing much to bring
the State as well as the county fair into
disrepute. No self respecting person
wants to be constantly confronted with
deformed beings, half naked savages,
jungle snakes, and every disgusting
moral and physical monstrosity obtain-
able. People who admire such exhibi-
tions are not the most desirable attend-
ants. It pays to bid for a better class
of fair goers. That fairs can be profita-
bly operated without these nuisances
has been fully and conclusively demon-
strated. Any management that allows
them inside the grounds is doing the
State and the visitors an injustice.
Neither is it just to the exhibitor, who
has a right to expect that his products
be examined. Instead of this the visi-
tors’ attention is constantly distracted
by every ingenious method known.
Manufacturers of agricultural imple-
ments at their national convention held
in Chicago last win te1 complained bit-
telly of this.
The practice of giving largo purses
for races, and beggarly premiums to
those who exhibit fat stock and farm
products is also working much injury.
These are a few of the weak points in
the fairs as now conducted and some of
the difficulties with which fair manag-
ers must contend. Let them first get rid
of sideshows, gambling devices, etc.,
then go to work on their premium lists.
Decrease the premiums for fast horses
and apply the money to more important
departments. Personally we have no
Objection to a moderate amount of
racing, but there is no reason why such
alarge proportion of the prize money
should go to owners of fast horses.
Inaugurate contests for boys and
girls. Give a prize to the boy who can
handle a plow the most skilfully. Offer
prizes for the best collection of vegeta-
bles, the best bushel Of corn, best bushel
of oats, best calf, best pig, etc., raised
by a boy between twelve and sixteen
years. Give the girls prizes for butter,
bread, flowers, garden Vegetables and
chickens. Do not make them compete
with the grown people. It is important
to interest the young farmers, for they
will, in a few years, he asked to assist
in managing fairs.
An attempt should be made to bring
out a larger exhibit of soil products. In
many places the showing of stock is
good, of machinery excellent, of art
and miscellany first-class, but the ag-
ricultural hall is not full. Possibly
larger premiums and a greater number
for, grains, fruits, garden vegetables,
floweis. etc, would insure better exhi-
bits. F01 State lairs liberal premiums
for collective county exhibits have usu-
ally resulted in a generous response.
Could not most falrs profitably give
prizes for county displays? , A few have
t1-‘1ed it and are satisfied with the re-
sult.
Machinery tests on the grounds are
po,1.1..11' and constzgtly growing in fa,-
voz'. This requires early preparation.
A patch of potatoes must be'planted to
.est toe po;uto diggers, corn for the
corn I):ll".'cot€l'5, wheat or cats for the
under, grass tor the mowers, etc.
Where rho grounds are large enough
thesecrovis should be grown inside the
she. 05111 e, so thus every visitor who do-
.11 us c an witness the tests without the
1:1 .11; once ot securing return checks at
.he gate.
" li‘zu‘" am! ‘ Keow” the “’atcthrds.
"Many people are unaware,” said
Representative Curtis, of Kansas yes‘
terday, “that Kansas had a Shibboleth
in border State times. In 1854, when
the first tide of New England settlers
began to drift into the Southwest, it
is related that the Missourians tied a
cow at each crossing of the Missouri
RivEr. When an emigrant arrived at
the crossing. he was certain to make
some remark about the animal. If he
said ‘cow’ he was suffered to cross, but
if he said ‘keow’ he was hustled out of
the country as a. bloody-minded aboli‘
tionist. In retaliation for this the Kan-
sans tied a bear on their side of the
river, and when an emigrant crossed
who called it ‘bear’ he was welcomed
with open arms, but if he pronounced
it ‘b'ar’ he was scooted back into Mis-
souri as an unwelcome slavery advo-
cate.”——Washington Post.
CAKE OF FINE TOILET SOAP IN EVERY PACKAGE.
Try lvorine for washing dishes. See how quickly it dissolves
in the water—how it removes every particle of greasy matter—i ,
how bright it makes the plates and glass—how much time it.
saves every day.
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THE J. B. WILLIAMS co., GLAsrouaunv, Conn.
Makers of Williams Famous Shaving Soaps. ., Write for catalogue of choice premiums.
USURY 015 tGOVERNMENT CLERKS.
The High Rates Demanded from the Bor-
rower leo Can Give No Security.
While the order isued by the Sec-
retary of the Treasury forbidding
under pain of dismissal the loan of_
money to each other by the cmploycs
of the Department will in some degree
break up a villainous business, it is a ,
pity some authority does not exist to
exterminate it root and branch. It is
doubtful whether there is a commun-
ity under such a burden of usury as
the inhabitants at the seat of govern-
ment.
This community seems practically di-
vided into two elements, lenders and
borrowers, the former only as a. drop
in the bucket to the latter, and, by
reason thereof, frequently reaping such
profits and premiums as would have
made Shylock gnas‘h his teeth in impo-
tent rage.
To those who are fortunate enough
to possess tangible and solid collateral
the rates of interest average no more
than anywhere else, as the legitimate
and respectable'institutions are always
ready to accommodate. But 011! for
thoSe who have no security but their
word.
The “friends" who. accommodate
them are generally men who carry
their banks around in their pockets.
Their capital is put out among 111-
numerable borrowers and in small
amounts—$5, $10 or $20. Fifty dol-
lars is a big loan, and $100 a. princely
one. On these small amounts :1 rate
of interest is exacted, running up to 20
per cent for a week, and in cases even
much higher. The lenders justify
themselves with the plea. that they
have to take desperate chances and
can only rely upon the honor of the
unfortunate borrower. This is true
to some extent, but with all their
losses these winners make gains which
are absolutely fabulous. The victim
once in their meshes has no escape
but death. He may twist and squirm
as he will, but he cannot break loose.
The foundation cause for this con-
dition of affairs is, of course. the
yielding to the prevalent temptation
in XVashington, which seems so hard
to resist here, to live beyond one‘s
means. It seems to afiiict the humbler
classes 51s much. if not more than the
others—Washington Correspondence
of The Baltimore Sun.
THE ONLY WOMAN DIVER.
hIrs. Sorcho Goes Down into the Depths
Exploring for Sunken Treasures.
After mastering about all the med
pations which man is heir to, the new
woman has begun investigating the
bottom of the sea.
This daring task has been accom-
plished by Mrs. Frances Namon Sor-
cho, wife of Captain Louis Sorcho, the
veteran submarine diver, and an ex-
captain of the United States Life Sav-
ing Service. She is the only woman in
the world who has successfully
striven to become a deep-sea diver.
There is no task that falls to the lot
of the diver who goes down to the
ocean‘s bottom in search of everything,
from treasure to a dead body, that
Mrs. Sorcho has not achieved. She is
considered an expert, and is capable of
doing any work that is done by the
divers that travel around beneath the
water of New York Harbor. A pretty
woman, without a sign of masculinity
about her, this lady has as much cour-
age as any one needs in the work in
which she is engaged, and that is say-
ing a good deal.
Natural Deducfion.
The Teacher—When a woman’s hus-
band dies, Patsie, what is she called?"
Patsie—A widder.
The Teacher—And when a man’s
wife dies What do we call him?
‘Patsie, after some thought—A wid-
out-hcr, mumI—Cincinnati Tribune.
"I suppose,” said the visitor, “that
the Congressmen observe the usual
rules in their assemblages from time
to time."
“Yes." replied Col. Stillwell.
"‘Thuh's no use 0’ changin’ around
E11111 one to anothuh. You can’t get
anything mo‘ reliable than Hoyle ”-
Washington Star.
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BISHOP WHIPPLE.
He Proved Himselfa Sprinter, but it Was
Under Peculiar Circumstances.
. A good story is told on the venerable
Bishop \Vhipple. The scene is laid in
St. Paul, and the story runs a-Ei fol-
lows:
One evening in the fall, and after
dark, as the Bishap was walking
. along the street, he noticed a. little
fine residence. He was 'too short to
do any more than reach it, and, al-
though lio stood on his tiptoes and
stretched vigorously, no sound came
from the bell. The kind hearted pre-
latc felt called upon to assist him, and
so, ascending the steps, asked:
“Shall I help you, my little man?"
The boy intimated that such a course
would be gratifying to him, and the
Bishop rang the bell. Thereupon the
little fellow remarked:
“Now, w’ed bette1 both run like
h—ll” and decamped as rapidly as
possible.
It took the Bishop just a moment to
remember that it was Hallow’cen, and
it is said that he made tracks and got
around the corner about as rapidly as
the little boy.—-lVabash Herald. '
The Clergyman Popped the Cork.
When the telephone first came up at
the end of 1877, a number of scientific
gentlemen, alongwith the mayor and
other authorities 'of Dover, went to St.
Margaret’s to try whether a conversa-
sea. So the telephones were fixed,-
made of polished mahogany, and in
shape like a champagne glass without
a foot. By placing one to the ear and
speaking into the cup of the other a
continuous conversation was kept up'
without difficulty. Songs were sung—
“Star of the Evening” and “Auld Lang
Syne”—across the rough and stormy
Channel. By way of ascertaining the
delicacy of the acoustics some one
tried whistling; that was heard. Then
some one said, “Let us try the popping.
of a. cork.” Agreed; but no bottles
were at hand. Then a clergyman pres-
ent rose to the occasion; he put his
finger in his cheek and admirably imi.
tated the sound. “You have just drawn
a cork,” came the voice from the oth-
er side, with just a shade of melan-
choly envy in the tone; and a. hearty
laugh was raised by the-mistake.
The Requisites of Oritcry.
“Father," inquired little Johnnie
Jenkins, "are ideas absolutely neces-
sary in oratory?”
“That used to be the belief,” replied
pater, “but times have changed. If
a. man bad words and plenty of them,
backed up by a good wind pressure,
I the absence of ideas will be lost sight
of in the whirlwind of verbiage—par-
ticularly if those in the audience are
partisans of the' speaker.”———Buffalo
Express.
s._B. WILSON,
PRACTICAL CONTRACTOR
AND BUILDER:
L'stimates cheerfully given. Large holding
a. specialty. Contracts taken 1n -
any part of the country.
STEAM Mlll All) YARD, OFFIGE
8 68088 81., 92 WALL 3]
Norwalk, Conn.
WPlans and Specifications furnished.
P. 'W.= BATES’,’
42 mm srnrrr,
can find asfine an assortment of
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As can be found in any Yard in the
State. Look it over and get prices
before going elsewhere. -
J. D. J onnings.
UNDERTAKER
Opposite
Street Railway Depot.
NIGH ‘1 BELL A 1' 0FF10E.
Piano LesSons. ’-
s. GEORGE W. BRADLEY. (daughter
of the late Wm. B. Nash.) Hives eflicent
an satisfactory instructions on the Piano at
her homeNo. 193 Main. street. ,
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tion could be really held across the .
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