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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1899; 5 MAJUBA HILL REPEATED TWO BRITISH REGIMENTS AND A BAT TERY CAPTURED. . ' BRITISH LOSS VERY HEAVY. (iennral White Caught In a Trap Lon don Thrown Into Consternation Over this Fearful Disaster-General White Probably to Retire from LadyHmlth. Boers Return to their Position Com mandlng: that Town and Concentrat ing a Force to Its Southwest. London, October 31. The war office here received a dispatch from General White, commanding the British forces at Ladysmith, reporting thait. the Roy al Irish fusileers, No,-10 mountain bat tery and sthe Gloucestershire regiment were surrounded in the hills by the Boers and, after losing heavily, oblig ed to capitulate. General White says that the casualties have not yet been ascertained. The following is the text of General White's dispaitch to the war office: "Ladysmith, October 30, 10:35 p. m. "I have to report a disaster to the column sent by me (to take a position f;n a hill to guard the left flank of the troops. In these operations today the Royal Irish fusiliers, No. 10 mountain battery and the Gloucestershire regi ment were surrounded in the hills and, after losing heavily, had 'to capitulate. The casualties have not yet been ascer tained. A man of the fusiliers, employ ed as a hospital orderly, came in un der a Hag of truce with a letter from the survivors of the column, who ask ed for assistance to bury the dt?au. 1 fear there is no doubt of the truth of the report. 'I formed a plan in the carrying out of which the disaster occurred, and I alone am responsible for the plan. 'There is no blame whatever to the troops, as the position was un tenable." General White, in a subsequent dis patch gives the names of the officers taken prisoners. They number forty two officers, of whom five were wounded. At the government office no effort, was made to conceal the feeling of dismay caused by the receipt of the news from General White. One of them said to ithe representative of the Associated Press: "It is inexplicable and I am sorry to say that its moral effect is inestimable. We have lost heavily in many wars and have had regiments almost wiped out, but to have regiments captured, and by the Boers it is terrible." An official of the war o'ffice said to the representative of the Associated press: '"This disaster is more than likely due to the craze of our young officers to distinguish themselves, ob tain mention in the dispatches and earn the Victorian cross, than to the fault of that splendid Indian veteran, General White, in spite of his avowal." The war office has sent the following to General Buller: "Three extra bat talions of foot and one mountain bat tery with reserves will leave England during the course of Iten days to make good the casualties." London, October 31. A dispatch from Ladysmith says the Boers suffered severely during the engagement, some persons estimating their loss ait 900 to 1,000 killed and wounded. .It is learned by the Associated Press that the war office has ordered a sec ond army corps to be in readiness' to be called out. The military officials have not yet decided whether the consummation of the plain will be necessary, but they are determined to have everything in readiness, either for a demonstration in Europe of Great Britain's capabili ties or for sending even a larger force (to the scene of action. Until the re ceipt of the news of the Ladysmith dispatches the latter course was con sidered out of the question, but now there is no knowing what steps will be decided upon. GENERAL WHITE TO RETREAT. Reports are current here Ithat .Gen eral White may retire to Pietermaritz burg, while the railroad is intact. There is much divergence of opinion in military circles as to the advisabili ty of such a step. BOERS CONCENTRATING NEAR LADYSMITH. Advices from Cape Town show that the Boers are gathering in considera ble force at Dewdrop, southwest of Ladysmith, while large forces of Boers are advancing over the Helpmaker road. A big camp of Boers is to be formed between Ilarrysmith bridge and Potgietere farm camp, at Dewdrop, which, it is said, will extend four miles. An Englishman who has arrived at Aliway North from Pretoria, whence he was expelled by way of Bloemfon itein, says that when he left Pretoria all the stores there were carrying on business as usual. President Kruger was still there and he did not see any wounded at Johannesburg. Some of the Transvaal papers are still pub lished and contain glowing accounts -f the success of the Boer army, saying that Kimberley and Mafeklng are ex pected to fall at any moment, while Bechuanaland is conquered and an nexed; that the republican arms are also successful in Natal and that the burghers are continuing their victo rious march south, capturing British prisoners and stores. The papers admit that. the battle of Elandslaagte was a reverse for the Boers, who lose ' hirty killed, had many wounded and that eighty-five Boers were made prisoners. Ladysmith, ac cording to th? Boer newspapers, is soon to be taken. The' Englishman added that the Boers are absolutely conndan; of their ultimate triumph and believe the whole of Natal is already practically in their hands. Advices from Kimberley under date of October 27th, received through a dispatch rider at Orange river, Octo ber 30th. report that all the wounded tire progressing favorably. It alsj ap pears that as they are unable to blow up the piers of the Modder river bridge the Boers are demolishing them stone by stone. They have blown up prac tically every culvert from the Modder river to the Orange river. An armored itrain, strongly supported, made a re connoisance October 27th and found the Boers still at Spytfontein. EXTRAORDINARY MILITARY PA - RADE. There was1 an extraordinary military parade at Aldershot yesterday when fifteen traction engines and forty trucks were inspected previous to their departure for South Africa. A stretch of sandy, rocky road was selected foi the itests and gave an excellent chance i Cf he points of he ennes. Adeep ditch and banks two and three reet high were safely traversed, though J T mes they sank axle deep, other engines pulled out (the helpless ones, rwenty-four of these engines will be dispatched to South Africa. A BATTLE IN PROGRESS. Cape Town, October 21, 12:10 p. in. The South Africa News publishes the following dispatch: I "Ladysmith, October 31. "A battle is proceeding at the foot of Umbanbane, a few miles from Lady mith. Several shells have dropped into the town." It is reported from Btrrkley West that the Boers are constructing bat teries for the purpose of shelling the town. CONSTERNATION IN LONDON. London, October 31. There was a continuous stream of callfcrs at the war office until a late hour tonight, anx iously inquiring regarding yesterday's casualties. The disaster has caused a feeling akin to consternation, and in Gloucestershire and the north of Ire land, where the captured regiments were recruited, the blackest gloom pre vails. Many homes are already in mouring in consequence of the losses sustained by these regiments on pre vious engagements. Public anxiety was increased by a special dispatch from Ladysmith, pub lished in the late editions of the Lon don afternoon papers, to the effect that before darkness yesterday the Boers re-occupied the old position held by their heavy artillery, which General White had reported silenced by the guns o fthe naval brigade from the Powerful, and had opened fire again. The dispatch further says: "The en emy are again closing in and the situa tion is one of grave anxiety. Beyond doubt the Boer retirement yesterday (Monday) was a ruse to draw General White into the hilly country and away from the British camp." This last sentence is significant and confirms the opinion of military ex perts here that General White al lowing himself to be ouit-generaled by Commandant General Joubert. MAJUBA HILL REPEATED. From the scanty advices received up to 11 o'clock this evening it seems tol erably certain that the disaster was a simple repetition of the battle of Ma juba hill, though on a larger scale. The .two regiments were allowed to march into a trap sat for them by the Boers. It is simply a case of the Boer spider and the guileless British fly. In fact the whole engagement of Mon day seems to have been brought on by Commandant General Joubert, who skilfully conceived a gigantic trap, out of which, as the official dispatch shows, Sir George White only escaped with difficulty. About 6,000 fresh troops will arrive ait Cape Town on Saturday next from England and will be available to rein force Sir George White. Transports will arrive there daily after Sunday until by the end of the next week, 28, 000 troops will have been landed in South Africa. These men are intend ed for General Sir Redvers Buller's army, but they will undoubtedly be de tached to Natal if the situation there should become perilous. The British army will eventually reach the huge total of 89,643, of which 69,643 will be regulars and Ithe other 20,000 miscellaneous, but excellent colonial troops. THE STORM AT OTHER POINTS. Much Damage at New Bern -Charleston and Norfolk Feel It. Danville, Va., October 31. The gale from the northeast raged all night last night and reached its greatest force here between 7 and 8 o'clock this morn ing. Several houses were unroofed and considerable damage done to shade and fruit trees. By noon the wind had subsided. New Bern, N. C, October 31. A hur ricane passed through this city last night, the tide was two feet higher than ever before. Small boats were thrown into the public streets. At mid night the firemen fought fire from lime barrels catching fire from the water. Many tons of salt and sugar in bags melted and ran into the river. Eight saw mills are shut down today and the river is full of floating cotton and lum ber. Nothing has been heard from the coast country. Charleston, S. C, October 31. The Caribbean sea storm passed Charleston at 1:30 o'clock this morning, giving a barometer reading 29.07, and wind from 40 to 48 miles per hour. One small house was demolished in which five negroes were sleeping, one, a boy of 6 years, was killed and three other injured. The steel draw, 1 '0 3et long, over Wap poo creek, was vn off its, pier into the stream, the keeper went down with the bridge and escaped" without serious injury. No damage was done to ship ping or waterfront property. Norfolk, Va., October 31. The storm in this section was very severe last night. About 7 o'clock this morning the wind increased in velocity to fifty eight miles an hour. Very little dam age was done in Norfolk, but at Vir ginia Beach, fishing nets, pounds, board walks, fencing, etc., were wash ed away. The loss there is estimated at $10,000. The three masted schooner Kate Darlington was wrecked on Ocean View beach, having been driven high and dry at 1 o'clock a. m., by the wind. Irf passing through the capes last night she was run into and badly crippled by an unknown steamer. Her anchor would not hold. The Darlington was returning from Atlantic City, where she had conveyed a cargo of lumber. The tides were unusually high. The storm predicted for this afternoon has note materialized. Hurricane signals are up. Rain ceased to fall about 2 p. m., today. At midnight tonight the wind is increasing. THE BIGGEST COMBINATION. JU1 tno Telegraph, Telephone and Ca ble Companies Combine Philadelphia, October 31. The North American will tomorrow say: One of the greatest financial combi nations of the century is in progress of formation. The organizers of the Con tinental Telegraph, Telephone and Ca ble Company, recently incorporated in New Jersey, have obtained control of all the important telephone companies in the United States and aims to com bine therewith the great telegraph companies and the five Atlantic cable companies. From various sources information reached vThe North American that the capitalists interested in the venture in clude J. Pierpont Morgan. George J. Gould, John Jacob Astor, William C. Whitney, P. A. B. Winder and William L. Elkins. Verification of the story was obtain ed tonight from Mr. Winder at his home in Ogontz. He talked freely of the co lossal scheme, which, he says.N will bring about a sweeping reduction in the cost of transmission of electrical messages all over the country. IN THE SUPREME COURT. Cases from the Sixth District. Argued Yesterday Opinions Filed. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C, October 31. In th supreme court today appeals from. the. Sixth district "were argued as follows: State vs. Hill, attorney generai for the state and L. V. Grady for the de fendant; State vs. Shines, attorney general for the state, L- V. Grady and H. L. Stevens for the defendant; Kerr vs. Wad ley, J. D. Kerr and F. R. Cooper for the plaintiff, Stevens and Beasley and L. V. Grady for the de fendant; Smith vs. Railroad, Woiuack & Hayes and F. R. Cooper, and E. W. & J. W. Kerr for the plaintiff, Junius Davis and'H. L. Stevens for the de fendant; Bernard f. Hewlett, submit ted on printed briefs, by Bellamy & Peschau for the plaintiff, E. K. Bryan for the defendant. Opinions are handed down as follows by supreme court: State v. Smith, from Johnston, new trial; State vs. Davis, from Wake, error; Arendell vs. State Treasurer, from Wake, error; Pass vs. Brooks, from Person, error. Judgment modified; Phipps vs. Wilson, from Guilford, error; Howard vs. Turner, from Orange, affirmed; Hendon vs. Raihoad, from Durham, error; lngie bright vs. Inglebright, from Alamance, motion of W. II Carroll, for defend an:, to docket and dismiss plaintiff's appeal under Rule 17, allowed; Good man vs. Clemen, from Rowan, com promised by the parties. Iho most important opinions filed by tht supreme court today are in the cases of State vs. Smith, from John ston, and Arendell vs. State Treasurer, from Wake. In the Smith case the court grants a new trial, Judge Clark dissenting. Smith is a negro who was in jail here some months to prevent lynching. He attacked three young white men, Christmas revelers, while they were passing his house, killed one and dangerously wounded another. The court says that the night before there had been rioting between whites and blacks at Selma; that Smith had baen reading and thinking about the Wil mington riots, and that when he saw the men in disguise he thought they had come to kill him. The trial judge said in his charge that if the assault was- prompted by the occurrences at Wilmington and Selma or either of them, they would be circumstances from which the jury might infer pre meditation on the part of the prisoner. The court holds that this was error and, therefore, grants a new trial. Judge Montgomery delivered the opin ion. The Arendell case is of state import ance. Chapter 607, acts 1899, authorizes the issue of $110,000 of state bonds to provide for payment of debts "now due" by the penitentiary. Chapter 679, aots 1899, appropriates $100,000 for maintenance of the penitentiary dur ing this year and next year. Chapter 342, acts 1899, appropriates $5,000 to pay immediate incidental expenses of the penitentiary. The court holds that chapters 679 and 342 are pari materia with chapiter 607 and that the fund arising from the sale of the bonds pro vided by chapter 607 is not liabl? for any indebtedness of the penitentiary created since - January 1st last. CAROLINA DEFEATS MARYLAND. The Score Six to Nothing The Game Splendidly Played. (Special to The Messenger.) Chapel Hill, N. C, October 31. On a very muddy field and in a steady driz zling rain Carolina defeated Mary land today by a score of 6 to 0. Caroli na in the first half, by steady gains, carried the ball to their thras-vaid line. Graves goes over, bur is called back and the ball goes over Dause a Carolina man has his foot out of touch. A visitor kicks to centre of field and Carolina carries it over for a touch down, Graves kicking a difficult goal. The rest of the half the ball was Car olina's. Time was called with the ball in the middle of ithe field. In the second half, Carolina receives the kick off and by steady playing ad vances 'the ball to Maryland's fivf yard line. The ball is fumbled and Carolina thrown back for loss. The ball goes over on downs. Maryland is thrown back and kicks, which is block ed. Maryland getting the ball, she tries again, but has to kick, which is again blocked, Phifer obtaining the ball which goes over to Maryland on an off-side play. Maryland fails to ad vance and again kicks, but Carolina's line breaks through and throws thw man for loss when time is called. Maryland failed to gain the requited distance throughout the game. Caro lina's defensive and offensive work was superb. The features were: Martin's excel lent work at quarter, Graves' line bucking, Koehler's and Howell's beau tiful offensive work, Shull, Singletary and Phifer, 1 played great ball. For Maryland the tackles were star play ers. The halves were twenty minutes eak. n A SQUALLY NIGHT. Muck Damage to Buildings and Elec tric Plants by the Storm at Florence. (Special to The Messenger.) Florence, S. C, October 31. Florence was visited last night by a severe gale. The First Methodist church was un roofed. The Coast Line shops, the court house, the electric light plant and several other buildings were partly un roofed and some of them badly damag ed by water, among the most important of, which were the First Methodist church and the court house. Fences and signs were scattered over the streets and trees were badly torn and twisted. The wind reached a velocity of about seventy miles an hour during the night, and the rain fell in torrents. Many stores and residences were flooded with water. The telegraph, telephone and electric light companies suffered con siderable damage - by poles and wires being prostrated. It was in very sense of the word a squally night. We give no rewards. An offer of this kind is the meanest of deceptions. Test the curative powers of Ely's Cream Balm for the cure of Catarrh, Hay Fe ver and Coldin the Head and you are sure to continue the treatment. Re lief is immediate and a cure follows. It is not drying, does not produce sneez ing. It soothes and heals the mem brane. Price 50 cents at druggists or by mail. Ely Brothers, S6 Warren Street, New York. Dr. George Bingham, of Davie county, an inmate of the Soldiers Home, at Raleigh, died Wednesday. He was 70 years old. THE GALE IX THE INTERIOR. Much Damage to Cot ton Iay Docs Not Like Rev. Mr. HufTham's Move fora Prison Reform Association He DI iarged Warden Ruscll Tor Talking too Much. Messenger Bureau, Raleigh, N. C. October 31. There was a gale of wind in this sec tion last night, which blew down some trees and damaged such cotton as had been left unpicked, by blowing it out. There was constant rain. State Treasurer Worth says that at this time only $200,000 worth of old state bonds are outstanding. He does not expect that these will ever be returned for redemption. It is now twenty years since the enactment of the law com muting, compromising and settling the state debt. The negro state fair began here to day. The weather was very unfavor able and little could be done. The fair is being held on the grounds of the State Agricultural Society. The clerk ofthe United States dis trict court has been under the impres sion that where there was no dispute as to a bankruptcy case and where the referee reported the case as settled the clerk had power to sign a discharge in bankruptcy. Acting on that errone ous supposition he has signed a num ber of such discharges. It is not yet known what action Judge Purnell will take as to this matter, but it is pre sumed that he will take some when he returns from Wilmington.' He has said he would removes the clerk on or before December 31st. He has been asked to allow the clerk to serve through the De cember term of court. He may or may not do so. He may even take action against the clerk in connection with the bankruptcy matter. Rev. Dr. J. L. Huffham, a well known Baptist minisiei-, has written a letter to Superintendent Day, of the penitenti ary, asking for information as to cruel ties to convicts and also expresses a desire to have the whips used in pun ishment, saying his purpose is to estab lish a prison reform association in the state, and to in this way arouse pub lic interest in the matter. Captain Day in response has written Dr. Huffham quite a caustic letter, in which he makes denial of the charges of cruelty. Speaking of the dropping of Thomas B. Russell as warden of the penitentiary. Captain Day said it was done because he talked too much. The November bulletin of th? state agricultural department will be devot ed mainly to the promotion of a plan for the breeding of the French cooch horse in the mountain ; n.l Piedmont sections of this state. At Wilson tomorrow theie will be a health conference; that is, a meeting of the state board of health and the people. Today the board of directors of the Odd Fellows' orphanage at Goldsboro met there to elect a matron. C. F. Lumsden, C. B. Edwards and B. H. Woodell went from -here. Among today's arrivals are W. R. Al len, of Goldsboro, and J. T. Bland, of Burgaw. It is hard to understand why more people do not avail themselves of v the bankruptcy act and wipe out their in debtedness. Yet, in this district not over fifty have taken advantage of it. The reason must be ignorance of the law. The legislature at its last session re pealed the act appropriating a sum, up to $500, equal to that raised by the peo ple, by gift or subscription, for public schools. A great many persons do not know the act making such allowance is repealed. Some persons here express an earnest desire that next year Raleigh shall have a street fair. Japan's American Built Cruiser. In the final acceptance by the Jap anese government of the cruiser Kasa gi, the genius of American workman ship has received a merited reward. Not only were the officials of the Mik ado's navy greatly pleased with the performance of the cruiser in Japanese waters, but her graceful lines and gen eral equipment elicited unstinted ad miration from the minister of marine, and also Admiral Ito, the Dewey of Japan. In the opinion of these Japa nese naval experts the Kasagi is one of, if not the finest cruiser of her class afloat today. When the Kasagi left Philadelphia less than one year ago she proceded to New York. After leaving that port three days later Commander Kashlwa bura headed for England, arriving at Portsmouth on the 8th of November. Across the Atlantic bad weather was experienced and the cruiser was not forced. At Sir William Armstrong's shipyard, at Newcastle on the Tyne, ten weeks wTere spent in order to have the guns placed aboard. The Kasagi left England last March and in May she arrived at Yokosuka, the principal naval station in Japan. It was here that the minister of ma rine and Admiral Ito went aboard, and with great pomp and ceremony the cruiser was accorded a rousing wel come. After remaining at Yokosuka several weeks the Kasagi steamed through the inland sea, touching at several points, where the natives were shown through the vessel. The farth est point reached was Saseho, a naval station near Nagasaki, the Kasagi's home port. The return trip to Yokosu ka was then made. W. G. Coxe, the guaranty engineer for the Cramps, after all the stipula tions of the contract had been fulfilled, left the cruiser at Yokosuka, and took the steamer Gallic, of the Occidental Oriental Line, for San Francisco, arriv ing i nthis country September 29th. Before leaving Japan Engineer Coxe was tendered a farewell dinner by the most distinguished naval officials of Japan. Engineer Coxe arrived in this city on Monday, and reported yester day to Charles H. Cramp, the builder of the Kasagi. The Kasagi made her official trial in this country over the governmen course in New England waters. On that occasion the remarkable speed of 23.26 knots was attained. This per formance classed the Kasagi as the fleetest of her class. As great a speed was attained on the Japanese official trial Philadelphia Times. 8 L K p bUKt ALL TUUK PAIR HUM Pain-Killer. A Medicine Chest in KseiL SIMPLE, SAFE AND QUICK CURE FOR Cramps, Diarrhoea, Colds, Coughs, Neuralgia, Rheumatism. 25 and 60 cent Bottles. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. BUY OKL.Y THE GENUINE. PERRY DAVIS WILMINGTON MARKETS. Wilmington, N. .C, November 1. Receipts of cotton today 1.420 bales. Receipts same day last year 1.7S5 bales. This season's receipts to date 120.S75 bales. Receipts to same date last year 143,441 bales. The quotations posted at 4 oclock today at the exchange: COTTON Firm. Ordinary 4 11-16 Good ordinary e 1-lf Low middling 6 11-18 Middling , 74 Good middling 74 Same day last year Sc. NAVAL. STORES. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing doing. ROSIN Firm at 95c and $1.00. TAR Steady at $1.50. CRUDE TURPENTINE Quiet; hard $1.50; soft $2.80. Prices same day last year Spirit' xurpenune c ana 344c; rosin $1.00 and $L05; tar $1.15; rude turpentine $1.25 and $LS0. Receipts today 12 casks spirits tur- pontine, 537 barrels rosin. 13 barrels ! tar, 31 barrels crude turpentine. j Receipts same day last year 15 j casks spirits turpentine, 231 barrels rosin, 106 barrels tar. barrels crude tupentine. , SALT 123's. 52c; ISO's, 74c; 200's. SQc. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina ginla CO to 66c. -; Vir- RICE Nothing doing. CORN 52 to 53c. CORN MEAL 49c. COW PEAS 60c. N. C. BACON Hams, 9 to 10c, shoulders. 7 to 74c; sides. 8 to S4c CHICKENS Slow; spring 10 to ISc; hens, 22 to 25c; roosters, 15 to 20c. EGGS Firm at 14 to 15c. SHINGLES Per 1,000 five inch hearts and saps, $1.50473.10; six Inch. $2,500 $3.50. TIMBER . Per M feet Shipping $9.00?10.00 Mill. Prime 7.50 8.75 Mill, Fair 6.50 7.00 Corrlmon Mill 5.00 6.00 Inferior to ordinary 3.50f 5.00 Statement of Cotton and Naval storey Month ending November 1st, 199, compared wita month ending November I.t, 108. RECEIPTS. I EXPORTS ! t Domestic EX TOUTS Foreign 1SJ9 1Si;1W 1K9S -1899 1N9 Cotton.... 60,017 99.96V 39fi 4,578 71,193 73,61V Spirits... 4 231 lNW 1,956 1.83S I 3 : Rosin .. 14.380 7.KJ0 &' l,r 10.263 16 I'D Tar..... 4.'J6 bfi'Jo 3,6:3 5,147ij 1,01'-' 'All. Crude.-... 136 8til 1.2J0 KB I j SEASON'S SEASON'S RECEIPTS. ! EXPORTS. 1899 1N8 . 188 1toa 10,675 HU 114.540 16 8'I Spirits SJ.ftRS '2M514 IW.lOtf 130 530 Kosiu.. M.1M VH : $4,625 X7.3.M Tar 31.211 3I.13S 45,474 3Mtf Crude 7,m 7,059; 7.773 6.W4 STOCK ASHOUB AND AFLOAT. Total Ashore Afloat Total 188 Cotton 4 721 11,729 16.4 V) UMA Spirits t?29 62lt a' Rosin 59.79 175 59,3.4 41 K71 Tar. 1.012 1,012 1,914 Crude-..'. 16 I IWi 1 :i HAMETB BY TELEGRAPH FINANCIAL. New York, November 1. Money on call firm at 5 ito 20 per cent; lasJt loan ait 5 per cenit., ruling rate 15 per cent.; prime mercantile paper 55 per cent.; sterling exchange firm wiith actual business in bankers' bills at $4.86 for demand and at $-LS24f?4.83 for sixty days; posted rates at $4.m ana commercial bills at $4.82; silver certi ficates at 58i592; bar silver at 5S; Mexican dollars at 57U; government bonds strong; state bonds inactive; railroad bonds irregular. STOCKS. Atchison Baltimore and Ohio Chesapeake and Ohio Chicago, Burlington and QUincy Delaware and Hudson Illinois Central Louisville and Nashville Manhattan L Mobile and Ohio New Jersey Central New York Central Norfolk and Western, pfd Reading Soulthern Pacific Southern Railway Southern Railway, pfd Texas Pacific Union Pacific Union Pacific, pfd AOS' . - 4 .133, .122 iiiEvi . S58 . 40 Va .12Cl4 .137 . 71 . 21 . 3$ 13 . 57 . 19 . 47 V4 . 77 EXPRESS COMPANIES. Adams Express 112 American Express 149 United States 50 Wells Fargo 130 MISCELLANEOUS. American Cotton Oil 45U American Cortton Oil, pfd 93 American Steel and Wire i American Steel and Wire, pfd 93 Va American Tobacco 122 American Tobacco, pfd 143 Brooklyn Rapid Transit ..: 90V Continental Tobacco 414 Continental Tobacco, pfd federal steel srn PVvlprnl .KtPfO. Tifrl 73-i General Electric 122 People's Gas 114V Pullman Palace 193 Sugar 153T4 Tennessee Coal and Iron 118V Western Union S8 BONDS. United States 2's, reg 100V United States 2'. reg 107 United States 3's, cou 107 United States new 4's, reg 123H United States new 4's, cou 129V United States old 4's, reg 111 United States old 4's, cou 112V4 United States 5's, reg HOVa United States 5's. cou . UOVi Alabama Class A 112 Alabama Class B 110 Alabama Claes C 103 Alabama Currency 100 Louisiana Nw Consols 106 Louisville and Nashville, UnL 4'b.. 994 New Jersey Central 119H North. Carolina 6"s 127 North Carolina 4's 104 Southern Railway 5' 10SH Tennessee new set 5's S3 Virginia Cemturtes H Virginia Deferred . 5 COTTON. Liverpool, November L 4 p. m. Cot ton. Spot, fair demand, prices lower; American middling fair 4 l$-22d; good middling 4 3-lSd; middling 4d; low mid dlin I 13-lSd: good ordinary 1d; or dinary 3 7-16L The sales of the day were 12,000 bales, of which 1.000 were for speculation and export and Includ .7 ed 1L10O bales American; receipts 20, I 000. including 21,600 bales American. Futures opened quiet and ck-el steady. American middling, low middling clause: November 3 5S-61 J buyers; No vember and December 3 57-6404 5$-64J fellers: December and January 3 56-6 1 Q 3 S7-64J nellers: January and February 3 55-64(23 56-44d buyers; February and March 3 55-64d seller: March and April. April and May. May and Juno 3 54-64123 55-64l buyers: June and July July and A u trust 3 54-64d buyers: Au gust and September 3 52-64d sellers. VTvr YORK MARKET. New York. November 1. Cotton firm; middling 7c; net receipts 123; gross receipts 4.510; sales 1.339; stock 107.335; exrorts to the continent 100; to Franco 577. Total today: Not receipt 25.402; ex ports to Great Bri:aln 5.327; to France 2.377; to the continent 27.729; stock 839.346. Consolidated: Net receipts 173.979; ex ports t Great Britain 56.433; to Franco 12.50$: to the continent 51. Total "VUnee- JVpCember 1st: Net re ceipts 1.943.7M; exports- .o Great Bri tain 549.944: to France 191.916: to the continent 536.667. Futuers closed steady. November 7.14. Iecemler 7.16. January 7.1S. Feb ruary "19. March 7.22. April 7.22. May 7.25. June 7.25. July 7.25. August 7.25. September 6.96. October 6.91. Spot cotton closed firm: middling up lands 7c; middling gulf 7c: aaleji 1.339 bales. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. Chicago, November 1. The leading futures ranged as follows: Open. High. . Low. Clos. Wheat IX-c 70 TO CSV, 9 May 'Z 73 73 V4 73 Corn Dec 2 31H 31S 214 Jan 30 30 3KN 30 May ?.2"s ZZl 32V Oats Dh 22 22 22 22 May 24V 244 24 24' Mess pork, per bbl. Dec $S.07Va JS.10 $S.0) JS.fM Jan 9.65 9.fi.". 9.00 9.2Ht Lard, per 100 lbs. IVc 3.12li ;..!2Vs 5.10 3.10 Jan 5.30 5.30 5.25 5.27 4 Short ribs, per 100 lbs. Ioc 4.774 4.774 4.75 4.75 Jan 4.924 4.924 4.S74 4.90 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour quiet and ensy; No. 2 raring wheat. 694i 714c; No. 3 spring wheat. 641i704c; No. 2 red, 70fi71e; No. 2 corn, 32c; No. 2 oat. 23U23V4c; No. 2 white, 26c; No. 3 white, 2o4c; mesa pork, per bbl., $S.00fjS.03; lard, per 100 lbs., $3.1745.20; short clear sides, loose, $4,705x5.20; dry salted shoulders, boxed. $3.754i 5.874; short clear sides, boxed, $5.354j5.40; whiskey, distilleri' Unshed goods, per gallon, $1.24. ;815ustvug;t Acwdm New York, November 1. FLOUH Ruled modertely active and easier In sympathy with the weaker ruling of wheat, and closed dull and heavy at. nominally unchanged prices. WHEAT. Spot steady; No. 2 red. 754c. Options opened weak at a de cline of c and further declined 4c under weak cables, slack export de mand, indifferent outside speculative interest and prospective heavier re ceipts. There were a few rallies on local covering but the market was fin ally weak at about the lowest ioint. a net decline of to "hc. May closed at 784c; December closed at 74c. CORN Spot weaker; No. 2 40V4.C. Op tions weak ait a decline of V4c and ruled dull; selling arrested here by a partial reaction at Chicago. The early decline was due to weiK cables aad predicted larger receipts, closed steady at 4c nominal decline. May cios-d at 384c; December closed at 39c. OATS Spot dull; No. 3 white 304c Options nominal; no business. PETROLEUM Steady; refined New York $9.23; Philadelphia and Baltimore $9.20. RICE Steady. EGGS Steady; state and Pennsylva nia 20ji'21c; western ungraded 14U18- COFFEE Options steady with prices unchanged to 5 points higher on cov ering, light local buying and d-rnaoJ from abroad. Later there was a fur ther rise of 5 points on general sup port. The firmer Brazilian maikets, light receipts and a liberal warehouse movement contributed to the bettr feeiing. Holiday in Havre re.r.t:nM buyers here to some extent; closed firm at a net gain of 5 to 10 points; sales 12.2CO bagsincluding January at $5.25; March $3.40. Spot coffee Rio firm; mild firm. Sugar Raw steady; fair refining 3 13-lCc; centrifugal. 90 test, 4 5-lCc; molasses sugar 3 9-lCc; refined steady. NAVAL STORES. New York Rosin quiet. Turjentine steady at SlUQSlc. Savannah Spirits turjentine firm at 4S4j484e; receipts 1.125; sales 800; ex ports 400. Ros.n firm and unchanged; receipts 4,200; sales 305; exjorts 5o0. Charleston Spirits turjentine mar ket firm at 48c; sales none. Rosin steady and unchanged; sales none. MURDER AND SUICIDE. A Man Kill Ills SKtcr-In-Luw unci iiukf-H him ttri,irc. v : Raleigh, N. CNovember 1. Particu lars were received here today of a double murder near Lovelace, Wilkes county, NoUh Carolina. John Coleman shot and lnj-ed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Dora Chamfers, and then placed the guivto his hed and fired, l;!lng him self. V Mrs. Chambers had I fen living neary Coleman and the twahvere said to be quite lntima. Coleman's wife led suddenly larfFebruarv',and there was suspicion XV foul play. It is said Mrs. Chabtf&had threatened to tell what she knew of the matter and this caused Coleman toxtU her and then himself. Both leave feteSSSstal children. For a southern National Park. Asheville, N. C. October 31. A call has been sent out by the parks and. forestry' committee, of the Ashevillo board of trade, to all persons inter ested In forest preservation and in the establishment of a national southern park in the southern Allegheny moun tains for an Interstate convention to b held here November 22nd. The purpose of the convention 1 to form permanent associations, to in duce congress to establish a national southern park and to influence legis lation in favor of scientific forestry. Mule for the Itoer War. Charleston, S. C. November 1. South Carolina mules will probably be used In the South African war. George A. Douglass, of this city, was-today given a contract by British Consul Coetlogan to furnish 1,500 mules to be delivered either in Charleston or Savannah. The work of securing such a number of mules at this season of the year is not an easy task, as the market In this state is short on mules. Later on, how ever, it Is thought that the market will be flooded and he will have no difficult! In Ailing the contract. f 1