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II LI land Daily Argxj OCK VOL. XXXIX. NO. 186 1S0CK ISLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 2G 1S91. t Single Copies 5 Cent 1 Per Week 12V Cents ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Succee t Like Success Owing to the unprecedented success of Our Great Special Labor Day Sales April 25 and May 2, we have decided to deal out our enormous bargains all through the house for the rest of the month of May, so that everybody will have a chance to obtain goods of the very latest styles and best makes for less than half price. We feel confident that out of the thousands that visited our store during Our Great Special Labor Day Sales not one went away dissatisfied. All were fully convinced that we do not misrepresent, but fully live up to all our advertisements. Prices Quoted for the Month of May Will be Far Below Anything Ever Named or Heard of. 1 X JL J. w LONDON CI (M, EAT Prices Cut in Half -Goods Almost given Away ! For the Rest of the Month of May the Greatest Bargain Sale on Record! The object we have in view we are deter . mined to carry out, i. e. For the Rest of the Month of May the Greatest Bargain Sale on Record! TO GET YOUR TRADE. Once a Customer- Always a Gustomer ! The recapture of Taltnl, Chili, by the forces of Balmaceda is confirmed.' The treasury Monday )ought S15.0CC ounces of silver at from J'1.972 to 0.972 pt ounce. - Caterpillars are so thick in eastern Con necticut that the farmers hunt them with shotguns. Eighteen cripples minus an arm or leg played base ball at St. Lonis Sun d iv. Score 25 to 2T. Potter, White & Bayley, shoe manufac turers of Boston, have failed. Their lia bi lities are $1,000,000. . Dr. Charles D. Bridgman, of New York, who left the Baptist ministry, has en tered the Episcopal church. The Veendam, which broke her shaft at sea, arrived safely in port at New York Monday with her 600 passages. . A Danish woman named Pederson hanged herself and- her three children at Harlan, la., Sunday. She was insane. The president has appointed Michael Pig ott, of Quincy, Ills., special Indian agent to make allotments ot land in sev eralty to non-reservation. All the records and papers of the United States court for the northern district of Florida have Iwn destroyed by fire. The records ran back 100 years. Miss M. L. Griggs, of St. Charles, Mich., tore her nlgbt gown in strips and strangled herself. Cause, insanity from over-study at Battle Creek college. The Salt Lake Herald, leading paper of the Utah Saints, has passed into the hands of the Gentiles, breaking the back of the Mormon church as a political factor. A bee entered the ear of the 2-year-old son of Oscar Wittmeyer, of Burlington, X. J., aud repeatedly stung the boy in side the ear. A fatal result is feared. It is probable that the United State! will secure a coaling station in Samona bay, San Domiugo, the negotiations with St. Nicholas, Hayti, having fallen through. Judge L. C. Houk. a member of con gress from Tennessee, died at his home in Kuosville, Sunday night. He had been in congress for many ternu and was prominent in the couueils of the Repub licans. There being some doubt whether Mrs. Mary Norton was dead, at Addisou, - Vt the neighbors took the body to a vacant lot an d fired three rounds from a cannon over it. As the noise didn't resuscitate her the body was buried. The Ilev. Dr. It A. Holland, an Episco pal minister of St. Louis, accused from the pulpit four members of the vestry, and many of the congregation with hav ing used lraud aud misrepresentation in order to get control of the church prop erty. And Still He VTu Hungry. Middle-town-, Coun., May 20 -William Grissel, the champion eater of this city, on a bet of $3. ate three dozen raw eggs" f ir a starter, next, a large head of cab bage, then finished oue pouud of cheese in double quick time, then half a pound of crackers, and va-ued the meal down with a schooner of beer. -I'm justa little hun gry yet," said Grissel, setting his beer glass down. ""Us the Uuty Increased. ROME, May 21. The minister of foreign affairs is reported to have gone to Milan to obtain the signature cf the king to a decree advancing the duty on petroleum. This step, it is said, is taken because of the large quantities of petroleum which are now on the way to Italy from tba United States. Fell on II U Assistant. St. Louis, Mo., May 28. Yesterday William Muruhv. a Hell telenliona i; man, fell Iwm a forty-foot pole, ulighting astride the back of Louie Starr, an assist ant, on the pavement. Both men were s.-nouly injured, and are now at the city hospital. Murphy's fall was caused by a shock received from an electric light wire on the Dole. THE MARKETS. Chicago. Chicago. May 25. Following were tho quotations on the board of trade to-day: Wheat No. V May, opened tl.UJH. closed S1.0!; July, opened $1.00, closed 1.00.4: September, opened WiJ--, rl.mnd M6!-4C. Corn No. 2 May, oiened 5t;; clos -d 57o; JuJy. opened i.4c, cloned &", .September, opened SlJic closed MSic Oats-No. 2 May, opened . closed 47c; July, otiened 41& -6o; September, opened atc, closed 344c. Pork May. otiened 21u.SU. nii Km -ITu:- ti opened 810.8 closed 10. 73; September, opened 811.871-, closed Slu.7i. Lar4 May. Live stock Follow-in? n-.-ro t )i ,1 .-ina. . u t - - - . - ,.. (. (UQ Inion stork yards to-day: Hogs Market rather active on packing ani shipping ' ac count, but feeling rather weak: prices fully oer, Kum rauaea at ;.a'Ja-t pigs, 54.1ij4 5l liht. S4 1Jl2i rough packing, ?4.2JfC4.lO Ulixl nnil 91 !kl . 1 rt- !. pac king and shipping lots. Cattle Market moderately active on local and shipping account and prices without ma terial change; quotations ranged - at S5. 753 0.40 for choice to fancy shipping steers, $5.0GJi5.7O good to choice do, $4 &4.M common to fair do. 15iK$t.23 butchers' xteers, 2.ftX&3.5'l stoekere. S2.7524.90 Texans. S:i.44.aj feeders. Jl.&x.OJ cows, 815a3 50 bulls, and t2.j0jt.Kj veal calves. Sheep De mand fairly active an.i t.ri, -..i.i - iuldu stea-ly: quotations ranged at 3.753 ft 2.1 westerns. 44.0(1 JS 50 natives, and 5.2546.75 lambs. Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, 17&pjc per lb; dairies, fancy fresh. 143,15c; packing stocks, fresh. J5,llc. Eggs-southern stock, 15c Per doz: northern, l.iiw- ou - ' . - . - . . J-.1.1L1 w chickens. 9!-c per lb: sprint. zl.IZZ; roosters. iui.cjs, hiiito. n,r ou -hs. liSUK,; Potatoes -Kose. .o-jift: j e;- ou: Uebrou, SJC: Peerless. H.-7iJ;le- Un-i. ,!,., nnin:. - ' ' 1 " I V 1 " 'it. J . mixed, ftxf.jc. Strawberries Ten nessea, fair to good, 503 tjOc per 24-qt case; Illinois, 75ci New York. New Yohk. May 25. Wneat Ni. 3 r.-A winioi. .... . i, 1 n .1 do May. (1.12: do June. 1 111: d.. ii in. . do August, il OV4. Corn No. 2 mixel ca,L twiiwc: oo June, 6!4c; do July, .tUc: do AuifUSt. Ok- fla Bl-iic; do June, is-c: do July, Kye luurj-.iuuuuu. rors Vniet; S12.00413.25 for new mess. Lard-Quiet; Jnly. .50; August, t6& Uve Stock: Cat'Je-Good cattle In demand at firmer values, Bit common offerings dull and 10c ! 1(J0 .s lowr- t,. k.....u. - , v w w ucniuure steers $.(eH6.45 t loo ; Texans and Ool- "" , n.iwco.; onus and dry cows, $2.25 a 3.b5. bheep and Lambs- -Sheup, dull- lambs, steady; sheep, JiAi5.75 V l'JO s; Umbs. l'4o'fSioa't.HoBSMr'letdall; Uve hus' M