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If THE PITTSBURG PKESS. OCTOBER 3, 189a 8 MONDAY JUDGMENT STANDS. CORONER'S BUSY DAY. INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OK HARRY H. M'KELVY.

52 Autumn Openingi Ladies' Coat npnartmpnt 11 very active and weak. There were further severe declines In Tobacco and Sugar, and apart from these stocks. Consolidated Gas broke badly. Manhattan was notably active and declined fractionally In the opening dealings. The granger shares were moderately active at slight declines.

People" Gas was firm. Following the opening traductions the granger shares became more steady and a somewhat firmer tone was evident elsewhera In the market. -In governments the new 4s were down per cent. Storks showed more steadiness around noon. The dealings throughout the morning were on an active scale.

The transactions In Tobacco this morning were on an enormous scale. The fluctuatli.ns In the stock were wide and wild. The stick broke tte points In the early dealings and then roj seven points before noon. 1:30 p. m.

quotations were: ill "QUEEN QUALITY" THE FAMOUS 8HOE FOR WOMEN lustre. Fashionable for Street, dl ess, unequalod In retaining shape, wear, and borne, or outing. All feot and fancies fitted in toes, hecli, aud leather. style, fit and comfort, material, workmanship. OCTOBER t.

The opening on the local stork exchange wa- dull, and much Indifference was noticeable to a greater or lesa extent at all sessions. There was limited Inquiry for stocks and bonds, but a few fractional advances were made as against opening bids. Trading was confined to a few of the active shares, and at no pericjd of the day did a broadening tendency develop. Pittsburg Plate Glass and Westinghouse Electric second preferred were more or less prominent on all calls, and some trading was done in each. Plate Glass was quite strong and Electric second moderately so at tlmc3.

The trolleys were quiet most of the time and the gas shares lacking in features of importance. Speculation in industrials has become a fad. The collapse of National Cordage Is forgotten, the trouble in the National Linseed Oil company ts overlooked and petty speculators tumble over one another 'to buv.auch stocks as Sugar, Tobacco and Rtibber not to mention Leather and Hawaiian Sugar. Such combinations publish no statements, their stocks are juggled back-and forth according to the whim or caprice of the insiders." Rumors send the price- up and other rumors send It down again. Meanwhile, the lamb is shorn, and the stock exchange gets into bad' repute.

But there Is another phase of this speculation in Industrials which should not be overlooked or neglected. Trade combinations, as ihev now exist, do not thrive. An unnatural combination to sustain prlces.to monopolize trade and to make profits by gambling in the shares that represent its property, is doomed to failure. The commercial world is too big, too broad and includes too many shrewd business men to allow any trade to be dominated by a trust. Competition Is invited, consolidation follows, so does ruin.

The recent history of Sugar.Tobacco and Rubber explains the danger of the situation. Sugar was advanced on the theory that a combination would be made with the Arbuckles; Tobacco was advanced on the theory that outside competitors would be absorbed; United States Rubber was advanced on the reported purchase by it of the Boston Rubber Shoe company. Advance tips of such deals were circulated, and whi the news reached one old operator he said: "1 have lost fortunes by following- just such tips. A consolidation in such cases means an increased capitalization and the payment of dividends on it Is impossible." The street seems to take that view now, but It is only the rapid decline in these stocks which has made the speculators appreciate the situation. Local Stocks.

HMs and offera at the second call were: Bid. I Auk. Columbia National Hank 1M Commercial National Hank il06 Dtamnnd National Hank U4 Ktirhange National Hank Iron City National Hank I Keyrtone Bank i11 Lincoln National Hank I K'-eond National Hank Third National Hank Mercantile Trust Co Ktrst National Hank. AlleRlifny liifurance 7 1310 126 50 Western Insurance Connolldated common roneolidatPil Gas, pref J'liiladelr'hla Co Luster Mining Electric, second Allegheny Valley, pre! l'ltts, YoungHtown Ashtabula Consolidated Traction Mrnilngham Traction Cnited Traction, common Suspensl.w UriOKe Co. (Sixth Htreet).

Monongahela Water Co Standard Underground Cahle On Union Mwtrh A Signal Co Union Switch KlRiial pref United States Olass Westinghouse Air Htakc Co I'ittsburg Plate Glass -Co Hessemer Lal.e Krle R. Chattier Water S4'4 lfi 61 ('i 44 '4 3V 1C. 20 23V 43 24 MY 87'i 24 "'4 if PASB. RY. AND TRACTION HONOR uS.

QUEEN QUALITY, FOERDERER'S V1C1 KID ued exclusively. Trade-mark TSADI SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY "fKillhiham Traction Ss 1WM4 ftecond Avenue Traction Co. cons. U2' Vnlted Traction 5s 1 PESTS PLATE GLASS COMPACT GIVES ITS IXSIRACE MOSEY. The Sprint; Garden Insurance Company Cannot Take a Stand and for Fear of the Adrerse Decision Offer a Supplemental Affldarlt of Defense Judge 3.

W. F. White, In common pleas court No. 2, handed down an opinion In the matter of the reargument for Judgment on the supplemental affidavit of defense In the case of the Penn Plate Glass company against the Spring Garden Insurance company, In which the court orders Judgment entered for the full amount ot the claim, less f.12, admittedly due upon a policy of insurance. The case grows out of the refusal of the Insurance company to pay Its proportionate share of the loss incurred by the plaintiff by the burning of its plant nt Irwin some months since.

The court says: The supplemental affidavit of defense was tiled after the argument on the rule for Judgment on the original affidavit of defense and while the papers were In my hands; but my attention was not called to it before the opinion of September was tiled. After the arguments of counsel on the supplemental affidavit of defense, and ft careful consideration of It, 1 believe It does not set forth a valid defense, and that the Judgment heretofore entered should stand. The defendant company from the first denied all liability, claiming that the policy had been cancelled. It refused to Join In the appointment of appraisers of the loss. It knew that a great many Insurance companies were Interested In the loss (over ion), and that they were proceeding by adjusters to ascertain the loss and fix their respective portions of the loss; yet It refused to take any part in the proceedings.

It was notified of the uctlon of the adjusters and the amount of its liability on this policy as fixed by them: it made no objections to the amount, still standing on the ground of no liability because the policy had been cancelled. The plaintiff company furnished regular proofs of loss, to which no objection was made. It refused to confer with the plaintiff company on the subjert of the loss or its liability. The plaintiff company had but one course to pursue to bring un action on the policy. The affidavit of defense was on the line of the defendant company's course all along, a denial of all liability because the policy had been cancelled.

A rule for Judgment was taken and the case argued on the sole question of a valid cancellation of the policy. When the defendant company feared an adverse decision on that- question it asked permission to file a supplemental affidavit of defense. This defense comes too late. After planting Itself on the sole ground of cancellation, refusing to confer on the subject of the loss or Its proportional share of the loss, standing by silently while the other Insurance companies were adjusting the loss and the share of each company, the plaintiff company to the expense of a suit on the policy and letting the case go to argument on the rule for Judgment without setting up this defense, It is now estopped from setting It up. McCormlck vs.

Koyul Insurance KM 1S4, and authorities there cited. Apart from the question of estoppel, It Is not likely there Is any merit in this defense. One hundred Insurance companies were Intel ested In this loss. They joined In appointing adjusters or appraisers, who fixed the sound value and the loss, and apportioned It among the companies. All were satisfied with the adjustinl-nt, and all or nearly all have paid.

The supplemental affidavit of defense states that "defendant Is informed, believed and expects to be able to prove" that the plaintiff loss on the buildings and stock was not as much as the esti mates of adjusters, but gives no specific facts to show their mistake. ft Is too Indefinite to shake confidence in tho report of the adjusters. It is stated that there was an unpaid premium at the time of the fire of and plaintiff's counsel agree that that sum may be deducted from the making the amount 1,047.88, for which Judgment should be entered. The judgment heretofore entered Is accordingly reduced, and Judgment is now entered for plaintiff and aenlnst defendant foe 12,047.77, with costs. WOMAS AGAINST WOMAX.

Trouble In Allegheny Over the Stor age of Household Goods. Rosie Jackson, of Burton avenue, has preferred an information before Aldernfci G. A. Sharra, against Ollle Brown, of 3.1.1(1 Rmallman street, In which she is charged with assault and batterv. It Is alleged that Mrs.

Brown is the wife of a local colored preacher. According to the information it seems Mrs. Jackson was arranging to go to Atlantic City for a vacation, and wanted to hear of a place where she could store her household furniture until she returned. Mrs. Brown offered to store the goods In her place, saying that as there was a refrigerator among them, and she was in need of one she would use It as payment for the storage.

This was agreed to, and Mrs. Jackson went to Atlantic On her return, last Friday, Mrs. Brown called on Mrs. Jackson, and ordered ner to remove her furniture from her house right away. Mrs.

Jackson made all arrangements to comply with the demand, but on arriving at the house found that Mrs. Brown had changed her mind and refused to give un the furniture. A fight followed, in which Mrs. Jackson says she was seriously assaulted. nere win ne a hearing In the case at o'clock to-ulght, and at 8 o'clock Mrs.

Brown will have a heating before Alder man Kerr In the same matter which she has charged Mrs. Jackson with dls-orderlly conduct. DROPPED DEAD IX CHl'RCH. A Yell-Knon-n Canonsbnrg Resident Expired Suddenly. Washington, Pa Oct.

3. (Special) A. C. Hollldny, aged fl.1 years, dropped dead Sunday morning In the First Presbyterian church Sunday school room, Canons-burg, of heart trouble. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs.

Jennie Whiteside, the Canonsburg fatth-cure woman who died last spring without having a physician. Her case was Investigated by the coroner, whose Jury recommended that the action of her pustor and sister be called to the attention of the district attorney, causing much excitement. City Health Report. The following new cases of Infectious disease were reported to the bureau of henlth to-day: One case of typhoid fever In the Thirteenth ward, one In the Thirty-seventh, one In tl Third and one In the Twenty-third: three cases of diphtheria In the Twenty-third ward, two In the Twenty-fourth, one In the Sixteenth, one In the Twenty-seventh and one in the Eighth; one case of scarlet fever In the Eleventh ward, one In the Thirty-first, one in the Fifteenth, one In the Twenty-third, one in the Eighth and two In the Fourteenth. Criminal Coart Sentences.

John Wilkinson was sent four months to the workhouse In criminal court this morning for Illegal liquor selling. Edward Gagon, for the larceny of a lot of clothing, was sent six months to the same Institution. James Conovan was sent up for an days for stealing chickens from P. S. Randolph, of 4-MO Forbes street.

George Pollltt, for embeizllng $13 from C. G. Howard, was sentenced 30 days, to the workhouse. Bitten by a Doff. During a figtit between George Jack-worth and an Italian In Negleys Rttn.East End.

last night, a little girl named Carroll was bitten by a dog. Jackworth and the. Italian, It seems, had two dogs fighting. It Is said, picked up one of the dogs and threw It to one side. It struck the girl and bit her.

Jack-worth was arrested by. Officer Twyman. and now at No. 0 police station awaiting a hearing. Xaval Promotions Announced.

Publishers' Press Dispatch. Washington, Oct. 3. The following appointments were announced at the white house this morning: Lieut. Commander J.

E. PUlsbury, to be commander: uleut. Commander William H. Reeder to be commander; Passed Assistant Engineer Frank W. Bartlett to he chief engineer; Acting Gunner Myles Joyce, to be gunner.

Receiver Appointed. A. C. Opperman was appointed receiver of the Bennett Planing Mill company, by common pleas court No. 1.

The American Lumber Manufacturing company filed the petition. TESTIMONY OF, TRACKWALKER. Appearance of Clothing Did Hot In dlcate That Robbery Had Been Coniinlttrd Inquiry Started In the IleiUtela Tragedy T. A. Black-niore'a Death Was Accidental.

Coroner Heber McDowell had a large number of cases to investigate this morn lng, and it was almost 2 o'clock before he was through. The first case called was that of Harry H. McKelvy, of Cora-oKlls, was found unconscious on the track of the Pittsburg Lake Erie rail road, near Fleming on the morning of September 21, and died at the West Penn hospital yesterday morning was found with a fractured skull and m-ver regained consciousness. Josenh Mohr. the man who found Mc Kelvy on the morning of September 21, was the llrst wltnoss called.

He stated that he was on his way to work when he found the body. He described the circumstances surrounding the case. He said McKelvv's hat was lying to one side and from tho condition of his clothing It did not appear that ha had been robbed. He also stated It was impossioie ior a man to lose bin footing at the place where MoKelvv was found. Antonio Wolfe, an Italian track' walker.

through an interpreter, said that about o'clock on the morning or fceptemuer i he was approached by a maji who was walking along the. track toward Coraop-olls. The man asked him If there was any train coming along. When told there was not he tiassed on down the track toward Coraopolis. The man wore dark Dr Anderson, of the West Penn hospi tal, stated the nature of the wound.

He said it was a compound fracture, with a cuntuslon of tho brain. The witness then submitted a report of the autopsy held on the body. He stated tnat oeyonu me fracture of the skull there, was no other murks on the bod v. The inquest whs then adjourned until Wednesday. The hearing in the case of the Bellsteln murder and suicide was opened.

Detective James Steele, of Allegheny, was the onlv witness heard. He testified to tho finding of the two revolvers and the empty laudanum bottle. The case was lVa.ll,aanw Ot lll II UWlll 111 UIIlll ,1, llllLn-iciJ o'clock, in order to allow the coroner to find more evidence. The case of A. Saucrbinr.

who was killed on Saturday by the breaking of a scaffold at the First IT. I. church, Oakland, was opened. H. McDonald, the foreman on the work, was the first witness called.

His answers were not satlsfacr torv to the coroner. He seemed to be afmld to make any statement. The cor oner Instructed him how he should tes- tlmy to a county ofnolai. Informing him that ho would not hurt him. He stated that so far as ho knew the scaffolding was safe.

Several workmen who had been work Ing with the deceased stated that the scaffold when It fell slid alongside tho church, and many of them were saved by grasping the window sills. They further stated that the scaffold was safe, and that they had moved some of tho boards that were too close to the wall. The laborers who built the scaffold explained how the scaffold was built. James Clark, one of tho contractors, staled he showed the men how to build a scaffold, but they constructed It contrary to his Ideas. Ho was there, but did not object.

The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The Jury returned a verdict of accidental deutn In the case of W. J. Adams, a top filler at tho furnaces In Hraddock, who was burned to death on Friday. W.

J. Sellers whs the first witness called In the case of ex-Chlcf of Police Blitckmore, who died nt the Mercy hospital from injuries received by being struck by a car on the Center avenue line. He stated that the mntormau could not prevent the accident at the speed the car was going. The man was struck and thrown to one side. The motorman stopped as soon as he could.

Tho stop w.in a good one. Other witnesses said that Mr. Black-more was walking along the street, and when the car was almost opposite him he staggered to one side and was struck. The niotorman made a quick stop. The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death, exonerating tho motorman from all liliime.

MEETING OF WOMEN. Auxiliary of the Urotherliood of Knllrond Firemen In Session. The ladles' auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Firemen of the United States and Canada opened their third biennial convention at o'clock this morning In the lecture room of Carnegie library, Allegheny. Over 'J(H delegates were present from all parts of the country and Canada. The session to-day was held behind closed doors.

Mrs. Ray M. Watson, of Elder, grand mistress of the auxiliary, presided. The convention will he In session all this week. The session at 7 to-night will be open to the public.

J. F. Smith, master of No. 821, will preside, and Mayor Charles (leyer, of Allegheny, will muke an address of welcome to the visiting delegates. Addresses will also be made by Mrs.

Watsorf, P. H. Morrisey and R. F. Fuller, all fnembers of the organization.

The order was formed at Ft. Gratiot, in January, l.HHll, and has thousands of members throughout this country and Canada. Held for Court. Charles Smith, who was arrested by Detectives Richard Kelly and Fitzgerald after lie had robbed the house of John Todd, 1.114 Fifth avenue, was given a hearing before Magistrate McKenna this morning. pleaded guilty to tmo charges of entering a building to commit a felony, made by Todd and George Brennen, of 712 Wylle avenue, and was held for court.

Fell Into Niagara's Torrent. Publishers' Tress Dispatch. Niagara Falls, N. Oct. 3.

Charles Wicks, of Philadelphia, fell yesterday from the new upper steel arch bridge Into the river, 170 feet below, and was killed. It Is thought he was unconscious before he struck the water. He never turned In the fall. How he lost his balance Is not known. He was In charge of a gang of painters at work In the center of the arch.

GATHERED TO REST. Charles Weiss, son of Mrs. Catherine Weiss, died yesterday in his twenty-third year. The funeral will be from hi mother's residence. 2S17 Josephine street, South Side, at 2 p.

m. tomorrow. The funeral of Mrs. Anna Zimmerman, wife of Chrlnt Zimmerman, who died on Saturday, was held this afternoon from her late residence, 35 Hush street, Deceased was 67 years of age. George Capiwl, A carpenter of 1S19 Larklns alley, died yesterday morning st the age of 60.

He was a member of the Red Men. Knights of Honor. South Hide Turn Vereln, Knights and Ladles of Honor. V. O.

H. and Cabinet Makers' Hrneiltlal society. The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. to-morrow.

Miss Ida Bhaffer Long, adopted daughter of Frederick and Rebecca J. Long, died at 8.3.-S o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her foster parents, 245 Hoggs avenue, Mt. Washington. She had been III but three weeks with typhoid fever. She was- adopted by Mr.

and Mrs. Long In her Infancy. Funeral services were held at 1:30 thlSafternoen from the home on Hoggs avenue. Rev Del.ancey. ef the Mt.

Washington Haptlst church, officiated. Interment was private at a later hour In Homewood cemetery. The remains of Lyman A. Jackson, who died In Allegheny last Thursday, were yesterday burled In Monongahela by the Allegheny com-mnndei-y, So. 35, of which deceased was a member.

Mr. Jackson was chief clerk to the purchasing agent of the Pittsburg Lake Erie railroad, and the company furnished a special funeral train of five cars. About 160 members of the Allegheny commandery attended the funeral. They marched to and from the station, headed by their band. A number of rnllroad men also accompanied the remains to Monongahela.

Morlti Streng. a prominent Hebrew resident of Allegheny, died Saturday, after an Illness of IS months. He was a native of Ravarta. but located In New York at the age of IT years, coming to Pittsburg some years later. He Is survived by a widow and eight children Mrs.

Rachel Forst. Mrs. Kmllle Horn, Hetirlette, Mathilda, Julius Meyer, tlerson and Benedict rHreng. A brother, Meyer, and two sisters, Mrs. Rosa Relxensteln and Mrs.

Fanny Frank, are also living. Deceased was a member of a number of secret societies, which were represented at the funeral services this afternoon. PERSONALITIES, Ernest Hannegen, who was press representative for the Avenue theater and Grand Opera house at the beginning of last season. Is registered at the Hotel Arlington. He ts advance agent for Davis A Keogh'a farce eomedy, "Have You Peen Smith?" which will be at Ut pit.u suxt week.

iOT'4 MISCELLANEOUS HOND8. Consolidated Gas la Sales. First Call. 2'i0 shares West. Electric, sec.

34 WO shares PlttKhnrs; 1'late Glass, RT K.0 shares Birmingham Traction Second Call. $12,000 Consolidated (las r.s 1(1 5 shares Switch, rotnmon 9iiV4 62 shares Air Brake i shares Y. A. R. 60 Notes of the Markets.

Birmingham Traction bonds were higher at 106Y UfpUl till VII TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW We invite you to our opening of tnis In Plain and Novelty Cloths, handsomely braided or fur- trimmed. In velvet or cloth, stylish length and cut, jet or braid trimmed. Collarettes 'In astrakhan, imitation seal and other plain and combination furs. Special Bargain Offering for Opening Days. Buy Coats and Capes toerkel im-26 PBMS AVE.

Get snap shots of the coming conclave parade, get cameras, of -V STIEREN, Oplloal Specialists, Bueren buildlnfs, 541 Smithfield fcU, Sixth ave. lOWkr DIED. SCHLIECHKR-On Sunday, October 2, 1SI, nt p. Charley Schllecher, son of Fred and Minnie Schllecher, at par. ems' residence, Filbert street, Allegheny, aged i'l years 5 days.

Notice of funeral hereafter. CHILDS-On Monday, October 3, at .1:05 a. Albert Chllds, in his liftyrseventh year. Funeral from the residence of tiis4rroth-er-ln-law, William H. Baker, 411 Falrview avenue, Klliott borough, Tuesday, October at 2 p.

m. KIRBY On Saturday, October 1, 18D8, at 11:30 p. at -the residence of his daughter, Mrs. J. D.

Warnock, 420 Rebecca street, Allegheny, James W. Klrby, aged years formerly of the West Snd. Funeral at Tuesday afternoon, COTTOM On Sunday evening, October 2, lw, at 7 o'clock, Ella May, wife of Thomas Cottom, In her twenty-sixth year. Funeral services at the residence of her father Taylor Jones, 210 Omexa street, East End, on Tuesday morning, at o'clock. Without the telephone no residence is complete There are over 2,000 com-' plete homes In this vicinity and many are the homes of your friends $30 a year for the service-anybody can afford that.

C. TeL. 1700. Telephone Seventh ave. lWgje FIXAXCIAL.

FIDELITY TITLE TRUST CO. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $1,400,000. Allows interest on deposits. OFFICES: 341-343 FOURTH I. 112ogs T.

MELLON SON'S BANK, 514 Smithfield Street, General Bankers, Foreign Exchange, Letters of Credit. HENRY SPROUL CO. 236 FOURTH PITTSBURG. rrlvate Telegraph Lines East and West Stocks, Bonds, Cotton, Grain and Provisions Bought and Sold or Carried on Margin. ALL THE NEWS IN THE PRESS.

7 Jackets lanes Atchison, pref B. P. n. Transit Hurlington Canada Southern Chea. A Ohio C.

O. C. C. St. L.

Consol. Gas Cotton Oil Iel. A Hudson Denver, pref Haw. Sugar General Klectrlc Illinois Jersey Central J1H Nor. Pacific, 78 411, Northwest 128 w.t Ontario ft Western.

15" llJVOmaha 7k1 52 Pacific Mall ii 22 i Peoples Gas VilH 14'4 Pullmsn ll S9 Kock Island I)1 3 r.1 do pref lorV5 1P So. Ry. pref Ml 12 30 ISugar 117'4 i do pref 107 HO'4 St. Paul biC, 91 'Tenn. C.

ft 1 26H K. pref L. E. ft Lead Leather do pref Manhattan 31 'ii Texas 13 9'ii Tobacco 119' 32 1 do pref 125 Union Pacific 32 di pref M) Wabash, pref 204 91 1 Met. St.

Ry Miss. Pacific Nashville N. Y. Central Northern Pacific 1V: 32 Western Union i E. 4 54 i A.

S. W. 28H Ice 46'4 115H 411 The Western Market. John I). Armstrong ft Chicago correspondents wired as follows: "The wheat market opened easy and slightly lower on enormous receipts In the northwest and lower cables.

December started at and declined to 6H4c when local shorts gave the market some support, checking the decline, but the undertone Is heavy and the market has every appearance of going lower. Mlnheapolls and Duluth received 2.448 cars, against 1.518 cars last year. The local receipts continue to grow larger 447 cars to-day; however, only 26 of them are contract grade. The receipts at other winter wheat points are also Increasing. "A 'Huld your wheat' circular has been Issued from St.

Jne, by a number of persons who style themselves the 'American Agriculturist The circular reads: Give the law of supply and demand effective force by light deliveries; alternate deliveries with your neighbors and string out The last time these circulars were put out the scheme slipped a cog somewhere and wheat sold about the lowest It ever did, and It would not be surprising If history repealed Itself. "The world's wheat shipments for the week were 8.395,000 against 9,224,000 bushels a year ago. "The visible supply shows a much larger Increase than expected 1.956,000 bushels. Corn Increase, 1,754,000 bUHhels; oats Increase, 693,000 bushels." The Oil Market. It has been a long time, If ever, since the local operator was placed In his present condition.

There has scarcely been a time that he could not start out and pick up some kind of producing territory this side of West Virginia or southeastern Ohio. The record of last week's field developments does not differ materially from the previous week. About the same number of wells were completed, but only one of the gusher kind. Both the Campbells run and Flat run pools In Monongalia and Marlon counties have been conspicuous for big wells recently. In the Flnt run district the South Penn company drilled In its No.

on the Ann Harvey fiinn and got a producer that started at 800 barrels a day. The deep sand territory In Monongalia, Marlon, Wetael and Tyler counties Is furnishing the most of the new production. Several good wells were completed to the north of the Klk Fork pool and there will be a little of the old time activity In that quarter. Some of those holding leases are Inclined to crowd the lines. Small wells of the average kind were completed In the Jackson Ridge pool during the week and an assortment of producers atid dusters marked the progress of operations In the shHiinw sand territory In Wood and Pleasants counties The advance of the credit balance market from $1.04 to $1,06 und a subsequent drop to $1.05 were the only changes during the week.

HURRIED THE FIRE. WOMAX WILL LIKELY 1)1 AMI THE HOUSE WAS DAMAGED. An Occupant of nn Allegheny Tenement Tours Oil Into a Stove nnl the Family Kits a Very Narrow Escape The Second Case of the Hind To-Day. A four-story frame tenement house, at 217 East street, Allegheny, caught fire shortly after noon to-dny and Mtb. Mary Rominskl, aged years, was probubly fatally burned.

She Is now In the Allegheny General hospital. The dunuiRe to the house will amount to about An alarm of Hre was sent In from box East street and Madison avenue, about noon and a few minutes later a general alarm was sounded. When the engines arrived the flumes hud made considerable headway and it was only after considerable "ffort that the building was saved. There are five families living In the building, and for a time the wildest excitement prevailed. The lire whs caused by a kerosene explosion.

Mrs. llomlnskl, who lives on the second floor, was preparing dinner for the family. The husband mid four small children were sitting at the table, while the wife, was preparitig some food at the stove. The lire did not burn well and Mrs. Kominskl picked up a live-gallon can of oil and began pouring It on tho stove.

The oil exploded, setting the place on lire. Mrs. Hominskl's clothes were enveloped In flumes and she rushed out of the house. The flames leaped about the door in a moment and ihe rest of the family were unable to get out. The eldest daughter dropped the other children, tho youngest being 12 months old, out of the window and then Jumped out herself.

They were taught by Knman John AH escaped uninjured. Mr. Homlnski also jumped out of the window and escaped with slight injuries. In the meantime Mrs. Rominskl had reached the street, screaming at the top of her voice.

She ran down street some distance and fell In a faint. Charles Mar-tell and a number of citizens managed to present the woman from being burned to death. Martell was badly burned about the hands. The other occupants of the house escaped. The furniture of Romnnskl Is a total loss.

The building is the property of John Manz. FATHER M'GILL DISCHARGED. There Wae No Convincing Evidence Against the Rev. Father McGill, who was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, was given a hearing this morning before Magistrate McGarey. The priest was locked up at the request of the rector of St.

Michael's church. It was alleged that while Mgr. Martinelll was about to celebrate mass, l-'ather McGlU attempted to enter the sanctuary. At the hearing Rev. McGill stated that he did not make any effort to enter the sanctuary and that he had come to hear the services.

He said, however, that he did Intend to seek an Interview with the apostolic delegate after the services were over. He claimed that his actions were entirely proper and there was no Just cause for his arrest. None of the authorities from St. Michael's church appeared against the defendant and he was discharged. It was reported that an unauthorized person, who has been collecting funds for the monastery, was none other that Father McGill, and that the officers of the institution would make information against There Is no truth In the matter, as it was learned at the monastery this morning that no such action would be taken.

Allegheny Offenders, Mike Ackron, aged 20 years, of 73 Arlington avenue, Allegheny, was fined f3 and costs this morning tit the Allegheny central station. He was charged with disorderly conduct. Adolph Gruy, aged years, of South Eighth street. Pittsburg, was sent to the works for 30 days for begging. Squirrels for Highland Park Zoo.

Mr. Atkinson, of Wilklnsburg, presented a number of gray squirrels to the Highland park zoo to-day. Director Blge-low says the squirrels will be confined at present, but In another vear It may be possible-to let them gambol about the trees in the park. Remains 1 nldent ifled. The body of the hnknown man killed on the Pittsburg, Fott Wayne Chicago railroad near Verner station last night are.

at the Allegheny morgue. Up until noon he had not been identified. It is thought he was a trackwalker. Tha limit of excellence for $3.00 on ettry pair MARS Y' Street, PITTSBURII, PA. tired sgain from the stage.

She has only recently returned with her husband from a trip abroad. She was Charles H. Hoyt's second wife, his first wife having been Flora Walsh, also an actress. The picture and autograph reproduced above was presented to the dramatic editor of the Press upon the occasion of Mrs. Hoyt's last appearance in this city.

GOOD MAX WHEN SOBER. But Tony Freager'i Wife Says He I Bad When Drank. Officer Rosenblatt, about 10 o'clock last night, heard screaming and ran to No. 77 Spring alley. He entered and found Tony Freuger, an Italian, with a revolver and a.

razor. When he saw the officer he threw them under the bed. Freuger was arrested and locked up at No. il police station, charged with being a suspicious person. At the hearing this morning, before Police SInglsitrate Arch Mackrell, the officer stated that about 8 o'clock some one was calling "Murder," "Police." He ran up Spring alley.

All was quiet. About in o'clock the cries were repeated. He went Into the house where assistance was needed, and found defendant smashing the furniture. He attempted to hit his wife with a plate find then with a chair. He also had a revolver and a razor.

Mary Freuger said her husband was very disorderly. He had threatened to kill her several times, and was a bad man when In liquor, but a good man when sober. He was fined J25 and costs or 30 days in the workhouse. He paid the fine. M.

F. Griffith. T'nlted States secret vervlce seent. Is In the cits to-dsy and was at his olltce in ths Federal building. He expects to return to Philadelphia In a day or two, but will be back In Pittsburg In the course of a few weeks.

Kidney troubles of years stand ing are cured in a few days or weeks by Doan's Kidney Pills: The Little Conqueror of Kidney Ills. 50 cents at any drug store. "VJ-here was some Inquiry for Lustre after the cloexof the first call. For SO shares of Exchange Natloanl Bank "0 waB bid, and for 10 shares 74 was bid. There was some Inquiry for Keystone Bank at 12H.

and Third Natloanl Bank advanced from 60 to 68 bid. Small lots of Switch, common, were offered at 37, and for quotable lots a price 4 higher asked. On the first call 6jVa. ex-dividend. was bid for Switch, preferred.

On the noon call 112,001 Consolidated Oa 5s were sold at 108, and there was a steady de-JJj5 mand lor additional lots. Monongahela Water was offered off a tlon on the second call, and no bids were made. -k Ladenburg, Thalman ft Co. wired Whitney Stephenson: "It Is a pure guess us to what our stock will do; It depends largely upon the inclinntinn of the leading otierators. Profes sional tactics Is the one feature designalile to Influence this alone, and one must look for rise or fall, tert to itseii we tnina the ThanUpt will not improve; win ibre sumo time tO rcStver irom (lie anuun bmui ii hob received.

Dkndon is dull but firm; prices on a parity with! our close." September trknsartlons In railroad and mls- "rellane'oua bomTs'Vell off nearly one-half as compared wttn munin, was URHinxt In The total August, 171 236 260 in July, $70,140,000 In June, M.tiW.lfiO In May e27.3D5.O0O In April, Jno.S44.370 in March, c-i am in Vehruarv. S92.tM.200 In January. 389 to 403 Market CAROLINE MISKEL-HOYT. 0E OF THE MOST HEAI TIFl ACTRESSES OS THE STAGE. She Died Suddenly In New York yesterday A Kentucky Girl Famous All Over the World for Her Heanty The Witt of Charles H.

Hoyt, the Celebrated Playwright. New York, Oct. 3. (Special) Caroline MIskel-Hoyt, wife of Charles H. Hoyt.

the playwright, and her now-born son died at her home In. this'Clty last night. She died In convulsions. Hoyt had been ill for but two or three days. Her husband, her mother and her sister were with her when she died.

The burial will take place on Tuesday next in Charles- ton, N. 11., Mr. Hoyt's home, where the bodies will be- taken by special train on that day. Caroline Miskcl-Hoyt's family name was Scales, and she was born September is, at Covington, but tier parents afterward removed to Toronto. Canada.

Her grandfather, C. J. Mendiez, was a man of note In his day, and died while chief Justk-e of the supreme court of Kentucky. She had the advantage of breeding and station to start with, and was educated In a convent. Mrs.

Hoyt was truly a blue grass Diana tall as the daughters of Kentucky, God's garden, are apt to be, with eyes of turquoise blue and a cloud of undulant auburn hair the kind called Titian-red, which lit up her head like an aureole, and stormed the. stage with beauty. Her figure was as perfect as her face, and her form, wllh its cunning curves, was of a fullness that might be styled merely the fullness of refinement. Mrs. Hoyt may truthfully be said to have been one of the most beautiful women of the stage.

Her neck and her shoulders were in admirable proportion to the rest of her body, and she carried her head, with the graceful, Intelligent poise of a most beautiful girl-woman. She had a most charming and Irresistible trick of holding her head a little 10 one side and Inclining a little downward, while her eyes were raised with a very appealing look that gave one a fervent longing to ask her what under the shining- sun those eyes were yearning for, and to offer straightway to secure the object. Her photographs have had the greatest sale of any actress on the stage, and have probably been more generally used for advertising purposes on calendars and in magazines than any professional beauty in the country. Mrs. Hoyt's first engagement was with Robert Mantell, playing a small part In "A Face in the Moonlight," and her next engagement was at Daly's.

In 1S! she became acquainted with Charles H. Hoyt, who engaged her to play the leading part of Ruth, the minister's daughter. In "A Temperance Town." and shortly after the playwright fell in love with his star, and on March 4. 104, they were married. She retired from the stage at that time, permanently, it said, but a year afterward she reappeared In "A Contented Woman," which was written by Mr.

Hoyt especially for his wife, hi which she played for two seasons, with only fair success. She made her last appearance In Pittsburg at the Alvln theater In "A Contented Woman" during the week of April ti, ISO', and shortly afterward re t'V (5 5 On 1 i 8 ta "J11 1 SM .3) 1 tn i-. it I 'on 168,127,190 in September last year. The gross earnings of Louisville Nashville for August were Jl.866.746, an Increase of and net $563,571, a decrease of $30,695. From July 1 gross earnings were an Increase of $120,853, and net a decrease of The gross earnings of SS roads for the second week of September.

is8, Is computed at $8 972,127, an "Increase of $273,444, or 3.14 per cent. fl roads for third week September. 1898, at $8,893,05, an increase of or 7.21 per 'cjtr. i Buffalo, Rochester Pittsburg reports for AUgust: Gross earnings, $351, 7K9, an Increase of $59,128, and net $128,110. an Increase of JZ7.561; gross earnings from July 1 were an Increase of and net $250,555.

an Increase of The gross earnings of the Georgia railroad for August were $108,022. a decrease of $5,909, and net $15,833. a decrease of $7,248. From Jan-' nary 1 groaa. earnlnas were 141, an Increase ot $15,558, and net $109,386.

a decrease of $13,239. Total bank clearings at all the clearing hnue of the United States for the week were a decrease of $34.951. from the previous week, and a decreate of Sf9.ll5.081 as compared with the same week last year. Market Opinion. E.

It C. Randolph, New York, wired Henry Bproul Co. "London prices came higher, but the market here opened down and then rallied. Tobacco and Sugar touched the lowest points In the recent decline. From the appearance of the market It would seem that the movements In boih stocks are over, as the factors on which they are based are practically exhausted.

The general market ha recovered to above Saturday's closing prices. AccoMlng to the newsiairs the break In Tobacco was due to" Mr. Keene'p discovery that Insiders were trying to sell out on him, whereupon he promptly realized on his own large holdings, netting him. It Is claimed. profit.

Prices for refined sugar' unchanged to-day The point is however i made that last week's reductions virtually eliminate the refiners'- profit. A portion of the street holds that the recen events In the Industrials will result In speculative attention being turned to the railroad list, and that favorable conditions In. regard to general busi-" ness at the northweFt and good railroad earn- 'bigs will now have due effect. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Is strong this morning. Insiders ate quoted as talking with confidence about the future position of Federal Steel securities.

The yellow fever situation at the. south Is considered serious. The Baltimore has been ordered from Manila to China on account of the danger to foreigners at Pekln. The Pacific storks have good support In London and Americans are generally The liay In Wall Street. New York, l--Thc stock market opened active and A somewhat higher range of prices for American stocks 1n London ws wholly disregarded, dnd attention was again directed toward thoi Industrial stocks the course of which was thought likely to dominate the market.

These Ytocks were again "If it has Verner on It it's a good shoe." HIGH ART SHOES. Just as much art in making a fine shoe as there is in designing a picture hat-Just as much satisfaction in wearing one, too The fall shapes at $5, $6 and $7 are particularly elegant Then there's the Verner Special at W.Srt Well, come In nd lev' it tell Its own story of comfortable durability C. A. VERNER, Fifth and Klarket. 1,..