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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, . AUGUST 9, 1891..
OIL IS'ON THE JUMP
The Standard Knocks Off All
Premiums and the Market Soon
Goes Up Twenty Cents.
PECULIAR TURN IX THE BUSINESS.
Operators and Trodncers Believe the Order
"Will Itesnlt in a Revival of
Speculation.
EXCITEMENT IIIGH ON THE EXCHANGES.
Views of Various AVoIl-Known Oil Men on the Outlook
for the Trade.
Ihe following order was posted in the
Xational Transit office on Fourth avenue
yesterday morning:
Oil Citt, August 8.
Commencing to-day all premiums will be
v Huditm u and the piice for the credit Bal
ances will be the amo as cei tiflcates, ex
cepting Tiona oil, which will remain tho
same - Jofltrii Seep.
Oil producer!, operators and ex-speculators
read it, tubbed their eyes, read it
again, and like the singed parrot, asked:
"Wonder what they are going to do next?"
To say that it created excitement is putting
it mild. For a time the trade was stunned
and then it began to figure out how the
order ould affect the oil business.
MAS SOT BEEN bTKOXG.
For the past three days oil men have
been in a state of chaotic nervousness which
they have not felt lor nearly ten years.
Thursday an order was issued by the Na
tional Transit officials equalizing premiums
on all oil produced iu New York, Pennsyl
vania and "West Virginia. The premium
was to be 13 cents a barrel all
around. This went into effect
Fiiday morning, and when the gong closed
the market Fiiday afternoon the price of
oil had dropped from jS1 to 50 cents a bar
rel. It was the general belief that the
premiums had been equalized for the pur
pose of killing speculation by stopping the
issue of certificate or speculative oil As
a consequence brokers became panic stricken
and producers set up a prolonged
howl lrom one end of the oil cotintry to the
other. Bankruptcy stared most of them in
the lace, and there were those who believed
they could already see their property iu
the hands of the Sheriff They acted like
men without hope, and threats
loud and deep were uttered against
the powers that be in the oil business.
The order yesterday morning came like a
thunderbolt. Hope revived. Gradually it
besrau to dawn upon the dazed intellects of
tlie producers and speculators that there
was ill a straw to whieh to cling. Their
faces brightened; the panic had been
averted. The corpse ot the last year which
has been lying on'the floor of e cry oil ex
change trom New York to Pitts
burg has already commenced to
breathe, for yesterday, although
the market was open only two hours, prices
jumped from iO cents to 70i, where it
closed. Fortunes were made iu that time,
and perhaps thousands were lost, This is
the biggest jump the market has made for
many ears, and the like may not be seen
again this century.
OS THE EXCHANGE TLOOR.
The scene on the floor of the Exchange
was interesting the first time for months.
It is so long since there was e en a
'.pah-nood" in the exchange that the old
time jamboree was hard to raise, and when
Secretary Chaplin announced that there
liad been a jump of 9 JXC in Oil City during
ihe shades of night the brokers looked be
wildered like a captured hare suddenly re
leased in front of a pack of hounds and
given the char.ee of the gauntlet. For a time
there w as silence profound. This was followed
by a gurgle in the throats of all present
aid it seemed as though their whistlesueeded
wetting, like the sucker of a weather
cracked wooden pump. Their joints were
rusty and their vocal organs from long dis
use emitted discords, but alter a time they
struck the old-time swing and there was a
din the like of which has not been heard
since the shutdown movement was organ
ized. But qui bono? No one had any oil to
sell, as lor many moons past even a shilling
chaser rarely saw a reason why he should
buy oil for a fnc-second investment, and no
one wanted to buy wind unless it were oil
E-cenled. Xo one would buy except on im
mediate delivery. Later news was received
that Oil City was paying 67 cdnts for all the
oil in sietit The "market closed at 70
coats for September oil.
Down on Fourth avenue, which might
appropriately be called the general office of
the oil trade, the scene was almost as ani
mated as on the floor above. Every 10 or 12
feet were groups of operators eagerly dis
cussing the situation, and each backing up
his stand by logical arguments. There were
few of them who had recovered from the
equalization of the premiums and50-cent
oil. It had been a time of trial and sore
tribulation to the trade, and they recovered
tlonlv from the shook. "When the full
meaning of the order knocking off premiums
became generally know n, there was scarcely
a man to be found who did not commend it
as the onlv move on the part of the Stand
ard which would avert the threatened
panic.
irar IT WAS DONE.
This was one reason assigned for the move
bv a gentleman connected with the Na
tional Transit Company.
"There was such a universal wail from the
producers," he said, "oerthe equalization
of pi emiunis and a panic threatened on the
market by the beliet that there is only ono
buyer oi'oil, the Standard, that it was
decided to knock off the premium and let
everybody buy w ho wanted to do so. Now
the '11 have an equal chance and no cause
to complain. They can make their ow n
market, and blame it on whomsoever they
will if it don't go just to suit them, but the
fact remainsthat the chances are now even."
The oil scout of The Dispatch took a
turn around among the producers to get in
touch with the prevalent feeling on the sub
ject and found that not one man in forty talked
with but believed that the killing of pre
miums would help the trade, especially the
speculative business.
WHAT THE OrEKATOES SAT.
John M. Patterson, the wealthy producer
w ho holds the prize for opening the Mc
Curdy field, said: "There is not a question
of doubt but that no premiums will help
the trade. It will levive speculation and
cause a fluctuation in the market which we
have not known for years. It will put
money in circulation and revive the busi
ness all around. I think it is the only
move which the Standard could now make
to relieve the present depression."
Fred I- Boden, of the firm of F. E.
Iloden & Co., extensive operators in the
Moon field, was as straightforward in his
remarks as any man met. "I dou't want
anv leverage iu mine," he said, "and am
willing to produce oil without the handicap
of a premium. All I want is an equal
bhow. This movement of the Standard
will cause speculation to once more to lift
its head, and if I want to bet on a pair of
duces against an ace full that is my privi
lege, and the other fellow has got to come
up to me if he wants to know what I've got
Give all an equal chance and a lively mar
ket and it will make better times in the oil
business."
"W. H. Gailey, of Gailcy Bros., operators
and producers, said that when the market
was active he had handled at least 100,000
barrels of oil every month on the Exchange,
but now there is no incentive to deal. He
1-clieves that the killing of premiums will
revive speculation, stimulate trade on the
floor, and that by the first of next month
the Exchange would be doing a daily
business that it has not known for years.
Dr. 51. C. Egbert, at one time one of the
heaviest speculators in the oil country and a
man who is thoronghlv posted, even to the
minutest detail of the business said: "It
will revive speculation. Certificates will be
re-issued, and speculation boom. I would
want a guarantee, however, that a premium
would not be put on again before going in
very heavy. There is no necessity for the
Standard paying two prices for oil. It can
just as well allow speculation and pay only
the market price, as to shut off speculation
and put a premium on certain grades of oil."
want othtks to carry it.
"W. L. Mellon, the operator, refiner and
pipe line owner, when asked for an opinion
as to the probable result, said that in all
probability the Standard wanted to get its
oil carried by outsiders and took this
method of doing it By cutting off the
premiums he believes business on the ex
changes will be reanimated and speculators
will carrv the Standard s oil.
Jacob ifeffer, of the Kanawha Oil Com
panv, said that the oil business now looks
brigliter than it has for some time, and he
believes that with the revival of specula
tion the producers will get a better price
for their product
John Galloway, the phenomenal walker,
and one of the most unique characters in
the business, was more hopeful yesterday.
He also is connected with the" Kanawha
Oil Company, and when interrogated said:
"O, there is not the remotest doubt but that
the present move of the Standard will bene
fit us. We will have our rights and
what we want is a fair price for our product,
and I believe now we are going to get it
"When the Standard puts oil down to 50
cents it might as well say, 'Gentlemen, we
w ill give you ?75 a month to work for us,'
and w e would have to take it Yes, I would
much rather have no premium than a J
premium on all oil.
OPEXED TO AI.Ii BUYERS.
C. "W. Pratt said that in his opinion the
Standard had listened to a general wail
from the producers that there was only one
buyer, and that it had decided to throw the
market open to all and let everyone buy
who would.
"W. S. Gufley said that he did not see that
it would help speculation particularly, be
cause there is not enough merchantable oil
above ground to speculate with. If there
were 25,000,000 or 30.000,000 barrels in stock
he believed it would be different, but w ith
only 8,000,0000 or 9,000,000 it would be hard
to get up a good active trade on the Ex
changes. AY. J. Logan, of the Koyal Gas Company,
which first called attention to the McDon
ald field, said he had given up guessing the
market several years ago, "The ways of the
Standard people are as inscrutable as those
of Providence, and as I do not know what
their next move w ill be, 1 have nothing to
say."
There was not an oil man in Pittsburg
who even hinted that the big wells which
have been completed lately had anything
to do with the fluctuations of the market.
No one engaged in the business believes
that they were in the remotest way con
nected with the slump of Friday, or the
jump yesterday. In the hrst instance all
"attribute it to the equalizations of premiums,
and in the latter to the abolition of the
same.
the siarket in oie.
A special from Oil City says: The oil
market took an unexpected turn to-dav and
the session closed with a gain of nearly 20
cents from yesterday's close. It was an
nounced that all premiums had been taken
from oil, and that started the rise, which no
one seemed to be able or willing to stop.
There was a bullish feeling on the floor at
the opening, which was 60 cents,
and lrom that moment there was
hardly a stop before the 70J4 mark
was reached. The removal, of the
premiums is certainly in the interest of the
speculative market, and is said to have been
brought about by the increasing value of
the products of the heavier oils, while at
the same time there is a decline in the value
of the lighter oils and their products owing
to an oversupply. All oil in Pennsylvania
(except Tiona, which remains unchanged),
New York and 'West Virginia fields, is now
certificate oil, and the market is thrown
open to all buyers. The last two days have
brought a large number of speculators into
the market, and the trade augurs good re
sults from the important step just taken.
OIL AT NEW YORK.
A BROKER HAD NO TROUBLE MARK.
ING IT DOWN FRIDAY.
The Standard's Move Toole Everjbody by
Surprise The Difference in Price Was
Quickly More Than Made Up The Clos
ing Figure Was ?0 1-2.
rSr-ECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DtSPATCTI.t
New York, Aug. 8. Perhaps the most
striking manipulation that has ever oc
curred in the oil market since speculation
in crude oil has existed was seen in the Con
solidated Exchange yesterday and to-day.
Yesterday a broker, supposed to be an agent
lor the Standard Oil Company, engineered a
decline in the price of September
options for National Pipe Line certifi
cates. The option is practically the one
now dealt in on the Exchange. As the oil
market has been dead for a long while, and
the brokers formerly active in it have
abandoned it for fields in which there was
less arbitrary control of the price, the
broker referred to had no trouble in mark
ing the price down until it touched 51c.
The total sales recorded on the decline was
onlv 190,000 barrels, which would cost less
than 5100,000 to pay for it in full.
It was afterward learned that the Stand
ard Oil Company had removed its premium
of 15 cents per barrel for fresh oil. This
premium has been paid for some time in the
field, and the great business of the company
has been in fresh oiL "While it has been
buying fresh oil, the National Pipe Line
certificates have been ignored, and the state
ment was made that the oil in the pipe
lines had lost so much of its value
that it could only he worked at the
discount named as compared with fresh
oil. The announcement that this premium
had been removed, and that hereafter the
Standard would pay the same price for
pipe line certificates" that it paid for fresh
oil in the field took everyone by surprise.
It was, of course, expected that the differ
ence between the price of fresh oil and the
price of pipe line certificates would be at
once made up, and this expectation was
more than realized.
The opening sales this morning were made
at an advance of 1 cents. From then until
the close the price was steadily bid up, until
it reached 70J, closing at that figure.
AYhilc the bids were shouted out by the
agents of the manipulators a crowd of fre
quenters of the Exchange gathered near the
oil ring and watched the movement with in
creasinc; interest The opening Mondav is
expected to be exciting.
Kate Field on Dress Reform.
fSrEClAI. TXLEOKAX TO THE DISrATCH.l
New York, Aug. a Miss Kate Field,
who was in town to-day, was asked what
she thought of the Chautauqua dress reform
idea. "It will not go," replied the enter
prising editress.
Marriage License Issned Yesterday.
Name. Residence.
J Frank J. firunett Plttburtr
Bella J. nolllday. Pittsburg
t RolwrtT.. Watson Dunuesne
Jcmlc Bread) Duquesne
t George P. Soisson Conncllsvlllc
Clara May Carver. Braddock
I Otto C. Bmeliel .. TMitsburg
I Louise U. Waitner '. Pittsburg
JJohnT. Hoded Pittsburg
1 Ludnda J. Camming Ross township
j Thomas Edge Pittsburg
J Mary Bloxsora Pittsburg
J John Lctikowskl Pittsburg
J Rosalia Burczlkowska Pittsburg
jPeterStoll Allegheny
I Maria fechurr. Allegheny
l?SplWLI,nUa .Pittsburg
I Same E. Javrns Pittsburg
Joseph i CMsler.... shaler township
I Mary Jiotlicntroeh Shaler township
"Je8 Klk?R Tarentum
I Margaret Hormann Crelghton
Elxwood and retnrn, 25c See "ad." on '
tenth page.
IT TAXES CREDULITY.
Some of the Marvelous Things Ee
ported From Cassadaga Lake.
CASE OF A LINESVILLE LADY.
The Correspondent's Experience
Keeler, the Slate-Writer.
With
ANSWERS FROM AN UNSEEN POWER
rSrFCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCH.
Cassadaga Lake, N. Y., Aug. 8.
The Spiritualists in convention here are
having a lively time of it. Your corre
spondent has heard of many wonders here
that concern persons he knows are credible
and intelligent. A lady from Linesville,
Pa., Mrs. Gher, had an engagement with a
slate-writing medium, but instead of writ
ing a question for herself, asked her friend,
Miss Cushing, of Coehranton, to write one.
Miss Cushing did so, folded it up closely
and gave it to Mrs. Gher, who carried it to
the medium without looking at it or know
ing what it was. Holding the question in
her hand and the slates in her lap there was
written this answer to the question:
"Maggie You did not know me in this
mortal life, but I knew you.
"Edwarp Cushing."
Below the answer were the words, "Fire!
Fire! Fire!" and a drawing of a fire engine
rushing to a fire with a drawing of a man
being crushed underneath the wheels. Mr.
Cushing had been killed in such a manner
20 years before and when his daughter was
too young to remember him.
A MATRIJKHJIAL TANGLE.
The next case is one in which Mrs. Maud
Brake is the medium. A lady and her hus
band, of Meadville, went to her for a sitting.
The lady is a Presbyterian and her husband
a "Unitarian. Both had been married be
fore, but no sne on the grounds was aware
of the fact. As soon as the medium had
gone Into a trance condition she said to the
gentleman that there was a lady present
lrom the spirit world who wished to see
him, and then she proceeded to describe
him to the minutest detail. Height, color
of eves, hair, complexion, etc., were all de
scribed true to life. Immediately after this
description she turned to the lady and said,
"There is the .spirit of a gentleman here
who wishes to speak to you, but he would
like the gentleman present to leave the
room."
As soon as the husband went out the
medium grasped the lady's hand acd'kissed
it several times affectionately. She then
described the lady's first husband as minutely
as she had the husband s hrst wile and then
said: "He is your husband and his father
and brother are also there. And his mother
too?" asked the lady.
"No," said the medium, "she is at home
on the old farm," which, by the way, was
true.
looking after his ring.
The medium continued: "He says he
wants to see Jack." Jack was the name of
the little son. He then asked, through the
medium, "where is the other ring I gave
you?" The lady pointed to a second ring
on her finger, but the medium said: "He
says that is not the one. I mean the one
that has my initials and a stone setting.
The lady then told where she had left it at
home, and on his asking what she intended
doing with it she answered that she would
keep it for Jack. He said that was right
and said lie should be glad to meet her again.
The ladv then asked the medium how long
it had been since her first husband had
passed from earth and after thinking a mo
ment said, "eight years and two days,"
which was correct to. a day.
Mrs. Crake then said, "You have two
aunts on the other side.
"No," the lady insisted, "I have but one
aunt who is dead."
"Yes," the medinm insisted, "you have
two, one you may not know, out your
mother will. Her name is Charlotte."
The lady afterward asked her mother and
found she had a half sister Charlotte in the
spirit land. On being asked for the name
of the other aunt she said, "I do not get the
name, but think over the names ot your
aunts and perhaps I can get it. The lady
went over some names mentally and the in
stant the name of her aunt came into her
mind the medium pronounced it.
In the course of the conversation the me
dium said: "Your husband's father seems
to have some trouble regarding some papers.
It is his will; there seems to be a dispute
over it," and such was the fact.
A slate-writing mystery.
The next case I shall give is an experi
ence of your correspondent, who has never,
so far as he knows, been charged with being
too crednlous in spiritual affairs. I took
two slates and went, as a matter of curiosity
more than anything else, before the slate
writing medium, Keeler. He asked whether
I had the questions written. I said that I
had not. He then asked me to write from
two to eight questions, directing them to
some persons I had known in lite, but who
are now, as we saj-, dead, but as Spiritual
ists say, "who have passed out." I wrote
the questions, folding them up very tightly.
I had the slates on my knees. He asked me
to open them enough for him to drop
in a piece of Blatc pencil which was
about as large as a grain of wheat, and then
said for me to tie my handkerchief around
them. I did so, and placed them on the
table before me, and we then talked awhile
on different topics. In about 20 minutes
his face suddenly assumed a very earnest
expression, and he said he thought the
writing was going on. In a few. minutes
he asked me to untie the slates. I did so,
and on opening them, found the lower one
filled with a fine handwriting looking very
like that of the lady to whom it was ad
dressed, and signed by her name.
IT'S BEYOND EXPLANATION.
He then took another slate, asked me to
sponge it and lay it upon the other. I fol
lowed directions, and Mr. Keeler, closing
his mouth tightly and seeming greatly ex
cited, took hold of the slate in both hands at
one end and asked me to hold the other. I
took hold, and the writing began. It could
he heard distinctly. In about two minutes
the slates were suddenly turned so that we
each held them by the side instead of the
ends, and in another two minutes they were
turned again, leaving the end that he held
first in my hands and the other in his.
"When the sound.ceased I opened the slates
and found a coarse hand "with lines wide
apart had written the slate full
and signed the name of a young
man I had addressed, and then between the
lines in a very fine hand was another com
munication, written upside down as com
pared with the coarse hand, and this, too,
was signed by the name of a lady to whom
one of the questions was addressed. Then
across both of these was written in blue the
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following short communication, addressed
tp me: "Tell father that Lucy is here,'
signed by the name of the young man to
whom it was addressed. Two other ques
tions were not answered, but in green was
written below the blue, "William
not here," the blank containing the last
name of one of the persons addressed.
Now, what power and intelligence wrote
these replies? It took both force and in
telligence to do it? If Mr. Keeler did.it,
mv eyes lost their power and played me
false for I am as certain that the slates
wero not at his disposal for a single minute
as I am that I am writing these lines. Mr.
Keeler himself says that he knows but little
of the power that does the work. He
simply knows that intelligent answers
come many times, though not always, in
response to questions, and he attributes
them to his control in the world of spirits.
MARRIED.
ADAMS BETHUNE-August 5, by Rev.
J. D. Sands, Mr. Charms A. Adams, of Pitts
burg, to Miss Layika C. Bbthtoe, of North
Pine Grove, Clarion oounty, Pa.
DIED.
BINSWANGER On Friday, August 7, at
5 a. v.. Louis BissWAifOEB, in the SOth year ot
his age.
BLACK On Saturday, August 8, 1S91, at
7:55 a. it.. B. A. Black, eldest son of William
D. and Mary E. Black, aged 21 years and 3
months.
Funeral services at the family residence,
Port Perrv. on Sunday. 9th instant, at 3 P. jr.
Friends of the family are respectfully In
vited to attend.
BLACKHAM At Hoboken, Pa., Friday
morning, August 7, 1891, Mrs. Boeka Black
ham, wife or Cyrus Blackham.
GRABENSTEIN On Friday, August 7,
1891, Kobebt A. Gbabekstein, in his 25tU
year.
Funeral from his mother's residence, 337
Western avenue, at S o'clock )?. M., to-dat.
Interment private.
CROWL On Friday evening.Angust 7, at 7
o'clock, Marie Angela, infant daughter of
E. P. and Nellie Crowl, aged 1 year 7 months
and 16 days.
Funeral from parents' residence, 216 Grant
street, Scsday, August9, at 3 o'clock p. m. In
terment private.
DIETRICH On Saturday, August 8, 1891,
at 6:30 p. m., Clara, daughter of Louis and
the late Clara Dietrich, aged 5 months and 18
days.
Funeral on Moitdat at 2 p.m. from the fam
ily residence, Chartiers, Pa. Friends of the
family are respectfully Invited to attend.
EIGENRAUCH On Friday eveninir. Au-
gust7,lH)l,at 7.30 o'clock.MARY L.,daughter of
William and Mary Elgenranch, at the resi
dence of her parents, No. 115 Main street,
Allegheny, Pa., aged 23 years and months.
Funeral services at German Evangelical
Lutheran St. John's Church.comer Madison
avenue and Liberty street, Allegheny, Pa.,
onSUKDAY, August 9, at 2 p. if. Friends of
the family are respectfully invited to at
tend. 2
ELLIS Saturday evening, August 8, 1891,
at 9:30 o'clock, Maby A, beloved wife of S.
M. Ellis, aged 23 years 6 months.
Funeral services Mokday, August 10, at 3
p. m., at the M. P. Church, Mount Washing
ton. Interment private. 2
GRABENSTEIN Suddenly, in New Jer
sey, on Friday, August 7. 1891, Robert A.
Grarkhsteix, in the 25th year of his age.
GRATSON Entered Into rest Friday, Au
gust 7, 1891, at her home on Elysian avenue.
East End, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
John and Sara E Grayson.
Services at .Calvary Church, East End, on
Sdkday, August 9, 1891, at 4:30 p. M.
KIRK On Saturday morning, Auzust 8,
Mary E., daughter ot W. M. and the late
Mary E. Kirk, aged 15 months.
Funeral services at the residenco of her
grandfather, Mr. C. W. Lewis, No. 10 Ninth
street, Sukday ArrxRHooir, at 3 o'clock. In
terment private.
LEHMANN On Saturday. August 8, 1891,
at 7 p. m., Frances Lnorn, wife of Colonel T.
F. Lehmann.
Funeral services at her late residence,
Craig street, East Eud, on Monday aptsr
itooif at 3 o'clock. Interment private at a
later hour.
NEELY Suddenly, on Thursday, August
6, 1891, at 6:10 p. m., Robert M-, son of Agnes
and the late Robert Neely.
Funeral services will be held at the resi
dence of John Monnteny, 23 Grace street,
Mt. Washington, on Subday, August 9, B91,
at 2 p. M. 2
NOLAN On Saturday, August 8, 1891, at 2
p. v.., Mrs. Elizabeth Nolan, aged 70 years.
Funeral from the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Sarah Scott, 104 Forbes street, Monday
atORXixo at 9 o'clock. Friends of tho family
are respectfully invited to attend. t
SPANOGLE On Saturday. August 8, '91, at
12:30 p. Hv Mrs. Eliza SrAHOQLE, relict of the
late John Spanogle in the 87th year.
Funeral services at the residenoe of her
'Con-in-law, George Blackstock, 315 Federal
street, Allegheny, on Monday, August 10, at
2 o'clock p. m. Friends of the family are re
spectfully invited to attend.
STOLZENBACH On Saturday, August 8,
1891, at 12:40 p. M., Florence, youngest
daughter of C. H. and Kate Stolzenbach, In
the 6th year of her age.
Funeral from parents' residence, No. 2115
Sidney street, on Sunday, August 9, 1891, at 2
p. v.
TEMPLER On Satnrday, August 8, 1891, at
7:45 A. M., Margaret E., wife of George
xcmpier, ageu xu years monms aays.
Funeral on Monday, August 10, at 2 p. M.,
from 65 Straub's lane, Troy Hill, Allegheny.
WENTZ On Thursday, August 6, 1891, at
10 p. jr., Sofie Barbara, relict of Philip A.
Wentz, aged 62 years.
All my soul was dry and dead
Till I heard that Jesus bled;
Bled and suffered in my plaoe, -
Bearing sin In matchless grace.
Then a drop of heavenly love
Fell upon me from above.
And by secret, mystic art,
Reached the center of my heart.
Funeral at 1:30 Sunday afternoon, from
her late residence, Craftpn, Pa. Friends of
the family are respectfully invited to attend.
2
WILCOX At Providence, R. I on Tues
day August 4, 1891, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox,
wife ot Alanson Wilcox, Sr., in the 79th year
of her age.
Funeral at Providence on Thursday, Au
gust 6.
ANTHONY MEIER,
(Successor to Meyer, Arnold & Co.,Lta.,)
UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER.
Office and residence, 1134 Penn avenue.
Telephone connection. mvl334.nwisu
JAMES M. FULLERTON.
UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER,
Offices: No. 6 Seventh Street and 623
Penn Avenue, East End.
Telephone 1158. mylO-126-WFSu
Tutt's Pills
Enable the dyspeptic to eat whatever he
wishes. They cause the food to assimilate
and nourish the body, give appetite, and
DEVELOP FLESH
OFFICE, 39lbnd 41 PARK PLACE, N. Y.
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ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHEB,
16 SIXTH STREET.
rt.meJ,2 Per don; petites, $1 per
dozen. Telephone 1751. anS-73-MwVsu
SIO-PLUSH SACQUES-$IO.
To have your Flush Sacque reshaped and
cut over into new fail style, and have plush
renewed by onr new process, bring them to
us at once, as this price will prevail only
during the summer months. PlUBh gar
ments relined. Also seal garments refitted
nd reshaped correspondingly low.
"WEIR &c CO.,
New firm in the old stand, US WOOD BT.,
' third door from Fifth avenue.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Wonderful
Progress
In the manufacture of
Furniture.
The ambition of all manufacturers
to have the "best line" is producing
most satisfactory results.
OUR FALL PATTERNS
READY
ON THE 15th AND AFTER.
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Is the line of Slippers and
Oxfords at
S.
It is better to buy now than
to postpone it. The aim is
not to carry these goods
over. They'll serve you a
better purpose. It is im
possible to describe the line;
you want fasee it. We will
merely quote a few. The
-strap OPERA SLIP
PER is nojv
the lowest reached yet. Ox
fords that were $i 50 are
now $1 00. This will
show you the difference be
tween former and present
prices. A visit will pay
you well.
HIMMELRICH'S,
430436 MARKET ST.
Braddock House,
916 BRADDOCK AVE.
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$3.00 $4.00 $5.00
for
$1.50.
for
$1.50.
for
$1.50.
If you are going to travel East, West,
Jf orth or South you should first supply your
self with one of Bennett ft Co. 'anew Stiff
Hats at $1 GOt We are closing out about 60
dozen of these goods at the above price,
formerly sold at $3, Hand $3.
See Our Window Display.
J. G. BENNETT & CO.,
Xeadlng Hatters and Furriers,
COE. WOOD ST.
AND FIFTH AVS.
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SHW AD VEltTlSEMENTS.
"Cheap as
Gold Dollars
at 75c."
We want to clean Up our Summer
styles, and we want to do so quickly.
We will therefore allow purchasers 25
per cent discount no mistake, 25
per cent from the regular prices of
all Summer Suits, Pants and Thin
Coats and Vests for Men, Boys and
Children. This is not a lot of shop
worn stuff, either, but new, season
able goods that must be sold to make
room for Fall purchases.
A "thousand-and-one" good bar
gains in our other departments, gi 50
Outing Shirts now $1; Men's Light
colored Stiff Hats now $1; Men's
Light-colored Crush Hats now 50c;
$1 and ?i 25 Boys' Shirt Waists
now 75c.
CLOTHIERS, TAILORS AND HATTERS,
16M63 Federal St., Allegheny.
DESKS
OF EVERT DESCRIP
TION, LOWEST PRICES
Also, the
Celebrated Folding Chairs.
LAWX CHAIRS,
RUSTIC ROCKERS,
STEAMER
CHAIRS,
WHEELCHAIRS,
INVALIDS' Goods.
and other novelties.
Special discounts
now offered.
STEVENS CHAIR CO., No. 3 Sixth St., Phg.
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Patterns in cool, light-weiRht
suitings and trouserings. The
largest selection obtainable.
" The Con-eot Styles.
H. &C. F. AHLERS,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
420 SMITHFIELD STREET.
Telephone, 1389. Jeitrrssu
FEICK BROS.,
21 SIXTH ST.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
ESTABLISHMENT.
Specialties: Scientific fitting
of TRUSSES, appliances for
DEFORMITY and 'ARTIFI
CI AL LIMBS. Largest stock
of surgical instruments in
Western Pennsylvania. Large
illustrated catalogue free to
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physicians.
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Prices Slaughtered
To Make Room . .
Unexampled bargains this week in each and every depart
ment. We want to close out our entire line of Summer
Specialties during the next two weeks to make room.
Already our new fall stock is coming in, and, big as our
stores are, we are pressed for space therefore Keech is
BOUND TO HAVE ROOM AT ANY SACRI
FICE. - -s
Refrigerators and Ice Chests.
, Brussels and Ingrain Remnants.
' - - Folding Beds and G ouches.
Baby Carriages and Odd Chairs.
Odd Bedroom Suites.
Odd Curtains and Portieres.
Remember tjiat this Clearance Sale gives you a-' chance
such as you get but once a year. Keech does not carry
over goods from season to season, and these goods must
go, no matter how great our loss. There are plenty to se
lect from this week, but they won't be here long so come
soon. -Keech guarantees the goods and the prices, You
can always save 25 per cent in buying of
KEECH,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THELARBESTjirh leading millinery house in western penna.
Away Beyond
Phenomenal
Our Immense,
Big Business
in the
So-Called
We expected our recent big purchase of
Ladies and Misses' Straw Hats would create
some'at of a sensation. It has resulted in a per
fect Millinery ovation. A most fitting tribute to
the potent efficacy of Low Prices as a lever in
moving large quantities of first-class, fashionable
goods, even if a little late in the season. We've
just landed, and will place on sale to-morrow
morning 500 Ladies' very handsome and stylish,
medium weight, Black Diagonal Reefers, sizes
32, 34 and 36 only they're the $5 and $6 goods
butve procured them to sell out in a day or so
at $2 99 each.
Don't miss the Hough and Beady 50c Sailor
Hats at '14c each.
And the stylish, jaunty 73c Coburg Vassar
Hats at 24c each-
Then the pretty $1, $1 25, SI 50 and 52 00
Milan Lennox Hats can now be had
for 49c, 09c, 74c and 99c each.
Bewitchingly cute those darling little Out
ing Caps 75c ones, they are
now for 4(c each.
Just Passed the Custom Honse
A rarely beautiful selection of the
charming new Polka Dot Rib
bons, in the latest and prettiest
shades.
50 dozen of the 60c Rich Silk Hemstitched
Windsor Ties, lovely shades, to-morrow
for 24c each.
50c pure Silk Gloves, black and colored,
now 24c a pair.
The 75c genuine Milanese Silk Mitts
now 24c a pair.
Ladies' 51 50 5-hook black and colored Kid
Gloves they're an awfully nice lot on
Monday for 90c a pair.
And the 52 7-hook, black and colored Kid
Gloves will all be laid out on Monday
at $1 24 a pair.
Store closed at 5 p. m. till
ALWAYS
THE
CHEAPEST.
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GASH OR CREDIT . . '.
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. . . BOTTOM PRICES
923, 925, 927 PENN AVENUE, - Near Ninth St.
OPEN SATURDAYS TILL 10 P. M.
Dull Season
Testified to
Daily by Many
Thousands of
. Well-Pleased
Buyers.
BASEMENT HUSTLERS.
The 33c Egg Poachers best make
now zuc each.
The 45c 8-quart Iron Stewing Kettles
now 19c eacn.
The 35c beautifully painted Slop Paits
now ic eacn.
The 10c Wooden Picnic Plate,
at uanziger7s. oc a dozen.
Jelly Glasses, Fruit Jars, and
extra tops and rubbers for 3Iason
Jars.
Echoes From Our Art Drapery
Department.
Pretty as a picture those lovely figured,
flounced and plain 50c Tidy Silks, Mon
day for '39c a yard.
Gems of beauty and Oriental loveliness are
those 51 a yard, J--inch Draping Silks,
now for 73c a yard.
Lovely 12c Plush Ball to go
now for 8c a dozen.
There's about 500 yards of the 40 inches
wide, 30c a yard, Plain Scrim: it 11 sellq
now for 14c a yard.
Sept 1, Saturdays excepted.
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