The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1903, Page 12

PRICE OF STOCKS TENDS DOWNWARD Trreguiarity Marks the Course of the Market To-Day, but Pressure Against Atchison, Causes Shares to Decline. | SAGGING THROUGHOUT LIST. | Blump of 20 Pointe In elfie Coast) Preferred and 6 Points on Evane ville and Terra Haute—Westing-| house Regains Part of Its Losses. | Irregularity marked the courses of to- Gay's stock market. Game of the stand- ard stocks and a few specialties of- ‘vanced fraétionally at the outest, but pressure against Atchison ami one or two others of the active stocks caused &@ general ragsin® throughout the list (New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, ®t Paul, Louteville & Nasiwille, Atchi- eon, Amalgamated Copper, Virginia- (Carolina Chemical and a few others all ‘touched a level below Vast night's clos fing by the end of the first hour. ‘Ther was a 12-point decline in one sale of Evansville & Terre Haute pref. The short interest, while not empecially ag- gremive, seemed disposed to depress gtecks whenever the opportunity offered, Further declines were recorded to- ‘wards noon, such specialties as United @tates Realty common and preferred, @nd United States Stecl preferred de- lining from 1 to 43-4 points. The pressure against Atchison con- fdhued, and Rock Island common also sold off. Trading waa rather narrow and professional. The demand for Stocks even of the high class was mere- Jy nominal. Amalgamated was forced down to 40 ‘amd Felling was resumed oleewhere, pull- ing the market back to the lowest. Rock Island sold down to 23 1-8 and Reading, Watash preferred, United Btates Stee) preferred and Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. showed losses of 1 to ane Among the few noteworthy features of the early afternoon was the violent bregk in a number of high-class spe- ‘olalties. Westinghouse common de- clined 121-2, the firs preferred 10, Pa eific Coast first preferred 20, Evansville & Terre Haute 6 and Chicago and East- ern IiHnols certificates 5. Westinghouse wained 6 points. In the tast hour there was a rally in the standard issues under the lead of | UUtehison, but thte market continued | father dull and more or less profession- ai in tone. ‘There were no statements to-day from @ny of the three suspended Stock Ex- ohange firms. Daniel De Wolf Meyer, the assignee of W. L. Stow & Co., mid 4t would be Impossible to put out any statement before Saturday, when one ‘will be made showing the condition of ‘the firm as of Friday night, July 2 The showing will be a favorable one. {With the rise of the market the situa- tion is constantly improving, as the banks holding collateral for the most part took a sane view of the situation @nd held the securities for better prices than those prevailing Friday. The resignation of M*. Stow from tthe Mexican Central directory was mounced to-day. Prime mercantile paper, 5 1-4a6. Ster- ing exchange weak, with actual busi hess in bankers’ bills at 4.85.9004.85.95 for emand and at 4.83.50a4.83,55 for 60 day: bills. Posted rates, 4.84 1+ 4.87 1-2. Commercial bills, 4.83 1-4. Bar | wilver, 54 5-8. Mexican dollars, 42 1-2. | Government bonds weak Ri bonds trregular. oe The total sales of stocks to-day were 453,100 shares, and of bonds $2,403,000. 9 i} ‘The Closing Quotation To-tay's highest, lower te ana | Pet changes from yesterde eine prices OF from last recorded sale follows Net ow, Cloe.ch'ges mal. Copper ...... Am. Car & Foundry Amer. Smelt, & Ret im. Smelt. & Ret. pe Baltimore & Ohio pf. eet Rapid ‘Transic radian Pa Gale. Gt |. Fae! & tron Southern ol. sourners 1a ot Southern 24 pt Dra. 2 Ris pt Brie a je int rf. tle 24 pt... Wille & T H . ville & 7. 1 pt Central Paper city Pouth. pt Xan Seourit! RR Bio,, kan Wo.’ Pacific... fortolk & West & Tex. pt atario & Wertern Reonerivania 4 AND SC ENES THE WORLD: TH | JOHN T, KEATING, JUST BACK FROM IRELAND, (RAVE OF WOLKE AT TONE, PATRIO SCENE AROUND. THE GRAVE - DODENSTOWN, | ‘SQUEEZE IN COTTON FOR SIXTY POINTS Shorts in the July Option Held Up on this Last Day of Notice for Deiivery—Great Excite- ment in Pit at Opening. Cotton shorts in the July option got a little squeeze to-day on the New York Cotton Exchange It was re ported that the squeeze was still more severe on the New Orleans market. This was the last notice day for July de- Uvery. There was great excitement in the pit at the opening. July cotton, which had closed ound 13 cents qa pound last night, rose rapidly to 13.85 and then shot up to 13.60. Wugust cotton was strong in sympathy, and even the new-crop months rose for a few points. ‘The local market was rendered stiffer | by the reports of a squeeze of shorts In New Orleans. Then catton went up to @ point above 14, and it was reported | | that bids above 15 were made. Tt Is stated that Exchange will sto) the New York Cotton | its quotation service the New Orleans market shortly un- | lesa the latter agrees to Join In the movement against bucket shops by 1e- fusing to furnish quotatiois to them. The op Now York were July, 13.2 2.40 to 12.48 Septem’ 9.07 to. T 8 to 9.8L 9.80 to 9.81 10.—In cotton market to-day bull doosted July options to that was oifered from 13,25 to 14, | the offerings stopped. He then bid 15 bales, but nothing Was offer LONDON MARKET DULL. Fractional Advances and Declines in American Securitien, 30.—The market for LONDON, July y securities here to-day dull, with prices trreg- nal advances and declines througnout the list. At chison Was the most active, figuring at 63 1-4, a gain of 3-8 per cent, Steel ks teady, opening at the closing f last night. a es markets showed steadiness, owing to the be t © Would be Oo more fail that the recent Hquidation tas leted: nuth Africans were on good Paris buying and Argen- s reflected a strong tone on Berlin support ue. prices of Americans were: Atchi- | {Atchison pf. 881-8; Baltimore , 88 $4; Baltimore & Ohio 1-4; South Ml 7 sat 8. Steel, Wabash eet CURB MARKET DULL. Do Not Sho Material ange in Either Direction, uro! market to-day opened dull |and inactive. Prices held firm without any particular change in elther direc- tion, In. the first half hour sales of 39 shares of Northern Securities wore re- | Forted, from 891-8 to 89 3-8 and back to 89; and 100 shares of American Can, common, at 45-8 No other sales were 37 7-8. | tenants. BABE GIVES ALARM OF TENEMENT FIRE Tiny Italian Girl Calls Policeman to Smoke-Filled House, in Which Panic Reigns Among Tenants. “Therth a fire'n our houth." A tiny Italian girl, just fo! years old. had crept up to Policeman Charles Ross, | of the Elizabeth street station, so softly | that he had not heard her. He was| startled by the words she lisped. | “Where is your house, little girl?” asked, The ohtld did not he know the number, but she pointed toward the five-story tenement at No. 91 Baxter street and then ran ahead of the big blue-coated policen her bare feet pattering on the sidewalk and her nightle blowing In the wind. The policeman rushed through the court tu the rear tenement, which he found filled with smoke, Mrs. Antonio Cavanaghio, the child's mother, was already running through the crooked halls arousing the tenants. An alarm of fire was sent in in the mean time. When the department came no fire could be found in the building, jand the smoke was traced to the rear| lof the building at No, 142 Ventre street. | It 18 occupied by the Simons Pipe Bend- ing Works. Mrs. Cavanaghto smelled the smoke upon Awaking to go to her early morn- ing work and sent her baby to warn the policeman while she awoke the other $$$ WAS YELLOW FEVER CAUSE OF DEATH? Autopsy to Be Held on Body of Sailor Who Died in Brooklyn to Answer Question, | Allon Smith, twenty-four years old, died this morning In the Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, of what ts supposed to have been yellow fever. Smith was a sailor on the steamship Habana of the Mall Une and. re turned from Vera Cruz four days ago He went to his home, at No. 702 Third avenue, Brooklyn, where he was taken Ml, and yesterday removed to the hos: pital and p in the isolation ward Coroner Hartung will perform an au-! topay to determine the cause of death, and in c he house Third avente has been quarantined, te The Wheat Market, The t market opened firm and higher to-day, but was not as well au: ported as on yester Bull sentiment predominated in the local markets, get- ting additional encouragement from cables, which displayed a better response to American firmness than for some time past rh was bid up at the st but sustained no strength, as the rains | have checkea ughe talk and | temperature e expected in the W | Ne Pork K prices | Whest—Jutye September, 84; September, Wheat 3 old, old, September, Chicago's July, 7 1-4 HX to TL W 3-8 to 7 12 prices were D 1-4: mber, ‘] cember, Corn—July December, 52 “A FULL PURSE NEVER LACKS. | recorded. The most interest seema to c Jorthern, Securities and Amer rey issues, There was a fair ingul or eopper stocks, nie FRIENDS.” ‘The advertiser who rec- n ognizes the value of Sundry World Wants nover lacks a full parse, | te | years l prec TWO LITTLE ONES KILLED BY TRUCKS : One Two-Year-Old. Falls Un- der Wheels of Vehicle While| | kind of a reception the King would be Out for a Walk and Is Fatally | Crushed. Two little childretn are dead to-fay the victims hing wagon wheels ‘Two-vear-old Virginia Mullins, of No. | et Thirty-fourth street. was taken | ening by a little i for a walk yesterday eve girl In the nelghiorhood. In front of No, 310 Fast Thirty-third street Virginia ntarted to cross the street, while athe older girl's attention was attrac an dire nt and one of the rear els struck the child, knocking her down, A policeman hed to the Mast ‘Thirty-fifth street station summoned an ambulance from Bellevue Hospital and Dr, Rosenbloom responded. He exam ined the girl and took her to her home. AL ulf an hour later, Mrs. Mal lins says, the chiid became very ill, and she calied in her family physician, D Phomas Quinlan. As soon as Dr. Quin- J1an examined the child Je sald that she had been injured internally and he did} not think she could lve, Virginia died 1 few hours later, The matter w and William ¢ rested to-day. He 8 reported to the polic . the driver, was ar- was c Inter Magistrate the custady the paroled pending the inquest While his) mofiver, paraly looked on, ‘Thomas Lyr of No. a4 ‘Third over and killed to-day wagon of the Long Island Ex- pany, In Second avenue, be- tween ‘Twenty-sixth and Twenty-se enth streets. “Phe mother had gone into A store, leaving the cilld on the shle- Walk. ‘He ran into the street just as wagon came along, ‘The | hors ed him down and the heavy wheels sed ove Ay ot in a arraigned on at Barlow in the Yorkyitle ge of homicide. transferred him to Comner, He was with three avenue, by a old, was run heavy swoon at sight. and iw pedestrians eared her Richard Curran ran to Bi Hospital with the child in his n he gAavi rR om ther for the Is, He toddling in the street — the }@ young Ireland that {s dominant in the | the United | et | think of going out of their way to do A big truck driven by William Carter, | a negro, of No, 454 East One Hundred and One Hunde: 4 Thirty-sixth I street, was passing through the street, | THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 90, KEATING RETURNS, [we Gve repair shop of P. F. Jerome, at No, | two | of fire that followed the explosion of the | the entire building a mass of spouting to pull up| in the yard between the shed and the ad time to do | tered he |caugat fire and flames from the tree ie siw the | rose high in the alr. PROUD OF IRELAND Says There Has paren Marvel- lous Improvement Since He Left Country Twenty Years) Ago—Sees Hopeful Future. | | MAKES A SPEECH TO-NIGHT.| He Will Tell in Cooper Union About Political and Social Conditions as He Found Them—King's Recep- tion a “Frost.” | John T Keatin: five waeka’ v of Chitao. whee! Ireland, beginning June 17 last, was the occasion of nu-| merous Government demonstrations particularly the one {n Bodenstown, at | the grave of the martyr Theobald Wolfe | Tone—returned to-day on the White star liner Teutonic, To-night he will ad- Aress gq mass-meeting at Cooper Inst!- tute on the political and social condi-| tions of the country as he found them. | “It had been twenty years since I had| seen the dear old country,” Mr. Keat- gf said to a reporter of The Evening Word, “and {t did my heart gond to behold the progress evident on every side that had been made in those two decades. The sight was one to comfort | the soul of any true Irishman. The people have gone ahead; they are think- | ing for themselves, and along lines that must bear big results in the end. It is) to affairs of the country to-day, and the nationalist spirit is stronger than ever. Its triumph Is the goal of all thought and endeavor, and the Irish people will see tt conquer. They wil! not be satir- fied with any land bill or any of the Par. lamentary sops thet are being thrown out ta them from time to time. The United Irish League. “I found out one thing and it was that Irish League had no more per cent. of the whole as @ There is no spirit in the movement. In the cities this 1s particu- larly true. In the country and the out- jivite districts the farmers are willing, a desuitory way, to give thelr sup- to the measures, but they do not than 40 following. Even this attitude on their part can ie accounted for in comparing St with t af the cities, the centres of pup lation, by the difference in the orders of education. “J would have returned to this coun- but I wanted to see what try earlier, Itpwas a frost, Just think, it! was the first time in the history «f Dub- lin that a reigning sovereign had en- tered its gates to be denied the honor of a public address! ‘The police lined the streets during the passage of the | royal party, and at each Venetian mast | -electric-light pole-a patrolman was | stationed to prevent the decorations | being torn down. The whole thing was a frizzle, and was a key to the feelings ot the people.” ~ EXPLOSION OF OIL IMPERILS MANY Werkmen in Automobile Repair Shop Barely Escape with Their Lives When Two Bar- rels of Gasoline Blow Up. Several men at work tn the automobite 3 West Fourth street, had a narrow es- cape from death by fire to-day when barrels of gasoline exploded and scattered blazing fuel about the shop. Several of the men were badly burned. ‘A, R. Crane, a chauffeur, employed in the shop, entered the shed with « lighted torch. Floor, walls and even ceiling were saturated with gasoiine, and a stra, spark fell from the torch set the entir place ablaze. Almost simultaneously two barrels of gasoline exploded ven men were at work in the rear of the shop, and they just had sufMctent warning to run from under the shower barrels. Random sprays of flame over- took several of the fleeing men and set clothing afire, but none sustained injury. n the firemen arrived they found | ame and were compelled to concentrate thelr efforts upon saving adjoining prop- ert building is a large tree, Its branches Millot Brothers, manufacturers of novelties, occupy the bullding at 47 West Third street, the Famous Biue Trading Stamps with Cash Purchases, Rothenberg <o. ~~ The Great August Furniture Sale Begins ugu Monday Morning To-Morrow the Last Day of the Great July Glearing Sale. Bargain Friday Was Never More Important.) . Nothing bat the Most Seasonable, Desirable Merchandise. Tremendous Price Culs in Every Department. Stylish Garments Reduced as Never Before t ! We have marked down about two hundred suits, shown in blue and white polka dot effects with full flaring skirts, Choose from this lot to-morrow ateses . Cy <x Linen Suits, with pleated waists and seven-gore skirts. all sives. Lawn and Cambric Sults in black and white dotted eflect, $s 49 to 44, “‘ Were $3.49. Now atesee.... soon * q Packed one in a box. Sammer Skirt Clearance. Two sorts in dotted duck or purelinen. The duck skirts are shown in blue or black polka dot, are Lawn Waists. Exceptionally fine lawn brotdered front and with e¢m- three broid [oJ thoroughly tailor made, and hand- box pleats around somely trimmed with stitched bust. Pleated b: Straps. The linen skirts are shown Cc and sleeves: Cc in the newest stripe effects, made stock & cull; “ t in the latest pleated sty edstyle, Specialat © Negligee Shirts. |OddGhinaReduced| Shoes for Boys. At a Saving of 50c. Each. Odd Decorated Porc ae 3c Lace, Sprina Heel Style. Specialat The cool days of the} Plates and white They are made of fine leather; with toe carly week have left | Soups” and plates; worth 10c; caps and double soles. enough of these for} Specialat....... : Sizes 9, 93 peqvin ehh. to-morrow’s selling.| Odd Soup Tureens, enchant dec- Mie ha io and They are made off orated and worth up to $2.50 each; 11d As ek woven madras, in in two isreclal 1 A matchless 1.49 ana 98c} the best designs and lots at. opportunity for to- ings Decorated Sugar Bowls at 19¢ mor- ‘ of the Decorated Tea Pots at ' ow's 69 sexon. | On speci 3 Ic Fe | swoppersapeciupere CO) oF Ge Decorated Butter Chip at 2. Gorsets, Gowns and Children’s Wear Specials. Corsets—Clearance lot of every style. in batiste, coutil and net, tine qualitie: long, medium and short lengths, every size, 50c. and 75c. value: special at..... Gowns, fine muslin, full size, in Empire styles, trunined with chisters of hemstitched tucks and insertions of fine embroidery; 75) 49% values at.... seeeees Children's Drawers, muslin, clusters of tucks and deep hem, bands finished with buttonholes ; 19¢. values; while 9c theylastéaticises<cistsiecieseneses Hosiery & Underwear ‘Women's Fast Black Lace Lisle Hose, several designs, double sole, it 1 (e heel and toe; 25c. values at Women’s Fast Black Gauze Lisle j9 Hose, double sole, heel and toe; special c Nene Low Neck Ribbed Cot- Vests, silk ribbon run in neck 1 2k i arm-holes; 19c. values at tables at.............. Sailor Blouse Suits. 49c. Values at a Quarter. Here’s splendid news for Friday! We've marked down more suits that have been selling up to 49 cents each. Bound to have a rousing sale in the boys’ store to-morrow. All desirable colors. Collars attractively trimmed. 25 Good, roomy, well-made gar- ments. Sizes 3to8. Special., Wash Goods & Domestics 40-inch White Victoria Lawn, toc. value,at 43 per yard..... . 4c 36-inch Percales, ane lawns pang other tbr, 12\%e. value, at per yard..... Hemmed Pillow Case: 45x36. 36-inch Fine White Cambric, at per yard. Table Covers, red and green, also red with white borders, 75c. values at. ‘ TWO WOMEN OIE IN SUMMER HOTEL FIRE) Bodies of Mrs. Helen E. Martin and Mrs. E. A. Stevens Bur- ied in Ruins of Sea View House, Old Orchard, Me. se aie 59c LOST DIAMONDS ON SHORE ROAD Mrs. D. M. Dickinson, of Bay Ridge, While Bicycling, Drops! a Chamois Bag Containing’ $3,450 Worth of Jewels. NEGLI GEE Sale of Shirts, 85c. business or outing. Maat ’ lof Madras, all neat patterns * i |—cuffs attached or separate. x These were made to sell for G % e (Special to The Evening Wort.) Mrs, D. M. Dickerson, who lives in a OLD ‘ORCHARD, Me., July 9.—The] yandsome mansion at Shore Road ana {P15 $2 pad $2.50, 4 i Sea View House in Society avenue, at entysthird i 85 cents. . , the Camp Ground, was totally destroyea| Seventy: street, Bay Ridge re- g F by fire early to-day. It Is believed that| Ported to the police to-day that while ) the bodies of two women guests are buried in the ruins, The missing women are Mrs, Helen E. Martin, sixty-two, and riding on her wheel this morning she lost a chamois skin bag containt ing dia- monds worth $2450. Detectives were Yockal Carhart... Mrs, E, A. Stevens, sixty-five, sisters, of| Sent out at once to search tho road Three Cor, 13th St. East Grafton, N. H. They werg wealthy] Where she had ridden, BROADW AY | Cor. Canal St. and had regularly attended the meetings| Mrs. Dickersan takes a spin on her) Sto: Near Chambers | res. \. on the camp grounds. A search ts being made for the bodies of the women, Mrs. E. D. Hooper, an elderly woman, of Paris, Me, had a narrow escape. When the alarm was given she rushed from her room ‘to the hall. The smoke was stifling and when she reached a couch she was overcome and fell. Hore she was found by the flremen, uncon- scious, She was taken to the hotel veranda gnd carried to the ground on a ladder. Her condition was so critical that for a long time it was feared she would not recaver. Miss ‘Tuna Dawson, daughter of Mrs G. W. Dawson, of No. 23 Wellington street, Boston, made a sensational leap from a third-story window and escaped without the slightest injury. Her leap for life was seen by several of the early er- rivals at the fire, and when she struck the ground and It was found that she wheel overy morning for her wishing to leave her dincorann: at house without protec! tion, she wears them io a bag which she hangs about her neck. As usual she put a @olitaire worth, she saya, $1180; anotber valued at $1,000, and ir earrings worth tag this morning, aes She rode along Shore road miles and then returned to the none! Going to the dressing-room she was alarmed to find upon dlsrobing that the bag and jewels had disappeared. She thinks the string around her neck broke, Calling several of the servante she ment back along the road as far as she had ridden, first telephoning to the) From Her for Forty Years; police. Every foot of the ground was searched, but the Jewels were not founa.| but Now Gets Letter. She thinks that they may yet be found and that she overlooked them in 1 ber nervous state. OYSTER BAY, L. 1, July 9.—A pubd- j FINDS SISTER BY A WEIRD FISH STOR John Franklin, Hotel-Keeper at Oyster Bay, Had Not Heard CHASED SUSPECT Bold Burglary. pect that one themselves Broome street, No, 5 Minetta street. The former was on the seat teen, was found with a bur under his arm. DRIVING SILKS. ; Policemen Stir Fourth Avenue by | Shooting at Man Accused of 50| load of booty was care 4 away before Reilly appeared. e men at the police station deserihe as Wolf Brandt, of No, 24 and Raphael Liguort, of the wagon and the latter, a youth of elgh- le of goods Thelr arrest followed which backs on the yard where the shed was. Several women employed by | Millot Brothers, grew frightened at the | flames and ran into the street scream- ing. ILeSiateantytcaral inetfica swaslec erent that {t cracked nearly all the windows In Millot Brothers’ building and also broke the panes in the rear windows at No. 243 Wooster street, which also backs on the yard, The latter house {s vacant. Daring burglars with between and $8,000 worth of fine gllka and talt-| The firemen managed to keep the (ored gowns loaded on a wagon ready | “ames from spreading and also got for cemoval were discovered in front of | Most of the automobiles that were the elght-story building at Nos. soee( stored in the building into the street. ‘Fourth avenue by Policeman Thomas | 4m0ng them were several racing ma- Rellly, of the Mercer street statte | chines of high value. When the fire early to-day. The driver and one man | Was extinguished the shed nad been are now under arwest, and the police consumed and with ft an automobile valued at $1,500, ———_— Machine Took Her Four Fingers. While at work on a press in the tactory of the Unton Paper Company, at No. 844 Washington street, to-day Katle Smith, fifteen years old,of No. 34 Chest- nut street, Weehawken, N. J., got her left hond caught in the macinery and ot an exciting chase in Fourth avenue, in| four Angers were cut off. She was re- which many shots were fired, prorss to @t. “Vincent's Hospital, was uninjured they loudly cheered he! Mrs, L. W. Dawson, her mother and Mrs, G Willon Lewis, of No, 21 Hillaide ‘avenue, Malden, who were the oocu- pants of the same room, took hold of hands and felt their way through the pilnding smoke to the head of the stairs and to the main entrance They were nearly overcome by emoke when they reached the open alr. Miss Davwson, when she attempted to leave the burn- ing butlding by the main stairway, heard some one cry “Help! Help! Oh, dont leave ine here!’? She attempted to go back into the hall in the direction whence the voice came, but the stifling smoke drove her back to her room and caused her to leap from the third-story window Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Terrill and Mrs. Carteline M. Hooper, of Manchester, N. H., were rescued the members of the Oia Orchard Fire Department. Mr. Ter- rill loat $1,000 in cash which he had in his teunk: Mrs. Sarah Kimball, who was asleep | C in one of the rooms on the second floor, escaped in, her night-clothes, “Her, hatt was burned from H, Pack. ard, of Brockton, was carried out by thi firemen. ‘The body of one of the missing women was found in tke ruins this afternoon, It was ap badly burned as to ec. A complete description of the rings and carrings was given to the police and the pawn shops have already been warned against recelving them. ‘The police wanted to question the servants, but Mts. Dickerson said she waa confi- Went that she took the diamonds with her when she left the house, as she clear- ly remembers placing them around her neck. ee HERBERT K. SMITH NAMED. Commiastoner of Carpo WASHINGTON, July 9%, —Secretary Cortelyou announced to-day that Her- bert Knox Smith had been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Corporatione in the Department of Commerce and Labor. * Conk Smith is a resi of Hartford, ionn, He was graduated from Yale in 1891 and thoreatter admitted to the bar of Conneotiout, where has engaged eral practice. He hee taken an. interest, Jn municipal and 6State Gaits. (He was & member of the Judio- ardent a ach asl a a 8 Ms ton to wars ons: ‘neates to in how John Franklin's intoxicated through @ leakage in one of Mr. Franklin's beer kegs has led to the reuniting of # brother and sister after a separatjon, of forty years. K “i Mr, Franklin hus a hotel here, with » trout pond adjoining. He keeps his beer kegs iu the pond to keep the beet cool. ‘The story was read by Mrs, Nottrott, who lives in Brook and she wondered whether Franklin mentioned was the whom she had not seen or hear ears, so,many Sor. iranklin received. a letter from Mra. Nottrott in which she ‘sald - she did not know Whether she was writ- ing to her brother, Sut was anxlous ta find if they were related. She sald she; Was a daughitey of John and Sarr (Franklin hat she had an older brother oamed John, of whom she LORE sight fprty years ago. She told about having read the trout story and asked Mi faniclin to write to her. She said he fad been married twice and EnAE husband's name was Bouthan, ., Franklin says that he bas nq ae that his correspondent is his youngest sister, whom he has not, seen, e June, 18. He will write to her fo ately, and if she proves to be Hioter will Day her a visit at the frat: goportunity, Mr. Franklin ts a Ciyl ‘ar veteran, juning. having served a mena Hon with the Third Missourl Mshed story of trout became Jona ‘irother of for