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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1901
Page
14
Long inquiry into a missing child led Dr. Moses Hull to Norfolk and a cemetery record, enabling recovery and reunion in Lanesville. Hull cites other spiritualist cases linking mediumship to verifiable outcomes, including a Norfolk death record and a Beecher visit.
A long voyage home delays a man who arrives as his daughter's funeral is underway. In a grave scene he exhumed the coffin, kissed the face, and placed blossoms in the dress. Separately Chicago spiritualist Mrs. Richmond claims Queen Victoria relied on John Brown as a medium, sparking aristocratic plots to depose her over alleged insanity citing belief in spirits and All Saints day ritual.
Jesse R. King Jr of Millheim shot his wife Jennie Mowery King after jealous quarrels over money and food. He then killed himself as authorities moved to arrest him. Mrs King wounded, alive but not expected to recover. Event occurred near Millheim and Spring Mills, Bellefonte area, May 11.
Nellie Pumphrey and Arthur Stevenson, tied together by tragedy, were married at her home on Myrtle Avenue beside the coffin holding Nellie’s father. The couple, already facing bereavement as Nellie’s mother had died five weeks earlier, followed the funeral to the cemetery after the ceremony and will move to Philadelphia for their future home.
The Financier reports New York banks showed a $2,872,625 drop in surplus reserves last week, with total excess at $8,127,475. Loans rose by $7,266,500 amid panic liquidation and currency shipments, suggesting reserves are thinner than figures indicate while rates may remain firm.
The Associated Banks report for the week ending today shows loans at 87,716,900 up 7,266,500. Deposits total 977,490,000 up 4,979,200. Circulation 21,081,100 down 51,800. Legal tenders 72,739,500 up 784,290. Reserve 252,500,200 down 1,757,800. Reserve required 244,372,725 up 1,094,82. Surplus 8,147,245 down 2,852,428.
The Wheat market fell as government data failed to spark demand and lower cables pressured prices. July opened lower and ended modestly down while May faded after a brief rally. Corn showed active trading with July easing and May mostly unchanged, while oats held steady before drifting lower with corn. Provisions eased as hog receipts stayed light, pork and lard slipped.
Cash quotations show flour at 3.90 for straights and 70 clears, with prices for oats corn wheat and other grains listed. Receipts and shipments totals include flour 18 000 19 000 barrels, wheat 34 000 300 000 bushels, corn 68 000 228 00 bushels, oats 68 000 228 00 bushels.
Cattle receipts 100 nominally steady with steers at 55.90 for good to prime and 3.80 to 3.90 for poorer stock. Hogs receipts 12 000 with top around 5.80 and weights from 5.49 to 5.75. Sheep receipts 200 with steady prices from 4.15 to 4.55 for wethers and mixed types, western and native lambs shown.
Cattle receipts 100 with steady tone Native beef steers 4.25 to 5.50 western steers 4 to 4.25 stockers and feeders 3.25 to 5 calves 3.50 to 6.50 Hogs receipts 2,500 market 2.14 to 0.5 higher heavy 5.70 to 5.72 mixed 5.62 to 5.65 lights 5.60 to 5.65 bulk 5.62 to 5.65 Sheep receipts none
Kansas City market notes cattle receipts 200 hogs 7000 with prices mixed hogs steady to 2 cents higher bulk sales 5 65 to 5 75 Davie 5 75 to 5 85 checkers 5 65 to 5 70 mixed 5 60 to 5 75 lights 5 60 to 5 65 Yorkers 5 25 to 5 65 pigs 40 to 20 sheep receipts none
San Francisco market news lists spring wools with Nevada at 10 12 cents, Eastern Oregon 1A 13 cents, valley Oregon Malie. fall wools show Mountain lambs 7 8 cents, San Joaquin plains 6 7 cents, Humboldt and Mendocino 9 10 cents.
Auction sales in London on May 1 offered 10 735 bales of wool with brisk bidding. Americans and buyers from the Cape of Good Hope and Natal secured many lots including crossbreds and merinos at firm rates. Finest merinos and scoureds rose about ten percent above opening prices.
London May 11. Atchison 73 percent Canadian Pacific 105 percent Union Pacific preferred 95 Northern Pacific preferred 109 Grand Trunk 11 Anaconda £9 United States Steel 40.8 Steel preferred 96. Silver bars stand firm at 27 5 16s per ounce. Money market at 2.3 percent.
New York May 11 metal prices were steady with little notable movement. Tin held at 25.35 to 26.25, lead dull, spelter quiet at 3.95 to 4.0, copper lake at 17 and castings 16 1/2 cents, pig iron unchanged around 9.50 to 10.80, northern foundry 15.25 to 16.50.
Treasury report dated May 11 lists general fund balances with available cash at 156,488,412 dollars and gold at 8,995,275 dollars excluding 150,000,000 in reserve division.
New York dated May 11 reports the total clearings of all U S bank clearing houses for the current week at 3 497 195 147 dollars an increase of 112 1 percent over the same period last year.
This week at New York port exports of silver bars and coins reached 441 500 dollars while gold exports totaled 100 500 dollars. Imports of specie stood at 24 104 dollars in gold and 71 000 dollars in silver. Dry goods and merchandise imports were valued at 12 590 832 dollars.
Miss Vanderbilt Wackerman, an American living in London, is at the center of a public dispute after professor Joubert Herkomer AR A denies implied accusations against her character. Key figures include Ambassador Choate and Bishop of London, who demand a written apology. Herkomer has left for Germany as tensions rise in art circles.
A May noon event at the Independent Malting Company brewery in Davenport ends in two deaths. August Blunck, a brickmason, was bound to a rope suspended from a timber, which collapsed as workers attempted to hoist him. Emil Mobr and Charles Reis were killed instantly. Blunck survived with injuries.
An investigation unfolded as a murder victim was found along the Blackwell canal near Buffalo. Police followed leads as the boat traversed the waterway, seeking to identify the deceased and establish a motive.
The body of Henry Hauck, a marine fireman missing five weeks, was found at a Minnesota ore dock with a wire loop and two five pound weights around the trunk and a cut throat. Hauck had joined a strike with the Pile Drivers and Dock Builders union six weeks earlier and left behind a $100 savings. His wife and three children were forced from their Chicago home for nonpayment of rent, becoming destitute.
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