Bears Smash Right and Left In Destructive Market Slide
Wall Street trembled as Amalgamated Copper led a broad stock decline with heavy losses across copper names and industrials. Analysts cited forced margin sales and a bear campaign led by Lawson backed by New York insiders, while questions arose about who would control the stock after the raid and the future market direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Street
Bears
Amalgamated
Lawson
New
Wall Street
Gates Gang
Gates
Standard Oil
Boston
New York
Boston News Bureau
Mr. Lawson
Cambridge official files libel suits over bribery claims
Through his attorney Spaulding Councilman Lester Harlow of Cambridge filed libel suits totaling 60 000 against ex Mayor McNamee and Alderman Brown claiming bribery charges are unfounded and will be proven false. both McNamee and Brown declined comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross
Lester H.harlow
Cambridge
McNamee
Spaulding
Lester Harlow
Alderman Brown
Post
Harlow
Mayor McNamee
New York Bond Closing Prices Across Markets
Closing bond prices show mixed changes from December 6 to December 7 across U S and various rail and utility issues. Key notes include U S rf 28 and U S 4s variants trading around 104% to 106% with some inconsistencies, M a StL near 97, and several railroad issues like Atch's, N Y Cg, and StL&W moving within narrow bands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Man OG
U S Rf
Mex Cen
Do Ist Inc
M & Stl
N.r
M, K
N J
Nor Pac
Atla CL
The
THY B & O
S L
Stl SW
C.m&spg
Sea AL
W &L BE
Wis Cen
Col Fuel
Copper Crash and Market Shake in New York Trading
In New York consolidated reporting from Dec 7 copper led the downturn as a Boston operator’s campaign against Amalgamated Copper unsettled prices. Copper fell about 14 percent from recent highs while railroad stocks slid 2 to 3 percent. Closing markets showed weakness for long and short positions with total trading at 440,440 shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Amalgamated Copper
John Filkins & Co
Congress Street
M. & St. Paul
Gol. Fuel & Iron
Missouri Pacific
Pennsylvania
Union Pacific
U. S
U. S. Steel
Tel & Tel
T & SF
B & Q Jt
Ill Steel
Ft 8 & G
aAdventure
Allouez
Amalgamated
Am Ag Chem
Arch
To &S
Atlantic
Bingham
Bonanza
Boston & Albany
bBoston & Maine
Boston & Prov
bCal & Hecla
Centennial
Chiu & Stk Yds
Con Mercur
Daly-West
Fron & Steel
Boston Land
cEdison Elee
Fitchburg
Franklin
General Electric
Granby
Greene Con
Guanajuato
Isle Royale
Mass Electric
Mergenthaler
Michigan
Mont C & C
Nh&h
Old Dominion
bParrott
Phenix
Pullman Co
Eecs
Quincy
Santa Fe
Shannon
St L & S F
Swift & Co
Ewes
Tamarack
Trinity
United Shoe Mach
U S Coal & Oil
U S
U S Steel
Utah
West Find St Ry
Winona
Wolverine
Rights and Payables Report Shows Stock and Bond Totals
A second instalment is paid with OFx dividend and seven rights. European operations paid. Total sales list shows listed stocks 92 675 shares bonds 24000 unlisted stocks 5 roshts 2608 7949 shares.
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Idatal
Dividends Payable From Major Railways And Sugar Firm
Dividends are announced for multiple firms including Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway American Beet Sugar Chicago and Alton Chicago Junction and Stock Yards Chicago and Northwestern Union Traction New York Ontario and Western. Dates range Jan 1 to Feb 1 with various rates for preferred and common shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
American Beet Sugar Company
Chicago & Alton Railway Company
Chicago Junction & Stock Yards Company
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Union Traction Company
New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company
Escape from burning tenement at 2 Chadwick Street
Owen McLaughlin a 60 year old invalid was one of about 40 people to escape a fire during the early hours at the tenement house on Chadwick Street. He was carried downstairs by Ladderman Hodeson as others fled in their night attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Lawson
Amalgamated
Calumet
Quincy
Tamarack
Osceola
Trinity
Centennial
Lawson
Atlantic
Isle Royale
Mohawk
Mass
Old Dominion
Parrott
United States Mining
Utah
Winona
Lst
Greene
Wolverine
American Telephone
New England Telephone
Chemical Common
Woolen Common
United Fruit
Massachusetts Gag Common
Mining and Stock Exchange
Bay State
Greene Gold
Ahmeek
Treadwell
Suburban Electric Common
Preferred
Nat LE Roy
Minnie Woodford
Miss Woodford
Imperial Guards
Port Arthur
Nora Bayes
Holcombe
Curt *S
Webb
Marlo
Aldo McIntyre
Rich
Carlotta Delmar
Gilday
Fox Gildersleeve
Townsend
Lawrence Crane
Margaret Scott
Gracie
Reynolds
Walton
CPR
Maud
Haymarket
Owen McLaughlin
Chadwick Street
Mr. McLaughlin
Hodeson
Brackett Reappointed Fish Commissioner in Massachusetts
Edward A. Brackett of Winchester was reappointed to the State Board of Fish and Game Commissioners by Governor Bates at yesterday afternoon�s executive council meeting. Other nominations include Frank J. Tuttle, Frank C. Wasley, BE. W. Norwood, John H. Sherburne Jr., and Robert Ellis in various city and county posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. Brackett
Winchester
State Board of Fish and Game Commissioners
Bates
Frank J. Tuttle
Municipal Court
South Boston
Robert Ellis
Boston
Frank C. Wasley
Lowell
BE. W. Norwood
Spencer
Worcester County
John H. Sherburne, Jr
Suffolk County
No Horse Show This Season in Boston
Boston society folk and horsemen will have to wait until 1906 for a horse show as the Horse Show Association directors cancel this season. Captain Parker notes fewer entries and attendance last year and cites fatigue from the crowded show circuit as a reason, while acknowledging broader poor conditions for entertainment. The move reflects a shift influenced by diminished interest and economic factors, with automobiles mentioned as a modern distraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Society
Horse Show Association
Captain Parker
Boston
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Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway Co
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company
Little Rock and
Fort Smith Railway Company
Fort Smith
Curtis
Sederquist
Bankers
New York Consolidated Stock Exchange
Congress St. Boston
Broadway
F. P. Lynch & Co
Congress St
Chicago Board of Trade
Amal
Pratt & CO
Main
Ennis & Stoppani
3& Broad ST
Consolidated Stock Exchange
New York Produce Exchange
Boston Offiche
State Mutual
Beverly R. Wood, Mgr
Mercantile Trust Company
New York City
St. Louis
Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co
A. H. Calef
Liberty Bell Gold Mining CO
Inter- Trust Security Co
Water St
K. T. Doherty
San Francisco
New Orleans
Interstate Commercce Commission
Tennessee
Colorado
Lackawanna
Ontario & Western Board of Directors
Mellen
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Rockefeller
Morgan
Vanderbilt
Jacob Cahn
Jules Bach
Boston Exchange
Boston Stock Exchange
Steel Corporation
International Steel Pool
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway Company
Mercantile Trust Company of New York
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Heath
Atchison
Baltimore & Ohio
Canadian Pacific
Central of New Jersey
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Gt Western
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Mil & St
Knee Ter & Trans
C & St Louis
Golor
Delan _ & Hudson
Dnl& Figs Adee
Denver & Rio Grande
Erie
Illinois Central
Iowa Centrale
Kansas City Southern
Louisville & Nashville
Manhattan
St Ry
Minneapolis & St Louis
Minn
Ae P & S Ste M
Stieutant Pacific
Miss
Ane
Pitts
C, C & St Louis
Southwestern Eee
Southern Pacific
Bonthern Railway
Texas & Pacific
Toledo, St Louis & West
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wisconsin Central
Am & Foundry
Bmeléing & Ref
Eaat Refining. Co
Anaconda Mining
Brooklyn Rapide Transit
Ou Wr
Colorado Fuel
Westnghouse Electric
Haight & Freese Co
Summer St
M’namee
NEW York Bonds
NEW York Consolidated
J. Newman Ie ‘Sons Corp
Tremont St
Entertainments As Entertainments SR
Tremont
Eve’gs
Excenry
Savage
Raymond Hitchcock
Henry W. Savage
George Ade
the County Chairman
Wallack’s
Music Hall
Vaudevi
Paul Conchas
Grea
Olive May
J.w.albaugh, Jr
Stinson & Merton
Amelia Summerville
Ee Castle SQ
Castle Square
Dra
Natic Stock Co
Cavalier
Winter St
Richelieu
Colonial
F. C. Whitney
Mme. Schumann-Heine
Stange and Edwards
Wm. J. Crane
Hollis
Pat Teleatre
Isaac B. Rich
Charles Frohman
EE. H
Julia Sothern
Marlowe
Shakspere
Hamlet
Symphony Hall
USAYE
L. H. Mudgett
Bertha
Galland
Dorothy Vernon
Haddon Kall
N.yu
the Laugh
Eddie Foy
Alice Fischer
John Hyams
Vinie Daly
John Grah
Pony Ballet
Tweek Whitney
Poof Mats
Margaret Wycherly
Kathleen
Della
Fox
Keith
Paul Spadoni
Columbia Washington St
Japskys
Olio Yeager
Perrin and
Yeager
Ritchies
Coward and
Anderson Libbie Blondell
Webb Family
Clark
Parker's
Boston Theatre
Lawrence McCarty
GEO
Primrose Big Minstrel Company
James H. Decker
Chicago
Whit. Cl. Low
Clos’g
G. High
Rathskeller
American House
Adams and Scollay Sqs
Ameda Bingham
Clyde Fitch
Climbers
Frank Worthing
Henry Woodruff
Indiana
Ross & Fenton
Miss Sassoli
Davies
van Hoose
North
Mons. Gilibert
Eve
Theo
Kremer
Julian Rose
Palace Bohemian
Crand Smoking
Squar
Fritch
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