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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 14, 1891

Page

7

Markets News From January 13 1891 Grain and Provisions

The report shows steady flour markets with fair butter sales and more active poultry. Wheat on Chicago exchange rose about 5 16 cents as short covering appeared, while Minneapolis and Duluth receipts were light. Corn and oats demand remained cautious with firm shipping prices, and malt and malted feeds held steady amid modest demand.

TorspAy Evenina Barney Bush Eeae Hope Bates Neaden Chicago Liverpool London Berlin Paris Minneapolis Duluth Messrs Gilman, Cheeney & Co Messrs Farnum, Reardon & Co New York Milwaukee Ek Vy Merry S St Louis Canada

Flour and meal market report with prices and movement

Flour demand is moderate with prices steady across grades. Minnesota Wisconsin brands and export grades quoted from $4.75 to $6.40 for various flour products, with Canada export lines at $4.90 to $6.25 fob. Meal and oatmeal markets are firm, with bag cornmeal at about $1.24–$1.26 per unit and barrel at $2.70–$2.75. Rye flour trades quietly in a jobbing market.

Dwis Sss Minnesota Wisconsin Canada

Beef and pork prices in Chicago market report 1891

The Chicago market shows strong demand with gains as fresh beef, lard, and dressed hogs trade higher. Prices list open, high, low, and close for in demand items with pork products steady and quoted at several standard cuts and mess levels.

UBS & Visa Senate Gall Chicago

Meat market prices for beef pork and fowl in New York ocean

The report shows varied prices across meats with pork and lard steady in city and country markets. Beef and tongues trade moderately with extra family and plate cuts noted, while fresh beef quotes range from prime steers at 7.4 to 8.8 cents and other cuts at mixed values. tallow remains quiet and New York market stood at 45 cents.

Chicago Brighton New York

Market Roundup of Hog and Cattle Prices Across U.S. Cities

KC reports slow cattle with steer quotes 3.75 to 4.75 and cows 2.3 to 3. Butchers stock 3.00 to 3.70. hogs totals 18 614 with heavies 3.20 to 3.55. Sheep at 3.25 to 4.25. Cincinnati and Peoria hogs ease to 3.15 to 3.30. St Louis hogs 3.25 to 3.50. Chicago cattle dull with steers 4.75 to 5.15, prime 4.75 to 4.90. stockers 1.75 to 3.50. Hogs nationwide mixed 3.30 to 3.55. sheep 3.75 to 5.10. Texans lambs 4.75 to 6.25. Receipts vary by city, with several thousand head noted.

Kansas City Cincinnati St Louis Chicago Boston & Albany R. R Boston Indianapolis St. Louis Albany Southwestern Limited Eee Buffalo Cleveland Toledo K. BR Wagner R. KR Detroit M. C Hartford New Haven New York New York Limited Springfeld Washington St.eor Kneeland Hanson Gon

Produce Trade Market Report With Prices and Movements

Market notes show butter steady with best creamery at 28 cents and fair at 26 to 27. Cheese demand improves with quotes near 10 to 12 cents. Eggs quiet with Western at 26 27 cents and Eastern at 29 30. Poultry firmer amid colder weather, turkeys under 14 cents retail, best Northern at 15 16. Potatoes steady with Houston stock at 110 and Aroostock at 105. Hay steady around 14 to 15 dollars per ton, rye straw 18 19.

Caleb Elgin New York Chicago Elgin Creamery Extra Western Creamery Extra Choice Northern Houston

Trade in Truck and Fresh Produce Prices Steady

The market lists a fair trade in truck and steady prices for produce. Spinach 90c per bush, Southern $250 a barrel, onions $475 per 500 barrels, Valencia onions $1 per crate, Ohio onions $450 for 475 barrels, natives $5 625, carrots 75c per bush, beets 60 270c per bush. Lettuce 50 60c per dot, turnips yellow St Andrews $125 per barrel, white Cape $125 per barrel, parsley $2 per bush, turban squash $2 per barrel, marrow squash $50 per barrel, native Hubbard $35 per ton, Western Hubbard $30 per ton. Radishes long 50 7i per dot, round 40 60c per dot, parsnips 75c per bush box, cabbage $125 per barrel, Savoy cabbage $1 per head, cucumbers hot house 10 15c each, native celery $3 per 4 box, cauliflower $150 200 dot, leeks 76c. Florida string beans $260 per crate, hot-bed dandelions $2 per bush.

Southern Valencia Ohio St Andrews White Cape Hubbard Florida

The Green Fruit Trade Steady in Florida Prices Decline

Florida fruit trade shows steady demand and steady to high prices for oranges lemons and apples. Receipts update with 695 boxes of oranges, 270 bbls apples, and 9 crates of cranberries. Mediter ranean fruits and Almeria grapes quoted with numerous counts and prices. steamer Edwin arrives with 2900 boxes Messina oranges.

Florida Palermo Messina Valencia King Russell Greenings Ben Davis Massachusetts Baldwins Maine New Hubbardstons Common Tallman New Hampshire Cape Cod Almeria Havana

Fruit cargoes tied to Savannah Bowden voyage notes

The report lists 11 200 boxes Palermo oranges 6 300 boxes Palermo lemons and 1 300 boxes Messina lemons. The Savannah steamer due today carries 7 090 boxes Florida oranges. Bowden due Friday has Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. Alexandria bound here with 4 400 Valencia orange cases.

Savannah Bowden Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Alexandria

Fruit Auction Sales Report for Valencia Oranges

Harris and Company sold Valencia oranges in lots totaling 420 count for 325 dollars with 6242 case, and 714 count for 430 dollars with 3744 case. The sale itemized quantities and prices reflect an auction transaction.

H Harris & Co Valencia

Dried fruit trade shows brighter outlook and higher prices

A stronger demand for dried fruits is noted with higher prices. Figs and citron trade at selective levels while dates, nuts, prunes, and raisins show varied quotings, including Virginia peanuts at 43 65c and almonds fading to mid 30s in different origins.

Ford Virginia Naples Grenobles Sicily Alberines Jordans Alicantes Valencias California London Malaga

The Cotton Markets and Global Prices in Early Trading

The New York spot market held steady at about 9.25 to 9.30 cents for middling Upland cotton with 382 bales sold and 117,056 bales in stock. Futures opened easy and closed firm with 81,000 bales traded. Liverpool demand remained steady with American shares rising, while receipts and futures shifts mirrored ongoing global demand.

New York Janis Esseseses Seus D Vseeee Augnusta Peace Galveston Norfolk Wnc Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Slyee Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville Great Britain France Continent

Print cloth market steadies with mixed bids observed

Fall River reports the print cloth market showing no major shifts with 64x64s offered around 215 to 216 cents for February delivery but largely declined while 60x56s were quoted at 242 25 cents.

Fall River Vta Fall River Line Shore Line Stonington Line Boston Old State House

Sugar and Molasses Market Report With Varied Prices

Sugar markets show strong demand at steady prices across refined sugar types with quotes for granulated and confectioners products. Raw sugar steady with refining and centrifugal quotes, while molasses markets remain quiet with regional prices listed for Porto Rico Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados Mayaguez Arroyo and New Orleans grades.

Lloilos London Java Porto Rico Choice Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados Mayaguez Arroyo New Orleans

Oil Market and Certificates at Prescott Co on Devonshire Street

The report notes closing prices for pipeline certificates with June 127.5.00 and January 13 1890 dates, crude runs shipments and averages, crude and refined rates including 7.40¢ per gallon for cottonseed oil, and references to oil market activity alongside whiskey market levels at St Louis Chicago and Cincinnati.

Turpentine and Petroleum Prices Spark Mixed Trade

New York quotes show turpentine at 39 cents, resin near 140 dollars at 142 percent, and tar at 260. Petroleum closes at 7.05 cents with RSW at 7.40 cents and cases at 9.45 cents.

Turpentine and New York

Watertown Union Live Stock Market Report Week Ended Jan 13 1891

Watertown Union Live Stock Market notes a light cattle supply with prices firmer for good beef. hints at late uproad cattle, with Fitchburg railroad delays. Reports include beef prices from first to third quality, store cattle prices for working oxen and cows, and hides and pelts values. references specific buyers and consignors.

Boston Post George J. Fox Brighton Union Market Watertown Fitchburg Railroad E. Adden A Johnson Dalton J Ryan J Courier

Livestock Market Reports From Vermont Rail Lines

A Hathaway sold 25 steers averaging 1460 lbs at 534 cents per hundredweight, 32 steers averaging 1400 lbs at 8560, 18 steers averaging 1200 lbs at 4540, 10 steers averaging 1180 lbs at 460, and 7 steers averaging 1200 lbs at 4540. The sheep call notes a small supply and firm lamb prices around 6 to 7 cents. H V Whipple is listed as the largest owner on the Central Vermont train. The Rutland train shows light sheep consignments. J Conraer sold 70 sheep at 414 cents, W Ricker & Son sold 72 lambs at 7 cents per pound, and J Ryan sold a mostly lamb lot averaging 70 pounds at 64 cents.

A Hathaway H V Whipple Vermont Rutland J Conraer Ricker & Son J Ryan

Imports and Exports Report From January 13 1891

A shipping ledger item lists multiple ports including Souris Prince Edward Island Yarmouth Nova Scotia Halifax Nova Scotia Nenburg Nova Scotia and Glasgow Hamburg and Antwerp. It details steamer cargoes with oats meal cottons foods meats oils lard paper flour and other goods loaded or cleared. Notable entries include Steamer Samaria and Steamer Boston handling varied cargoes such as 200 bags oats meal 340 sacks middlings and 250 bags cornmeal and 108 bales cotton at Yarmouth and 137 barrels flour at Halifax, with extensive consignments across listed markets.

Yarmouth Boston Nenburg Halifax Gorke and A Market Ark Jennie Cashman Glasgow Hamburg Antwerp Grasbrook

Foreign Markets Report From London Trade Desk

Foreign markets in London report steady wheat and corn with quiet sentiment as cargoes move. Wheat and flour shipped to Great Britain reach 1,967,000 quarters along with 426,000 for corn. Continent movements show 672,100 quarters wheat and 74,000 corn. Liverpool spot prices ease while futures signal stability for No 1 California wheat in May and mixed American corn terms.

London Beerbohm Mark Lane Liverpool England Great Britain Continent California

Court actions span torts patents and railroad cases

The Boston court report covers Ramsey vs Boston & Maine for injuries from a gate on Causeway street. United States v McCullum et al on alien contract penalties. Davis vs Parkman on patent infringements. and Supreme Judicial Court updates on Cambridge and Boston railroad crossing disputes plus listed docket items and orders.

LSON J. Eugene D. Ramsey Boston & Maine Railroad Company Causeway Street John D. Long A. Hemenway Edgar Aldrich New Hampshire S. Lincoln United States Alexander McCullum McCullum, Constable & Co Holyoke F. D. Allen George M. Stearns W. H. Bruce Michael F. Davis Henry Parkman Same Union Boat Club Davis J. H. Gillett George W. Easterbrook

Superior Court First Session Trials and Dockets

The report lists multiple cases from the Superior Court, First, Second, and Fourth Sessions, including Emerson E McCargo vs George H Bates for 23504 dollars in steel sold, and Thomas B Bailey vs Joseph Feldman for 10000 dollars in damages from a March 9 1890 collision. It catalogs case numbers, parties, basic actions, trial outcomes, and attorneys, plus a long docket of tort and contract actions with defendants such as Angell v Van Auken Fowler v Wilbur and many others, ending with the highest number 3176.

Mason C.J Emerson E. McCargo George H. Bates Worcester Boston W. L. Church A. J. Pratt Charles R. Johnson Thomas B. Bailey Joseph Feldman Commonwealth Avenue Harvard Avenue Walter L. Church Albert J. Pratt Horace G. Allen Eustis Boynton Richardson John Ryan West End Son Angell van Auken Way Sleep Amer. T. & M. Co Doherty McGuire Ireland Wiske Fowler Wilbur Blount Kimpton Avery Dodge Leydecker Brint Bowen Ericson Nall Same Vy Nason Hender Murphy Heaton Son Eeace Vy West End Armand Keith Lathrop Grace Degan William A. Norton Patrick Degan L. M. Child Stearns Mabel McPhail City of Orcutt R. W. Nason Freeman Mere Rush Wakeman Accident As Lufkin Zane Howard Griffin Decker Ehriein Hutchins George Farrar Whitney Rackley Mitchell Learnt Vy. West Saxon Clifford Fay Jewett Pickins

Boston crossing case overrail head ruled improper action

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that the Board of Railroad Commissioners exceeded its authority by ordering an overhead crossing over the Boston and Albany railroad. The city of Cambridge may lay out the avenue on its side of the Charles River, and certiorari is issued while mandamus is dismissed. Names of petitioners and counsel noted.

Supreme Judicial Court Commonwealth Frevo C. J W. Allen C. Allen Hates Morton Equity Samuel H. Capenys Charles W. Bartlett T. E. Groves W. E. Jewell Charles H. Corken Edwin N. Hill C. i Duncklee H. Wheeler Matthew Merregan Boston & Albany Railroad Catherine Merregan Fletcher Ramsey Samuel Hoar Bertha Badenfeld Massachusetts Mutual Accident Association J. Woodbury Fred E. Snow Cambridge Same Board of Railroad Commissioners Boston Charles River Harbor and Land Commissioners Railroad Commissioners City of Boston & Albany George Putnam C. J. McIntire J. B. Richardson Ellen Dacey Old Colony Railroad Company Dacey

Fifth Session Uncontested Divorces and Criminal Sessions

Uncontested divorces listed with names and docket numbers. Criminal session held January 13 with penalties including years in House of Correction and State Prison for offenses such as assault on an officer larceny breaking and entering and related charges. Multiple cases noted with corresponding defendants and court actions.

Patrick Harrington House of Correction James Taylor Michael Seltzer Case of Correction John Disley Rge Sylvester Same James Geary Capeprentie Gould

Baker v Newhall and other Essex County court items

In Salem Jan 13 Superior Court parts list cases including Baker v Newhall for a $450 real estate commission, Murphy v Bacheller on note, Meade v Boston & Maine, and several estate and realty actions. Norfolk County handles tort and highway cases with displacements and a Quincy yard death matter. Middlesex list includes Farwell v CCB Dam and Grant v Dame. Insolvency Court adjourns meetings. wills probate and administrations recorded for multiple residents across Essex and neighboring counties.

Supreme Judicial Court Essex County County of Essex City of Salem George O. Kent Daniel T. Morrison Bill Thomas M. Chase Gardner P. Lada Demurrer H. P. Moulton H. F. Hurlburt Acer —Coseminn Kellene Prince Drury Bee Meade Boston & Maine Maine RR White Feisem Samuelsen, Admiv Cressey Walen Taley Munroe Leon 0S Real Estate Rorter Bailey Rene Ee Eneas Murphy Real Eestate Bartel Leonard Movement Rsve Treadwell Admx Red H Cate Poor Nemessy Gray Executor Norfolk County Dedham Bishop Geoorge Esson Andrew Milne Ali Quincy E. Bumpus W. G. A. Pattee George H. Weeks Ami Needham Joseph R. Smith H. E. Fales War Water N.Y N. E. Rr, Co McLeod Boston St. Ky Curran City Boston N. Y Brennan Middlesex Cambridge Blopgetit Fanny Farwell Arthur H. Wellman G. H. Fall Loud Claudia C Dame Alexander Grant C. B Harmon George C. Evans J. P. Fernald Otis A. Whitcomb W.H. Pitts Henry P. Ashley George W. Read John G. Nutter J. Clarence Tarr Gloucester Henri N. Wood Porter & Osborn N. J. Holden George E. Thurston C. A. Russell William Gibbs Clonicersee J. J. Finerty

Municipal Court Case Index and Sessions

First Session conducted by Harpy J and Second Session by Parmenter J. The docket lists numerous civil cases including Crockett v Paine Salt Lake City, Santosnosso v Gran grande, Dunnell v Forbes, Conn River Lumber Co v Henning, Holbrook v Dunn, Harvy Rotter, Gustini v Fillmore, Powers v Sawyer, Whittier v Prewan en agg Pe v W Est, Knapp v Phyminat, Silverstone v Silverstone, Lyons v Heath, Flanagan v Phenix Brewing Co, James v Jerry, OCallahan v Davidson, Butler v Whitlock, Hefferon v Cutter, Harris v Miller Barr ett, Peterson v Hicks, Merchants' Bank of Camden v Dixon, Prial v V. P. Liv, Prial v Livingstone, Savage v Baker, Com. Bank v Mead, Fore v Poy, Schohal v Haifen reffer, Sparrill v Golden.

Crockett Paine Salt Waee Star Santosnosso Grangrande Dunnell Forbes Conn. River Lumber Co Henning Holbrook Dunn Har Rotter Gustini Fillmore Powers Sawyer Whittier Pre Wa Knapp R Phymiinat Silverstone Lyons Heath Flanagan Phenix Brewing Co James Jerry O' Callahan Davidson Butler Whitlock Hefferon Cutter Harris Miller Eda Ap Schohal Haifenreffer Sparrill Golden

Shipping mail routes and sailings listed for Jan 16

The notice outlines multiple international mail sailings from New York and Boston to destinations including Cape Rayti, St Domingo, Turk’s, Saginaw, Truxillo, Trinidad, Port Bolivar, and European ports. It details vessels such as Santiago, Trinidad, El Callao, the Alliance, Amsterdam, La Normandie, Etruria, Wider, and Samaria with close times and destinations.

Cape Rayti St. Domingo Turk’s Carupano Ciudad Bolivar el Callao New York Brazil la Plata St. Thomas St. Croix Barbados Trinidad Demerara Windward Islands Steamshi Alliance Newport News Fortune Island Jamaica Jacmel Aux Cayes Haiti Alene Netherape Amsterdam Nova Scotia Yarmouth Boston France Switzerland Italy Spain Portugal Turkey la Normandie Havre Great Britain Ireland Belgium Netherlands Austria Germany Denmark Sweden Norway Southampton Bremen Hayti Curacoa Venezuela British Dutch Guiana L’rvis William Yucatan Campeche Tabasco Chiapas Cuba Costa Rica Port Simon Hispania New Orleans

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