Sugar Stock Market Rumors and Wall Street Gossip
The market opened lower with traders selling industrials led by Sugar common amid talk of last year’s dividend and lower prices. Third Avenue rose on prospects of settlement and higher future values, while Tobacco and International Paper fell. cures and copper gains supported Believers, but overall trading remained bearish with a traders’ market tone.
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London
New York
Third Avenue
Keene
International Paper Company
Pennsylvania
Wall Street
American Sugar Refining Company
Edward 8. Grew
Merced Gold Mining Company
Joseph G. Ray
Erie Telephone Company
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Old Colony
Onens
Evansville& Terreaute Railroad Company
Boston
Market Gales and Closing Prices Reported in Boston
In Boston on March 6 the highest and lowest gales were reported along with the day's closing bid and asked prices. The round up summarizes the market activity and reflects the trading ranges for the period.
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Boston
Wheat market steadies then falls as Chicago leads drop
The wheat market opened steady with little change, then sharply weakened in sympathy with Chicago where May wheat fell by selling. Liverpool and London held or slipped slightly, French markets dropped. Bradstreet reports a 2.977 million bushel world surplus, mostly in Europe, while later trading rebounded on expectations of a cold western wave and renewed buying by funds.
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Jimmie
Olea Nethersole
Magistate Mott
N. Y
Howard, Crosby & Cosssisseststaae
Messrs
Europe
United States
Rockies
Chicago
Liverpool
Fire losses and alarms rise as report cites new ladder truck need
Fire Commissioner Russell submitted the year end report to Mayor Hart detailing 244 alarms causing 1 630 149 in losses, average 677 27, versus 198 alarms and 1 441 261 in 1898. He urges an additional ladder truck near the engine house of Companies 38 and 39 on Ingress street South Boston to protect new large buildings. Total fires reached 2130 with 1673 confined to single buildings.
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Russell
Hart
Engie
Ingress Street
Boston
Ceylon Begins Green Tea Exports to America
Ceylon shifts from black teas to pure green tea for America. Experts report the teas are clean and strong, free from adulteration, and superior in body to Japan greens. Demand exceeds supply as small lots arrive and are eagerly bought by distributors in New York.
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America
Lanters
Ceylon
Japan
New York
Knights of Columbus Hold Annual Convention in Haven Conn
The Knights of Columbus annual national council meeting gathered 63 delegates at the Haven Conn hall. Discussion touched on council locations south of Mason Dixon line as a concern. The order reported 461 councils on January 1 1900 with 26326 insured members and 20445 associate members. 428 more insured, 62 councils instituted that year.
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Knights OF Columbus
Haven
Conn
National Council, Knights of Columbus
Pera
G. Hall
Music Hall
Mason and Dixon
Firebug at Work Suspected After Hay Shed Fires in Charlestown
Fire destroyed hay sheds No 1 and 11 near Rutherford Avenue under the State Prison walls. More than eighty carloads of hay burned. 2000 bags of oats moved to safety. Hosmer Robinson & Co. suspects an organized gang and cites the firebug theory amid investigations.
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Charlestown
Boston & Maine Railroad
Hosmer, Robinson & Co
Rutherford Avenue
Pope
Robinson
Post
Supreme Court Sustains Receivers Claims Against Litchfields
The Supreme Court overruled demurrers in the Bay State Beneficiary Association cases, upholding the receivers H C Bliss and H Hyde in seeking personal liability from former officers for alleged use of association funds. The 1881 Massachusetts corporation’s receivers were appointed in November at Southern Pines North Carolina. An excursion ticket note references Boston offices at 306 Washington Street.
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Supreme Court
Bay State Beneficiary Association
F. E. Litchfield
Litchfield
G. A. Litchfield
Charles H. Bacall
R. W. Parks
George B. Curtis
W. M. Mick
3. T. Elliott
W. G. Cortell
8. P. Hibbard
Association
H. C. Bliss
H. Hyde
Massachusetts
Novemer
Southern Pines
North Carolina
Seaboard
Piney Woods Inn
Ozone Hotel
Prospect House
Boston
Washington Street
Captain Hugo de Bathe Ill in Cape Town Hospital
Captain Hugo de Bathe husband of Mrs Langtry lies dangerously ill in the British military hospital at Cape Town. He is a member of Colonel retchmer s staff and was stricken after the relieving force entered Kimberley.
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Chicago
Hugo de Bathe
Grand Jury Indicts Ex Bank Official on 25 Counts
Ex-President Charles H. Cole of the Globe National Bank faces twenty-five counts of alleged misappropriation totaling about 1.07 million dollars. Indictment lists false entries and misapplications across 1899 involving American Zinc Lead & Smelting, United States Mining, Massachusetts Electric, and other entities. First dividend of 20 percent to Globe creditors distributed at Devonshire Street offices amid pending U S District Court actions and new Boston bank charter approvals.
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Charles H. Cole
Globe National Bank
American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Company
United States Mining Company
Cole
Boston
Niagara Mining & Smelting Company
United States
Mining Company
Massachusetts Electric Companies
Ver Wing
Devonshire Street
Federal Building
Wenmtingros
S&s
Blartichard
W. Gennison
Henry Wells
Warren K. Foster
F. D. Wing
Tereave
Mr. Wells
First National Bank of Reading
Suffolk Engraving
Suffolk Engraving Staadony
American National Bank of Boston
Miner Beal & Co Assignment Gains Broad Credit Support
A large majority of creditors assent to the assignment of Miner Beal & Co with no known opposition. George A. Miner bears liabilities around 136 250 dollars with contingent debts near 138 000 and assets valued at 39 350. Leander Beal shows liabilities 54 000 with assets 1 750. The junior partners hold no individual assets. A creditors committee has been appointed to discuss the settlement.
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Miner, Beal & Co
George A. Miner
Leander Beal
Shoes Stolen From Hill Boot and Shoe Company
A case of Faptionen's shoes was stolen from the Hill Boot and Shoe Company on 122 Summer Street yesterday afternoon.
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Faptionen
Hill Boot and Shoe Company
Summer Street
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Clomng
Arcadian
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Naganzi
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ST. Paul
LE Comte Naganzi
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T&s
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Miner, Beal & Co.’S Affairs
Jetter
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Broadway
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