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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1900
Page
6
Daily market notes show London quotations higher and New York opening strong with broadening equities. Sugar and Federal Steel lead advances amid a pending reaction, while copper stocks rise in Boston and chatter mounts over industry deals and dividend actions.
An advertisement delivers jokes about roosters and shysters then pivots to stock tips. It touts rapid execution in Wheat Rail Road stocks Tractions and Industrials with margin requirements and promises a free book from Howard Crosby Co.
Boston reports list highest and lowest sales for the day and shows the closing bid and asked prices. The brief note notes market activity and price levels without extra commentary.
Ex dividend noted with assessment paid. Total sales show bonds amounting to 37 252 50 with unlisted bonds at 5 000. Stock holdings total 31 782 shares and unlisted stock 14 328 shares.
Messrs. Howard Crosby & Co note wheat opened 4c under Monday's close with Liverpool lower. European and afloat supply estimated at 69 million bushels, up 6 million since January. Winter wheat receipts rise, led by Kansas City and St Louis with Minneapolis Northwest also high. today 554 cars, 6 fewer than last year. Corn strength provided early support before wheat slipped to yesterday's lows amid light selling interest from scalpers.
Mrs. S M Thompson of Worcester Mass says years of anemia left her pale and weak until taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She reports rapid improvement and a full recovery after eight to nine boxes.
Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People are sold in packages at druggists or by the Dr Williams Medicine Co. in Schenectady New York. Each box costs 50 cents and six boxes cost 2.50.
At Chipman Hall the American Bell Telephone Company held its annual meeting. Directors re elected C B Hubbard and treasurer William R Driver. President J E Hudson outlined long distance assets and support for merging with the United States Telephone and Telegraph Company to unite interests and authorize directors’ action.
The President of Sample's Instalment Company states persistent chronic catarrh improved after using Dr New's Catarrhal Powder. He reports temporary relief from other remedies and credits the powder as the single effective treatment, with local endorsements and distributor names included.
Dispatches describe Boers guarding passes and shelling the British camp near Bloemfontein while General Gatacre takes charge. Cape volunteers withdraw south of the Orange River amid racial tensions. Reports from Warrenton and Ladysmith note Boer concentrations at Biggersberg and trains ready at New Castle to aid retreat if needed.
The twenty-second annual meeting of the National Liberal Federation opened in Nottingham with about 1200 delegates in attendance. Chairman Mr. Spence Watson spoke as the session began, outlining agenda items and party aims for the year.
Two more juvenile suspects were brought from Rainsford Island to Police Station No. 8 in Boston yesterday. Authorities withheld names and said the evidence against the youths was slight, making arraignment unlikely. The pair may have aided in setting the reformatory buildings on fire last week or know the identities of the arsonists.
Providence March 27 The first formal meeting of the sixteenth session of the Methodist conference opened with the Epworth League anniversary in Trinity Union Church. George W Peaniman of Fall River announced the biennial convention would be in Lynn July 5 8 with lectures and addresses by Thirkield two bishops and General Rusling on The March of Methodism.
The discussion centers on Gladstone’s leadership need and war policy in South Africa. Speakers urge independence for the two republics, caution against destroying free nationalities, and call for a Canada-like settlement. Massie’s resolution condemns current policy, while Spence Watson is re-elected president.
Odessa dispatch reports 100000 troops mobilized for active service in South Russia. The Black Sea squadron with transports stands ready. Tension with the Ottoman Empire rises as Russia presses Asia Minor demands and strengthens Caucasus and Armenian frontier garrisons.
The Cambridge Board of Aldermen held a hearing on the Massachusetts Telephone and Telegraph Company petition for conduit and pole locations. Samuel T. Powers for New England Telephone opposed the petition while local resident William Quimby read letters against more poles. The matter was referred to the roads and bridges committees.
Superintendent John J. Whittier of Station A Worcester post office was arraigned in U S District Court before Judge Lowell on embezzling 19 23 of the post office funds. He pleaded not guilty and was placed on trial. The indictment contains five counts and the case will be continued today.
General Order No 680 commends Patrolmen Michael H Cronin and William J Aitken of Division 6 for diligence in arresting a person for illegal voting at the December municipal election. The commendation follows their captain’s praise.
The address by Rev. W. P. Thirkield of Chicago spoke on Spiritual Purpose and Evangelical Plans of the League. The society now numbers more than 27 000 chapters with over 1 750 000 members.
Police headquarters hosted a midnight call by Commissioner Harry Adams. He spoke privately with Deputyanscom for nearly an hour, and the cause remained unclear. Rumors link the visit to a broader shake-up threatening several police officials.
The naval appropriation bill ready for report to Congress this week funds Boston Navy Yard with a liberal package. Total $866,300 for a new fitters shop, smithy, foundry, sawmill, piers and related items including $109,000 for ship fitters shop and $75,000 for renovating building No 42.
Secretary Root orders a new Division of the Pacific to cover the Philippine archipelago. It is split into four departments North Luzon under General MacArthur Southern Luzon under General Bates the assus under General Hughes and Mindanao and Jolo under General Kobbe. Major General Otis remains division commander.
A St Peters burg despatch in the Lokal Anzeiger accuses the Czarina of delaying Russia’s response to the Kruger Steyn intervention appeal. The czarina is said to be thwarting a pro Boer reply that Count Muravieff, the Russian foreign minister, prepared.
The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association met yesterday afternoon at 3 Park Street with Mrs. Mary A. Livermore presiding A resolution congratulating the women of West Australia on full parliamentary vote was passed Miss Gertrude Jacobs spoke on The Small Savings of the Poor and Mme Friedland discussed the condition of women in Russia
Chicago rabbi Hirsch spoke on the talmud at Harvard University last night in the Fog Art Museum. A reception followed the lecture at the Phillip Brooks Page.
Division 6 officers arrested John O'Brien a 33 year old resident of 40 Athens in street on charges of entering the dwelling of Joseph Frazier on March 19 and taking clothes valued at 9.7 dollars.
At Winchester town meeting the motion to cap kindergarten age at five failed 380 to 126 while the $3000 appropriation for special kindergarten work passed 402 to 36. The meeting also noted Winchester’s total school appropriation for the year at $28,000 as debate centered on playschool and sewing classroom needs.
General Otis in Hong Kong is described as on the verge of collapse with surgeons urging his return to the United States to avoid a breakdown. Friends and army doctors condemn his refusal of sick leave and warn of unnecessary deaths among troops and guards aboard the transport Sheridan bound for Manila with prisoners. Guerillas and bandits are active as towns burn and telegraph lines are cut in ongoing unrest.
The board approved terms for the Francis Parkman Schoolhouse Forest Hills contract. It ordered a new kindergarten in the Gilbert Stuart district and another in the Francis Parkman Schoolhouse. A petition from Mrs. B T Wheeler and 32 residents asks a kindergarten at Adams Street primary school. It was referred to the ninth division committee.
At the Chelsea Board of Aldermen meeting Alderman Cheney presented an order to hire Chelsea citizens for public works at two dollars a day. The measure moved to a second reading. A separate order authorizing a twenty thousand dollar bond issue for park purposes was adopted.
Frank George Guntre of 2 1/2 Folsom street, 19, was shot in the leg four years ago at Thanksgiving. He arrived at Emergency Hospital last evening where Dr. Galvin removed the bullet.
Certificates of incorporation filed in Dover reveal the American Multiplex Telephone Telegraph and Cable Company of Massachusetts with capital of 1,000,000 and the D. McDonald Company of Boston with capital of 115,000 to manufacture cakes candy and other confections.
The Clover Leaf railroad was sold in Toledo Ohio for 12 200 000 to Hartshorn and Peyton acting for the bondholders reorgan ization committee.
In North Brookfield on March 2 Daniel J Healey ended his life by shooting himself through the heart after six months of illness. His suffering and poor health were cited as causes.
In New York on March 27 a sale of the late Ae Daly's books saw a rare item, a copy of Reminiscences of a Hackney Girl belonging to Anne Thackeray Ritchie, go to George Richmond for 226 dollars. The volume is described as unique with sixteen original drawings and forty five autograph letters.
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