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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 24, 1884

Page

3

Wall Street Shares Fall as Coal Stocks Lead Decline

New York trading opens with money easy at 14 2 per cent on call and prime mercantile paper at 4 54 percent. Government securities climb while rail and state bonds lag. Coal stocks dominate the early session with steep drops in Jersey Central, Delaware and Hudson, Lackawanna, and Reading, as market sentiment sours and selling accelerates.

New York Prime Mercantile Har Jersey Central Delaware and Hudson Lackawanna Northwest Rock Island Quincy Louisville and Nashville Lake Shore Missouri Pacific New York Central Northern Pacific Union Pacific Bears Chicaago Burlington and Quincey

Coal trade improves as mining suspension set for June

The coal trade shows a brighter outlook with all companies agreeing to a two weeks mining suspension in June. Grain remains steady while oats weaken. Liverpool cheese prices fall. Dairy products in demand in New York and Boston, but inventories rise. Eggs abundant. Boston figures show 114 grain cars, 68 corn, 45 oats, 1 wheat car. oil board notes May prices around 44 to 45 cents with various bids and asks. June and July prices listed with mixed bids.

Liverpool New York Boston Boston Commercial Exchange Oil Board

Flour And Grain Market Report Flows Through Regions

The market for flour and grain shows steady demand and light trade across grades. Quotations span western superfine to $3 2 Y per bbl up to Minnesota and Wisconsin across winter and spring wheats, with rye flour and various mill grades noted. Chicago and New York reports include mixed futures moves, declines and recoveries, and sizable receipts and shipments, while St Louis and Milwaukee show steady activity.

Michigan Indiana Ohio Minnesota New York Southern Illinois St Louis Wisconsin Neeres Chicago Avigo 9Ic Toledo Dancash Conan Yea Caeeneer Milwaukee Dall and Lower Peoria White State St. Louis Hebron Nova Scotia Danver Bermudas Cape Cod Norfolk Timothy Maryland

Trade goods listings across multiple railroads and routes

A dense ledger of freight items for Boston area lines and connections including Grand Junction Providence New York and New England Eastern Fitchburg Lowell Maine and Peabody express routes. Items listed include wool flour corn oats sugar butter cheese eggs potatoes and numerous leather hides mills and bale counts with freight quantities and vehicle types such as bbls barrels cars and boxes.

Liverpool Eng Steel Wetherell Bros Washburn & Moon Abbott & Co Baring Bros & Co Colburn & Baker Rice & Starkweather Read & Sons Baker & Co Simons, Hatch & Whitten Baring Bros Jones & Co King & Co Warren & Co Hogg, Brown & Taylor Stone & Downer Iren Congdon Carpenter & Co Phelps, E & Co Hilton, Weston & Co E & F King & Co Barnabas Clarke Caton, Heckle & Co Bernard Moors & Co Farrar, Simpson & Co Clapp & Bailey Jay Dame Stoddard & Kendall Stone Pierce & Robertson Stoddard, Lovering & Co Kennedy & Murphy—S Bowley A Crowell & Co Yarmouth Hall & Co Griffin & Co Holmes Garland Dodo JR Elis & Son JG Hall & Co ST Pierre Mart Florence Cardenas Edward Cushing Westport James Beckworth Johnson & Gurney Boston and A. Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York and New England Railroad Eastern Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Peabody and Salem Sanat DERG

West Shore rail line boosts through trains and pullman service

The New York West Shore and Buffalo railway reports steady passenger gains as through trains increase, stops drop, and faster times begin Sunday. A 10 A M daily through express with Pullman buffet sleeping cars will run to Buffalo Detroit and Chicago. New Jersey access via annex boats adds to popularity as Jersey City depots remain easy to reach. A Chicago to New York Pullman buffet service via Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls and Buffalo starts Saturday linking Chicago and Boston directly through to New York.

New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad New York Buffalo Detroit Chicago Pacific Express Henry Monett Jersey City West Shore Road Boston Grand Trunk Road Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls

Business Failures Across the Nation This Week

Telegraph reports 212 U S failures and 20 in Canada this week, total 232 up from 209 last week. Notable cases include Palmer Batchelder & Co Boston to settle at 25 cents on the dollar by July 1, with creditors to be paid in cash. Edward Scamel of Boston and Hopkinton, Natick and Lowell merchants also fail or suspend. Legal actions span Shaw Brothers objections and numerous contract suits, with average liabilities listed and several estates assigned for creditor benefit.

Telegraph R.G. Dun & Co Mercantile Agency United States Canada Middle Pacific Bancroft Palmer, Batchelder & Co Jewellers Boston Edward Scamel Tellor Walter E. Day & Co Hopkinton John N. Shattuck Natick Frank Brady Lowell Thomas H. Mills & Co New Bedford Joseph Ashton Grocer Brockton Judge Field Supreme Court Shaw Brothers Henry G. Nichols J. B. McDonald Woburn E. D. Hayden First National Bank of D. Burns Rutland H. King & Co Syracuse N. Y Edson Bradley Thomaston Conn E. Gb Farmhuam Hartford Stephen F. Moriarty Jesse Grant Court of Common Pleas New York Henry H. Remington William H. Sweeney Garrett B. Haight Eliott, Drewry & Co Richmond Drewry Blanchard Baring Bros. & Co Nicholas Harford Otis Gray Randall Mary Keohane William O’brien Jeremiah Keohane L. Foster Morse, Jr John W. Lavery Mary Hanglin Mary Foley Henry P. Dennen George H. Morton F. A. Hawley & Co Orland Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Ss. Superior Court Richard KE. Nickerson Summerville Middlesex Sidney KR. Baxter Copartners Nickerson Baker & Smith Winter Harbor Smith Boston Poet Bos Jos. A. Willard

Jurors Return Verdicts Amid Injuries and Public Works Disputes

In George W. Brown vs City of Chelsea a jury awarded the plaintiff 333 for injuries from a defective street. Boston Water Power Co. vs City of Boston seeks relief from a 46144 Back Bay park betterment as excessive. Judge Blodgett imprisoned Henderson for contempt after urging sustaining a verdict. McDonough vs railroads settled for 25000, with defendants paying and docket entry reflecting that sum.

George W. Brown Chelsea T. J. Morrison D. F. Kimball Boston Water Power City of Boston Back Bay Park Parker Street Westland Huntington Avenue Alexander 8. Porter Thomas Ellis Water Power Company Petiloner Messrs. Hyde, Dickinson and Howe A. J. Bailey William Henderson William P. Walley Henderson Blodgett Peck-Richards Supreme Court James J. McDonough Boston and Albany Old Colony South Boston

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