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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1890

Page

7

Stocks Rally Amid Rumor Driven Liquidation in Chicago Gas

Trading in trusts strengthened after a rumor of a receiver for Chicago Gas sparked a liquidation, with prices slipping briefly before a broad rebound. Sugar and several railroad stocks rose, bonds firmed, and Vanderbilts led a marketwide uptick though late afternoon selling trimmed gains.

Chicago Gas Bears Missouri Pacific St. Paul Union Pacific Atchison Chicago Rock Island Reading Pacific Mail Vanderbilts Grangers Texas Pacific

Money on call and securities market activity in New York

New York on May 28 reports money on call easy at 3 4 to 5 to 4 after closing. Prime mercantile payer at 5 7 for silver with 102 percent, Sterling exchange quiet but firm with 4.84 percent sixty day bills and 4.86 percent demand. Government bonds dull and steady. railroad bonds fairly active and firm. After noon, stock market dealings show great activity.

New York Sterling Exchange

Market Notes and Bond Prices from London and Shipping Rates

London reports at 12:30 p m and 4 p m on stock prices for Atlantic & Great Western Canadian Pacific Erie Illinois Central Mexican ordinary St Paul common New York Central Pennsylvania Reading Mexican Central and other issues with prices and discount rates. Bulletins note bar silver at 47d per ounce and India Council bills allotted with a small advance on rupees.

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Bank and bullion figures from Berlin and London

The report notes 90 francs 36 centimes and 25 francs 13% centimes exchange in London. It records bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England on balance at £10,6v0. Berlin dispatches show the Imperial Bank of Germany reporting a 12,180,000 mark increase in specie.

London Bank of England Berlin Imperial Bank of Germany

Commercial MATTERS and CITY HORSE MARKET report

A field of commodity notes shows steady to firm prices in grains and meats with overall quiet activity in butter cheese and pork. The CITY HORSE MARKET section describes a softer tone and strong demand for lighter and driving horses, including auction outcomes across multiple stables and carload consignments from Canada and the West.

The Boot and Shoe Trade Review

The article notes firm leather prices and rising shoe costs across classes. Factories stay busy with fall orders, spring duplicates, and some 5 to 7 2 cent gains on balf and calf shoes. Demand remains solid in New England and across the West and South, with favorable crop prospects and improving weather.

New England

Hides Market Report With Mixed Global Prices

The article notes very small foreign hide offerings and limited activity. Buenos Ayres and Montevideo hides quoted around 1342 14e, with outside prices uncertain. Sierra Leone kips arriving at 11¢ and Rio Grande kips at 12% ec. Western buff hides firm with heat freight prints at 6% to 7c. New England hides quiet and steady.

Buenos Ayres Montevideo New York Sierra Leone Rio Grande New England

India Rubber Quiet Trade Buoyant Prices Reported

There has been a quiet trade in India rubber with small lot sales. Prices are quoted at 90 92c for new fine Para and 66 68c for coarse. Advices from Para and European markets remain favorable.

India Para

Flour and Meal Trade Shows Moderate Demand and Steady Prices

Grain markets report receipts of 3677 bbls flour 1075 sacks wheat flour 1861 bbls cornmeal with steady yet cautious demand from jobbers. Prices held firm across fine to patent grades. cornmeal and oatmeal show fair to steady activity while Western markets remain firmer and mills refrain from concessions.

Minnesota Wisconsin Canada Superior Canada Graham

Market reports show steady prices despite large receipts

The bulletin details butter cheese eggs beans and produce prices with many named regional markets. Butter quotations vary by creamery and region, while cheese and eggs show steady to firm pricing amid ample receipts. Potatoes onions hay and straw are quoted by farm and region, with modest fluctuations and steady demand in several markets.

The Fruit Trade Market Report

The fruit trade shows steady apple demand with Russets at 460 per barrel. Dried apples quiet, ice evaporated at 10 12c and extras at 9 1/2c. Pineapples receipts large with Nassau Havanas 8 12c, Key West 10 12c, Porto Ricos 26 3 65c. California navel oranges at 5 65 60 a box.

Wea Yve Nassaus Havanas Key Wests Porto Ricos California Sicily Messina Palermo Banes Seaverns & Co Salea Kong Forde Jamaica Boston Fruit Company

Steamers Arrive and Depart with Diverse Cargo

The steamer Starlight passed Gibraltar May 16 with 1700 boxes Mesina lemons 3600 half boxes and 2000 boxes Palermo Jemons and 15600 boxes Palermo Jemons. Odin due Friday with Baracoa bananas for Scaverns Co. Elgiva due Friday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit. Hugin and the Weaver Hugin tie up for Baracoa bananas for WW U RNoyes. Norfolk boat due Friday carries 300 pkgs peas 260 bags peanuts 1100 pkgs cabbage 25 crates berries 2000 pkgs beans and 160 pigs various.

Starlight Gibraltar Odin Scaverns & Co Elgiva Jamaica Boston Hugin Telus WW & U R Noyes Norfolk

PHE Provision Trade Receipts and Pork Market Quotations

The article lists receipts for various provisions including tallow beef pork lard hams bacon and preserved meats with quantities such as 58 weeks of tallow and 1 barrel beef. It notes the pork market remaining steady with quotations for long cuts short cuts batts lean ends tongues and other pork products with prices per hundredweight and per pound context.

Meat market price report with varied quotes and goods

A wall of figures lists corned beef tongue and bacon prices, plus expressed beef cuts. It notes steady demand for mutton and lambs, dull veals, ample supply, and quotes for Kentucky spring lambs, Chicago mutton, and other regional meat prices with mixed quality lots selling higher or lower.

Kentucky Chicago Brighton

Hog and Cattle Market Report From Kansas City and Chicago

Kansas City and Chicago markets show strong hog and cattle activity with higher prices. Cattle receipts and prices listed for steer, native cow, mixed stock, and stockers. hogs active across heavies, mixed, and Yorkers. sheep and lambs steady to firm with varied weights.

Kansas City

Sugar and Molasses Prices and Market Notes

Sugar markets show quiet raw sugar at 4 percent for fair refining and 6716 cents for 90 test centriguals with steady refined demand at old prices. For granulated today a wholesale price of 6.31 cents. Molasses market remains steady with slow trade and New Orleans sales at 40 to 48 cents per gallon, Cienfuegos and Barbados grades quoted between 18 and 32 cents depending on quality.

New York Canada Michigan Belmont_A New Orleans Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados

Cotton markets mixed as futures ease in New York and Liverpool

New York cotton prices show a range with uplands and Gulf grades varying from 10% to 12c as May and June futures open steady and close easy. Liverpool spot remains steady with U.S. and American arrivals around 10,000 bales and near-month futures firm, while other markets list firm to steady readings across Augusta, New Orleans, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Louisville. Wool sales in Antwerp set for June 3 with 8650 bales from Plats River and 4650 bales Australian, plus London noting subdued activity and a projected lower Plate River yield.

New York Augusta Galveston Sombal New Orleans Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville Mobile Savannah Mil Leige Charleton Mid Loge Wilmwington Norfolk Philadelia France Antwerp London Jacomb, Son & Co United States Colonia

Print Cloth Market Falls Quiet in Fall River

The print cloth market in Fall River shows little activity on May 1. A few sales were reported at 37 1/16 cents, down about one percent for 64s, with no further demand visible.

Fall River

Wheat futures trade steady amid unsettled mood in Chicago

In Chicago May 28 Wheat futures held around opening levels as traders weighed news of export activity and persistent crop damage reports. Prices showed small fluctuations with rains forecast for the West and rising temperatures, while corn and oats moved within narrow ranges and provisions edged up slightly. Local selling dominated but the market remained nervy and unable to sustain a clear directional move.

Chicago Tio Gilman, Cheney & Co Boston New York Farmers’ Review

Market Closing Prices for Wheat and Oats Across Cities

Closing commodity prices by city show Minneapolis and Duluth wheat toward 90s with No 1 hard and Northern grades. May through September figures link cash and futures bids, while Milwaukee reports cash and May prices for wheat and a July quote.

Minneapolis Duluth Milwaukee

Oil Market and Commodities Bulletin

The column reports oil market figures with closing prices and daily changes. Crude runs shipments and refinery margins are listed, along with certificates for cottonseed oil and whiskey market notes. Turpentine and petroleum prices in New York and regional whiskey trends in Chicago and Cincinnati are summarized.

W. Prescott & Co Devouchire Street Ccceereuceens

Cattle and Stock Notes From Watertown and Brighton May 23 1890

Market report from Watertown and Brighton for the week ending May 23 1890 lists cattle lambs swine and veal arrivals along with prices. Highlights include Western steers selling around 4.5 to 4.6 cents per pound, milch cows and calves priced from 30 to 355, and extensive notes on live stock shipments to London and local sales at Watertown and Brighton yards. The report notes light export trade and recommends sellers move cattle to England if steamers are available.

Watertown Brighton Boston Post George J Fox DM & W Co George H Hammond & Co F W Dyer Lear Ed Farrell & Co J D Hosmer Hahn& Son William Heffron E Hayden P F Littlefield Henry Vu Melloy A B Engrem Remicx & Cheney C H Merrill JC Libby & Son Ayrshire Liverpool London Helland Ponies Sheen J A Hathaway J Bellen J Gould Lane Stockholm City Weixell & Greenaun Johnson Fisher Maine Chadbourn & Wyeth Philbrick Tims & Weaton Hall & Son Gleason H Merrill J C Libby W Harriman Fo Libby W Gleason P Squire England Hathaway Dow & Moulton A E Johnson Aras Weixell & Greenbaum Boston

Foreign markets report from London and Liverpool

May 28 reports cargoes off the coast with wheat inactive and buyers holding off on passage. At Mark Lane English and American wheat and corn show weak to easier demand. English markets quiet, French markets clearer, Liverpool spot wheat quieter and corn steady with futures steady amid cool English weather.

London Mark Lane Liverpool England

Wheat and corn futures and London breadstuffs notes

Futures steady with California wheat for June at 7s 144d, October 7s 214d and November 7s 214d. Mixed American corn for May 8s 6d, for July 33 7d, for August 88 84. At Paris wheat stow, flour slow. Liverpool May 28 reports breadstuffs with poor demand, corn steady, quotes: winter wheat 78, spring wheat 7s 21440, club wheat 7s 1¾d, mixed American corn 6s 4d, peas 51, pork 548 9d, lard 31s 24d, cheese 53s old, 48s new.

California Paris Liverpool Ornsteady

Imports and Exports May 28 1890 Jamaica and Cuba items

Shipping list reports Kong Frode from Jamaica with bananas and pineapples and other produce. Rowena and Coronilla carry logs mahogany sugar and dry hides from Havana and Matanza s with Bangs and pounds listed. Barkentine Louise Adelaide imports sugar from Cuba and Bark Wm W Crapp moves rough spars cedar shingles and wood from Puget Sound Fort Townsend area.

Jamaica Kong Frode Boston

Exports under way from Hull and Halifax in 1890 shipment list

A detailed export manifest from May 28 1890 lists Hull and Halifax cargoes via steamer Galileo Nell Viola Carroll and Charlotte Town routes. Goods include oil, ink, leather, lumber, machinery, oats, cornmeal, tobacco, hardware, glassware, starch, beef, molasses, fruit, vegetables, clothing, rope, coal, timber, and assorted crates and bales.

Hull Eng New York Galileo Halifax Charlottelow SN Britannia

State Officers All Democrats but One- The Senate Appoints Committees

Newport Rhode Island May 28 The Legislature in grand committee elected a number of State officers all democratic The Democrats contested the Fourth District Court clerkship with Parker defeating Tilly by 48 to 45 The Senate moved to appoint standing and joint committees without Governor Davis input The substitute failed 17 to 19 the original passed 19 to 17 House approved acts increasing salaries and funding measures including industrial statistics polling ballots municipal elections a new constitution convention Pawtucket public works poll tax itinerant vendors and 25000 for the State School for Boys

Newport R. I Grand Committee Fourth District Court Thomas J. Tilly George B. Parker Supreme and Common Pleas Parker Tilly Senate Davis Commissioner of Industrial Statistics Pawtucket Board of Public Works State School For Boys

Robbery Charge After Pittsburg Porter Arrested

James Milligan a porter at Hotel Anderson in Pittsburg was arrested yesterday for robbing Eduard Strauss of the Vienna Orchestra guest of the hotel of 700 dollars. The money was found on Milligan.

James Milligan Anderson Pittsburg Penn Eduard Strauss Vienna Orchestra Milligan United States Circuit Court New York P. Clausen Trias Sixth National Bank Mary Mackintyre Fall River Foxboro William M. Chase Concord N. H Dartmouth Colege George W. Nesmith Mr. Chase Chandler Scientific

Amherst College trustees discuss presidency as Seelye’s health improves

Springfield note: Trustees met in Springfield to review the college presidency. President Seelye’s health improved from a trip abroad but remains not fully restored, and his continuance as president will depend on his physical condition. No decision was reached.

Springfield Amherst College Seelye

Organization of the Pavers' Union Formed

The Pavers' Union organized under an American Federation of Labor charter last evening. P O Hara was elected president, J Doherty vice president, John J Rivers treasurer, William Cassidy recording secretary, and James Devlin financial secretary. Delegates were chosen for the Central Labor Union. Sullivan & Co. and McLaughlin & Co. granted a nine hour day with ten hours pay. Gove & Co. and Soule Tillingham & Co. still run ten hours with eight hours Saturday, free of pay cut. Wood turners plan a nine hour day starting June first.

Pavers American Federation of Labor P. O’hara J. Doherty John J. Rivers William Cassidy James Devlin Central Labor Union Sullivan & Co McLaughlin & Co Gove & Co Soule, Tillingham

Genuine Imported Carls Sprudel Salt Advertisement

The Genuine Imported Carls Sprudel Salt is an alterative and eliminative remedy that dissolves tenacious bile, eases irritation, and removes obstruction by aiding nature rather than causing sudden irritation. Beneficial for temporary and habitual constipation, liver and kidney diseases, chronic stomach and bowel catarrh, rheumatism, and gout. Use early morning before breakfast. Ensure genuine article, imported in round bottles. Each bottle in a paper carton. Write for pamphlet. Eisner Mendelson Co., Agents, 6 Barclay St., N. Y.

Eisner & Mendel

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