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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
9
Chicago reports a weak wheat session with May futures down to around $1.01 and futures closing weak. Corn trades quietly while oats hold steady and provisions fall on heavy hog receipts. May lard and rib values slide, with tomorrow’s USDA-type receipts forecast for wheat, corn, oats, and hogs.
The bulletin reports mixed grain trends across New York St Louis Baltimore Toledo Milwaukee and Kansas City with flour receipts 21 459 bbls and exports 4 428 bbls in New York while wheat prices drift on varying notes from spot easy to later declines May and July futures around 1 08 and 1 04 to 1 05 per bu. Corn and oats show steady to soft movement alongside feeds and minor price changes across the region. Multiple city dispatches note receipts and prices for flour wheat corn oats barley and rye with spot and futures activity and currency of reports.
Tin rose in London trading with spot near 124.5 and futures 125. In New York spot copper around 13.62 3/4 with electrolytic near 19.75 and market quiet. Lead held around 15 shillings in London while U S quotes showed mixed dullness. Spelter steady near 4.55 dollars. Dead $3.65 per ton in St Louis.
Reports from the Southern spot market say the South held firm and purchases paused during recession, with Liverpool spot sales at 412000 bales. Market judges doubt clear prices, while Liverpool stays above parity with strong 4000 spot demand, and cables note improved demand from India and China and possible Manchester expansion.
New Orleans reports spot cotton firm with middling at 12 cents and strong futures gains aided by Liverpool demand. Liverpool and New York show higher closes with March activity up about 20 to 28 points. United States sales total around 350000 bales, while Liverpool sees 12000 bales traded and American middling around 6.9 to 7.0 pence.
Moderate demand for cattle and a quiet market day. Hogs report a liberal run at 6,214 head with prices 15c lower as buyers turn bearish amid large Chicago receipts. Calves and sheep show mixed to steady activity with varying regional price shifts across multiple markets including East Buffalo and Chicago.
Final receiver report filed in Superior Court shows $241,500 of former liabilities wiped out. Judge Hoffheimer ends receivership after Seward Heidelbach disappears. control passes to Albert and Sidney Rauh under reorganization.
In a dramatic Juvenile Court scene R Jennings of 1516 Barton street cried that his grandchild Mildred Black was taken to the Children's Home. He sobbed in the corridor as police learned the child was said to be in improper surroundings. Separate cases saw Daisy Morrison and Bessie Adams held for further examination on delinquency charges. Harry Norton was found guilty of highway robbery and sentenced to the Reformatory.
United States court news reports Friend Paper Company moving toward bond or debt settlement with creditors after withdrawal of The Union Sulphur Company from bankruptcy action. Other creditors Morris Schwartz and Louis Abrams appear in related filings. Schwartz seeks US citizenship with first papers granted. Abrams lists liabilities of 1,891 and assets of 1,275.
Testatrix Ann Maria Siever leaves 9700 to John Henry Siever and Elise H C Siever with estate not to be sold for eighteen months after death and Elise H C Siever named executrix. Applications filed to administer Mary Anna Ill Emma Keck Jacob Keck Mary Harlow Barbara Rothfuss John George Rothfuss Michael Rager Margaret Rager Albert Denier Ellen Sullivan Patrick Sullivan Lucinda Shry Elvira Shry Thomas Powell Isaac Harrington with various estates ranging from 266 to 45000 unknown amount.
The Little Miami Railroad Company sues the city of Cincinnati in the Superior Court seeking to enjoin the levy of an Eggleston avenue improvement assessment totaling 49292. The rail leaseholder argues the avenue is state property and that only a small portion of its property would benefit, with tracks depots and yards along the right of way.
Lillie B. Kramer filed for divorce from John Kramer yesterday claiming abandonment. The couple wed seven months ago in Maysville Kentucky.
Albert Atkins v Louis Lipp Company settled out of court for 2000. John H De Haney v John I Ryan et al dismissed. Hiram H Peck v Nellie V D Smith foreclosure suit dismissed. Hughey Donnell bound over to grand jury on burglary warrant related to East Fourth Street break in. Donnell Hines and Patton arrested.
The Cincinnati port lists yesterday departures by The Courier to Maysville Lizzie Bay to Madison City of Louisville to Louisville. today’s arrivals include Greenwood from Pomeroy Soskin from Maysville Lizzie Bay to Madison and City of Cincinnati to Louisville. The Ohio River at Cincinnati stood 15 ft 5 in and rising with ice from above.
Special dispatches indicate the Mississippi and Ohio river readings at Davis Island Wheeling Madison Louisville Evansville Cairo St Louis with levels ranging from 4 to 19 feet and general trends of falling or rising. Arrivals include the Wash Henshell on the Lower Mississippi at 2 30 p m.
The Parsch Lumber Company Elyria $40000 by Parsch party. The J H Beem Oil and Gas Company Roseville $10000 by Melick Harkness Beem Davis Jones. The Six K s Realty Company Cleveland $20000 by King family. The W J Kollmorgen Company Toledo $10000 by Kollmorgen Cutler Ritter Baltz Kaemlin. Akron Baking Company $75000 by Freer Markle Freer Markle Carden. Federal Building and Loan Company East Liverpool increase stock to $500000. Lincoln Store and Range Company Fremont increase stock to $400000.
Chicago traders report butter steady to firm with creameries and daisies quoted at 20 to 32 cents. eggs strong at marked levels. cheese steady with several brands noted. New York markets show butter strong with varied receipts. cheese firm. eggs firm. poultry alive firm with small changes in chicken and turkey prices.
Boston market summary lists Adventure 214 and many mining stocks with daily percentages and values including Amalgamated 561 and United States Mining 335 as notable movers. The table covers multiple companies such as Calumet and Hecla, Union Copper, Copper Range and Granite shares.
Oil City reports credit balances and weekly barrels, Wilmington notes steady spirits turpentine and rosin activity, Toledo lists Lima prices, Savannah records firm turpentine and rosin with detailed stock and price ranges across grades A through M and related products.
New York activity shows demand unchanged with slow buying and a trend toward fast delivery. Reports cite more inquiries from China but little new business, silks uncertain, and outside jobbing markets slowly resuming.
A forthcoming group photograph in The Illustrated Magazine of The Commercial Tribune shows the General Executive Committee of the Bonbright Bonebrake family meeting in Girrman town Ohio to arrange a reunion at Cornelius Bonebrake’s home near Veedersburg Indiana from June 20 to 23 1908. The family traces to 1630 and is linked by marriage to Morris Stone Zearing Lippincott Conn Wolfe Hall Anderson and Schellenberger. The Illustrated Magazine is included with The Sunday Commercial Tribune.
Knights of Pythias from thirty four lodges in Hamilton County met to plan the April 3 county gathering in Douglass Hall. Sixty orphans from the Pythian Home in Springfield will perform a cantata at Music Hall or Robinson’s Opera House. The arranging committee includes John Ringgold W Schuchardt C Evans Dr J C Krieger Arthur Boden and Judge Lueders. Ex Grand Chancellor John Ringgold Benton Oppenheimer and J D Crane will give addresses.
L. L. Sadler was elected trustee of the bankrupt firm Rabenstein Harris Conner. He posted a $5,000 bond and will proceed to wind up the business for creditors.
Edward Hart, a Cincinnati property holder, leases 30 East Fifth Street for ten years starting 191, with $45 000 rent, and may purchase the adjacent building. Hart also owns the penny theater site and eyeing further improvements. Real estate men debate Cincinnati Real Estate Exchange action on local option amid political concerns. J N Walsh bids $100 000 for Lincoln Inn Court Building Site. Windisch estate owns the current building. Woodruff Block leasing planned Feb 10 by William F Detzel. Kircher five room flat in McCormick Place leased at $510 annually.
A long list of property transfers and mortgage cancellations appears, detailing parcels sold or mortgaged in Norwood and surrounding townships. Transactions involve numerous bidders and buyers including Mahali Wiggins, Emil Coleman, Thomas Sheehan, John Meyer, Anna Fléck, Henry Moeller, Arch Be., and Emma Koch, among others, with street addresses and lot descriptions. Also includes sealed proposals for Norwood city improvement bonds worth 15000 dollars dated 1907 for street paving and sewer work, due in 20 years.
Case filings list several actions including Climax Co. vs G J Braam Co for a lien and execution of 27.99, Margaret Drehler v Anna Peters et al for partition of estate, Mary J S Duffield v Gerhard J Schulte et al for partition of estate, John Eckert and William Geoghegan in related docket, Tillie B Kramer v John Kramer for alimony, and The Little Miami Railroad Co. v City of Cincinnati et al for an injunction. Maxwell & Ramsey.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners until February 21 1908 at 12 o'clock for improvement work on Hamilton pike from Mt. Healthy to Butler County line Springfield Township. Bids must use blank forms and include two sureties of 500 dollars each. The board may reject any or all bids. Stanley Struble, President. Fred Drei hs, Clerk.
The Board of Public Service in Cincinnati invites sealed proposals for supplying coal meat ice and milk to multiple city institutions including the Workhouse House of Refuge City Hospital Branch Hospital City Hall and City Infirmary for one year from contract date. Bids must include all owners and a 10 percent bond or certified check. bids due February 6 1908.
Sealed proposals will be received by the City Auditor of Norwood Ohio at his office until 3 pm on January 30 1908 for bonds totaling 3238 04 dollars to fund 98 percent of Kenilworth avenue sewer improvements. Bonds dated December 3 1907 pay four and one half percent interest yearly and mature in five equal installments.
Norwood Ohio invites sealed proposals at its City Auditor office by 3 pm Thursday January 30 1908 for purchase of bonds totaling 12196.72 dollars to fund 98 percent of Carthage avenue improvements from Norwood View to Burgoyne road with macadam. Bonds dated January 14 1908 mature over ten years at 4.5 percent interest. Include 5 percent certified cash bid with proposal marked Bids for Carthage avenue bonds.
Notice announces a stockholders meeting in Cincinnati Ohio on February 7 1908 at 9 am to authorize a supplement to the 1904 refunding mortgage and to approve purchase of refunding bonds and related notes and pledges. The meeting agenda includes ratifying December 14 1907 board actions and any other business.
Sealed proposals for manufacturing and delivering dining room tables chairs desks and sideboards to the U S Army Quartermaster Department will be received until February 29 1908 at 2 pm. Quantities may vary by 20 percent. Domestic manufacture preferred with price and quality standards. Proposals to be opened February 29 1908 at 2 pm.
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