Erie Stocks Rise on Hariman Cash Infusion
E H Harriman advanced cash to save the Erie Railroad from receivership, stead ing the market this morning. The market was dull with little price movement. only Erie and Brooklyn Rapid Transit advanced while Union Pacific fell to 127 and Pacific Mail dropped three points. London shares opened strong but retracted. American shares were irregular with Erie issues notably strong. Wheat and cotton were steady to lower. on the curb market Erie notes rose to 10% bid and 108 asked from 97 previous close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Shotwell
New York
E. H. Harriman
Ice Railroad
Erie
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Union Pacific
Pacific Mail
London
Securities
May wheat firm on buying by elevators in Chicago
Chicago grain notes a firm tone for May wheat amid elevator buying, while July and September feel pressure. Kansas reports farmers plowing wheat and sowing corn in western areas. Opening and closing prices listed for wheat corn oats and provisions.
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Chicago
Kansas
Sec
A. W. Thomson
jAsk. tNominal
Pittsburg Live Stock Prices Report
Pittsburg Pa April 9 cattle receipts light steady extra 6.75 7.00 heifers 4.99 5.95 fresh cows and springers 16 3 00 hogs receipts 6 loads lower heavy 6.45 medium weights 6.26 6.50 rough to common 5.00 sheep and lambs receipts light steady on lambs wool sheep 4.50 5.00 wool lambs 5.10 8.25 prime wethers 6.25 7.40 good mixed 6.00 6.15 fair mixed ewes and wethers 5.25 5.65 cattle to best lambs 4.50 7.45 spring lambs 5.00 6.50
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Pittsburg
Cses
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Chicago Live Stock at Union Stock Yards Apr 9
Receipts total 17,000 hogs down 10 cents led by light weights at 5.75 to 6.25, mixed 5.75 to 6.25, heavy 5.75 to 6.20, rough 5.75 to 5.90, pigs 1.65 to 5.55. cattle receipts 5,000 steady to slightly higher with beef cows 2.15 to 6.25, Texans 4.56 to 5.40, westerns 4.40 to 5.50, stockers 3.25 to 4.35. sheep receipts 11,000 weak with natives 4.75 to 6.80, yearlings 6.00 to 7.30, lambs 6.00 to 7.85.
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Chicago
Union
Jil
Horgs
Reeves
Western
Meats and Lard Price List from Local Market
A historical price listing for meats and lard includes sugar cured hams 10 14c to 16c, English style hams 13c, boiled hams 19c, bacon varieties from 11c to 19c, shoulders and pork products priced per pound or barrel, fresh pork and beef items, lard in tierces, and fresh veal, mutton, and lambs with multiple small denominations noted.
St. Louis Bank Closed by State Examiner
A notice on the Olivet Street bank door announces closure by the state bank examiner. Established in 1902, it carried a paid-up capital of $100,000 and deposits totaling $450,000.
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ST. Louis Bank
ST. Louis
Olivest. Bank
State Bank
Puan Works On Electric Lines In Indiana
In South Bend Indiana April 9 the company added 300 workers to open the Chicago Like Shore South Bend railway May 6. Headquarters will be in South Bend with a branch at Michigan City. Competing Chicago South Bend Northern Indiana plans a South Bend to Laporte extension by July 1. Through service from Michigan City to Warsaw and further to Dayton will follow as lines are completed by July 1.
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South Bend
Ind
Chicago
Shore & South Bend Railway
Michigan City
Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana
Laporte
Murdocks
Lafayette
Warsaw
Dayton
Peru
Winona
Boys Confess to Burglary of a Grocery
Four boys confessed to breaking into a saloon at 1602 Martindale Avenue. They tore down a wall to reach a slot machine and stole it along with cigars and tobacco later traced to Ida Emanual’s grocery at 1101 Columbia Ave. Detectives Kruger and Lancaster arrested Earl Tanner Edgar Downey Oliver Moffett and Ben Lee. A marble-collecting bystander tipped police after finding plunder. Moffett later revealed the gang’s involvement.
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Martindale Ave
Kruger and Lancaster
Earl Tanner
Martindale-ave
Edgar Downey
Oliver Moffett
Arsenal~ave
Ben Lee
Carnegie's Daughter Cured of Lameness in New York
Margaret Carnegie, daughter of the Iron magnate, has been cured of lameness once deemed incurable. The heiress of $300,000,000 is now able to run and skip about, bringing great delight to her father at their New York City palace.
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Margaret Carnegie
New York City
Hog and cattle market price list entry
Market report lists hogs equal to demand and stable steer prices across weights from 900 to 1,300 pounds and up. Steers and heifers priced by grade from common to extra choice, with cows and bulls showing varied values for heavies, mediums, and calves amid overall steady demand.
Indianapolis Produce Price List Highlights
Prices from the Indianapolis Produce Exchange show fresh eggs at 1814 cents per dozen, country roll butter, and poultry rates including hens at 13 cents for turkeys, roosters at 6 cents, ducks at 8 cents, geese at 5 cents, and chickens hens at 1014 cents.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Produce Exchange
Cattle and Sheep Prices Reported in East Buffalo Market
East Buffalo New York reports active cattle receipts and steady business. Sheep and lamb receipts around six thousand with prices mostly lower. lambs 5.20 to 8.25, yearlings 7.00 to 7.50, wethers 7.00 to 7.25, ewes 6.00 to 6.25, mixed sheep 3.75 to 6.50. Hog receipts slow, 5 to 10 cents lower. Yorkers 6.25 to 6.45, mixed and heavier around 6.40, pigs 4.78 to 6.0, roughs around 4.0 to 7.0.
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East Buffalo
N. Y
Government Keeps Water On. Cas the Government Keeps Water On
Washington April 9 It is about three years since President Castro of Venezuela announced designs of landing 1,000 men at New Orleans and marching through the United States. The army and navy now map and understand South America to handle any trouble. a dispatch plan exists though an expedition is not expected.
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Washington
Castro
Venezuela
New Orleans
United States
United States Army
Navy
Central
South America
Army
Private wire ties land fraud defendants in trial
In the Benson Hyde Dimond land fraud trial April 9, testimony brought Dimond into the case with a deed for land by Isaac Leibes executed by Dimond. A law clerk identified the deed and Attorney General Pugh cited a private telephone wire linking Benson and Hyde. Witness Slack said the wire connected their offices and Dimond's room, rented by Hyde.
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Washington
John A. Benson
Frederick Hyde
Joost Snyder
Henry Dimond
Dimond
John McPhaul
Land Office
Isaac Leibes
Benson and Hyde
Pugh
Walter I. Slack
Benson and Hye
Slack
Benson
Hyde
Prince de Sagan Scorned by Paris Press in Gould Romance
Paris editor Stephane Lauzanne says Prince Helie d A pré Sagan is a poor specimen of a Frenchman and draws amusement and aversion. He notes Parisians have a poor opinion of the suitor while praising Count Boni de Castellane as nicer and more sympathetic.
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New York
Prince Helie d de Sagan
Mme
Anna Gould
Paris
Stephane Lauzanne
le Matin
la Provence
Prince de Sagan
M. Lauzanne
Count Boni de Castellane
Count de Castellane
Mr. Lauzanne
I T U System Magazine Debuts With Traction Interest
The Indiana Union Traction company of Anderson launches a new literary periodical for travelers and workers. It blends fiction and art with theater notices and a full timetable of all Union Traction lines. E C Van Valkenburg oversees the venture as controller.
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I. T. U. System
Electric World of
Indiana
Traction
Anderson
Union Traction System
Indiana Union Traction Company
E. C. van Valkenberg
Soldier Lieutenant Lindsay Shoots Self in San Francisco
Lieut. David Q. Lindsay of the United States Signal Corps shot and killed himself in San Francisco today. Authorities say his salary of 1500 dollars a year was not enough to support his mother.
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San Francisco
David Q. Lindsay
United States Signal Corps
Oil Saves Men In Dramatic Sea Rescue Aboard Volurno
A hurricane wrecked the French schooner Champagne with 23 crew aboard. The Volurno crew drilled a lifeboat using oil to aid a daring rescue, saving four officers as dawn rose and later recovering more men before the schooner sank.
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Champagne
Saint Malo
France
Deliuhande
Rahinen
Wreh
Chamgarne
James Harvison
Carrison
Harrison
Veturno
Mclntosh
Sin
Representative Ward Released by Judge in Presley Case
In Midh., April 9 Judge Connolly halted the jury, releasing Representative Charles E. Ward who faced trial over Miss Edith Presley’s death. The court ruled the surgery aimed to save the girl’s life and found no criminal intent by the prosecution. Dr. Fritch, Presley’s attending physician, was also released.
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Detroit
Midh
Connolly
Charles E. Ward
Edith Presley
Dr. Fritch
Miss Presley
Man Sues After Punch On Streetcar Transfer Incident
Sylvester C. Jackson sued the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company for 5000 dollars in Superior court on Thursday over a December 13, 1907 incident. He alleges a streetcar transfer was wrongly punched and when he objected a conductor punched him, throwing him from the moving car and causing a broken upper jaw and internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester C. Jackson
Jackson
Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company
Americans Need the Work Reader Days
Indianapolis April 7 1908 a letter from a reader rebukes city ministers urging they provide jobs for unemployed foreigners arguing there are many unemployed Americans and noting Hungarians sent $260 million home. The writer asks ministers to compel the companies that brought workers to the United States to provide food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Vv. Il
Going to Oklahoma from Linton pastor leaves for new state
Rev J M Nash of Worthington plans shortly to depart Linton Indiana for Oklahoma. Friends here wish him success in the new state as he begins a fresh ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton, Ind
J. M. Nash
Worthington
Oklahoma
Nash
Death and Search Mark Rural Dispatch in Mount Vernon
A farmer found Henry Fisher wandering near Mount Vernon claiming amnesia about the last 12 years. He asks officials to help locate his Los Angeles family as he seeks to return home after years of unconscious travel. Fisher recalls only a morning kiss goodbye to his mother before the memory gap. The incident prompts calls for harmony among locals.
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Mount Vernon
Henry Fisher
Nvn
Los Angeles
Fisher
Navy Attache Raymond Easton Killed at Magdalena Bay
Raymond A. Easton, hospital attache on the battleship Kentucky, was accidentally shot by a companion while on shore at Magdalena Bay during small arms practice. He died April 4 and was buried four days later in the temporary naval cemetery at Magdalena Bay. A Maryland native, he enlisted in Baltimore on August 23, 1915.
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Waslington
Raymond A. Easton
Kentucky
Navy
Magdalena Bay
Easton
New Temporary
Maryland
Baltimore
Mul
May Bar Liquor From Premises of Government
Washington April 9 In the senate today Mr Berah from the committee on education and labor reported favorably the bill to prohibit liquor in all government buildings and premises Senator Scott of West Virginia introduced a bill for a volunteer retired list The employer liability bill passed by the house was taken up and discussed In the house a hearing on publicity of campaign contributions was held Bills authorizing fish hatcheries in several states were reported by the committee on merchant mar ine and fisheries
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Washington
Senate
Berah
Committee On Education and Labor
Scott
West Virginia
Tne
House
Committee On Elections
Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Captain kills self after slaying major in prison drama
Vienna dispatch reports Capt. von Goeben killed Maj. Schoenebeck on Christmas Eve then murdered a fellow officer after swearing to Schoenebeck's wife he would free her from marriage. He later killed himself in Allenstein jail cell, ending a tragic tale of love and jealousy.
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Vienna
Austria
von Goeben
Allenstein
Maj
Schoenebeck
Maj. Schoenebeck
Frau von Schoenebeck
Capt. Goeben
Woman Umbrella Attack Over Refund Bet on Job
In Chicago on April 9 Eugene M. Elliott head of the Elliott system of employment and advertising was rebuked by an irate wife in his Monadnock block office. She attacked him with an umbrella after he refused to refund $3 paid by her husband W. P. Fox for a promised $150 monthly position. The woman retrieved the money and departed after the scuffle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eugene M. Elliott
Eliott System of
Monadnock
Elliott
W. P. Fox
Arrest of Dr Deroter on Murder Charge in St Louis
Dr Engle Hart Voerster Jr a former chief physician at the City dispensary and a well known St Louis figure was arrested on a murder charge. He allegedly shot Jeesen Bell a paper hanger who died Sunday morning while escorting a woman and her two daughters home from a dance.
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ST. Louis
Wfc
Englehart Voerster, Jr
Jeesen Bell
President Urges Action Against the Anarchist Threat
Washington April 2 The president transmitted to Congress a Justice Department letter on combating anarchy. He argues existing statutes authorize prohibiting the postmaster from aiding crime and calls for further legislation while deeming anarchists the enemy of humanity and asserting immigrants and papers propagating anarchist views should be restricted.
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Washington
Congress
Department of Justice
Julia Marlowe cancels dates then back in Binghamton
Julia Marlowe cancelled engagements in Ithaca and slated Binghamton Wilkes Barre and Scranton for the week but New York managers urged restraint. She is named in a divorce suit filed by Mrs Clara Louise von Herrman against Karl Stephen von Herrman and sought to cancel all remaining Gloria performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghamton, N
Julia Marlowe
Ithaca
Binghamton
Wilkesbarre
Scranton
New York
Clara Louise von Frerrman
Karl Stephen von Herrman
Miss Marlowe
Alabama Supreme Court upholds 9 p.m. closing law
The Alabama supreme court today declared the prohibition at 9 o'clock closing law constitutional in Montgomery. The ruling affirms state controls on alcohol sale hours in force since enactment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Brown's Brother III Called Home by Telegram
Michael Brown, a janitor at the statehouse, was sent to Fort Wayne Wednesday night after a telegram said his brother was dying. In two years he has lost two brothers.
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Brown
Michael Brown
Statehouse
Fort Wayne
Mr. Brown
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