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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
4
C. H. & D. sells roundtrip tickets Sunday ride good on all trains including regular and special services between Rushville and Connersville. Prices listed as 150, 1.25, 1.00, 50c, and 5c. Tickets cover going and returning journeys.
Chicago Wheat opens steady and strengthens as commission houses bid, with May wheat at 95 1/2 to 96 3/4 cents and May corn around 66 1/2 to 66 3/4. City grain shows No 2 red at about 64 1/4 cents, No 3 red near 94 cents, and oats near 53 1/2 cents. Prices for pork, lard, and ribs also noted, with various through billing levels and car counts for inspections.
Detroit April 22. William and Charles Wolcott brothers and Milan Mich business men were killed yesterday afternoon on their first trip in a new automobile. The car crossed Michigan Central railroad tracks and was struck by a passenger train destroying the auto and killing the two men.
Albert Bailey sues for damages over an unguarded saw leading to a workman losing an arm in Posey county. Judge Rabb upholds the Posey circuit court, granting damages, and cites safety laws to reduce hazard. The DeKalb ruling denies damages to Mary Robbins in a guardless roll mill accident at Fort Wayne Iron and Steel.
A simple wedding noted Miss Ethel Sahm wife of Dr. Augustus LaRue Marshall at their Broadway home. Ceremony Tuesday at 4 pm with family and close friends. reception and luncheon. They plan to live at 1950 Broadway after May 1. The event marks the Sahm couple’s twenty sixth anniversary.
Changes in the board of directors at New and Indianapolis Telephone Co. Capt Harry S New resigns while Charles S Norton takes his seat and also becomes secretary treasurer alongside George C Hitt who remains vice president. Norton now serves as secretary of both New Long Distance and Indianapolis concerns. New board lists nine directors with Brailey as president and Moriarity as assistant general manager. Other names withdrawing include John H Holliday and A C Lindemuth. The company employs experts and an accountant after a ten day recess. Beautiful chinaware free at Concannon's.
Famit washings and rough handling marked the Gel Laundry incident. Piles of Gat pieces froned and forwarded indicate a misstep in processing and possible losses. Local officials investigated the damaged items and outlined next steps for restitution.
A scanned city record lists numerous births showing parent names and addresses, plus multiple health notes. Entries name Krause Lagan Hassler Tracy Graham Mitchel Lege Herder Hedse Scanton Gallaway Healy Peters Chapman Elzea Flack Hopper Miller Ray Heart Ratliff Huggins Cutsinger Birnberg Wishlinsky Spitzfaden Silcott Dungan Cook Griswold Eubanks Britton Sullivan and others with ages from infant to elderly and conditions such as stillborn, nephritis, starvation, peritonitis, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. The list mixes birth records with medical observations and hospital notes across several streets and neighborhoods.
Chicago dispatches report a man, possibly Speck Cheeveant once employed at the Garrick theater, killed himself today in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Details on motive or incident are sparse.
Receipts total 3500 hogs 1400 cattle 100 sheep with hogs steady to down 10 cents from yesterday while cattle ease 19 cents and calves 25 cents lower. Sheep offerings steady. Prices show hogs 8.75 to 6.90, steers mixed by weight with 1300 pounds plus around 6.50 to 6.95, and varied ranges for heifers cows and bulls across categories.
Pittsburg Pa April 22 cattle receipts light and steady with extras at 4.85 to 6.90 prime 6.40 to 6.80 Good 6.40 to 5.75 heifers 4.00 to 5.75 fresh cows and springers 16.40 to 15.00 hogs receipts eight loads by weight heavy 6.00 medium 6.00 to 6.15 workers 5.70 to 6.00 pigs 5.30 to 5.40 rough to common 4.75 to 5.10 sheep and lambs light receipts steady prime wethers 6.00 to 6.25 good mixed 5.75 to 6.00 fair mixed ewes and wethers 4.75 to 5.25 culls to common 2.50 to 4. culls to choice lambs 4.50 to 7.35 spring lambs 29.00 to 12.
A C Alexander chief deputy to the state treasurer visited Marion Indiana his old home on Tuesday. He has many interests there including financial and political ties and his trips to Marion are frequent.
New York April 22 Stocks stayed steady on early trading as railroads plan heavy financing and steel rails become legal tender at a 28 to 1 ratio. Gold shipments rise as steel currency takes hold, with bonds supporting a firmer market while the curb market falters on irrigation fears at Goldfield. Union Pacific rose from opening down to 129 13, while Reading followed closely.
List of sugar cured hams English style hams and bacon types with prices per pound or per barrel. Includes breakfast bacon choice sugar cured bacon English style bacon smoked bacon prys salt bacon English style shoulders sugar cured shoulders dried beef lard in tierces pickled pork and fresh pork sausage with corresponding price ranges.
A historical pricing note lists wholesale buying figures for Clover Seed, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Blue Grass, Alsike, Alfalfa Clover, Miller, and Rape with various per bushel prices. Indianapolis retail prices for Timoth yseed and Clover seed, including red, alsike, alfalfa clover, and grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass and orchard grass, are provided in ranges from prime to fair conditions.
Listings show cabbage Holland seed by barrel and price per pound, dry onions white red yellow and Valencia crates, fancy grape fruit per box, cocoanuts per dot, apples Baldwins greens russets Jonathans prices, bananas straight hands and eight hand, celery Florida per crate, beets per bushel, tomatoes per dozen, sweet potatoes Kentucky and Illinois, potatoes per bushel, parsnips per bushel, turnips per barrel and per bushel, carrots per bushel, navy beans per bushel, popcorn per pound. Prices vary from 50c to $6.00 across many items.
Prices from the Indianapolis Produce Exchange list fresh eggs and dairy items, with butter and poultry rates. Turkeys for hens and cocks are noted, along with geese and ducks prices. The Wagon Market shows corn, sheaf oats, shelled oats, and straw price ranges.
Receipts total 55,000 with cattle at 16,000 and sheep 15,000. Beve, Texas and western steers range from 4.50 to 6.50. Cows and heifers 2.20 to 6.30. Native and western lambs 6.00 to 7.60. Hog prices 4.15 to 5.50. Pigs 4.75 to 5.50. Sheep weaker by about 10 cents.
Noble county court upholds appellate ruling that Anna Martz and others obtain quiet titles, defeating William D. Hays group’s bid to invoke an 1848 will. The court preserves the fee simple bequest while setting aside a weaker sale-inhibiting clause, allowing the heir to sell the farm.
The Marion county grand jury reports the coroner’s office acted legally and identifies no criminal irregularities. It cites improper bid practices in purchasing an X ray machine from Louis Haag, notes profits of 55 on a $175 bid, but declines to indict any official.
Mayor C A Bookwalter signed several ordinances on Wednesday including a $200 Memorial day allocation a $20 000 for asphalt street repairs with Western Construction Company to patch roads Henry W Marshall of Lafayette represented the firm He also set aside $40 000 to maintain the asphalt repair plant and approved a rail crossing lighting cost share.
District Chairman Korbly announced Democratic congressional primaries for the Seventh district on May 1, with May 2 fixed for the Democratic congressional convention.
Cattle receipts 38 Sea Yeals 5.0 7.23 Sheep and lambs receipts 4490 steady Wool lambs 5.25 8.10 clipped lambs 3.00 7.40 yearlings 8.25 7.60 clipped wethers 5.00 6.35 ewes 6.26 6.75 mixed sheep 5. HOE HOGS receipts 2550 lower Yorkers 5.9 6.10 pigs 5.40 5.60 mixed heavies 6.10 roughs 5.25 5.75
In Chicago on April 22, the body of 30 year old Joseph Aducky was found with a fractured skull at the rear stairway door on Paulina street. Police investigate murder theory.
Ames T Horn of Indianapolis petitions in federal court detailing assets and debts totaling about $2 285 04 with 9 435 secured by real estate and stock in Exer Wretch Novelty and other holdings. He cites weak value of Exer Ketch assets after demand collapsed for the toy produced by his company.
Five suits were filed in the superior court by Henry J. Migan trustee for Seth M. Richcreek to recover overdue notes. One targets James E. Kinen for 400 with a 2000 judgment asked. another targets William M. Pollard for 50. others seek 100, 1062.59 and 200.
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