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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1907
Page
3
Wheat opened higher with May at 81 80 and July at 81 55, corn May at 50 50 and July at 50 65, oats May at 45 and July around 43 4, provisions firmer with July pork near 16.02 and lard near 8.62. May closes show wheat 80 3, corn 10, oats 44 3, pork 15.97 and lard 8.87. Tibs at 8.75.
The page itemizes grain purchases and bids by type. Wheat No 2 red No 3 red No 4 red and mixed grades show through billing prices around 52 cents and 48 50 cents. Corn No 2 white No 3 white No 4 white mixed No 2 mixed and yellow grades appear with 42 44 46 47 cent figures. Timothy hay and stock figures listed. Flour inspection totals and weekly stock on hand for wheat corn oats rye listed.
Indianapolis livestock receipts totalled hogs 2,500 cattle 349 and sheep and lambs 100. Hog prices rose 5 cents with top at 6.70, cattle steady. The report details steers and heifers by weight and quality, cows, bulls, calves, and sheep with varied price ranges and bulk sales noted.
Cincinnati Ohio April 27 cattle receipts 480 quiet butcher steers extra 5.00 to 5.60 good to choice 4.75 to 4.90 common to fair 3.00 to 4.00 calves 5.75 to 6.00 hogs receipts 200 weak good to choice 6.60 to 6.65 mixed packers 6.50 to 6.00 sheep receipts 11 steady extra 5.99 to 6.00 lambs extra 7.50 to 7.09
Scripps-MecRae Press Association reports New York price quotes for pork Mess at 17.25 to 18.00, Western steamer lard at 38.80 to 40.50, Butter extra creamers 29 cents, creamery tubs 28 cents, eggs white January 2?e to 1c, cheese full cream 15 cents.
April 27 report from Chicago lists Eges-Extra Toc Butter-Creamery and Cheese-Twins as exhibitors. Poultry items include Turkeys 12c, chickens 12c, ducks 1d ye, geese 35 00 7.00 per doz. Records reflect prices per dozen and per unit for poultry and dairy products.
Chicago April 27 cattle receipts steady unchanged hog receipts 11000 and prices range 5 6 06 for light hogs 35 6 29 46 60 for heavy hogs and pigs sold around 5 500 steady suggests market stable despite varied grades and mix of hog types Price ranges reflect light rough and heavy categories within the day’s market activity.
A compact catalog lists Oak sole hemlock harness leather and skirting leather with discounts from 42 to 60 percent. Shelled oats, hay Timothy and clover are priced per hundredweight or ton, with several grade varieties and regional references included for buyers.
Two grandsons of temperance worker Francis Murphy start a ten day gospel temperance campaign at Blackford Street M E church Sunday night. Thomas Murphy, a young platform speaker, will headline with music by Francis Murphy who recently trained in New York. The series aims to preach on the right and the love of man for man, culminating in a large revival rally and final service. The Murphy brothers, both about 22, will be guests at the Samuel Quinn home on North Missouri Street.
An audience of over 2000 enjoyed four act Carmen presented by Deutscher club and Musikverein at the German House. Mrs Helen Flerbert Thorner starred as Carmen, with Miss Aluna Laura Johnson as Micaela and New Yorker Berick Von Norden as Don Jose. The production featured strong chorus work under Prof Alexander Ernestinoff, and a second public performance is planned for Monday May 6.
New York April 27 The stock market opened irregular with Northern Pacific higher and Chesapeake and Ohio lower. Pennsylvania rose sharply at first then steadied while Amalgamated moved up and down. Smelting and Union Pacific held firm with other issues quiet. government bonds unchanged. Market closed firm with modest gains and light volume.
Fragmented OCR lists vegetable and meat prices with varying weights and figures. Mentions light steady, prime meats, mixed goods, and hogs with values like 5.9, 76.00, 3005.75, and 6.90. Names and places are garbled. shows market quote style rather than full article context.
Fresh oysters in cans and shell varieties with New York and Baltimore standards listed. Shrimp and scallops priced per quart or per pound, live lobsters and boiled lobsters offered, and a range of fish including black bass red snapper cod haddock croppies sunfish buffalo carp striped bass roe shad buck shad halibut catfish trout and No 1 salmon with per pound rates across markets.
The Soactater Turn Verein at the German House stages a spring exhibition Friday night May 3 with Carl Sputh directing. The program features new numbers and evolutions for active and women classes, a music-forward, instructional display, and a post-performance dance.
A scattered list of coal prices per ton from multiple mines and regions, including Pocahontas Lump grades, Jackson Ohio, Kanawha Nut, Pittsburg, Camnel Eye Ohio, Linton Egg, and Indianapolis Taump Coke. Prices range from 3.59 to 6.60 per ton with various lump and coke classifications noted.
Readable lines show varied produce and seafood prices from Indianapolis Produce. Items include artichokes, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, pineapples, apples, pears, cranberries, grapes, peppers, lettuce, radishes, mushrooms, fish, beef, veal, lamb, and poultry with per unit or per measure pricing across multiple states and markets. Specifics include Florida produce, Alabama strawberries, California pears, and assorted root vegetables with numerous price points per peck, pound, or dozen.
Advertises copper-bottoms planished RB and other tinners supplies with pricing for copper bottoms 38c 2% 34.10, charcoal K best brands 10x14 14x20 12x12 3.40 LX 8.85, roofing tin best brands 1c W4xie 4.75 9.75 1c 20x28 9.00 11.00 old styles 12.00 19.00, tin in pigs 4c in bars 50c zinc 95c.
Clarence D Held, wanted in Indianapolis for passing numerous fraudulent checks, was arrested in Cincinnati on Saturday. He most heavily defrauded A Treato Sons tailors of N Pennsylvania Street for 354. Others swindled include the Denison Hotel Co with two 2 checks for 2 each and Francis Pharmacy on NS Pennsylvania St with a 20 check. Held refuses to return without requisition papers to be obtained at once.
In Mexico City on April 27, Morales and Agara confessed to Mexican officials admitting General Jose Maria Lima, comandante of Guatemalan troops, directly instigated the plot that killed former Guatemalan president General Barrillas. Lima is described as a friend of Estrada Cabrera.
Mrs W D Haywood travels from Denver with two daughters to Horse IdaHoe under guard. The Western Federation of Miners arranged protection as her husband faces charges of complicity in Gov Steunenberg’s assassination. She claims his innocence and seeks an early acquittal despite the dangerous journey.
John Edgey and Thomas Sullivan face trial for brutal assault and robbery of three men including John H. Green at 12 Park Avenue. A jury trial is requested with a 3 percent venue drawn. Each defendant uses expensive counsel, Edgey with Smith Duncan Hornbrook Smith and Sullivan with Ryan Ruckelshaus. Fred Schwemeyer and “Pet” Gill murder trial slated for May 15.
Henry Sefried, attorney for Arthur Stanley, and other loiterers arrested at William Mc Laughlin’s saloon face a police court battle over jury selection. Stanley bond set at 1000 dollars after testifying for co-defendants. police claim warnings, not reasons, justify charges. Witnesses accuse authorities of crafting “police records” to discredit testimony.
In New York on April 2, the murder trial of Baroness Anisia Louise De Massey for Gustav Simon’s death shows near parity between prosecution and defense as work resumes Monday. Key witness Howard Elberlein testified a man left Simon’s office after the shooting, supporting the defense claim a hidden intruder fired the fatal bullet. A girl employee’s testimony that Simon accused the baroness in his dying moments remains a damaging point for the defense.
Markets report varied price levels for poultry and dairy items. Hens steady around 94 cents, roosters 5 cents, spring chickens about 4 cents, hen turkeys and tom turkeys near 10 cents, ducks 10 cents, geese 5 cents. Butter steady at around 2 cents above 94, creamery price 35 to 36 cents, butterine at 17 cents. Cheese jobbers list imports Swiss 38 cents, domestic Swiss unknown, New York cheddars 16 cents, domestic limburger and brick 18 cents.
A compressed notice outlines various draft choices and prices for different chunks and drivers. It lists eastern and southern items with figures like 200, 250, 1700, and 200, indicating allocations or options. Names or specific entities are not clearly identifiable from the fragment.
Listing of lumber materials with prices per thousand, including pine 2 inch at 35 per M, hemlock 2 inch at 35 per M, oak 35 per M, yellow pine flooring 533 per M, siding 32 per M, poplar 70 per M, lath white No 1 6 per M, No 2 3.50 per M, No 1 mixed 0.75 per M.
Mrs Helen Armstrong concludes her Chicago to Indianapolis Gas Company lecture series on domestic economy at Sacred Heart church hall with a gas range oven demonstration and a planked fish dinner. A second evening session at St Peters church drew a large crowd and a floral token.
Coroner Dr. G A Petersdorf leads inquest into the G and J Georgia and Libertysts plant blast that killed several workers. Three plant employees including Frank Jacobs testified. Jacobs said a streak of lightning preceded the explosion after indicating uncertainty about the cause. Engineer Thomas Mead found no steam pipes or live wires in the cement room. Co worker Elida Mead testified warnings existed and a veteran employee was fired weeks earlier for near the cement room while smoking.
President Roosevelt and party rode the yacht Sylph up the James River from Norfolk toward Jamestown in a strictly private outing. No reporters accompanied them as the president sought seclusion with family and a few guests including Assistant Secretary of State Bacon. He planned to return to Washington that night.
Corrected by Ihingen and Co a vintage market list details sugar cured hams and bacon rates English style hams dried beef lard pickled pork fresh pork loins shoulders tenderloins fresh beef carcass and veal cuts with varied prices per unit or weight. It reads like old wholesale inventory with mixed currency signs and abbreviations.
Eddie Tate, known as the Chicagan gentleman burglar, who fled a Chicago hospital after burglarizing the Board of Education to destroy evidence against Peoria banker Newton C. Dougherty, was recaptured in Chicago this morning.
Positive confirmation came from White Plains that Justice Tompkins signed an interlocutory decree for an absolute divorce for Mme Emma Eames Story from her husband Julian Story. Papers sealed in Westchester clerk's office after extensive testimony read by the judge. secrecy surrounds the co respondent's identity with a final decree due in three months.
Births include Byrd and Meta Beech with a girl at 1722 Hayt-ave and several other couples producing boys and girls at various addresses. marriages listed for multiple couples. deaths note Amelia H. Kistner at 59 with pulmonary tuberculosis and others with hepatic cirrhosis and measles. building permits issued to Kingan & Co, B Berninger, W Berninger, James Stevenson, and Conrad Bauer for dwelling, repairs, and storeroom projects with specified costs.
A circulated story from Montgomery claims Andrew Carnegie aided Red Ehret, ex Cincinnati pitcher later in the Southern league, by arranging transportation to a distant job site as a long time admirer of his pitching since the Carnegie team days. Jersey City aldermen plan to wear badges, a move hoped to win broad resident approval.
An eastbound third rail express on the Aurora Elgin and Chicago line struck a work train just outside Elgin city limits this morning, killing three people and injuring several others who were not reported to be fatally hurt. The accident occurred near the outskirts of Elgin as the two trains collided head-on.
Jessie Willis, a teacher at school No. 26, was dismissed in Justice of Peace Holmes court after being charged with assault and battery on Mrs. Emma Daniels daughter. Daniels did not appear to prosecute the case.
The Journal-Gazette of Fort Wayne filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state on Saturday to establish a general newspaper and printing business. Incorporators are Andrew J. Moynihan Elizabeth Moynihan and M H Moynihan with capital stock of 48000 dollars.
London April 27 Jay Gould won the second round in the contest for the international court tennis championship replay defeating E R Novel in three straight sets 6-4 6-2 6-3.
The jury found Binger Herrman of Oregon not guilty of destroying government records. The panel deliberated since 3:30 p.m. yesterday and received further court instructions this morning in Washington.
Pat Galvin manager of English heavyweight Bill Heveron near Rochester New York has accepted Peggy Bettinson offer from the National Sporting Club London for a June match with Gunner Mohr. Heveron and Moir previously drew ten rounds at the National Sporting Club in 1904.
Indianapolis seed prices list Tim othy reed per bushel at $2.60 for choice and $2.50 for prime. Clover seed shows red choice at $9.00, prime to strictly prime at $8.60, red fair to good at $6.09 to $7.30, mammoth English prime $8.50, alsike prime $7.50 to $8.00, alfalfa prime $3.00 to $9.60. Grass seeds include Kentucky bluegrass fancy $2.10, extra clean $1.75, orchard grass $1.85, English bluegrass prime $1.75, Read Top $1.10 to $1.40, rape seed 8 to 10 cents per pound.
Eight masked men forced entry at John Laymon's home west of Spencer Indiana. Laymon resisted, was shot in the breast and dragged to a tree for a whipping but pleaded to be spared and the assailants fled. Authorities investigate. Laymon is a husband with five children and his alleged dalliance cited as motive.
Edward Pere, 72, employed at a local day care center on 2340 S Merthiinsts, is hospitalized with lockjaw. Attending physicians are unsure of the disease cause, possibly a street injury to the right hand. Pere recalls little about how the scratch occurred. symptoms began five days ago.
The Indiana Automoblie club elected Friday for the coming year T. H. Levey as president G. A. Mc Clellan as vice president Herbert Ries as secretary and R. A. Brown as treasurer The club rooms in the Denteon will be opened Saturday night The racing board of the American Automoblie association and the Western Engineers adjourned until next Thursday The men will meet in Chicago to continue drafting rules for the first annual fall race for stock touring cars on the Vanderbilt Cup Race course Long Island Edgar Appersons sudden demise forced the adjournment
Mrs Iwate L Chester of Chicago grand secretary of the Order of the Eastern Star died after falling through an elevator shaft in the Mayer hotel building Peoria Illinois April 27 The day also carried a note that the secretary of agriculture approved asphyxiation as a method to kill grasshoppers a line suggesting grasshoppers flee from skunks based on this approval
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