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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1907
Page
8
New York August 23 United Press reports a subdued opening in the stock market with minor gains in Pressed Steel Car and declines in B and O St Paul and Atchison. Erie slides to 20, bonds steady to lower, traders turn bearish as wheat rises and Southern Railway preferred dividend news fuels selling.
United Press dispatch from East Buffalo New York notes cattle supplies of 100 slow and steady meals and calves at 3.75 to 9.2. Sheep and lambs receipts 1600 active and steady for sheep lambs slow and easy. Lambs 5.75 to 6.25 sheep 2.7 to 6.00. Hogs receipts 5590 active mixed grades 10 cents higher others steady Yorkers 46.70 to 46.80 pigs 6.80 to 6.90 mixed 6.50 to 6.20 heavies 6.27 to 6.60 roughs 5.00 to 5.50.
The notice lists bids for corn and oats with figures per 63 pounds and percentages, straw priced between 6 and 8 dollars, miller costs around 11.50, hay varieties including Timothy and clover with prices from 12 to 22 dollars, and new hay at 13 to 14 dollars.
Cattle receipts 1,500 steady with prime beeves $5.50 to $7.35, stockers and feeders $2.90 to $5.00, cows and heifers $2.50 to $5.30, canners $1.30 to $2.50, Texans $3.50 to $5.40. Hogs receipts 3,000. others: light $5.30 to $5.55, mixed $5.00 to $6.35, heavy $5.69 to $6.05, pigs $6.50 to $6.20. Sheep receipts 5,000. natives $3.95 to $5.70, native lambs $3.50 to $5.70, westerns $5.50 to $7.50, western lambs $3.30 to $7.50.
Chicago markets list egg prices with extras at 2c and firsts around 17144c, butter at 2% to 2% cents, cheese Twins at 12 124c and young Americas at 13% cents. Poultry prices show live turkeys at 12c per pound, various chickens from 12 to 14c, ducks at 10c, geese under per dozen rates.
Cincinnati Ohio cattle receipts reached 500 with steady to 10 cent gains for ship and butcher grades. Hogs totals 2,200 with prices from 6.15 to 6.35 for mixed packers. Sheep receipts were light with extras at 4.90 to 6.00 and lambs trading slowly at 7.45 to 7.50.
Commodity price data lists Pork Mess at 170.75 with 18.25, Lard Western steam spot between 8.95 and 9.05, Tallaw City 644c country 64a 6%c, Dressed Poultry Chickens at 16 24c, Eggs White fancy 23 428c western 19 6c, Cheese Full cream 12%4c.
Pittsburg market notes cattle supplies light yet steady with primes around 6.70, others near 6.10 to 6.20. Sheep and lambs limited with prime heavy wethers about 5.60 to 5.80, hogs active with prime heavy at 4.30 to 4.70 and light hogs 6.85 to 6.90, roughs 1.50 to 5.40.
In New York on August 2% telegraph firms report no new developments as strikers praise the status quo. Union president Small is due Sunday and may push for arbitration. A striker delegation could visit President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay seeking help to settle the dispute, prompted by Labor Commissioner Neill.
London Aug 23 Tangier correspondent says all foreign residents in Fez Morocco must leave the city tomorrow. Officials cite great danger of an outbreak and deem it best to move foreigners from the seat of danger.
In LaCrosse Wisconsin this morning Fred Kersters, 11, perished in a home fire. He helped rescue his four brothers and sisters as flames consumed the residence, while his mother Mary Kersters watched.
Chicago wheat and corn futures advance following a stronger curb market in Minneapolis and a Liverpool wheat rise. September wheat at 89? to 89¾ cents, December 94? cents, May near $1.00. Corn up ¼ to ¾ cent, oats firm then drift, pork at 16.00, lard 8.95, ribs 8.60. Local receipts show 160 wheat cars, 145 corn, 216 oats.
Hundreds gathered at Billy Muldoon's health farm in White Plains to glimpse Elihu Root Secretary of State in training. The schedule includes medicine-ball passes, cross country trots, horseback rides, and strict routines with early rising, cold showers, and strict diet to ease nerv ousness and insomnia. Root, who arrived three weeks ago, plans to stay until mid next month and continues handling official duties from the farm with his secretary nearby.
Plans for Indiana county commissioners convention in Indianapolis Sept 24 to 25 discuss drainage good roads and poor relief. Vernon Pierce J C Wright of the Washington drainage bureau among speakers with a banquet planned Sept 25 at the Grand hotel.
Constables Harry Hildebrand and Will Clark raided the George brothers saloon at 548 W Washington St under the blind tiger law. A wagonload of liquor, beer, wine and jars was seized after an affidavit by William Hudelson. George brothers are arrested. the shooting of Guy Hudelson by John George last week is noted with Hudelson recovering.
The Evening World reports Secretary of State Root collapsed at Oyster Bay on Aug 18 while urging President Roosevelt to soften his stance toward corporations. Root allegedly warned Sagamore Hill financiers and, after Roosevelt refused, "went to pieces." A conference followed and Root was sent to the health farm of Billy Muldoon for treatment, with officials stating the vigorous care likely saved his mind and body.
Sylvester Morris, 74, a wealthy retired Methodist minister, was fatally shot last night in Tulsa by Deputy Marshal O L Wilson who mistook him for a bootlegger. Wilson surrendered and awaits inquiry on his exoneration.
Report from Birmingham indicates the Brockton accommodation train on the Birmingham Mineral railroad between Adger and Johns was wrecked today. Four people are dead and eight to ten are injured.
Levi Gade and his wife quarreled this morning in Eufaula Alabama. During the dispute he struck her. She waited until he was asleep and shot him in the head with a shotgun. The couple had been married two months.
George Hederick, hoisting engineer at Taggart bakery on N New Jersey street, found a four inch brass capped tube near an engine. He feared an explosion and took it to the police, where Capt. Bray explained it as a normal electric fuse used to prevent fires during oven work.
Births list shows many newborns with parents and addresses including Harry and Viola Gores, Frank and Catherine Carson, William and Fox, John and Lula Mats, George and Nellie Miller, George and Edna Corisback, Jessie and Bertha Hartley, Frank and Mary Griffith, Marcus and Ella Jessup. Death notices list Catherine Abright 80 ileo-colitis, John Hubert Gallagher 1 ileo-colitis, Agnes Mogolia 3 Scarlet fever, Pauline Parr 64 accidental fall, Elizabeth McCormick Wood 9 ileo-colitis, Mary D. Kinnick 26 typhoid fever, George Livingstone 61 cerebral hemorrhage, Ella Kays 20 pulmonary tuberculosis, Helen Gertude Heicher 6 typhoid fever, Sophia Atchhorn 64 cerebral apoplexy, Mary Knittel 41 pulmonary tuberculosis.
A string of paired names appears, including John M Thompson with Pearl Patrick and Oscar M Eaton with Essie M Warren, among others such as Matthew F Middleton with Susanna Brookins and Hugh Neiland with Mary D Broderick, indicating a roster of named individuals in a historic document.
John W. Newman undertakes excavation at the corner of East and C with H. and D. Ry for 2000 dollars. R. M. Kistler builds a dwelling on N. Capitol for 2800 dollars. John Hughes constructs a dwelling on N. Audubon for 2000 dollars. George Hubert builds a dwelling on Orange Street. Mary L. Bramer undertakes a dwelling on Lowell Avenue for 2200 dollars. Nora A. Walker lists a dwelling on W. Michigan for 2000 dollars.
Aug 23 reports from Shanghai describe a serious outbreak in Ngan-Hwei province. Rebels seized a village near Tong Ching after clashing with authorities and burning homes. The revolutionary movement is rapidly expanding through the Yang-Tse valley with plans for uprisings in many cities.
In Cleveland on August 2 there are six professional strike-breakers in local telegram offices. Pickets report two at Postal and four at Western Union. Pickets say others at work include company officials, the wire chief, veteran operators back at the key, and inexperienced telegraphers.
Three government representatives will die after a raid on an illicit still near Greensboro North Carolina. A deputy collectorship posse fired on another party by mistake. Internal Revenue received a telegram from agent Lurber noting deputies Hendrix and Henry met moonshiners and fired, killing one another's party.
Rome reports anti clerical turmoil as Cardinal Merry del Val travels through Marino. An anarchist mob hoots him and a policeman is wounded during dispersal efforts while no assault on the cardinal occurs.
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