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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1907
Page
4
London influenced early trading as arbitrage brokers sold about 35 000 shares and pushed for profit taking and bear pressure. Prices slipped 1 to 2 points from Saturday’s close. government bonds held steady while other bonds moved irregularly.
Grain prices listed for Wheat Corn and Oats with firmer, through billing, and through billing notes. Hay prices shown for timothy and clover with various lots and totals. Inspections details include car counts for corn and hay with grades and rejections.
East Buffalo market data from United Press shows cattle receipts around 4,000 with gains for heavy steers and prime steers at 5.60 to 5.85 per hundredweight. Sheep and lambs receipts near 30,000 with lambs 5.00 to 6.00 and yearlings about 5.25 to 5.59. Hogs receipts 18,700 with price range 4.25 to 4.75 for various classes.
United Press dispatch from Pittsburg Pennsylvania notes cattle receipts around 3,000 with prices for prime and good cattle varying from 4.07 to 5.10 per pound. Hog receipts about 8,000 with prime heavy hogs and best heavy workers trading near 5.40 to 5.55. Lambs and sheep show 6,000 in live stock with prime wethers around 4.90 and lambs active while sheep move slowly.
A mixed market list shows onions, cucumbers, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, radishes and more with unit prices including onions per bushel and per dozen for others. Notable figures include cucumbers at 1.50 per dozen and celery at 2.00 per crate, with cabbage at 0.80 per bushel and cauliflower at 1.75 per dozen.
Special to The Sun Chicago Union Stock Yards Illinois December 2 hogs receipts six thousand up five to ten cents with light six four fifty five to five oh five mixed four sixty to five ten heavy four fifty five to forty seven rough four fifty five to four seventy five pigs three eighty to four seventy five workers four ninety five to five oh oh cattle receipts thirty four thousand steady to shade lower beef cattle three twenty five to six fifty five cows one fifteen to four seventy five Texas steers six ten to three ninety western cattle three ten to five fifteen stockers and feeders two ten to four forty five sheep receipts twenty two thousand steady natives two oh six to five ten western two oh five to five oh lambs three eighty to six forty western lambs three seventy to six twenty
Indianapolis records December livestock receipts with hogs about 3,000 head and cattle 450. hogs opened less excited, best heavy hogs at 1.20, cattle softer despite higher receipts, lambs and sheep steady to mixed. Readable quotes from George Presser show steers and heifers ranged with various weight classes and bulls and calves priced accordingly.
A dated market notice lists corn at 47 to 50 cents per bushel, oats priced at 12 to 12.00 dollars per shelled bushel, straw at 6 to 8 dollars, and various hay types with Clover 13 to 14 dollars, mixed 14 to 15.50 dollars, and Timothy 15 to 16 dollars per unit.
County commissioners failed to meet in official session Monday while entertaining petitioners for jobs. The following appointments were announced: John C. Ruckelshaus county attorney, Dr. John W. Sluss secretary of the county board of health, Ed Boyd bailiff, Gus Haller custodian of the courthouse, Dr. J. S. Hollingworth physician for the county jail, Dr. C. E. Day physician for the workhouse, Dr. Marie Haslop woman physician for county institutions, Col. A. D. Shaw superintendent of the workhouse, and W. Otis Dunlavy county pauper attorney. There was reported soreness over Hollingsworth not getting the health secretary post.
Lige Williams, colored, was sentenced by Judge James A. Pritchard to ten to twenty years in Michigan City prison under the new burglary law. He was accused of breaking into Walter Fertig’s residence and escaping with $13.50.
Levi Ellering sues Robert C. Huggins, a Churchman Avenue farmer, for 5000 dollars claiming he was accused of stealing carpenter's tools by the defendant. Ellering seeks compensation and vindication from the slander action.
Lonig and Sons elevator in LaPorte Indiana burned this morning causing an estimated loss of twenty five thousand dollars. Firefighters battled the blaze as the structure suffered extensive damage and no injuries were reported.
The 16,900-ton battleship Louisiana sails from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Hampton Roads with 2,000,000 pounds of ammunition aboard. She leads a flotilla toward Magellan Straits to join the Pacific fleet, with several other battleships and destroyers following in support and reporting to Admiral Evans by December 9.
A Republican caucus after Monday’s meeting will choose the party’s candidate for city council president for the next year. William J. Neukom leads Eppert by eight to seven among 15 Republicans, with Wood now aligned with Neukom. Heating plant appropriation for the City hospital and a finance committee report are expected on the agenda.
Five young Bristol residents living in a boarding house attempted suicide by bichloride of mercury after forming a death by own action pact. Carrie Nelson Minna Carroll Olga Carothers Kate Douglass and Lucy Jackson were hospitalized with Nelson in critical condition. Police report at least 12 women and girls in Bristol have made unsuccessful attempts in the past week.
In Chicago at Polyclinic hospital Mrs. Thomas Mitchell received blood from her husband during surgery. The surgeon said the operation could be the fourth of its kind in the world and the first in America. The husband donated over one ninth of his blood, refused anesthesia, and did not wince.
Articles of incorporation filed in Indiana name Spring Dale Cemetery association at Bunker Hill with trustees Hann Ducknail Walther Larimer and Meek. Noble Furniture and Undertaking at Kendallville led by Drake Baker Clark. Citizens Bank of Hebron with Fisher family officers. Women’s Missionary Circle of South Bend trustees Miller Chard Shonts. Heucks Opera House appoints Harry K. Burton as Indiana attorney. Empire Theatre addressed in Indianapolis. Bicknell Co operative Society officers Edwards Buck Wade Lawton Buck. Indiana Paper Box at Elkhart with Inmann directors. McConaha company of Richmond increases capital stock from 10000 to 25000.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Teddy Bears of Steiff, color variants, and Kestner Kid Body Dolls. It highlights a jointed 22 inch bisque doll with moving eyes, natural hair, shoes and stockings, claiming a $2 value at a basement price of $1.00.
Hiram Jackson Groves managing editor of the Kansas City Post died at 7:30 AM at the German hospital from blood poisoning after being shot a week earlier by Gen. R. C. Horne an editorial writer on the same paper. Woodward wounded thrice but expected to recover.
Washington, Dec. 2 William Jennings Bryan returned to Washington to attend Congress opening and visit his daughter Grace Bryan off to school in Virginia. He stays with Cotter T. Bride at 131 Bst southeast and plans to remain until Wednesday. Bryan had been in New York Saturday saying goodbye to his eldest daughter Ruth Leavitt who travels to Europe for three months.
Special to The Journal Peru Indiana December 2 queen the viz elephant of the HagenbeckWallace shows died of a broken heart at the winter headquarters here today. She grew sad and refused to eat when the other elephants were taken to New York several days ago.
While Mrs. George Johnston of 147 Leota Street slept at home on Monday a thief opened the sitting room window and took a gold watch and chain valued at $35 from a table. Johnston, a night baker, was unaware during the crime.
Toledo December 2 Frank Wiley a Wabash conductor was killed in a rear end collision of two freight trains near Toledo this morning His home was at Lansing Michigan.
President Roosevelt told Representative Hinshaw of Nebraska he would not deviate from his prior announcement and declined to run again. The statement marks the clearest position on a third term since his 1904 victory, reflecting his firm stance amid calls from Nebraska voters.
Births list includes Simon and Annie Carbell with a stillborn girl, Fred and Pearl Mathews with a boy, John W. and Martha Bell with a boy, and several other couples recording newborns. Deaths note Rudolph Jasper, Henry Galvin Byram, Verna Johnston, Georgia Snowden, Thomas Kaney, Harry Emmelmann, Elizabeth Carey, Louise Collins, Zania Burton, Samuel Wilson, and others with ages and causes such as tuberculosis, broncho pneumonia, and nephritis. Marriages section lists multiple couple pairs including Bertram and Winnie Man, Hillman and Nellie Webster, Welch and Cora Tilley, Perrett and Hart er, Rogers and Tollis, among others.
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