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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1907
Page
5
The report lists futures and spot prices across wheat corn and oats with multiple grades and delivery months. It notes firming in corn and holds for several white and yellow wheat grades while Timothy and Clover feeds show specific bid levels and tonnage in and out of inspections.
East Buffalo New York stock market report shows cattle receipts at 10 with light trade and unchanged values. Sheep and lambs active and firmer with lambs 35.00 to 8.50, yearlings 4.75 to 5.25, wethers 4.68 to 5.09, mixed sheep 2.75 to 4.75. Hogs receipts 6,190. hogs higher with Yorkers 4.80 to 5.06, pigs 4.75, mixed and heavies 5.00 to 5.05, roughs 4.01 to 4.50, stags 3.50 to 4.10.
TOLEDO OHIO December reports show cash and futures quotes for wheat at 97 cents, corn 97.5 to 98 cents, oats 38 to 41 cents, clover around 9.99 to 10.02, prime alfalce and timothy values listed. Rye No 1 at 80 cents and No 2 at 80 cents round out the prices.
Prices listed for butter from Elgin and state cream, cheese from New York Wisconsin, eggs candled, and live poultry including turkeys ducks geese hens spring chickens and roosters with per unit costs. Entries reflect wholesale style pricing and limited region emphasis.
A historical price listing for various coal types includes anthracite categories such as Pocahontas forks lump shoveled lump mine run nut and slack as well as Kanawha lump Raymond Pittsburg lump Winifrede Luhrig and Bilossburg with entries tied to Ohio and Jackson. The fragment notes multiple mine or brand names without explicit figures.
List of produce with quoted prices including onions per bushel and per cwt, cabbage per barrel, cauliflower per dozen, radishes per dozen, celery per crate, sweet potatoes per barrel, potatoes per bushel, tomatoes home grown per bushel, various beans and greens per pound or per bushel, popcorn per pound, lettuce per pound, oranges per box, cocoanuts per dozen, apples per box, figs per cage, Turkish figs per pound, bananas per bunch and other fruits with assorted prices. Multiple items show dollar figures ranging from cents to several dollars.
A market listing shows varied meat prices by type and cut. Hams, bacon, beef, pork, veal, lamb and mutton are priced per pound with sugar cured, English style, dry salt, native and western stock terms and several percentages.
Chicago grain list shows wheat down amid lower cables with early selling by the crowd, while buyers from Logan and Bryan support prices. Liverpool Berlin Budapest and Paris quote lower for wheat, with North West cars at $6.36 to $6.66 over last year and Argentine supplies weighing on the market. Opening May prices include Wheat 99 4 to 99 c, Corn 50 44 to 55c, Oats 52 M, Pork 9.12 3, Lard 7 c. Closing May prices: Wheat 1.01, Corn 56 c, Oats 63 c, Pork 9.23, Lard 9 c.
New York trading opened with a sharp market decline as talks on Mercantile National Bank liquidations intensified. Reading, Union Pacific, and sugar led losses while Amalgamated Copper held firm, signaling insiders supporting the stock despite weak copper prices.
Indianapolis December 11 hogs 6 000 cattle 2 300 sheep 0. Early hogs advance from yesterday close. Best hogs 34.85. Cattle receipts heavy with prospects for lower prices. Sheep steady. Cattle ranges include steers good to choice up to 2,300 lbs, 5 86 to 5 50. heifers and cows varied. bulls and calves listed. Hogs show price bands from 4 00 to 4 75 for various weights with best heavies around 4 60 to 4 75 and light pigs 3 00 to 3 75. Sheep and lamb prices cited with ranges for good to choice lambs and yearlings.
Pittsburg pa December 11 cattle receipts light and steady extra price 5.60 to 5.70 prime 5.50 to 5.50 good 4.90 to 3.10 hogs receipts 2000 opened steady to higher prime heavy 5.04 to 5.00 medium weights and yorkers 4.70 to 4.85 pigs 4.00 Ga 70 common to good roughs 4.00 to 4.50 sheep receipts light steady pri wethers 4.80 to 5.00 good mixed 4.50 to 4.75 culls to fair 2.50 to 4.00 lambs 1.50 to 6.00
Hogs receipts 30.00 to 1c higher with light bids 4.20 to 4.67, mixed 4.25 to 4.64, heavy 4.20 to 4.70, pigs 3.70 to 4.50, yorkers 4.55 to 4.80. Cattle receipts 32.2 thousand, mostly 10c lower. Reeves 3.20 to 6.30, Texians 3.00 to 3.78, calves 4.75 to 16.75, westerns 3.15 to 4.90, stockers 2.00 to 4.20. Sheep receipts 20.00 steady. natives 2.00 to 4.55, western 2.00 to 4.80, yearlings 4.00 to 5.35, lambs 3.75 to 6.20, western lambs 3.75 to 6.15.
John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, arrived in Indianapolis from LaSalle Illinois where he had been in St Marys hospital for several weeks after an operation. He reports improved health and plans to resume his duties at once and depart Thursday evening for the National Civic Society convention in New York.
In criminal court Prosecutor Elliott R. Hooton advised Mr and Mrs John Linder to live apart from the mother in law. Linder surrendered and told Judge Pritchard he would support their child and live with his wife again. The judge urged them to keep harmony, and Hooton wished them a mother in law free future.
More than 2,000 spectators on the White Star Line pier watched a riot erupt when restaurant keeper Vincentzo Signorelli and his wife berated passengers Cameno Parairo and Palgrino Borero they owed 1000. Police restored order with clubs. One man was seriously injured and about twenty others were slightly hurt as combat spread to women and children. Two men accused of felonious assault were arrested.
Senator Davis Manes delivers a fiery address accusing heads of trusts of manipulating policy. He calls for stronger action and accountability, stirring debate among lawmakers and the public.
An electric car on the East St. Louis, Alton & Granite City railroad overturned today at a curve near Nameoki while traveling from Alton to East St. Louis. Of 35 passengers many were women and children. one man was seriously injured as others suffered cuts from glass or bruises.
The state appellate court in Austin affirmed the trial court ruling in the Waters-Pierce Oil Co case. The decision upheld ouster and penalties totaling 1,690,000 for alleged violations of the anti trust laws.
W O Bangs former liquor license committee chairman says the decision by Judge Leathers invalidating city council control over who receives liquor licenses will be appealed. He notes some city officials oppose, others support appeal, and business leaders in Indianapolis favor testing the ordinance in higher courts.
Federal grand jury in Danville Virginia returns three counts accusing B M Goldberger of Boston Shipping Company and Jerry Bunting Bristol police justice of unlawfully confining and imprisoning 12 Italian laborers in Bristol jail in a peonage scheme.
Washington, Dec. 11. Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas fired a sensational speech in the Senate calling for penalties including prison and charter revocation for price regulation. He urged imprisonment of trust heads, mocked administration policies, and criticized the president’s salary while insisting trusts are a cancer on government and must be cut out. The address caused a major stir among senators.
Co. Uhl adds brick addition at 322 324 W Maryland st with value 1.00 dollars. Eliza Funkhauser builds dwelling at 517 Warren ave valued at 1000 dollars. Susan Lackey remodels dwelling at 1410 Martindale ave valued at 1300 dollars. J W Newman and Company constructs a three story brick building at East Stand Union railway valued at 2500 dollars.
In Tokio on December 11 the Emperor welcomed M. Shipoff, ex minister of finance of Russia, and voiced a wish for the closest friendly relations between Japan and Russia.
The secretary of state records Wednesday filings for two incorporations. New York Realty Company of Indianapolis with capital stock $10,000 lists directors Charles G. Davis, Charles T. Burris and Fred W. Eppert. National Merchants' Association of Evanaville with capital stock $10,000 lists directors William G. Schlegel, Len Mil eru and J. Smith.
Marion county land jury near end of this month with final report expected. Augustus Jennings of the Central Fraud bureau and Deputy Prosecutor Frank Baker likely to testify on the bank's condition. Judge Pritchard to decide if incriminating evidence exists against Irvington Land and Marion County Construction firms. Twenty five indictments issued in a partial report, including George Fulkerson, a railway detective charged with brass theft.
In Indianapolis a disturbing case unfolds as Mrs. Cooper, previously Frances Foxworthy, faces murder allegations after a baby’s death. Clifford Groves and William Wholl, Columbus, Indiana residents, linked to the suspect, were seen with the child’s mother recently. A former husband, Woyeurs, was jailed for theft and later attempted to harm the wife. Bare county sheriff plans to escort Mrs. Cooper back for proceedings.
Washington December 11 Andrew Carnegie increased the Carnegie Institution endowment by 2 million dollars bringing the total to 12 million. He could not attend the trustees meeting at the New Willard and sent the gift by letter to Dr K S Woodward. Trustees approved 529 949 for investigations and work planned for the coming year. A dinner followed in the New Willard cabinet room.
Luther Day was arrested Wednesday on charges filed by a young woman employed in his office at 19 W. Onhirst. Day’s bond was set at $2,500.
The Indiannapolis Sun reports the annual National Civic Federation meeting at Park Avenue hotel New York December 16 and 17 will feature eminent speakers on currency regulation postal savings banks and savings institutions as well as discussions on arbitration railway and street railway public utilities. Participants include George von L Meyer Charles N Fowler William Dudgely Myron T Herrick Andrew Carnegie Samuel Gompers and others with a concluding dinner at the Hotel Astor on December 16 headlined by Carnegie Mitchell Harriman Grant and Ireland.
Governor A E Willson in Frankfort orders crackdown on outlaws hurting tobacco planters after mobs burned property in Hopkinsville. Attorney General Greatnitt joins Brig Gen Williams and State Fire Marshall Mottsayers to deploy militia if trouble erupts at Carlisle Mount Sterling or Trice county, with arrests planned once evidence is secured.
A series of marriage licenses appears in this week’s notices listing bride and groom pairs such as Meyer Miller with Rosie B Lintersyn Edwin L Patrick with Katheryn J Cones John L Rodenbeck with Uiebukb Frazee Samuel L Perry with Essie Brum ford James L Tomlin with Derotis M Woodrift and others including George S Williams with Nettie Gray Eugene G Rexford with Genevieve E Marine and Frank A Preston with Frances L Allison. The notices name numerous couples and provide routine documentation of intended marriages.
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