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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1902
Page
3
In Washington on February 10, Chaplain Couden prayed for Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and his wife. The House then moved to committee to consider the oleo bill with Mr. Feeley, the youngest member, delivering his first floor speech in opposition as debate continues.
In Norfolk the case filed in superior court concerns Anna M Gillette alleging Julius Matzke and others dug deeper than her wall permits causing foundation settlement. She claims the adjacent flats caused her house to tilt with eaves nearly touching. The filing seeks damages and remedies.
Advertises slightly used upright pianos for sale at Baldwin's with additional note on continuous loose leaf ledgers featuring self locking extension back by WM B Burford of Indianapolis Indiana.
A massive fire in Springfield Ohio engulfs the Whitely East street shops once owned by Whitely and now by Senator Fairbanks. The blaze destroys the 15 factories inside the building, leaving about two thousand workers unemployed and causing property and insurance losses as high as several million dollars.
Delinquent tax sale held at the south entrance of the court house drew bids from many, with $8 000 to $9 000 in taxes to satisfy. Four professional bidders—Fred A. Victor Indianapolis A Ki Wirshfield Greensburg W T B Austin Rennselaer Len Kepler Cambridge City—appeared as observers. Some viewed tax loans as good investments while money lenders avoid them. the property itself was not sold.
Oran Muir, standing in for Judge Stubbs, presided Monday in police court under Prosecutor Collins. He quickly imposed $90 fines and six month sentences from the workhouse, meeting voters and announcing his candidacy for the legislature while noting many will be unable to vote in March and November elections.
A case of smallpox was reported to the health board Sunday at the National hotel located at 37 McNabb Street. The patient is Louis Smith, 23, of Somerset County Kentucky, with two patients in the same household suspected.
NEW YORK February 10—Meat pork pegged at 16.00 17.0 per unit. Lard 9.70. Potter Western 20 28e. Elgin 2c. Cheese Large 7 10 ½ c, small 7 11 ¾ c. Eggs Western 27 28 ½ c. Tallow notes. Dressed poultry Turkeys 8 15c, chickens 10 ½ c, fowls 8 13c, ducks 9 15c, geese 7 10c.
Cattle receipts reach about 4 000 with Texans totaling 600 as prices steady across categories. Native steers pay 5.85 to 6.25, Texans 4.25 to 5.25, cows and heifers 5.00 to 5.25, stockers 3.50 to 5.00, calves 4.50 to 6.25. Hog receipts near 8 000 with prices generally steady and bulk buyers paying 5.60 to 6.50, heavy hogs 6.30 to 6.40, packers 6.10 to 6.35, yorkers 5.25 to 6.00, pigs 5.50 to 5.75. Sheep receipts around 2 500 with prices steady from 4.00 to 5.00 for mutton and lambs 4.00 to 4.50, range nets 4.40 to 4.80, ewes 4.00 to 4.50.
Chicago grain and provisions prices show wheat May at 8 and July 7iMe, corn May 6244 61%4 018¢c, July 62144. Pork May at 16.05, lard 9.60, ribs 8.45. Butter and cheese prices listed for various grades. live poultry and eggs priced with cents per pound or dozen. Market reflects lower grain and mixed live stock, dairy, and poultry quotes.
The report covers stocks bonds and domestic markets with receipts of 100 hog ears and 119 car loads of sheep and lambs. Hogs show a decline with heavy animals between 5.45 and 6.50, mixed 6.30 to 6.40, lights 6.00 to 6.20, sows and stockers noted. Top lambs around 46.20 to 29, top sheep 4.75 to 64.90.
Expansion of $29,000,000 in the bank statement unsettles traders on Friday. Readings in Readings hold steels Iowa Central and New York Central rise while copper, sugar and lead show activity. Insiders predict Van derbilt stock moves and Gould favorites gain, with Morgan financing Metropolitan securities denied.
A historical list shows stocks and bonds for Indianapolis firms including banks such as American National Bank Central Trust Company Merchants National Bank and Indiana National Bank. Utility and transit names appear with preferred and common shares and rates including Indiana Cold Storage and Union Traction Company.
At Union Stockyards Indianapolis and Interstate Stockyards Indianapolis listings show cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts with varied quotations. Prices cover export and butcher steers, cows and calves, hogs, light weights, and lambs with ranges reflecting supply quality and weight classes.
New York traders push early gains with Reading as a feature. Gains in Lackawanna rumors and Chicago orders buoy St Paul. Sugar and Amalgamated copper show buying amid improving reports. Union Pacific strong with Southern Pacific. many issues rise including Illinois Central and American Express. Noon prices list several notable securities.
East Buffalo NY a cattle sale showed 445 head with Oaks Best steers quoted from $2.25 to $4.10 and bulls at $3 six months and 50 stockers in choice condition cited in the market report.
Cattle receipts 1733, slow market with shippers paying 4.85 to 6.00 for good to choice cattle. Heifers 4.25 to 5.00, extra calves 6.75. Hog receipts 2791, active and steady with heavy 6.40, good to choice 6.25 to 6.40, mixed 6.00 to 6.20, pigs 4.50 to 5.60. Sheep receipts 22, steady with extra lambs 4.25 and ewes to 4.50.
Cattle receipts reach 20 900 with steady values across grades. Hogs show 55 000 receipts with top at 6 45 and bulk mostly 6 00 to 6 30. Sheep receipts total 24 000 with natives at 2 00 to 3 60 and native lambs near 4 50 to 6 50.
Market notes show steady wheat and oats with No 2 red wheat at 85%4c and No 2 white oats at 46 461%c. Hay remains steady with No 1 timothy at 11.5¢ 12.00 and No 2 timothy 10.00 10.50. Inspections detail grain car counts and grades across corn oats and hay consignments.
Old turkey hens six cents a pound old toms five cents choice young turkeys nine cents ducks five cents geese five and a half cents per pound fowls six cents eggs fresh thirty two to thirty four cents storage eggs nine to ten cents cheese prices listed butter thirteen cents per pound hides and tallow figures provided grocer items include coffee ratios sugars various brands with city prices and multiple grades of sugar and molasses and syrup prices from New Orleans Louisiana markets listed with regional price ranges
The notice lists various produce and seafood items with prices. Corn, peaches, California fruit, berries, pineapples, clams, string beans, lima beans, peas, lobsters, cherries, strawberries, salmon, and tomatoes show per unit or weight prices in a compact vintage market ledger format.
The notice lists flour grades with prices: straight $5.00, patent $4.50, spring patent first grade $4.75, second grade winter $2.70, rye flour $3.25. Barrel pricing at $3.50 and an adjusted ton price noted as Ean 18.00 to 18.50.
A catalog of fresh produce with per unit and per crate prices. Cabbage per ton two dollars. Onions yellow per bushel one dollar fifty. Spanish onions per crate one seventy five. Cocoanuts per hundred four dollars. Oranges California choice two seventy five to three dollars. Oranges Florida twenty seven five. Lemons fancy imported per box eight fifty. California lemons two seventy five to three dollars. Beans hand picked per bushel two ten. Honey. Potatoes seven per hundred? Cranberries two fifty to two seventy five per bushel three, seven dollars thirty five? Matthews fancy eight dollars. Celery fancy per dozen twenty nine to thirty five cents. Apples cooking three fifty to four, fancy eating four to five dollars. California Belleflowers box one seventy five.
A partial, OCR fragmented clipping lists commodity prices and brands across Kanawha Indiana regions. It includes coke and smokeless coal entries, bacon and pork products, lard and sausages, oysters and fish, clams and lobsters, alcohols and chemicals with varied per ton, per barrel, or per gallon quotes. Names such as Mingan & Co. appear among price notes and item codes are interspersed with numbers and weights.
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