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Newspaper

Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Feb 27, 1908

Page

4

Interborough Met bonds rise as New York trading shows strength

Trading in Wall Street centers on Interborough Metropolitan bonds which jumped a point amid a market rally led by Amalgamated Copper. Analysts note possible consolidation of Hudson companies with Interborough and speculate on a larger merger under receivership of the local traction trust. Cotton up slightly and wheat down as curb market holds steady.

T. C. Shotwell New York Interborough Metropolitan Wall St McAdoo Hudson Companies Hudson Company Local Traction Trust Greater Trust Amalgamated Copper

Pittsburg Live Stock Market Report

Pittsburg Pa February 27 cattle receipts show light to steady demand with price ranges for extra prime and good cattle. hogs show strong opening and weak close with prime heavy and medium weights listed. sheep receipts are light with prime ewes, wood mix and lamb price ranges noted.

Pittsburg

Wheat and pork futures shift on midweek rally

Chicago market notes weakness in Liverpool prices early trading causing wheat to dip to 95 95c May but soon rebounded on solid demand. Northwest receipts run about half of last year while Minneapolis stocks fell 200000 bushels in five days. The Northwestern Miller reports a weekly flour output rise of 9315 barrels. Opening and closing prices for May contracts are listed for wheat corn oats pork lard and ribs with modest gains and some stalled lines.

Chicago Liverpool Northwest Minneapolis Northwestern

Indianapolis Produce Prices Abridged Catalogue

Local market list shows Butter at 25c Elgin prints, 31c country cream, New York full cream 17e, limburger 18c, brick 1c 11ic, Wisconsin fullcream lic. Eggs fresh 18c. Poultry prices for live turkeys ducks geese hens and spring chicks noted with per unit cents.

Indianapolis Elgin New York Wisconsin

Live stock prices and receipts at Indianapolis market

Indianapolis livestock market reports receipts of hogs at about 10,600 and cattle, sheep, and lambs around 200. Hogs steady to 10e lower with tops at 4.40. Cattle steady to strong, calves weak. Steers and heifers listed by weight and class with various price ranges. Cows and bulls priced by quality, with calves and heavy calves also noted.

Indianapolis

Grain Market Freight Report Notes Various Wheat and Corn Prices

The report lists grain prices for wheat, corn, and hay with grade, delivery through billing, and through billing figures. It includes inspections, totals of cars by grade and type, and notes on rejected lots and no established grade.

Hay Timothy

Meats and Lard Price List from Local Market

A dated price list catalogs meats and lard with rates for hams bacon shoulders and pork products. Items include sugar cured hams boiled hams fresh pork sausage fresh beef and veal with cents per pound quotes and per hundred weight totals. Prices show English style and dry salt varieties along with dressed hogs and fresh mutton lamb prices.

Chicago Live Stock Market at Union Stock Yards

Receipts across hogs cattle and sheep listed with varying prices. Hogs traded mainly light to heavy grades from 4.20 to 4.50 per cwt while pigs yorkers and roughs showed 3.85 to 4.25. Cattle sold steady to a shade lower with Reeves cows and heifers Texans and calves priced up to 7.25. Sheep receipts 16 000 steady to lower natives and westerns ranged 3.40 to 6.50 with yearlings at 5.07 6.26 and lambs 5.00 to 6.90 for the native and western types.

Chicago Union

Oats and grain price listings mixed with figures

Market fragment shows corn oats and shelled oats pricing with inconsistent figures. Items include Shenaf oats at 10.00 and 711.00, shelled oats 51 58e, and Shraw at 5.0 with 6.00, suggesting mixed commodity quotes and units from a historical listing.

Steamship Mail Subsidy Bill Indefinitely Postponed

Washington February 27 The steamship mail subsidy bill was indefinitely postponed in the senate. Senator Gailinger, in charge, agreed to let it go over on condition Democrats would not block a vote when the bill returns.

Washington Senate Gailinger

City Births and Deaths in Daily Record

City Births list include Clarence and Wilhelmina Jenkins for a boy at 1529 East Market Street and several other couples with newborns across multiple streets. Deaths feature Mary A Fields with double pneumonia and James Sweeney at Little Sisters of the Poor with no disease listed, among others. Marriages and building permits are also recorded with names, partners, and addresses.

Clarence Wilhelmina Jenkins E. Market-st Pat Bridget White Vermont-st Frederick Josephine Harbottle N. Delaware-st William Emma Barton Madison-are Orly Clara Kieber Singleton St Emmet Ora McFall W. Morris St Walter Mary Wilson Chesterave Warren and Alley Weaver Hoveyst Mejer Bertille Poole W. Thirtieth St Geo. M Eva Scheiring Villauve Calvin Effie Udell E. 12Th-St Robert and Vistoria Robinson Maxwell-st Jesse and Jess Owen Bellefontain-st John Wm Katherine Crenshaw Blake-st Karl Mary Owen Hiawatha-st Joseph Jessie Kress S. State Ava Box. Louis Martha Roberts New York St Willis W Lizzie Wilburn W. Twenty-sixth-st Thos Delia Killila Highlandplace Mary A. Fields Yrants Highland Ave Artic Cantrell Hasbrack-st Chas. P. Shockley Thirtieth-st Baltimore Ave Johns&. Sebe Thinols Pinkie Moore W. Seventeenth-st James Sweeney Little Sisters of Poor Wm. H. Layborne State College Hospital

Market Report: Livestock Receipts and Prices Decline

Union stockyards show hogs slow and uneven trading with light prices about 4.2, 4.35 and 4.43 per cwt. Cattle receipts total around 2,900 with cows and horses bidding near 31.80, calves at 3.25, western stockers around 4.00 to 4.73. Sheep and goats weak with alive cattle at 3.26 to 76.60 and western yearlings near 5.00 to 6.90. overall market softens.

Western

Buffalo Livestock Prices Reported February 7

In Buffalo NY receipts show cattle 100 head with veals and calves at 6.20 to 6.60, sheep and lambs 4,606 received with lambs from 3.22 to 7.41 and yearlings at 6.00 to 5.50, hogs 4,250 receipts down 10 to 15 cents with pigs at 4.50 and mixed heavies 4.60 to 4.76. roughs 4.00 to 4.10.

Buffalo N. Y

Gies Case Fans Out Across Courts Monday Decision

Danville Indiana February hearings on the Indianapolis telephone franchise case unfolded before Judge James L. Clark with multiple attorneys arguing for both sides. The judge promised a decision next Monday after lengthy submissions, as officials from Indianapolis and the plaintiff and new company sparred over franchise modification and injunctions. The case traces to early February when a citizen’s suit sought to bar a new contract, triggering venue battles and a string of legal maneuvers across Marion County courts.

Indianapolis James L. Clark Hendricks Danville Ind Wallace Spaun Jameson Winters Daniels, Walker I. E H. Matson Ferdinand Winter L. ©. Walker Leo Rappaport Edward Daniels Lew Wallace Ovid B. Jameson Henry Spaain Matson Ct. Matson Board of Public Works A. W. Hatch Indianapolis Telephone Company J. M. Leathers Marion County Superior Court Leathers Vinson Carter J. L. McMaster Clark

Auditor Probes Rebating Accusation Against Insurers

A petition charging Intermediate Life Assurance of Chicago with rebating was presented to Auditor Billheimer on Wednesday. Signed by 17 Evansville agents, the filing names H. S. McCrae of Metropolitan, Paul de Kress of Travelers, and Luther Gowan of John Hancock Mutual as presenters. The auditor is conducting the investigation.

Intermediate Life Assurance Company Chicago Billheimer Evansville H. 5. McCrae Metropolitan Insurance Company Paul de Kress Travelers Insurance Company Luther Gowan John Hancock Mutual Company

Ladies of Honor Observe Fifth Anniversary Program

Sunbeam lodge No. 2888 Knights and Ladies of Honor host an anniversary program on Wednesday evening. Highlights include a reading by Mr. Berriault the Impersonator a violin solo by Sam Protesky and talks on the good of the order by Dr. Lees and Hleary Friedgeon. A social hour followed and a banquet was served to 20 guests.

Sunbeam Lodge Knights and Ladies of Honor Mr. Berriault Sam Protesky Order Dr. Lees Hleary Friedgeon

Rail rails large orders placed by multiple railroads

Pittsburg Pa Feb 37 Another large contract for steel rails for 1808 delivery has been placed by the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad with work to begin immediately. Authority to start a 40900on rail order for a western line will be given soon and the New York Central expected to award contracts soon. The Pittsburg Lake Erie recently placed an order for 6000 tons of rails.

Pittsburg Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad New York Pittsburg & Lake Erie

Pyramid Pile Cure Advertiser Claims Quick Relief

A testimonial from George H Bartlett of Mattapan Mass praises Pyramid Pile Cure for curing two decades of piles in months. The letter describes immediate relief and easy use as suppositories, offering a free sample and a 40 cent regular package through the Pyramid Drug Co Marshall Mich.

Triad Tam George H. Bartlett Mattapan Mass Mall Pyramid Drug Co Pyramid Building Marshall, Mich

Judge Pritchard sick. trial date for Brunaugh

Judge James A. Pritchard may be too ill to preside over the Brunaugh trial set for next Monday. Special Judge William Irvin could take the case if needed, but Brunaugh's lawyers favor delaying the trial to dodge county graft case pressures and potential jury bias.

James A. Pritchard Harry Brunaugh Pritchard William Irvin Criminal Court Bench Rritchard Elliott R. Hooton Irvin Brunaugh Monany John Kern Joe Bell Mr. Irvin Ater Meredith Nicholson Lew Shank Indianapolis

Land Suit Over Hadley Industrial School Land in Danville

A lawsuit filed in Danville seeks possession of 327 acres tied to the Hadley Industrial School for Girls. Martha Hadley sues executor Felix McWhirter and the Indiana Women’s Christian Temperance Union and nine trustees accusing violations of Addison Hadley’s will and deed.

Danville Ind Hadley Industrial School For Girls Martha Hadley Felix T. McWhirter Addison Fladley Indiana Women's Christian Teinerance Union Indiana Mary G. Heggart Lena M. Beck Irving Hastings Josephine H. Nichols Caroline Hodgin Caroline Edgerton Lodie Reed Mary G. Tinv Mary Hadley Addison Hedley Widw Addison Hadley

Miners to quit in Minnots coal field April 1

Peoria Feb 27 A general walk out of all union miners in the Minnots coal field will take place April 1 as a result of the men refusing to accept the operators terms to take effect April 1.

Peoria Minnots

County council votes funds for graft probe at Marion courthouse

The Marion County council approved a $5,000 appropriation for experts to investigate county graft involving courthouse books. Grand jury inquiries target painter Tom ONeill and Emmett Huggins over forged warrants and shared bills, with auditors and records staff working late as probes continue.

County Council Marion County Tom O'Neil Mauinett Liuggins Grand Jury O'Neill Hooten Frank Baker Alvert Sahm Robert E. Moore Emmett Brlegins Huggins Tom 9 Aivore

Mock Weddings Attract Bath Beach Gals In Coney Island

In New York on February 27, Bath Beach and Coney Island women took part in mock marriages at Stauch's pavilion in the Pride of Coney Island. Philip Perry, a notary, certified the unions on regulatory blanks, and several participants wed and divorced multiple times. Agnes Burke of Bath Beach faced real turmoil when a former groom appeared to claim her as his wife, prompting concern from her family and a local attorney.

New York Bath Beach Coney Island Stauch’s Coney [Sland Foresters of America Philip Perry James Griffin Josephine McSweeney Agnes Burke Bath ‘Rach

Osborne Seeks Clarkson in New York Faceoff

In New York Arthur Osborne, a broker and estranged husband of Helen Maloney, demands Clarkson’s location to confront him. He declines comment on ongoing divorce and voice proceedings before Referee Cohalon and would oppose any plan permitting Helen to wed Clarkson.

New York Sammel Clarkson Arthur Herbert Osborne Helen Maloney Young Clarkson Cohalon Osborne Vivorer Helen Clarkson

Seventh District GOP Endorses Secretary Tait for President

Springfield Ohio February 27 The Seventh district Republican convention unanimously endorsed Secretary Tait for president and instructed delegates to vote for him at the national convention. The administration and its policies were approved. General J Warren Keifer was nominated by acclamation for a third term in Congress.

Springfield Tait J. Warren Keifer Congress

Plot to extort $5,000 uncovered in Chicago letters

Police arrested James Cimino on suspicion of drafting three threatening letters to labor agency head Josep Macaluso on Clark Street. The letters demanded $5,000 under threat of death. The case centers on a plan to obtain money from a wealthy Italian man.

Chicago James Cimino Josep Macaluso Clarkst

Doube oyed A dea and May Be Dismissed

Annapolis Md February 27 Captain Charles J Badger superintendent of the naval academy has recommended for dismissal midshipmen L Gunther of Memphis Tennessee and H W Koehler of St Louis Missouri charged with fighting in rooms R E Tripp of Kitanning Pa and uv W Duboise of Gadsden Ala charged with going to Washington that Saturday on French leave and J M Irish of Utlen N J and John Morrin of Connecticut charged with fighting in ranks at breakfast formation recently

Annapolis Charles J. Badger Naval Academy L. Gunther Memphis Tenn H. W. Koehler St. Louis Mfo R. E. Tripp Kitanning Uv. W. Duboise Gadsden Ala Washington J. M. Irish Utlen John Morrin Connecticut

Fire Causes Panic in Chicago Phone Exchange

Chicago February 27 A fire alarm at the Chicago Telephone Company's main exchange triggered panic among about 100 operators. A girl opened a window for air and fainted from smoke as others fled toward stairs. Damage reported as zero.

Chicago

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