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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1909
Page
4
Chief of Police Metzger issued an order banning steel jacketed bullets in police revolvers. He notes previous use at a basement target range and directs officers to stop using steel covered ammunition. The move aims to enforce non steel bullets in service weapons.
The report states steel bullets pose great danger of glancing blows while lead bullets flatten on impact. It notes the interaction of projectile type with armor and target, highlighting material behavior during containment tests.
Justice O'Gorman refused Mrs. Ben Teal’s request for a certificate of reasonable doubt on her prior conviction for attempted subornation of perjury. She faced prison for bribing a witness to lie in Frank J. Gould’s wife’s divorce action.
Washington March 3. It was stated again today that former Vice President Fairbanks would be named ambassador to England. A close friend of Fairbanks, who visited the White House, said he believed Fairbanks would return to his Indianapolis home.
Miss Dora Newby hired Hindoo dressed Chakrivitt at 337 Massachusetts avenue, paying $110 for supposed spiritual help. He allegedly kept money and gave only a dust filled charm. detectives later arrested him on a second charge of attempting to assault a patron.
Indianapolis market report shows today’s receipts 5500 hogs 1100 cattle 100 sheep with hog numbers up from last week though prices softened buyers paid mainly 6 40 to 6 95 while most hogs brought 6 60 to 6 85 demand fair across sources. Cattle supplies matched normal needs and prices held steady with bulls firm and calves down 25 to 50 cents. Sheep and lamb receipts remained light with limited choice offerings and lambs not above 7 25. some sheep sold to 5.00.
Pittsburg Pennsylvania cattle receipts were light with slow market. Prices ranged from 4.30 to 6.50 for cows and bulls, 6.60 to 7.30 for heavy cattle, and 5.50 to 6.60 for sheep and lambs with veal calves from 6.00 to 9.50.
Union Ky yards reports March 9 hogs 18 000 receipts with mixed and butcher grades 6.40 to 6.80 for good heavy and 5.50 to 6.25 for pigs. Cattle receipts 2500 with values from 4.50 to 7.25 for various classes. Sheep receipts 11 000 with ewes 6.50 to 6.65 and lambs 5.50 to 7.75.
New York March 9 trading activity showed irregular price moves with traction shares maintaining strength. Union Pacific led gains among rail stocks while Brooklyn Rapid Transit and other lines fluctuated, and overall list narrow with mixed declines and advances.
Grain market rundown shows Wheat steady with No. 2 red at 1.21 and May futures at 1.10. Corn mixed with No. 2 white 68 cents and No. 4 white 67 cents. Oats listed as Stroney with No. 2 white 54 to 55 cents. Hay quiet with top timothy at 11.75 dollars. Rye No. 2 at 8 cents. Inspections log tallies cars in and out across Wheat Corn Hay.
Cash wheat prices for various grades and springs listed with bid ranges. No. 2 red at 1.17 to 1.22, No. 3 red 1.14 to 1.20, No. 2 hard 1.10 to 1.15, No. 3 hard 1.09 to 1.13. Northern spring and other grades shown. Cash corn and oats prices by grade and moisture.
Cincinnati March 9 hog receipts 1499 market closed weak cattle receipts 13 percent market active and strong bulls firm calves higher veals 7.25 to 8.75 extra 9.00 sheep and lambs receipts 260 market higher sheep 2.26 to 2.6 or 5.50 wool lambs 8.00 clipped
East Buffalo N Y March 9 cattle receipts 125 head active and firm veals 50 head active steady call to choice 6.00 8.50 sheep and lambs receipts 800 head active steady lambs 6.25 7.75 sheep 3.50 6.00 yearlings 6.50 7.00 hogs receipts 102 head active steady Yorkers 4 9 0 7 0 6 rigs 6 65 7 75 mixed and heavier 7 16 7 15 roughe 5 50 6 10 stags 4 50 9 5 0 0 Toledo Grain Toledo March 3 wheat cash 1 20 0 1 2 0 May 1 17 0 July 1 0 5 0 September 1 0 0 corn cash 68 0 May 69 0 July 68 0 September 0 oats cash 54 0 May 6 0 July 5 1 5 September 41 0 rye cash 0 se cheverseed March and April 174 October 5 80 December 5 90 al slike 8 70 prime timothy 1 80
By Rouse Bros at 10 Kentucky Avenue the market lists New Corn at 732 ic Shelled Oats 53 66a Sheaf Oats 13 to 14 Brew Clover and Timothy prices around 13 to 14 per bushel Wheat Straw and Oats Straw priced near 7 to 7 50 and 36 50 respectively with oats straw at 7 00.
Partial OCR listing from a 19th century Indianapolis market page notes eggs at 18 cents, country butter and poultry items, with scattered illegible words, indicating a general produce market update and prices.
John Wilson, husband of Lulu Maud Wilson, was arrested at his mother-in-law’s home at 6 am. He is held for further investigation as officials acknowledge only circumstantial evidence. Lulu Maud Wilson was found beaten to death at their home last Wednesday with a heavy iron bar recovered from the stove.
The March snowstorm hit Topeka hardest with wet heavy snow delaying trains by one to two hours and tying up streetcar traffic. The storm swept through Kansas and Iowa with trains slowed and schedules disrupted as temperatures hovered near freezing.
New York March 9 Bishop Charles H Colton of Buffalo was vindicated when Supreme Court Justice Girard dismissed the suit to compel Anne Cassidy heirs to refund money paid to them by Bishop Colton 35 trustee. Earthquake in Spain reported Lisbon March 9 light shocks in Minho province with no damage observed.
A U S gunboat Scorpion crew members departed from Naples March 9 to aid relief work at Reggio following the disaster.
James Hamilton Lewis of Chicago arrives in Manila reporting he is here to study conditions in the Orient. He traveled from the United States and states his purpose clearly in this dispatch.
Two federal prisoners climbed a ventilating pipe to reach the northwest tower of the county jail Tuesday afternoon. Police and jail officers fought to dislodge them at 2 30 p m while the fire department prepared to flood the tower and force the men back inside.
In Corbett's addition Hagerstown Maryland last night Charles Iseninger shot and killed his wife Douglas Mongan then killed himself with the same pistol. Mongan a married man living apart from his wife had been boarding with Mrs Iseninger and was returning from the city when the shooting occurred.
Officers at a New Jersey station heard two women arguing over a doughnut where Mrs. Margaret Lenz, a boarding house keeper, and Miss Pearl Hoage, a boarder, clashed. A bystander caller aided police to locate the scene and bicycle patrols were sent to Til N street where both were taken into custody.
Police Captain Reidy of the West Sixty eighth Street station issued a summons to heavyweight James J. Jeffries at Lincoln Square theater ordering him to appear in the West side court tomorrow on a charge of violating the prize fight law. The summons was served as he finished an act on stage boxing rounds with sparring partner Sam Berger. Authorities object to the display.
Harold G. Meadows a clubman and former head of Williams and company was sentenced by Justice Brown to Auburn prison for a term between three and a half and six years for the firm’s nearly one million dollar failure last August.
Kingdon Gould son of George J Gould was elected a member of the board of directors of the Missouri Pacific railroad company in St Louis. He succeeds Albert Fish.
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