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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1909
Page
4
Recent arrivals include new spring designs in 22 inch wide foulards at 75c and taffeta silks in navy green brown and gray. Lush damask napkins 24 inches square and table cloths 68 inches square. Pure Irish linen patterns fleur de lis tulip and satin stripes priced to clear. Second floor east and south aisles.
Representatives of the United Mine Workers of America and railroad presidents met in Reading Terminal Philadelphia to begin negotiations for a new labor pact to take effect when the current contract expires on March 31.
President Taft plans a brief message to Congress focusing on tariff revision. The plan is for the document to be completed and sent soon with an urgent appeal for speedy tariff changes and a proposed stamp tax.
Corporation Counsel Matson and attorney James E. McCullough for Otto Steichan and Frank W. Flanner agreed to a six day postponement of the city hall injunction hearing set for Thursday. Judge Remster granted the continuance.
Washington reports say insurgents will meet in the house committee room on insular affairs to map a Democratic backed program. They seek to win support and may join the Saturday caucus to help pick the speaker, though opposition to Cannon exists and defections could decide the outcome.
President Taft will travel to New York on March 18 for the Cleveland memorial exercises and then to New Haven on March 19 for the Yale corporation meeting. He returns to New York the same night for the Yale club dinner at the Waldorf Astoria.
Washington March 11 The Navy Department announced the death yesterday in New York of Captain Albert F. Dickson 1 S A who served as general inspector of machinery and senior member of the board on changes in machinery on the Atlantic coast at the time of his passing.
List of births including Charles and Grace Folwell and others. Multiple marriages listed: Walter Quandt with Hazel Van Every, Alfred Pahod with Emilie Stecher, Harry Princess with Zoe Fisher, Charles Beagle with Edith McConnell. Building permits and renovations reported for various addresses and organizations.
C. J. Wells of Mitchell, Kansas, pleaded guilty in federal court to using three postage stamps that had been used and cancelled. He was fined $100. Wells said he had been in the country only a short time and did not realize the seriousness of his offense. PUZZLE. Nearly ready. Everybody wins a prize.
Indianapolis March 11 receipts today 5 500 hogs 1 700 cattle and 50 sheep. Hog sales opened 5 10c higher then eased with close weak. prices ranged 6 35 to 7 10 largely 6 60 6 90. Cattle receipts larger with steady to firm prices. calves and veals mixed lower. Sheep and lambs scarce with steady prices. best lambs 7 50.
East Buffalo live stock market notes for Buffalo New York on March 11 report receipts of 50 cattle with slow trade and varied prices. Veal and lamb activity described with lambs around 6.50 to 7.00 and sheep near 2.00, hogs with 2,040 head and active demand, cows and other grades listed with assorted prices.
New York March 11. The stock market showed irregularities at the opening yet most active issues advanced. Erie fell about percent while Union Pacific and Atchison, Baltimore & Ohio, Southern Pacific and several industrials rose similarly. Brooklyn Rapid Transit dipped then partly recovered and by thirteen minutes had regained its losses.
Grain prices and inspections from Indianapolis and Chicago show Wheat at No 2 red around 1.18 dollars, various red and white wheat grades, and mixed quotations. Corn remains mostly steady with No 2 white and No 3 white values near 68 to 69 cents, while hay and timothy are listed with firm cash values and receipts. Continuous billing and sample checks accompany car counts and shipment notes across multiple grades and futures dates.
Five men were buried when a sewer cave-in in Hamilton Ohio trapped them. The contractor says they probably are dead and hopes fade as rescue efforts continue.
Washington March 11 The government is at a standstill in the prosecution of the Standard Oil Company. Attorney General Wickersham will not decide on further actions until papers from United States District Attorney Sims in Chicago are received. The new administration’s stance is expected to mirror Roosevelt era policy and may delay or shift prosecutions.
Four year old Francois, son of the Duchess de la Rochefocauld, died in Paris after a six week illness of meningitis. The Duchess is a daughter of United States Senator Mitchell of Oregon.
Eugene Monroe and William Bante drowned in the Connecticut river while fishing yesterday when their small boat capsized in midstream near New London Connecticut.
Toledo Ohio March 11 Wheat cash 1.21 May 1.18% July 1.0644 Sept 1.001. Corn cash 68 May 68%4c July Sept 68. Oats cash 82c May 1644c July 50 44c Sept 413gc. Rye cash 8.30 Clover seed March 5.2244 October 5.82 Alsike 8.70 Timothy 1.60.
March 11 hog receipts total 21 000 with slow demand. Mixed and butcher grades quoted from 6 45 to 6 85 with heavies at 6 70 to 6 90. Pigs 5 50 to 6 30 and bulk 6 50 to 6 30. Cattle receipts 41 000 with beeves 4 50 and 40 cows and heifers 2 35 to 4 00. Stockers and feeders 3 50 to 5 40. Texans 4 75 to 5 75 and calves 6 00 to 8 25. Sheep receipts 14 000 steady with sheep 3 75 to 5 80 and lambs 5 50 to 7 75.
Market brief from Rouse Bros lists New Corn 73 7ic Shelled Oats and Timothy hay prices with mixed hay oat straw figures. Prices appear in a compact catalog style with per unit and batch figures, reflecting current regional farm feed costs.
Fragmentary OCR shows a local produce exchange listing items like eggs butter and poultry in Indianapolis. The readable fragments indicate a market notice or inventory entry for fresh goods and associated licensing terms.
Coroner Blackwell will probe who turned over a lamp that ignited Mrs. Charles Suhr’s clothing on Warren Avenue. She died at City hospital from burns a week after the incident. Suspects include Fred Suhr and Charles Kanuer who were arrested for drunkenness. Kanuer may have been in the room. Suhr’s husband was absent. both Suhr and Kanuer claim the lamp was overturned accidentally.
In Nashville on March 11 the defense resume in the Cooper and Sharp murder trial of ex Senator Carmack. Gen. W H Washington contends Carmack’s editorials attacked Patterson and aimed to prejudice jurors, arguing that Democrats should unite while calling Carmack’s writings insulting and potentially jail-worthy.
George M Cohan the Yankee Doodle comedian is in Atlantic City under two physicians care and near a nervous breakdown. He can walk only with support and cannot perform mental work.
The forty third ballot for United States senator by the joint session shows Hopkins 7 S, Stringer 40, Shurtleff 18, M I McKinney 16, Foss 14, and 20 scattered. Miss Vin Masters Mrs J A Talburt and Mr C B Talburt depart for Hot Springs today and plan to return in April.
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