Market turmoil as five brokers face covering short Union Pacific
A New York dispatch reports a banking client found at least five brokerage houses heavily short of stocks. Union Pacific Amalgamated and Smelters lead the short list with at least one firm near resource exhaustion. A severe break is anticipated as bankers urge restraint in trading while cotton rises a dollar per bale and rail stocks draw speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Amalgamated and Smelters
Southern Pacific
St. Paul
Reading
National Lead
Amalgamated Copper
Prices for Vegetables and Fruit in Local Market
Listing of produce prices including Cabbage-Holland seed per bushel and per pound, Dry Onions varieties with crates and per crate costs, Fancy Grape Fruit, Cocoanuts, Apples with Baldwins and Jonathans, Bananas, Celery Florida crates, Beets per bushel, Tomatoes, Sweet Potatoes from Kentucky and Illinois, Potatoes per bushel, Parsnips per bushel, Turnips per barrel and per bushel, Carrots per bushel, Navy Beans per bushel, Popcorn per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valencia
Jonathans
Florida
Kentucky
Illinois
Indianapolis Seed Market Wholesale Buying and Retail Prices
Seed prices listed for Clover common and red, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Blue Grass, Alsike, Alfalfa Clover, Millet, Repe. Wholesale buying figures show unit costs, while Indianapolis retail prices include per bushel and seed grades from choice to prime, with ranges for Clover and Grass seeds and notes on quality tiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
E Ib
Timothey
Orchard Brass
Contractor Michael McBride Found Asphyxiated at Coney Island
New York May 6 Michael McBride a Brooklyn contractor of 1007 DeKalb Avenue reported to be worth about half a million was found asphyxiated today in a hotel at Coney Island authorities said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Michael McBride
DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Summer Hotel Burns in Bernardsville Fire
Somerset Inn a 200000 four story summer hotel burned today in Bernardsville New Jersey. Incendiarism is suspected. The structure was one of the most beautiful in northern New Jersey and would have opened to 300 guests June 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernardsville
N. J
Somerset Inn
New Jersey
City Births and Deaths Record Listing Local Families
City birth notices record several marriages and newborns including Fishman, Benefiel, Thomas, Caraselli, Allen, Brookes, Daily, Niemeyer, Goode, Beyer, Goldstein, Badger, Stuttle, Lombardy, and others. Deaths list chronic myocarditis, nephritis, pneumonia, whooping cough, tuberculosis, apoplexy, meningitis, and related causes with named residents and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. and
Bessie Fishman
W. Morris Street
James and
Love Benefiel
Garfield Avenue
William and
Mayme Thomas
Maryland Street
Cincingo
Giosapina
Caraselli
Chicago Street
Jesse and
Sadie Allen
E. Market Street
Albert and
Bernie Brookes
Martindale Avenue
Ward Daily
Tenth Street
Henry and
Emma Niemeyer
N. Sherman Drive
Joseph and
Mary Goode
Kenwood Avenue
John C. and
Dessie Beyer
S. Meridian Street
Jacob and
Fanny Goldstein
S. Illinois Street
Charles and
Gertrude Badger
S. Bancroft Avenue
Ee and
Mary Stuttle
Bell Street
Cecil and
Mary Lombardy
Chestnut Street
William P. Winterrowd
Woodlawn Avenue
John Cheslyn
City Hospital
Herbert Arnold
Seventeenth Street
Albert Williams
California Street
Luly Maude Pear
S. Addison Street
Anna Marie Leible
Wisconsin Street
Jessie
Pittsburg Live Stock Prices and Receipts Report
Pittsburg stock marketUpdate lists livestock receipts and price bands. Cattle steer steeress calves heifers fresh cows and springers ranged from 4.00 to 16.00 with seasonally varied midrange. Hog receipts show heavy and medium weights trading around 5.90 to 6.10. Sheep and lambs priced from 2.00 to 11.50 with prime wethers at 5.50 to 5.65 and spring lambs at 9.00 to 11.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Aioe
Meats and Lard Prices in Tangled OCR List
A list of meat and lard prices including hams bacon shoulders dried beef and fresh pork and beef products with various price quotes per unit or per barrel. The figures cover sugar cured English style smoked and dry salt varieties as well as fresh pork and veal and mutton carcasses.
Anthracite and coal listings with Cleveland health note
A scanned page lists various coal types and prices from Pocahontas to Linton No 4 and Brazil block with lump and egg grades. The section ends with a Cleveland health note, stating ex president Cleveland's health is steadily improving and on the road to recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Jackson
Winifrede
Pittsburg
Hocking Valley
Luhrig
Brazil
Cleveland
Lakewood
Hog supply increases noted at Indianapolis market
May 6 receipts show 7,000 hogs, 1,650 cattle and 50 sheep, up from last week but down from a year ago. Reports list varied weights and classes for steers, heifers, bulls, calves, hogs, and sheep with price ranges and classifications including good to choice and common to medium grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Musician Kuppes Act Declares Unjustifiable Death
An Indianapolis physician reports Carl Kuppe a Cleveland music teacher killed his imbecile daughter then hanged himself in his woodshed. The 67-year-old man unhappy with his daughter’s care and future left a suicide note claiming his conscience was clear and health concerns weighed on him and his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Kuppe
Indianapolis
Charles Kuppe
Cleveland
When a doctor speaks on mercy killing in Indianapolis
A physician opines on mercy killing in a case involving an imbecile wife in Indianapolis. He argues the act reflects a commission and holy duty to relieve suffering, citing the husband's fear of institutional neglect and potential insanity, while acknowledging public gossip and pity for his fate.
Gunness Case Reveals Murderous Matrimonial Plot
Lamphere recalls fear at the Gunness farm as authorities uncover more bloody evidence of crime. Mrs. Gunness lured victims via matrimonial ads, killed them for gain, and profited from life and fire insurance. Her husbands insured, with the house repeatedly burned and paid. Lamphere says she lived by crime and requested chloroform and rat poison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunness
Lamphere
Sheriff's Office
Gunness Home
Taft Reaches Panama Amid Coast Welcome in Colon
Secretary of War Taft arrived in Colon this morning to a welcoming reception. The U S cruiser Prairie lay at pier No 2 as Panamanian officials and the Panama commission boarded to greet Taft who is reported in good health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colon
Tan
United States
Prairie
Republic of Panama
Panama Commission
City Grain Market Prices and Car Inspections Report
The report lists grain prices for Wheat Corn Oats and Hay with firmer and steady quotes across multiple grades. It includes through billing adjustments, specific lots and prices for No 2 through No 4 grades, and rye at No 2 with 84 4c. Inspections record raw car counts by grade, with totals for wheat corn and hay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy
Evans fleet arrives at San Francisco
Admiral Evans fleet arrived this morning as San Francisco celebrated fleet day. The city’s population packed the beach and hillsides in boats and on rooftops while business froze for the historic event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans
San Francisco
Admiral Evans
Senator F. Aker push for Hepburn liquor clause view
Washington May 6 Senator Foraker secured a senate resolution to compel the administration to disclose enforcement of the Hepburn commodity clause. The measure asks the Interstate Commerce Commission to say if railroads are complying and whether any agreement shields noncompliant lines from punishment in the liquor traffic matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Foraker
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
More Soldiers to Leave Cuba as Talks Continue
Maj General Thomas F Barry, commanding the army in Cuba, arrived in Washington for discussions with Maj General Bell on troop withdrawals. No action will occur until Secretary Taft returns from Panama. The talks covered conditions in Cuba and the planned withdrawal of two battalions of troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas F. Barry
Army of Cuban Pacification
Bell
Cuba
Taft
Panama
United States
Banker Magee's Death Tollows Bank Shortage Fallout
In Manasquan New Jersey on May 6, Morgan Delancey Magee president of the First National Bank died by his own hand after a $391,000 shortage appeared in his account. Only $9,000 remains of the bank's $400,000 deposits as the bank examiner and currency controller consider closure. Magee had loaned heavily to a bridge company in which he held stock and endorsed papers totaling thousands, which he could not realize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuppe
Manasquan
N. J
Morgan Delancey Magee
First National Bank
Magee
200 Members Quit Exchange in London
London stock exchange faces a wave of resignations as 200 members refuse to renew subscriptions amid hard times. The Earl of Chichester is among those tendering his resignation as brokers struggle to cover salaries for office boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exchange
London
London Stock Exchange
England
Earl of Chichester
Margaret Golden Dies At Sister’s Home In Typhoid Death
The funeral for Margaret Golden, noted musician and composer, will be held Thursday at St. Joseph church. She died Monday at her sister Mrs. William A. Greene’s home 451 Walcott street after six months of illness caused by typhoid fever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Golden
William A. Greene
Walcott Street
St. Joseph Church
New York Osteopaths Demand Registration
New York May 6 Supreme Court Justice Dickey weighs the osteopaths bid to compel the Board of Health to register them as practicing physicians. The fight, pending decisions in lower courts, continues toward the Court of Appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Supreme Court
Dickey
Board of Health
Court of Appeals
Fire in Vacant Capitol Paper Building Reported
A fire was discovered around 1 PM Wednesday in a vacant building owned by Capitol Paper at 222 Kentucky Avenue. The blaze started on the second floor and caused only small losses. Suspicious individuals seen nearby Wednesday morning suggest possible incendiary origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Paper Company
Kentucky Avenue
Man Disrobes After Asking For Water in Saloon
John Westing of San Francisco entered a saloon at 9th West Washington street and asked for water. After receiving it he walked out and began undressing in the street. Bicycle Officers Wilson and Golinisch responded. Officers report Westing’s mind deranged by excessive drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Westing
San Francisco
Washington Street
Westing
Wilson
Golnisch
Bloomington church to cost sixty thousand dollars
Bloomington Indiana May 6 Trustees of the College Avenue M E church have decided to begin building a new stone church on the site east of the Baptist church. The edifice will cost about sixty thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ind
College Avenue M. E
Baptist Church
Hopkins Divorce Case Alleges Repeated Attempts on Wife
Mae Hopkins accuses her husband Julian Hopkins of multiple gun and razor attacks in their divorce filing. She claims Juan Hopkins resides in Chicago with an 18 year old girl. Also notes East Buffalo livestock market report with 50 cattle traded steady, prices listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Hopkins
Juan Hopkins
Chicago
Fire inspection urged after Fort Wayne Ave Line hotel fire
Indiana to audit hotels for fire hazards following the Ave Line Fort Wayne blaze that killed and injured many. State and local groups press for enforcement of hotel safety laws, with William E. Blakely to lead a comprehensive probe and push for exits and fire-fighting equipment. The Aveline hotel had prior inspections with no reform, yet the fire exposed neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Fort Wayne
William E. Blakely
Aveline
Garter Pleads For New Trial In Amanda Gross Death
Judge Pritchard heard an oral argument for a new trial for Thomas Carter, recently convicted of prescribing medicine that caused Amanda Gross's death. Henry Spaan defended, Dep Pro Remster prosecuted. The matter was taken under advisement. Carter, guilty by a jury weeks ago, faces two to 11 years in prison and is held in Marion County jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pritchard
Thomas Carter
Amanda Gross
Henry Spaan
Remster
Carter
Marion County
Weekly Health Report May 3 1988 Indianapolis Deaths and Diseases
The weekly health report for Indianapolis covers contigous diseases and deaths occurring during the week ended May 3 1988. It lists fatal cases and outlines the number of deaths attributed to contagious diseases along with brief notes on the outbreak status and public health actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Chicago Live Stock Market Report May 6
Chicago stockyards report hogs receipts 30 005 10c lower light mixed prices 4 40 to 7 65 good to heavy hogs cattle receipts 18 000 steady beef cattle 4 75 to 7 25 Texas and western steers 4 70 to 6 00 stockers feeders 3 70 to 5 90 cows and heifers 2 North calves 4 76 to 6 25 sheep receipts 12 000 natives 4 25 to 6 10 western 4 25 to 6 15 yearlings 6 95 to 6 59 lambs native and western 5 75 to 7 00
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snes Ae
Svesess
Sseressee
Chicago
T’mon
Ill
Beevéas
Texas
Indianap olis Produce Prices For Farm Goods
Fresh eggs and poultry prices listed with liquor license note. Butter prices for country hens cocks and turkeys geese ducks. feed items include corn wa tac oats straw shredded fodder baled hay and various bale prices. Prices shown for hay clover mixed timothy and baled No 1 No 2 grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy
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L. S. Ayres & Co
T. C. Shotwell
Norristown
Jesse King
Jack D. Kearns
Arlena E. Wilson
Leonhard Hack
Maude Mueller
Joseph A. McAfee
Cornelia D. Zenar
Charles E. Williams
Grace R. Cummings
Henry Buechert
Bertha A. Bluemel
Louis G. Buddenbaum
Helen Ida Cross
Thomas N. Rea
Mary E. Beerbower
Jordan Smith
Alice Jones
Mike Jefferson
Harry Orchard
Boise
Idimo
Gooding
Board of Pare Dons
Kuppes
DR. Lollis
Amelia
Baonworth & Laskey Grain
A. W. Thomson
Barkeeper
Julian Hopkins
East Buffalo
Garter
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