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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1907
Page
3
Trading opened with Josy Sheffield Reading York Central Penn E and Ohio and North showing firmer tone but overall activity remained feeble. Most shares moved in small ranges with little broad-based strength while bears searched for soft spots. Government bonds rose while other bonds stayed quiet as prices fluctuated across the general list.
Receipts show 6 500 cattle 650 sheep and lambs with hogs at 5 11c lower and top $6.45. Cattle sheep and hogs sold at steady prices with varied quotes for steers calves bulls and veal. Prices range from 3 00 to 9 00 for different classes across beef cattle hogs and lambs.
The notice lists No 2 red and No 1 red grain prices for track and May futures, several white and mixed corn lots with through billing notes, oats and timothy quotes, and wheat inspections. It summarizes car counts for wheat, orn, and hay, plus a weekly flour stock in store totaling 191679 units and various grain stocks across wheat corn oats rye.
Cattle receipts steady and unchanged while hogs show a drop with about 21 000 received. Prices listed as rough 5.80 to 6.00, mixed 6.10 to 6.32, heavy 6.04 to 6.46. Other receipts around 2 500 steady with minor changes noted.
Scrippe McRaee Press Association reports Chicago market quotes for dairy eggs and poultry. Butter creamery prices 24c for butter, eggs extras 17c, poultry including turkeys 10c to 14c and geese at 5 dollars, cheese twins 14c.
Pittsburg Pa May 2 Cattle supplies light and steady with choice cattle trading 5.90 to 6.00 per cwt and prime cows 6.15 to 6.25 while good mixed 5.85 to 6.10. Hogs receipts light and slow with heavy hogs 6.40 to 6.45, mediums heavy yorkers 6.50 to 6. ? Pigs 6.65 and rough 5.00 to 5.75.
Buffalo New Jersey market notes show steady demand for veals and cattle. Prices listed include veals 2,800 head steady, choice to good cattle 6.00 to 7.75 per hundredweight, wethers and mixed sheep 4.50 to 6.00, feeder grades around 4.50 to 6.60 with minor declines noted.
CHICAGO May 2. Wheat opens strong with July at 98 1 2 cents and gains to 1.00 amid solid demand from shorts. September 99 1 2 and December 1.02. Corn posts small gains with July 53 3 4 to 53 1 2. September 53 1 2 and December 56. oats rise 4 with July 47 and September 39 1 2. Hogs drop. July pork 16.40. lard 9.15. ribs 9.00. Local receipts wheat 36, corn 278, oats 106. May wheat 9 1 2. July 1.00 14. September 1.02. No 2 red winter 99. May corn 54 1 2. July 53 1 2. September 53 1 2. No 3 yellow 58 1 4 to 54 4. May oats 47 1 2. July 47 1 2. September 29. No 2 white 48 1 2. Provisions July pork 16.70. lard 9.05. ribs 8.82 1 4.
New York markets show Perth Mess at 17.75 to 18.50 dollars, Lard Western spot at 9.00, Tallow City 6 set 6 1 2 percent, Butter Creamery extra at 24 to 24 cents, Eggs White fancy 19 cents, Cheese full creams 12 1 2 cents, with state dairy rules and western licenses noted.
Cincinnati May 2 cattle receipts 376 steady butcher steers extra five fifty to five sixty good to choice four seventy five to five zero common to fair three fifty to four fifty. Hog receipts 1920 slow choice packers six thirty to six seventy one fourth mixed packers six thirty to six thirty six. Sheep receipts 122 strong extra six lambs extra seven thirty five to seven fifty spring lambs six thirty to three fifty.
The Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration will not push disarmament or arms limitation in its Hague platform. An amendment by Edwin D Mead of Boston to discuss arms limitation was defeated 83 to 61. The platform calls for Hague meetings, court adjustments, a general arbitration treaty, inviolability of innocent private parties at sea, no armed intervention for private claims, and exploring neutralization of ocean trade routes.
City health officers confiscated and dumped 172 gallons of substandard milk this week with total losses over 600 gallons in recent months. Inspectors seal samples for testing by Prof. Fred W. Clarke and warn farmers that future low butter fat milk will be destroyed, as Dr. Eugene Buehler plans personal dairy inspections.
Col. J. R. Fessler is reappointed to another term as assistant adjutant general of the G A R under Commander W A Ketchein. Miss Emma Stewart, serving as stenographer and clerk at headquarters, is also reappointed.
City records list newborns with parents and addresses including Silas and Mary Woodson at 1330 Everett and several others with birth outcomes noted by address. Also shows list of marriages, a set of infant cases with illnesses, and multiple building permits in Meyers University Place, Market Street, and surrounding blocks.
The Indiana Railroad Commission met with Union Railway Pennsylvan ia and C H C representatives to protect a southeast city crossing. An interlocking plant was proposed but railroads expect the city to elevate the street and the lines to lower tracks to meet requirements. The commission took the matter under consideration.
The annual report of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination will be given to the governor next week. It will include names and addresses of all physicians practicing in the state, practice regulations from around the world, new entrants, and removals for inactive practitioners. The necrology lists 136 physician deaths, including 28 who were non graduates or old practitioners. The report will be issued in August.
The Saturday half holiday law passed by the last legislature will go into effect June 1. Under this law all state offices and those to counties having county seats with 100,000 inhabitants or more, will be closed on Saturday afternoons, from June 1 to October L. This includes all state Institutions and Marion county.
Fassett A. Cotton reports Indiana school children reach 778,814 in 1907, up 4,136 from 1906. City schools rise to 201,676, while county counts are listed for all 92 counties, led by Madison and Lake with large gains.
The Christamore college settlement clubs staged an annual drill at Caleb Mills hall on Friday night. Clubs wore costumes and presented stunts with club presidents named to receive gifts. Musical numbers by Mrs. Hugh McGibeny and Lester Blackman from Butler College drew loud applause.
Labor Commissioner Purcell returned from Evansville Saturday morning reporting to Gov Hunly that the situation is quiet and that the trouble will be settled at the conference now being held.
Special to The Susquehanna Daily reports a riot at John Robinson's circus in Mendota Illinois. Three circus attaches dead and twelve wounded after a clash at the Illinois Central depot. A Kentuckian fired on rioters, two more victims died en route to Dixon, and a third body was found beside the railroad track. Mayor Imus thanked the Kentuckian for his intervention.
The state agricultural and mechanical college in Bryan Texas shut down today, a month before term end, due to a typhoid outbreak. Over 50 cases reported among students, with authorities blaming contaminated cistern water for the spread.
Henry Becker, held at Elmhurst, L I, claims he witnessed a tall dark Slav fatally stabbing Amelia Staffeldt, 15, as detectives press for details. Becker describes meeting the Slav on a car, chopping wood, and fleeing as the crime unfolds, with prosecutors cautious about his claimed innocence.
The Duke of D Abruzzi, nephew of King Humbert, arrived in New York aboard the Italian cruiser Varez. On Monday General and Mrs. Frederick Grant will host a reception on Governor's Island for him, with naval and army officers in attendance.
Elmer Pratt, a young farmer, shot and killed neighbor William F. Connell in a feud near Iowa City on Friday night. Pratt surrendered to authorities. Connell leaves a wife and several children.
Representative and Mrs. Longworth have left the White House for Cincinnati after a brief stay. They will spend July in Alaska following a short stay in Cincinnati before returning north.
Bands of several hundred peasants armed with scythes axes and shotguns attacked the estate of Count Sihuvaloff near Kiev. After hours of fighting the attack was broken up by Cossacks leaving two men wounded on the field.
ElyMinnesota May blasting company forcing a channel through Fell lake encounters 17 inches of solid ice. It is said they will be unable to clear the ice before June 1 to allow tugs to pass with logs for the mills.
A lumber pile at the International Harvester yard near Kensington in Chicago collapsed early, killing two men named L. Santo and D. Joseph and injuring three other workers. Police and emergency crews responded to the scene.
Mrs. E A Montgomery of San Francisco holds a famous coffee brown diamond weighing three and a quarter carats. The gem, claimed to be the world’s only flaw less genuine coffee brown diamond, has attracted offers from 925090 to 950000, which have been refused. The Bullfrog mine was sold to Charles M Schwab for 0. million.
The British steamer Winkfield arrived in Baltimore after seven months shipping from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back. After leaving Iquique the ship encountered red water and sprays that looked like gore for two hours. Officers suspect a submarine upheaval stirred seabed strata causing the coloration.
Friends of J H Dick an Indian chief of Tahlequah Indian Territory are worried about his welfare after he left Washington and did not return Friday. A bundle of notes payable to Dick valued at 1320 was found in a doorway near Union Station. Foul play feared as he had promised to write by Thursday.
In Wilmington Delaware on May 25 after hearing nearly 300 witnesses from across the country the federal grand jury was excused and settlement is likely. Reliable information says the Honduras Lottery Company will pay a large fine and leave business with no prosecutions against involved individuals and all cases dropped.
Allie Moore was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for forging the name of C. N. Hite on a $150 check. He was arrested in Illinois and pleaded guilty. Moore was a graduate of the Kenyon theological school.
Thomas Longboat, famed Indian runner, was hurt at Hamilton Ontario on May 2 after winning a five mile race. A bystander reportedly pressed a lit cigar end into his right eye, and doctors fear he may lose sight. The crowd surged as supporters celebrated.
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