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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1907
Page
8
New York stock market opens with mixed, narrow moves. Copper gains 4 percent while B and O declines, Southern Railway hits new low, and Southern Pacific, L and N weaken. After forced liquidation, noon quotes show a net loss from last night.
Grain market report lists Wheat No 2 red around 90 to 92 cents with November and December bids. Corn varying No 2 white through billing 57% to 62 cents, No 3 white around 57 to 58 cents. No 2 yellow and No 4 white mixed shown with through billing figures. Oats No 2 white about 45 to 46 cents, No 3 white 43 to 44 cents. Inspections cite 45 total cars in 8 out with No 4 white mixed new and No 4 yellow new. Hay No 1 and No 2 timothy at 2 and 1 cars respectively.
Indianapol is livestock receipts show hogs steady at 5.00 with a weighted range from 4.60 to 5.10 as buyers pass bids. Cattle, sheep and lambs held firm. prices per hundred pounds noted for heifers cows bulls calves and yearlings. Market features include good to choice lambs and steers with varied weights and a bulk of sales around steady values.
Cattle receipts 2800 steady with beef steers 3.00 to 6.00, stockers and feeders 2.00 to 4.10, cows and heifers 2.75 to 5.00, Texas cattle 1.25 to 3.9. Hogs receipts 4500 with pigs and lights 1.50 to 4.95, packers 4.35, butchers 4.75 to 4.95. Sheep receipts 800 steady natives 3.00 to 5.00, lambs 5.00 to 6.25.
Market notes list corn new and old prices 48 to 70 cents per bushel, oats shelled and whole 50 to 53 cents, oats sheaf 12 to 13 dollars, straw 6 to 8 dollars, hay prices by type clover 13 to 14 dollars, mixed 15 to 16 dollars, timothy 15.5 to 17 dollars per load or ton.
East Buffalo NY November 21 cattle receipts about 200 with steady values. Sheep receipts near 4000 with lambs at 5.00 to 6.75, yearlings around 5.25 to 6.05, and ewes 5.15 to 5.35. Pigs and hogs receipts about 4250 down 10 to 0.45 dollars with Yorkers 3.15.
Chicago today reports egg prices extras at 26 cents per dozen. Butter extras in creamery at 21 cents. Cheese varieties Twins 14 to 21 cents, Young Americas 13 ½ cents. Poultry turkey prices 14 cents per pound, springs 6 cents, ducks 9 ½ cents, geese eight fifty per dozen.
New York markets show pork quiet at 15 thousand 515 dollars 75 cents. Lard steady to firm at 8 65 to 8 75. Butter creamery extra 28 cents. Eggs fancy 46 to 60 cents, western firsts to 60. Cheese full cream 12 to 15 percent.
Pittsburg November 21 cattle supply listed as light and steady with primes around 5.30 to 5.75 dollars and choicer cattle at similar levels. Sheep supply described as fair and slow with prime wethers at about 6.15 and lambs near 4.50 to 6.50, store lines and rough figures noted for misc stock.
Chicago November futures show wheat gaining after Bank of England rate move stalls. December wheat at 92 1/2 cents, May 1.02. Corn firm with December 55 1/4 to 56 1/4 cents, May 56 1/4 to 56 cents. Oats up early then recede. December 26 1/2 to 26 3/4 cents, May 50 1/4 to 50 1/2. May pork 12.85, lard 7.75, ribs 6.00 to 6.87. December wheat 91 4?4c, May 1.00 1/4. No. 2 red 61/4c. December corn 5c, May 5 1/2 to 5 3/4c. December oats 46 1/2 to 46 3/4c, May 50 1/4c, No. 3 white 49c.
Chicago Nov 21 cattle receipts near 9000 with steady prices. Prime beefs quoted around 5.10 to 8.10, stockers and feeders 2.25 to 3.50, cows and heifers 2.20 to 4.86, canners 1.19 to 2.40. Hogs receipts about 25000 down 10 cents. ranges 4.40 to 5.65 with various weights. Sheep receipts 3000 strong. native sheep 2.00 to 6.20, lambs 3.75 to 6.40 in western and native markets.
Butter Elgin prints 3ic Elgin tubs 3lc state cream 30c country lée Cheese New York full cream 174c Wisconsin full cream 17 1714c Eggs Candled 26c at mark 24c Poultry Turkeys live 14c ducks Nye Se geese ic hens 444c spring chickens 844c roosters ic
Summary of historical items relates to the cornerstone laid in 1854 for a temple opened in 1907 and a list of damaged copies from 1852 to 1854. It notes Grand Lodge officers elected by the I O O F and a ruling on Sunday baseball and morality, with implications for sick benefits.
The Odd Fellows present a world overview with figures for Australia Denmark Germany Netherlands Sweden and Switzerland. It shows 1 709 523 members and 1 362 319 lodge members with total relief paid in 1906 at 5 005 753 37 and total receipts and expenses across grand and subordinate bodies in 1906.
Data claimed to show a milk trust in Chicago directed from New York has been given to State's Attorney Healy by a newspaper. The article charges Thomas F. Ryan is the power behind the trust and the driving force to control national food prices.
About 800 Scottish Rite Masons gathered at the temple on S Pennsylvania St for a banquet. A class of 70 candidates received the seventeenth and eighteenth degrees, with Louis Morrison overseeing and James W. Lilly as toastmaster. Addresses by Emmett F. Branch and Henry C. Adams highlighted the program. The next rounds of degrees run Thursday morning and night, concluding with the thirty-second degree and Mystic Shrine work Friday night.
The trial revisits Mrs. Bradley's interactions with Senator Brown and Mrs. Brown. She denies offers of a $5000 Los Angeles house and a $100 monthly annuity, asserting the only remedy was to right the wrong. Prosecutors drop cross examination as witnesses recount letters and farm life near Salt Lake City.
Otto Stark, the noted artist, will lecture in the west gallery of the Herron Art Institute Thursday at 4 PM on The Art of Boutet de Mondel. Original paintings illustrating the life of Joan of Arc are on exhibition in the institute galleries. Open to art students, association members, and visitors present.
E. A. Handy, general manager of the Lake Shore, died at 2 30 this afternoon in Chicago after a long tenure with the railroad. His leadership shaped operations and dispatching across major lines, leaving a significant void in the company’s management.
In Denver, Charles Caldwell, who was elected to the state supreme court last fall, collapsed and died this morning from heart disease. He was and had recently been sworn in. His death leaves a vacancy to be filled by the governing body.
The Enterprise Fence company of Indianapolis received the contract to install an ornamental metal fence around the burial place of Nancy Hanks Lincoln at Lincoln City.
Thanksgiving donations for the Girls Industrial School will be received Tuesday with hotel stands to aid the drive. Authorities seek a woman who posed as a solicitor for the school and collected funds from Indianapolis firms. Superintendent Mrs. Blanchard warned patrons to beware and named the two genuine solicitors and the schedule of workers at Grand, Denison, English, Claypool, Newton Claypool, and State Life buildings.
M A Peterson a tailor in the Yohn block Meridian and Washington streets was charged Thursday with obtaining money by false pretenses. Isaac Walsh 18% N Meridian street says he joined a suit club paying 1 a week to draw a suit after paying up to 35. Walsh paid 30 then drew the clothes but Peterson refused to furnish them unless 10 more was paid. Detective Jacob Kurtz arrested Peterson.
The Morton monument commission held an afternoon meeting Thursday to adopt resolutions in memory of Rev D R Lucas who served as secretary and to fill his vacancy. They discussed publishing the commission proceedings and other pending business.
City Record lists numerous births including girls for Delboretto Dellapenna Mohr Tourney Thomas Arnold Negley Coates Liddy Fee Smith Gordon. medical notes list arteriosclerosis rheumatism heart disease uremic poisoning anemia diphtheria valvular disease. Multiple marriages follow, with twenty paired names. Building permits show Carter Temple barn on Minerva and a dwelling on Raymond street. Indianapolis Motor Car Company page fee and price noted.
United States political observers anticipate a Friday gathering at Tom Taggart’s French Lick hotel to pick the next Democratic national chairman. Clashing camps favor Johnson, Turner, Pettigrew, or Taggart himself, with fears the event will tilt toward Louisville if Taggart exerts influence.
Washington November 21 George B Lockwood secretary to Vice President Fairbanks has been chosen as a delegate to the international YMCA convention meeting here this week and to the National Rivers and Harbors congress convening here early in December.
The Marion County Farmers Institute held a two day session in room 12 at the statehouse starting Thursday morning with discussions by prominent farmers and workers. Friday sessions are at 9 30 and 1 30 with prizes for the ten best corn ears and the best bread pone. First prizes include a week at Purdue university corn school and the domestic science lectures for girls. Second prizes are educational books. Clermont Farmers Institute slated for December 6 and 7 with an evening session the first day.
In London on November 21, King attended a grand underground ball hosted by Duke of Portland amid legal clashes with George H. Druce over succession. Notable guests included the King and Queen of Spain, who danced in a subterranean ballroom as 1,200 aristocrats mingled and supper flowed in another vast underground space.
Fire reached an old bed and shingles in a barn behind Mrs. Mary Kaminsky’s residence at 740 West Vermont Street. She spotted smoke around noon, acted with a neighbor to extinguish the blaze before bicycle officers could locate any incendiary.
Mrs. Margaret Deland of Boston warned that free love may become America’s fate if divorce persists, speaking at the Twentieth Century club in Chicago. She argued against universal suffrage for women, defended segregation of vice, and condemned divorce as Supreme individualism harming society and family stability.
Roscoe Hicks sues his mother in law Mary Driftmeyer and her son George for 3000 dollars claiming they plotted to separate him from his wife Clara. He says they had him arrested for embezzlement on Feb 19 1906, jailed 42 days, then the charge was dismissed by the grand jury. He contends the aim was to influence a divorce suit that Mary Driftmeyer filed but was denied.
In Peoria Illinois a C A passenger train and a Vandalia freight collided near Farndale killing fireman Earl Wherff of Terre Haute Indiana. Several others were injured and transported to the hospital including Charles Lee A H Wright and W F Spangler.
Guardian James M. Berryhill seeks to void the marriage of Mrs Elma Dare Dodsworth Rhodius to George Rhodius. Attorneys Claypool Bosson and Spaan petitioned Judge Vinson Carter for permission to examine Mrs Rhodius before a notary. Judge Carter granted the request. examination to occur in a few days.
The Laporte county commissioners allocate 75000 for a new jail and a committee coordinating with the board will visit A W Butler secretary of the Board of State Charities to review plans on file for modern jail designs for possible adoption.
An explosion at a construction site on the G T P railroad near Kenora Manitoba today killed seven workers and left four others injured. Firemen and rescuers responded quickly as the blast halted work and drew a crowd of onlookers. Investigators began to determine the cause of the blast and whether safety measures were followed.
A circuit court divorce follows an automobile incident in which John J. Giesen rode with married women. Jennie L. Grady, a city fireman’s wife, was granted a divorce from William Grady after cross complaints for cruelty. Grady dismissed his suit. Mary Seward’s divorce from A D Seward, 17 years after their odd romance began, was granted by Probate Judge Merle N A Walker.
Mrs Mary Naylor Shaw of Rockland Massachusetts wrote to the secretary of state asking if a willow tree taken from a tree brought to Mount Vernon by Martha Washington from beside the waters of Babylon was growing in the statehouse grounds Two years earlier a willow slip matching the description was received by W H Freeman secretary of the State Board of Forestry and Frank Roberts assistant custodian of the statehouse planted it in the southeast grounds Roberts searched Wednesday and found only a hole in the ground suggesting the slip died was removed or stolen by someone aware of its history
The State Board of Health will sue the Eminence township trustee in Morgan county to force compliance with sanitation, heating, and ventilation laws for a schoolhouse built without proper conditions. Michael Miller of Eminence consulted Dr. J N Hurty regarding the issue.
Mr and Mrs J R Fesler of 822 Pletchcr Ave were notified Thursday of the death of their son Ellis C Fesler in Los Angeles California from pneumonia He was 36 and unmarried The body will be brought to Indianapolis for burial for burial arrangements pending proper travel and services.
Myrtle Schlangen the 10 years old daughter of Bicycle Officer William Schlangen died at the home of her parents 1413 E Michigan st Wednesday afternoon. The child had been suffering from diphtheria for several days. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon. When notified that his child was dying Officer Schlangen was on duty. Without stopping to take off his uniform he mounted his wheel and hastened to the bedside of the sick child where he remained until she died. The Weycle officers wagonmen and Sert Marshall ambulance driver subscribed to a fund and sent a beautiful floral design.
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