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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1908
Page
4
Receipts total 8,590 hogs along with cattle and sheep as market trends showed hog prices steady for top lots but others lower by 10 to 25 cents. Cattle were scarce with mainly female butcher grades selling near yesterday, while lambs and sheep moved with little change. Representative sales list varied prices and weights across hogs, steers, heifers, cows, calves, and sheep, reflecting typical closing-day activity.
Grain quotations list wheat corn oats and hay bids with firm or steady trends and various No numbers. Inspections show several cars of different grades and mixed lots with totals across wheat corn oats and hay including several no bid and rejected entries.
Toledo Ohio October 24 Wheat cash prices for December May and July listed with December at 1.0256, May 1.055, July 1.03. Oats cash and contracts quoted with December 0.4912, May 0.48, July 0.48. Timothy October at 1.65.
Market note lists seed prices and varieties with figures. Cy cdom died, prices shown as four dollars to four fifty. Beq ripe and assorted grasses referenced include Grass 31.7, 2 percent, Blue Grass at 4.50, Alsike at 6 dollars.
New York stocks edged up at the opening with fractional advances over yesterday’s close. Union Pacific led gains trading around 168 percent, while Reading moved up about a third point and Amalgamated Copper lifted. Northern Pacific and other rail issues also posted modest increases in early trading.
East Buffalo New York October 24. Receipts of cattle 350 steady. Veals and sheep 3000 steady. Lambs yearlings priced at 4. Each category shows varied values with hog receipts 6500 down 15 to 25 cents. Yorkers 5.00 to 6.00 pigs 4.25 to 4.10 heavies 5.90 weas roughs 4.75.
John Wheeler convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob will receive no suspended sentence. Judge James A. Pritchard explained his reasons, noting Wheeler’s two prior felonies and a third felony highway robbery after an attempted robbery. He stated the law does not intend leniency after multiple felonies and suggested a life sentence could be justified on the admitted third felony.
Perseverance marks Vera Verbarg as she prepares for a Tuesday evening debut in Caleb Mills hall on Oct 27. Daughter of Mr and Mrs George Verbarg, she trained under several instructors after an early piano start, studied with Joachim in Berlin, Martheau in Geneva, and Ysaye in Brussels, and has prior orchestral experience with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The program includes works by Tull E Brown, Max Bench, Moskowsky, and Beehams, featuring Verbarg in violin and piano pieces.
The steamship Prinzess Irene of North German Lloyd departed New York Saturday carrying Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Rau and family. A later item notes a Boston wedding party and several local residents traveling or visiting for nuptials, including Miss Mary Knippenberg and Mr. Pege Chapman at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church.
Hogs receipts 16,000. Prices range light to heavy: light 4.90 to 5.00, bulk 5.40 to 5.70, heavy 5.35 to 5.90, sows 5.15 to 6.30, pigs 3.00 to 4.80, yorkers 5.45 to 5.95. Cattle receipts 600, Beeves 3.15 to 7.50, Texas steers 3.25 to 4.50, western steers 3.00 to 5.65, stockers 2.60 to 4.45, cows 1.50 to 5.10, calves 6.00 to 8.00. Sheep receipts 15,000, native 2.40 to 4.50, lambs 3.75 to 6.65, western 2.40 to 4.50, yearlings 4.25 to 5.00.
City records list births for Frank A. and Katherine Schmedel, Norvel and Katie Miller, Guy and Emme Webb, Joseph and Maud Tarrants, William and Rosie Reedy, Harley and Garnet Allison, John and Lois Little, and Leo and Nell Devine. Deaths include Amanda Syders, Alice Nauth, Ernest Baumann, Harvey Dove, Frank Beatman, Carrie Davis, Zacheriah Adams, John Low, Emitine Hodapp, and several listed couples.
The juvenile court faces a funding shortfall with $54 on hand for probation officers and $36 weekly costs. Approximately $350 is needed to continue operations to January 1. Once $54 is exhausted, probation claims will stop, risking services. a county council meeting may be required to approve November and December payments.
The listing from Rouse Bros at 1% Kentucky Ave shows notations for corn and various hay. Prices include new corn 14.00, Timothy 12.00 to 13.00, new clover 10.00 to 12.00, mixed hay 11.00 to 12.00, straw 4.50 to 5.50, baled hay No 1 at 9.21 to 13.00 and No 2 at 10.50 to 11.00.
Indianapolis executive committee of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men endorses the Merchants association reform platform. Resolutions support elevating administration standards for state county and municipal affairs and urge enactment by the next legislature, with 73 member institutions backing the effort.
Crowd of 50,000 watches a dramatic auto race on a Nassau County Long Island circuit. The 258.06 mile event spans 11 laps of a 25.16 mile course along a special Parkway road circuit from the start opposite the grandstand to the Motor Parkway finish. Nations represented include America Italy France and Germany.
In drizzly rain on a 24 mile course eighteen cars started as William K Vanderbilt Jr. watched. G Robertson in a Locomobile finished first in 4 hours 0 minutes 48 seconds, beating Lyttle by two seconds and setting a new American record. Two racers were withdrawn after accidents and injuries occurred when spectators crowded the track.
Improvement resolutions describe sewer and street work on Washington and Palmer Streets in Indianapolis, detailing branches for sewer lines and brick gutters, plus paving with macadam and brick gutters on Palmer Street from State Avenue to Spruce Street. A remonstrance hearing is scheduled for November 9, 1908 at 10 a.m. before the Board of Public Works, with officials Elliott Trusler Mack presiding.
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