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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1908
Page
6
Indianapolis reports 8 000 hogs 2 250 cattle and 550 sheep for the week versus prior totals. Good hogs scarce, mixed grades lower. sales $5.50 6.35, bulk $5.90 6.25. Cattle demand steady for good to choice with high steers, weaker for grassier stock. Sheep and lambs lighter. spring lambs $6.25 or less, yearlings $5.00 or less, sheep $4.50 or less.
Livestock prices list for Indianapolis markets includes Good to choice steers 1,300 lbs and up at 6.50 to 7.25 per cwt and 1,150 to 1,250 lbs at 5.75 to 6.25. extra choice feed steers 900 to 1,000 lbs at 4.75 to 5.00. hogs heavy 210 lbs up at 6.15 to 6.35. lights 150 to 180 lbs at 6.00 to 6.20. spring lambs 4.00 to 6.25. yearlings and cows ranging variously with bids and price drops shown.
Buffalo market round up shows hog receipts at 4,000 with medium and envy hogs selling from 6.50 to 6.60, Yorkers at 6.45 to 6.50, and pigs quoted 6.00 to 6.10.
Sheep and lambs receipts are light with the market steady. Cattle trade remains steady with prices holding.
Chicago June 2 hog demand weak and early prices likely about 10c lower. Top hogs 6.30 as prime sorts sold stronger. Cattle market steady for high grade, but common and medium types weak. best cows and heifers strong. Spring lambs 6.75, down 40c. sheep and lambs overall dull with little buying interest. Louisville prices lower for spring lambs. eastern outlets demoralized.
Receipts of hogs at principal western markets yesterday included Chicago Omaha Kansas City Sioux City St Joseph Indianapolis Cincinnati St Louis with totals of 23,000 5,500 14,000 6,000 8,000.
Chicago June 26. Local grain markets weak as favorable weather boosts crop prospects. Wheat July down to 85% or near, corn and oats also lower, provisions mostly steady. Reports of higher yields in some areas and larger winter crop aid declines. Primary receipts 292000 bushels. more car receipts listed for Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago.
Wheat No 3 at 95 to 100. No 2 red 98. Corn No 2 yellow 71 44. Oats No 2 55c No 3 white 48 51c. Butter creameries 19 22, dairies 12 21c. Eggs firsts 15 14, prime firsts 17 44c.
John Kleich a brewery employee died on the operating table at the city hospital after a shooting by coworker Ernest Thon. The men, both brewery workers, quarreled over beer allowances and met at Seventh and Lynch streets where Thon fired before Kleich could draw. Thon is under arrest.
Two unnamed Logansport city officials rushed to Peru to catch the L. E. & W. train to Laporte for a Municipal League meeting but arrived too late. They debated options with a wary chauffeur and finally decided to ride to Fort Wayne, hoping to return home discreetly that evening.
The Board of State Charities reports eleven years of parole data from Michigan City and Jeffersonville reformatories. Of 3,983 paroled men, 25 percent violated parole, with 1,001 reoffending and 576 sent back to prison, while 425 remain at large.
Surplus receipts on the Chicago market push prices lower as commission dealers struggle to sustain value and clear consignments. Most sales drop 5 to 10 dollars with some 15 to 25 dollar declines from last week. Buyers show indifference while country shippers face a slow summer demand amid ongoing overflows. Mrs. S. A. Cummins visits sister Mrs. William Banta in Jefferson township.
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