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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1914
Page
5
U S Y Chicago reports hogs firmer with prices mainly steady to higher while sheep ease up to 10 cents. Cattle receipts seen at 10,500 with steady to stronger demand for best lots and mixed feeders. Wheat and grain futures quoted with various No 1 and durum prices.
Sioux City Iowa markets show cattle receipts around 600 with steady tone, hog receipts 2500 up five cents and top at 8.35, sheep receipts 1300 up 15 to 20 cents. Week's hog price range and Tuesday market notes reflect declines from Monday while cattle and stocker feeder values remain varied and demand persists for well bred stock.
The market reports No. 1 northern wheat at 80, No. 2 northern 78, No. 3 northern 76. Velvet chaff prices No. 1 at 79 and No. 2 at 77. Oats 32, corn 51, flax at 1.30. Market figures reflect commodity values.
Minneapolis cash market notes wheat prices with No 1 hard No 1 northern and No 1 regular futures and No 2 northern grades showing bids and offerings in a brief market update.
Prices for wheat corn oats barley and flax reported in Milwaukee bids. Spot and futures quotes include Dakota No. 1 No. 2 and Velvet Chaff with May and July wheat values plus mixed No. 3 corn and yellow No. 3 corn, oats levels, and flax prices around 1.55 to 1.57 dollars.
The House advances the repeal of canal tolls amid administration backed efforts and multiple compromise proposals. Speaker Champ Clark delivers a dramatic defense of unity within the Democratic Party while President Wilson’s position is cited as preventing a party breach.
The speaker declares he cannot repudiate a plain platform declaration and defends his fight for party pledges despite facing potential defeat. He emphasizes loyalty to the President while asserting duty to America against Britain and his constituents. He notes public service carries risks to career and personal life.
A sensational profile traces Edith Wilson's bold scams in New York and Philadelphia. Her schemes centered on marriage for money, fake telegrams, and staged illness to drain finances. She spent lavishly, earning a reputation for charm while preying on society men and banks.
Federal Judge Carpenter ordered the sale of the Inter Ocean Newspaper property now in receivership. Bids open Monday with return to the judge on April 13. R J Mooney named co receiver with H H Kohlsaat, Mooney to handle finances while Kohlsaat guides editorial policy.
The assembly coal investigation committee submitted a report to the House late yesterday in Trenton New Jersey outlining concerns over coal profits. The findings point to substantial gains and call for further legislative consideration.
A committee reports big railroad firms control 87 percent of anthracite mines and a large share of producing regions. It alleges a price fixing scheme with coal sales companies owned by railroads to evade the Hepburn act. It names four men as controllers of mining and selling the coal.
Dispatches from the Durango consul say federal commander at Torreon offered surrender terms to Gen. Villa and a truce was granted. Carranza reports Torreon still holds as heavy reinforcements approach, possibly changing the balance. Official word notes no fall yet. rumor of Torreon's capture sparked a blaze from a telegram shown to Americans.
The death of Mrs. Laura Wilder Simpson who died February 23 from a bullet wound will be investigated by the regular grand jury convening here next Monday. Coroner Gordon will appear before the jury to seek a full inquiry. Mrs. Simpson was the wife of Laurence Simpson a wealthy stock breeder and farmer and daughter of Dr. W. H. Wilder of Chicago.
Dublin mourns Timothy Daniel Sullivan an Irish patriot and author of God Save Ireland. He was a journalist and long time home rule advocate. Sullivan served twenty years as Nationalist member of the House of Commons and two years as Lord Mayor of Dublin.
John B. Koetters was found guilty of murdering Mrs. Emma Kraft of Cincinnati in a Chicago hotel. The jury fixed life imprisonment as his punishment after the case concluded yesterday afternoon. He killed Kraft during a robbery attempt and then fled to California where he was arrested.
The Supreme Court faced a case from the justice department seeking a ruling on who qualifies as an Indian under the 1906 Indian Appropriation Act. The dispute centers on a mixed blood definition for allotments on the White Earth reservation Minnesota and whether any non Indian blood mix makes an individual a mixed blood.
In Cambridge Massachusetts Dr W L Vovie at the Harvard Center Commission laboratory demonstrated boiling an egg on a cake of ice using violet ultra rays of about 2 750 anstrom units. The egg boiled while the ice remained intact.
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