Erie Railroad meeting adjourned over short term notes plan
Traders watched the Erie situation as a heated meeting at the office of J i n & Co adjourned without final plans for handling near term notes maturing next week. J J Hill and J P Morgan Co were noted observers but no link to Erie insiders was proven. The market showed light activity with notes fluctuating but no major sales or convertible bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Railroad Company
Erie
Jast
Jon
Markman
Eric G
Wall Street
Yesgta
J. Hill
J. P. Morgan Co
Dea
Hil
James N. Hill
300 Million in United Copper Stocks Sparks Market Boom
United Copper common stock surged in the curb market with bids at 28 88 to 25 38 and about eight thousand shares traded. The rally followed the Heinze corner collapse last October and amid tied resignations and bankruptcies including F August Heinze at Mercantile National Bank and Otto Heinze firms. Reports say Gross Kleeberg sought reinstatement after financial settlements with stockholders while doubts linger over owed balances tied to United Copper stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Copper
Heinze
United Stock
F. Augusts Heinze
Mercantile Nagional Berk
Stock Exchange Ems
Gross & Kleeberg
Otto Heinze & Co
Charles W. Morse
United
Stock Exchange
Heinze Firm It Was Wnnderstood
Optimism in Steel Circles at Waldorf Dinner
Ex Judge OH Gary chairman of United States Steel Corp says opinion favors gradual business improvement with no price changes discussed. John A. Topping of Republic Iron and Steel notes potential short term setbacks but overall upward tendency, cites Republic growth and improved pig iron and steel product volumes. He stresses good collections and few iron industry failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unr
Waldorf
OH Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
American Iron and Steel Institute
Eathe
John A. Topping
Republic Iron An Steel Company
Alt
South
Republic Iron and Ster
Western Glucose Company Reorganized Into American Maize
The Rover Baking Powder Company of Chicago reports the Western Glucose Company has been reorganized and renamed American Maize Products Company. Chicago heads and sales move to New York next week. Capital stock rises to 3 million with 1.5 million preferred. 87 percent cumulative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rover Baking Powder Company
Qdispetch
Chicago
Western Glucose Company
Bter Corporation
American Maize Products Company
Set
New York
Hoye
Be Meize Company
Bankruptcy filings in U.S. District Court list numerous debtors
The document lists multiple bankruptcy proceedings including Imolurtary against Harry Kugler, Waist Company partners Kurz and Schaefer, Green Manufacturing Company, and several creditors such as Blumenthal Erdman & Co and Wasserman. It notes receivership actions for Finkert & Co and the Economy Electric and Gas Fixture Co, with bond and note details and claims totaling thousands, reflecting a broad insolvency filing across merchants and manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imolurtary
Harry Kugler
Sender Kurz
Benjamin I. Schaefer
Copartners
Waverley Place
Green Manufacturing Company
Blumenthal, Erdman & Co
Ludwig EF. Goetz & Co
Wasserman
A. J. Samuelson
Jes & Sweet
John P. McEwan
Frederick W. Cole
Kristy-Moir Company
Frederick ‘ Eze
Ridgewood
Duane Street
Ian M. Stexe
North Hewes Street
Brooklyn
G i. Reifsnider & Co
Green Street
Snowden I. Hempstone
Beminee
Broadway
Mth Street
White Street
Hempstone
Bruno Levison
Neo
Attorney seeks to intervene in Mutual Reserve suit
John Edward Ruston on behalf of Joseph W. Hyams asks Judge Ward for an order allowing Hyams to intervene in the Robinson and Scovill suit against Mutual Reserve Life Insurance. Hyams holds a fifteen year distribution policy and seeks to aid in administering the estate while not hampering receivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Edward Ruston
Joseph W. Hyams
New Orleans
Ward
United States Circuit Court
Mr. Hyams
James C. Robinson
Reuben O. Scovill
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Mutual Reserve Company
Mutual Reserve
Northwestern Life Assurance Company
Legal Reserve Fund
Disappearance of Warnecke Draws In Gotham Business Figures
The absent Henry Warnecke, head of the Warncke Company at 3% Graham Avenue Williamsburg, draws inquiries from District Attorney Clarke. About a hundred citizens, including George Ammon of 429 Graham Avenue, report dealings with Warnecke and a bank check returned marked G I. The Graham Avenue Board of Trade plans to investigate and may demand his resignation if charges prove true.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warncke
Henry Warncke
Graham Avenue
Williamsburg
Tribune
Clarke
Warneke
George Ammon
Warnecke Bank
Board of Trade Company
Ammon
Board of Education
Warnecke
Kendall
Warnecke Company
Graham Avenue Board of Trade
Minnesota rate law test case moves for master testimony
St Paul April 3 report that railroad attorneys in Minnesota will ask the federal court to appoint a master to take testimony on the readiness of the 2 cent passenger fare law the commodity rate law and the merchandise rate order of the railroad warehouse commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
St. Paul
Railroad Warehouse Commission
Central Express Car Rifled In Dunkirk Robbery
Two men were arrested at Dunkirk New York in connection with the raid on a through express car of the New York Central lines last night. The car was boarded east of Dunkirk and many packages were rifled though no money was taken. Carrier articles are believed stolen from the robbed car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Dunkirk
N. Y
New York Central
Cobalt profits rise as mines expand output and dividends grow
Mining notes report renewed development across Cobalt properties with new dividend payers like Silver Queen and Temiskaming. Big Pete ore improvements lift silver yields, while deeper level work targets No 2 and No 3 veins. Nevada camps show flourishing activity and copper bodies at Wabuska. Ocampo and Concheno mines in Mexico offer encouraging news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Silver Queen
Temiskaming
Cobsit Central
Sudbury
Big Pete
Yerrington
Nevada
Wabuska
Malachite
Mason Valley
Greene Gold-Silver Company
Ocampo
Concheno
Mexico
Chicago Grain Markets End Lower on Forecasted Rain
Wheat for May fell in Chicago trading as rain forecasts for Kansas Nebraska and Missouri sparked selling. Corn and oats were mostly flat while provisions eased with hogs and lard down. Cash demand supported a late rally before markets closed steady in a bearish day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Liverpool
Southwest
Shorts
Dreath
Oklahoma
May
Bradstreet’s
Minneapolis
Duluth
Gge
Sic
May Park
Receiver for United States Independent Telephone Co
Vice-Chancellor Howell in Newark filed an opinion favoring a receiver for United States Independent Telephone Company A New Jersey corporation capitalized at 50 million dollars with Rochester as its principal office James M E O Grady stockholder and creditor sought the receiver noting a deficiency judgment exceeding 16 million dollars in New York Supreme Court Depue Faulks represented the company opposing the action arguing O Grady divested his rights by depositing shares with a trust company Two other bondholders intervened but their standing was disputed as their bonds were merged in the deficiency judgment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Independent Telephone Company
Howell
Newark
New Jersey
Rochester
James M. E. O'Grady
Pitney, Hardin & Skinner
New York Supreme Court
Depue & Faulks
Break in Miners Organization and Dividend Delay
Miners leaders in the Pittsburg district plan to sign the wage scale with individual operators, violating UMWA guidance from Indianapolis. A joint convention is planned to rehabilitate the interstate wage agreement across Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois. Separately Pacific Coast Company stockholders report a dividend cut from 6 to 5 percent with notices delayed and communications disputed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Pittsburg
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
United States Steel Corporation
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Joyce Elected to Knickerbocker Trust Board
William B. Joyce, president of the National Surety Company, was elected a member of the Knickerbocker Trust Company board at a directors meeting. The fourteen member board now awaits one remaining vacancy to be filled by the voting trustees Myron T. Herrick Lewis Cass Ledyard and Henry Frick. The trustees expect to name a replacement early next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knickerbocker Trust Company
William B. Joyce
National Surety Company
Myron T. Herrick
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Henry ©. Frick
Marine Intelligence Summary of Varying Atlantic and Pacific Schedules
Maritime notices list daylight and tide data for Gov Island Hell Gate and Sandy Hook. Vessels Pretoria Columbia Lucania La Provence reported east of Sandy Hook with expected dock times. Transpacific mail sailings from New York to Hawaii Japan China and Australia with multiple lines and dates listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
Sandy Hook
Columbia
Lucania
la Provence
New York
New Zealand
Australia
Samoan Island
New Caledonia
San Francisco
Inveri
Hawaii
San Francis Alameda
Japan
Corea
China
Philippine
Vancouver
Victoria
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
Mariposa Jaercescleecnes
Seattle
Ching
Philippine Islands
Shawmut
Tacoma
Antiochus
West
Samoan Islands
Fiji Islands
Shipping News from Port of New York April 3 1908 Arrivals and Quarantine
Vessels listed include Chesapeake from Baltimore and City of Savannah from Savannah with passengers and mails, both passed quarantine mornings. Delaware from Philadelphia, FE Rio from Galveston, Iroquois from Chester and Charleston, Hermudian from Bermuda, Princess Anne Taples with Newport News and Jacksonville, Umbria from Liverpool, Avalon from Baracoa, Lovetakken from Barcelona and Seville with mails, passengers, and cargo. several entries note quarantine and harbor arrivals at New York.
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New York
Chesapeake
Hastings
Baltimore
H C Foster
Nise
City of
Savannah
Fisher
Seo
Delaware
Fremel
Philadelphia
Clyde Ss Co
Nidse
FE Rio
Parker
Galveston
Nsic Co
Ndse
Iroquois
Chhester
Charleston
Sloc
Sar Hooft
Teamer
Hermudian
Fraser
Bermuda
Outerbridge & Co
Malls
Har
Princess Anne Taples
Newport News
Sonville
Norfolk
Highlands
Umbria
Br. Charie Liverpool
Cunard Ss Co
Queenstown
Avalon
Nor Rasrousen
Baracoa
Banana Distributing Company
Maritime arrivals and sailings list with multiple steamer movements
A detailed, station-by-station log of vessels arriving at bar or sailing, naming ships such as Citta di Messina Barbarossa Moraitis Georgie St Andrew Re d Italia and others with captains, ports, dates in March, passenger counts and cargo notes, plus a broad list of vessels sailing to numerous destinations including Hamburg New York London Havre and Philadelphia and passing Sandy Hook and Fire Island areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Gans
Mdsse
Bar
Citta di Messina
Ital
Faggioni
Palermo
Messina
Hirzel, Feltmann & Co
Mdse
Barbarossa
Ger
von Bardeleben
Bremen
Odrichs & Co
Moise
Moraitis
Rogiozides
Smyrna
Piraeus
Kalamata
Patras
Gibraltar
Nicholas A. Galanos
Georgie
Metcalfe
Liverpool
White Star Line
St. Andrew
Hay
Antwerp
Sanderson & Son
Fire Island
Re d'Italia
Cirgnoni
Genoa
Cesare Conti
Sandy Hook
Transatlantic Shipping Movements List from April Dates
A compact record of vessels and routes with April departures and arrivals across global ports including New York, Liverpool, Naples, Boston, Calcutta, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Ships from Britain, Italy, France, and other nations travel to or from major hubs via Aden, Cherbourg, Plymouth, and Calais, listing multiple lines and destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
New York
Southampton
Adriatic
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Ravener
Cedric
Queenstown
Singapore
Kalomo
Malta
Hong Kong
Suez
Maron
Calcutta
Boston
Colombo
Swazi
Algiers
Massowah
Rheinfels
Ger
Aden
Havre
Florida
la Touraine
Baltic
Liverpool
Naples
Republic
Parsenne
Cearense
Para
Alleppy
Indiani
Yokohama
Maranhense
Glasgow
Strathlyon
St Thomas
Guiana
Demerara
Palermo
Piraeus
Geneva
Ital
Gibraltar
Shimosa
Alice
Trieste
Scilly
Mohawk
Antwerp
Dunnet
Fimrette
Ner
Newcastle
Fastnet
Cevie
Livestock Market Report from New York April 3 1908
Receipts totaled 173 cars 3049 head with 31 for export alive 130 for slaughterers and 12 for the market. Steers and bulls showed firm to higher prices while cows rose 10 15 cents. dressed beef in moderate demand. Key sales include McPherson & Co and S Sanders with varied steer cow and bull lots. calves and hogs also traded with steady prices. Lambs and sheep were weak with light demand. market held steady for hogs and state hogs at mid 5s per 100 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liverpool
Weyer Ib
Philadelphia
Southampton
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
Armour & Co
Morris Beef Company
Massachusetts
J. Shamberg & Son
Great Britain
McPherson & Co
Pennsylvania
S. Sanders
Newton & Co
Ss ST
Wer
W. R. Hume
Buffalo
Andrew Mullen
S. Judd & Co
Tobin & Shannoh
Kerns Commission Company
Tobin & Shannon
Ohio
Sanders
Market Prices From National Reports on Hogs Cattle and Lambs
Cattle receipts around 1509 head with steady to strong prices across regions. Hogs about 16000 head in Chicago trading 6.10 to 6.20 for choice heavy. other centers show mixed to steady gains with calves and lambs varying by market diary. Key figures include Chicago steers 5.50 to 7.40, hogs 6.10 to 6.20, lambs 6.50 to 6.75, Buffalo veals 5.75, Kansas City cattle 5.25 to 6.85, Union Stock Yards notes light supply and steady to lower lambs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas City
Union Stock Yards
Pittsburg
Water Board Officials Named on List
John A. Bensel serves as president while Charles N. Chadwick and Charles A. Shaw are named on the Board of Water Supply. The brief notice lists the three individuals as key members of the water agency’s leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles N. Chadwick
Charles A. Shaw
Board of Water Supply
New York Surrogate Court notices probate and settlements
Multiple 1908 citations to appear before the Surrogate's Court of New York for probate and judicial settlements of wills and estates. The notices name numerous heirs, guardians, and trustees, with dates in April May and February, detailing required appearances and guardian appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
New York
Thomas Garson
Francis M. Jencks
Nana B. Garson
Amelia Garson
County of
William E. Howell
Hall of Records
Edwin Howell
John W. Sterling
Abner C. Thomas
Daniel J. Dowdney
Shearman & Sterling
Wall Street
Borough of Manhattan
City of New York
God
Abel Farrington Wheaton
Jonas Smith Wheaton
Sarah Rebecca Wheaton
John Roland Wheaton
William Barker Wheaton
Joseph Stanbery Wheat Maria Isabelis Wheaton
Jennie Louise Mapes
Annie C. Linn
G.a Seeley
Elma H. Douglas
Margaret F. Stanbery
Ida M. Dickinson
John Ashton Huntley
Celestine Frances Smith
Francis Hensdale Huntley
Sherman Ellsworth Huntley
Stephen Stanbery
Francis Stanbery
Frank H. Stanbery
Frank H. Benjamin
Maria S. Gourlay
Edward S. Hall
City of
County of New York
County
Charles H. Beckett
Said
Adelert D. Caldwell
Charles Caldwell
John Caldwell
Harry Caldwell
Howard Caldwell
Alice Butler
Carrie Hubbard
Luelle Caldwell
Acdell Anderson
John H. Bedett
Jennie Valentine
James H. Caldwell
Thomas E. Caldwell
Edward R. Caldwell
Ella Caldwell
George Caldwell
Mary Bill Marcus Caldwell
Armina Caldwell
Laura Powell
Rosetta Caldwell
Adelbert Caldwell
Vitlet N. Caldwell
John O. Caldwell
Frederick A. Caldwell
Catherine Arirna
Mary J Lowe
Caroline M. Strong
Henrietta Olmstead
Elizabeth H. Luther
Jasper C. Hunt
Said County
Berkeley CC. Austin
William Street
New York City
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Mary A. Frisbie
Margaret M. Dart
George Jeremiah
Charles E. Leach
James P. Whiskeman
Herbert R. King
Herbert H. Kelloggs
Harriet M. Davis
Hilah A. Kellogg
Edward W. Kellogs
Edward R. Kelloge
Robert B. Kellogg
Arthur B. Kellogg
Ail Fersong
Giles R
Abner C. ‘Thomas
Surrogates’ Court
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Hargman
Western Glucose CO
United States District Court
Meoager. Hawkes
Ants
Finkert & Co
Kteesadies
Mercer
2Nd St. Gat
Switzerland
Frederick Vietor 4Chelis
Solomon
Ase
Central Express
Chicago Grains and Provisions
Telephone Company
United States Independent
Break IN Miners’ Organization
David Ziely
No. 15 Broadstreet
Pacific Coast Company
Henry W. Cannon
Ziely
Clifford H. Fove
W. B. Joyce
Knickerbocker
Marine Intelligence
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Fron Line
Ences
Vere Cru
St Paul
America
Mareh -Hamb-Am
Cunard
Tennyson
Argentina
Lamp & Ook
Newton Argentina
Lamp & Holt
Zulia Uracea
Sam Khor
Coam
San Juan
Pari Nva
Quebec
Imrey
Wea
Sigismund Jamaica
Hamb
Inagua
Sibiria Magialena
Colon
Ris
Caledonia
Patricia
Hamburg
Kroonland
Princess St Naples
Lloyd- Massachutts
London
Atlantic
Algeria
Apler
Brazil
Shipping News
Jefferson
Vigilancia
Nassau
Tampico
Graecia
Camaguey
Guantanamo
Santiago
Gallia
Marseilles
Sabine
Brunswick
Mobile
Ligonier
Port Arthur
Baron Daimeny
Che-Foo
New Chwang
Masconomo
Miramar
Carib
Wilmington
Georgetown
la Gascogne
Telegraph
City Hotels
Hotel Wellington
UH Ave
J. F. Champlin
Mar
New
Room Lala
John A. Bensel
Thomas Hal
ORT Schuyler
Chas. L. Fisher
Reasury Department
Washington Lt
U. S. Assay Office
New Custom House
New York, Y
James Knox Taylor
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Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
California
Alaska
Arner J . Thomas
Gustave Schirmer
Messie Howland
Murray & Prentice
Rudolph E. Schirmer
Grace M. Schirmer
Winthrop L. Rogers
Ee Howland
Wall St
Nger
Clara
Aene C. Thomas
Clara Ottnger
Camte
Marx Ottinger
Nathan Ottinger
Abner
Thomas
County of York
Archibald Turner
Wilson M Powell
Borough of
Manhattan
Emilie P Turner
Executrix
Ilson M Powell
New Wall Street
Whopreas
Washington
State of New York
Frank L. Waite
Edmund C. Waite
Cambridge
Cambrier
York
Martha
Rank L. Waits
Marlborough Sienheim
Carnerr
Atlantic City
Traymore
N. J
Ectel
Traymore Hotel Company
CHAS
Marquette
D & White
Galen Hall
Sore Ocean Lanes
Morton Virginia Ave
Bean
N. R. Haines
Holmhurst
Monticello
Ear Beach
Atlanetic City
Cape Y de
Haddon Hall
Leeds & Lipping
Chalfonte
LEEDS
Seaside House
Ocean Front
Cook & Son
Montclair
Tonte Y ‘Atr Hotel Co
Dennis Atlantic
Erry, Am I
Ruze
Pennhurst Wer
Wm. R-Hood
Lakewood
Takewood
Laurel House
A J. Murphy
D. P. Simpson
Laurel-In-The-Pines
Frank F. Shute
Bath Hotels
PAN Maci Ocean Av
Long Branch
Ocean
Lors
Hotel Gramatan
Bronxmvilele—Westchester Co
Harlem
J. J. Lannes CO
Garden City Hotel
Garden Ciry
Long Island
J. J. Lannen CO
Briarcliff Lodge
Briarcliff Manor
Will
East 46Th
D. B. Plumer
Virginia
Virginia Hot Springs
Wiurak
Anc
Sylvanta
the HoTre
Alphin
Berklitz School
Langeages
Madison Square
Broatwa Viarlem
Lamox Ave
Koith St
Asbury Park
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