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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
2
A thief stole seven pairs of judges shoes from a shop in Exchange street, targeting the His Honor club of Pemberton square. The seven judges affected are Army, Peck, Mead, Rudd, Marvin, Turner, and Wadleigh, with police suspecting a deliberate slight against the bench.
In Lehigh county near Schwenkville grasshoppers have caused extensive damage to grain and hay. Ten thousand dollars is estimated as a low damage figure. Rye and wheat heads showed destruction when samples were examined in the city. Crops on farms owned by Henry Semmel James Bachman Joel Hunsicker and John Bear suffered severe loss as grasshoppers ate grain and clover.
The 1912 U S cotton crop was the second largest ever, totaling 14,313,015 bales of 500 pounds gross. The crop's estimated value is $920,630,000, about $60,740,000 above the 1911 record, per the census bureau's final production statistics released last week.
New York July 2 market report shows wheat futures for July at 99 7 8 cents, oats No 2 white at 48 cents, pork mess between 22 25 and 22 75 per barrel, butter creamery extra at 26 cents, eggs state and Pennsylvania hennery white at 27 29 cents.
Buffalo market notes for July 2 show No 1 Northern wheat at 96 cents, corn firm at 67 44 cents for No 2 yellow, oats at 43 44 cents, blended patent flour around 5.75 to 6.50 per barrel, Creamery butter around 25 to 28 cents, eggs 23 cents, new cheese 14 to 15 cents, and East Shore potatoes priced at 1.90 to 2.00 per barrel.
Prime steers bring $8.75 to $9.00 for shipping steers $8.10 to $8.35, choice cows $6.75 to $7.10, heifers $7.75 to $8.00, bulls $6.00 to $6.50, veals $10.00 to $10.50, overall fair to good $9.00 to $9.75. Sheep and lambs show spring lambs at $8.00 to $8.50, yearling lambs $6.00 to $6.75, hogs light Yorkers $9.10 to $9.15 and heavies $9.15.
Timothy chooses hay on track at $16.90 for No 1 clover mixed at 12.00 to 13.00. Oat and wheat straw listed at $8.50 to $9.00. A courtroom exchange features a defendant asking about a foul on a young man, with Marjorie stating he did and a judge presiding.
A tramp named John Smith, about 60, was found kneeling beside a bedside at George Saunders’s Avon road farm near Geneseo New York. Coroner F J Bowen from Mt Morris ordered an autopsy by Dr Charles I Newton in Geneseo. Death was caused by heart failure. Relatives are largely unknown. He had arrived about a week earlier and was employed on the farm.
Mrs. Jackson Rose of East Swartwood New Jersey found a blacksnake in a hen nest and, after her husband killed it, discovered a china egg lodged in the snake's throat behind the head. The couple suspects snakes are tied to a local eggs shortage.
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