Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1905 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, Oct 12. Following "were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. Oiose. Dec. .. .$ .80% $ .86% $ .86% $ .86% May ... .87% .87% .87 .87% July ... .81% .84% .84 .84 Corn— Oot ... .52% .52% .62% .52% Dec. (o) .46% .46% .45% .46% Dec. (n) .45% .45% .44% .44% May ... .44% .44% .44 .44% Oats — Oct 28% Dec 29 .29% .28% .28% May ... .31% .31% -30% .31 j Pork— Oct ...15.75 15.75 15.60 15.66 Jan. ...12.50 12.50 12.47% 12.47%‘ Lard — Oct ... 7.20 7.22% 7.17% 7.22% Jan. ~. 8.87% Short Ribs— Oct ...8.85 8.96 8.82% 8.85 Jan. ... 6.52% 6.52% 6.60 e. 52% 1 Chicago Lire Stock. v Chicago, Oct. 12. Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 22,000. Sales ranged at $4.80® 6.50 for pigs. $5.10(g 5.00 for light [email protected] for rough packing, $5.10® 5.70 for mixed, and [email protected] for heavy packing and shipping lots, with the bulk of the trading within the range of $5.20(g 5.00 for fair to good averages. Cattle—Estimated receipts for the day, 10,000. Quotations ranged at $5.45 @6.35 for choice to fancy steers, $4.50 @5.35 medium to good steers, $3.50® 4.35 grassy to common steers, $2.65® 4.85 fat cows and heifers, [email protected] canning and cutting cows, [email protected] native bulls and stags, [email protected] feeding cattle, [email protected] distillery fed steers, [email protected] western range steers, [email protected] fair to choice veal calves, [email protected] heavy calves. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 12. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, Bast Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts, 10 airs; market slow. Hogs— Receipts, 30 cars; market steady; pigs, $5.60; medium and heavy, [email protected]; yorkers, $5.70. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts. 20 cars; market steady; best lambs, [email protected]; fair to good, $7.50 @7.75; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; mixed sheep, [email protected]; ewes, $4.50®5.00. Calves Market firm; best, [email protected]; heavies, $3.00® 4.00. Question for Insurance Cos. Indianapolis, Oot. 13. surance companies have received by mail a long interrogation from Insurance Commission Folk, of Tennessee. The Interrogation asks whether or not the company has subscribed directly or indirectly to any campaign fund of either party since 1896, whether the company has disbursed any sum of money at any time to Influence legislation in the legislature of any state or in a national congress, and other questions. ———rSquash That Is a Whopper. Peru, Ind., Oct. 13. A quash that Is a whopper is on exhibition at U. A. Ager’s store. In this city. It was raised by Frank Jackson, weighs for-ty-seven poundß, is thirty-three Inches in length, twenty-four inches in circumference at the idem, and thirty-two inches at the top. The quash is the only one that the vine, thirty feet In length, grew. Engineer Does a Brave Deed. Evansville, Ind., Oct. 18. —Realising his inability to stop his train while running at high speed down-grade Info this city Engineer George Burke, of the Evansville and Newburg railroad, climbed upon the pilot of his engine and rescued Stella Peters, 8 yean old, from her perilous position on tbs tracks. An armload of old papers for ft nickel at Tha Democrat offioe.