Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 214, 20 August 1915 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1915
MARKETS
WHEAT SHOWS DECIDE ON CHICAGO MARKET
CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Wheat was un!er considerable selling pressure during the entire day and closings were at declines of lc to lc. There was talk of cancellation of addition wheat at Kansas City as well as the seaboard, and further attacks on vessels by Germany was construed by the trade as a bearish factor, as it is likely to restrict the movement of vessels loaded with grain. Corn closed with losses of c to c, oats were c lower to unchanged and theand the provisions list while showing a little change for the day was weak. Cash transactions were 100,000 bushels wheat, 13,000 bushels corn and 170,000 bushels oats.
GRAIN
CHICAGO CASH. CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Wheat: No. 2 red $1.12tt1.13, No. 2 hard $1.14 $1.15. Corn: No. 2 8181V4, No. 2 white 8081, No. 2 yellow 8284. Oats: No. 2 white 3940V4. No. 4 white 40U 41, standard 58. TOLEDO GRAIN TOLEDO, Aug. 20. Wheat: Cash 11.11, September $1.10. Cloverseed: Cash $8.95, October and March $9.40, December $9.30. Timothy: Prime cash ind October $3.17, September 13.72.
LIVE STOCK
CHICAGO. UNION STOCK YARDS, Chicago, 111., Aug. 20. Hogs Receipts, 10,000. Market. 6c. higher. Mixed and butchers, $6.00(9)7.70: good heavies, $6.20 7.00; rough heavies, $5.70 6.10; light, $S.807.70; pigs, $5.406.90; bulk of sales, $6.05 6.90. Cattle Receipts, 1,000. Market, steady. Beeves. $6$.4010.25; cows end heifers. $3.509.25; stockers and feeders, $7.259.25; calves, $6.85 8.30. Sheep Receipts, $9.50 11.75; market, $5,000; strong. Natives and westerns, $3.656.25; lambs, $6.75 8.95.
INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 20. Hogs-
Receipts, 5,000. Market, higher. Best
hogs. $7.657.75; heavies $6.507.40;
pigs, $$5.007.50; bulk of sales, $7.00
7.75. Cattle Receipts, 1,200. Market, unsettled. Choice heavy steers, $8.75
9.65; heifers, $5.509.00, cows, $2.50 7.25; bulls, $4.507.00; calves, $4.00
11.00. Sheep and lambs Receipts, 600
Market, steady. Prime sheep, $5.25,
down; lambs, $5.25 down.
CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI. Aug. 20. Hogs Receipts, 3,200. Market, steady. Cattle Receipts, 1,100. Market, steady. Sheep Receipts, 3,300. Market, active, $3.75 5. 75; lambs, easy, $4.50 9.00.
RICHMOND MARKETS
GLEN MILLER PRICES Heavies $6.25 I.eavv mixed i . $6.75
Heavy Yorkers .'. - $7 00
Pigs 6.6UB .z Sows $5.005.50
Stags ... $-50
CATTLE. Best steers .................... $7.60 Heifers ................. f 7.0007.60 Good cows $5.006.00 Bulls $5.006.00 Canners $2.50 nd JS.oO Calves ..$9.50 for Saturday's delivery SHEEP. Top lambs "c
FEED QUOTATIONS Red clover seed, paying $6.50. Clover hay, new, $12.00. Timothy hay, old, selling $20.00. Prairie hay, selling $14.00. Straw, paying $5.00. Oats, paying, new, 35c. Corn, paying, old, 75 cents. Middlings, $32 $1.60 per 100. Oil meal, $38.00 ton. Bran, selling $28.00. . Salt. $1.40 barrel. Tankage, $48.00 ton. PRODUCE (Corrected Daily by Edward Cooper.) Old chickens dressed, paying 18c, selling, 25c. Country butter. paring 18c to 25c; selling, 25c to 30c. Eggs, paying 18c, selling 22c. Country lard paying 10c; selling 15c. Creamery butter, selling 30c. Potatoes, selling 60c. per bushel. Young chickens, Iressed, paying 25c; selling 35c, NEW YORK EXCHANGE STOCK QUOTATIONS BY CORRELL & THOMPSON. Brokers, I. O. O. F. BIdg. Phone 146 American Can 57 69 Anaconda 68 71 American Locomotive ... 53 52 American Beet Sugar ... 60 62 American Smelter 79 79 U. S. Steel 73 73 U. S. Steel , 73 73 Atchison 101 101 St. Paul 81 81 Great Northern pfd 117 117 Erie 27 27 Lehigh Valley c.141 141 New York Central . o r . 89 89 Northern Pacific 107 106 Pennsylvania 108 109 Reading 146 147 Southern Pacific 88 88 Union Pacific 129 130
ARABIC'S
INDIANAPOLIS REPRESENTATIVE SALES
PITTSBURG. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 20 CattleSupply, light. Market, steady. Choice iteers, $9.50 9.75; prime steers, $9.00 E9.50; good steers, $u.508.75, tidy mtchers, $8.50 8.75, fair, $7.25 1.00; common, $6.00 7.00; common o fat bulls, $5. 00 7.25; common to .'at cows, $3.507.00; heifers, $7.50 !.50; fresh cows and springers, aone; veal calves. $11.0011.50. Sheep and lambs Supply, light. Prime wethers, $6.30; steady; good, none; lambs, $6.008.50; spring lambs, none. Hogs Receipts, 15 double decks. Market, lower. Prime heavy, $7.00 7.10; mediums, $7.908.00; heavy yorkerB, $8.00 8.10; light yorkers, $8.0008.10; pigs. $7.757.90; roughs, $5.505.90; stags, $4.505.00; heavy mixed, $7.25 7.40.
PRODUCE.
NEW YORK. Aug. 20 Dressed poultry dull, chickens 1626, fowls 12 17. Live poultry, fair; chickens 17 Si' 19, fowls 1516. Butter, steady; rreamery firsts .2425. Eggs firm, 84 35.
CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Butter receipts 9,444 tubs; firsts 2223. Egg receipts 7,716 cases. 1920. Chickens 13c. Springers 16 17. Roosters 10. Potatoes 20 cars.
CHICAGO FUTURES.
WHEAT. Open. High. Isovr. Close Sept. .....105 106 104 104 Dec 104 104 102 102 May 107 108 106 106 CORN. Sept 75 76 75 75 Dec 64 64 63 63 May 66 66 65 65 OATS. Sept 39 40 39 39 Dec 38 38 38 38 May 41 41 40 41 PORK. Sept $13.62 $13.87 $13.62 $13.75 Oct $13.85 $14.00 $13.75 $13.90
COAL QUOTATIONS Anthracite chestnut, $8.50; anthracite stove or egg. $8.25; Pocahontas lump or egg, $5.50; mine run, $4.50; slack, $4.00; Winifred lump, $4.75; Campbell's lump, $4.75; Kanawha lump, $4.75; Indiana lump, $3.75; Hocking valley lump, $4.25; Jewel lump, $5.00; Yellow Jacket lump, $5.00; Tennessee lump, $5.25; coke all sizes, $6.50; nut and slack, $3; for carrying coal, 50c per ton. " There are 478,000,000 acres of unimarored land in the United States.
Av. Price Hogs 3 496 6.00 9 294 6.50 G5 264 6.90 12 299 6.95 70 ... 218 7.35 10 197 7.50 26 191 7-55 53 162 7.70 61 168 7.75 30 178 7.75 Steers. 2 665 5.50 3 590 7.65 2 980 8.25 36 1366 9.00 Heifers. 2 765 7.60 3 606 7.25 1 690 7.50 3 820 7.75 3 636 8.25 Cows. 1 920 3.00 2 840 5.00 1 810 5.90 2 965 5.65 Bulls. 1 900 5.25 1 1180 5.75 Calves. 2 285 5.50 8 446 8.00 2 120 8.50 2 205 10.00
WILSON
Continued From Page One. lomatic and consular agents and are
before them. The honor and dignity
of the nation are involved, but the people can rest assured that their Interests are safe."
That was the only word forthcoming from administration sources today re
garding the situation precipitated by the sinking of the White Star liner Arabic. The statement came from the one man in the government service who knows the president's mind. Silence is Ordered. By direct order of the executive, all
officials were prohibited from talking
for publication. The slogan of "suspend judgment until we have all of the facts," enunciated by the president to Secretary of State Lansing within half an hour after the word of the
sinking of the liner reached this coun
try will be rigidly adhered to. The
fact that the two Americans are
among the missing adds to the excite
ment of the gravity of this new international situation.
Even though American passengers have been lost neither the president or Secretary Lansing are convinced that the action of the submarine must be construed as a defiant reply to our last note. Points To Be Considered. The chief pofnts that are cited by department experts as requiring actual facts are: Were any convoys to the Arabic in sight when she was torpedoed. Was the Arabic enroute to the Dunsley previously torpedoed and could the submarine captain have assumed that she was trying to ram him. Was the opportunity afforded to the submarine captain to give the Arabic warning without risking the destruction of his vessel. It will be at least two or three days before all the details can be secured. It is realized that the German problem has been made more acute than ever by this latest submarine act.
' Continued From Page One . In the ship's side below the water line. The shock wrecked the machinery manipulating the water-tight bulkheads and they were made' useless. The fires In the boilers were put out and the ship was Instantly rendered helpless, "The Germans made no efforts to save any of the passengers. Instead, the submarine must have made off at once or else submerged herself." Captain Finch, upon being Interviewed by White Star officials, said the Arabic went down in eight minutes after she began to settle. According to Captain Finch's record the- nationalties represented upon the Arabic were divided as follows: British, 145; Americans, 25; French, 3; German, 1; Belgian, 1; Russian, 3; Swiss, 1; Spanish, 1. Total, 180. The German was the Rev. Dr. Augustine Waldner, who was traveling upon a special permit issued by the British home office. Ready to Leave. Finch had taken strict precautions while passing through the "war zone" waters. All the lifeboats were swinging outward from their davits with the tarpaulins removed, ready to be lowered at a minute's notice. Lifebelts had been distributed liberally for use of passengers and crew and the rafts upon the boat decks were all ready for launching. If these precautionary measures had not been taken, the toll would undoubtedly have been heavy. "There was no confusion in filling the boats," said Charles Pringle of the Toronto Motor company, who was returning to Canada. "The officers saw to it that women got into the boat first. As soon as a boat was comfortably filled, it was lowered. "The calm weather was favorable for life-saving. It was also responsible for so many- people being on deck at the time. This was another factor which helped in getting the passengers off quickly." Money Loss Heavy.
The money loss will run high into
the millions. In addition to the ship, the cargo and baggage of the passen
gers were lost. Included In the cargo was a big consignment of old to J. Pierpont Morgan .& Co. Stocks and bonds to the value of many millions were in the cargo. The mails were also lost. A number of the passengers were wounded by the explosion of the torpedo, among them Captain Finch. The most seriously hurt are in Queenstown hospitals.
At the alst count the United States national bank notes in circulation amounted to $718,085,637.
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Continued From Pago On. aid that James Houlihan, an American, who was reported as missing last night, had been saved. It was not until today that the attack on the Orinia ' became known. This vessel was near the Arabic when a torpedo was fired at her. She is a ship of 8,000 tons, owned by the Pacific Steam Navigation company. The sinking of the Arabic, although a disaster of lesser magnitude than the destruction of the Lusitania. caused the same sad situation as followed the sinking of the big Cunard liner. Crowds gathered about the - White Star : office waiting . in mournful silence for the latest bulletins. Americans besieged the . American embassy, asking for information relating to the fate of Americans on the Arabic. Some of the seamen upon the Arabic had been members of the Lusitania crew. Among the survivors was Kenneth Douglas, husband of Grace Lane, a well-known actress. This was the second narrow escape Douglas has had from death at the hands of the' Germans. He had engaged passage -upon the Lusitania upon the Cunarder's last voyage, but cancelled it at the last minute. There were a number of theatrical people on board the Arabic; also many Canadians. American Consul Frost at Queenstown and Vice Consul Thompson were very active last night and today attending to the needs of the American survivors. Some of the Americans escaped in their night clothing, not having time to change after the ship was struck. A. Hulme Hebeker, of Logan, Utah, was wearing only a bathrobe when he landed at Queenstown. He was full of praise of the coolness of the Arabic's crew. "We only had ten minutes to get into the boats," he said. "It would have been a terrible disaster but for the coolness of the captain and the men under him. Good discipline was maintained throughout. Great excitement was caused during the approach of the torpedo and all on board realized what had happened and could feel the ship sinking rapidly beneath them. It was enough to shake the strongest nerves."
down the channeL The weather was fine and we were going sixteen knots an hour. I was on the bridge and had been there while we were going down the channeL Torpedo Hits Ship. "We were forty-seven miles south of Galleyhead at : 30 o'clock in the morning when the , steamer Dunsley was sighted. She was apparently in difficulty and I changed our course to approach her. Suddenly I saw a torpedo coming toward the Arabic The torpedo struck us about 100 feet from the stern of the starboard side. "As we " were struck , there was a terrific explosion. A great hole was blown in the hull.,! The liner began to
settle , immediately. She went down in about, eight minutes. ' "When I saw the torpedo coming there was no submarine visible, but I knew what 'was on foot. The order was sent from the bridge to launch the boats. The order was immediately obeyed. Every possible precaution had been taken for such an emergency. We knew we were in the danger zone. "Plenty of lifeboats had been placed on deck and the boats were ready for launching. The officers and crew acted promptly and efficiently. They did everything possible to prevent loss of life. People Are Saved. "Two of the boats capsized as they were lowered, but the sailors immediately pulled in the people who had been , spilled out, picking up whom they could see floating. "I was the last to leave, throwing
I myself into the sea as the ship was
about to make her last plunge. I was in the water for some time, but finally got a life craft, onto which I subsequently dragged two men and two women. v "It is to be regretted that some of the crew perished, but they died heroes. Several engineers and firemen remained at their work to carry out orders sent from the bridge. When they tried to escape it was too late, I fear." Captain Finch again asserted that everything possible had been done to prevent loss of life. "If we had had only a little more time," he reiterated, "we could have saved everybody."
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Continued From Page One narrowly escaped death, but managed to get aboard a life raft, to which he dragged other survivors. The captain's story of the loss of the Arabic follows: "Everything went well on our way
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Continued From Page One his past actions had nothing to do with the case. At the end of the trial. Attorney Gath Freeman for the defense made a motion for the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. Prosecutor Reller objected, but Judge Fox sustained the motion. In the argument the prosecu
tor said In a case of tnla kind It should be left to the jury to act on the evidence. He based his case on the fact that the defendant, as he charged, was running in excess of the peed limit. His pleas with the judge were in vain, however, and he finally asked the court to leave the matter with the jury, and in case of conviction he would permit the defendant to go on suspended sentence. Eight Persona Testify. Eight witnesses testified for the defense and practically all of their testimony was to the effect that the car was not going over twenty-five miles an hour. They said every effort was made by the defendant to guide the car out of the way of the old man. Mrs. Eva Miller, who was riding in the rear seat, testified that in' her estimation it was not going faster than twenty miles an hour. George and Calvin Moore, two boys, who were also in the rear seat, testified that the car was not going at an excessive speed. William Taylor also asserted the car was going at a moderate speed. Mrs. Bertha Shields, who was in the front seat with Blackburn, said the defendant was not running faster than twenty miles an hour. Raymond Messmer was on the stand in the afternoon. He was the first person on the scene of the accident. Eight members of the jury, who expressed themselves after the trial, said that there was no doubt but that a verdict of not guilty would have been returned even if the judge had not given specific instructions.
OFFICIALS
Continued From Page One , was to the Interests of the company to have its traction service restored, and because it had been principally responsible for the condition the bridge is now in. Mr. Jefferies was not asked by any of the city or county officials for his opinion on this matter, apparently taking for granted that the company would contribute toward such a cost. Conflict between the city and county regarding the cost of repairing the bridge would also be a possibility. The city officials have made it plain that they would want the county to assume the entire cost of remodeling the bridge, pointing out that it would be cheaper for the county to do this than to erect a new structure, the entire cost of which the county would be required to shoulder. Argue Over Shares. On the other hand, M. D. Dodderidge, the only member of the board of county commissioners who attended the meeting, intimated that the board would expect the city to assume a fair share of the cost of making repairs.
This statement was made by Mr. Dot dridge to a newspaper mas. : Summing up the situation as It e isted at the close of the meeting today, all indications point to a lively dispute aa to the division of costs If the Toledo engineers report that tha
The question of constructing a ten, porary bridge on the site of the old National road bridge was discussed but the only definite action taken was appointing a committee composed of the traction company's bridge engineer. County Bridge Engineer Mueller and City Engineer Charles, to estimate what the cost of such a structure would be. Mr. Jefferies thought that one could be erected for the use of all kinds of traffic for not less than $7,000, and he said the company would be willing to assume a share of such cost. If the Main street bridge can be repaired and the work done within a short length of time, county, city and traction company officials agreed that it might not . be necessary to erect a temporary bridge, but decision on this question must be delayed until the toledo engineers make their report. Favors Temporary Bridge. President Bavis expressed the opinion, however, that it would require some time to make repairs if repair ing is possible, and he thought plana for a temporary bridge should be fo mulated right away, and the county, city and company enter into an agreement covering the share of cost each would assume. Mr. Bavis also declared that if the bridge could be remodeled, the traction service should be removed to south - end bridge as soon as that structure had been put up. Mr. Jefferies asked where this south end bridge was to be located, and amid laughter was notified that no one knew. Engineers of the traction company have completed their investigation of the Doran bridge and Gen. Supt. Jefferies reported to the board today that that structure could not be strengthened so that traction cars could be operated over it safely. Mr. Jessup reclared that he regarded Mr. Mueller as a very competent bridge engineer, but said he was not prepared to accept as final his recent report that it would be impossible to properly repair the Main street bridge. He said he recalled the fact that just two years ago Mueller had advised that the Main street bridge be removed to the 6ite selected for a south end span and that a nw ,ocrete structure be placed at Main street. "Mr. Mueller evidently regarded the Main street bridge safe two years
J ago, and it hardly seems possible that it could have so greatly deteriorated in two years so that it would be impossible to repair it at this time," Mr. Jessup said.
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