Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 23, 8 December 1919 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, DEC. 8, 1919.
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SHIPMENTS OF HOGS
HEAVY LAST WEEK
By WILLIAM R. SANBORN. Nearly 600,000 hogs were received at the principal western markets last week, against 490.000 for the week ending November 29. Receipts at Chicago were the largest since last February, and the same may 'be said of nearly all markets, east and west. . The Chicago receipts on Saturday were but 16,000. which at that were larger than expected. The total for the week was 240,000 head. Estimated average weight for the week, 221
pounds, was the lightest for more than a year, although but 2 pounds under that for the same week in 1918. In spite of an average of 40,000 hogs daily, during the week, very few were left in the pens on Saturday night. After a weak opening Saturday fore
noon and a break of 35 cents, the mar
ket reacted and closed strong.
The receipts at Chicago. Kansas
City, Omaha, St. Louis, St Joseph and
St. Paul, for the year to date are: HokS. 23.076.000: cattle. 11.532,000;
sheep. 13,369,000. This shows a gain
of over 2.000.000 sheep, compared with
one year ago; a loss of more than
100.000 hoes, and a decrease in cattle
receipts of about 700,000 head. The top on hogs at Chicago Saturday was $13.55, and the day's average was (13.30, against $13.60 on Friday, and
$14.60 last Monday. Indianapolis Market.
Good mixed, medium and light hogs
sold at $14.25 and choice heavies at $14.40, on Wednesday, the high day of the week. This was a gain of 30c to 40c over the range on the previous Saturday. From Wednesday on the market slid oft to $13.35 at the week
end, showing 'about $1 net loss for
the week, and this was in line wnn
conditions at Chicago and Kansas City, where a eilimar drop was scored. Indianapolis received 14,000 hogs on
Saturday, an unexpectedly large run;
the acute shortage of cars was also a depressing feature of the day's trading. Pigs were sharply lower, with the best lots selling at $12.00 to $12.50. The result of the week's
trade in cattle was a reduction of 50c
to $1 in killing steers of fair to hedium quality. Veals were firm on light receipts, mostly selling at over $19. Lambs averaged $15 for good ones and one load of 31 head of fancy
Iambs brouEht $15,25 on Saturday
Nearly 46,000 head of cattle were shipped from Chicago last week, being among the largest week's totals on record. The shipping demand steadied the market, and the average
loss on the week was but 20 cents per
100 pounds on cattle in that market.
GLEN MILLER RECEIPTS
The Glen Miller yards ran on high
all last week. 28 cars of live stock be
ing handled, 14 of which were loaded
out locally and the balance iea ana
watered on through billing. Local receipts comprised 1,110 hogs, weighing 222,420 pounds and costing the yards
$29,582.70; 34 veal calves 5.58U pounas
which sold for 8872: and 17 lamDS,
costing $120.
This showed a total cash expend!
ture to nearby farmers and feeders of
$30,574.70 for the week ending Satur
day, Dec. 6, which is pretty gooa evidence of the value of the home market,
A car or two of hogs were'Ta'eld here over Sunday, for lack of cars, but this
meant no loss to farmers, the hogs be
ing Daid for when weighed in.
Saturday was a very busy day local
ly. Trucks brought in 448 head o? hoes alone, for which $11,315.42 was
checked out. "The largely increased receipts substantiates our claim that
Richmond is a real hog market, saw
Mr. Shurley, Monday morning, "and
that feeders are realizing more for
their hogs here at home than they
would if trucked to Indianapolis or
Cincinnati, for we can sell hogs on
order as high as at Indianapolis, or
in any other competing market in the central west, where fully half of the hogs are sold to order fillers and ship
pers. It is a self evident fact that.
we can save the freight two ways on the hogs trucked or shipped from
Wayne or Preble counties to Indi
anapolis, which are then sent east from that point In addition there is
a large saving in shrink." Daily Capacity 20 Cars.
The local yards are equipped to
handle 20 cars of live stock daily,
owing to extensive improvements and
switch faciliities added during the
past summer. The falling off in east
ern demand, the heavy receipts and
the car and coal situation, were all
depressing factors at all markets last week. Hogs declined locally as much at $1, good hogs selling at $12 on Saturday, against $13 the previous Saturday. "Should hogs continue to arrive in large quantities, they are likely to sell at $10, or less," in Rome Shurley's opinion, "during December." List of Shipper. D. Hockett trucked in 300 head of hogs out of Randolph county last week
no cars being obtainable at Lynn. Boren and Longfellow brought in 74
head from Fountain City, while E. V.
Stan back of Preble, brought over 105
head from that county. Percy Farlow marketed 80 head on Tuesday, while Joe Thompson marketed 28 hogs and
head of cattle which won him a
check for $1,761 on Wednesday. Among
the principal contributors of hogs during the past week were: George Toschlog, 48 head; Will Flatley, 54; J. B. Shelter, 55; Earl Vore, 48; Har
vey Klnsey, 61; Edward Frazier, 43;
E. R. Elleman, 52; Lafe Leeka, 39; Jesse Bird, 47; Frank Martin, 48; Al
bert Irvin of Webster, 41; Frank Jay,
42; Aaron Sitloh, 30; J. E. Burkhart,
28; J. H. Spencer, 20; Mrs. Tingler,
25; George Hlatt, 23, and Claude
Moody, 21.
Admits Kitting Wife;
Body Thrown in Well
AMERICDS, Ga., Dec. 8. Samuel
Duckworth, arrested after his wife's
body had been found In the well on their farm near here, has confessed the crime, Sheriff Harvey states.
"We had -been quarreling and I had
been drinking and I could not control myself," were the words Duckworth used in admitting the killing, accord
ing to officials. The woman's throat
had been' cut and there were evidences
near the well Indicating there had been a struggle.
Duckworth was quoted as saying his
young son, Sidney, saw the crime com
mitted and "helped me put the body into the well."
Mrs. Sallei Duckworth, aged mother
of the accused man, was arrested with him, but he was quoted as saying she bad nothing to do with it.
REPUBLICANS WILL SELECT MEET CITY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The leading figures of the Republican party will be in Washington most of this week for the meeting of the National Republican . committee, - which convenes on Wednesday. Although selection of a place and date for the 1920 national convention is the only, business formally before
the committee, the gathering of party leaders Is expected to bring out a great
deal of discussion of candidates and
policies with preliminary Jockeying which may have an Important bearing
on the campaign.
Several members of the committee and others prominent In Republican
circles in the various states already had arrived last night and St. Louis
had broken the ice of the fight for the convention by opening headquarters. Chicago, also making a determined effort for selection as the convention city, is expected to be represented today by a special train of boosters. By Wednesday at least four candidates' headquarters are expected ' to be at work. The managers for Major General Leonard Wood are to reach Washington today.
Electric Railways Ask
Investment Propection j (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Continua
tion of private ownership of electric railways and protection of private cap
ital invested in local transportation was recommended in a brief filed today with the federal electric rail
way commission by Bentley W. War
ren, counsel for the committee of 100
of the American Electric Railway association.
The commission which has made an
exhaustive study of problems of the electric street railways, probably will report its findings in President Wil
son this month. The brief declared that "the confidence of the investor in electric railway investments has been
destroyed not because of a temporary depression of the business, but by reason of the fact that conditions surrounding the investment have been
and are now such as to prohibit assurance of either its safety or ade
quate return.
To safeguard the interest of inves
tors, the committee suggested the enactment of a measure providing a flexible automatic rate of fare based
upon the cost of service, including a fair rate of return, and a further reward based upon efficiency in operation.
Flashlights Used hy Doctors to Operate ADAMS, Mass.. Dec. 8. An operation partly performed with the aid of
electric flashlights is one of the most1 unusual events that has ever taken place in this section. While Drs. M. M. Brown and C. H. Choquette were ready to operate on Miss Urba Cyr of High street at the Plunkett Memorial hospital, the lights went out. owing to trouble with the town electric lighting' system. A hurry call was sent to the hardware store for flashlights, and when they arrived were turned on and the operation begun. The surgeons had been operating only a couple of minutes when the electric lights again came on.
U.S. Has Biggest Pension . Year, Despite llcny Deaths (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 A record breaking sum in pensions was paid by the federal government during the last fiscal year despite the fact that the number of pensioners was the smallest of any year since 1890. -
This was revealed by the annual re
port today of the commissioner of pensions, who said $222,129,292.70 was
paid to 624,427 persons during the year as compared with $179,835,328.75 to
646.895 pensioners the year before.
The largest number of persons ever on the pension roll was 999,336, in
1902 and they received a total of $137,502,267.99. Total pensions paid to date on account of the civil war. the commissioner said, was $5,299,859,509.39 and the total on account of all wars $5,-
617,520,402.30, including $65,211,665.71 on account of the Spanish-American war. Last year 3.747 pensioners were scattered through 63 foreign countries. Including one on the island of St Helena. They received a total of $1,188,188.45. The net reduction in the pension roll during the year was 22,468, the number of names removed being 32.149 and the number added 9,681. Ohio led the states with the largest roll, there being 60,902 pensioners drawing $21,582,330.04. Pennsylvania was second with 59,072 pensioners drawing $20,630,813.44; New York third with 53,736 receiving $19,631.090.72; Illinois fourth with 43,976 receiving $15,956,335.62 and Indiana fifth with 37,647 receiving $13,703,
084.94.
MANY KILLED 111 ITALIAN RIOTS
ROME. Saturday, Dec. 6. Eight persons are dead and forty-two others are known to have been wounded as a result of the wild rioting on Wednesday and Thursday at Mantua, , where mobs terrorized the city. The rioters attacked the small garrison, cut telegraph and telephone communications, stopped railway traffic, raided arms shops, burned prisons, freeing all sorts of criminals, and held the police and soldiers at bay until fresh troops and carabineers arrived with machine guns and occupied the city militarily. The troops finally established order Thursday night. The Rome newspapers tonight print full details of the situation at Mantua. The Glornale D'ltalia says the Mantua Chamber of Labor authorized a strike without excesses. The disorders were begun by 500 strikers, who speedily were Joined by the lawless element under the direction of extremists.
Carries Deceased Hen
to Judge to Prove Case SAN FRANCISCO, HCal., Dec 8 When Mrs. Bridget McGaffigan appeared in Superior Judge Thomas F.
Graham's court to account for disput
ed property formerly owned by Mrs.
Frances McCullougb, she carried un
der her arm a dead chicken to prove to the Judge that the flock of twenty
she took from Mrs. McCullough was three short. The other two, she said, ran away, but she still had seventeen in good shape. She said Mrs. McCullough gave her the chickens before she died. The administrator of Mrs. McCullough's estate asked for the accounting. "All present or accounted for, was
Judge Graham's military verdict as to
the number of chickens "i ne omer seventeen need not report In person. He reserved decision as .to ownership of the chickens. n."M H-
WOULD LIMIT NEWSPAPERS. - WASHINGTON, Dec 8. Size of newspapers and periodicals would be. limited until July 1. 1921. under a bill that Representative Anthony, Republican. Kansas, announced he would Introduce next week in an effort to relieve the news print shortage. . Violation of the restrictions would bar the publications from the mails. .
The Shoe and Leather" Reporter estimates 58,000.000 cattle in 9 European countries (Russia and Austria excepted versus 65,000,000 before, the war.
WEST VIRGINIA NITRO PLANT SALE ANNOUNCED WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Sale of the explosives plant at Nitro, West Virginia to the Charleston (West Vir
ginia) Industrial Corporation for
$8,551,000 was announced Sunday by
the War Department Of the recently
submitted formal bids for the plant
and other facilities owned by the
department at Nitro, that of the
Charleston corporation was the high
est. The plant and town cost the
government approximately $75,000,000.
GREENCASTLE MAN KILLED. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 8.
Charles T. Peck, 52, attorney and
prominent Republican politician of
this city, was fatally injured Sunday when his automobile was struck by a car on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis
& Eastern Traction line. His skull was fractured over the temple and at the base of the brain. He died at the Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, after an attempt to save his life by an operation.
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BAD COLD GOT YOU? . FEELING GRIPPY?
ELEVEN YEARS OF RHEUMATISM NOW FINALLY RELIEVED
Randolph Co., Ind., Farmer's Joints Ached so Bad He Could Not Sleep, But Had to Get Up and Walk the Floor.
Declares Dreco Wiped Out Every Pain for Him After He Had Tried Many Other
Remedies.
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ror tne past eleven years I have not known what it was to be free from rheumatism," are the words of that highly esteemed farmer, Mr. Ferrell
Siemens, of Union Port, Randolph
county, maiana.
"My back ached constantly, and I was so stiff I could hardly bend over. My joints ached so badly at night that I could not sleep but would walk the floor. My kidneys were acting bad, and my liver was sluggish. I tried everything I heard of that was good for rheumatism and aching joints, but
mey railed to do me good.
"One day I was In Muncie and heard a lot of talk about Dreco and the mar
velous good it was doing for the folks
around there, so I bought softie Dreco, took it home with me and started tak
ing It. That proved to be the best money I ever spent for soon my joints
began to grow easy and before many
days passed I was free from pain:
something I hadn't known for years.
The pains have not returned, either. So I'm very hauDV over my deliver-
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well and my kidneys regulate. Dreco
i sure is one grand medicine." j Dreco acta on the bowels and re
lieves constipation, thereby removing i the cause of many troubles. It will be
noticed after taking Dreco, the head
j aches fail to appear; the nerves are I soothed, sound sleep is induced; the i appetite increases; no more dizzy
spells; the stomach digests the food, without having gas to follow, and the kidneys perform their duty of strain
ing the poisons from the blood, there
by putting a stop to rheumatism and
other disorders.
Mr. Powers, the well known Dreco expert, has headquarters at Thistlethwaite's drug store, to meet the local public and explain the merits of this great remedy. See him today. Adv.
UNIVERSITY CLOSES EARLY
BECAUSE OF COAL STRIKE URBAN, 111., Dec. 8. Eight thou
sand University of Illinois students will return to their homes this week on account of the coal shortage, which is a week earlier than had been
planned. They will leave 1,000 a day, starting Monday, on account of curtailment in train service.
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SENORA FELIPE ANGELES, WIFE OF GENERAL, DIES
NEW YORK. Dec. 8. Senora Felipe
Angeles, wife of the Mexican revolutionary leader recently executed by Carranza troops, died Sunday without having been informed of her husband's arrest and death. She came here from El Paso three months ago, suffering from nervous exhaustion caused by fear for her husband's safety, and gradually grew worse.
At the time of Gen. Angeles' execu
tion her condition was so feeble that
her friends deemed it inadvisable to give her the news and she remained
in ignorance to the end. 'She leaves
four children. Senora Angeles was 43
years old.
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In a test at the Michigan Agricultural College the first pullet egg was laid on July 8th by a Barred Rock pullet, hatched March 1st and fed exclusively on Red Comb Mash Feed with Dried Buttermilk. - Omer G. Whelan THE FEED MAN 1 31-33 So. 6th St. Phone 1679
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