Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 35, 22 December 1919 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGSALL MONDAY, DEC. 22, 1919.

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CHICAGO MARKET SHOWS GAIN OF ; $1i10 IN WEEK

By WILLIAM R. SANBORN. ' Hogs, -weighing from ISO - to 240 pounds -were In urgent - demand at Chicago on Saturday, and a few of the best sold as high as $14.20, the top of . the day. The day's average at $14.01 was $1.68 above the low day average of the previous week, which constituted a substantial gain in an excited and easily depressed market. The average for the entire week, at Chicago, was $13.90. against $12.80 for the week ending Saturday, December IS, a net' gain of $110 in the face of very heavy receipts, the totals at the seven principal western markets being 600,000 head. Hogs averaged the heaviest in 6 weeks, being 3 pounds heavier at 227 than for the previous week, at Chicago. -c The very finest steers sold at $19 at Chicago on Saturday, and all classes

of cattle closed at the low point of the week. Compared with the prev

ious Saturday. $20.25, the show a loss of ' $1.25, and of $2.50 per hundred weight from a recent top of $21.50,

made early ' in December. Good to choice steers ranged at $14.25 to $17.50 at the week' end. as against $16.00 to $19.0 a week earlier, these showing a net loss of $2.00. i : Indianapolis Markets. Comparing the two Saturdays, December 13 and 20, one finds both markets on a parity, at $13.75, at Indianapolis, for all weights of the best hogs, on these dates. This does not mean that there were no ups and downs between times. There were. The tops and bulk of sales at Indianapolis last Monday figured at $14.00 to $14.10: on Tuesday there was an advance to $14.25 and $14.50: by Friday the price was shaded to $13.75 and $13.85, showing an extreme range of 75 " cents, cn the week's trading. Choice pigs sold as high as $13.50 at Indianapolis' last Saturday. Common and thins sold at $12.00 to $13.00. with packing sows going at $12.50 to $12.75. The receipts of live stock at Indianapolis last week were the largest of

the season, to date. Aside from feeders, which very nearly held their own .at Indianapolis, cattle sold off from $1.00 to $1.50 during the past week. This being Christmas week live stock receipts will be much lighter than the average of recent weeks. In all markets. They are estimating that Chicago will receive not less than 65,000 cattle, 165,000 hogs and 75,000 head of sheep during the week, regardless, these figures falling nearly 20,000 on cattle, 70,000 on hogs, and 50.000 on sheep, below the actual receipts for the week ending December 20th.

plana for the 'present season' that the plans would go through without any farther guidance. Five weeks of the season here remain, after which there will be five weeks in New York, two weeks in Boston, and two weeks divided among Pittsburg, ; Cincinnati, Clyeveland and Detroit. "There probably will bo no successor to Mr. Campanlnl appointed until late In the season," said Herbert M. Johnson, business controller of the opera, today.

Christmas Program for Easthaven Announced Program for a full week's Christmas celebration has been announced tor

the patients and - employes of Easthaven. The program , which Includes dances, moving pictures, i entertainments and an open- house follows: Christmas Eve 7:30 p. m., Patients' Dance. Christmas 9:30 a. m., Distribution of presents; 7:30 p. m., Moving pictures. Friday, December 26 8:00 p. m., Employes' Dance. i Sunday. December 28 1:30 p. m.. Religious Services, Rev. J. J. Rae; 7:30 p. m Moving pictures. Monday. December 29th 7:30 p. m.. Patients' Social. New Year's Eve 7:30 p. m.. Patients' Dance. New Year's Day 2:00 to .4:00 p. m.. Open House. Cottages A, B, C. D; E, F, K. L 1, 2, Triplet, 12, 13, and Hospital Groups. 7:30 p. m. Moving pictures. Friday, January 2 8:00 p. m.. Employes' Dance.

Investigation of Attempt to Smuggle Liquor Begun (By Associated Press) EL PASO, Tex, Dec. 21. An official Investigation was underway today into the fight last night between an American provost guard, assisted by El Paso police, and a number of Mex

ican smugglers. In which Private Fleer

Embler of Hyde Park, ,N. C, member of the American party, and one Mexican were killed. The smugglers were attempting to

.bring a quantity of liquor across the border from Mexico, when they encountered the provost guard and the

police. The fight occurred near what Is

ailed "the Island" a piece of Mexican

land lying in the old bed of the Rio

Grande river. The , guard was sur

prised by the attack but replied "with

rifle fire, assisted by the police. Priv

ate Embler fell after the first volley and the body of a Mexican was found in the brush alongside the abandoned liquor. The snfugglers retreated Into

Mexico.

KNOXVILLE CHURCH BURNS KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. Dec 22. St. John's Episcopal church, most costly stone edifice In Knoxvllle, burned yesterday, causing a loss of $200,000. Fire is believed to have originated from a defective furnace.

Young Italian Named as Probable Orchestra Head (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 21. Gino Marlnuzzi, a young Italian conductor who arrived here last month was most prominently mentioned as the probable successor of Cleofonte Campanlnl, director general of the" Csicago Grand Opera company, who died of pneumonia yesterday. It was reiterated, however, that Mr. Campanlnl had so thoroughly outlined

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