St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
EVENING REPORT.

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EVENING REPORT
Money easy at 1902 per cent, closing
2@eK. Prime mercantile paper 4@5h per
cent. Sterling exchange, bankers bills steady
al S4.872l; do. ex. demand, S4.89h.
Govenments-Firm.
Unconstitutional bonds weak and lower; Den
yer s. Rio Grande Western frsts broke to 45,
Texas Pacific, Rio Grande division, fell off to Go
and incomes to 455s Denver g Rio Grande con-
soils offered at 68M.
State Securities-Steady; Tennessee COM
promise sold at AK and do mixed AZ.
Stocks-The Stock Exchange was weak and
depressed. At the opening there was an adj
vance of 1sQ% per cent, the latter for Pacific
Mail, which rose to 46H. Oregon Transconti-
mental was exceptionally heavy, opening a per
cent lowerat 1G and declining to 1875 Coal
shares, Southwestern, Changers and Western I'm
ion Telegraph were the weakest of the other
active shares Near the close there was a rally
of M62l per cent. in the general list and Il in
New Jersey Central. The failure of Owens s.
Mercer was due to customers not responding to
a call for margins The chairman of the Stock
Exchange closed out 1000 shares of stock for
their account of which 400 were Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy, 400 Lake Shore, 300 Central
Pacific, 200 Philadelphia s. Reading, 200 Missouri,
Kansas s. Texas, 100 Indiana, Bloomington q
Western, 100 New York &; New England, 100
Union Pacific and 100 Western Union Telegraph.
There was brisk demand for borrowing pur-
poses and New Jersey Central lent at 1-160H
for USE Missouri Pacific, New York Central,
Philadelphia s. Reading, Northern Pacific pre-
ferred and st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba at
, 1854, and Delaware, Lackawanna &c Western,
y Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, Lake Shore and
Chicago s. Northwestern fiat ''Seller sixty
options were put out in New Jersey Central at
1904, when prices in the regular way were
76h@77A. Compared with Saturday the closing
prices are down A@2A per cent, the latter for
New Jersey Central. Among the inactive shares
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati s. indianapolis
declined Il per cent. to $50, Chesapeake & Ohio
to 10, Illinois Central IA to 26H, Indiana,
Bloomington & Western l to Is, Manhattan
Beach 21S to 90, Milwaukee, Lake Shore g. West
ern preferred per cent to 81, New York, Lake
Erie 81 Western preferred to 40, Oregon I'm
provement 24 to 20@21, Oregon Navigation u
to H. Richmond & Allegheny u to g. St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba Ia to 901s and St.
Louis 6 San Francisco preferred IN to 89A.
Spring Mountain Coal rose to so.
The ECeaing FOst says: The days trading
developed no new features whatever in the gen
eral situation and the decline in prices was due
to the efforts of the bears, whose attacks had
been concentrated. Specie engagements by
Wednesdays steamer, S., 100000.
The transactions aggregated $4,000 shares ::
Delaware, Lacsswanna 6 Western $4,000;
New York. Lake Erie & Western 5000;
Lake Shore 90, GOO; Louisville & Nashville 5000
Missouri Pacific 10000: Chicago & Northwestern
2,O00 New Jersey Central 10000; Pacific Mail
5000; Philadelphia & Reading $4,000; Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul $4,000; Texas Pacific
10000; Union Pacific $4,000; Western Union
Telegraph $4,000; Northern Pacific Il, 900; Ore
gon Transcontnental $1,000.
MINING STOCKS.
There was only moderate business in mining
stocks, but the market was frmer than Saturday.
The sales included Alice at 30003O5, Consoli-
dated Virginia H. Horn Silver 200, Standard 40,
Castle Creek %, La Crosse 10, Bodie $50 regular,
47O seller ten and 44O seller sixty days. Bulwer
s., Sutro Tunnel 10, Rappahannock II and Gold
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