The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21
The weekly bank statement, issued to-day,
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.
Yesterdays Quotations on Produce at the Two
Great Centers.


Great Centers.
NEW YORK March 2O-Nour- Receipts
Ia. sO7 brs; exports 1896 brls, g. 7sS Sacks dull,
unsettled and weak. Sales, 5000 brls. Super
fine Western and State. 81 25; common to
good extra Western and State, So .3003.75 COM
mon to good extra Ohio, SO. % 0525.
Wheat-Receipts, 2s05o Blu; exports, 1898
bu spot lots dull and somewhat nominal, ex-
porters stil holding of; options opened de-
pressed, and declined s0sc, afterward ruled
stronger. and closed showing recovery Of q
}c. Sales, 2so. 600 bu futures, $4,000 bu spot;
Ne. spring, 95ac No. Chicago, Gle; ungraded
red. sac; No l white, 97c; No. 2 red I'M
changed and nominal at 92sc April, 924 q 93ac,
closing at 93sci May, 93a 0y4c, closing at 93sc;
june 944 094sc, closing at 942c; July, 94a 095c,
closing at 95c; August, 94a 95sc, closing at
05Ac; September 95s q $780, closing at 96ac; De-
cember, e9sc q 81, closing at 99sc.
Corn lower; receipts, l9l, 400 bu; exports, 3d.
O57 bu sales 936 600 bu futures, 1885, 900 bu spot;
ungraded, 42945ic; No 3, Al 045c; steamer, Al
0442c elevator, 45a % Acc aloat; No. 2, 45s 045sc
elevator 46ac afoat; steamer yellow, Az a 45c;
steamer white, 44sc: No March, nominal at
46c April, 46i 46sc, closing at 465c; May, 49, a
47ae, dosing at 46sc; June, 47047ac. closing at
474c; August, 48ac; steamer, March, 44sc; April,
Oats bower; receipts, 81, 45o bu; exports, 1, 465
bu mixed Western, 34a 03Sc; white Western,
89044c.
Hay steady and fairly active.
Coffee--Spot fair Rio firm at 6ac; options
moderately active. Sales. l5, 250 bags; March,
l5c; April, 7. loo; May, 705 az. 10c; June,
7c; August. 7.l0c; September. 705 7.lOc; No
and quiet; cost and freight, 3 3-32c for 96-test;
fair to good refining quoted at 4 04sc; refined
dull; extra G, 5s054c; white extra G, $50
716c; confectionery A, 6sc; standard A,
5l5l6a5sc; cubes, ea0s 7-lec Rice steady
Petroleum firm; United closed at 7esc; refined,
7ac.
Lard steady and quiet; Western, spot, 625c;
choice, 29c; April, g. 26c; May. Csc: June,
$780, July, 639c; August, 645c; September,
csc.
Butter armer and in good demand; Elgin
creamery, 33 034c.
Copper firm; lake, lie. Lead firm; common,
N.85@490.
Talow more active and steady.
Rosin dull at 81. OBJ 1.l0 Turpentine dull at
Eggs steady and in fair demand; receipts,
a2sl packages; Western, I2lc.
Pork dull and declining mess. So rs q TO- Is for
old; $1l for new; short clear, $l4. Cut meats
firm: picked bellies lac.
CHICAGO, March %. The fact that May
wheat sold on the curb yesterday afternoon as
low as 81 3c. and some sales were reported as hav
ing DoSu udu0 a. oA4C toBetucr VIII Tie ldfiurc
of the Lehman Elevator Company at Duluth
produced decidedly shaky feeling among Chi
cagos spectators and general belief that the
market here was going to spot" to-day. The at
tendance on Change was the largest that has
been known for many days, and the faces of
many prominent spectators who are not often
personally represented were seen among the
crowd. Pillsbury, the great miller and Barnes,
the elevator man. his Northwestern coadjutor.
were on the floor early Report has it that these
two gentlemen are partly responsible for the
decline OF yesterday, they having let 60 their
holdings of wheat. which amounted to several
million bushels When the bell tapped at $3.50.
trading began with roar but it was found that
the Lehman Elevator Company failure, of
Dulntn, which was the disquieting factor in yes
serday's late and this mornings early trading.
had been discounted. The company was ''long7
about GOO, 900 bushels all of which was dumped
yesterday afternoon the break The failure
seems to have been due more to the absence of
me partners from their proper places at the crti
cal time, than TO lack of assets. Soon
after the opening, however, May wheat,
which started ut 81, sold down to 81. The ex-
IRENE weakness can be imagined when such
)normous purchases as were made ut the open