Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-01

money at baoO ter ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dull and steady-Stocks Dull-Flour
Steady and Unchanged-WheatB higher.
New York, October 3l.-Money on call
close. ranging from 8 to3O per cent; last
loan - per cent, closed offered at 80 per
cent: prime mercantile paper ia per cent.
Sterling exchange quiet and easier, at
4SOi {a4S5.
GovERNMENTs-Dull and steady.
Fours Registered. ...................l ~ 3
Fours Coupons. ...........: -. IA =
Fours-and-a-half, Registered ex int. 1925
Fours-and-a-half, Coupons. 1904
Pacific Skies of '95. ................1l lib
STATEs-Dull and steady.
RATLRoADs-Moderately active; sales,
81. O97,OO
SrocKs.-The stock market to-day was
dull. and in the general list almost
featureless, with small fluctuations and
several changes of temper, but on
the whole displayed power Of re-
sstance which has been notably lack
ing for some time past. There was every
promise of a strong closing during the fore
noon hours. but a variety of causes pre-
vented a material Improvement Among
the most powerful of these was the steady
growth OF scarcity of money to loan, owing
to the fact that the day was Friday and
also the end of the month. The
central feature of the market was again
Sugar Refneries, and the publication OF
the financial statement last night was the
cause of large crowd in the stock this
morning, in which considerable excitement
was shown for the first hour In the fore
noon the temper of trade was undoubtedly
bullish improvements were Slow until
toward noon and the business done was eX-
tremely small, but in the grangers, Chi
10, l.rHfl 10 On 4
North American there were gains from y
TO u per cent. recorded The tightness of
money began TO tell upon prices, and later
there was a report stating that the Read .
ing pool had been dissolved and that stock
had been distributed, which carried with
il the assumption that the weaker mem
bers of the pool would be forced TO liqul-
date. This caused sharp attack upon
Reading and it yielded over > per cent. TO
349i, with a slight yielding in the general
list. The market closed very dull and
steady and firm. There were few de-
clines, but Reading is the only one OF any
Importance, its loss boing -, while Sugar
Refineries and Chicago Gas are each up
IL. and Louisville and Nashville T..
Sales 2l7,Gsl shares. Quototions closed,
bid, as follows:
Adams Express, AS; American Express,
1l5: Canada Pacific, ~: Central Pa
cific, 29i$; Chesapeake and Ohio, 1873; do.
first preferred, 52l4 do second preferred,
3D. Chicago and Alton, l25; Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy, 90i1; Delaware and
Hudson, 1879 Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, 1875; Denver and Rio Grande,
IN; Erie. 81 do preferred, %; Fort Wayne
1888: Illinois Central. 9S; Lake Shore,
1867; Michigan Central, 81; Minneapolis
and St. Louis, ;; DO preferred, l2j{; Mis-
souri, Pacific GSsl; Northern Pacific, IS;
do. preferred, %; Northwestern, los: do.
preferred. 1875; New York Central, l0l;
Oregon Transcontinental, 49,; Pacific
Mail.Hi5; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville,
II: Pittsburg l55; Pullman Palace Car,
2O6: Reading, 35Is; Rock Island, IS; St.
Ionis and San Francisco, %; do. preferred,
IS: do. first preferred, -; St.Paul, 56I; do.
preferred los; St Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba, 1861 St. Paul and Omaha, "a;
do preferred, 81: Texas Pacific ~; Union
Pacific 467z; United States Express, 20:
Western Union, sos.