Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-21
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Money at gallo Per Cent.-Governments
Dull and SteadY-Stocks Dull-Flour
firm and Unchanged-Wheat Higher.

Dull and SteadY-Stocks Dull-Flour
firm and Unchanged-Wheat Higher.
New York, May 20-Money on call
close. ranging from Gallo per cent; last loan
at per cent; closed offered at 5 per cent;
prime mercantile paper 5a6 per cent: ster-
lingeXchangc quiet NJ 1873 ta4S5l4.
GovERNMENTs-Dul and steady.
FOurs Registered. ....................l- ~
/ FOurs Coupons. ......................l T.
Fours-and-a- half Registered, .......... lO@9s
Fours-and-a-half Coupons. ...........l O34
Pacific Skies of gj...................I Ito
STATEs-Dull and steady.
RAuRoADs-Active; sales, 2,'2l,OOO
STocKs-The stock market was quite IT.
regular to-day in its movements and until
the last hour was much less active than any
day for few weeks back, and while the
general tone of the list was dropping, there
were a few specially strong spots which
served to give character to the dealings,
which otherwise would have shown some
weakness. The London market became
materially lower this morning and
there was free selling of London Ia
forites From the start the bears
went cunning for stop-overs and dld
succeed in uncOVoring a few, bnt the losses
sustained in all but a limited number OF
stocks We're snsgnifcont The Wander
bits again came 10 the front and c.. G., 1.
| x St L. showed special buoyancy Sugar
was strong all the way out also, and bull
points were as freely distributed upon 1t as
AT any time since the present manipulation
began Richmond and West Point was
also prominent toward the close, scoring an
advance. Oregon Transcontinental was
a weak point in the general list,
but is final loss was only fractional.
| The close was active and strong NJ
about the best figures in most OF the list.
! Final changes are insignificant as rule,
though few stocks recovered their opening
declines and a majority of the list are lower
tonight. but while Delaware and Hudson,
with a loss of , per cent. is the only stock
To show a material loss, Sugar is up 39s,
! Ohio Southern 25S Richmond and West
Point both common and preferred. leS,
| Atchison u. c.. c.. G. and St. Louis ! per
cent. Sales 5O5. 30 shares. Quotations
closed bid as follows:
Adams Express, $50; American Express,
! rs: Canada Pacific SIS; Central Pacific,
36: Chesapeake and Ohio, 2l9l; do. first
preferred, Gi@i second preferred 49, ON
cago and Alton, 1870; Chicago, Burllng-
ton and Quincy, lOSi Z; Delaware and HUI,
son. III: Delaware, Lackawanna ana
! Western. l41l6: Denver and Rio Grande,
| 10: Erie. 2ga-: do preferred 6Sl5; Fort
WAYNE. l5lis; Illinois Central, llG; Lake
shore. ms; Michigan Central, 99}4;
Minneapolis and St. Louis, :; do pre-
ferred. Is; Missouri Pacific, 76li North
ern Pacific, BIS do. preferred, S59s; North
western, ll5l4 do preferred, li5; New
York Central, 109l5; Oregon Transscontl-
mental, AK; Pacific Mail, - Peoria, De
catur and Evansville, %; Pitts6urg,
l55: Pullman Palace Car, l99; Read
ing, AZ; Rock Island, 9os,; ST LOUIS
and San Francisco. 35ll; do preferred
G5i[: do first preferred, l04; St Paul, 1917;
do. preferred. l20ls; St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Manitoba, 1888! St Paul and Omaha,
b.: do. preferred, 9S; Texas Pacific,
23Jz: Union Pacific, 67H; United States EX-
press. -; Western Union, 81.