Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-18
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Money at 3a5 Fer Ccnt-Governments
Dull and Steady-Stocls IIigher-Flour
Dull and Unchanged Wheat Active.

lnli ana ~ttANN-Ni0tkN itiE nun
Dull and Unchanged Wheat Active.
New York, April l5-Money on call
easy. ranging at 3a5 per cent: last loan at
3 per cent closed offered at per cent;
prime mercantile paper 5a1i per cent;
sterling exchange quiet and steady at 4S5a
49,.
GOVERNMENTS Dull and steady.
Fours, Registered ....................l2
Fours, Coupons. ........... ..........l22
F0urs-aud-a-half Registered ...... .lO3l5
Fours-and-a-half Coupons. ...........l0 1893
Pacific skies of 1885. ..ll6
SrArEs-Duu and steady
RMLRoADs-SUong; sales II $4,000.
SroCKs-The stock market. while rather
dull tO-day,was strong all the way through,
and while the movements i'm most of the
the list We're confined 70 insignificant pro
portions. a few stocks made large adj
vanccs and the activity in them served to
make a moderate days business. Sugar re
finerics was the feature of the forenoon and
Lackawanna in the latter portion of the
day and except in a few specialtics, these
two stocks monopolizcd the attention of the
traders and showed the only wide iiuctua-
lions The announcement OF the Intention
TO attempt 10 use the steamers OF the
Pacific Mail Company in connection with
the Northern Pacific, despite the relations
now existing between the Pacific Mail and
the Union Pacific and the further reduction
of rates by the Northern are regarded as
showing that the fight between the Rock
Island, Missouri Pacific and Union PACING
is 10 be even more bitter than at present.
The contest is so demoralizing 10 business
In Wall street that the bulls threaten to
cut away from those stocks altogether.
The Recommendation of the Ways
and Means Committee on the sugar
tariff made Sugar retinerics the prin-
cipal feature at the opening and the
buying. under the impression that the new
| legislation will increase the consumption OF
sugar and so give employment 10 the idle
refinerics. was sufficient 10 send the certiti-
Gates up nearly per cent during the fore
noon The bullsh feeling in the general
| list was helped further by the strength IN
/ Lackawanna, which was bought openly by
| its usual supporters, ana III assumed the
first position in the market The report
that came from Philadelphia that the
Reading had advanced coal prices from -
to - cents per ton also helped the improve
mentin I.ackawanna and also in Jersey Cen
| trial. While trading and fluctuations were
small the strength was undOubted, and the
inward movement ceased only with the
close of business Among the spccialtics
which showed marked strength, Tennessee
/ Coal. Chesapeake and ONO and Wheeling
and Lake Erie were prominent. The close
was firm at about the best prices Of the
/ dav. Tennessee Coal is up 2ii. Sugar Re
fners 2l5. Chesapeake and Ohio first pre-
| ferred and Rock Island per cent Sales
/ 1903 shares Quotations closed bid as
! follows:
Adams Express, $50; American Express,
| ia: Canada Pacific, - Central Pacific
I3l: Chesapeake and Ohio, 23is; do first
preferred. do Gl5.; second preferred, fl;
| Chicago and Alton, l3l; Chicago, Burlng-
| ton and Quincy, 1855; Delaware and tud,
son. l52ii: Delaware, Lackawanna and
/ Western, l39: Denver and Rio Grande,
| lG: Erie. 245.; do preferred, 60; Fort
WAYNE. l52: Illinois Central, 10;
Lake Shore, l07ls; Michigan Central, ~;
| Minneapolis and St Louis, 81; do pre-
| ferred. 49, Missouri Pacific, I37; North
ern Pacific, 30 do preferred, a North
western. i'll, do preferred, l42; New
/ York Central. 100 Oregon Transcontinen-
| tai 31e Pacific Mail, 81 =, Peoria, Decatur
and Evansville, POS Pittsburg, l51. Pull
man Palace Car, $50 Reading, Al = Rock
/ island, O.. St. Louis and San Francisco,
49,: do preferred, 81; do first pre-
ferred ssh: St. Paul, -; do preferred,
/ 1l3: ST. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba,
uli5: St. Paul and Omaha, 81; do pre-
feiTed. % Texas Pacific, lH"l Union
Pacific. SO United States Express, 'Oi
/ Western Union, s2ii.