Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-10
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Money ut 1.2a5 Per Cent.-Governments
Dull and Steady-StoclEs Lower-Fiour
Quiet and Observation-Disclosures Lower.


New York, November Money on call
easy, ranging from 4 = TO > per cent; last
loan at A., per cent, closed offered at ~
per cent; prime mercantile paper Gas
per cent. Sterling exchange quiet and
steady at 40 aiS5.
The weekly bank statement shows the
following changes: Reserve, decrease 81
PIG, 225: loans, decrease $g3G,2O specie,
decrease -, LOG, 80; legal tenders, decrease
81 ,066, 800; deposits, decrease Si,O3l, 100;
circulation, decrease $500 The banks
now hold 3, 5i4, 900 less than the require
ments of the - per cent rule
GovERNMENTs-Dul and steady.
Fours Registered. ..................123 E
Fours Coupons. .....................l23 ts
Fours-and-a-hal Registered eX. int. lO3
Fours-and-a-ha Coupons. ..........lOt
Pacific Skies of 'g5. ..................ll III
STATEs-Dull and steady.
Observation-Disclosures active; sales,
$4,000.
STocKs-To-day's stock market was
merely an annex to that of yesterday and
weakness was still the great characteristic
of the dealings, prices being still lower this
evening. Advices from London were rather
more unfavorable this morning, and
the recent movements in the rail-
road world looking toward bet
ter and more harmonious state OF
| affairs received more attention ana inc
disposition was to look for an improve
ment in prices providing the bank state
ment should give any assurance that a
squeeze in money rates would not compei
the throwing overheard OF purchases wlth-
| in a reasonable time. The opening was
made at advances of from 4 to = per cent.
In the first hour selling became heavy and
declines soon followed, Illinois Central.
St. Paul, Chicago Gas, Lackawanna,
Western Union, Sugar ANA Louisville
and Nashville being prominent Inc
pressure, was soon abatcd anu com
| parativc dullness was accomplished Dy
| considerable of Il reaction in the list, when
stagnation in prices succeeded. The pres
sure showed no abatement up TO the close,
although some stocks had not lost all oil the
reaction from the lowest prices oil the hrst
hour. The close was active and weak, at
or about the lowest prices OF the day
Reading is down *, New England -;
I.ackawanna, Northern Pacific preferred
and New York Central each ! i, st. Paul
and Louisville and Nashville each -:
Sales 2l5.0sl shares. Quotations closed bid
as follows:
Adams Express, M; American Express,
IA: Canada Pacific, 1874: Central Pa
cific. 50: Chesapeake ana Ohio, ~; 90.
first preferred ISll; do second preferred
3Ol%; Chicago and Alton, l25; Chicago, Bur
linggton and Quincy, s52I: Delaware and
Hudson, 1866 Delaware, Lackawanna ana
Western. 131s{: Denver and Rio Grande
IN: Erie. 1879: do preferred, 50; Fit Wayne
i58: Illinois Central. $; Lake Shore,
1879; Michigan Central, ST; Minneapolis
and St Louis, ~; do preferred. II; MIS-
souri, Pacific co.; Northern Pacific, 291s;
do. preferred, G9l Northwestern, 1875 90.
Oregon Transcontinental, 30 Pacific
Mail. 39l s; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville,
lG; Pttsburg. l5j; Pullman Palace Car,
100; Reading, BIZ; Rock Island, C9s.9; 81.
Louis and San Francisco, 81; do preferred,
IS; do. first preferred, 90; st; Paul, %;
and Manitoba, 1867 St. Paul and Omaha,
2Sl do preferred, 50; Texas Pacific lG,4
Union Pacific AZ: United States Ex-
press, 10; Western Union. ~.