Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-04
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Money at 1 1-eaa Per Cent-GOvern-
Insats Dull and Firm-Stocks Lower
Flour Dull - Wheat Lower
Nav YORK, February 3.-Money on call
easy, ST IL To per cent; last loan a2 per
cent. closed offered 1t 2 per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 81 a554 per cent. Sterling
exchange quiet out firm at +S415 a4So19.
GoVERNHRNTs-Dulla and firm.
FOurs Registered. HOY
EOufS coupon. ..............-... IlO14
t'ours-and-a-bslf Registered. .........lO 100
Pacific Skies OF '95. ..................lV 9
STATEs-Dull and firm.
. RAILROADS-AIore active; sales s, O07 600,
SroCks-The fall off in the exports Of
grain is having considerable influence in
the stock market and indicates that there
VIII be falling Of in the earnings OF some
railroads during January and February.
The market to-day was feverish and very
much mixed all day and the good buying of
Western Union. Manhattan, Wheeling and
Lake Erie preferred and Lake Shore in
the forenoon was more than Offset by the
heavy selling in the Industrials, AtchiSon,
Union Pacific and Louisville and Nash.
vile ana later in Delaware and
Lacxawanua, although the squirt in
CoalerS had good effect for some time
There seems TO be a strong Impression
that there will be an increase in the dlvl-
dend on Western Union when the next one
is declared, and the strength OF that stock
is very pronounced by the impression that
the Gould interest is now ranged on the
bull side. The depressing influence to-day
came from Chicago and was most vigOr-
ouSly felt in the industrial stocks. Among
the railroad list Louisville and Nashville
continued 70 yield right from the opening,
Of q L N
the forenoon, was held quite firm against the
weakness of the rest of the market during
the remainder of the day. Burlington was
a feature of the late drive, but its early i'm
prOvement prevented any material loss Tor
the day. The rest of the market, after a
steady opening, developed considerable
strength, but the advances were only frac-
tional and the demand was at no time ur-
gent, so that with the pressure brought to
bear by the bears, prices yielded slowly all
along the line. The market closed heavy
ut or near the lowest prices. Sales 349, S23
shares. Quotations closed bid:
Adams Express, 145; American Express
ZIG; Canada Pacific 500; Central Pacific
3l[5; Chesapeake and Ohio, 25z do. first
preferred 6lLl; do. second preferred 43;
ton and Quincy, los; Delaware ami
Hudson, l2fL<; Delaware, Lsckswsnna
and Western IA; Denver and Rio
Grande, preferred 4Sl; Erie 3015; do,
preferred 7194; TT. Wayne 1872; Illinois
Central, 1854; Lake Shore, 1928; Michi'
gan Central, 100; Minneapolis and st.
Louis 81; do. preferred 20; Missouri
Pacific 621S; Northern Pacific, 231s; do.
preferred 66$I; Northwestern 1l735 {;
DO. preferred l4l; New York Central,
ll42{; Oregon Trsnscontinental, 15H;
Pachc Mail, s79s; Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville, 20; PittSburg, $50; Pullman
Palace, 1891; Reading, AZ Rock Island,
9O9[; ST. Louis and San Francisco, -;
do. preferred -; do. first preferred T6;
St. Paul, 7SJS; do. preferred l24S4; ST.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, ll31S {;
St. Paul and Omaha, 462i; do. pre-
ferred ia; Tennessee Coal and Iron,
AZ; Texas Pacific, 124; Union Pacific,
49,; United States Express, 40; Western
Union, S61S.