St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-20

CHICAGO April 19.-corn and pork divided
public interest with wheat today. bulge Of
nearly &c took place In the corn pit. Pork
was almost pan eky aud slid down JOc Wheat
went off a cent
There was considerable stir in corn. II was
due TO some nervous buying, helped on by
some manipulation. The frmness OF corn
for several days past, even when al other
markets on the floor were weak. Sas warn
ing to the short sellers in May that II might
be safer 10 get under cover. This feeling mas
increased from day to day as the receipts
kept coming very moderate and the grading
showed no Improvement. The opening OF
navigation has left practically no contract
corn in store here The last ten DAYS Of April
have been reached and still about all the No
. corn has the word new attached and Is
ruled out OF tile contract grade. The weaihei
has been against both shipments and grad
ing.
The action today was almost entirely in
MAY The crowd acted as II afraid OF some
strong parties mere and in New York said C
be heavily long Of corn. When the marEe
began 10 advance Boyden aud others. sup
posed 70 be acting for Cddahy. turned IN AZ
buyers and put the price up on The smaller
bidders.
The same parties sold some at higher
prices but the market would not stand any
heavy Liquidation and eaSed off Izc from tor
prices, closing irregular. May 1SsHll2c up,
compared with last night and July only Il
0ssc.
oats Grned up with corn. closing about &c
higher than last night. although Norton
Worthington sold 80, 40 ba of long oats. II
Is said that Boyden's purchases OF May corn
for The past three DAYS have aggregated July
10000.
Too many hogs at the yards and eonse
duent lower prices knocked the bottom out
OF the market for PORK. Not even the
strength in corn conid Sustain II. Trading
was active the public selling freely and the
shorts buying. thus taking their proiits. Lard
anc ribs were however. comparatively quiet
and fairly steady Shortly before the end OF
the session the local operators ralded the
market aud drove II down 70 the lowest poinl
of the day. everything IN the way OF hog
products closing weak.
Wheat trading was largely local The mar
ket opened weaker aud prices sEDs4e lower
than Yesterdays closing, advanced 10 the
extent of the decline. and yesterdays closing
figure was reached, but again became weak
and declined 7sc. then ruled irregular and
the closing was about lc lower than yester-
day The speculative offerings were rather
heavy most Of the day, and especially Tor
July delivery and il was this which held the
market down somewhat New YORK parties
bought fairly at intervals during lae session.
The early weakness was Influenced come
by the English cables, which 1t was thought
would come in higher OH account OF the re-
ported cold weather in England and on the
continent Yesterday. but, instead came in
lower all around The temporary recovery
was on decided falling Off 2,2D000 bu, in
the quantity on ocean passage. This was
more than Offset later by statement IN
Dornbusch of huge decrease IN the esti-
mated requirements of the United Kingdom
and Europe.
The demand for vessel room was lighter,
and more was offered. For wheat TO Buffalo
1s.c was asked, and shippers claimed TO have
been offered room at ll2c. Corn room was
held at ll2c to Buffalo, and ls+c was PAID Tor
corn TO Georgian bay.
Estimated receipts for tomorrow; Wheat,
81 cars corn, l0i cars; oats, lJ7 cars; hogs,
$4,000.
The leading futures ranged nc follows: