Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-21
FINANCE. AND TRADE.

Weak and Lower-stocks, Higher-Flour,
Ouiet-Whea', Lower.
NEW YORK. Decem Der 20.-Money on call
easy at l%a2 per cent; last loan IL per
cent. closed at ~ per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper 2$Ia415 per cent. Sterling
Exchange quiet but firm, with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at 4SS5Sa4SSs< for
demand. Silver certificates 6O15c bid.
GovERNMENTs-W Weak and lower, the
fves being down 15a35 and the fours 4 per
cent from yesterday.
U. S. 5s Registered. ..17X
u. s. IS Cou DonS. ..Il1%
U. s. As Registered. 13M
U. =. is Coupons. Observation-Disclosures l4%
U, 5. Is Registered. .................. %
Pacific 6s of '95. Observation-Disclosures. lUO
STATEs-Firm.
RAILROADS.&C.
SToCKs-A firmer tone characterized the
speculation on the Stock Exchange to-day,
but the volume of business was but little
heavier than on Yesterday. At the opening
of business the general list was held firm
", but Sugar broke Ia per cent. on hqui-
dation sales and Western Union sold down
l per cent. ex.divldend of II, ow-
ing to a pressure to sell by
holders, who had been waiting to
collect the dividend before liquidating
their accounts. A slight reaction occurred
before the end of the first half hour, but the
market quickly rallied and up to noon the
tendency of prices was upward. Lake
Erie and Western preferred rose per cent.
Outside Of these stocks the gains were
merely fractional. In exception to the
general Improvement, Sugar declined
in the early dealings IA
per per cent, but recovered II.
During the hour and half Immediately fol-
lowing midday, the active stocks were
practically without movement, but some
of the specialties 1uctuated rather wildly,
Pittsburg and Western preferred moving
up 216 and Cordage broke per cent, re
covering u. Before two o'clock there was
inaugurated selling movement In
Chicago Gas, which caused decline OF
per cent. in the shares and sympathetic
reaction in the rest Of the list TO the ex
tent of small fractions. The depression
did not last long and before 2 o'clock
speculation was on the upward track,
prices continuing to advance up TO the final
sales, and the market closed firm, at or
near the best figures of the day.
The principal advances on the day
are Pittsburg and Western preferred 215,
Lake Erie and Western preferred |, Read
ing 81. In the list of declines Reading de-
clined Is, sold up ~ and reacted IS per
cent Sugar declined ~, rallied 2B and
receded Is, making gain of a on the day.
The bond market was heavy, closing firm.
The total sales were 81, $685. 900. Total sales
of stocks l76,279 shares. Quotations closed
bid:
Atchison, Al, Adams Express, 1856;
Alton and Terre Haute, 81; do preferred
l9S; American Express ITO: Baltimore
and Ohio 631S; Canada Pacifc55A Cana
dian Southern, 80; Central Pacific,
l414; Chesapeake and Ohio, 175s;
ton and Quincy, M; Chicago Gas, n15;
Delaware and Hudson, 126; Delaware,
Lsckawanna and Western. 100; Denver
ard Rio Grande preferred, 331( Distill-
ers and Cattle Feeders Co., O.; Erie,
101S; DO. preferred. %; Fort Wayne, l57;
General Electric 333s; Illinois Central, S7%;
Lake Shore, 1905; Michigan Central, 81;
Missouri Pacific, IN; National Cordage,
"a do. preferred, 255s; Norfolk and West
ern preferred, lS%; Northern Pacific, 4;
do. preferred, IN Northwestern 911S do.
preferred, 141; New York Central, 99A
New York and New England, 3214 Pacific
Mail. 22H: Peoria, Decatur and Evans
vile, 81; Pittsburg, 1856; Pullman Palace.
1874; Reading, 145S; Rock Island, CPS; st.
Louis and San Francisco first preferred, -;
St. Paul, 5S95 do. preferred. 1l99l Tennes.
zee Coal ano Iron. 1884; Texas Pacific, 956;
Union Pacific, 1l7s; United States Ex-
press, 40; Western Union, 500; Wheeling
and Lake Erie l015; do preferred, 4215.
Mining Stocks-Bulwer, o.: Cholor, 40;
Crown Point, go; Consolidated California
and Virginia, 1856; Deadwood. 40; Gould
and Curry, 30; Hale and Norcross, 6S;
Homestake, 1850; Iron Silver -; Mex
lean, 5S; Ontario, $50; Ophir, 1876; Ply
mouth, %; Quicksilver, l50 DO. pre-
ferred, 1900; Sierra Nevada, so; Standard,
l7O; Union Con-. 25: Yellow Jacket. %.