The Indianapolis journal., 1894-04-07
STOCKS TENDING UP
With Few Exceptions the Share
List Advanced Yesterday.
Sugar and Whisky Trust Fluctuated
and Made Gains-IndianapOlis
Wheat One Cent Higher.

At New York. yesterday. money call
was easy al per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 3G51z per cent.
Sterling exchange was steady. with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at ASshG
4SSIz for demand, and at S4Sd4s7A for
sixty days; posted rates, s4sSq4 S915; com
mercial bills $4S6a4ss14
Silver certificates. 61%.c. Bar silver closed
at G2sc per ounce; at London. 2S 3-l6d.
Total sales of stocks amounted TO 210.5SO
shares. The speculation On the Stock Ex-
change was confined almost entirely 10
New York trading. Purchasing orders sent
before the opening Of the Exchange for the
London account at a fixed limit were not
executed TO any extent as the current fig
ures were above the prices got Some small
lots of St Paul and 100 shares of Chesa-
peake & Ohio were, however. purchased,
together with some Louisville & Nashville
and Wabash. AT the opening the market
was firm and active, the first prices being
made. as a rule higher than the closing
figuras N Thursday. Sugar and Distillns
beirs EXCEPTIONS. opening a fraction lower
and ree siing in the early dealings, while
the rest Of the list under the leadership OF
Lead. moved upward 1sq11sc in the first
fifteen minutes. Sugar, on small selling,
declined ~. and then, under fairly good
buying, took an upward turn. advancing
2is. ana reacting 3 at the close. The
movement in this stock was mainly due
10 the covering OF short contracts. Distill-
1nG fell off y in the opening trades, as the
erect OF Judge Gibbons decision ordering
the trial on its merits of the suit against
the company under the Illinois antitrust
law There was a quick recovery of the
loss, and during the afternoon an advance
or rs, OF which Il was lost in the closing
sales: Some of the specialties made ma
bly, Edison Electric 2, which, after a reac-
tlon or ]. recorded additional advance of
H., making gain of 212 on the day. To-
ward noon there was a partial reaction,
but after midday the market became strong
again, and, with an occasional reaction,
continued to advance to the close, the final
dealings being I'm most cases at or near
the best OF the day. The 0rangers were
frm- The strength of these stocks was
due 10 the advance in wheat.
The bond market was firm IN the early
dealings, gaining strength as the day adj
vanced and closing generally at the best
OF the day. Advances-Peoria, Decatur &
Evansville seconds. 3; Louisville. Evans
81: Louis & Kansas City first trust re-
ceipts ga; Union Pacific firsts of SO. Ia: /:
Chicago, St Louis & New Orleans fveS,
Hooking Valley skies, Erie seconds Erie
Southern firsts. 1ss; Central Pacific skies OF
20, lH; Chesapeake & Ohio our-and-a-
halfs. Mobile & Ohio fours Mobile & Ohio
new skies, each 1 per cent.
2; Louisville * Nashville Cecilian branch
hrsts sold at 10S&s. against 1Ol on Sept 49,
Omaha * St Louis firstS extended funded
coupon sold at 46. against 361a on Dec. 2.
Government bonds were firm. State bonds
were Inactive.
The following table. prepared by James
r.. Berry Room 16. Board OF Trade shows
the range of quotations: