Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-18

Firm - stocks, Higher - Flour, Steady
aud Unchau ged-W Wheat, Lower.
NEW York, August l7.-Money on call
easy 1T l per cent; last lean closed
an psr cent. Prime mercantile paper 3a5
ner cent. Sterling Exchange, weak, with
actual business in bankers bills az 4S514
for demand and al 49, [afS63 for 90
DAYS: posted rates 1867 {a4S715 and 4S544S9;
commercial bills 4S4a4s415. Silver certlh-
Gates 64aG5.
GOVERNNENTS-FIrm.
L. 5. IS Registered. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. II4
L.. :. IS Coupons. ..llt%4
u. =. Is Registered. .................-I l0'4
q. ;. is Coupons. ....................l liza
/. :. IS Registered Observation-Disclosures. 20
Pacific Us OF 80. ....,............... .IOl
STArES-Dull.
RAILROApS-StrOng.
SrocKs-The speculative eye was fast
ened on Burlington aud Quincy until AFTER
mid day and the movement OF the market
generality was largely dependent on tue
fluctuations in that stock. For hall an
hour midway between 10 and ii O'Clock the
market was moved upward, but during the
rest of the morning depression prevalledand
when shortly before II o'clock some o. the
news agencies sent out Boston oespatcn
a',tiur that the Burlington dividend had
general break iu the market. Burlington
drained II per cent. The other graugers
35ajf the iEdustUialS i+aB, and the general
r3ii[yav list i.al5 General Electric and
Tobacco were exceptions, the former sell
i1cunlT5 per cent from the low point
of the morning ana the latter q per cent.
from Yesterdays closing sale. The true
fgcs eli tue declaration Of the regular IA
per cent. dividend was known in Wall
street abovt l2:l5 and was the signal for
the beginning OF strong buying move
maDt which resulted In an advance OF %
in Burlington, rs in Rock Island, u IN
St Paul and Il. in Missouri Pacific. Dis
tiling broke 23s. Buffalo Rochester "
Piusourg sCld down Is per cent.
without any subsequent recovery. The
speculation closed strong and prices, com
parsd with Yesterdays closing figures,
we're az per cent higher, the latter
American District Telegraph. Distililng
loses Is on the day. Sugar ttuctuated
between l09 and l0S%, closing at yeSter-
davis final figures Atcaisou and Chicago
Gas are also unchanged on the day. The
pond market was strOng all day. Sales OF
stocks 263, $50 shares. Quotations closed
bid:
Atchison. 61f; Adams Express, las; Amer
can Express liz; Baltimore and ONO,
1915; Canada Pacific. 6s}s Central Pacinc'
1915; Chesapeake and Ohio, 1874; Chicago
and AItca. l3S; Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, 1914; Chicago Gas, 1874 Delaware
and Hudson, 1874; Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western. los; Denver and Rio Grande
preferred, 841<; Distillers aud Cattle Feed
ers Co., 1861; Erie, 1514: do. preferred,
2glf; Fort Wayne, 1850; Illinois Central,
92li Lake Shore, 1895; Michigan Central,
94It Missouri Pacific, 29&; National Cord :
age, 221s; do preferred, 36; Norfolk and
Western preferred, 24H; Northern Pa
cine, IN; do. preferred, Il; Northwestern,
1867 40. preferred, l4l54; New York Cen
tral, lOl4: New York and New England,
~; Pacific Mail, lG; Peoria, Decatur
anu Evansville, 4$(; Pittsburg, l4S4; Pull
man Palace, l57; Reading, 1919; Rock
Island, 675S; ST. Louis aud san Francisco
first preferred. -; ST. Paul. 63js; do pre-
forred, ll9; Tennessee Coal ana Iron,
l4I[; Texas Pacific, 1875; Union Pacific,
l3i.: United States Express, 50; Western
Union, s99I; Wheeling and Lake Erie,
llss; DO. preferred, II.
Mining Stocks-Band B., -; Cholor, -;
Crown Point, 20; Consolidated California
and Virginia, 400; Deadwood, 50; Gould
and Curry. 10; Hale and Norcross, 10;
Homestake, 1850; independence, -; Mex
lean, rs; North Star, -; Ontario, 200;
Ophir go; Plymouth, 10; Sierra Nevada,
65: Standard, $40; Union Con-. 60; Yel-
low Jacket, 10; Iron silver, 10; Quick
Silver. 225; DO preferred, 1880; Bulwer, 20.