Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-03
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Money. Per Csnt-Governments, Steady.
stocks, LOwer-Fiour, Easy-Wheat.

New y ORR, February 2.-MOney on call
easy at 1 per cent; last loan, l per
! cent; closed at 1 per cent. Prime mer-
/ camille paper 3i5a5i5 per cent Sterling
exchange steady actual business AZ 4S4a
| 1874.
GOVERNMENTS-St steady.
/ FOurs Registered. ................. 1l3}<
EOurs coupons ...............-.. 4lo;8
/ FOur-and-a-haf Registered. 5000. %
STATEs-More active.
| RAuROADs-Firm.
STOCHs-The volume Of business on the
Stock Exchange was very light to-day and
| the fluctuations were confined within un-
usually narrow limits. An attempt was
made at the opening TO raid the market on
I the strength Of the passage Of the Wilson
I bill, Sugar being selected as the chief
victim. The general list responded 70
/ but very trifjng extent and Sugar, after
decline Of IA per cent, took
sharp upward turn, advancing
% per cent Covering by the shorts was
I the main cause OF the advance and they re-
uewed the selling movement at the highest
figures, causing q reaction on I per cent.
40 lOug stock was heavily brought out and
I on reports that the Sugar interest you'd
I be taken care Of when the tariff bin was
| taken up in the Senate the stock moved
up III per cent, reaCtiug & In the final
/ dealings, the gain on the day being Is per
cent. Distiluug was very strongly held
| throughout the day, opening at an advance
/ of s.. never reCediug more than L below
I and closing az an advance of upon that
I figure. 10 was reported that the Distill-
ing Company had obtained modification
OF its contract with the distributing
company. The West was a large
[ 81 ola IA
! S per cent. on the day, the las being the
i'm the stock has been largely reduced and
considerable borrowed stock was returned
/ this morning. OF the Granger shares
Northwestern and Rock Island were en-
tirely neglected and the dealings in StPaui
and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
were light, the closing sales being
sal below yesterdays. Interest in
toe list trading was on very small
scale and during the afternoon the changes
/ OF prices made were Of the smallest frac'
| tiOn az times. the market being completely
stagnant. After o'clock frmer tone
prevailed and prices advanced = fraction,
/ the speculation showing trifie more &C
I tivitv. but in the final dealings the market
reacted and closed rather heavy, prices
/ generally being 5a% per cent
below the closing quotations
l of YESTERDAY Pacific Mail
| dropped IA, but rallied = per cent. 1t is
\ reported on pretty good authority that the
I American Sugar Refining Company will
/ meet on February IA. 70 which date the
\ meeting held IN January adjourned. The
/ tariff bill is not vet disposed Of, and the
/ annual report will not, IL is said, De given
/ out until 10 is. The railway and miscel-
/ laueOus bond market was firm all day and
/ showed more activity than the share mar
/ ket Sales, 1900 shares. Quotations
/ closed bid:
| Atkinson, l15S; Adams Express, $50;
| American Express, Ill; Baltimore ana
Ohio, al: Canada Pacific, 1lIs; Central
| Pacihc 122i; Chesapeake and Ohio. l75s;
/ Chicago and Alton, 1873; Chicago, Bur
/ hngton and Quincy, 169l; Chicago
/ Gas, 65i5; Delaware and HUDSON, 1919 ;
/ Delaware, Lackawanna and western.
/ l65; Denver and RIO Grande pre-
! ferred, S2it; DistiIers and Cattle Feed
| ers Co., ~; Erie 15l4; 90. preferred,
/ 331S; Fort Wayne, 100; Illinois Cen
/ tral. 93Li. Lake Shore, 1211S; Michigan
/ Central, 99lS; Missouri Pacific, 2S% F;
/ Norfolk and Western preferred 2ll4
! Northern Pacific, A. do. preferred, l15s ,
/ Northwestern, lO4; do preferred, l4O;
\ New York Central, O04 New York
and New England, 1l8(; Pacific Mail,
/ III; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, a;
! Pittsburg, 149; Pullman Palace, los;
| Reading, 20lt; Rock Island, 619l St Louis
and San Francisco first preferred, -; St.
I Paul 59lt do. preferred, lis; Tennessee
/ Coal ana Iron, 1913; Texas Pacific, SIS;
/ Union Pacific, 1875; United States Ex-
/ press, 55; Western Union, 81; Wheel
/ ing and Lake Erie l2lS; DO. preferred.
I Az.
/ Mining St0cEs-Band b, -; Cholor, 40;
| Crown Point -; COnSO,idat California
and Virginia, 800; Dndwood 100; Gould