Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-05

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STATEs-Dull.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
SToCKs.-The share speculation on the
Stock Exchange opened for the week falrly
active and during the morning the business
done was in moderate volume There was
a period Of sluggishness between II and
O'Clock, but during the last hour very
heavy business was done. In view OF the
Improvement in the London market for
American securities the prices made mere
were at or above the closing hgures
of Saturday so far as regards
the usually active list, Whle
some of the specialties recorded material
advances. A selling movementiln Sugar
was quickly developed and as result the
stock, which had advanced u per cent at
the opening, fell i. The general list re-
corded a sympathetic reaction, but before
eleven the market had recovered its tone
and again took an upward turn.
II was not until near noon
that the advance was checked
and prices eased Off fraction, the market
becoming dull and steady and moving
within narrow limits shortly before :
O'Clock. AT about this hour very general
buying movement was set in motion, tue
motive OF which vas not disclosed, except
that the purchasers were members Oh pro-
fessional cliques which have recently been
endeavoring to bull the market. The re-
ports of the railways for August
Showed an Improvement in gross earnings
and this fact helped the advance, which
ranged from I 10 27s, the latter in Pitts
burg, c., G. Il St. Louis preferred, the
common advancing IL per cent. Inc
shorts also took occasion to cover and as
result the stock moved:up 2 per cent, clos
ing within 4 of the highest point touched.
sugar recovered doring the afternoon from
its early depression and closed with net
gain of IL per cent. The bond market
was strong throughout the day and unusu-
ally active. the sales reaching the large
total of =, 255, 500. Total sales of stocks,
10000 shares. Quotations closed bid:
Atchison. N; Adams Express, l41; Amer
can Express III; Baltimore and ONO,
7G; Canada Pacific. 66l5; Central Pacific
Is; Chesapeake and Ohio, 2l3s; Chicago
and Altca. 40; Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, 7S14; Chicago Gas, AS Delaware
snd HUDSON, l35; Delaware, Lackaw2nna
and Western, 1851; Denver and Rio
Grande preferred, 365s; Distillers and Cat
tie Feeders Co., 49,; Erie, 1914; DO.
preferred, 3115; Fort Wayne, 1872;
General Electric, AIS; Illinois Cen
tral, %; Lake Shore, 1861 Michigan
Central, $50 Missouri Pacibc, SOA; Ma
tional Cordage, 1Ss<; do. preferred, 32&4 ;
Norfolk aud Western preferred, 20;
Northern Pacific, 81; do. preferred, 22$s ;
Northwestern lO7; do. preferred, l43;
New York Central, 1015S; New York and
New England. 27i4 Pacific Mail, l414
Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, ~;
Pitts6urg, $50; Pullman Palace, 1872;
Reading, 2216; Rock Island, 663s St. Louis
aud San Francisco first preferred, -; ST.,
Paul, 67ll; do. preferred, 1919; Tennessee
Coal ano Iron, 1874; Texas Pacific, 1919;
Union Pacific, II; United States Ex-
press, 50; Western Union, 9l$I Wheeling
and Lake Erie 10: do. preferred, 45.
Mining Stocks-BGnd B., -; Cholor, 10;
Crown Point, 65; Consolidated California
and Virginia, 375; Deadwood, 50; Gould
and Curry, 55; Hale and Norcross, 90;
Homestake, 1850; Independence, -; Mex
icau, 100; North Star, -; Ontario, 600;
Ophir, 200; Plymouth, To-; Sierra Nevada,
90; Standard, no; Union Con-, 90; yell
low Jacket, 30 Iron Silver 10; Quick
Silver. $50; do preferred. 400; Bulwer, ID.