Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-16

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Stocks, Firm-Flour Weak-Wheat'
Lower.
NEW YORK, February l5.-Money on call
easy az per cent; last loan at per cent. :;
closed at per cent. Prime mercantile
paper 3l6a5l6 per cent Sterling exchange
firm at 4S4a4S7. Silver certificates 6454
Csc.
GOyERNMENTS-Dull.
Fours Registered northumberland 1875
FOurs Coupons. Observation-Disclosures. 1l31S
FOur-and-a-hal Registered. .......... 80
Pacific Skies OF 95...................lU 2
STATES-Du1. 10
R1LROADs-Firm.
STOCKS-Thls was e field day on the
Stock Exchange for the Sugar shares, the
trading in which was on very large
scale The influences bearing on this mer-
curial property were all of a depressing
nature The failure TO hold the annual
meeting yesterday on adjournment from
last month aud the statement OF
the counsel of the company
that a minority of the stock had no
legal right TO adjourn the meeting, created
a situation which was not regarded as IA
vorable by certain stockholders and which
was taken advantage of by the short inter
est 10 hammer the shares Advlces from
Washington were adverse TO the sugar in
tevests, it being reported that the Senate
subcommittee had agreed TO report in
favor OF free sugar, both raw and refined.
In view of these conditions it was not I'M
natural that Sugar should be sharply
PRESSED for sale or that considerable long
stock should be brought out. The selling
movement began at the opening OF business
aud large blocks were thrown on rapidly
declining market. Sugar preferred recorded
a decline of pa per cent, closing at the
lowest point touched. The uncertainty as
10 the rate of dividend TO be declared at
TO -morrow's meeting of directors gave an
unsettled tone 10 the dealings in Burling-
ton The coal shares were weak. owing
TO the failure Of the coal sales agents at to-
days meeting 10 arrive at decision
regarding prices and Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western broke 21S and Della
ware and Hudson a per cent. In the rest
of the DAYS transactions, DiStilling, Read
ing and Western Union were the only stocks
in which the transactions exceeded
5000 shares and in all three
the fluctuations were slight and the closing
figures were in each case changed only s
from Yesterdays final sales. The general
market at the opening was quite firm and
81 the close was steady TO firm, Sugar be-
ing the only really heavy stock in closing
dealings The bond market was firm
throughout the day. Sales Us, 9OO shares.
Quotations closed bid
Atchison, y; Adams Express, $50;
American Express, Ill; Baltimore and
Ohio, 90; Canada Pacific, 20; Central
Pacific, 13i4; Chesapeake and Ohio, Il;
Chicago anu Alton. 100; Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy, 141s; Chicago
Gas, 6435; Delaware and hudson, 1875;
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western.
l61; Denver and RIO Grande pre-.
ferred, 500; Disullers and Cattle Feed
ers Co, 2S5S; Erie, 1873; DO. preferred,
34IS; Fort Wayne $50; Illinois Cen
tral. 90: Lake Shore, 1851; Michigan
Central, 963l; Missouri Pacific, DPS {;
Norfolk and Western preferred, 70;
Northern Pacific, ~ do. preferred, III :;
Northwestern, 1919; do. preferred, 1872;
New York Central, IS; New York
and New England, Il; Pacific Mail,
1915; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, 4;
Pittsburg, 1867; Pullman Palace, l65;
Reading, 2l%; Rock Island, 45lS ST. Louis
and San Francisco first preferred, -; ST.
Paul 557<; do. preferred, ll71S; Tennessee
Coal ana Iron, 1871; Texas Pacific, Sl4 !;
Union Pacific, l5$i; United States Ex-
press, 50; Western Union, S3l4; Wheel
ing and Lake Erie, l2Ss; do. preferred,
Az: General Electric 35eS.
Mining Stocks-Band B., -; Cholor, so;
Crown Point, 10; Consolidated California
and Virginia $50; Deadwood, 100; Gould
and Curry, SO: Hale and Norcross, 90:
Homestake, 100; independence, -: Mex
lean, $50; North Star, 49,; Ontario, $50;
Ophir, 30: Plymouth, 20; Sierra Nevada,
100; Standard, 125; Union Con-, 100; Vel