The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-24
SUGAR Goes UP AND DOWN.
Uncertainty Over Tariff Renders
the Market Unstable.
Chicago Gas Stronger and General
Speculation Dull.

Wall street operations are stll held
in ubpyalcc by the uncertainty In regard
to tariT legislation. Those bullins sugar
stock are industriously at work creating
The impression that Congress VIII do
nothing, thug leaving the Mckinley du-
ties IL force and enabling the Trust to
80 on making It's Fat dividends. They get
some traders to share their views, but
the majority of the latter prefer to wait
until they ian see for themselves what
the outcome Is likely to be.
The dealings In sugar this morning,
while animated at intervals, were Tar
less important than on yesterday. The
price aivarccd 81. to l0a IL, declined To
| lUl as and rosC to lOI ~
chicago Gas came next i'll point OF IN
tercst. declining as Il, -, on the an.
nouncement, that the Chicago Common
Council had PASSED the Universal T Ist
bears made an effective raid on the
strength of this. and caught number OF
stop orders.
| !:s, to So -; Tennessee Coal -. to is
/ Union Pacinc IL. to 3 ~; northern Pa
Itiic preferred "a. to Il 90, and Rock
is -; burlington & Quincy as. to Is ii
racidc -. to "a IS.
The stock, Exchange, has listel thh'
mortgage bonds of the Northern laciti'
Railroad Company. deposited with the
Adams-Fitzgerald Committee. This com
and a large amount OF IDS and consoll
dated ~. The fact that the Trust re-
ceipts have been listed is regarded as q
severe blow TO the opponents of th'
Bar silver in London Is unchanged a
2S Lied. per ounce. Commercial bar here
Is G2 IL and Mexican dollars 90 81.
| Money remains at | per cent. on cal
and at IL for 80 days to sly
months. Foreign exchange firm with :
light supply OF bills. Demand sterlini
Is ASS IA Il Ass IL, which admits OF gol,
exports at Il profit. There, will be n,
fast boat until Saturday. however, 50
that the chances are no gold will b'
shipped until then.
Saturday are unreliable. everything be
ing depend mt upon the course of eN
change in the mean time.
Sugar reacted to l04 IS, but the genera
| list held firm. Transactions were few
and far between, and there was no spe
cial feature to speculation.
TIE Southern Railway and STEAMSHIP
Association has agreed to advance tn
| rate IN first-Class freight between Nev
York and Atlanta Ga, from GO cents I
sl.H per 100 pounds. The Association ad
| journei until Aug. 90.
Receiver Wilson, of the Atchison Rail
road. said at Topeka yesterday that
retrenchment plan. based on the reduc
ton of wages paid engineers, firemel
anu COIuu'loIs, NOuii put INV eiiSN
In u few days.
The exports. exclusive Of specie. from
the port of New York for the week wer
T.24l III against S,sl4.7l4 for the CORE
spending week of 1893
AT public auction to-day 81 shares II
w. Downs Company sod at $50 for tn
lot: 800 John Patten Manufacturing Co
at SO for the lot; BOG Universal Lastin
Machine CO.. at $50: 40 Hornellsvill
Water Co., at $50 for the lot: 100 Webe
Plano Co. at 3. and % National Par
Bank At 49,"
| Manhattan Beach Hotel and Lam
LimD general Is sold to-day at -. Tn
last previous sale was As L., July 10, lb9
: Towards the close there was bris
selling movement In Sugar, which ca
ried that stock down to lUi IA. Chical
Gas sold up to AIS and recedei
! "a 3-s. The remainder OF the list left q
steady in tone.
riandy d Harmon will ship 5000 ounc,
" silver and Nesslage. Colgate C.
5000 ounces on the steamer Teutohi
which sails for Europe Tomorrow.
The Toledo Il Ohio Central RailWa
declared a dividend Of l1-i per cen
upon the preferred stock, payable Moi
: day, Aug. y, 1894 .
The sales OF listed stocks were GU :,
| shares In the unlisted apartment 90 90
shares of Sugar and LOO Lead Wer
traded in.