The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-07


New York, Feb 6.-Flour free offerings
and barely steady; winter wheat low grades,
s. 0O9s2 -; patents g sass so Minnesota
clear 81 5O9s2 80; patents s. s0as4 S5: low
extras g. 05GlS2 As; southern flour dull and
easy; common to fair extras 81 00DS3 90;
good to choice extras s. l0D$4 % Wheat
spot market lower, weak and moderately
active; No. red In store and elevator "a &C;
afioat &c; No. red February 64isc: March
651.c: May 6744c. Corn, spots dull and easier:
No. ,, 42c elevator; options dull and weak.
140&c lower; February 42c; March 42I,c;
May 1870. Oats, spot quiet and hrmer; OPP
tons dull; February 341sc; March $3.50: Nav
4Sc; No. white February 36sc; March
1850; spot No >, 34ls6E344c; No. 2 white
36l4d361a mixed western 356136c white
western 36iaG405Sc Hay quiet and easy;
shipping 6OlI65c; good to choice SOQqOc. Beef
dull and nominal; family 81 0O1Si3 90; extra
mess IS 001$S so. Beef hams quiet and easy
at $40 so. Tierced beef dull aud Il rmer; city
extra India mess $40 006S2l co. Cut meats
dull and weak; picked bellies nc; picked
shoulders 6A07c; picked hams 95ac; middleS
nominal Lard quiet and lower; western
steam 81 50; city 81 50; options, February
s. u; May s. 50; refined quiet; continent
s. 20; South American 8 80 compound So "a
as 80. Pork, active and lower: mess Sl4 OOl4
Sl4 IS. Butter hrm and steady; state dairy
1920; state creamery 1TG2lc; western dairy
271sc. Molasses - foreign, nominal New
Orleans open kettle, good to choice 30G3sc,
dull and steady. Peanuts quiet; fancy hand
picked sac. Conee-options opened quiet,
closed dull and unchanged to points down:
March 10 10; May 10 IS: August IA So; spot
Rio quiet and steady; No Z l7i&c. Sugar,
raw, firm and better demand; fair refining
24c; centrifugals, 90 test, $780, refined
fairly active and firm; No. 10, 8 l3-l6c;
standard A, 41s94 5-l6c; cut loaf 67s66 5-l6
crushed 4s@5 l-l6c; graduated 1901 7-l6c.
Fretghts to Liverpool quiet and weak: cot
ton, by steam, 9-64d bid. 5-32d asked; grain.
219d.
Chicago. Feb. 6.-Wheat was in a state of
collapse to-day. There were liQuidatinR sales
lOOgS loss IA
by shorts Early public English cables re.
ported declines. Private wires went further
and reported the European markets in a
state OF Seml-demorallZation, and were quail
ied by accompanying orders to sell. There
was nothing else for our market to do but to
open lower. Some buying was not effectual
time even this support was withdrawn and
prices made new low water mark-625sc for
May. There was not scrap of news that
could be construed as encouraging Nav
ranged between $3.50 and 629sc, closing
lc lower than yesterday, at 62Ac.
In corn That there 6Ieb was no support
shorts to this market The feeling was on
par with that of wheat May ranged between
371a and 37Q371s, and closed at the bottom, a
net loss of 2sM1sc for the day. Oats-Whtlst
sympathizing with the lower wheat and corn
markets, oats were still not so remark
ably weak as would be expected.
The net loss for the day was
and corn in a state bordering on demoraliza-
ton, and with hogs weak and lower. there
was nothing for provisions to do but to de-
cline. There was nothing to sustain the
market Packers were good sellers Nav
pork closed 25c. lower; Nav lard l5617Hc.
lower and May ribs 221sc lower
Chicago Feb. Clash quotations were as
follows: Flour was in little demand prices
were weak and favoring buyers. Wheat-No.
spring 5S1a583sc; No. 2 red 5S1b@585sc.
Corn-No. 2, 3444c. Oats-No. 2, 2sc Mess
pork, per barrel, Sl2 159S12 l71a Lard. per
SO 269S6 Is. Drv salted shoulders as 2S5aS8 59
Short clear SIDES So 759S7 1919. Whisky, 81 is
az DIM Inn. IN