The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-30

Silver certificates 59s4c; no sales. Bar
silver $3.50: Mexican dollars. 1910.
At London. bar silver. "a 3-l6d per ounce.
The weekly bank statement shows the
following changes:
Reserve. increase. .Sl,36S.l75
Loans, decrease -.-...----------. 6l9,U0
Specie, increase. 1858, 500
Legal tenders. decrease. ............ 1900
Deposits, decrease. 5,Zcl,5V0
Circulation, increase. ................ lu-5u
The banks now hold Ss5 26S $50 i'm excess
of the requirements of the . per cent. rule
The imports for the week were: Gold,
sl4.e65; silver. s7.66s; dry goods, s2.12O,oO2;
general merchandise, $5,414.652. The exports
of specie for the week amounted to $SS7,625
in gold and $3.50, 900 in silver.
Total sales of stocks Saturday were ST.
475 shares. including: American Sugar,
1896; Burlington, 1850; Chicago Gas. $500;
National Lead, 1.6O0; New Jersey Central
500; Reading. $500; st. Paul, $500; West
Union, 1,100.
1t was very tame and uninteresting
market on the Stock Exchange Saturday.
The general tone of speculation firm
ness, which was due TO the inauguration OF
a covering movement, the shorts being
DESTROYS Of closing out their contracts. There
was some small buying for the foreign ac-
count and some slight local buying for the
higher and was held firmly until a renewal
OF the war on the New Jersey Central
forced that stock, which had advanced e
in the opening trading, down per cent.
TO S7s4 The rest of the list was not affected
by the raid and in fact some OF the special
ties made material gains during the
progress. When the selling of New Jersey
rallied and at the close had regained IL
per cent. of the early decline and making
Gas SAW was on in me good buying Throughout clos
ing al the best figure touched and l per
cent. above Fridays final sale Reading was
very scarce in the loan market ana after
an early decline of u per cent. rallied 81
Closing J. below the highest. In the
late dealings the market was de-
about the best of the day, the chief gains
being Cordage guaranteed, zi.; Cordage
hacco, l: Delaware & Hudson, ?; Canada
Southern, y: and the grangers' Aqes
Coal Of er9 ,Ss ra psh cent During 9e the O
week was the persistent drive against the
Cordage shares. The final sales of last
guaranteed. 22,z. At the lower point of this
week the. common had declined III, Ia per
shares rallied and the guaranteed is the
only one of the group which shows ma
week ago, the guaranteed is off per cent.
The first mortgage bonds were also de-
pressed during the week ana safes were
mae AT 20 seller 90 and 50 regular against
6s,. last Saturday. Subsequently, the price
was advanced TO g. which is the current
Bsy sod down as from n,so ths
final sale of last week, to l6ss- During the
later part of the week the stock has been
gain of i per cent. on the week. drive
sYainst the coalers forced New Jersey
ST.. Lackawanna dropped per cent. from
L. 10 los. and Delaware & Hudson 5ss,
from 13s5s TO 123
shares were released from pressure and
made quick recovery, Lackawanna gain
ing a. Delaware and Hudson and New
Jersey IL per cent. The depression in the
stock was due to the course of the COM
psny in. the matter OF REORGANIZATION of
rumors of financial difficulties, which. how
ever. we're officially denied Sugar moved
within narrow range ;,t ana me ;,, iu es Ia,
per cent. the stock showing loss of only
!. per cent. on the week The preferred is
Down IL per cent The other. more. i'm
Central As per cent; Colorado Coal, 4;
ST. paul preferred. Lake Erie e Western
Cotton OIL common and Consolidated Gas.
rs; Norfolk Western preferred. "a
Long Island Traction and Union Pacific,
IA and Lead preferred. National Starch
and Oregon Navigation. 1.
The trading in bonds Saturday was light.
the total sales being only Sf69. 100. Tne
course of values was in an upward direc-
ton but the appreciation was slight On
the week the changes in prices were In
majority OF cases toward lower ngures. the
principal losses being: Ohio Southern fours.
4: Baltimore & Ohio firsts. Petersburg
branch. and Reading firsts incomes. ~
Lake Shore dividend sevens. 21s, Lake Erie
e. Western firsts. 23s, and Erie second con-
soils. .. Advances-Wheeling & Lake Erie
frsts. Wheeling division. ~; Peoria, De,
catur & Evansville seconds. ~ Inc totai
sales Of the week We're s4.53427. The total
STOCK sales OF the week were 49,. ~! shares
Government bonds were quiet and steaay-
State bonds We're dull.
The following table. prepared By lanes
r. Berry. Room 1G. Board of Trade. SHOWS
the range of quotations:
Open High Low Clos
Name ing. est est INK
Adams Express. ....... -. ig
Alton e Terre Haute. 49,. -. 81
Alton & T. H. pfd..-- 49, ~