St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-23
FINANCIAL
New York.

NEW YORK. July 21.-Wall street with
total TRANSACTIONS Of only $4,000 shares,
more than half of which were In the
stock of the American Sugar Refining
company, there wasevery little interest
In the speculation on the stock ex-
change today. Distilling, the sales of
which were IL, 700. and Richmond Ter
minal. with but LOO shares To its credit,
completed the list of stocks in which
the sales exceeded 800 shares. So mar
row a market has not been experienced
i'll many years, even OH Saturday.
Scarcely anything was done during the
first quarter OF an hour except in Sugar.
Not until 10:45 was there sale of Chi
cage Gas, General Electric or Louis
vile. The first transaction in Bur
lington d Quincy took place at
HIS, Rock Island at 1l:40 and
i'll 81. Paul at 11:51. Sugar was in good
request in the early dealings, and adj
vanced ~ per cent, reacting l and
recovering % per cent, making gain
of rs from yesterdays closing price.
Disabling rose p in the opening trading,
but was at once raided, and sold Off "
per cent. In the final dealings the
covering of short contracts resulted in
rally of e per cent. The dealings in
the rest or the list were so small and the
fluctuations so narrow as not to call for
any special mention, the market closing
steady 10 firm, with prices somewhat
evenly divided between the declines
and advances, compared with the final
sales Of yesterday, but in no case was
the change above fraction, except
Pullman, which was per cent higher.
The result of the weeks trading has
been in The main 4 depreciation in
values. the principal declines being
Atchison, 1s6; General Electric, u; ST.
Paul preferred, ~; Evansville & 1erre
Haute, Chicago Gas, 3; DiStilllng and
Wisconsin Central, 3$s; Minneapolis q
St. Louis preferred, AZ, and Brooklyn
Elevated, 8 per cent. Advances were
established of per cent in Tobacco
preferred and Des Moines & Fort Dodge
preferred; ~ in United States Leather
preferred; 215 in Louisville Il New
Albany preferred. Hooking Valley pre-
ferred and Laclede Gas preferred; 23I
in Baltimore IL Ohio, and sd in Sugar.
OF the grangers Burlington IL Quincy
shows gain of 4, and Rock Island a
loss of IS, st. Paul %, and Northwest "a.
The railway aud miscellaneous bond
market was fairly active, but was weak
in tone. and declines were made of Der
cent in Chicago IL Western Indiana gen.
eral is, ~ in Atchis0n Is, rs in At
ChtoOu oOSOuuo, IA III ~. lLOhlS ~ Dan
Francisco general 5s, IL in Erie sec
Onds cOnsols trust receipts and l per
cent in Northern Pacific seconds and
Northern Pacific q Montana tirsts. Buff
falo u Erie new Is advanced u, and
Rock Island extended IS registered and
Fort Worth and Denver City Is, per
cent. The principal changes of the
week are as follows:
Misunderstanding Falls & Minnesota
firsts, 65s; ScIOto Valley u New Eng
land Is, 5; Equitable Gas (uf New York;
IS and Union Pacific sinking fund IS,
4; do gold is. collateral trust notes, g;
Northern Pacific thirds. 80; United
States Cordagc tirsts, 35S; Richmond &
Danvllle stamped 5s, 81, and Union
Pacific, Denver q Gulf frsts, 81.
Decli nes--Toledo, Peoria u Western
firsts, IL; Missouri Pacific collateral
trust 5s, Z; Wabash debentures. series
b, 5; Detroit Gas IS, 4: Atchison sect
Onds, 35S; do As, q; Burlington Il
Quincy debenture IS, 81, and Northern
Pacific terminal firsts, s per cent.
The Tofzl Sales o. stocks
today were 45.6O3 shares. including:
AmericaH Sugar. "a, 100; Dstilling
and Cattle Feeding, 1880; Missouri
Pacific, LOO; Western Union, 500.
SIOckn-CiO.am