The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-29

CHICAGO. Sept. 2s.-Cssh wheat broke ali
records today, when round lot in the Ma
tional elevator sold at 50 cents per bushel
The speculative grain markets were
weaker under free selling. corn leading in
the decline. December wheat closed =
cent lower, May corn Il cent lower and
May oats e cent lower. Provisions I'm
ished with modest gains.
Wheat followed the regular program al
the opening II started weak at about =
cent below the closing prices OF the prev
ious day and continued TO rule dull and
heavy for an hour. A little more life was
infused into the market at the end OF that
time and a slight increase in activity was
accompanied by a rather firmer feeling.
The situation had not outwardly changed
since the day before.
Chicago receipts for today were as, 1879
bushels and the shipments s,2S2 bushels.
The primary market receipts, including
those of Kansas City, amounted to about
sec. coo bushels The export clearings of
wheat and flour from the principal At
lantic ports amounted to the respectable
total of 533, 900 bushels. Foreign markets
were generally weak and lower at the
opening, Berlin being the exception. De-
cember opened here at 531s cents as against
53h cents at the close OF the market yes
terday. IL did not get below that price
nor above 53s5 cents ali forenoon. The
closing cablegrams showed no change since
the opening Antwerp, Paris and Liver
pool all sent lower quotations and Berlin
higher The price here worked down around
53L cents near he middle of the day and
a scratch sale was made at 50 cents. Con-
sidering that corn was turning itself inside
out during the greater part OF the session,
wheat acted firm, closing at 534 cents bid
for December
Corn was very weak at the opening and
became weaker as the session progressed,
I'D to about l2 O'Clock. In that time i
cent per bushel had been knocked off the
value 1t had at the close OF the preceding
day. The verv first transaction shook the
price down cent, the opening trades IN
May being at range of 40I@491s cents,
compared with so cents, its closing value
on the day previous. 1t ruled firmly for
while and reac ed TO 495s cents, but
shortly after II O'Clock 1t had sid
down to 80 cents. There was another
reaction which carried the price up again
to 49J5 cents, but everybody seemed TO
have corn for sale at 4915 cents. The gen
eral belief is that large proportion OF the
unloaded cars in the railroad yards are
filed with corn and the shipping demand
ket was weak at the close, finishing at
491l cents for May.
a good business was transacted In oats.
Orders were plentiful and sellers offered
still more freely This tended to ease oil
values. although the fluctuations were
governed entirely by the action OF corn
and were steady to n shade tirmer, but
generally speaking were lower Car
rington- Hannah disposed Of consid-
cradle stock Bartlett-Frazer, Forge
and LindmaD were good buyers.
Other trading was principally scattered.
May opened 34141S934H cents 10 333s
cents. sold up TO 33$s cents and back 10
331s63S1I cents, closing ut $685..
Provisions did better for holders today.
The receipts of hogs were only 10000 aud
only 10000 are looked for tomorrow.
Armor 81 Co., were credited with buying
good deal during tue session. and the
Anglo American Packing Company and
the packers were also more favorably in
clined toward the market than for several
DAYS. Pork opened at an advance OF D
cents and rose 90 cents more, reactet n
trihe and closed with net gain of 2219
cents. Lard at the close showed an I'M
provement of 10 cents and ribs made II
similar gain.
Freight rates are steady at u cents for
wheat, tx cents for corn and Is cents for
barley to Buffalo and cents for corn 10
Prescott.