Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-19
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
New York Financial.

&sC" AofA
NEW YORK. Oct IS.
Money on call easy. Offered at per cent
Prime mercantile paper, 3dD41 per cent;
sterling exchange stedy with actual business
in bankers bills 1875 q tSSA for demand and
1861 G1isG5s 31for sixty days; posted rates $50
$50. Commercial bills 4S5A 04s8.
Silver certificates, S}ss bid; no sales: bar sill
yer. e34 Mexican dollars. 5lL.
United Sts-es bonds, IS regular 1882;
do SIS coupons, 1l9Ia: do As regular ll4l4;
do As coupons, llIS4; do rs, regular. VI
ll4ls: Pacific SIS of '95. Ol.
Chicago Grain and Produce.
CHICAGO, Oct. IS.
Following were the quotations on the Board
of Trade today: Wheat-OctOber. opened
5lhc. closed a1lec; December. opened a2lsc,
closed ael.c: May, opened 57lec. closed 571ec.
Corn - October, opened a9ssc. closed 49,S;;
December. opened 47;sc, closed l756c: May,
opened 49lsc, closed 49ssc. Oats-Octobor,
opened 21lsc, closed 2734c; December, opened
ss54c. closed 2s34c; May, opened assc. closed
2Iac. Pork - October, opened Sl2.50. closed
Sl2.G; January, opened Sl2Hls. closed
sl2.35. Lard-October, opened $50. closed
$40.
Produce: Butter - Extra creamery, &c
per Id; extra dairy. Enc; packing stock, l2,s0
dc. Eggs-l'c per doz, loss of. Live poultry
turkeys. s19c; geese, s8.OO3- 90 per dog. Po-
tatoes- Burbanks. 5s@84c per bu; Hebrons
5663G3c; Rose 55aSoc; early Ohio. 5508lc
Sweet potatoes, Illinois. sl.OO9l.25 per Dbl.
Apples-Common to choice, Sl.002.5O per
bbl, Cranberries- COD. choice, ssO,0
$50 per Dbl; S2.j013OO per l-bu box. Honey
White clover, lib sections, new stock. lj0
I5,@c; broken comb. l01l2c; dark comb, poor
packages, SC; strained California, 5lt8c per h.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO. Oct. 49,
Live Stock-Prices at the Union Stock Yards
today ranged as follows: Hogs-Estimated
receipts for the day. 26.OoO; safes ranged at
S2-sIo4so pigs, S4.5095.lO light. S4.55lo4. 20
rough packing, S46Jd,.aO mixed. and S4.75fe
5. - heavy packing and shipping lots.
Cattle-Receipts for the day, lAOoo; quota
tons ranged at s5.45as.05 choice to extra
shipping steers, S4.!0l1i.I5 good to choice do
S3.S5Gi.i0 fair to good, S3.4ui1tl0 common to
medium do, s3.l5df:}..5 butchers steers g. ~
gas stockers, S2.!OG3.49 fe,ders. Sis a. 30
COWS, s2.40635 heifers. sl.5Oa3.5o bulls,
S2.3G310 Texas steers so..55Q4.4O western
rangers, and S2.00i15.5o Yea! calves.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts for the tav
1908; prices ranged mt Sl.JOdAOO western
Sl.Jb6t2so Texans sl.sol53.3) natives, and 500
a . lambs.
Closing Quotations.
CHIC GO. O,t. 10 Wheat, steady, cash, 81 &c
Dec. 5sss Corn, frmer, cash, 49xc, May 49ac
its. higher, cash, esc. Pork lower, cash
siae5 ard lower, cash, s7.l5. Ribs, lower
cash, SG37h.
New York Money Closing.
NEW YORK, Oct. l9 Money on call, per CEN
prime; mercantile paper. 304h.
The Local MARKETS..
GRAIN. ETC.
Corn-nsw. 45c: old, SEC.
Oats 21030c.
Hay-T,morny, S1s0S13: upland SlOMs1l
Wild Is 3$9; slout b. e5G$7; hailed. 20.
PRur AND vEaHTAnLEs.
Potatoos- 45050c.
Ouione- SIC per Du
Buttsf-Fais - choice. 90c: crsansr,, a..
Eggs-Frseh, TO
Ponitry->pring chickens, large, - 9so$a.T
per dozen.
LIVE STOCK.
Csttis-Batehsrs psy 10. c,r fed steeu
414xc; Gown and hsifs,s, sAsos cAlse'
3k05:.
fiosU- %xc
Sheep 3S0ASe
Spring lamb 3xWec pouni.
Cna,-arss lDc
wood-$3 50 per cord.
Children Cry for
Pitchers Ca6torias