The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-31

SLSSi5a4sSas for demand and s4SlSQts7z4
for sixty days; posted rates. s4.SSl14 SSls
and &.s9la: commercial bills. S4.S5i444s6is
Silver certificates, 59Sc; 10 sales. Bar
silver. 593sc; Mexican dollars, 49lac.
At London. bar silver, q s-16d per ounce
The weekly bank statement shows the
following chanses:
Reserve, Increase. ..,6S lis
Loans decrease. : $40 200
Legal tenders. decrease. ............ 100000
deposits, decrease 02Sl S sO5
Circulation, increase 1O3.3oo
The banks now hold So, 26S.s5O in excess
of the requirements of the % per cent. rule.
The imports for the week Gold,
Si,sS5; silver. s76SS; dry goods, s2,l20,oo2;
general merchandise. $5.4is52. The exports
OF specie for the week amounted to SSSl,625
in gold and 900 in silver.
Total sales of stocks Saturday were 5l,-
4I5 shares. including: American Sugar.
1850; Burlington, 1880; Chicago Gas $500;
National Lead, 1870: New Jersey Central,
600: Reading. $500; ST. Paul 200: West
srn Union, LOO
II was a very tame and embarrassing
market the Stock Exchange Saturday.
The general tone of speculation was firm
ness. which was due TO the inauguration OF
covering movement, the shorts being
was some small buying for the foreign ac-
count and some slight local buying for the
long account. The market opened a fraction
higher and was held firmly until renewal
OF the war on the New Jersey Central
forced that stock. which had advanced Is
in the opening trading, down per cent.
10 S7$4. The rest of the list was not affected
BY the raid and in fact some of the special
ties made material gains during the
haF1 he Go1li Of
central lost its force the shares quickly
rallied and at the close had regained IA
gain on the day of - per cent Chicago
Gas was in good buying throughout, CLOS
cent above Fridays final sale; Reading, was
very scarce in the loan market ana ,1,o ar 81 r.
closing 4 below the highest In the
late dealings the market was de-
sd bssi Of Ssd dav c fbe chief gains
being Cordage guaranteed, 2ia; Cordage
preferred, ~; Cordase common, 9; To-
bacco, ]; Delaware & Hudson, 2; Canada a,d
Colorado Coal broke per cent. One Of
the features of the trading during the
Cordage shares. The final sales OF last
week were: Common; 7,a: preferred, 12ss;
week the common had declined ia per
cent. 60 81; preferred AS to Sl9. and guar
sIiteed 6ls. to 1865. In the later dealings the
shares rallied and the guaranteed is the
only one of the. group which shows ma
X
week ago. the guaranteed is off . per cent
the first mortgage bonds were also de-
pressed during, the, week and sales were
maze at So seller so and so regular against
CO.. last Saturday. Subsequently, the price
Was advanced to Co. which is the current
GeDressed and sold down from 20la. the
fnaI sale of last week. to 1875. During the
tIons and recovered AS. to 2l12. making
gain Of ] per cent IT.; on the the week drive
Central from SS% down 81 per cent. TO
s7t2. Laekawanna dropped per cent. from
le2 to Us. and Delaware & Hudson a7s.
During the latter part of the week these
shares were released from pressure and
made a quick recovery, Lackawanna gain
lug a. Delaware and Hudson 3 and New
Jersey ~ per cent; The depression in the
pany in the matter of reorganization OF
fhe Valley railroad of Ohio and also to
rIlmors of financial difficulties, which, how
eyer. were officially denied Sugar moved
within a narrow range, and the fuctua-
lions confined within radius of la
per cent, the stock showing a loss of only
down liz per cent. The other more i'm
portant changes are: Declines-Illinois
st. Paul preferred. Lake Erie 6 western
preferred and Cotton Oil preferred, 2A;
10: Norfolk Western preferred. ~:
Long Island Traction and Union Pacific
N. and Lead preferred. National Starch
The trading in bonds Saturday was light.
the total sales being only s469. 100 The
course OF values was in an upward direc-
ton, but the appreciation was slight On
tae week the changes in prices were in
majority of cases toward lower figures the
principal losses being: Ohio Southern fours
=: Baltimore & Ohio firsts Parkersburg
branch. and Reading firsts incomes. 2s.:
axe Shore dividend sevens 2l5: Lake Erie
& Western frsts, 2ss. and Erie second con-
Sils. .. Advances-Wheeling & Lake Erie
s WhsslIng aiv 1seoba Pe2ris 1s
salss Of the week were A,5S427 The total
sock sales OF the week were 49, 427 shares
government bonds were quiet and steady.
S,dte bonds were dull
me following table, prepared by James
T. Berry. Room 16, Board of Trade shows
thekrange Of quotations: