The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-19
FIRM, ACTIVE STOCKS
SPECULATIVE TRADING on NEW
YORK 'CHANGE VERY IRREGULAR.
Confined Largely to the Professional
Operators-LocaI Markets Strong
and Higher.

At New York yesterday money on call
was easy at per cent; last loan, 1; closed,
i per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 2lz@3is per cent.
Sterling exchange firm with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at $4S914Q4S91a for
demand and s4.Ss,494ss1 for sixty days:
posted rates, $3.50 and $3.50; commercial
bills. Si.s7lsI4Sss. Silver certificates. 677sc;
bar silver. 6sz4c; Mexican dollars. 53s4c. AT
London bar silver was 30l2d per ounce.
Total sales of stocks were Z9l. 122 shares
including: American Cotton Oil. 400;
American Sugar 22.4O0: Atchison. 5000;
Burlington, 1850; Chesapeake & Ohio, O.
GO. Chicago Gas. $500: Distilling. $500: La
clede Gas, 1900; Missouri Pacific. 1890;
National Linseed Oil. 400; New York,
Susquehanna & Western preferred, 1900;
Northwestern. 5000; Reading, 9,4OO; Rock
Island. 500: st. Louis & Southwestern pre-
ferred, $500; st. Paul. 1890; Southern
railroad, 3,4O0; Tennessee Coal and Iron.
1900: Texas & Pacific. 10000; Wabash. g..
800; Wabash preferred, 1880.
Share speculation in the Stock Exchange
was very irregular yesterday and as a
result of the trading prices about even
ly divided between gains and losses. The
market opened firm and active. Pullman
selling up Us per cent; Missouri Pacific.
ia and the general list fraction. a re-
action soon set in which was slight except
that Susquehanna & Western preferred fell
Off ~ per cent and Pullman / per cent.
the latter in the later dealings made a fur
ther recession OF per cent. Minnesota
Iron advanced per cent; Cotton OIL,
"a; Cotton Oil preferred, ~; New England:
o'clock the entire market became steady
but soon after that a brisk selling move
ment was inaugurated in Laclede Gas,
nh lob. 10 ante ~ -
-. reaction to Is and a final rally to
81 following, making a net loss of "a
per cent Tne general market tended up
ward under the leadership or the coalers.
New Jersey Central making a gain Of
12s. Reading. i, and Starch, ia per cent.
Before noon values were again on the
downward track. Consolidated Gas declin-
ing Ia and Northwest. 1. The latter quick
~ steadied itself ana was Well sustained
Sugar moved up IA; Minnesota & ST. Paul.
IA; National Linseed, rs, and other shares
fraction. During the afternoon there was
gained ia; Ohio Southern, 1zs; New Eng
land receded IL and regained 1. Wabash
ton and ON sales agsregating 2s.soo scored
an Improvement OF IA, with final recovr
cry OF $: Tennessee Coal preferred was
Monday night The main declines on the
gay s. are: Pullman. Sysgueh nd "a, q
haitian, /, and Ohio Southern, Ia.
The bond speculation was of moderate
volume and the net results disclose little
change in prices among the speculative
issues. Among the usually inactive mort
cages. however. the summary OF the days
operation reveals material changes which,
for the most part. are in the way Of adj
vances. The aggregate OF the sales was
s2.6o7,0oo The more notable gains are: Sus-
quehanna * Western. per cent; Pennsyl-
yania four and halls, registered, 31A
Rock Island debenture fves, 3; Mime
sofa & St Louis firsts. Southwestern ei
tension. 212; Chesapeake & Ohio South
western seconds. 2; Rome, Waterfowl &
Ogdensburg consols, ia; Harlem firstc snd
Et- Joe x Grand Island first trust receipts,
AZ. and Colorado Coal skies. Detroit Gas
Tvs, Peoples Gas consol skies, Union Ele-
waited firsts, Northern Pacific terminal
firsts and Tennessee Coal firsts. Bjrming-
lam division, per cent. Declines-Missour
Pacific trust fives, per cent: Brooklyn
City frsts, IA: Oregon Improvement frsts
rs; Southern Pacific OF Arizona firsts and
Toledo Ann Arbor first trust receipts
per cent.
Government bonds were firm. State bonds
were dull
The following table. prepared by James e.
Berry, Room is, Board of Trade, shows the
range OF quotations.:
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