Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-02-15
FINANCE AND TRADE.
honey, lag Per Uent-GoVernments
Dull aDd Firm-Stocks, Dull-Flour,
Steady and Unchangsd-Wheat, Higher.

nouey, lag Per Uent-GoVernment
Dull aDd Firm-Stocks, Dull-Flour,
Steady and Unchanged Wheat, higher.
New YORK. February 14.-Money on call
easy at la2 per cent; last loan IL
pei cent; closed at ~ per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 3 40 per cent. Sterling
Exchange drm, with actual business IN
bankers bills at ass a4SSl4 for demand
Silver certificates $3.50 bid.
GOvERNMRNTS-Du and firm.
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y. y. SCOuDOnS. Observation-Disclosures. llC2s
U. 5. IS Registered. ............ hos
/ U. ). IS Coupons. acknowledgements. 20
L. ), IS Registered ................,l 100
Pacific Us of '95 Observation-Disclosures O41S
STATEs-Inactive.
RuLROADs-Firm.
STOCKs-The transactions on the Stock
Exchange to-day were light and the mar
ket was dull and uninterestinC 10 a de.
gree which was unlocked for, in view of
the light thrown upon the government
contract with the bond syndicate. Stag
nancy was the feature Of the Speculltl
aud were il not for SugOr and Chicago Gas
the volume of business would have been
light indeed The trading in the Tobacco
shares was interesting by reason Of the
fact that there was evidence OF inside
buying, the common recording an advance
of ~ per cent, of which 4 was retained
10 the close and the preferred moving up
IL per cent. ana closing at the best. Sugar
led in the transactions but tiuctuated
within a range Of IS per cent, closing g
per cent below yesterday, preferred Is
down x per cent The general market
was fairly tirm during the morning, becom-
ing heavy during the afternoon and closing
weak in tone, with a majority Of the shares
traded in from Is 10 IL per cent below yes
terday's closing figures, the latter Erie
preferred and q IN Baltimore and Ohio.
There was considerable increase in the
bond trading to-day and prices were in the
main well held. The total sales were
S1l6,500. Total sales of stocks l2S, S24
shares. Quotations closed bid:
Atchison, AZ; Adams Express, l21 Al
ton ana Terre Haute, 351s do preferred -;
American Express no: Baltimore and
Ohio 6215; Canada Pacific 40; Canada
Southern, Is; Central Pacific, 10; Ches-
apeske and Ohio, l6$< Chicago and Altcl,
l45; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
1914 Chicago Gas, 1873 Delaware and
HUDSON, 1919; Delaware, Lackawanna ana
Western. ljy4; Denver and RIO Grande
preferred, 3484 Distillers and Cattle Feed
ers Co.. 50; Erie, 10; 90. preferred. 81;
Fort Wayne, loo; General Electric, 2ots
Illinois Central, Sc; Lake Shore, 49,;
Michigan Central, 90; Missouri Pacific,
81, National Cordage, 35[ Go. preferred,
So; Norfolk and Western preferred, -;
Northern Pacific, 25s, do. preferred, 15%;
Northwestern, JOY; do. preferred, l35;
New York Central, SO; New York and
New England, 295s; Pacific Mail, 2l55;
Peoria. Decatur anu Evansville. ~; Pitts
burg, l54; Pullman Palace l54; Read.
ing, ~; Rock Island, 6ll4 St. Louis and
San Francisco first preferred, -; st.
Paul, 55s; 40. preferred, HI; Tennessee
Coal ana iron, l4l5: Texas Pacific, SO;
Union Pacific, 81; United States Elk
press, 80; Western Union, S1lS; Wheeling
and Lake Erie, 3 do preferred, 35j5.
Mining StocEs-Band b, -: Cholor, 30;
Crown Point, 81; Consolidated California
and Virginia, $50; DeGdwood. 40; Gould
and Curry, -; Hale and Norcross, 7O
HOmesyake, 1900; Independence, - Mex
ic2Q, 6S; North Star, -; Ontario, $50;
OSAir, 40; Plymouth go; Sierra Neva-
ia, 30; Standard, 225; Union Con. A.;
Yellow JACKIE. A.; Iron Silver -;
Quicksilver, 100; 90 preferred, 1850;
Bulwer 90.