Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-08

stocks Higher-FIour steady and Tn
changed--Wheat Strong.
New YORK. March money on call
easy at per cent; last loan at : per
cent. closed al > per cent Prime mercan-
Tile paper 35{s5 per cent. Sterling Ex-
chan2e dull at 4s9a4S9l4 Silver certlh-
Gates go <c bid
Governments Steady.
U. :. 5s Registered. n519
I. =. 0S Coupons. Observation-Disclosures. lI0H
U. > IS Registered. ............. .llO@
7. >. IS coupons OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IL
y. =. 5 Registered ................ 70
Pacihc Us OF 80 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OJ
States-Inactive.
RallrOads-tirm.
SroCK,-SUgar saved the stock market
to-day from extreme staguatiOn and at the
same time gave new evidence of its ability
10 furnish the street with mild sensation
without notice During the past few days
tue dividend question was question OF
street gossip aud the point was given out
that the rate would 0e reduced from 3
20 2}a and possibly TO ? per cent.
Then began manipulatiOus which
sent the stock up from wa
10 % - and back To Oh The lower figure
was touched shortly after midday and IN
uuced some covering. An advance OF 5's
per cent, TO 94's was caused by the an
uOuucement mat the directors had de-
clared the full dividends of per cent on
The common and ia on the preferred stock,
both quarterly anu both OF them free OF the
income tax. AT the close there was re-
uewal OF the purchasing movement, I'M
der the influence OF which the
stock again moved upward, closing at $50,
the highest price o. the day and 3ss per
atlr e.. %. y
transactions in the stock aggregated l53,
900 shares, which is the largest total for
day this year The general market was
duh and without special feature.
40 the opening prices were
a small fraction higher, with
out few exceptions, and in the early trad
ing a gain of s. per cent was recovered.
During the nOur following mid day specu-
atiou was intensely dull, but subsequent
is, under the influence of the bull move
mclt iu Sugar, the general marke, became
strong. In the last hour speculation was
irregular. but the market closed fairly
steady and at an advance Of 81 az
per cent on the day. The
advances are: Lead preferred l ; common
and Linseed There were few
iecUues, which did not exceed q per cent,
MS loss being in New York Central. The
movement in prices for speculative bonds
was extremely narrow during tae day but
among the inactive securities there were
material changes The total sales were
,>6l. 900 Stock quotations closed bid:
Atcn.son. 81. ADAMS Express, l43; Al
ron ana Terre hdute, j554 do preferred, -;
American Express Ill; Baltimore and
/ Ohio 50; Canada Pacific 3S]s Canada
Southern, IS: Central Pacific, Il; Ches-
apeake and Ohio, l6i- Chicago and Altca,
/ l41. Chicago. Burlington and Quincy,
1Oll Chicago Gas. 1l9s Delaware and Hu0-
son. l2G: Delaware, Lackawanna aud
Western. l5SL Denver ard Rio Grande
preferred. BAL Distillers aud Cattle Feed
ers Co.. l2is; Erie SIS do. preferred, l6l4 {;
Fort WAYNE, l56; General Electric, 26L {;
Illinois Central, 81; Lake Shore, 1876;
Michigan Contra, y219 Missouri Pacinc
1877: National Cordage 80 do. preferred,
81; Norfolk and Western preferred, lO9s /;
Northern Pacific, 2@t do. preferred, 1874 {;
Northwestern, SSi-; do. preferred, lbs;
New York Central, "a Is New York and
New England, 29i5; Pacific Mail, 2l5s !;
Peoria, Decatur and Evansville. 3; Pitts
ourc, l55: Pullman Palace 1888; Read
ING. az: Rock Island, g.; St. Louis and
San Francisco hrst preferred, -; ST.
Paul, 81 do. preferred. III; Tennessee
Coal auo Iron. IA; Texas Pacific, SIS:
Union Pacific, 9; United States Elk
press. 80; Western Union, 500 Wheeling
and Lake Erie. So; do. preferred, 80.
Mining StOcKs-Bulwer, 10; Cholcr, 40;
Crown Point, 40; Consolidated California
and Virginia, 265; Desdwood. 40; Gould
and Curry, 80; Hale and Norcross, 90;
Homestake.- 1900; iron Silver, -; Mex
lean. so: Ontario, 500; Ophir, l15; Plym-
outh. 20; Quicksilver. 100; 30. preferred,
1900; Sierra Nevada, 65; Standard, 29O;
Union Con-. 40; Yellow Jacket, o..