The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-17
STOCKS MORE ACTIVE
TRADING ON 'CHANGE LIVELY, LON
DON BEING IN THE MARKET.
Large .umber of Leading shares
Changed Hands During the Day
Local Markets Fairly steady.

At New York. yesterday. money on call
was easy at 11kd2ls per cent: last loan, 2;
closed at 2.
Prime mercantile paper, 4a5h per cent
Sterling exchange was firm. with actual
business in bankers bills at s4-893sg a. S9lz Tor
demand and s4SSssa4.ss1s for sixty days;
posted rates. $4.Ss53Q4.s9 and $4,000 -901z;
commercial bills. s4S7izG4s744.
Silver certificates, 67sg6St4c; bar silver.
67Ac; Mexican dollars. &c. At London. bar
silver has advanced to Boyd per ounce.
Total sales of stocks were 217.721 shares,
Including: American Sugar 1890; Amer
lean Tobacco, 500; Atchison. 7.4o0; Burling-
ton, $500; Chicago Gas, 1900; Distiliing GER
tiflcates, 1900; General Electric, 1890;
Louisville & Nashville, 4,500; Northwestern,
400, Rock Island. 1900; st. Paul, 1880;
United States Leather, $500: Leather pre-
ferred, $780,
Trading on the Stock Exchange yesterday
was irregular and unsettled, and large
number Of shares changed hands, the more
active stocks being Sugar, General Electric,
ST Paul, Atchison, Leather preferred, To-
bacco, Hooking Valley and Burlington &
Quincy. These properties are named in the
order of their activity, the sales of each ex
ceeding 5000 and being inside of $4,000 shares.
The market opened active and generally
fraction higher, and in the first quarter Of
an hour Tobacco rose 11a General Electric
declined III per cent. on a report that the
annual statement would be unfayorable.
Realizing sales soon brought about a reac-
ton, In which Leather preferred lost IL;
Tobacco. y, and the active list A@ss per
cent. Before IL o'clock the decline was
checked and under the leadership of Sugar
prices moved up until near noon, the prin-
Tennessee Coal, / per cent, and Illinois
Central, ~. About midday speculation
prices depreciating, Tobacco selling off l5s:
er preferred. Z; and the general list small
good buying in Sugar and the market. in
the main. participated in the Improve
fraction. Leather sre prefer rdn was notably
strong, advancing ga, to ~. and closing at
weak. the common giving way u, the pre-
Ierred ~ and the guaranteed IA per cent,
loss in the ANAL radng purnr rhf the asf
hour there were realizing sales which sent
prices down again. Michigan Central reced-
morning. Chicago Gas, Sugar, General Elec-
trio and ST. Paul preferred reacting q and
the market was unsettled. with the tie tend ie1e
cy mainly y d .S The more important
Central 2 Metrop s Va Traction s
ppeciin n, preferred, II; Michigan
Paul. * per cent. Hooking Valley broke
rs, recovered the loss and reacted aA Lon
don was In the market as buyer Of most
of the arbitrage specialties, but sold Atch-
ison.
The bond market was again considerably
animated, the sales aggregating 81 479, 900, in
which Atchison seconds figured for the I'M
usually large total of $614,O00. and Atchison
fours We're traded in to the extent Of sl4s, 600.
Northern Pacific sconsol fives. $1S4,O00; KAN
sas & Texas seconds. $17.0O0 and Texas Pa
clffc seconds $115,000 The dealings were
characterized by pronounced irregularity,
although near the close the down trend of
prices seemed to gather force. in sympathy
market
Government bonds were firm State bonds
were dull.
The following table. prepared by James E.
Berry, Room 16, Board OF Trade shows the
range of quotations.. a. -