St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-27
FINANCIAL.
New York.

NEW YORK, March 20. Speculation
OH the stocl1exchange today was some
what unsettled in tone, and prices
moved with great irregularity. There
was Il large decrease in the volume of
business. compared with yesterday, and.
in a majority Of {ins tatlres, TIE elesing
figures are below the last sales of Mon
day. The market opened active. with
fractional changes both up and down in
the shares dealt in. The trading, how
ever, soon became heavy and prices
moved downward for hall an hour, the
losses ranging from Is too per cent.
|; Delaware IL HUDSON. Susquehanna 81
Western preferred. Hooking Valley,
| Cotton Oil prcferEed,, Sugar ana New
| Jersey CentralIcm aiding ia The decline
|! Then came rally i'll WHICH the Indus
I trials were most prominent, but the
I other figures induced realizing sales
and the bears took a hai.d in the pro-
/ ceedlngS, with the result that Manhat~
| tan broke IL per cent; New Jersey
Central. 1: Sugar and Chicago Gas, "A,
and other shares smaller fraction
After midday the coalerS came into
good buying. and the entire market
moved up, New Jersey Central gaining
~. and Manhattan / per cent. The
dealings were firm iii tone up To about
2 0'clock, and shortly after O'Clock
New England lose Is per cent OH pur-
chaSes believed to be for the Boston
account. During the last hour the
| active stocks fnctuated within uar-
row range, but some Of the specialties
! made some wide changes. Susquehanna
| ~ Wpctnrn n fnrr.AH SHIlinr a I q
/ per cent; Edison Electric, IL, anu
| Great Northern preferred, 1; Delaware
| d Lackawanna was offered down to
| 1917. sold up to 1887, reacting to 1925.
| Reading was the feature of the deal
| ings during the day, opening at 12b, a
gain of ss, reaciing to 12ss4, and advanc-
| ing to il. closing at the top figure,
| and recording an improvement or
| 24 per cent from yesterdays clos
| ing quotations. The buying in
this stock was largely on account of
I Philadelphia, and was induced by re-
| port that the new aIlotunents will be
| favorable 10 the Reading company. The
| principal declines ont The day ara: Sus-
| quehanna & Western preferred, 115;
| Delaware S Hudson and Cotiou Oil
| preferred | n, ami Great Northern pre-
ferred and Houston IL Texas Central |
| per cent. Advances were established of
l per cent each in Mobile Il Ohio and
| Edison Electric of New York. The
foreign trades were light. Speculation
| at the close was fairly firm. The Read
I ing issues were the features of the bond
market today, and the combined sales,
/ of these securities aggregated $4,000.
| The general Is advanced % per cent; do.
| trust receipts. u do first incomes, 3;
/ do seconds, 19s, and do thirds, 9 There
/ was no particular movement 10; the
| other mortgages traded in. The aggre-
/ gates sales OF the day were 81, 1871 900, In.
| which Kansas IL Texas seconds figured
| tor S17l,000 and Atcliisen is. S129.0oO.
/ Tila principal changes are: tres
| AdvanceS-S ST. Paul firsts, Iowa &
| Minnesota division, 2ll5 per cent. Erie
t second conSois, f.; Silver Certificates
were strong and s4Ol, 900. changed hands
at $1,000; the closing quotation was
654.
/ Total Sales of Stocks
today were 2l1,7s0 shares, including:
/ American Sugar, 81, 1O0; American To-.
I bacco, $500; Atchisen, 800; Burfiug-
ion, $500; Cincinnati & Ohie, 4, $50, CHI
| cage Gas. 400; C.H.V. 81 t., 3,S00; Dis
/ filling and Cattle Feeding certificates,
| $500; General Electric, Is, HOO: Louis
| willie IL Nashville, 6. 100: Missouri Pa
/ eitic. 3,100; New Jersey Central, $500;
New York &c New England. third as
| sessment paid. 1900; New York, Sus-
quehanna IL Western preferred, $500;
| Reading, $500; Northwestern. 4,Goe;
| Rock Island. $500; ST. Pau: 800: Sill
| yer Certificates, 10000; Western Union,
4,001; Wheeling d Lake Eric, 6.50U.