The Indianapolis journal., 1895-10-01
LIGHT SPECULATION
In CONTROL OF
NEW YORK 'CHANGE BUSINESS.
Shares Dull and Changes in Prices
/ Not MateriaI-The Week Opens
Lively for Local Markets.

At New York, yesterday, money on call
was easy at 1lzd2 per cent; last loan. 2;
closed at per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 41zG51s per cent.
Sterling exchange was firm. with actual
business in bankers bills at $4SS1zd4SS SSs4
for demand and $.S7$t for sixty days; post
d rates, $4.SS and s4.S91z; commercial bills,
sslz04.s7.
Silver certificates. s71s@s71ac; bar silver.
65sc; Mexican dollars. 5sHc. At London
ar silver was 303sd per ounce.
Total sales of stocks were 193. .456 shares.
hcluding: American Sugar, 1O,4O0; Ameri-
an Tobacco, 11,600: Atchison, third assess
hent paid. 10.s0O; Burlington, $500: Chicago
Gas. 14.7Oo; Distilling. $500; Missouri Pa
life. 4.6oo: Reading. 22.7Oo; Rock Island.
200; st. Paul. $500; Silver Certificates.
900: Tennessee Coal and Iron. 500:
Wheeling & Lake Erie, $500.
The speculation yesterday was lighter in
olume than for some time past. 1t was
pntrolled almost entirely by the profess
Fonal dealers. The movement of prices
as less erratic. however, and the net re-
suits of operations were not material. The
opening was dull and irregular. with the
initial changes slight. A dropping tendency
soon developed and losses extending to 2
per cent. wee recorded. the last in Dis
tilling. Tobacco dropped Ia. Wheeling &
Lake Erie preferred 15s. New Jersey Gen.
trail and Missouri Pacific Is, Chicago Gas
and Louisville & Nashville IL, Manhattan
Us. and i per cent. in Colorado Fuel Read
ling. Southern preferred and Northwest.
Reading suffered from realizations and
Chicago Gas on runors from the West OF
fresh hostile legal measures by the munich
pal authorities OF Chicago. The movement
In Distilling apparently derived most of its
origin also in Chicago. although some buy
IT, lfr.- onrff nod - q
York insiders. Rubber displayed pro-
nounced strength in the face of the general
heaviness and was up l. half of the gain.
however. being lost subsequently,: In the
specialties New York. New Haven &
Hartford attracted comment by an advance
. Of 4 per cent. and Pittsburg. Cincinnati.
and rallied 1 per cent. The pressure to sell
was exhausted around 1:S0 o'clock. and in
the ensuing dealings fractional recoveries
| from the low figures were generaliy noted,
| and in the case OF Wheeling a. Lake Erie
preferred. Distilling and Missouri Pacific
| advances of L per cent occurred In the
and Welded TO 1O711. against 10Si2. the ear
| Her high figure. There was very little in
the way of news having important general
hearing on the market. The reported inn
pending default tomorrow on the interest
| for the last six months on Oregon Improve
ment consolidated per cent bonds had an
unfavorable effect on the securities of the
company. The bonds declined per cent.
10 IS. and the stock was bid down 10 3.
as against at the close on saturday.
The coalers. as a group. were not especial
| ly affected by the advances in coal prices
taking effect in the last few days. as they
manifested dropping tendency. The mar
ket closed dull and steady.
Bonds were quiet and in the main lower.
Oregon Improvement consolidated fives and
Atchison. Colorado q Pacific frsts lost
2 per cent Advances We're established of
rs in Electric debenture sevens, Ia in c.,
C.. c. & Indianapolis consols. and ] per
cent in Missouri Pacific consols- Sales We're
1855 COO
Government bonds were steady. State
bonds were inactive
:, The following table. prepared by James F..
Berry. Room is. Board OF Trade. shows the
range OF quotations.: