The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-26
SHARE LIST RISING
ACTIVE SPECULATION n wEDNEs-
DAYS LOSSES RECOVERED.
Heavy Covering and Purchases for
Long Account Help the
Local business Improving.

AT New York. yesterday. money on call
was easy at 1lxa2 per cent; last loan, IL
per cent: closed at III per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 3%G5 per cent.
Sterling exchange was easier. with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at s4.S9h@
4.ss% for demand and $4.ssAG4.Ss7s for sixty
days; posted rates, &.S9la and A.90a49019;
commercial bills. ~$4.s7@d4s7N.
silver certificates, s77sasse; bar silver. SIC;
Mexican dollars. SIC. At London bar silver
closed at s0ssd per ounce.
Total sales OF stocks were 1921 shares,
Including: American Sugar, $500; Amer
lean Tobacco. 300: Burlington. $500: Ches-
apeake g. Ohio. 5000; Chicago Gas, 5000;
Delaware e. Hudson. 1880; Delaware, Lack
awanna & Western, 300: Distilling and
Cattle Feeding certificates. 1880; Lake
Erie & Western. 5000; Louisville e. Nash
Vile. $500; Missouri Pacific. 1900; National
Lead. $500; New Jersey Central, 1920;
Northwest, $500; Reading, $4,000; st. Paul,
1850: Southern Railroad. 1880; Southern
Railroad preferred, 1000: United States
Leather, $500; United States Leather pre-
ferred, 1000; Wabash preferred, 800; West
ern Union, 1900.
There was an active speculation on the
Stock Exchange yesterday, and the trend
of prices was mainly upward, with the re-
suit that In most instances Wednesdays
losses In the general list were fully re-
covered, and In the remaining cases there
s Mas = p whicn have aaey; dee enre1' an m additional t1f snai
fraction. The improved tone of specula-
tion was largely due to the favorable tenor
OF the March statements Of earnings Of
several leading railroads received his
morning. At the opening, under heavyA& Pill
Abandonment of the peace negotiations. the
market was weak. and a decline ranging up
to 2 per cent. was recorded. the latter In
Delaware & Hudson, and l per cent. each
in Delaware e. Lackawanna and New Jer-
sey Central. The depreciation in the rest OF
the list was merNly fractional. At the lower
figures there was some covering, and also
purchases for the long account, there be-
Ing a general feeling IN the street that it
this buying the coal stocks recovered all
the early losses during the morning, while
Tennessee Coal preferred Jumped 5 per cent.
to 30 Duripg the afternoon speculation
issues. the leading features of the dealings
including Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
preferred. which was bought freely on the
financial plans. In the late trading the coal
stocks again gave way, but only fraction
ally, the general market closing streng,
D;stillirg, Cotton oil preferred and La
preferred, Denver 4 Rio Grande preferred
ana Minneapolis & g. Louis common and
fsrrsd, e. :' Leather Ss PREFERRED 8; g. ~ =: r (; pre-
"a; LacIede Gas preferred, 3; Duluth, South
Shore e. Atlantic preferred, 3A; Starch
second preferred. 4. and Tennessee Coal
preferred, 5 per cent. In the list of de-
ST. Paul, Minneapolis e. Manitoba, Iowa
Central preferred and New York, Chicago
e. st. Louis second preferred, 1 per cent.
The dealings in bonds fell off somewhat,
but the sum total Of the trading. never
namely, s2.442,00o Of which ss52.o0 3 were
Texas & Pacific seconds. Speculation dur
ing the morRing. was rather erratic, but in
the late session values generally scared up
ward Union Pacific, California and Colo
rado frsts sold at "a. sellers, against AZ the
last reported regular sale. The net result
gives Mobile & Ohio extension frsts IN 3
per cent. Hooking Valley skies, "a; To-
iedo, st. Louis e. Kansas Cit frsts. 2.
Declines-Reading fours, 2 per cent.
government bonds were firm. State
bonds were inactive.
The Following table, prepared by James e.
Berry. Room Is, Board Of Trade, shows the
range of orofaffnno.