The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-14
GRAIN. PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York, Nov. 13-Flour firm, held
higher, checking business. Winter wheat,
low grades. $220d3.25; fair to fancy, $3.50
455; patents, 4.50d4.90; Minnesota clear,
So. 40Q4 Is; patents, $3S5Q5.10; low extras,
$2.20QS25; southern flour quiet firm; COM
mon to fair extra, $2S503. As; good to
choice, do $3.45Q3.60. Wheat dull, firmer;
ungraded red S7ll97c; No !, southern, 9214c;
options excited and firm, advancing
15sc, but closed unsettled at &c over yes
terday; No. 2, November, S8c; December,
&c. Corn more active weaker; No. 2, 80
314c elevator; 32G3214c afoat; options were
dull and weak at 1s034c decline; November
307sc; December 315sc; May, 34a4c. Oats,
quiet, easier; options dull, weaker; Decem-
Der, 237sc; May, 2634c; spot,
No. 2, 26c; No q white,
231ac; mixed western, 221aG241ac. Hay low
grades, firm; shipping, 6O4621ac; good to
choice, 756S5c Wool firm unchanged. Beef
quiet, firm family, $S.50q9.O0; extra mess
$6.O0d700. Beef hams, quiet, $l5.50q16.00;
tierced beef slow but steady; city extra
India mess, $1O,25d12.50; cut meats steady,
picked hams, 9d91bc. Lard, easier, quiet;
western steam, 4.5Oc; city, 420c; December,
445c nominal; refined dull; continent 4S5c;
South American, 425c; compound, 49sG4azc.
Pork dull, steady; new mess $S.5Oq9OO.
Butter fancy firmer; state dairy, 11Q1Sc;
do creamery, 13@2012c; western dairy, S@
13c; Elgins, 2015a21c. Cotton seed Oil, slow,
steady; crude &c; yellow prime, 26c. Rice
firm, unchanged. Molasses firm; fair de-
mand, unchanged. Peanuts quiet; fancy
handpicked, 3la@3Ac. Coffee barely steady,
10d15 points down; November, $3.50; jan
uary. 9.S5c; March, $500 Zoe; May, $500
970c; spot Rio, dull; No. Z, 105sc. Sugar.
raw. dull, firm; fair refining, 8 1-16c; centri-
fugals 96 test 7-16c; refined slow, but
quiet and steady and unchanged. Freights
to Liverpool. Market quiet; cotton by
steam, 11-64d; grain by steam, 51ad
Chicago, Nov. 3.-noon.-The market
opened for wheat; December, 81ssQS11ac.
Corn, December, 251ac. Pork, December,
$797. Lard, December, $40712Q4. 10 asked.
Ribs, December, SO. So.
Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 13.-The wheat mar
ket to-day kept the crowd guessing all the
time The shifts from strong to weak and
vice versa, and the bulges and breaks were
sudden and without premonition. Through
it all the elevator people succeeded in put
ting out a vast. quantity of May option
The pressure to sell December was never
as great as the distant futures, and the
difference between the two narrowed by
nc. The last half-hour's trading was
the most active of the day, the tone be-
coming very weak, on account of slump
in the northwest. Realizing sales were
numerous, and under the weight of offer
ings, prices dropped a full cent from the
then ruling quotation, but in the final mo-
ments recovered half Of the loss. De-
cember wheat opened at s1h to S1l2c, sold
between S1%Q791ac, closing at S0l4c. Cash
wheat was irregular, closing Nc lower.
Corn displayed its individual weakness
by failing to retain the fractional inn
provement derived from wheat at the
opening. The situation possesses nothing
to promote confidence and the crowd be-
lieves that it is a waste of time and money
to attempt a boom in the prices of this
grain, under existing enormous supplies
May corn opened from 29l9Q29ssc declined
to 2Siac, closing at 2815q2S5sc-9sc under
yesterday. Cash corn was weak and lac
lower.
Oats-The oats market was a counterpart
Of that of corn, prices showing moderate
Improvement at the opening, but through
the absence Of independent support OF
merit, receding later. May oats closed
hdhc lower than yesterday. Cash oats
were weak and re lower.
Provisions-With an advance In prices
of live hogs and an upturn in wheat, pro-
duct felt the encouragement early, but as
the grain markets failed to hold, this
market, through sympathy, likewise lost
ground. January pork closed l00l2lzc
lower; January lard and ribs each SC lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows
Opening Highest Lowest. Closing.