New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-27
CLOSING PRICES or CHICAGO STOCKS.
Friday. June 2G-p. m.


Stock rnarke. speculation today offered
striking change from that Of the preceding days
of this week Dulness was excessive. except in
Sugar Refining and American Tobacco. and
after an irregular opening prices saggei, in the
first two hours OF business suffering losses n
the chief active shares Of from Is to Is per cent
In the afternoon there was an insignificant rally.
but Of no great benefit TO values. although at
the close there were a number Of net gains.
The movement in Sugar Refining stock changed
toward a higher level and while there
continuance II the selling pressure at The open
ing, buying orders came In in sufficient amount
TO afford basis for an advance. Yesterday me
stock reached ll3 and many brokers prrdl'tri
that 1t would be the lowest price In the present
movement but predictions this erra,ic stock
are not safe guides 10 follow, and II one s~ts
out to beat" the Sugar game on current tips
and predictions he VIII soon find himself out Of
pocket and with no mora Information regarding
TIE mysteries Of Sugar manipulation than lie
had when he started. Sugar was bought 10
day by traders on the improvement In the Euro
pean sugar market and the strength In the IA"
and refined product here. AMI II war SAID that
some OF the inside interests who sold out around
l2l had taken advantage to-day OF the recent
continuous decline. 1t should be noticed that
though there has been decline OF ~ points III
Sugar up 10 Yesterday since June IL the rest OF
the market has not fallen off to any appreciate
extent and trading liquidation has been the only
selling done. At present the market Is dui
stale and improbable for commission houses, but
no holder OF investment stock Is nqudatiHg
while in The bond department; there Is niue
good outside buying.
At the close to-day II looked as II speculative
LIQUIDATION was over for the present In the
ca rly trading foreigners again took some 0! thelT
specialties, and the course OF the railway ISL
exhibited more strength. 81. Paul. Rock Island
Northwest and several other prominent stocks
closing at small net gains American Ip".s"
and United States Leather preferred were me
chief weak features. and Jersey Central was
lower on proht-tahng sales on yesterdays ad-
vance The only noteworthy advances In the
railway list were made by Lake Shore, which. on
small transactions, gained per cent and HOOK
ing Valley which gained IA per cent In Sugar
Refining the not gain 29s per cent and at
the close and in fact throughout the day, there
was considerable covering OF shorts In II. Total
transactions for the day amounted 20 ZlS,SJO
shares and OF this number Sugar Refining FUR
nished BIO while American Tobacco. Atchi-
son. Burlington ST. Paul and United States
Leather preferred supplied I.13I shares. leav-
ing only 26.6D3 shares in all Other stocks. silver
bullion certificates were not traded In so heavily,
the price showing slight decline from yester-
day and sales representing only OoOoO ounces
against 10000 ounces yesterday, and oJ4.VcO
the day before Owing to the advance this week
in silver silver exports will nv be made tO-mor-
row the London price being about u cent lover
than the market price here. A small amount OF
gold-s20O OO0--was taken for export, but the
Shipments and the demand II fairly well coy
cred by the bills which now In the market
There were a few security bills offering to-day,
but no gold bills.
Closing prices to-day OF a number of active
stocks compare with yesterdays as follows: