Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20

10y: nAc; butter 81, zf1sd2ssc: prime
Coffees. options opened steady at SOLO
higher European quotations, small Bra
lillian receipts and bullisn crop cables;
buying WAS generally confined to snorts:
existing large accumulat.ons; closed firm
at net gain of 10 to 10 points, Sales
were 1880 bags. including December at
s sos co. March So 1895 T. i: SPOT Pot eon nee
bling, 7isc; mild, quiet; Cordova. Sls9loc.
| Sugar. raw. strong; fair refining. 3tsc:
centrifugal 96 test, &c; refined, strong;
| TONERS A. Sc: cut loaf. 5Ac; crushed.
| SIC: powdered 5-1ec; graduated, 51sc;
cubes. 5-16c.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. December IS
Wheat, &c higher: contract grade, De-
cember, $50 c; January, February and
March, nominal.
Corn, steady; No 2 mixed. December
and January, a2lAa12c; February ana
oats, steady No white, December
! and January, 2912c; February and March,
nominal.
Potatoes. unchanged; white, choice, per
| bu 7cd7sc; do fair to medium, G0G6oc...
| Sweet potatoes. prime, per basket, 40
| G5oc: do seconds, 25@30c.
| Butter, steady; fancy western cream
| cry, &c; do Pennsylvania and western
| prints ac.
Dxgs firm and 1c higher; freash near
Cheese, steady.
| Refined sugars. firm.
Cotton, unchanged.
Tallow, steady; city prime in hhds.
| 31sc; country in bbls, 5l8c; dark do, sc;
| cakes, SIC; grease, 2s4c.
| Live poultry, dull; fowls. 6laa1l2c; old
ROSTERS. s1ac: spring chickens, .6l29ic;
| broilers, sdsc; turkeys, s@loc; ducks and
geese, sdsc.
Dressed poultry, unea men asesc. fp Pg Is,
| mon and ,calded do, 4@7c; turkeys, choice
| to fancy, l2d14c: DO fair to good, 1GGllc;
| ducks. good to choice, 7Q9c.
Reoeipts-Flour 1900 bbls. $1,000 sacks;
| wheat, $500 bu; corn, a6,Gco bu; oats, 2o,-
! eco bu
shipments-Wheat, 2o,oOo bu; corn, $685.
! COO bu; oats, 5000 bu.
BALTIMORE, Nd, December 1S-Flour
| ports, 1855 bbls.
Wheat. steady, spot and month, s7A
| @sf1.c; steamer No. red, 9l%4a92c; re-
| ceipts, 81 $50 bu; exports, 139, 7s6 bu; south
| ern wheat by sample, y2a9Sc; do on
! grade, 921.M9112c.
Germ. easy; spot; s2slasse: month t,3 s2a
100 425 bu exports 2lO,ss9 bu; southern
| white and yellow corn, ZsA@33Ac.
| Oats, easier; No. white, 2912c; No.
mixed, 2TG271ac; receipts, $3.50 bu; ex-
Rye. Arm: No nearby. sc: No. west
ern. 53aAc; receipts, 10, AS blu; exports,
Hay, Steady; choice timothy, SIS 90 ask
Grain freigats, quiet and unchanged.
! Butter, quiet and unchanged.
| Eggs. and cheese. steady ana unchang-
| ed.
CINCINNATI, O., December 1S.-Flour
| dull but steady.
Wheat, active: No. red, s2l4Q93c.
| Corn, firm; No. mixed, 2712c.
! Oats, firm; No. mixed, 241ac.
Rye, quiet at 461RGI41c.
Lard, firm at 81 3l1a.
| Bacon, quiet and easy at W So
| Whskey, steady at 81 10.
Butter, steady.
| Sugar, firm.
Eggs. firm at 161ac.
| Cheese, quiet.
higher but dull; No. cash and Deem
! Der. 95Nc; May 941ac asked.
Corn active and higher; No. mixed
| cash and December, &c.
Oats, dull but steady; NO. 2 mixed, PC.
Rye, nominal; No. ? cash. 461Ac.
| Cloverseed, lower and active; prime
| cash and December 81 17l2.
Oil, unchanged.
From the private wire Of T. o. NJ. Davis
4 Co. Local Brokers, Exchange Bank
| Building.
| Chicago, December 1S.-Despite ex-
IRENE dullness the wheat market open
ed firm, the May option starting at
| 917sc against 915sc split at last nights
close. The steadiness at the opening
Of Liverpool, followed by an additional
gain, came rather unexpectedly in view
Of the decline here Friday. Offerings
were light, and the increase in the con-
tract stocks was about 100000 bushels,
while exports Of wheat and flour from
both coasts for the week amounted
to 4,e04399 bushels, according to Brad
streets, which also indicated a consid-
| cradle falling off in the worlds ship
ments December wheat was almost
/ normal 1t opened cent lower at
| 9S1a, and advanced to 9915c, while May
touched 92c. Later On December weak
ened to CSC, while May advanced to
/ SPEC split In corn and oats there
was little doing and fluctuations were
harrow, both markets being fairly
steady.
| Corrected daily by T. O. NJ. La gis 6:
! Co.. Brokers. Exchange Bank Building.
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