The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-01


mercial bills 81 Sgis. Silver certificates
52d52Xc. Bar silver 5lstc, Mexican
dollars axe.
To-days stock market was eharae-
terized by great irregularity, prices OF
many stocks remaining remarkably
stable, even on large transactions,
while the price movement OF others was
wide and erratic TO the last degree and
quite independent OF any general inhu-
ence or harmony OF tendency with 9TH
ers. Sugar was the sensational feature
and covered range OF nearly S'points
during the day. There was no news re-
gardlng the stock received during the
day that was not known at the opening
OF the market But the speculative
traders drew some deduction from the
facts already known that led TO very
excited trading in the stock.
The speculation turned on the prob
able benefits to the industry from thf
treasury departments Interpretation OF
the clause OF the tariff bill dlsorimin'
ating against sugar from countries that
pay an export bounty. The belief that
this clause would be administered so as
to insure the exclusion from eompell-
ton of Dutch refined sugars, gave su-
gar stock its strength to-day The
stock logged along very comfortably on
the up grade to noon, covering ABOUT
a point In the rise, The price then
made a sensational rush upwards by
leaps OF 4, Il and even a full point at a
time to 1851. the reaction being COM
paratlvely small. Just in the closing
transactions the price jumped again 70
f5I and fell back point. Tobacco also
rose 2& In the final transactions, APP
parently in sympathy with sugar sales
of Sugar reached 10000 shares inc
usually active railroad shares ~hieh
showed free price movement were the
exception to the rule. The decline In
the grangers carried Burlington down
nearly a point, but the net changes In
the group do no exceed u. the amount
of the gain shown by Rock Island
Omaha and Chicago Greatwestern'
The same immobillty was manifested In
the internationally listed stocks, Atch-
lson preferred, Chesapeake y ONO,
Northern Pacific preferred, Southern
preferred u. Pacific and Wabash prefer
red seeming to be withheld from moving
either up or down by some pressure. Tne
same was true OF Louisville & Nashville
until late in the day, when the stock
moved up a point, but reacted partly.
Some OF these stocks were very largely
dealt In, but the transactions failed to
AFFECT the price. Missouri Pacific was an
exception and moved up 2 points some
what irregularly. closing at only slight
reaction. The so-called specialties were
favorites in the speculation, Pacific
Mail gaining over point, Chicago Gas
nearly as much, and the Cotton OIL
stocks over 2 points, Colorado Fuel IA;
nhnNNf lnfFDit Gas
2; Laclede Gas ~: Metropolitan Trac-
ton point; Starch first preferred the
same; New Central Coal IA, and Ore
gon Navigation point. The Lake Erie
& Western stocks continued their up
ward course, the common gaining IA
and the preferred 2h per cent. 81 joe
and Grand Island secon0 preferred rose
III per cent.
London was quite heavy seller.
stocks sold for that account being esti-
mated at $4,000 shares. The total sales
OF all stocks were $4,000 shares.
In the bond market the sales exceeded
a, 100000, and were strong generally, es-
peclally the Reading as
Government new AS bid up Is per
cent,
The total sales of stocks to-day were
5SS,S79 shares,
Evening Posts London financial ca
blegram:
The stock markets opened dull to-day
on the political Optlook, recovered later
on the more favorable news from India
and closed steady to firm.
Americans were dull at first on the
tone of the New York stock exchange
yesterday and on pesslmlstic article
i ~ thou aldo
closed better and with firm tone.
Atchlson adjustments are being bought
here.
French and German exchange Is ris-
| Ing but American exchange In London
declined sharply to-day, and Russian
exchange, which was 9375 last week
and 100 at the close OF July, has fallen
again to 93i8.
The Paris and Berlin markets were
dull.
BONDS AND STOCK QUOTATIONS.
u. s. new Is reg. 12Gis ore. r. & Nav, 80
do coupon. 1904 Pittsburgh .....16s3g
| u, S, Is eX-Int .li24 Reading ....".. ga
do coupOn. .1l3i Rock Islandn,. 9O9s
do 2ds. ........., g7is St. Paul ........ &h
| L. S, Is .IliIl do preferred. .ll3lg
do IS coupon. .luhSt: z, Omaha, ga
Pacific e. OF 'e5. .1O2 do preferred. ..N3
| Atchlson .,....... l5js Southern Pac... q
| do nreferred s3lsITeXas a Pac,.. liA
Raj 4 Ohlo...... 10 Union Pacific. ia
| Can, paclhc..... T2hIWabash ....,.u. So
| Can. Southern. % DO preierred;,' *
Central Pacific. llAIWheelg q l., f. ~
| Ches, & Ohio. 26ltl do preferred. llh
| Chi K Alton, 100 Adams Expresslj5
| Chi, Bur. ~ O.. 9lh American EN"'liS'a
| G, G. q. & st. l.. 3GH. IT, S, Express, ~
| do preferred .. So wells Fargo,..109
| Del Il Hudson, .1lg Am. Splrits,... l4h
| Dei Lack q ~ $50 do preferred. S2H
| Den a Rio O.. 10 Am. Tobacco. ~
| do nreforred Is do preferred. iii
| tcrte tuetrl - lTtt lrhcaUo Gas. .102N
do drst pre-. AZ Col. +. & Iron. PA
| Fort wayne. ITO 40 preitrIeu'' ~,
| Illinois Central, l05aGen Electric'' IVA
Lake Erie Il W. 2lhIllInols STEEL. t9ls
| do preferred. IN Lead ...:....,i''', ~
| Lon A. Nash 49,. iHIPacihc Mall. 5J3i
| Mich. Central .l0lA Pullman Pal'"'l..Sfs
| Mo. Paclhc...". SgbSllver Cer''''''',9 ~
| N ]. Centrnl,., @ Sugar $3.50 Low
| n. Y. Central. .lOsHl do preferred ;'lIlA
| Northwestern ...l2JNlTenn, Cohi q l. W.
do preferred. .lG3l5Iu. S. Leather. gs
| Northern Pac. zoe l7NI do preferred. 70
do preferred. . jOhIWcstern Union. 9ih
| HssRdstuf. aud Provision.
CHICAGo-Graln and provision mar
kets to-day gave further indications OF
recovery from the fever of last week,
and trading was chiefly characterized
by It's dizziness. Corn was perhaps the
most active OF all the markets Wheat
closed &c higher, corn about unchang-
ed oats &c lower and provisions I'M
changed TO 7iac lower.
Wheat opened firm at an advance OF
from Mdlc per bushel for December
The only apparent reason was the
strength Of the Liverpool market The
opening quotation from Liverpool gave
wheat futures at Nd advance and the
next cablegram at Nd further Improve
ment, making the gain iisd before
trading started here. The tendency dur