Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-02

NEW YORK. April Money on call,
easy at osG 2 o per- m as pe tpa cent Per
Prime mercantile paper. 3l2di per cent;
Sterling exchange, easier with actual
business i'm bankers bills at 4SIll for de-
mand and 4S54 for SO days.
Posted rates. 4S6l204SS5.
Commercial bills. 40.
Silver certificates. 62d62l2.
Bar silver 60.
Governments-Firm.
New L. 5. As Registered. 1884
New l. s. Is Coupons l2ae4
L. :. IS Registered ......................ll
L. :. Is Registered. .....................lll
l. s IS Coupons ........................ll24
I. 5. 2s Registered ......................S 6.;
Pacific IS of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lVSA
StateS-Dul
Railroads-Firm.
Stocks-To-day's market might be pretty
comprehensively summed up in the one
word "coalers." The heaviness in these
stocks which persisted intermittingly
through the greater part OF the day. trad
ing. was the decisive influence on the
course of prices and the effective instru-
ment of ths bear faction. They also
brought to their aid. as yesterday. a raid
on the Gould properties Out OF totai OF
PIP 900 shares sold, over 5000 shares We're
of the anthracite coal group. The group
was the incubus on the market which re-
strained the under-current OF strength
that threatened 10 break out from time 10
time Finally the cOalers and the Gould
shares themselves broke through the de-
preston that gound them and jumped 10
a higher level of prices: Prices generally
throughout the list at the same time rose
10 the highest Of the day. Quotations
closed bid:
Alton and Terre Haute ............... Sc
DO preferred ......... ........,..........
American Express ......... ............1Il
Baltimore and Ohio NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 144
Canada Pacific ......... '...........''.' 1.
Canada Southern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 40
Central Pacific .;;......................
Chesaptake and Ohio OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1914
Chicago and Alton .....................16 1852
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ..... ~,
Chicago Gas -. ''''...'.'''''''''.' 5S's
Delaware Lackawanna and Western. .152i2
Denver and Rio Grande preferred.... 2S
DO LIST preferred ......................2o K
DO % preferred OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Il
General Electric Observation-Disclosures. 31i2
Illinois Central ......... ............... 92
Lake Shore Observation-Disclosures, .164ia
Michigan Central ......................9 &c
Missouri Pacific Observation-Disclosures. 1888
New jersey Central ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. PA
Norfolk and Western preferred ...... 2jie
Northern Pdcinc ..-.....' .............. lie
DO preferred 3+2i
Northwestern ........ .......... ........l04Ss
DO preferred ......... ...................ll4
New York and New England.......... 81
Pacific Mail .............. ............... 263s
Peoria, Decatur and Evansville ...... L
PittsbUrg ..:...... ........' ..........,...l62
Pullman Palace ........... ..............l5S
Reading .........-. .-....'.... .......... 2Ots
Rock Island .............. ............... 6ls
$. Paul ......... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 127s
Do preferred ................. ..........lS1
Southern Pacific .......... .............. u
Tennessee Coal and Iron ............... 75i2
Texas Pacific ........... ................ &
Union Pacific .............. ............. as
United states Express .................. IS
Western Union ........... ................ 81
Wheeling and Lake Erie ...............
Do preferred ......... .....,............. 3i2