Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-19
Articles.
ash wheat, No. 2 red, 92c.

CHICAGO, October 1S-Wheat to-day
closed a 1$sd12c decline. 1t was a very
narrow market and the weakness was
not so much due to any new features of
the general situation as to the smallnesS
of trade and the selling by the bull clique
of about 100000 bushels of wheat.
Corn was very weak on the heavy It
ctipts na dvisible increase and declined 5s
034c.
Oats declined &c. Provisions on the
contrary, We're strong on good short COW
ering, and closed at 1l2ql3c higher
Wheat was rather weak at the opening.
December started al 921s04c, as compared
with Saturdays closing price of S212c.
Offerings were not heavy but there was
an even smaller demand, the result being
slow decline to y14d7sc. The Liverpool
wheat market responded indifferently to
Saturdays advance here, quotations at
the opening showing the modest gain of
L per Genital. That had a tendency to
make the local bulls cautious al the open
ing here and 10 correspondingly encour-
age the bears. one of the beariSh features
were the general rains in the northwest
liberal northwestern receipts and the
heavy worlds shipments for the week.
100000 bushels. Minneapolis and Duluth re-
ceived 1,494 cars, against 40 last week.
and 1.642 cars on the corresponding day
a year ago. After the decline to 91%4 a &c,
the market lazlly swung around in the OPP
posite direction and up to the time of the
receipt of the closing Liverpool cables
ruled fairly steady at around 92l46$sc.
The Chicago receipts We're l94 cars
against 30 expected, and the amount in
spected out OF store was 13S,00O bushels.
The quantity on ocean passage increased
only 040.0 Geo bushels, Notwithstanding the
heavy shipments for the week. Russia S
contribution 10 the latter total was 32l6.
GOO bushels. compared with 2104. 600 BUSH
els the previous week. India sent As 600
| bushels. Paris was unchanged at the
opening for wheat and 40 confines higher
for nearby deliveries OF Hour. The in
crease in the visible was only 1136 GO
| bushels, compared with z.314,c0O Bushels
the year before. The present total lis o.
I - t.tTGt ra2I. HfNg lie
year ago. The English visible decreased
IS eco bushels. The Atlantic port clear
ances for the day were liberal. amount
ing 10 the equivalent of $4,000 bushels.
The continental markets closed firm. Ant
werp showed 1212 confines rise and Paris
10 centimes. Liverpool closed unchanged
TO 12d lower than Saturday. The mar
ket had begun about this time TO weaken
and the loss of the early advances at the
foreign markets accentuated the weakness.
Selling Of long wheat generally credited
to the bull clique, became quite a feature
near the close and had the result of
pounding December down TO 91c. The
close was al sld1sc.
Cash quotations were as follows:
Wheat, No 2 spring, s4assc; No. 3
Corn, No. >, 245sq}4c; No. ? yellow. 2555s
Oats. No. >. 1s4e: No. 2 white, 22aaac:
No. 3 white, Z0i2n2c.
Barley. No. 2, nominal; No. 3. 27aHc:
No. I. 23U3tc-
Flaxseed. No /. 81 01d1 O5.
Prime timothy seed, 81 -.
Mess pork per Dbl. s. S5aI1 81.
Lard, per 100 lbs. 81 35G4 371a-
Short ribs sides, lose. 81 50d4 50.
Dry sailed shoulders boxed 424d5c
Short clear sides. boxed. 47sG5c
Whisky. distiliers finished goods, 81 %
Sugars, unchanged
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