The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-26

Chicago. Ills. May 25.-Butter-Firm;
crsameries, i1d1fzc; dair;es. 7d12c.
Eggs-Firm; fresh. 10c.
Poultry-Easy; turkeys. 7Qsc: chickens,
&c; ducks, 7aSc.
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City. No., May 25.-wheat-Dull;
low grades 20 cents lower: No. 2 hard
TGS0c: No 3, 71G74c: No. 4. 65G65c; No 2
red, 9ea92c; No. 8. S5dsoc; No. 4. 7oGs0c
Corn-Stea9y and fairly active; No.
mixed, 20i2121c.
Oats-Lower; No. 2 white, &c.
Rye-Steady: No. 2. 3Oc.
Hay-Weak and unchanged.
Butter-Weak; creamery. fo,sd12c; dairy.
sa11c.
EggtFirm. &c.
ST LOUIS.
st. Louis, Mo-, May 2.-For the first time
in the history Of the st. Louis market
trading In wheat in less than 500 bushels
lots is being carried on In the Merchants
Exchange Contrary TO expectations the
change was inaugurated withopposit:on and
the Ettle trading done was carried on with
out confusion.
Receipts-Flour. 1900: wheat, 500; corn
5000; oats, 1000; shipments-fiour, 5000;
wheat, ZOO; corn, 3i.oO0; oats. 1000.
Flour-Dull. quiet and unchanged.
Wheat-No2 red cash elevator, Sc bid. ecc
asked; track Ssd92i2c; No. hard cash, soc
asked: July. 73lsc bid.
Corn-Lower; No. cash, &c bid; July,
222i2I2.SSsc
oats-weak; No. cash, 1870 bid; July,
ls7sc asked.
Rye-Firm, SAC track.
Hay-Dull, steady and unchanged.
Butter-Firm; creamery. l1alSc; dairy, ga
l2c
Eggs-Firm, 7xc.
Pork-Standard mess jobb:ng ss.2Sas75.
steady.
Lard-Lower; prime steam, $50; choice
s3.5Ts.
NEW YORK.
New York May 25.-Flour-Receipts g.
23l barrels; exports S91i. Dull and to loc
lower 10 sell, in sympathy with the break
straights, s.25d43o: Minnesota patents
s4.90Q4.35; winter extras, s3.45G370; Mime
sofa bakers, S350G3.70; winter low grades,
s. 60G2eO
Wheat-Receipts 2O5,225 bushels: exports
1888. Spot weak. Options lower at st6ssc
decline; No. red May, S0l2c; September
72c.
Corn-Receipts $500 bushels; exports 49,
l3l. Spot weak; No. 2, 291sc. Options weak
er. &c lower; May. 27sc; September, 3O2.c
oats-Rece!pts 5o7. 500 bushels. Spot weak:
No. 2, pc. Options dull and easier, 1sc
lower; May. 21s4c.
Hay-Easy; shipping. soc; good to choice.
$50 75c.
Lard-weak; western steam. $500 asked;
refined easy.
Pork-Quiet, Ss0ol9.00. D
Cottonseed oil-Dull.
California dried frui;s-F:rm: evaporated
apples. prime wire tray, 4.G4lzc; wood
dried prime. 42sd4tc.
Butter-F'irm; western creamery. 1q15l2c
Elg.ns. 15lzc; factory. 71sdi0ac.
Eggs-Steady; state and Pennsylvania
l2lzc; western, 1lIac: southern, 10i1Gu1:c.
LIVERPOOL.
Liverpool. Eng. May 25.-3:45 p. m. Clos
ing: Wheat-No. red nothern spring firm.
esld.
VISIBLE GRAIN SUPPLY.
New York, May Especial cable and tele
graphic dispatches to Bradstreet's covering
the principal points of accumulation, indi-
ate the following changes in availa bic sup
plies of grain on Saturday as compared
with the preceding Saturday.
Wheat-United States and Canada, east
OF the Rockies. decrease 24i5.oOo bushels:
afioat for and in Europe, inchease i.T0,000
bushels; total decrease worlds available
7e3 600 bushels.
Corn-Cnited States and Canada. east OF
the Rockies, decrease 10000 bushels.
Oats-United States and Canada east Of
the Rockies. decrease 1,G77.00 bushels.
The most important decreases in stocks
of availa BILE wheat. not covered in the Of
fetal visible supply statement. include 800.
coo bushels in northwestern interior eleva-
tors. $4,000 bushels in Manitoba storage
points. and @, 900 buhels in Chicago private
elevators.
FRANCES WHEAT DECREASE.
Paris. France. May Sit is un-off1ca'lly
announced that the wheat area OF France
is 500, sos hectares "a hectare is 2E acres)
below the area of 1896 and that the wheat
crop will probably be 2. 10000 hectolitres
"a hectilore, dry measure. is 215 bushelsJ
less than in 1895.