The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-15
TOUCHED IN THE PAST TEN
YEARS.
CLOSE STRONG AND HIGHER
THE MODERATE GENERAL I'M.
PROVEMENT MOST NOTABLE
AMONG SPECIALITIES.
SUGAR ERRATIo IN FLUoTUATIoN
Dealings ia the stock Enormous
With no Great Change in the
Final Price.

| NEW YORK, July 14.-The security market
continued to exhibit strength today on widely
distributed dealings. The grangers, the
United States market barometer on favorable
crop advices, scored gains, st. Paul common
crossed So, which price it has not touched In
ten years. The preferred also made new
record, reaching 140. while Northwest pre-
ferred equalled yesterdays top price record
| Of 165. London Unexpectedly changed its atti-
tude on st. Paul today, from a persistent
seller to buyer, and marked it up u above
the New York equivalent at yesterday s
close. This was regarded as foreign cover
ing of shorts The coalers awakened from
their accustomed lethargy, repeated yester-
days progress to a higher plane of values.
This was largely in sympathy with the Phil
adelphia market for Lehigh Valley. Susque-
hanna & Western preferred passed "a easily,
and led the advance in this group on rumors
gradually becoming more definite that the
| stock was being purchased for control by an
other coal road. Wheeling Lake Erie pre-
ferred and Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling
preferred were bid up a point each, while
Hooking Valley also improved. Thus the &C
ton of the bituminous coal roads indicates a
marked belief that the strike will rehabili-
tate the industry.
On tremendous transactions Sugar alter
BILE news percolating from Washington. The
delay in announcing an agreement by the
| conference committee was taken as a con-
firmation of opposition on the part of the
house leaders to any yielding to the senate
conferees. The stock opened down about a
point, fuctuated widely and closed at about
initial figures. Friends of Tobacco advanced
1t 2B and the scrip 8, giving as reason
that the stock had not yet gone upward with
the general movement. The Gould shares
were stronger. East River Gas rose 614 to
S41a, record price. Gains of point over
on the day are shown by the following, in
addition to cases already enumerated: c.,
| c.. G. & st. L., Consolidated Cas- Illinois
Central, Susqqehanna Western, Pittsburg,
| c., G. & st. l.. preferred and Ice preferred,
Rio Grande Western preferred lost 1as
and Leather preferred u. The market clos
| ed, as it opened, active and strong at a mod
| crate general improvement, more notable
among the specialties
Trading in bonds was quite animated the
aggregate sales slightly exceeding 81, 000, 000.
| The bulk of the transaction was centered in
| the loW-priced securities, with decided in
| quiry apparent for the Oregon Short Line is
! sues. Liens of reorganized properties, as a
| rule, have come into favor and noteworthy
| have recently been registered. The market
| exhibited quite hardening tendency, with
| the changes substantial in number OF in
stances. The principal gains were Denver
& Rio Grande 5s, Az per cent; Oregon Short
| Line. incomes series A, 11a; Chesapeake &
Ohio Is, class A, rs, and Standard Rope and
| Irvine incomes and Fort Wayne IDS, 1 per
cent Government bonds were generally
| firm.
Total sales of stocks today were 27S 100
| shares, including: Atchison preferred 8, 451
Burlington, 1850; Northern Pacific preferred,
$685.; Ontario & Western, 1865; Reading, IS,
800; Rock Island, 1857; st. Paul, Il ,625; st.
Paul & Omaha $3.50; Tobacco, 81 1873; Chicago
Cas- 500; Sugar, 40, 4S3.
The following were the fluctuations of the
| leading railway and industrial shares fur
nished by c. H. F. Smith & Co., members
New York stock exchange and Chicago board
| of trade