The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York, March 5.-Flour dull and
nomlnally easy; city mill patents, $3.50
6.15; Minnesota patents, $5.S0@5.60. Rye
-four steady. Buckwheat flour steady at
$780, Buckwheat 42c. Corn meal duh;
city, Tic. Rye quiet; No. 2, 59@591ac; state
rye, 55c Barley dull; feeding, 4Oc. Bar
ley malt quiet; Western, 5219dI67c.
Wheat, spot, easy; No red $1.07$4; OPP
tons opened steady hc advance on cables,
and after a sudden break, due partly to
favorable crop news rallied slightly on
covering and closed partly &c net lower;
No red March closed $1057s; May closed,
$1OO3s.
Corn, spot. easy; No. q S7Ac; options
opened steady with wheat, but declined I'M
der further liquidation. closing &c net
lower May. S47sQS51sc; close, S5c; July
closed, 961sc.
Oats, spot, quiet; No. 2. S1%c; options duh
and barely steady; closing sc lower; May
closed, 3Oslc. Beef steady; family, $ll.25
OLLIE Cut meats quiet; picked bellies,
5s4@7c; picked shoulders 4&c; picked
hams, 7a4c. Lard easy; Western steamed,
$40; May $3.50 nominal; refined quiet.
| Pork dull; mess, $1075; short clear, $1075
a125O; family, $11.50@12.OO. Butter steady;
Western creamery. 15G12O1zc; Western fac
tory, 11@1415c; Elgins, 2O1ac; imitation
creamery, 131aQ17c; state dairy, 13@17c;
| state creamery, 146i20c; cheese duh; large
white September, s19c. Potatoes quiet;
New York, $2371a62.50; sweets, $300Gl4-OO.
Petroleum nominal; refined $3.50; Phia-
delphla and Baltimore, $5S5; Philadelphia
and Baltimore in bulk, 1888. Rice firm; do
nestle fair to extra, 43s0t61@c. MOlaSses
firm; New Orleans open kettle, good to
choice, 2S@c33c. Cabbage dull at $3.O0@9.50.
| Cotton seed oil barely steady; prime crude,
200201bc; prime crude (. o. b. mills 16GDl7c;
| prime yellow summer, 23c; off yellow sum
mer 23c; butter oil, 26Q2Sc prime winter
yellow, 2S1Ac. Coffee options quiet at UNI
| changed prices; closed dull at unchanged
| prices; sales, 1000 bags, including April,
| 5.50c; May 5.55c; spot Rio dull; No. in
voice. 6l4c; No jobblng, 624c; mild steady;
! Cordova, SAG16c. Sugar raw, steady;
| fair refining, 11-16c; centrifugal, 9G-test,
4 3-16c; refined steady; mold A, SIC; gran
| ulated, SIC.
Chicago, March 5.-Coverlng of May
! wheat by Northwest shorts was the fea-
| ture in wheat trading to-day. 1t was the
! principal factor in an advance of 1 cent
in that option and the strength displayed
was communicated to July, which closed
at AG9sc advance A good deal of nerv
BUSINESS was shown at times Armour's
| ordering of 800 cars for shipments of
wheat from Minneapolis to Chicago hav-
ing a decidedly depressing effect early in
the session. Corn and oats were dull and
| closed with hardly any change in their
1 previous values. Provisions were weak
and closed 214@10c lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
| Opening. Highest Lowest. Closing.
| Wheat, No. 2
March ......$1 o. 81 0l1s $1O3 81 0li5
May ........ O5 l O6N l Of1S 0534
July -. .sOA@sO1A sOsl99O% ssA@Ss% 9o5s
May - ....scAaooas Boy $4,000 soAosol4
July ......317s sl7s S1h S1ss
Oats, No. p
July ......249s 245s 242sQA1k 24l5Q249s
Mess Pork. per Dbl
May $40 40 SO 421s so 30 $40 40
July mann. 10 As 10 471z 10 40 10 As
Lard. per 100 lbs
| May ...... 5 10 SIS 1919 els
July ........ 5 20 $50 221k 5 221k
Short Ribs, per 100 lbs
May 12A 5 Is 1914 10
July ........ 17h $50 5l7Js $50
Cash quotations were as follows; Flour
steady; winter patents. Sf8Og5.o0;
straights. 81. 9Og4.6O; spring specials, s.. 35@
5.4O spring patents, 81 70G5.10; straights,
81 4Oa4 go; bakers, 50 6OQS .9O No. spring
wheat, 913i093atc; No. spring wheat, sea
800; No. red, $1Oi1aQ1 .O51k No. corn,
29lsa29llc; No oats. 2Gl5q265sc; No. 3
white, f. o. b., 281zGt29c; No. 2 rye, 49Kc;
/ 4NO. q Odtltyt 4. " ~ oAutOts W. ! ld6
seed, $l.21a1 .25 prime timothy seed. g. 50;
mess pork, per barrel, $lO.95@1O 49, lard.
per 100 pounds, s5.O71zd5.10 short rib sides,
loose. 81. 00d5. 40; dry sailed shoulders, box
ed, 42l95c; short clear sides, boxed, $3.50
SIS; whisky, dlstillers> finished goods, per
| gallon. 81 .1S1z
Cincinnati, March 5.-Flour quiet. Wheat
quiet No. 2 red, CSC. Corn steady; No. 2,
mixed, 3ll5c. Oats easy; No. 2, mixed
2sc. Rye firm; No. 2, SIC. Lard quiet; $500
Bulk meats easy; $50 Bacon steady;
| $3.50. Whisky firm; $120.
st. Louis, March 5.-Flour, unchanged.
| Wheat, steady; No. red, cash, elevator,
| 9Slzc; track 9S74cGlS100; March. 9S%c: May,
s1.01; July, slAc; No. 2 hard, cash. &c
Corn, higher; No. 2 cash, 271kc; March,
27ssc; May. 27ssq27s4c; July, 2sc bid. Gate.
spots. steady; No. cash, &c; track, 27lAc,
March, 271sc; May, IKE July, 244c. Bran.
stronger and better; sacked, east track.
SOC; sacked, f. o. b., this side, 62Izc. But
ter. unchanged. Whisky, SL2O. Pork. low
er; standard mess, jobbing, $iO.S7ls Lard,