New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-17
PHILADELPHIA STOCkS.
THE TRADE IN CHICAGO.

Chicago. April 16 (SpeciaD-Wheat to-day
80, r,uch 70 the Amusement OF the trade here,
r.covered almost all of yesterdays decline the
.trarpth WAS entirely from the other side Locai
.roasrs absorbed IN the huge Letter liquidation
80 vr,,ay wore caught short as the other side'
u,th ,ts mind entirely on the war prospect
horght oil day. There were buying orders from
abroad before the opening. The seapoaro re-
,ortsd tho acceptances over night enormous TOT
saturday Between the buying by the other
side and the covering Of shorts wheat opened
nm a cent higher and advanced almost
cents further The close was little under 'he
ton but the price tonight on the curo Is a.
most the best for the day July opened a' OH
70 $50 cents sold between sos ana 90 cents
and closed at S67s cents. On the curo TINS ai'ei
noon 1t was S7es cents. The May was Ia'hei
indifferent. selling at 81 10 and at - w. anu
closing at 81 CO. The September Jagged al one
time showing cents advance over FrioaS'
but closing 1& cents over To-Day oeNeiop
rnents make II pretty certain that most Oh INC
Letter wheat yesterday was taken by the o'iei
.,aa Professionals came down this morning
short almost to a man. Everypoo! mere '"N
,aued on 10 the Letter and Cudahy selling. They
all had 70 come In St Louis had wheat 10 ouy'
II looked as II there was still further selling
% nj. ONCE until noon. Everybody takes 1t for
granted that he Is pretty we'll out with more OF
less interest still in May possibly but not at all
.n+.r..,ed now In July. and not disposed TO be.
War has completely overshadowed everything
TODAY. a. the Letter selling did yesterday. Gear
.rce. uere $4,000 bushels They made no I'M
rre.s,on Receipts everywhere were small. only
15o cars IN the Northwest. against 724 last year.
A decrease on passage is expected on Monday.
There will be a good-szed decrease In the
xyor,d.s visible The worlds shipments Will be
about 100000 bushels. The market was over
all the calls" to-day. and closed so that most or
the calls" were good
LIVERPOOL was as strong on corn as II was on
wheat. VI I'D to Id. The scaboard put Its ex-
mort business at 40 loads Sales from here were
about 400 900 bushels. Clearances were 9O2.VVo
bushels. Receipts were PSI cars. with 29o esti-
mated for Monday. Charters were 261.ooo bush
els. II was strength abroad and covering by
shorts All the talent was on the wrong side
Nav sold from 29k to 30% cents. and closed at
BOZ cents.
Oats started off pretty strong with the other
grains. But they met great deal OF selling by
Letter possibly $40. 600 bushels. which makes al
least 10000 bushels sold by him In the last
three days. 1t lost the market half its advance
May sold from 257s TO 261e cents and closed al
257s cents There could not have been any bet
ter weather for oats Local receipts were liberal
PAP cars. with 2S5 estimated for Monday. Sea-
board clearances were about 100000 bushels
New.York reported 100000 bushels sold for ex-
port
Packers kept up their selling OF provisions. II
was SUFFICIENT to prevent any advance. The last
prices were Just about the same as Fridays. In
some instances a shade lower. There were
1900 hogs. with 81 600 for Monday and 14oOoC
for next week Prices were cents lower. The
cash demand was good: the speculation slow
Shipments for he week were large. 1o.9OOOot
pounds meats and 5000 600 pounds lard.
On the curb puts" on July wheat were Soss
cents; calls" 9Oas cents. Puts" on May corn
BOZ cents: calls" BIN cents. Puts" on July
corn. 31sQ31h cents; calls" 32% cents.