Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-23


oats, 299,S00 bushels; rye, 10000 bush
els; barley, 14,250 bushels. Shipments
Flour, TIT barrels; wheat, 100000
bushels; corn, $50, 200 bushels; oats,
2l1, leo bushels rye, none; barley, 1,72O
bushels
On the Produce Exchange to-day the
butter market was steady; creameries
12@15c.
Eggs, size.
Cheese, quiet; creameries 6@91ac.
New York, May 21-Flour, receipts,
24,2S5 barrels; exports. 0,793 barrels;
strong and higher with wheat; winter
patents, S6.60@7O0; winter straights,
$6.25@6.50; Minnesota patents, 5000
1885; winter extras, $4.75@5.50; Mime
sofa bakers, $5.50@5.80; winter low
grades, $2.90@300
Rye flour quiet at $3.65@420.
Cornmeal steady; yellow western,
Soc
Rye dull; No. western, 66@67c.
Barley nominal. Barley malt nom
inal: western, 62@75c.
Wheat, receipts, 1856, 200 bushels; ex-
ports, SO, 764 bushels; spot market firm;
No. 2 red, s1.65 f. 0. b. afloat export
trade. Options opened strong and adj
vanced vigorously on less favorable
crop news, scare of July shorts, and
higher cables. Near the close local
realizing produced a slight setback.
Final prices were IL 010Ac higher,
the latter on May. No. red May,
s1.661a@167, closed at s1.661a; July,
$1.16@1.19, closed at S1.1S1b.
COr0 ,-apaiD+S 12S bI1c ov-
ports, 269,851 bushels; spot market
firm; No. 2, 4115c. Options frmer, in
f1uenced by higher cables and continu-
ed bullish crop reports, closed nc net
higher. May closed 401sc; July, 41@
411sc, closed at Ale.
Cats, receipts, 26o,4oO bushels; ex-
ports, 2S9,252 bushels; spot market
quiet; No. 2, 341ac; No. 2 white, 3712c
Options dull, was steadily held and clos
ed unchanged. May closed at 3415c
Hay dull; shipping, 35@40c; good to
choice, 55075c
Hops quiet; State common to choice
1895 crop, safe; 1896 crop, 6@7c; 1897
crop, 12014c; Pacific coast, 1895 crop,
3@4c; 1896 crop, 6@7c; 1897 crop, -
@14c
Hides steady Galveston. 20025 lbs,
ice; Texas dry, "a to 80 lbs. 13c; Cali
fornia, y to % lbs, 1Sc.
Leather firm; hemlock sole, Buenos
Ayres, 1902015c.
Wool quiet; fleece, 16@22c; Texas,
12@14c.
Beef firm: family, $125O@13.Oo; ex-
ira mess, S1C.5G011.0 90; beef hams,
s23.50@24G0; city extra India mess,
s1S00@19.0O
Cut meats quiet; picked bellies, 6h
@7Ac; shoulders, 43405c; picked
hams. 7a40Sc.
Lard steady; western steamed, s6.75;
refined quiet.
Pork steady; mess, s1175@1225;
short clear, s12 .50014.50; family, $3.50
@1400.
Tallow steady; city, &c; country 81
@4lsc as to quality.
Petroleum steady.
Rosin steady; strained common to
good, sI421a@1.45.
Turpentine steady at 29629ac.
Rice firm; fair to extra, 51507Ac;
Japan, 578@6c.
Molasses steady; New Orleans open
kettle, good to choice, 28@33c.
Cottonseed oil inactive; prime crude,
2G1z021c nominal; prime crude, f. O. b..
mills, 166171Ac; prime summer yellow,
25hM26c; off summer yellow, 241a@
25c: butter Oil, 2715G281ac; prime win
ctr yellow, 2903Cc.
Coffee, option opened steady at I'M
changed prices; showed weak under
tone in absence Of Rio and Santos ca
bles and local cash demand; absolutely
no speculative interest. Closed dull and
unchanged TO points net lower. Sales
$3.50 bags, including June and July at
5000. Spot coffee, Rio dull; No. in
voice, 6asc; No. jobbin, SIC; mild
quiet; Cordova, S1a@15hc.
Sugar, raw strong, tending upward;
fair refining, sac; Centrifugal, IS test,
44 GA 5-16c; refined firm: mould A.
55sc; standard A, SIC; confectionery
. A, SIC; cut loaf, 57sc; crushed. 57sc;
powdered 53sc; granulated, 5asc;
cubes, 55sc.
Philadelphia, Pa, May 21.-Wheat
firm and IS higher; contract grade
81 38@1 3812.
Corn. firm and &c higher; Mcy and
June 404 @41c.
Potatoes. unchanged: white choice
per bushel S5@90c; do fair to good
do 756S0c.
Butter, steady; fancy western cream
cry 15@151ac; do prints Ice.
Eggs, firm; fresh nearby and west
ern lie; do southern 1Oc.
Cheese, quiet.
Refined sugars unchanged.
Cotton. steady.
Tallow, firm.
Poultry unchanged.
Receipts-Flour. 1900 barrels and
II, coo sacks; wheat 5000 bushels; corn,
304 Geo bushels: oats, 1900 bushels.
Wheat. 5000 bushels;
corn, 10000 bushels; oats, 10000 bush
els.
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21-Flour,
quiet.
Wheat, firm; No. red 81 80
Corn, easy; No. 2 mixed 3734c.
Oats, quiet; No. mixed &c.
Rye. firm; No. 2, &c.
Lard, firm at Sc 80.
Bukmeats, quiet at Sc So
Bacon. firm at 81 %.
Whisky, steady at 81 %.
Butter, dull.
Sugar easy