The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-17
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
CONTINUED from seventh page.1

barely steady, with prices lower to sell;
Minnesota patents, S5.20Q5.45. Rye flour,
dull Buckwheat flour, nominal. Buck
wheat, duh at 4Sc. Corn meal, more ac-
tive; yellow Western 69c. Rye, easier;
No. 2, 5Sa5Slkc; state rye, 541sG551kc. Bar
ley, strong; feeding, A15c. /Barly malt,
quiet Wheat, spot, weak; No. 2 red, $1.0S9s;
options opened firmer, on covering and
better early cables than expected, but
were nervous and unsettled all day; bears
resumed their raiding tactics, aided by
fine weather prospects, and, although
forced to cover one or twice, ultimately
prevailed and closed the market weak at
1k01Ac net decline, although May was
&c above last nights curb; No. 2 red,
March closed, $1.0SA; May closed $3.50.
Corn, spot, weak; No 2, S69sc; options,
weak all day. under active May liquida-
ton, buying Western stocks and favorable
weather, closing sc net lower; export bus
mess enormous; May closed, 34isc; July
closed, 35kc Oats, spot, lower; No. 2,
Gle; options were weak and lower with
corn, closing at 1ac net decline; May closed
at 29a4c. Beef, steady. Cut meats, quiet;
picked bellies, 5%@7c; picked shoulders,
41aG4ssc; picked hams, 7%@Sc. Lard,
easy; Western steamed, $40; May, $40
nominal; refined quiet. Pork, dull. But
ter, steady; Western creamery, 15G19c;
Western factory, 12015c; Elgins, 19c; irni-
tation creamery, 14616l4ci state dairy, 14lS
@1Sc; state creamery, 15d19c. Cheese dull;
large white, September, Sc. Potatoes,
steady; New York, $2S714a2.40; sweets,
$2.75d4 Is. Cotton seed oil, dull; prime
crude, 2Od2Olac; prime yellow, 221Sd2Sc.
Petroleum, dun Rice. steady Molasses,
quiet. Cabbage, quiet at $2.0eQ3.OO. Coffee,
options opened easy at a decline of SOLO
points on heavy European cables contin-
ued heavy receipts in Brazil, decline of Ac
in spot coffee locally, small distribution of
coffee from warehouses and lack of out
side support; switching was feature of
transactions; closed steady, with prices 10
points lower; sales, 1880 bags, including
March, 5.00c; May. 5.10c; spot coffee, Rio,
weak No. Z, invoice, 55sc; No. jobbing
csc; mild quiet and steady; Cordova, $40
Ice. Sugar, raw, barely steady fair re-
filming, 35sc; centrifugals, 96-test, 41sc; re-
fined, quiet.
Chicago, March 16.-The exceptionally
favorable weather caused the most gem
eral liquidation in the wheat market to-
day that has taken place for some time.
July wheat at one time showed break of
nearly cents. The closing decline was
A@3sc. covering by shorts being RESPONSE
BILE for the reaction. Corn and oats suf-
fered from the liquidation In wheat, and
closed sc and &c lower, respectively.
Provisions were slow and showed little
change at the close.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest Closing.
Wheat No. p
May 81 Oi 81 oak 81 o3A 500
July .... .s5isaS5ss $50 "a s41s@S4%
Corn. No. p
May 49,. .2s4 d2s% 2sS 2sh 2sK62sss
July 80. .s1lS9Sll4 BIS SO7s@3Olz aOib
Sept ....s2h s24 311z9Sl7s S11kas1%
May ...2s % @as% 25%a251s 25ha2sx
July .....2iB PAS 1885 2s%d2sk
Mess Pork per bbl-
May .....$975 SO S21s $975 50 III
July -. $50 80 $50 9 S2ia
Lard, per 100 lbs
May 49,, O7lk O7is 5ch SOS
July 80. 1919 SIS 5121s 1871
Short Ribs. per 100 lbs
May 49,. 5 90 OK 500 8 02dk
July -. 5O5 5 07lk sos 5O7%
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
weak; No. 2 spring wheat, 9l69Sc; No.
spring wheat, 9Oqssc; No. red, $.Oi; No
corn, 2slsa2s5sc; No ? yellow corn, 2sibSb
2sssc; No. 2 oats, 25ssd25lzc; No. 2 white
S0c No. 3 white, 27lsQ2Ssse; No. 2 rye.
4QSc; No. barley, T. o. b., 34df41c; No.
fax seed. si.20; Northwestern, 81 "a; prime
timothy seed, $2.s5: mess pork, per Dbl
s975q9.s0; lard. per 100 lbs, Sl.97lhai5. 90:
short rib sides Qoose), S4.SOa510; dry salt