The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-29

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NEW 3YoRK-Flour. receipts IL. sl5
barrels: exports 5,57si barrels; market
firm and moderately active; winter pat
ents IS $500 Is: winter straights IS I15@
s 25; Minnesota patent IS l25@e 60: win
ter extras 50 s094l IS.
Wheat, receipts $4,000 bushels; ex-,
ports 91.4o0 bushels; spot. easy;I No. IL
red 81 23h I. o. b, and afioat; options
opened very strong. closed 1c up on
July but Solo net lower on other
months; No. 9 red May closed at 81. az.
81 Corn. receipts 305, 800 bushels; exports
2lo.613 bushels: spot easy; No. I. g,4l%c;
options showed q good advance on
opening but yielded later and closed
only %GEc net higher; May closed at
s9%c.
Oats. receipts 49, 400 bushels: exports
3l5 bushels: spot stronger; No. O. $40
ss%c; No. : white a51s@ssc; options
closed ;51ko net higher! May closed at
33hc.
Hay dull. Hops QUIET. Hides quiet.
Leather steady.
Beef Arm. cutmeats steady. Lard
easy; western steamed closed at IS s2ts;
refined quiet. Pork firm. Cheese
steady. Tallow dull. Cottonseed oil
quiet. Rosln, steady. Turpentine firm.
Rice strong. SMolasses firm.
Coffee, options opened steady; closed
steady with prices unchanged to 5
points net higher; sales 2 5000 bags.
Sugar, raw strong; refined strong.
BALTIMoRE-Four firm and higher
Wheat steady at the decline: spot,
month and May 81 Il bid; receipts S.
3S5 bushels: exports none Corn flrmi
spot and month asN @4ec:: May $3.50
2sEc; steamer mixed 3S& @39c; receipts
23l, AL bushels; exports 57,213 bushels.
Oats firm and higher: No. 2 white 371,4t
93Sc; No. 2 mixed s4@35c; receipts 81
$50 bushels: exports one Rye firmer;
No. 2 nearby 64A9S4hc; receipts II, 800
bushels: exports ZONE. Hay firm;
choice, timothy SIS 90. Grain freights
active. Butter and eggs firm and un-
changed. Cheese steady and unchanged.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS firm and
&c higher: contract grade, April
Sl12AG1 Is. Corn firm and AG1c high
er; No. 2 mixed April 39N94ec; May
loA441Ac. Flour strong and higher.
Butter steady; fancy western creamery
171sc; do prints 19c. Eggs fresh: nearby
11kc; do western 11kc: do southern
lokc. Cheese firm.
CINCINNAm-Fiour firm. Wheat
firm: No. 2 red 81 OF. Corn strong and
higher: No. 2 mixed 36kc. Oats firm
and higher: No. 2 mixed Sic. Rye firm;
No. 2, &c. Lard steady at IS so. Bulk
meats firmat s. G5. Bacon firm at Sc S..
Whisky active and firm at 81 %. But
ter dull Sugar firm. Eggs easy at Sc.
Cheese steady.
Live Stock.
CEICAGO-Trade in cattle 10 -day
was inactive and prices remained
steady. Beef steers we're sold at 81 0o@
4 50 for common to fair; IS 1905 Is for
prime shippers. The bulk sold at 81 50
as 90. Cows and heifers brought 81 70
a. S0;, Gamers 50 '5o93 90. Prices for
hogs were easy at the start, but on ac-
tive demand the market stiffened up
and closed about unchanged. Hogs
sold at 50 1904 10. chiefly at 50 s514 05.
Pigs sold largely at s. 60@3 So. Prime
light hogs sold 100 under the best
heavies. Sheep were slow Of sale and a
trifle lower. Clipped lambs sold at 81 IS
O. Is: wooded Sc! O095 As. Shorn sheep
brought 50 5oQ4 IS. largely at 81 0o@
425. Receipts. cattle $500 head; hogs
$1,000 head; sheep 5000 head.
EAST LIBERTY ~ Cattle steady;
extra IS 1895 20; prime IS O5@0 1o;com-
mon So 1904 Is. Hogs lower; prime me-
diums As15I+ %; best heavy Workers.
81 1904 Is; light Workers 81 0094 05;
heavy hogs 81 1904 90; pigs 50 ,So9S 395;
roughs 81 >5og3 60. Sheep steady; choice
clipped 81 2014 IS; common s. 1903 IS;
choice clipped lambs 81 s595 90: COM
MOI to good 81 26@4 so; spring lambs
IS 0o@7 90. Veal calves IS COOS 70.
EAST BUFFALo-Cattle strong.
Hogs. Workers., good to choice. 81 100
3 IS; pigs, fair to choice. 50 1904 co..
to good 81 1904 90: sheep, choice to se-
lected wethers. 81 eo@4 50; culls 10
common 50 2503 70.
cINC1NNAT1-HoGsl steady at 50 Is
@s 95.
Dry Good..
NEW YORk-War conditions affect
the dry goods market more forcibly.
The demand for duck and staple cot
tons for army uses Is the factor which
was most potent in swaying to-day's
market. Partly this Is due to the rainy
weather. which has kept store traders
out OF the market, except for goods
which they need at once. But the gov
eminent contracts are the most fruitful
topics among the dry goods men and
appear to come in for the bulk Of their
attention. There are signs OF a better
market for all grades OF staple cottons
stimulated no doubt by the movement
in ducks and other war goods. Brown
goods are said to be more active. Bids
for certain brown shirtings at prices
which have hitherto prevailed will not
secure goods to-day. Several lines In
wide sheetings are quoted at a slight
advance. Osnaburgs are flrmer In
tone; ducks are strong. bleached cot
tons show a generally satisfactory tone
with less added activity reported there
In some quarters in staple cotton mar
'ket. Print aclothsehave been subjected
to q very limited request. Extras are III