The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-08
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York. March Flour inactive and
barely steady. Rye flour dun at $3.50
3.25 Buckwheat -four steady at Sl30
Buckwheat frmer at 4Sc Corn meal dull;
yellow western roc; city, Tic. Rye easier;
No. ?. 5S12G59c. Barley dull. Barley malt
steady.
Wheat spot, easy; No. red $107sk; op-
tons opened easy with the break In
stocks, rallied European war news
but again weakened under bearish weekly
statistics and light export demand The
only afternoon feature was a squirt in
September due to crop scares. 1t closed
at S1.061s. May closed at S1.002s.
Corn, spot, easy; No. @ S74c; options.
market opened easy with wheat, and was
generally weak all day under liberal re-
ceipts and moderate liquidation, closing
Aqssc lower; May closed at 34%c; July
closed at S5Ac.
Oats, spot dull; No. 2 311ke. Options
duh and easier, with corn, closing Hc
net lower. May closed at 301ac Beef
steady. Cut meats quiet; picked bellies,
5AQ7c; picked shoulders, 4%c; picked
hap1s, 734c Lard easier; western steamed,
sJ.S7ts; May $5.45 nominal; refined quiet
Pork easier; mess, $1050dl0.75. Butter
steady; Western creamery, 15d20c; West
ern- factory, l1@15c; Elgins, 20c; imitation
creamery, 4@17c; state dairy, 13d19c /:
state creamery, 14419c. Cheese dull; large
white September, SIZE. Potatoes quiet;
New York, S2371zd25O; sweets $3.o0G14. 90.
Iallow steady. Cotton seed oil easy
harime crude, 20l5c; prime yellow. pc
Petroleum nominal Rice and molasses
firm Cabbage quiet $3.00d3.50. Coffee. op-
lions opened steady at unchanged prices.
ruled featureless in absence of sDecuIa-
ton and showed weak undertone following
decline in spot coffee. Closed dun at I'M
changed prices. May, 5.55c; December.
o.Soc; spot Rio quiet; No. invoice. 61ke
No. Jobbing, 65s. Mild steady: Cordoya.
SAd16c. Sugar. raw, barely steady Fair
refining, S9sqS 11-16c centrifugal, 96-test.
4ls44 S-1ec; refined, quiet
Chicago, H., March 7-Nearbv futures in
wheat were affected to-day by the On.
ban Developments principally and closed
weak at sc decline for July and a cent
lower for May. Far-off futures, however.
were strong on Letter buying and bad mi
nols ana Missouri crop reports. Septem-
Der and December wheat closed about &c
higher than their former price. Corn
felt the war scare and declined Ac. Oats
closed a shade lower Provisions were ar
Iected by the grain weakness and showed
closing declines of from 2iac to 15e.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest Lowest. Closing.
Wheat, No. p
March 81 o81s 81 osla 81 o2M 81 or
~ANs N12A 4 IVA u Of12 j uls4
July -, .9o14a9Oss 907s 30 9ois
Corn No. ?
May -. 297saSo 3Ols 29sl a97sa3o
July .....1 M3l1s 31h0305s 3O7s03l Biz
sept. ....s2h S27s@S2la 32H 32ll
oats, No p
May .269sT26s4 2G7s 265s 26at6i2s7z
July .43s ~ 243s 2lasa9fz
Mess Pork per bbl.--
May $50 % $40 40 $40 17ls $40 %
July -. 10 421s 10 As 10 80 10 80
Lard per 100 lbs
May 80. IS 511z 19ls s 12H
July 49,. 221a SIS $50 5 22it
Short Ribs. per 100 lbs
May -. 5 1914 l29a sos $40
Julg 49,. 3 l7ls so 12z SIS
Cash quotations were az follows Flour
quiet; NO. spring wheat 9la922ic; No.
spring wheat @caSl0o, No. ? red, $.oelh;
No. corn. 2S7sI2Sc; No. 2 yellow corn
2s7sN29c; No. 2 oats, z619a2G9sc; No
white. T. o. b.. 29c; No 3 white, f. o, b.
2si4G29c; No. 2 rye, 49Mc; No. 2 barley.
+. o b., Sfn43c; No. ] flax seed, N.l9,
Northwestern 81 %: prime timothy seed
$295 mess pork. per Dbl. s1O2oW10.25 lard,
per 100 lbs. s507laa5i0; short rib sides
doose). sl.9a05.2s dryN. salted shoulders
tboAedl, 42m5c; short clear sides tooxe,A
S5.a005.5e. whisky. dlstillers' finished goods