Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-18

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FINANCE IND TRADE.
New York, March 17-Money on call
Easy at 115 per cent; last loan at 2
pr cent.
Prime mercantile paper 41s@5H per
cent.
Sterling exchange, with actual bus
mess in bankers bills at s4.S3am
asa for demand and at $4.S0% M4.S1
for 60 days; posted rates $4.S1h@4S3
and $AS41a@4S512. .
Commercial bills $4SD@4S0h.
Silver certificates 55@55Ac.
Par silver 547sc.
Mexican dollars 44%c,
II. s. new As registered. .122S
H. 5. rev IS coupons. 12216
< Is registered. ITO
[. S. IS coupons .-......................1t 1h
IL. >. -CS -..-:...-... --................... 9Slh
H. :. 5s registered. ..............lll6
r. s y coupons. 1111s
Pacific 6s of .i03 =
Government bonds weak.
State bonds steady.
Railroad bonds weak.
Stocks-There was a complete re-
yersal of sentiment on the stock ex-
change to-day compared with that Of
the earlier part Of the week, and prices
sagged almost continuously. The losses
averaged nearly two per cent. in the
standard stocks, and We're more pro-
rounced in the specialties. wherein
one case the decline exceeded 4 per
cent Trading was dominated by the
announced completion OF the Maine
board of inquiry report, the failure
Of the Pacific roads to report an ami
cable agreement upon passenger. rates.
and the heavy selling by houses with
Washington connections. A favor
able factor which had little influence
was the continued influx of gold. The
present movement, including to-day's
engagements of 10000 and the So
10000 en- route from Australia, is in
excess of $30,000,000 The continued
ease of money likewise attracted little
attention. The resumption of uneasi-
ness as to the general Cuban situation
seemed not to be shared on the for
eicn bouses, where Spanish As adj
due to the announcement that the in
terest payments, which had been in
doubt, would be made The bears Of
fe,ed round amounts of the Changers,
Sugar. Manhattan. Metropolitan Street
Railway and other prominent secur-
tiles The absence of support by lead
ing financial interests was readily per-
eeived by the advocates of lower val
- ELL ce-t
London was rather apathetic and early
prices afforded little encouragement
10 either party, being slightly mixed.
subsequent cables reported the London
exchanges closing exceedingly weak
III response to this side. Sugar absorb
ID the bulk Of the traders attention
during the day at receding prices. 1t
was the gossip of the street that late
this evening the Rapid Transit COM
misssioners would announce certain
concessions to Manhattan in the way
Of extensions, but that stock declined
considerably. The net losses of two
points and over follow:
Metropolitan Street Railway Az. SUI
gar 37s, Consolidated Gas 21a, Tobacco
o1b. Manhattan 2%. and Pullman "a +.
Operations in railway and miscella
traction in dealings, with the aggregate
reaching S1,350,00O The tendency of
the market was downward throughout
and as has been the case of late
large nreponderance of the dealings
eentered in a few of the speculative
issues
Quotations for government issues in
dicated losses of u per cent. in the
ri f'r &c
tered of 1897
The total sales Of stocks to-day were
9100 shares.
Quotations closed bid:
A 6 r5raf. ... ..-..'......'... i 1is
Baltimore and Observation-Disclosures. Is
canada Pacific ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~
CeFfai Pacllc $500. -....--...'.i !.
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy. S97s
Delaware and Hudson .....;.;;;;- 80. -l0SS'a
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western 100
Illinois Central ......... ................ 1914
Lake Erie and Western ............... =
70 preferred ..-..-..-. ...-.....-...-.G g
Louisville and Nashville. 4S}4
MeroooIitan street Raiiway....iG5A
Missouri Pacific Observation-Disclosures. p
New jersey Central ..................... 9ll2 1
View York Central Observation-Disclosures. 1857
Northern Pacific .-....-.. ....-.......... 2i12
DO preferred .......... ................ SOS
I'llSnnfS '....-.. ..'.'''''' '-'.'.'.''''l9S
1ul i''''''''' OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 80
houthern Pacific Observation-Disclosures. 10
Texas and Pacific ............ ...-...... 9ia
! on Pacific ............ ............... 262s
Hheeling ana Lake Erie .............. ~
40 preferred ...--.-.......-.- '...-..'.. w