Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-31

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour, steady; special brands $4,000
4.3O; hard patents $9.50@3.75; spring
patents $3.40@3.50; hard straights
Y3.10@3.2O; bakers $2.40@z.50.
No. 2 spring wheat 6512@661ac; No.
spring wheat 63@651ac; No. 2 red
67@671ac.
No. corn 321s@32Ac.
No. 2 oats 24Ac; No. 2 white 27@
271ac; No. 3 white 26@27c.
No. rye 51Ac.
No. 2 barley 3504S1Ac.
No fiaxseed $1.01h@I021A.
Prime timothy seed $40.
Mess pork, per barrel, $7.S007.S5.
Lard, per 100 pounds, $4.S5@4.9O.
Short ribs, sides Qoose) $5.00@5.25.
Dry sailed shoulders ,(boXed) 4R@
4Ac.
Short clear sides (boxed) s510@5.20.
Whisky, distillers' finished goods,
per gallon, $1.25.
Sugars, cut loaf 4.64c; graduated
5.14c.
No. 2 yellow corn 32A @32Ac.
Butter quiet; creameries 14@21c;
diaries 12@19c.
Eggs, easy; fresh 171ac.
Cheese, quiet; cream 7A@9Ac.
Receipts-Flour, 10000 barrels;
wheat, 127,500 bushels; corn, 25S,OOO
bushels: oats. 900 bushels; rye, 81
600 bushels; barley, $1,000 bushels.
Shipments-Flour, $4,000 barrels;
wheat, 100000 bushels; corn, 1000
bushels; oats, 256,O00 bushels; rye, 49,
600 bushels; barley, $500 bushels.
New York. October 29.-Flour, dull
and weak at lower prices to sell. Win
ter patents $3.75@400; winter straights
S3.5503.65; Minnesota patents 93.J0W
4.25; winter extras $2.oOQ3.l0; Min
nesota bakers $310@3.30; winter low
grades $2.25@2.45.
Cornmeal, steady; yellow 73Q14c.
Rye, quiet; No. western SAC, if Buff
falo 5S05S1ac f. o. b. afoat.
Barley malt, steady; western 57070c.
Wheat, spot, easier; No. 2 red 751ac
f. o. b. afioat; options were weak and
heavy to-day, under liquidation, big
northwest receipts and a sharp drop IN
cables accompanying peace news; clos
ed a shade steadier On covering, with
prices 1s@1ac net lower; sales included
No. red May 71A ore; closed at
re.
Corn, spot, easier; No. 2, 391sc f. o.
b. afoat: options bearishly influenced
by cables, prospective large receipts
and the break in wheat; closed 1s0Ac
net lower; May 39Q391sc; closed at
soc.
Oats, spot, steady; No. 2, 29c.
Hops, firm; State common to choice,
1896 crop, 7@Sc; 1897 crop, HOBO;
1898 crop, 18020c; Pacific coast, 1896
crop, rose; 1897 crop, 11@13c; 1888
crop, 1S@20c.
Wool, quiet; fleece 17M23c.
Cheese, dull; large white S1ac; small
white SC; large colored S1ac; small col
ored Sc.
Tallow, dull.
Rice. firm; fair to extra 45s65c.
Molasses, firm; New Orleans open
kettle. good to choice, 2S@33c.
Cottonseed oil, dull and fairly steady;
prime crude 1Sc nominal; prime crude,
f. O. b. mills, 130131ac nominal; prime
summer yellow 221ac; off summer yell
low 2O1h021c; butter grades 26027c;
prime winter yellow 27h02S12e.
Coffee, options opened steady at un-
changed prices, ruled dull but about
steady, with transactions exceptionally
small and confined almost exclusively
to local evening up: Indifferent cables
and apathy of spot buyers continued to
exert depressing influence as to flu
lures. Closed steady, unchanged to 5
points higher. Sales, 11,000 bags, in
Guiding March $3.50. Spot coffee, Rio,
dull and easy; No. Z invoice 534 @57sc;
No. Z jobbing 81 66ssc. Mild barley,
ctoodv. COrdoya SfT15c
Sugar, raw, firm; fair refining
13-1ec: centrifugal SO test, 415-16c;
molasses sugar 9-1sc. Refined, firm;
mould A SIC: standard A 47se; con-
fectioners' A 47sc: cut loaf SIC; crush
ed SIC: powdered 51sc; granulated SC;
cubes Sic.
Philadelphia. October 29-Wheat 115a'c
lower; contract grade October 710
71%c
Corn, Ac lower; No. mixed October
S7A @S71sc.
Oats, firm: No white clipped 3o1lkc:
No. 8 white clipped zoe; No. 2 mixed
do 2s1a @2ec.
Butter, firm ard prints 1c higher;
fancy western creamery 23c; do prints
24c.
Eggs, firm ard 1c higher; fresh near
by zoe; do western 19c; do southwest