Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-15

Iomatoes-$1 25Qf2 % per crate.
Beets-2oc per dozen lunches.
Strawberries-6a9c per basket
Cauliiiower-5ec per dozen punches.
Spinath-5oc per bushel
Rhubarb-l5c per dozen lunches
New Cabbage$1 25d1 80 per barrel.
Bermuda Onions-s1 75Gi1 90 per crate.
New Potatoes, s. O59Di co per barrel: 81 %
al % per bushel.
appes-S@10c each as to size.
New Peas 63n 15c per bushel
Cherries-l0c per quart
Onions--l5c per dozen punches.
Asparagus-25c per dozen punches.
Chicago, June 1.-THE reported
buying by Armour of Lei,er's north
west holdings, together with the COM
plant Of damage by rain in Texas
and Kansas, held wheat fairly firm to-
day. July closed with loss of 11ac
and September nc. Corn and oats
i left off unchanged. Pork lost 1712c
and ribs 21ac. Lard closed unchanged.
The furry yesterday seemed to have
cleared the atmosphere On the board
Of trade, and to-day there was little to
remind one Of the disturbance except
lower prices. The Letter deal was
| generally considered to he dead and
buried. so far as the trade in deferred
futures was concerned, but the
obsequies Of the cash end of that re-
performed Wheat started not far
from the closing prices of the day be-
fore, the bulk of the transactions, al
though few sales were made at 12c
improvement in September and De-
cember deliveries. Weakness very
soon developed, however. and July sold
GOWN cents and September and De-
cember about / 1ac each during the fol-
lowing half hours trading. 1t became
rumoled during the forenoon that be-
sides buying from Letter all the June
wheat the latter had coming to him,
Armour & Co. had bought all = cash
| wheat held by the young specul~a II i'll
Minneapolis and DululN That gave
little firmer tone TO the proceedings
in the pit. The gathering strength was
increased when the rumor referred to
received the substantial confirmation
OF the president CT the Illinois Trust
and Savings Bank To complete the
bullish combination, the weather was
still wet in Texas, where much of the
wheat is in shock, and it rained heav
lily in Kansas and other Western
States where wheat cutting had COM
menced. Liverpool contributed a fur
Their item of bullish news by cabling
that the wheat throughout east central
Russia was threatened with total fail
ure from drought and that the worst
was probable unless rain relieved the
situation within week.
The Liverpool quotations, however
were anything but bullish, giving clear
indications Of the abandOnments Of a
! threatened July corner in that market
July wheat there was Is Sd perennial or
/ the equivalent of 1sc bushel lower this
morning than It closed yesterday, but
+ September was only lower by the equiv
/ alent of 13lc a bushel and December
/ 3sc. The July at Liverpool had re-
covered about &c buShel of its early
/ loss before the close. Atlantic ports
/ clearances of wheat and -four were
equal to $4,000 bushels Chicago re-
ceips were "A cars against II year ago
! Minneapolis and Duluth received 131
/ carloads compared with 800 last year
| July opened unchanged to 1c lower at
! 78079c; December declined to TIC,
. rallied TO 7712c, the closing figure. Sep
( TENDER started unchanged at 1ac high
! er at 70-s 0711ac, sold down to G97sc
| then firmed up to 7C5s @70$4c at the
close.
The continued showery weather and
! the more settled feeling IN the wheat
| pit created firm tone in corn. July
opened 1sc lower at 321s 032Ac, sold
up to 3212c, down to 32c, then up to
! 323sc asked.
After weak start cats frmed up on
reports of wet weather and talk Of
rankness Prices at one time showed
a slight advance as compared with the
close last night. July started 1sc low
! or at 231sc, sold down to 1895 @231ac,
/ rose to 237s@ 24c, then settled back to
237s 024c
Reports Of an improvement in the
I yellow fever situation in Mississippi,
/ together with light receipts Of hogs
/ and higher prices at the yards had q
/ strong influence in provisions at the
! start The market reacted later on SELL
| ing by English packing concerns. Swift
I was also a seller. July pork opened
unchanged at 50 so: sold a., to SO TO-
| declined to SO 40, then rose to SO 4211a
| at the close July lard started 5@7hc
| higher at s. S21a05 IS, declined to
| So 7e65 721@. then irmed up to S. 721h
! as T, the closing price July ribs be-
gan 71bc better at So Az and declined
J to So 371a.
| Estimated receipts for tomorrow:
| Wheat 20 cars. corn SEQ cars, oats 100
cars, hogs 1890 head.
The leading futures range as follows:
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