The morning news., 1899-12-03
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York, Dec. 2-Flour quiet and bare
ly steady; winter extras, $2.65u3,00; winter
low grades, $2.25d2.40 Rye -four easy.
Buckwheat flour quiet Buckwheat quiet.
Corn meal quiet. Rye weak; No. West
ern. SOC. Barley quiet. Barley malt dull;
Western, 55Q65c.
Wheat-Spot firm: No. red. 72%c; op-
tions opened steady and unchanged. i'm
mediately advancing, particularly on De-
cember and March, owing to light offer
ings and a good foreign demand. General
market news was bearish. however, in-
cluding lower cables, large Chicago stocks
and prospects for a million increase in
Mondays visible. Closed easy, after a late
break under sharp realizing, at unchanged
to lac higher, latter on December. jan
uary closed 71&c; March closed 74hc; May
closed 7S7sc; December closed 707sc.
Corn-Spot firm; No. ?. 40Ac; options
opened dun and unchanged, but later i'm
proved with wheat in face of steadler ca
hles and prospects of larger receipts West.
The market finally sold off under realiz-
ing aud closed unchanged. May closed
3SAc; December closed SSc.
Oats-Spot quiet; No. ., soc; options neg
lected and nominal.
Hops quiet; state. common to choice, 1896
crop, &c. Pacific coast. 1896 crop, 4d6c
Potatoes steady; Long Island H.25Q1.75;
New York, S1.00Q1.40; New Jersey sweets,
N,0Oq1S7la; Southern sweets, $l.5O9l75.
Cabbage dun.
Freights dull.
Beef quiet; cut meats easy.
Lard firmer; Western steamed, S5.45; re-
fined firm; continent, $50.
Pork quiet. mess $9.00q9 rs; short ribs
$105OQ12.OO; family. Sl1.25a11.50.
Butter steady; Western creamery, 23D
&c; state dairy, 1Sd25c.
Cheese quiet; large fancy September, 12l5
G12&c.
n. n
2ic loss off; Western ungraded, at mark,
l2c.
Tallow steady; city, 47sc; country, $50
42ic.
Turpentine quiet 5a5likc
Rosin steady; strained, common to good,
S-SOal4O
Petroleum firm; refined, New York. S965;
Philadelphia and Baltimore. $3.50: do in
bulk, $685..
Rice easy; domestic, fair to extra. 40
6iac; Japan, 42I@5c.
Coffee-Futures opened firm at an ad-
vance of 10@l5 points, and further i'm
proved, following the call on a scare Of
shorts, together with active bull specula-
ton based on strong European cables, ia
vorable news from Brazilian markets,
marked increase in warehouse movements
; and fears that bubonic plague had OBJ
tanned a strong hold upon shipping points
In the coffee belt. The market closed steady
at a net gain of 10 points. Total sales. "a
750 bags. including December, 5.9045 95c;
March, 6.15a6. 20c; May, 6.25ll6 SOC; July,
6.35G6. 40c; August, 6.45a6 soc; September
6 1906 soc; October 6.60c; spot coffee, lmar-
ket firmer; No. 7, invoice. 7c; No. Z job
bng, 7I5c; mild firm; Cordova 6A411&c
Sugar, raw. steady; fair refining, 3 13-16c;
centrifugal. 96 test. 4l4c; molasses sugar
9-l6c; refined steady; mould A. 7-16c;
standard A, 15-16c; confectioners' A,
4 15-l6c cut loaf, 9-16c crushed, 9-16c
powdered 514c granulated, 3-16c; cubes,
5 5-i6c.
tinued unsettled and tiim with shorts.
General buyers, but not much Offering and
prices more or less nomina'. Prime crude
barrels &c; prime summer yellow 32d32l9c;
off summer yellow nominal; butter grades
nominal; prime winter yellow 34Gt35c;
prime white 33aS4c; prime meal $23.5Oq2i.50.