Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-13

Corn-Hisher; No. g. sos4.
oats-Firm; No. 3 white. 2sAg24.
Market Gossip.
Chicago Oct. l3.-Lyon's estimated
receipts for today are: Wheat, $50 cars;
corn, 10 cars; oats. 275 cars. Hogs, es-
Inmates, $4,000 head.
The Price Current, in its weekly crop
summary. said: dry weather has him
dered termination of the fall sown
wheat. Corn has been gathered under
favorable conditions and is being crib
bed unusually early There is some dis
appointment in yield. There is no ten
dency TO increase wheat marketing"
Bradstreet's announcement that Man
itoba points showed an increase in their
wheat stocks for the week of 100000
bushels, attracted some attention. The
weather map showed rains scattered
pretty generally over the winter wheat
territory and the forecast for today was
for further rains
a good deal of the speculative trade
was around privileges. The best buyer
was Smith, a local professional, who
took a line at put price and under. He
was the active factor III the pit. ST.
Louis houses bought wheat The quick
turns which the market showed made a
scalping day OF it, the early sellers be-
ing driven in on the rally. The puts eN-
planned a good deal of the days bust
ness. a one time the sellers of these
privileges We're sellers in the market to-
protect themselves against the wheat
that they thought they would gel, and
at the same time the chief buying of the
day was by the holders OF the puts.
Local MARKETS.
The following prices quoted are as
nearly correct as il is possible to OBJ
tain. THE quotations are to- prices paid
by dealers, corrected Friday after
noon.
GRAIN AND FEED.
w. II. sloppy reports the following
prices:
Wheat-55@57.
Oats-l9.
Corn-24ls.
Rye-47.
Hay Tame. $50; wild. $50.
Timothy-Soa190.
Clover-4.0O.
The Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany quotes a price of 251a cents pei
bushel for corn of No. grade and bet
ter.
LIVE STOCK.
Receipts today, nominal.
Britain & CO. Is paying the follow
ing prices for hogs in wagon load lots:
Selected light. 40 to $50 pounds, 400
Selected mixed, $50 to 800 pounds, $40
Selected heavy. over 900 pounds, $50
Coarse and rough. SO cents less than
the above prices.
Stays ana piggy sows graded accord
ing to quality afte~ reduction. Rough
includes thin old sows. milky bellies
and hogs unfit for packing. Premium
hogs must be smooth and fairly well
fatted.
All hogs subject to government in
spection.
PROVISIONS.
Marshalltown grocers quote the fol-
lowing prices for country produce:
New Potatoes-20 cents per bushcl.
Beans-1.50 per bushel in trade.
Eggs-l4Ml5 cents in trade.
Butter-Dairy, 10 cents in trade.
Apples-Home grown. 60GD75 cents per
bushel.
POULTRY.
Spring Chickens--7 cents per pound
Turkeys-sa7 cents.
Ducks-6 cents.
HIDES. IALLow AND WOOL.
III. Willard, Sons u Co. are paying the
following prices:
No Green Hides-6 cents.
No. Green Hides-5 cents.
Pelts-25m7O cents.
Horse Hides-1. 5002.00.
No. 1 Cake Tallow-3A cents.
Rough Fat-Per pound. cent.
Wool--12@17 cents.
Was Duel Fought.
London, Oct. 13.-A Paris special
says: representative of the Intran-
sigeant asserts that last evening he
saw Col. C. Schneider, former military
attache Of the Austro- Hungarian en-
bassy at Paris, being carried to the