The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-23
BOSTON MINING SHARES.
NEW YORK MINING SHARES.

WALL STREET lGOSSIP-New York
stock gossip, reported by II. Holhert &
Son, bankers and brokers, BAL Robert
steet, NATIONAL German-American Bank
building, st. Paul: Strong, Sturgis & Co.
wire US: There are no marked changes
to comment upon in this market. but
renewed themselves: There has been fur
Their selling ofslAmerican Steel & Wire.
There has also been some sharp realiz-
ing u in To6aeeo and some liquidation in
opinion on Steel & Wire with d.ffidence,
as the subject has been widely discussed,
but we may venture to say that it Sc ems
to us absurd that a property as prosper
Gus as Steel & Wire should sell down
some Is points merely from delay in the
payment of the dividend No one ques-
lions that the dividend has been earned
and much more, then why be alarmed
now into selling? We note great firmness
in the grangers and EXPECT good things
from Omaha and Northwe st.
:, NEW YORK sMONEY-New York, June
22.--Money on call steady at 2@21A per
cent; last lean, 2 per cent; prime mer-
camille paper, 3@3a4 per cent; STERLING ex-
change easier, with "a actual business in
and at 81. S3A @fS6 for sixty days; posted
bills, s4S5@i S51g: silver certifcatess..i sjh "a
6 &c bar silver, 6o5sc; Mexican dollars,
Barrett, Farnum & Co., Chicago. tele-
graphed the following to Edwards Il
Bedeli, stock. brokers and commission
merchants, ITO Endicott Arcade St Paul
Mimi: Liverpool cables say Russia has
had good rains for several DAYS: pros
poets of spring wheat much improved
There is undoubtedly good inquiry for
have worked cargo for the continent
1t is rumored that gold shipments Sat
urday will amount to $5,000,000. Ameri-
can market opened at about New York
irnn Il -
1orlty of cases. Business continues very
light in general markets, but prices are
firm in spite of weakness of Paris, which
continues heavy on failure to form cab
ton company, of Philadelphia, says
earnings so far during June far ahead
of corresponding month last year.
BANK -CLEARINGS.
ST. Paul-$779,209.4 Al.
Minneapolis, $21O0, 240.
Chicago-$20, 032, 169
New York-$178, 64S, 724
Boston-$21, S59, 41I.t
TREASURY vSTATEMENT-Was
ton. June 22..Today's statement of the
able cash balances $273, 305, 076; gold re-
serve, S235, 761, $50. IL
FOREIGN BANK STATEMENTS
Paris, June 22.AThe weekly statement of
changes: Notes in circulation, decrease,
81, 975, 600 francs; treasury accounts cur
rent, increase, 2S,550,000 francs; gold in
hand, increase, IT. 600 francs; bills dis
counted, decrease 80, 100000 francs; sill
yer in hand, increase, 3,225,OOO francs
London, June s222. The weekly statement
of the Bank of England shows the fol-
lowing changes: Total reserve, increase
$4,000; circulation, increase, e12 900;
bullfons, increase e461, 600; other securi,
ties, decrease, e556, 600; other deposits
decrease, e72o,ooo;; public deposits, in
crease, e62S,000 notes reserve, Increase
e484, 600; government securities decrease
$4,000. The proportion of the Bank of
Englands reserve to liability is AZ "A per
cent; last week it was Ala per cent
Bank notes unchanged at per cent.
FOREIGN FINANCIAL-New York.
June 22-The Commercial Advertisers
London financial cablegram says: 1.-THE
markets were heavy today in the absence
of confirmation of the report that a
French ministry had been formed. They
recovered later on fresh report that a
ministry had been definitely constitu: ed
Paris then resumed buying, especially At
ricans, induced by the idea that the Brit
ish parliaments special, vote of $4,000, 001
for barracks and home defense would be
read by the Beers as indirect compu!sion
to climb down. Americans opened dull.
frightened in the middle of the day and
closed at the best on New York buying,
particularly of Pacific issues. B. & O.
issues were still fiat.