Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-24
Mexican dollars 47kc.
Government bonds irregular.
Ctafa hon dc irpoO1t1ar

Government bonds irregular.
State bonds irregular.
Railroad bonds irregular.
Stocks-An effort was made to re-
peat yesterdays lively demonstration
in Sugar, in a hope that the traders
would find sufficient price movement
in that stock to yield profits on the
days turn, but the stock developed its
customary obstinacy and refused to ad-
vance to any marked extent, or to hold
what moderate gain was made. It's
aim range was 234 and it closed with
q net loss of u. The street was food
ed with tips this morning, promis-
ing a repetition of yesterdays sudden
jump and the professional traders took
on stock quite literally. The closing
out of short contracts yesterday left
the market without support on that
account and me buying did not extend
much beyond the ranks of the profess
sional bills. In spite Of the an
nouncement of a further advance of
ten cents a hundred pounds in refined
sugar made by the American company
and followed by the other refners there
was not sufficient demand for the
stock to enable. the traders to take
their profits and the price was brought
back to about where it started under
the pressure of that process. To-day's
advance in the price of refined sugar
makes a total of fifteen cents hun
bred pounds during the week and the
quick response made by all the COM
panies to the advance gave color TO
the persistent assertion that a working
agreement has been arrived at between
the rival companies. The fact of q
concurrent advance at the end of the
dull season in the trade and with the
large demand incident to the canning
season to be met detracts from The
protests made with official sanction
that business is conducted under pres
ent conditions ruinous terms and that
an irrepreSsible conflict still RACES be-
tween the refiners. American Tobacco
made further advance to-day, which
was better held than that of Sugar
and the price of Brooklyn Transit was
bid UP sharply when large buying or
ders were detected in the stock. In
the general list there was some show
of firmness early in the day, but it
was not well held in any case, and
prices of some railroad stocks drifted
below last nights level. The Paciiics
made the best show of strength, es-
pecially Northern Pacific which was
affected by rumors of an increased div
idend rate and was benefited also by
the timely rains in the northwestern
wheat country. The buying of North
ern Pacific was attributed in part to
Berlin account. International houses
were sellers on balance to small ex-
tent, the foreign markets continuing
generally depressed. A number Of the
large professional operators in stocks
are preparing for vacation trips to ELL
rope and some of the buying of stocks
is said to be the closing out of ac-
counts on the short side for their ben
eft. The small shipment of gold for
Europe announced for during the day
was not unexpected and had little eff
feet on the stock market. 1t is under
stood that it is made possible only by
special inducements offered by the
Bank of France, the occasion being the
special needs for currency incident to
the exposition.
The bond market was dull and small
and irregular changes in prices were
The rule. Total sales par value ST.
100000.
United States new As registered adj
vanced a and old As and IS declined
5s in the bid price.