The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-14
ACTIVITY IS SHOWN
 IN STOCK MARKET
Considerable Buying Noted. News From the Strikes
 More Favorable

New York, March 13.-To the casual oo- server todays stock seemed to derive a great deal of it's early activity and strength from abroad. London's cheerful ness of the preceding day became more ac- centuated, with further advance in con sols and home rails. The English mar ket sent over decidedly higher list TOT prices for our securities. and followed this with considerable buying here. The lin- portance in British sentiment seemed 10 have it's foundation largely in the oenei that the crisis in the coal strike IS pass7 ing.
 The foreign situation was in no wise sponsible, however. for the moVeie". some of our more inactive speo'
 instance. as American sugar anu nal Harvester Concerning the hich advanced points, the com To a radical departure rom us r,,sfss. 5. nnblishing a detailed statement ss tss aerations for 1911. This exhibit .boe.5 4roats exceeding s1AOoo,ooo com f.rss a|lIb ss 100000 in the preceding pe- 5a was in other respects note worthy aoeument.
 Afi.sals of the company also expressed rUl sta#.a5 regarding the outcome or the rosstnis Tt suit now pending. AS for 1arrss :, which gained points, 1t Is arf s8 yed to be a foregone conclusion ihst fae ompany has arrived at an under e.snaiaa with the government, and that iirsata4i.n will involve pecuniary dam ta shareholders In fact, the re- nit- he disintegration of the Standard tI1 Annaricap Tobacco comma rtps no Ierre ,press the average securities.
 vement today embraced number
 specialties and. railway shares ol r- grades, the standard issues mak- tis headway although showing deci strength. Early gains in Amer ira- aphone and Telegraph and West ern m were partly cnecKed on pub Ii,s 5f estimated earnings of the lat Ger the first quarter of the current Fcef lich indicate a falling off com pBre4 ith the past three years and 4.9a aspects of ar increase In the divi- sHa4 ore doubtful
 Npnel ions in the domestic labor situa- Non re bettered by the acceptance by ttc fa lrence mill workers of the terms by the employers. This was part iy t lied by the formal reply of tSe AL ite coal owners to the miners, VI while conciliatory in tone, consti- tfa general refusal Of all demands. No eta1' .nswer hik been expected, hut 1t effect of giving pause to the mar the last hour. which was quite the flah of the session, and was marked o. .h contrary movements as q rise of n-s in Central Leather, preferred, and ng off of ! in American Tobacco.
 j dealings reflected weakness in the ative leaders. Steel and Union Pa cu osing much of their advance, while healing and Lehigh. Valley closed un- cn7n<ed. Harvester and other specialties leu If from best prices.
 Another sidelight on the existing condi- ars in the steel trade and their effect trrr independent concerns was furnished n ne Sloss-Sheffield company, which ed per cent decrease in it's earn
 the curb the day was enlivened by
 ciaration cf 3S Ia per cent stock divi-
 by the Standard Oil compaay of easka.
 Iids were active with few price hai9es. Total sales, par value, aggre-
 d S2 36e.0 900.
 1ifed States government bonds were hanged on call.