People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Wall Street. [ARTICLE]

Wall Street.

New York. June 5.—The stock market opened active. Rubber declined 1 3/8% and Consolidated Gas l 1/2 per cent. The losses in the rest of the list were fractional. Speculation after 10:15 was almost lifeless, but the force of the reactionary movement was spent. The active shares record gains from the earlier low figures, but the appreciations are unimportant outside of Rubber, which gained 7/8 per cent. Minnesota Iron ad-

anced 1 and Metropolitan Traction per cent. Flint A Pere Marquette preferred reacted 2-7/8 per cent The market at 11 o'clock was steady at the rally. Money on call nominally 1 per cent; prime mercantile paper 2-1/2®3-1/2 per cent. Sterling exchange strong and a shade higher, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 489@489% for demand and 488@ 488% for sixty days. Posted rates 488%® 489 and 489%@490. Commercial bills 487%. Silver certificates ««%®67%; no sales. Bar silver 66%. Mexican dollars 53%. Government bonds steady. Closing quotations were: Atchison . 6% Manhattan Con. Am. Cotton Oil. 27% Missouri Pac. 28 Amer. Tobac. .. .113% Michigan Cent Baltimore &O. 62 Northern Pac 5% Can. Pacific North Pac pfd... 18% C., B. and Q 81% IN. Y. Central... *.._ C. & St. L.. 44% Northwestern... I*B Cordage 2% N. Y.& N. E 43% Chicago Gas 74% N. American... 5% Chesap’k&O.. . 22% OniahM 3>% Del & Hudson . .128% Omaha pfd.. D. L & W. . . ,16b% Ont. &West’n. 18 Dist Catl Fd C.. 2 % Pacific Mai 1..... 3(44 Den &R G ofd.. 47 Pullman .173 Erie lO^'Reading 17% East’n Illinois.. 51 : Rock Island East Tennessee Richmond Ter . • Illinois Central Silver Cer .... ’ ‘ " Jersey Central.. 99% Sugar Refinery. 117% Kan & Tex pfd.. 32 St. Pau1........ M>4 Lead . 35% St. Paul pfd.... .... L.,N. A & C .... 10% Texas & Pacific. 12 L. & N...... ... 57% Union Pacific... 13% Linseed Oil 38% Western Union. 92% Lake Erie & W.. 21% Wabash 8?; L. E. & W. pfd.. 82Wabash pfd ... 19% Lake Shore ‘Wixvon'n Cent.. .... Govermneui uvnus stuud at the following bid prices .■ , Registered 25... 97 '.Currency 6s, 07.100 Registered 4s .. 112%'Currency 6s, '98.109 Coupon 4s 113 (Currency 6s, '99.111 Currency 6s, ’95.100 Coupon 5s Currency 6s. 96 103 ißegist’d 5s ex 1

Live Stock. Chicago, June 5.-Cattle—Receipts, 11,500; calves, 600. The stocker and feeder trade is still very dull, and prltees are extremely low as compared with a few Weeks ago, sales being mostly at, [email protected]. Texas cattle were slow of sale to-day at weak prices, with much of the trade done at a decline of 10c. Cows sold at [email protected] and steers at $2.75 @4.70, with the bulk of the steer sales at [email protected]. ' Hogs—Receipts, 34,000. The offerings embraced a larger proportion of common light hogs and such droves moved off slowly at the decline, but good, fat matured hogs sold at [email protected], principally at [email protected]. Lightweights found buyers at [email protected], largely at [email protected]. and mixed hogs sold at $4.35 @4.65, while pigs brought [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 14.000. Native sheep, sold at [email protected], Texans at [email protected], yearlings at [email protected] and spring lambs at s4@6. Spring lambs were active and flrm, with sales chiefly at $4.85@6. Choice sheep also showed strength, as such lots were not plentiful, but common kinds solcf slowly at a decline. • VP best and Corn. Closing prices of wheat and corn at the following named cities were: Wheat—New York—July. 80%c; September. 81 %c; December, 82%c. St. Louts —July, 78%c; Septemoer, 77%c. Duluth —Cash, 78c; July, 78%e. Minneapolis—' Cash, 78%c; July, 77%c. Baltimore— June, 78c; July. 79c. Toledo—Cash. 84c; July, 80c. Milwaukee—Cash, 77%c; July, 79c. Detroit—Cash. 82c; July, 80c. Corn—New .York—July, 56%c; September, 57%c. St. Louis—July, 49%e;'September, 50%c. Baltimore—June, 55%c; July, 55%c.

Liverpool. > Liverpool, June s.—Wheat—Spot, No. 2 red winter, 5s 9%d; No. 2 red spring. 6s 3d; No. 1 hard Manitoba, 6s 2%d; No. 1 California, 5s 9*4d; futures, June, 5s B%d; July, 5s 9%d; August, 5s 9%d; September, 5s 10«4d; October. 5s 10%d; November, 5s Corn—Spot, American mixed, new, 4s B’,id; futures, June, 4s 6%d; July, 4s 6»4d; August, 4s 6%d; September, 4s 7d; October, 4s V54<3; November, 4s 7’,Jd. Flour—St. Louis fancy winter, 7s 9d. Peoria. Peoria, June s.—Corn—No. 2. 51c; No. 3. 50*,fee. Oats—No. 2 white, 30Vic; No. 3 white, 30c. Rye—No. 2. 64@65c. Whisky —Finished. $1.25. Receipts—Wheat, 600 , bu; corn. 22.000 bu; oats, &.600 bu: rye, 600 bu: barley, 700 bu. Shipments— Wheat, 9,000 bu; corn, 5.800 bu: oats, 56,000 bu; rye, 600 bu; barley, 2,800 bu. New York. New York. June s.—Butter—Receipts, 11-400 pkgs: western dairy. B@>l3c; western creame y. 12@18c; Kiglns, 18c. Eggs—Receipts, 14.750 pkgs; western, 12*4®13c. Coffee—Steady. Toledo. Toledo. Ohio, June s.—Wheat —Cash and June, 840, July, 80c asked; August, 79c bid; September, 79>4c bid; No. 3 soft, 81c nominal. Corn—Cash, July, 51c bld. Oats—duly and September, 31c.