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Show CORN PRICES JUMP AS SUPPLIES ARE SCARCE CHICAGO, June 1 Big jumps in ; prices were witnessed today in the I corn market. The steepest rise was for tho July delivery, wliich touched '$1-73. a net gain of 7V4c compared with Saturday's close. Failure of supplies sup-plies to arrive from the country as freely as had been hoped for had. buyers buy-ers anxious and sellers scarce. POTATOES. CHICAGO, June 1. Potatoes firm; receipts 61 cars; northern white sacked sack-ed and bulk $7.90S.10; new. steady; iFlorlda barrels No. 1 $15.00(J?15.25; (No. 2 $12.25012.75. I BUTTER AND EGGS. CHICAGO, June 1. Butter unchanged; un-changed; creamery 4152c Eggs lower; receipts 34.425 cases; rirsts 39(5M0c; ordinary firsts ,35ft 36c; at mark, cases Included, 37fr 39c; storage packed extras 42 42e; storage packed firsts 41(g) 41c. . Poultry alive higher; fowls 35c. LONDON RATES. LONDON, June 1. Bar silver 57d per ounce. Money at 5 per cent. ' ! Discount rates: Short bills 6- per cent; three month bills 6 11-166 per cent. |