Show AND FINANCIAL WORLD Small Volume V of Transactions on Vall Wall Street t BEARS RECEIVE SCARE DISPUTE IK IX INI New York Y Aug 36 The stock market markst relapsed Into trivialities again i today The volume of transactions ml feOl below half haK a million shares and the mixture of at t changes at the cl el else e is wholly without significance except as A reflection of the indecision dwelling in the speculative I minds No loo attention wa paid to any news of the day and in fact there were I no occurrences having any important i bearing bea on the t volume of securities The bear traders r ure made a feeble b teata tents tenta tie live raid hr h after fter the opening tout but the offerings offering ot or stocks stok proved so small that the they became Intimidated and bought bouCht back again covering hort short lines which I were left over from yesterday y The success of yesterdays esterday s raid seems nouns to have hare been due to an encounter with some ome particularly weak speculative lines linea which represented little more than thao a froth easily 17 blown off the surface of speculation Today showed stocks ten tenaciously tenaciously held notwithstanding the ex ox extreme listlessness of ot the th demand Signs of renewed weakness in the corn Cent market after the opening dealings in induced some seine covering of shorts in from western sources but these were not ROt put out again when corn rallied later The approach of a hiatus In la the I stock Hock market with possibilities of favor faor favorable favorable able or unfavorable developments in the interval was enough to dissuade either er el elthe the bulls or the bears from commit g themselves for that length of or timeto time to this thin deterrent influence may be bee beo a athe tIme the e recognized possibility Si ll of the mar marup marup up of o call ln loans on Friday y The reopening of the dispute between France and Turkey had some influence upon foreign markets today toda which was emphasized b by the discouraging dl view caused by the prolongation of the Boer Beer war On the other hand band a settlement I of the steel strike is believed in la Wall Wan Wallstreet Wallstreet street to be possible at any time The market closed dull and heavy henry There was less doing In railroad heeds bonds than yesterday but Prices were about Mat steady Total solos sales par per value United States bonds bonda b were all aU unchanged on the last call |