Show BUSINESS WAS I EVENLY DIVIDED I f Val Street Speculation Away f Below the Mark I r B 0 WAS VERY WEAK SAIIAVAY BONDS WERE DULL BUT FIRM 1 CovorumentH Quite Active and n I r Slight Improvement Occurred In the Prices of the Sew Fours r CliicnKo Snn Frnnci co anti Liverpool I Liv-erpool Wheat Wool Quiet General I Gen-eral Glimpses of the World Markets j Mar-kets iI i TCew York March 5The stock market I today fell about 20000 shares below Wednesdays record and business was 1 about evenly divided between the railroad I < rail-road shares and the industrials The I first class Baltimore Ohio attracted the greatest attention on account of exceptional < excep-tional weakness Comment is getting to J > e general over the fact that the apparent ap-parent dealings in tills market for foreign t for-eign account recently have failed to be reflected in the exchange market and the inference is drawn that the original t source of the alee foreign orders is in initial prices were irregular i Wall street The intal prces were I regular with the changes unimportant tout W tl t d gg The London cables reported lower prices at that center The early course of the general list was erratic but tending toward a lower love and the volume of business was light babsequenUy improvement wa lShL occurred The market closed weak intone in-tone with general not losses extending in some instances to a point The railway bond market was dun but raway I firm The distribution of business was fairly good and in some cases decided 1 Improvement was noted Northern Pa elite thirds were active and rose 2 t per I ctfH thirs WEr the l cent but subsequently lot most of I gain the dividend scrip extended jumped 1 10 70 and reacted to 65 The net gains ip t the other issues ranged between 1 and 2 p cent The total sales were 1 409000 j Governments were quite active and a blight improvement occurred in the prices of the new fourS The transactions transac-tions footed up 5311500 i Money on call easy at 3Q4 per cent cal last loan 4 closed WSgA per cent Prime mercantile paper 4ViC6 per cent Sterling exchange steady with actual business in bankers cxehage bills at 4 7fM88 for demand banltr 1s and 45s65kSiS7 for sixty days Posted rates 4 Klitfi4 Commercial bills 4SG Silver I ccrtfncates GbWSK Bar silver 68 5 TREASURY STATEMENT I I Washington March Todays sl snent of the condition of the treasury S snews Available < ash balance J261 911207 baalce 123406135 141S I Gold reserve p GENERAL MARKET NEW YORK GE ERL Now York March 5 Flour Receipts 11000 exports 23000 barrel steadier but I auiet as 20 ar 10 below the market auler a low grade winters weak lov WheatExports wiltes 12fi30 bushels Spot WhetExprts hard 78J7S fob inactive TOgpft 4 inCe Options extremely dull all day I but generally stronger on bullish sent geerl talk of cables U jnent backed up by firm cbles tlc bke decreases in Argentine news dera unfavorable neg Argte I what receipts fair clearances and hen net higher ral covering closed Jiiic cose < rbl No 2 red March 75Wio closed io8 l1arch Slay 73k < 373 916 closed 73A Jiay sYeak WIuie B Slhf6 Dull United closed 124 bid Pig Iron Easy southern ll2o12oj norr fl502t130 brokers exchange 1 LEa brokers 303 exchange B WJ QJ3 3Q TinQuiet stat 1325Sil345 Plates Easy Spelter Firm domestic 410fl4 415 SpltrFim opened steady at 10 CoffeeOptions steay Coffee CoteeOpton opene 5 1 steady at 5010 polnS T decline closed steaY points poInt net decline Sales 2aOO bags including pint 1285 cluding larch I Spot CoffeeRio steady Ao 7 13 mild Cofe Cordova 16t114 I i Sugar Raw Quiet refined firm |