Show MIDSUMMER DULLNESS Scarcely a Feature of Interest In Stocks GERMANYS INTERFERENCE F FTC ASSUMPTION1 OFT OF-T I Sugar Wa Advanced On the Poor Outlook For Annexation Action Outook Alexton Acton In the Senate Bonds Show Greater Great-er Activity and Strength Reports of Crop Damage Affected Wheat New York June Midsummer dull ness was the prevailing characteristic of the trading in stocks today and there was scarcely a single feature in the list of sufficient interest to warrant mention men-tion There was a movement to cover some of the short transactions that were put out by professional traders yesterday on the rather daring assumption that trouble was brewing with Germany over the alleged interference with American occupation of the Philippines This covering cover-ing movement carried prices up sharply In the early trading in some stocks those which were the chief sufferers In yesterdays I yester-days raid Tobacco and Brooklyn Transit naturally being the most conspicuous In the recovery Sugar was also a strong feature Apparently the practical abandonment by the senate or the annexation of Hawaii had led to covering by the bears In Sugar who sold the stock on the strength of annexation The announcement announce-ment of the regular dividends in Tobacco brought some realizing and a reaction of 1 per cent but the stock was well supported sup-ported at the decline A strong recovery in wheat excited a sympathetic Interest in stocks and gave S1mathetc some strength to the grain carrying strengh roads The buying of Pullman continued today and Great Northern preferred showed a gain of 2 Bonds continue to show greater activity and strength than stocks The total sales were 2690000 U S 5s advanced J4 in the bid price Total sales 01 stocks today were 202500 shares Including 0 AtchIson preferred pre-ferred 5900 Burlington 9100 Manhattan 4200 Northern Pacific preferred 9800 Rock Island 13 400 St Paul 9500 Texas Pacific 4100 Union Pacific preferred 4oOO American Spirits 3COQ American Spirits preferred 17SOO Tobacco 4900 Peoples Gas 13050 Sugar BOND QUOTATIONS 4s reg12514 J Cent 5s 114V US new o reg124X Do coup 125V4 Nor Pac Ists 115 U S 4s 110 41 Do 3s 6 4 Do coup 112 4 Do 4s 9S INDy Y Do 2nds 95 IN Y C SSrL4S1 U S 55 reg U3Nor W 6s 121 Do 5s coup U3N 1V Consols HI District 3 6s 1G Do deb 5s 1164 Atchison 4s 910 Nay 1sts 14 Do adj 4s G7O Ka 4s 9 Zan So nds 10 0 S L Gs t r126 C 8 Ohio 5s IH ½ 0 S L 5s t rl0 4 C H D 4s lMPac Gs of 95 10lz D R G sts IOS Reading 4s g R i g 4s me G f S 89 Eat Tenn ists 1073iSt L I 1 c 5s 95 Erie Gen 45 T4 St L S F g 6510 FWD1sttr754St Peon AIJ Gen Elec 5s 102V4 St P C P Istsl20 ½ U G H S A 104 Do 5s 17 Do 2nds 102 I Tex P L G is tsl05 H T C 5s 110 Do reg 2nds 403k Do con Gs 104 U P D G lath 62 Iowa C Ists 10 W Shore 4s 110V4 L N UnI 4s 9 Wab 1st 5s 109 1 K T 2nds C3 ½ Do 2nds 86 Do 4s 89 U P Pfd 59 N Y Cent Ists1194 U P 4 9Sh STOCK QUOTATIONS Atchison 13St P Omaha i i Preferred 3 SI Preferred 152 Bait Ohio 82St P 1 M 140 I Can So 5114 So Pac 17 Cent Pac 1314 iSo Railway 8 Ches Ohio 2 Hreferred 2914 Chi Alton 155 Tex Pac 12 C B Q 104 ½ I Union Pac 59 ChiEIllSSUPDG 6i Del Hudson 106 Wabash 7 Del L W 158 Preferred 18 D R G 10 f Wheel rre E 1 Preferred 58 Preferred 9 Erie new 13 Adams Ex 9 Do 1st pfd 3 4 Am Ex 1 I Ft Wayne 170 United States 40 Gt Nor pfd 179 Wells Fargo 121 III Cent 105 peoples Gas 97 Lake E W IH Con Gas 397 Preferred 70ICom aCble OC160 Lake Shore 191 oCI F Iron 21 Louis Nash 51 1 Preferred 90 Mo Pac 3 Gen Electric 3 Mich Cent 105Iil I Steel o Mobile Ohio 2 Lead I H 34 M K T 1 I I Preferred 10 Preferred 33Nat Lin Oil 16 l J Cent e 93Pac Mail 2 I N Y Cent 116Pullman Pal 199 Nor West e 1 Silver Cert 5 I Nor Pac 2 St R Twine 6 Preferred U9jSugar 133 t iSugr 3 O R N 49 i t Preferred 111 O S L 2ST C Iron 256 Plttsturg 170 IUS Leather 7 Reading 1S 41 Preferred 66A Rock Island W ½ IU S Rubber 2 St L SF Preferred S Do 1st pfd 6 West Union 05 Do 2nd pfd 6 2SJC N W 125T St Paul 95l Preferred lit Preferred 14SR G W 26 4 UP 23H 11 Preferred 6 Reading 1st pfd 45l NEW YORK MINING STOCKS Chollar SOphlr 1 Crown Point 2 Plymouth 12 on Cal Va 15 Quicksilver 100 Deadwood JO Preferred 200 Gould Curry I Sierra Nevada 3 Hale Norcross 40 Standard 1160 Homestake 470 Union Con 10 Iron Silver 6 Yellow Jacket 5 Mexican Ontario 250 SAN FRANCISCO MINING STOCKS San Francisco June 29The official I closing Quotations for mining stocks to day were as folo s lta 2 Mexican 5 Alpha Con 1 Occidental Con 55 Belcher 2 Ophir 5 Best Belcher 9 Overman 3 Bullion Potosi 3 Caledonia 11 Savage 1 Can Ca Va 1 Sierra Nevada 28 Crown PoInt 2 Silver Em 2 Gould Curry i Union Con 12 Hale Korcross 4 I Utah Con 1 Justice 1 Yellow Jacket 9 Kentuclc Con Stocks at London New York June 29The Evening Posts London financial cablegram The stock markets here are dull and featureless The May working statement of the Canadian Pacific ha caused weakness in Canadian lines and Americans have sympathized sym-pathized being lower throughout Baltimore Bali more Ohio common was down to 15 An Issue of Argentine treasury bills is said t be imminent and a Transvaal loan of from 4000X to 5000000 is expected pected within a very short time The Metal Markets New York June 29 Metals Express dullness prevailed in all departments of the metal market today and no changes of importance are noted in the quotations quota-tions At the close of the metal exchange ex-change calls pig iron warrants unchanged with U50 bid and 6G5 asked Lake CopperUnchanged with 1175 bid and 1177 ½ asked Tin Very quiet 1520 bid 1525 asked LeadQuIet but lirji 395 bid 400 asked Spelter Nominal StiO bid 525 asked I The firm that fixes the I e fr Jxes settling price for miners and smelters quotes lead at 3 < 75 Loans Exchange and Silver New York June 29 Money on call 1 Ii4 per cent last loan 1U per cent Prime mercantile paper ff per cent Sterling exchange strong with actual business in bankers bills at 4t34SG for demand and 4S4iJS4 for G days posted rates 4S5ft4S6 commercial bills 4S3LSC Silver certificates 5 < f < 59 Bar silver 59Vi Mexican dollars 49J4 |