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Show TELEGRAPHIC UI1 EAT. The Speculators Boautl Tor Bic HeturnH. Chicago, 8. Special dispatches from various points in Wisconsin and Minnesota give further reports of the storm in the northwest on yesterday and Hunday niht. In many places growing crops have been badly damaged. dam-aged. Tbe Times claimB to have discovered that Jim Keeue haB been in the city for tbe past week quietly direoting the movements of hia broker on the Board of Trade and that be left for New York in a private car last night. New York, 8. During a flurry in breadBtufU, yesterday, in the Produce Exchange, a bid by to exporters for 1,000,000 bushels at $1.10 was made, but the speculative olique was unwilling un-willing to sell so large a quantify at lesa than $1.12. One operator said if unfavorable reports continue wheat would be che'p at $1.25, at which price the bulk of tbe European de-maud de-maud would be filled. The steamer' Enyland, National line, leaves here to-day for Liverpool, taking out 100,000 bushels of wheat, probably the largest single shipload of wheat this season, and said to be part of recent heavy purchases from par-tie? par-tie? controlling No. 2 Bpring. London, 8. Tbe Times says the ; firmness of tbe French exchange is said to be due to the prospect of a demand de-mand for gold for the United States in consequence of a deficient harvest. Accounts from French wheat-grow ing districts are certainly unfavorable, unfavor-able, but looking at the enormoue accumulation of gold, both here and on the continent, it seems rather premature to speculate upon the probable efleots of a drain thereof to America. The contingonoy of Americans Ameri-cans preferring to take their own bonds, as was the case lust year, must be considered, and the probabilities are in favor of some improvement in our general business with America. It is also too early to assume as a certainty that European harvest will be seriously deficient. |