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Show A WALL CTBEKT LIAR With K'.s Vivid Iir.tjrination Managed to Throw the Whole Trading Corumu-nity Corumu-nity Into a Tmio Yesterday. THE EASCEK3 HAD A MEETING Aad He Started a Story That One of Them was in Trouble -Sum ar.d Substance Sub-stance of the Transaction Nf.iv York, July Stocks opened active and higher; Northern I'ncitic up 3, but the bears made a raid; Northern l'aeific rccoded one point.and L'niou Tactile Ta-ctile a fraction. Tho market then became steady, a shade above the lowest. After It o'clock it bocumo quiet, and pricos again ragged to a point below tho lowest low-est before reached during the session. At noou market was quiet and weak at the lowest. The I'jsl says: "There are occasions w hen tho rank and tilo of the stock exchange ex-change operators exhibit as much sense as a group of hysterica! caildre u, and yesterday was such an occasion. The series of canards which threw tho whole tradiug community into a panic yesterday yester-day had for a basis simply a business meeting of the bankers to drw up a petition for the Liverpool cotton conference. Some ambitious manufacturer of Wall street lies, seeing tho bankers on their way out of the coufureiice started a story that ouo of them had come to grief, anil Walt street believed the story. This is tho sum and substance of tho whole series se-ries of sensations of the afternoon." N"0'i - Money ea'ty l1 ;-';"' 2 p-r cent. Fimts riH-r-'Ht, 17: t'.icit.o slxe. 10; Atchl-pou Atchl-pou "A f.; fYu'ral l':i"l(if, 'M: Murllut:ton. 7t s ; Dnivr Kin tirainte, i:i': Northern Pa.-ltii-, if'1 : I 'rt 'errmi. n.i't; Non'r.iat"rii. 3: York Oiitnl, Or-itoa Navl tatiun. 5; North Airericin 1 1 :e ; l'a' i.ir- iuil:i'Mr: Itork lland ; St. l'aiil Oui:tta:i. -'!; Texas l'.viili', II1 , : t'tiiou I'-ielne. :)ii '( ; Walls KiirB-o Kxiirers, Wefitera l'niou, "S. |