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Show ' BUSINESS QUIET on mm ROW Trade Materially Affected by Stormy and Disagreeable Weather. WHOLESALE HOUSES KEPT BUSY, HOWEVER Poultry, Game, Vegetables, in Wide Variety, but Fish Rather Scarce. Owing to the disagreeable weather Tuesday, there was but little business transacted on Market row. The wholesale whole-sale merchants wore kopt busy, however, on account of the arrival of several earn of fruit and vegetables. Rash ft Co. received a car of excellent oranges and also a car of bananas. Tho Crabtroo Produce Company received a car of oranges or-anges and a car of Idaho potatoes. Hancock Han-cock Bros, received a umall consignment of fresh eggs, which arc wholesaling at $10 a case. There are no sweet potatoes to be hnd at present, although shipments ship-ments are expected almost daily. Tho price of meat remains the same. Poultry Poul-try is still very scarce, only Eastern stock being brought to the market, and shipments aro slow. Tho fish market la In poor condition, on aocount of storms on the coast. The supply of Eastern oysters and lobstors Is small and tho merchants are having a hard timo to keep up with the demand. The prices Tuesday wero ns follows: Oranges, 20 to 00 cents a dozen; apples, 30 to 75 cents a peck; grape fruit. $1 a dozen; Hmos, 40 cents a dozen; lemons. 30 cents a dozen; pears, 5 cents a pound; Turkish figs, 25 cents a pound; California Califor-nia figs, 15 cents a pound; dates, 10 and 15 cents a pound; walnut dates. 25 cents a package; bananas, 30 cents a dozen. Potatoes, 90 cents a bushel; turnips, 20 cents a peck; beois, 20 cents a peck; carrots, car-rots, 20 cents a pock; cabbnge, 3 cents a pound; parsnips, 20 cents a peck; cauliflower. cauli-flower. 15 cents a pound; greon onions, 10 cents a bunch; spinach. 10 cents a pound; celery from 5 to 12J cents a. bunch; winter radishes, 3 bunches for 10 cents; hubbard squash, 15 cents each; cranberries. 15 cents a quarU Dressed boef. from 12j to IS cents a pound: mutton, from 15 to 20 cents a pound; pork, at 18 and 22 cents a pound; spring chickens, 221 cents a pound; hens, 19 cents a pound; turkoys, 26 conts a pound; ducks and geeae, 17 conts a pound: Easter eggs, 30 cents a dozen; fresh ranch eggs. 45 cents a dozen; Eastern East-ern oysters, selects, 60 cents a quart; New York counts, 40 cents a dozen: Olvmpla oysters, 30 cents a quart; crabs. 30 and 35 cents each; Eastern lobsters, 40 cents a pound; salmon. 171 cents a pound: halibut, 15 cents a pound; catfish, 20 cents a pound. Wholesale Prices. The latest wholesale quotations on hay, grain and flour are as follows: Timothy, ?1S per ton; alfalfa, 515 por ton; oata, per 100. SI. 50; rolled oats, per 100. 1.05; bar-lev, bar-lev, per 100, SI. 20. rolled barley, per 100, $l".35; corn, per 100, $1.30; cracked corn, per 100. 1.35; bran, per 100, 99c; shorts, per 100. SI: wheat, per bushel. $1.25; high patent fiour, por 100. $1.85: straight grades, $1.65; fancy patent, $1.55. LIVE STOCK QUOTATIONS. Chicago. CHICAGO. Jan. 16. Cattle Receipts. 1500. Steady. Beeves, S4.10ig)7.20; cows and heifers. 51.60ifJ)5.25; stockers and feeders, 52.504.60; Texans, 3.7oJ4.50; calves, $6.00)8.25. Ilogfi Roceipts. 28.000, market 5c higher. high-er. Mixed and butchers. $6.256.60: good heavy. $6.45(!?6.621; rough heavy. ?6.25 6.35; light. $6.2586.50; pigs. $5.706.30; bulk. S6.45fi.65. Shocp Receipts, 14,000. Market strong. Sheep, $3.60iJ'5.25; lnmbs, 51.607.S0. Omaha. OMAHA, Jan 15. Cattle Receipts. S000; market slow to 10c lower. Natlvo steers, S4.00igi6.30; cows and helfer6, $2.50 04 65; Western steers, $3.25(5.30. can-ners. can-ners. $2.003.00; stockers and feeders. $2-80(5)5.00; calves. $3.00i)6.50; bulls and stags, $2.50(?4.50. Hogs Receipts. 10,000. Market shade to 5 cents higher. Heavy, $6.35(36.40; mixed. $6 3216.35; light. $6 256.35: pigs, $5.25 (J76.00; bulk of sales, .Se.SOtffO.SS. Sheep Receipts. 5000; market strong. Yearlings. 5fi.751PG.15; wethers, 55.25 5.65; ewes, $4 405.20; lambs, $6.507.50. Kansas City. KANSAS CITY. Jan. 15. Cattle Receipts. Re-ceipts. 12.000. Market steady. Native steers. 54.00tfS0.75; native cows and heifers. heif-ers. $2.20igi5 00; stockers and feeders. 52.75-l.75; bulls, 53.00(4.50; calves, 53 50 7.75; Western fed steers. $3.75(0)5.75; Western fed cows, $2.50-l-25. HogK Receipts. 13,000. Market strong to 5c higher. Bulk of sales, S6.42i6.50; heavv. $M"!6.55. packers, $6.1216.50; pics and lights. $5.50('G.45. Sheep Receipts. 6000: market steady. Muttons, $4.75(15.75 ; Iambs, ?6. 75(0)7.50 ; range wethers. ?5.501?6.G0. St. Joseph. ST. JOSEPH. Jan. 15. Cattle Rpcelpts, 2200; market active and steady: natives, $4.006.75, cows and heifers, $3.755.25; stockers and feeders. $3.2517'4.40. Hogs Receipts. 9500; market active, steady: top, $6.421Si6.55; bulk of sales, ?5.25!gi6.50. Sheep Receipts 1S00; market active; lambs, $7.46; ewes, $5.00. Available Grain Supply. NEW YORK, Jan- 15. Special cable and telegraphic communications received bv Bradstreet's show the following changes In available .supplies ns compared com-pared with previous account: Wheat United States, cast of Rockies, increase 134,000 bushels. Canada, decrease 56,000 bushels. Total Unltod States and Canada, Increase 83,-000 83,-000 bushels. Afloat for and In Europe, decrease 2,-300,000 2,-300,000 bushels. Total American and European supply, decrease 2.217,000 bushels. Corn United States and Canada, increase in-crease 1.276.000 bushels. Oats United States and Canada, decrease de-crease 722,000 bushels. Now York Fruit Market. NEW YORK. Jan 15. Evaporated apples, ap-ples, quiet: light business In spot and futures. Fnncy, 9(29c; choice, 8R478Sc; prime, SlSlc. Prunes are said to bo In better export demand, but arc quiet on spot. Prices steady to firm. 4 to 9 cents for California fruit with Oregon 60s and 40s quoted at 71?Sc. Apricots unchnnged; choice, 16c; extra choice, 17fJlSc: fancy, lS20c. Peachea Inactive but supplies are small and holdern confident. Choice. 12c; extra ex-tra choice, 121c; fancy. 13c. Raisins, generally firm; loose muscatel. 7ifSic; seeded S10c; London layers. ?1.4GS1.55. Minneapolis Wheat. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 15. Close: Wheat May. 77Jc; July, 788c; No. 1 hard. 814c; No 1 Northern, 79gc; No. 2 Northern, 77Jc; No. 3 Northern, 75S7-7CC. Liverpool Whoat. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 15. Close: Wheat-March, Wheat-March, 6s 37.d: May, 6s 3id; July, 6b. Tho weather in England todav was overcast. ' |