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Show I STOCK MARKET IS IN A NARROW RUT Hauifcst Activity, Confined to Professional Work. Lacking Significance. JORKIGN INFLUENCES ARE DECIDEDLY WEAKENING Monty of Idle Money in New York, but Investors Chary of Taking Chances. XI5YV YORK. April 13. Wall Street, to-ay to-ay gave further evidence of Ub restrlc-on restrlc-on within professional limits and fell ito narrow rut In which little slgnltl-nce slgnltl-nce was nttached to the sluggish fluc-latlons fluc-latlons In price? The tone was heavy, hlch Is almost Inevitably the case In a rofoundly dull market. Some of the javlness was of foreign Inspiration and ondon sold on balance In this market. Paris continued to withdraw gold from ondon nnd prices continued to harden t that center while further rise in for-gn for-gn exchange rates here brought condl-oris condl-oris near to the level at which London mid shift. Paris demand for gold shlp-ents shlp-ents to New Tork. London remittances i Parle represent, the completion of the i-paymonl of advances made during the ew York financial crisis and its rc-icted rc-icted results In foreign markets. There iems to he come speculative troubles In arls due to disturbances In the diamond id copper trades which Induced llquldn-6n llquldn-6n by Paris In the London stock inar- Ifcjj?1 An unofficial announcement was made SrJ & in New York that the selling agency of Bf! ? tnc principal copper producers had marked I H nown the selling price of copper, thus conforming to the last week's successive 'CCi i reductions in the London market and at the New York metal exchange. For thlE :5S Tflason Amalgamated Copper was a leader fj V in the p.arly downward movement of t .prlceF. The amount of subscriptions at f Berlin to the new Gorman nnd Prussian Hi : loans, although fully covering the Issues 'SNli ", seemed to be considered disappointing. ftM i thUK adding one more to the unfavorable ttt-f b influences from abroad The Improve-tfod Improve-tfod r went In Investment Issues In foreign mar-;.. mar-;.. j Jtets was. In consequence, checked. 'mi i Domestic events offered little to offset jul E .these foreign Influence's. Railroad traffic JZ officials reported that there was no change 'W j In conditions and there was a. disposition low f to Pos'pone the dato of expected revival. tf.sT! K Tne am-e v;B true of advances In the K commercial situation and complaints were ."juJ i heard from some centers of a relapse Into ujS & somewhat critical conditions In trade. x The approach of the Easter holidays am s a repressive factor on all speculative Irkels and this wns emphasized by tne dslon to close the stock exchange from ursday of this week until Monday of tt week. Crop prospects begin to have nort, effective Influence on the market 1 reports of a continued lack of mols-e mols-e "In parts of the winter wheat belt olved some attention, .'he appearance of the Illinois Centra cular proposing the offering of IS petit pet-it of holdings In New York to stock-ders stock-ders at par presents tbf subject of v capital Issues which must be pro-ed pro-ed for In large volume In the not dls-tt dls-tt futuue. The depressing effect of urday'f Delaware & .Hudson bond an-jncement an-jncement on that stock did not Imply nood of dissatisfaction with the pros-ihe, pros-ihe, money market, showed the further set of the growing accumulation of Idle pey Ifi New York which Is looked to pave the way for success In new capl-lssstee. capl-lssstee. Banks were somewhat less lined today, however, to press their ids on the market which Is compara-ely compara-ely bare of borrowers, Sharp advances the group of stocks known as speclal-s speclal-s were without Influence on the gen-.1 gen-.1 Hsu ionds were steady. Total sales (par taI-l taI-l JS.S72.000. .tilted States bonds were unchanged call, i New York Bonds. S ref 2s reg.lOSiJj.Tapan ls cer... R lo coup 101 do 2nd ser ... S53 io 3s reg.... 100 do -Is 6i lo coup 101 .LouIfv & N u 4s 36 lo new Is r. .120iiManh c gold 4s. 32i i w do coup 122a Mex Cent As.. . 811 IBj f-'Amer Tob 4s 60 do 1st inc 17 .A rf I 0 6s 10.11 M & St L -is... SO all tAtchpen 4s. .. 962 M K t T 4s. .. .16 . . it -i do adj 4s S6i do 2nds SO 118 S do cv 4s 8Sa NRR of M c 4s. 76 OmIM f cv Se Cent g 3Js 30 JjP1 r. Atlantic CL 4s. f? N" .7 Cent g 5s.l23J itft 5 Balt .fc O 4s STJINorthn Pac 4s. .100 )0 0 7 do ojs nil do 3s 71 ' I'Brook RT cv 4s 705 Nor & W c 4s. 03J .Gent of Geor 5s. 105 O S L rfdg 4s . So : do 1st lnc 67 Penn. cv 3Js.. .. 043 alCf "do 2nd inc.... 4C Reading gen is ng iU i do 3rd Inc.. .. 36 'StT, &. 1M c 5s. 1031 lecnfl tCh-s & O 41s... fi7J StL & SF fg Is. 661 fflhlc & Alt 3is. fill St L Swn c 4s. 61 - B fc Q n 1r, OoR Seaboard AL Is 4I f.C R I & P 4s. 63 Southn Pac 4s.. S6 m .11 a co' 5s do 1st 4s cer R9a llAPlS iccc & StL g 4s 94 Southn Ry 5s... 92 UW' 'Colo Ind ns s A. B4i Tex & Pac lsts.1071 . Colo Mid 4s .... 60 ,T St L ft W 4s 70 nCAfll Ct1 & Southn Is 881 Union Pac 4s.... 100 iDBl'U'- iCuba 5s 1012 do cv 4s 851 ' SUenv t R G 4s 94 U S Sreel 2d ns 9G& SDIst Secur 5s... 70 Vabash lsts ...lOCj ' SHrie pr In is . Sfi . do deb B 47 jr' do gen 4b 703 Western Md 4s. 65 -Zt JfHock Val 102 ,Wh Sr. L B 4?,. K3 Wn jltit Metal 4r... 64i'Vlsc Cent 4s. ... 811 New York Money. -itrDllflBNEU- YORK, April IS. Money on call lilt1"' Hli per cent; ruling rate, li; clos-Mvn clos-Mvn bid. 11." offered at 1J. Time loans jld Z iu,cl and rmer; sixty days, 2!tfj"i2i per nlltTw"1: ninety days, 3 per cent, six months, ilfciiKttf Per cent. ri! r'me mercantile paper. 41(0.5 per 'cnl. nl " mS Sterling exchange firm, with actual IPtl93,;W!lness ln bankers" bills at l.X0.85) ,c,v2;,S83? for demand, and at 4.S4. 454. 84.50 'A rimM alxty-dny bills, t1-'W. Cpmmerclol bills. 4.8i. it R'ran dollarfi. 47c Alt fl'la"vrt?ent' bondH' . r;illroa1 bonds lJjp Treasury Statement. Mi'jySHINGTOX APrl1 IB. Today's Ziimt- m?nt of lno treasury balances in thu iH??"1 fmds shows: - rffel'o ?Jlttb, cap halancc. J2B5.Sr.J.57S. tuT"-5 co,n nd bullion. t26.826,620. B0 rtlflcates, ?2C,180,2S0. Tfli Duluth Wlient. ill livvDliLUTH' MJnn.. April I3.-Vhcat 1 ''tn'rn. 99c; No. 2 northern, 9Dc; tyt J?!?- 87c: July. 9Slc. S. 'KOata, 47c. jiK Minneapolis Wheat, idE K?l1SiSFAP0L,S' AnrJI la. Wheat Pfl'Efei.30' Jl,,-V- 3Si9SIc; No. 1 hard. -Rr.l11 So- 1 northern. S1.01J; No. 2 llfiOOWBa ' mWv- Xo- 3 northern, 91 ll&'jL Ncw York Sugar. .a'!lfrmTaiy0R5. Anrl1 S.-Suga,-Raw. ,'vlii7,? r J-oIlnlng. :i.92c: centrifugal. .90 -X,if m,- 1,5:um,0,l"ISHS sugar, 3.67c. refined, Wnui(hBBV:MC!- povrlcrc(, 5-00c: rflHl Jc-n Bt Loul5 W00l L riMrtlumJI!,5' Ap,U 13 Wool, steady: JSliWS- Hjn?lcs and clothing. 18 --W 8. D. Evans, -l8W h5ornd Hnier. has removed locatln. 48 South state. |