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Show SmJte at liberty 0 leave his haunts' i Si' acc Reine Done on Wall Street as Business DCU 6 fcompared With the Transactions of Hr a Few Months Ago. BjoADAN WALL. HLSi" n'8leeI com U'BtiSf o the floor. VflKltth!nc dolnK on the - rBE1'' the broker that hmErthel the dullness that WMBPEJv IM.000 shares and VKSaSst 1 ?rt without JIVJbLfc. flrm nnd cloned ftWn Pacific win IHYt. tmdrtood that tho 'L&e offldaU on tho ' '(ESTo? the California com- ? nubile announcement filter the conference on L7tn an interests. Steel FfBEuttd were firm nrul B. P.9Tt new top. 9!. Chlno ; K,Bt in dividend rumor 'Tthat the earnings nro K c!o5 to 15 a share. I i"KlMroIeum mado a new low irKOtered aharply on th "JVhe quarterly statement TlL hlch Klvca net oarn- !dueUn: expenses but K ! for depreciation, of Mat on the common. SaU closed at the low tivHYtttt There was extensive NJMtoat rights and llio stock Kfeirn by shareholders who do not vrifh to cxtcIb the privllegft to subscribe to new stocka. -which expires at the end of next wek. Rumely Ifsues lost two points and St. iXHi!n & San Francisco harea wera n'eak. the first proferrcd boII-Inp boII-Inp at 31. General flvcn dropped from C7i to 65! and the refunding fours closed at the new low fliruro of 66J. With the Kccuritles ruling at bankruptcy prlcep. It Is, of course, next to lmpopslblo for the company lo securo fresh advances of capital. A largo amount of these securities securi-ties were placed nbroad and banking bank-ing houses nre deluged -with cables requnstlrifr an explanation of the unsatisfactory un-satisfactory situation. There waa little financial news to affect value??. The fortnlphtly report re-port of the American railway "flhowH nn Increase of 10.-195 car3 In tho Idle freight car aurplus na of May 15. lleat exporta for tho -week -wore aRHln heavy, totalling 6.-170,0000 bushel;, with tho exception of Inst week the largest of any ivcek slnco December 19, lDl'J. Imports of dry Roods at New York this week fell to $2,209,362, an amount below the average for somo lime past. Some attention was given to the crop outlook. There nre atorlcs of damage to wheat In Kansas and Oklahoma, with rathor sensational reports regarding tho oats crop. Notwithstanding tho dullness In speculation, there Is nn undercurrent of optimism on tho street, with the expressed hope of a favorablo Minnesota Min-nesota rate case decision on Monday Mon-day and an announcement on the new segregation plan of Union and Southern Pacific about Tuesday next. " |