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Show pCULATION DORMANT THE STOCK EXCHANGE al Dealings for the Day Aggregate Only About S 100,000 Shares; Price Fluctuations :S Narrow. IBROADAN WALL, utlonal News Service. 0RK July 3.-SpcculalIon was on the New York Stock cx-jy cx-jy owing to the grand exodus , to the country. Total dealings v aegregated about 100,000 I smallest for any five-hour n8c December. Mil The dull-lted dull-lted In very narrow price flue-,ne flue-,ne the standard shares and -actional changes for the day. c'fic, Steel. Reading and Amal-"re Amal-"re the favorites of what litis lit-is was transacted and they all fh slight fractional losses. Spe- fhe other hand, while inac-fram inac-fram 1 10 4 Points higher. the ln being in Illinois Central ctlon of 400 shares. Pacific was unaffected by the riven by David Lamar at mi and the charges lodged with itte commerce commission that , bankrupt A director of the -Ific stated today that the mat-bMng mat-bMng taken under advisement statement was made It would 'ore Monday. Ho added thnt. he el humiliated If ho answered ts at this time, tion in London, prices for stocks showed frac-5M frac-5M due to a lower range .of mons sent over by London, where t small liquidation of Americans on the fresh outbreak in the Bal- London also sent orders over to jsjfc for the sale of securities, but utre small. toning the early heaviness the i4 steadied itself, but prices again iff in the last hour on declaration between Servla and Bulgaria, to-Mrlth to-Mrlth the expectation of a strike of gold miners in Africa.. These Influences also encouraged the shorts to stand by their comniltmonts over the holidays, with tn result that the expected evening up .contracts by this eloment did not jnaterlallze. Some brokers stated that the influences back of the recent raid on the market were still actively at work and an attempt at a demonstration Is expected early next week. A rumor was also current In the tinan-, tinan-, dlslrict that the government would wlthdra.w its suit against the United Mates Steel corporation. This grew out of the statement by Lamar that he had formed the resolution instituting the investigation in-vestigation of the steel corporation by the Stanley committee. Specialties Strong. Specialties were strong, especially the Chemical stocks, though inactive. American Ameri-can Agricultural rose 21. Virginia-Carolina 1 point and American Cotton Oil a fraction. Strength of Pennsylvania. Northern Pacific Pa-cific and New York Central, according to some brokers, was due to the reinvestment reinvest-ment of dividends and interest money distributed dis-tributed the first of this month bv railroads rail-roads and corporations. While there are a good many persons to be found who believe stocks are cheap and a good buy at present quotations, few of them are making many purchases for their own account. These persons were classed today as members of a "mutual admiration society," which by directing attention to each upward movement In the standard stocks hope to work up speculative enthusiasm. Tho ardor in this direction. ' however, was dampenod considerably today when London sold American stocks on balance. Most of tho bulls In the street like Jo talk about the likolthood of nn upward movement, but frown when nsked why they don't pick up some stocks. |