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Show MICE li wiT quick out V, Foreign Buying in United States Checked to a Con-siderable Con-siderable Extent. CHICAGO, Feb. 1!). Despite strong and excite- market conditions at Liverpool a fresh advance of Sic here In the price of wheat today was more than wiped out Foreign buying In the United States seemed to have been checked to a considerable consid-erable extent and there was fear that tiie suspension of travel between the con- tinent and England boded serious 8 tons in 1 wheat shipments from America. The market mar-ket clos'Ni weak at ic to 1c under last nipht. Corn lopt H'aic to J-flc net and oats 1?fic to 2c Provisions finished ir- remiiar. tc ott to a like amount up. Wheat at first went upgrade, swept alons by a rush to the bull side of the market. The incentive came chief K' from Liverpool dispatches telling of quotations 2ic to 3ic higher and referring to much public and trade criticism of delays in the buying of supplies. Signs, however, of any such volume of purchasing for Eurupe as the day before failed to appear and it was not long until the greatest pressure was from sellers. Bottom prices on wheat here quickly followed announcement from Washington Washing-ton that travel between Great Britain arid 'he rest of Europe had entirely ceased. This notice alone was apparently responsible respon-sible for the Hurry that accompanied the last sotback of 1c to Cc In prices here as the session camo to a close. ExDort , clearances were cut almost in half as compared' with the previous twenty-four hours. Corn rose and fell with wheat. Bears made much of the fact that assertions of biff sales of corn for export yesterday had not been confirmed. Seaboard advices were that foreigners today took -oC.OOO 1 bushels. Shipments from Argentina to- j tnlrd l.OflO.Ono bushels less than was the ' case a week ago. I Oats encountered plentiful Felling nl- I most from the start. Commission houses j furnished about the only supnort. Provisions were quite unsettled, but kept within a narrow range. Packers j took a hand on both sides of the mar- j ket. j RANGE OF THK LEADING FUTURES, j Wheat Open. TTlLrh. Low. Close. Mav 1.65 l.CH l.filB July .. 1.35 1.362 1-S:'i i.3J Corn Mnv Hi 7fU 771 77J 1 Julv Sii Si'S 7SJ 7Si Oats-May Oats-May go ";ng rj, nin July 5fr r-iie uoi D.'ij CASH QUOTATIONS. Wheat. No. 2 red. $l.t''j$ttf1.65&; No. 2 hard, $l.62Sfir1.6S. Corn, No. 4, yellow, 72Ai?i7C5c; No. 4 white. 7 4 tfs" 4c. Outs. No. 3 white. oSiftoSS?; No. 4 whlto, 5737 GSJc. Uyo. No. J1.26. nirlov, 77(oS-ti Timothv. Jfl.nO'iTfi.GO. Clovor. $n..0f?H.r0. Pork. $17.onjfis.:o. Lard. JlO.Ui. Ill lis, ?9.2ry9.75. |