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Show piiicim gossip OVER K WIS Trend of Currents in Stock and Mining World Is Reported Re-ported Up to Date. J. A. Hosle & Co., furnish the following follow-ing financial items, received over their private wire: From Philadelphia Favorable reports re-ports are received on U. S. Rubber. It is stated that this company has been rebuilt entirely on the inside and that the stock is now ready for a sensational movement. Profit-taking on a larpre scale went on yesterday in Corn Products, but as this stock is reported to be earning: at the rate of $32 per share it is thought that it will not stay around its present price of SS2. Well-informed banking interests are reported very friendly to Corn Products. American Smelting & Refining- company com-pany Is now earning 40 per cent on the common stock, but is ex-dividend this weeic at the rate of 8 per cent per annum. One of the features of the betterment better-ment in prices is the rise in the shares of the companies having properties in Mexico. The reported stop of the allied offensive of-fensive lias had a somewhat depressing depress-ing e!t ect at times during the past week. A London dispatch says that Von Hindenbnrg has reported to the kaiser that the British offensive has been brought to a definite stop. This dispatch came from Berlin via Amsterdam Am-sterdam today. Jerome reports that the miners' union is taking a secret vote to decide de-cide if it should return to worlc without with-out holding out for any further concessions con-cessions from the mine owners; that it is generally believed that the men will .decide to return to work. Brads t reefs, commenting on the side of trade, says industrial activity in leading lines tends to broaden, that grain crops continue to improve, that the government is beginning to buy heavily of supplies. President Wilson assures spring wheat growers that the government intends to protect them in marketing their crops and that prices will be guaranteed high enough to stimulate production. ' Twenty Industrial stocks 97. S9 up .51. Twenty rails 94. S4 off .56. |