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Show PRICE " j Peace Rumors Give Chicago Chi-cago Market Downward Sweep at Close. CHICAOO, March 10. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing that tin- wheat market averaged higher today, pence rumors avc quotations quota-tions a downward nwct-p in tlif: lust hou r. ( .'losing quotations wore unsettled, unset-tled, ranging from net lower to r, advance, willi Mav at $1.8'i,'J to $I.S(i';K and July at Corn lost Vh to . and oats :i'st'. to '-jc. Provisions Pro-visions wound up v itii gains of 12 to !i rents. Moderate advances, interrupted by n u me rou h t ran.sien t setbacks, were brought, about in wheat prices an a result re-sult of President Wilson 's orders for the arming of American merchant ships. Reports thai the British government was negotiating for the purchase of the r-ntij-e Canadian crop of I i 1 7 tended jprT for a while to fi'i e considerable Tul vantage to t he bulls, and so, like-wise, like-wise, diil severe dust storms in Kansas. Kan-sas. The market, howecr, seemed from I he outset to have- an overbought appearance, ap-pearance, and it was a noticeable circumstance cir-cumstance that offerings were plentiful on all the bulges. Nevertheless, sellers seemed on the whole to be in a minority until near the end of the session, when gossip bcan to circulate, that Germany was making a fresh attempt at a separate sep-arate peace with Russia. Assertions that the price which Great Jirit ai n was offering for the C nnadian wheat yield of 11)17 was only $1.30 a bushel exerted an additional bearish influence in-fluence during the late dealings. On the other hand, announcement that one railroad to the seaboard from Chicago had lifted the embargo on export shipments ship-ments of grain helped somewhat to check selling as the dav came to an curl. Corn swayed with wheat, advancing ea rly a n d sn gging lat er. (n the1 upturn up-turn the market touched a new high record price, $ 1 . 1 0:;s for May delivery. Unts were guided entirely by the action of ot her grai n. Relatively high prices which the Brit-iidi Brit-iidi government fixed for lard at Liverpool Liver-pool did a good deal to tighten the provision pro-vision market here. Besides, record top quotations on hogs continued to rule at tho Chicago yards. ; RANG 15 OP TUK UCADINO FUTURES. ' Open. Itlsh. Low. Close. Wheat-- 1av $1 $1 .SOS Sl.Rii'j. $1 ' July .... 1.57 la l.5S7s 1.56i 1.56 Porn Mav V.nfs.L 1.10- l.OS'i, 1.0R-i July l.OSli 1.0!) U 1 .07 1.07ft Oats Mny Wj, .fiO .5R4 .59 J ul - ."i7r'g .578 5ti .56 Por jpfy .'.'.'.r.2.$ft 32. SO '. tiO 3267 Jjav 18.S7 m.25 1R.S7 18.97 T Ju?v in.f2 1S.'J2 IS. 92 , Ribs r M;iv 17.47 17.70 17.45 17.55 tf'ily 17.75 17.60 17.60 CASH QUOTATIONS. Vrfit, Nos, 2 and 3 red and Nos. 2 and 3 hard, nominal. 1'orn, No. 1 vollow, nominal; No. 3 vel-low. vel-low. Sl.09 WI.I0I2 ; No- -1 yellow, $1.08 1 . '0 1 i . On ts. No. 3 white, 60f?61e; standard, 6ltrt7.Kl-. j Rye. nominal. Barley, Sl.ii3rrrl.32. : Timothv. $3.?ftfi.75. Clovev, S12.00 5T1S.OO. rork, $33.35. Lard, $10.02. Ribs, $17.0fff'17.62. |