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Show is wmwi J. A. Ho.le A- Co.. l:i South Main street, furnish the follow inn digest of financial news, received over their private pri-vate wires: Xew York Financial News bulletin: The market in most departments was tinder pressure from the start, some of the more i i in id loncs apparently beinu: Inclined to reduce holdings over (he week-end, and there was also some selling induced by the insistent ta'k of a peace irley between Ki.ssia and Gcnnau. the war news, aside from tha t touchinj; on Kussian a f fairs, heinr-r interpreted rather favorably. The steel shares in snots, especially Republic Re-public -Steel, were in fairly pood demand on recessions, n nd the a ct ion of t he Lackawanna Steel company in ni:ikln a liberal exir.i casli riisbtirscmen t has fostered fos-tered the belief that the extra dividend pohey of the United Sf.ues Stoel corporation corpora-tion will probably he oont imied. :i i least as far as the ne:ir future is .oncorned. and also that the Uepuhlic Steel company common stockholders will receive larger dividends, inasmuch as this company's financial status Is considered one of much strenplh. The technical vsition of the market, as f.ir as the majority of standard issues is concerned, is strongly lndii-ative of under-lyinsr under-lyinsr firmness, and, unless international dc elopments of i;nfavMable Interpretation Interpreta-tion are injected lino the situation, declines de-clines arc likely to attract a broad demand. de-mand. An ar: iole published by the New York Times this morning whU h came in for much comment, in effect inferred thai a prominent banking interest had, at favorable favor-able opportunities, been liquidating much of the. collateral held here against British Brit-ish logins, ar.d. as a soodly portion of this collateral . undoiibiedly consisted of hish-irnde rails. 1 is Huusible that much of the, heaviness jn )? r:i il department of hue was due to the silling nuntlomd. New York curb stock letter: Market , regular. There was active tradins in, many stocks on the Uroad street exchange tiia'. but t ho movements were irregular, irregu-lar, t!ie ndrances having induced a substantial sub-stantial amount of realizing in a number of Issues and r. -a. flops were naturally in oidor after early gains. 1 The mining- stocks contmmM to attract r.t ten lion, w Mb. Magma advancing from i 7' to 4. Nison Nead;t. which has been ! active for stifle time, was In brisk dc- ! inand. Most of tho biniiiR wa,s based on' advices in regard to the development of! the piorertv in the Washoe dlstrht of Nevada. There was a good demand for' Consolidated Copper Mines at S'--t and S'4. Hutte Copper A- X:ne sold nt fi i , Mason Valley at 6 and 5 atal Nipisslm; at wT and (i! siocks were generally steadv, with Houston t rade I in at :N and Merrill fit t L'l11., M.dwest at I-."' to 1.1 ami I n tr i n.4 1 ion a 1 1 'c: rohu nt at 1 J a nd t J '' . Motor sto-s ere oulel. United Motors celling at I71. ard lt:, and Standard at I'''1, and ln, There was Iteavv tiadm; in Ae'.i.a Kxpio-'ics. vbirli ranged from 71 to 7. Cities Service yo'd at and rt'O. Tne preferi ed sold at 7 U and 7 , 1 n terlUiie t lie mi. -a I w- s f i; m, with sales at a nd YV ri-; ht - Mar : in ranseil from 7 t" 7,. Gfrce I Walker s.i no ld;T rain in copper pi od net Ion ca n be r r,e. (.- i unless Hie price of the metal S ii.ii.i n.vj sufficiently suffi-ciently to e ni-oiir.i v:e tin- hundreds of .im:U orerators to Ves'.ine shipments of !ut:li- 1 .grade ores to I he cntimi fmelter-s. Tw.-li- ; lv r.ijs. 7 up .:('. Twenty ind .is; ria Is, j 74.:.;. up |