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Show K CAUSES " CORIf PRICE SLUMP CHICAGO, July 2.".. Cheering war news had much to do with sharp breaks which took place today in the price of corn. The market closed' nervous, Zic to 3c net lower, with August !1.51 to $1.52 and September $1.52 to 51.2-Oats 51.2-Oats lost c to l,4c, and provisions cic to 25c. Weakness in the corn market developed, devel-oped, especially In the last hour, when attention had been centered on the inspiring in-spiring military news from France, borne renewal of peace gossip tended also to increase in-crease selling near the- end of the day, and so, too, did reports which emphasized empha-sized the excellent crop outlook. Riftnt from the outset, moreover, bears held the advantage, owing to failure of frost predictions pre-dictions in the territory south of the Canadian Ca-nadian boundarv and because of forecasts fore-casts of continued auspicious weather. At one time opinions that a decided curtailment curtail-ment of receipts was impending led to a notable rally, but the effect on values soon disappeared. Oats followed corn. Advices of damage dam-age by frost in the Canadian northwest received but little notice. Eastern purchasing pur-chasing interests were said to be changing chang-ing from an old to a new crop basis. Lower value3 of hogs and coin made provisions descend. Houses with stockyard stock-yard connections were sellers. RANGE OF TKK LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn-August Corn-August I.M $1.5-1 1.5tSi H.siy. SepL l-bift 1.56 l.SVi l.'i Oats August 69H -70V4 - 69 . 69H Sept SK -69 .68 .6ST4 Pork Julv ,5 85 Sept 45.75 45.75 45.62 45.6a Lard-July Lard-July 26.50 26.15 26. -!o Sept 26.30 26.37 26.30 26.32 Ribs-July Ribs-July 24.65 , Sept 25.00 25.00 21.90 24.90 |