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Show CORN MARKET HIS AN ERRATIC COURSE CHICAGO, Oct. 2". Nervousness and lower prices characterized the corn market mar-ket most of the time today, chiefly owing to the complicated industrial outlook. The close was unsteady, Vc net lower to 1V.C advance, with December $1.4.& to $1.21, and May 51.22 to X.52. Oats finished Tic to ic down, and provisions varying I trom 12c decline to a rise of 60 centi. j Althousrn buying on the part of strong . commission houses rallied the corn market from an initial break, the announcement tnaL the industrial conference, as first constituted, had quit, and that the mine workers had refused Secretary Wilson's strike settlement proposal, led to a renewal re-newal oi depression. Weakness of the stock market was also made mucli of a bearisn tactor. On the other hand, knowledge knowl-edge that hogr prices had recovered from a tresh setback of 25c to 40c, had a tendency ten-dency to disturb short sellers of corn. Besides, there was continued evidence of determination anions farmers and interior in-terior elevator ownero not to sacrifice holdings. Oats averaged lower with co-t Besides, Be-sides, tne longshoremen's strike interfered somewhat wUh seaboard demand ci,, 1 f1;?' buy!ns save a genera; upward fn iL ? The buying was said I to, be basetl on expectation that bog re- eeipts would be curtailed owinff to the recent big shrtrikaae of values. r.ANGE Of THE LEADING rUTUTtES. Corn PQn' U'S"' L0W- CIc,e' Sr": . l Oats J 1-L" 1' lev. . ... Ja?- , St. SO C2.65 SI. SO 8240 Lard ?'"ov 2.-.. 112 2.i.30 2.1.02 j3?.- 2-70 20.35 2S.70 2!. k 10. S7 J:la 17.20 17. 05 17.ra |