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Show PROFIT-TAKING ON WALL STREET a '- , NEW YORK. Aug. 17. Business was re- - turned on a larg scale In the Harriman Pacifies Pa-cifies in the stock market, this morning, the opening transactions In Union Pacific foot- - lng np 12,000 shares at an advance of a point. Southern Pacific gained a similar amount, and International Pump and Anaconda were up 1 and m respectively. St. Paul was unloaded. l7eTyaDd gave way "a point.. Otherwise the changes were small. '. Tbe upward sweep of Union and Southern . Pacific heralded the official dividend an-. an-. nouncementa. Tens of thousands of shares 4 changed hands with the wide leaps in prices. Union Pacific rose In fcalf an hour 8 to 171. and Soathern Pacific 6T4 to 89c The general list was extremely, feverish and where : advances -.occurred free - profit-taking met . them.- The violence of the movement in the Pacifies caused anxiety for the consequences to a short interest. Reading. Atchison, L. : N., and Amalgamated Copper rose 1, North-f North-f ern Paeiflo ltt. K. C Southern preferred 1 and Locomotive lhi. : Union Pacific - dropped back to 168H and Southern Pacific to Sahi and the excitement in , the trading abated. Northwestern lost 1. International In-ternational Metropolitan preferred lost lhi. and IlUnsois Central ltt. Pennsylvania led a rally with a rise of 1. - Speculation was on an enormous scale j and carried prices strongly upwards at various' points with feverish fluctuations of t point or more caused by proflt-ta-king by room traders. Operations of this character were on a practlcaly unlimited scale in and out of the market.' Pennsyl-: Pennsyl-: vanla rese an extrame of 8 points, North-" North-" ern Pacific 3V4. Great Northern preferred ; t, Reading 2, U & N., Rock Island preferred, pre-ferred, the U. S. Steeel stocks and Smelting Smelt-ing 1, and numerous others a point or -more. 'Union Paclflo was rushed up to .. 174 about noon, and the market's activity I reached the boiling point. , Union and Southern Pacific stocks made 'a paroxysmal Jump In the stock market ' even before the official announcement of - i the1 dividend declaration bad been re ceived through the usual news channels. , Union Pacific was up t to 171 In the . course of the first half hour, and Southern s Pacific's rise to 89 was 6 over last night's close. Tbe violence of this ad-- vance and the evidence of alarm among 1 the bears In these stocks caused some " apprehension of financial damage to the shorts. The course of prices in the general, gen-eral, list was feverish and unsettled In consequence. This anxiety was relieved to some extent when Union Paeiflo and Southern Pacific fell back under realising. Union Pacific reaching 168, and South-am South-am Paclflo 85. ' The rise In prices was resumed wnel evidence of a demand for Pennsylvania developed with the strength of the mar- ket again becoming general. Heavy profit-taking was resumed In Union Pacific after 12 o'clock and it broke 2 points from the highest with moderate effect on the general list. Before 1 o'clock the demand for tbe stock again became very urgent and was purchased up to above 174. Enormous dealings deal-ings were also registered In Pennsylvania, New Tors. Central. Reading and some of the Western railroad stocks. Pennsylvania moved P i points. Great Northern preferred : X, New York Central .' Reading 2. and Atchison 8. . ... .. The market's strength Increased with the - progress of the day, and although there was . active realising the resulting setbacks were comparatively slight. There was an increasing increas-ing disposition to buy stocks liberally and there was a resumption of pool operations. Southern Pacific was confined between 8788. while Union Pacific was bringing new record I prices. The stock reached 175 before 2 o'clock, an overnight rise of 13 points. Pennsylvania's Penn-sylvania's gain had been extended to 6 points and New York Central s to 4 points. Among tbe other noticeable strong stocks were Atchison Atchi-son with a rise of J. Louisville and Nash-' Nash-' . ville 2. United States Seel and Pacific Mall Amalgamated Copper 2. and Erie and Colorado Fuel 1. 7 NEW YORK SUGAR. NEW YORK, Aug. 17. Sugar Raw, firm; fair refining, 3c; centrifugal .96-test, .96-test, 3c; molasses sugar, 3 l-163c; refined, steady; crushed, .15.60; powdered, $5.00; granulated, $4.90. Coffee Steady; No. 7 Rio, ic ST. LOUIS WOOL. . ' ST. LOUIS, Aug. 17. Wool, steady: Territory Ter-ritory and Western mediums, 2228e; fine medium, 16 20c; fine. 14 (a 17c. ' CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. ' CHICAGO, . Aug. 17. Cattle Receipts, 98 000: slow and steady. Beeves, 03 90 6.75; cows and heifers, $1.855.25; stock-ers stock-ers and feeders, $2.404 50; Texans. $3.75 84.60; calves, $5.2570. :.,.' Hogs Receipts, 12,000, market Se higher. Estimated tomorrow. 8000. Mixed and butch-' butch-' era, $5.806.40; good heavy, 3.906.30; rough heavf. $5.60 & 5.80: light, $5.801$ 6.40; , pigs, 6.25 Q 6.15; bulk of sales, $6.00(6.80. . CHICAGO PRODUCE ' CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Lively demand by shorts caused strength today in the local . wheat market owing to a scarcity of offerings. offer-ings. The urgent demand was the result of a sharp advance at Liverpool, due to con-. con-. r tinned wet weather in Great Britain and to a V decided movement from Argentina. September Septem-ber opened to higher at 70He to 70e, '' and for a time held within the opening range. - Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported re-i re-i eeipts of 895 ears. ' A firm tone prevailed in the corn pit owing to the strength of wheat. Trading was not - large. Several leading commission houses . - were the principal buyers. September opened a ehade to Ue higher at 48fte to 48e, and during the early part of the session held within the opening range. Scattered demand by commission houses held the oats market fairly steady. Septem-' Septem-' ber opened unchanged to He higher at 80 to 80e snd sold off to 80 He. Provisions were steady. Trading was very dull. September pork waa off 12 c at $17 15; lard was unchanged at $8.70 and . ribs were 2e higher at $3.92. , Wheat The cloee was steady with Septem-, Septem-, ber up st 70370c ' ' Corn The close was weak with September ''"off c at 74H47c. f Close: ' Wheat September, 70S70c; De-;- cetnber. 73H73c V Corn September, 4747ef December, 4314c ? Oats September, 2M4c; December, 30c. Pork September, $17.00; January, $13.32. Lard September. $8.67; October, $8.62. ' Ribs September, $7 90; October, $8.70. : Rye Cash, 67c; September. 6556c. 1 v Barley Cash,. 38g 52c; feeding, nil. Flax and Clover Nil. Timothy September, $4.1034.25. Cash: Wheat No. 2 red. 701c; No. 3 red, 70ViS71c; No. 3 hard, 70H370c: No. 3 hard. 970c; No. 1 and No. 2 Northern and - No. 3 spring, nil. Corn-No. 2, 49Hff50c: No. 8, 49ee, ' ' Oats No. 2, 2fr&30c; No. 3. 29g29c. , ON VACATION TRIP. J. ll Minnis, general attorney of the ' Wabash at St. Louis, will be in the city today, on a vacation trip to the North- vest. " ' j v f |