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Show SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN WALL .STREET t NEW YORK, Aug. l'4. For the most part opening price of stocks- today were slightly higher than laat night and dealings were ao-tive ao-tive and broadly distributed. P. C. O. St. L. rose 2, Northwestern and Great Northern preferred 1, and Missouri Paclflo and American Ameri-can Locomotive about a point. Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Canadian Pacific fell 1. Tha price of St. Ptful was slightly shaded. Very few buying orders came into tha market mar-ket to reinforce tha, opening rise and tha market began to yield. Alter the market had receded a fraction below yesterday's -closing short covering and s large absorption of Baltimore Bal-timore h Ohio caused a good rally. Business contracted and the movement of prices narrowed, but was inclined to sag. Chicago Si Northwestern preferred sold at an advance of 8, and Federal Mining 4 V. Texas end Pacific rose 1. , Bonds Were steady at noon. Fluctuations ' were restricted to the moat fractional In the afternoon and the volume of business was correspondingly small. Wabash preferred and St. Louis Southwestern preferred were unusually promlneat and gained lhi and Ufc respectiveyl. Stocks came out mora freely and St. Paul, Union Pacific, Smelting, Colorado h Southern first preferred and Consolidated Gas were 'forced 1 to 1 below laat night. Prices recovered re-covered afterward. The rise in Northweatern pfd reached 10, and Rock Island pfd. gained 1. Brooklyn Transit rallied above last night. B. O. and Southern Pacific gained nearly a point. The closing was firm and moderately active. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. CHICAGO, Aug. 14. Cattle Receipts, 5000; market ateady. Beeves, 88.80o.75; cows and heifers, $1.50g 1.76; stockers and feeders, $2.008.50; Texan s, f3.754.60; Calvaa, $5.00ffi7.00: Hogs Receipts, 18,000; market slow to 5e higher. Estimated tomorrow 80,000; mixed and butchers, fS.70fi.20; good heavy, $5.80 (4 8.15; rough heavy, $5.505.70; light, 85.75 (2 6. 25; pigs, 85.20 6.00; bulk of sales, 15.90(2 6.15. Sheep Receipts, 18,000"; market 10a lower; low-er; sheep $5.10(5.50; lambs, 4.007.70. v - ST. LOUIS WOOL. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14. Wool Steady. Territory Ter-ritory and Weatern mediuma, 32 25c; fine medium, 2680c; fine, 14 (3 17c. CHICAGO PBODTJCE. . CHICAGO, Aug. 14. A moderate decline in tha price of wheat at Liverpool and tha continuance con-tinuance of excellent harvesting weather in the Northwest esusad bearish sentiment in the wheat market today. Trading was very dull. September opened a shade to He to . lower at T2 Vie to 73i, sad sold off to 7i71e. The volume of business In corn was small. September opened a shade higher to He lower at 49 He to 4He and sold off to 494c. Oata were easier in sympathy with whest and corn. September opened unchanged at 81 He, and declined to 81 He. Provisions were weak. September pork was off 2 hi st $17.07 H; 'lard waa down a shade at 88.72H Q3.75. Ribs ware ?He A 4Q Of U Wheat The close was weak with September Septem-ber off 1-41Sc at 71c. Corn The close was, steady with - September Septem-ber unchanged at 49Vic Cloae: Wheat September 71c; December 74c. Corn September, 48 Vic; December, 45 45Vc. Oata September, 31Hc; December, Z2 32Vc. Pork September, $17: January, $13.45. Lard September. J3.ftg8.60Vi; October. $8.65 68.67 Ribs September, $8.8798.90; October. $8.67 Rye-Cash No. 2. $2.58; No. 3. 55 Vic; September; Sep-tember; 56HG57C. Barley Cash. 3&352c; feeding, 38 Vic; No. 3 September, nothing doing. Flax and clover Nothing doing. Timothy Seed. $4.1534.25. Cash wheat No. 2 red, 714872X0; No. 3 red. 71S73c; No. 2 hard. 7r72c; No. 2 bard, 7071c ;. No. 1 and No. 3 Northern, nothing doing;' No. 3 spring, 7173x Corn No. 2, 5lc: No. 3, ,50V4?50-Wc Oats No. 2 new. 30&30Vic; No. 2. 3uc. - NEW TORK MONEY. NEW YORK. . Aag. 14 Money on call steady 8 (a 4 per cent; ruling rats 3(j3V, closing bid 214 38; offered at 8 per cent. lime loans strong and dull. Sixty days, 4Vi(5lfl ninety days, 4f4(ft5 per cent; six months, 6Cg6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 5(36; sterling exchange, nrmer at $4.H4.85 for demand, and at 64.81.B5 for aixty day bjlls; posted rates, 34.B2 H (fl 4 83 and $4.85 H (0)4.86 ; cornmer- ciai Dim, .ci m .si7i. t Har silver. 65 e. Mexirsn dollars, 50 He. Government bonds, steady; railroad bonds, irregular. . NEW YORK SUGAR. NEW YORK, Aug. 14. Sugar Raw. firm; -fair refining, 3c; centrifugal, .96 test, 3Vc; molasses sugar, 3 l-16Q3Vc; refined, steady; crushed, $5.60; powdered, $5.00; granulated, $4.50. Coffee Spot, quiet; No. 7 Rio. 3c . . . BOSTON WOOL. . . . BOSTON, Aug. 14. There is a better tone in the market for wool. Merchants generally gener-ally feel that the dullness of the past tew months Is over. Conservative members of the trade look for a steady market. The goods market Is In a fairly strong position. |