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Show SHALL BUSINESS IN WALL STREET NEW YORK, Sept. 27. A fraction measured the average of the gains shown by the' opening prices in stocks. The exeess over the average was in a few specialties. Anaconda rose 2, National Na-tional Railroad and Mexico preferred . Brooklyn Transit , Colorado Fuel and Distillers Securities 1, Beading and Canadian Pacific, Amalgamated Copper, Consolidated Gas and United States Rubber Business was on small scale. Some selling orders followed the opening rise, but effective buying of various specialties strengthened the, market before much damage had been done to prices. Reading was the center of a large amount of speculative operation, opera-tion, and its influence was rather widespread. wide-spread. The general transcontinental group showed . strength, particularly Canadian Pacific and its affiliated roads. After the list hod sold quite general, well above Yesterday 'a closing, selling was renewed on reports of a severe storm in the gulf reckons. The advances referred to amounted to 2i in Reading and U. S. Rubber. 2 in Canadian Pacific Pa-cific and Allis-Chalmers preferred, IV to li in St. Paul, Pacific Coast and Knickerbocker ice, and in '"anadian Pacific, Great Northern prei ed, C. & O., and Norfolk & Western and Lead. The selling caused a loss of 1 in Southern South-ern Pacific and Atlantic Coast line, 1 in L. & N.. with an immediate recovery, recov-ery, and 23 in Northern Pacific. Chi-ago, Chi-ago, St. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha drooped 6 points. The drive against the market on reports re-ports of storm damage in the southern States dashed speculative enthusiasm for a time. The general list was carried a fraction below last night and Missouri Mis-souri Pacific and Chicago & Alton and People's Gas 1. Reading lost all of its gain, but rallied quite strongly. The general rally baited at about last night's level and dealings fell to small dimensions. Consolidated Gas rose ',5. Bonds were steady. Selling orders became abundant again, specially in Amalgaarated. Copper, whirh made a precipitate decline to 111. The list generally sold under the low prices of the morning, but not to Terr marked extent. Reading improved later to 147.- but the reat of the market hung back. A feature of the trading was a drop of ten points in Bethie-hem Bethie-hem Steel preferred following the lots of four points jesterday. A violent selling movement commenced at 1 :30. which droTe the list down rapidly. All of the stocks that figure In an active speculative specu-lative operation suffered severely. Anaconda Anacon-da broke 34. St. Paul 8 44. Union Pacific, Southern Pacific. Kanaas Citr Southern preferred pre-ferred )d Amalgamated Copper 2, Great Northern preferred 1, and New Tork Central. Cen-tral. Baltimore Ohio. Erie. t. 8. Steel. Bethlehem Steel and Smeltin 1(?1H- The losses had been reduced somewhst by 2 o'clock, when rally waa in progress. The market closed firm at a rally caused -by thi covering of shorts. Recoveries rsn from 1 l m in some of the active features. Crest Northern preferred- dropped four points. CHICAGO PRODUCE. CHICAGO. Sept. 27. Firm cables and small receipts in the Northwest hsd steadying effect today on the local wheat market. - Pit traders and commission-houses were moderste buyers, but trsding waa not of large volume. December opened unchanged un-changed to lie higher at 7575l4C. and for a time held within the opening range. Despite small local receipts sentiment in the corn, it wss rsther beariah and pricea showed slight declines. The continued excellent ex-cellent weather induced selling by seversl of the leading commission-houses. December opened unchanged to 'te' lower at 43t($ 43 "ie, and held within that range during the early part of the day. Oats were essy in sympsthy with the corn market. - The market waa also affected by larger reeeipte than expected. December opened a shade lower to a shade higher at 84 3t He, ani .old off to 84 Ci 34 He. Provisions were easier on selling by rom-mission-houes and local longs. January pork waa off 5c at $13.25;. lard was down 5c st 17.77 Vs. and ribs were 2S5c lower at S7.07V. Wheat September, 74 He; December, 75Hc Com September, 47He; December, 43 S g43e. Oats September," 34H(34Ue; December. Decem-ber. 34H". Pork September, $16.60; - January, $13.32. Lsrd September, $830(3 8.874; October, Timothy October, $3.95. Flsx and Clover Nil. Cash: Wheat No. 2 red, 74H3?4ie; Xo. 3 red, 71 ft, 74c; No. 2 hard, 73H(g77c; No. 3 hard, 72 S 75c; No. 1 Northern, SlfJ 84c: No. 2 Northern, 78 82c; No. 3 spring, 7SSi81e. Corn No 2. 47Hc; Xo.-3. 47 V 47" c. Oats Xo. 2. 33 4c; Xo. 3. nil. Wheat The market closed strong, with December up H it 73Sf. Corn December closed steady, shade lower at 43H3 43He. NEW YORK JIOEY, NEW YORK. Sept. 27. Money on call firm, 4i 6 per cent; ruling rate. 5 4 per cent; closing bid. 4 per cent: offered at 5 per cent; tini loans firm, sixty and ninety days. 7 per cent: sir months. 6 4 per cent. . Prime mercantile paper, 6 47 per cent. Sterling exchange heavy, with actual business busi-ness in bankers' bills at $4. 88. 35 4.83.40 for demand, nd $4. 79. 50(a 4.79.55 for sixty-day sixty-day bills; posted rates. $4,804(3 4.81 and $4,84 4; commercial bills, $4,79 4. Bar ailver, 67 4c. Mexican dollars. 52 4 C Government bonds steady; railroad bonds irregular. ST. LOUIS WOOL. ST. LOUIS Sept. 27. Wool Stead--Territory and Western mediums. 23 (a 2"c; fine medium, 18 22c; fine, 14gl7e. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. CHICAGO. Spt 27. Cattle Receipts. 8500; market ftrady: beeTe. ( 3 -, e.90; con s and heif-rr. $l.60'i V10 ; noclr and feeders, $2.65 S 4.50: Teas. $3.70 140.1 Westerners, $3,505 5.50; cal.es. $6.25(3 7.00. ' Hogs Receipts, 20,000: market steady: estimated tomtrrow, 14.0C0; mixed and butchers, $6.30 (VTT4 ; good hesvy, $6.40 (S6.70; rough heavy, $..93(t 6.20: light. $G.456.70; pips, $5.70&6.40; bulk of sale, $6.30 6.55. Sheep Receipts, 20.00Q;. market steady; sheep, $3. 75 (5.50; lambs, $4.90(7.60. |