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Show SHARPRISEf i IN PRICES Stforif Advance in Sugar Gives - Life ; to the Entire En-tire Market ' NEW YORK. March tt.-Prlces advanced ad-vanced on very dull trading at the opening. open-ing. Speculation lapsed for a time Into the now familiar . rut of dullness and prices were shaded here and there, especially espe-cially for Metropolitan Street railway. A sudden and rapid, marking up of Sugar to 12714. coupled with the appearance appear-ance of large, purchasing orders for the coalers, some of the soedaltles and St. Paul. Infused renewed life to the market and prices advanced all around. Sugar's rise reached 4. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific were not as prominent as usual in the dealings and moved very narrowly. Amalgamated reacted to below last night and the market mar-ket became dull and irregular. The movement in the coalers seemed due to the presentation of the report of the anthracite strike commission to th President. New Jersey Central rosV4, Delaware St Hudson 2. Bonds were steady. B Amalgamated Copper declined to vfT Th market Hvened up somewhat lt m the day and prices improved a frr-yon. frr-yon. particularly for the Southern anVl Southwestern stocks. In some cases the highest prices of the day were reached, the general buying being stimulated bv a rally in Amalgamated and the assumption of leadership of the xarket again by Southern Pacific, which touched Wr. Prices gradually reached a higher level all through the list, although there were occasional setbacks on traders realising. The market readily absorbed these offerings offer-ings and confidence was much improved by the enormous demand for Southern Pacific. Pa-cific. Block of 1000 or more shares of this stock changed hands frequently, and It sold at 674,. a gain over last night of 4. Union Pacific moved op a point In sympathy sym-pathy and there were many advances else-whore else-whore of a po4nt or two. American Express Ex-press reacted 12 points in the closing dealings. deal-ings. 80-ne stocks ran off under profit-taking profit-taking sales, notably In St. Paul, and ths close was irregular. Close: Atchison. 81T: preferred. 914: Baltimore tc Ohio, 93H: Canadian Pacific. 129; Chicago Chi-cago A Alton. 82; preferred. 694: Chicago Chica-go A Northwestern, 187: Colorado Southern. South-ern. 26; Denver A Rio Grande, ; preferred. pre-ferred. Se; Erie. 361: Illinois Central. 139; Louisville A Nashville. 121: Manhattan Man-hattan U 1404; Metropolitan Street Railway. Rail-way. 134H: Mexican Central. 2BS; Missouri Pacific, 10H: New York Central. 1364; Pennsylvania, 143; Reading. 61: Rock Island. Isl-and. 44H; preferred. 77; St. Paul. 169i; Southern Pacific, 67; Southern Rallwav. 32H; Union Pacific. 93; preferred, ,; Wabash. 28: Wisconsin Central. 36V,; Amalgamated Copper. 721: American Car A Foundry. 40; American Locomotive. 27: American Smelting & Refining. 50; preferred, 95; Brooklyn Rapid Transit. 66; Colorado Fuel A Iron. Go; International Paper, 1S4; National Biscuit. 4H: National Na-tional Lead. 2C; Northern Securities. 19: Pacific Mail. 86: People's Gas. 102; Pressed Steel Car. 61: Pullman Pal-aoe Pal-aoe Car, 220: Standard Oil, RT"; Sugar, 127: Tennessee Coal & Iron. A: United States Steel. 37; preferred. 86; Western Union. 90. |