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Show MARKET IS IRREGULAR NEW YORK, May 27. Buying orders on a considerable scale were executed at the opening f ot some . of ' the prominent speculative stocks, causing large fractional frac-tional advances. United States Steel preferred pre-ferred rose . and St. Paul. Missouri Pacific, Pa-cific, Rock Island and National Railroad of Mexico preferred gained upward of . Consolidated Gas, selling ex-divftiend, rose 1. The firmness of the market was Undermined Un-dermined bv free selling of Rock Island, the large offerings of this stock arousing some misgivings. Realising in the United States Steel stocks and Southern Pacific also contributed to a general reactionary movement, but the losses were small outside out-side of Rock Island, which yielded a point from the highest. Purchases of large blocks of Pennsylvania carried It. above 128. Some of the trans-continental stocks recovered to the opening level. Rock Island, however, continued heavy. Important, Impor-tant, gains were scored In minor properties. proper-ties. St. Paul and Pennsylvania were well sustaolned, the former rising 1. but the active list generally was sluggish and Irregular. Rock Island was under pressure pres-sure and sagged below 37 and there were heavy spots among the coalers, trunk lines and Pacifies. A rise of 2 in Western Union was ascribed to the injunction against further cutting of Its poles along part of the Pennsylvania route. A number of t specialties and low-priced - stocks rote from 1 to 2 or over. . Bonds were irregular. Free buying of Reading lifted It above 60 and the active list firmed up for a time. Large selling orders were executed In all j the favorites later and most of them declined de-clined to the loweat. Rock Island and Southern Pactfle felt the pressure most. The former declined to 3 and the latter to 60. United States Express advanced 6. Stocks were pushed up again. St. Paul making an exceptional rally to 151. Prices again sagged all round owing to the practical prac-tical stagnation of the demand. Rock Island went a shade lower than before and the general list about reached a parity with the low level of an hour ago. Chicago Cattle. CHICAGO. . May 27.-Cattle Receipts, 23.000; slow to 15c lower; good to prime steers, $4.8066.30; poor to medium, $4.00 4 75; Blockers and feeders, $3.0O4-85; cows, $1.50fM.0; heifers. $2.254T4.85; can-ners. can-ners. $l.b0f2.80; bulls. $2. ZoQi.to; carves, $iS.8S: Texas fed steers. $4.O04.. Hogs Receipts today, 33,000; tomorrow. 2S,0u0; left over. 2400; ateadv to spwer; mixed and butchers'. $5.7&6.06; good to choice heavy, $6.10g.S3: rough heavy, $5.80 H6.10; light. $6.4585.80; bulk of sales, $5.80 '"Sheep Receipts, 15.000; sheep, steady to lower; lambs, steady to lower; good to choice wethers. $4.50f6.00; fair to choice mixed. $3.60g4.70: Western sheep. $4.8j 6.T0; native lambs. $4.0037.00; Western lambs. 4.50gT.lP. Kansas City Cattle." KANSAS CITY. May 27.-Cattle Receipts. Re-ceipts. 6000. Including 500 Texans: 5c to 10c lower; native steera. I2.754j5.10; Texas and Indian steers. $3.15M.40; Texas cow;. t2.004iS.00; native cows and heifers. $2.00 ft4.0; stockers and feeders, 3.0094.60: bulls. $2.75ig4.80: calves. $3.006.50; Western West-ern steers. $2.754.90; Western cows, $1.90 6 Hogs Receipts, 11.000: market. frSlOc lower bulk of sales, $3.8096.00; heavy. $5,90(ff.10; packers, $5.7'3S.0O; - medium. $3.v&6.00; mixed. $5.30&S.87; yorkera. $6.75 45.87: pigs. $5.003.S0. Sheep Receipts. 7000; market, slow, weak; muttons, $3.705.80; lambs, $4.75? 5.70; range wethers. $3.755.80; ewes. $3.50 4(5.30. St. Louis Wool. ST. LOUIS. May 27. Wool Steady. Territory and Western mediums. 164jl7c; fine mediums, 14&16c; fine, 13fl5c. Chicago Grain. CHICAGO. . May 27. July wheat opened a shade to c higher at (SHtHaVc to 73c. Close. May. 76c; July. 78c; September. 71c. Corn May, 46c; July, 4545c; September, Sep-tember, 45c. Oats May, 36c; July. 34c; September, 31 He. Pork May, $19.05; July. $17.40; September Septem-ber $18.71. Lard-May, $8.77; July, $8.85; September. Septem-ber. $8.8l. - Ribs-May, $9.32; July, $9.409.42; September, $9.20. Flax Cash N. W., $1.16. Rye May, 60c. Barlev Cash, 36656c. Timothy May, $3.45. Cash Wheat. No. 2 red, 76c: No. 3 red. 72ft74c; No. 2 hard winter. 7375c; No. 3 hard winter. 7175c: No. 1 Northern spring. 7n38l;: No. 2 spring, 78(gC9c; No. 3 . spring, 731JT9C. Corn No. 2. 45c: No. 3, 4&g46c Oats No. 2. 33c; No. 8, 32c. Mew York Money. NEW YORK. May 27. Close: Money on call easier at itiffi.: closing offered 2. ... Time money steady; sixty days. 3fi4 per cnt: ninety days. 3&4 per cent; six months, 4$4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4go per Sterling exchange strong at $4.88.15 for demand and at $4.85.10 for sixty day s. Posted rates. $4.86g4.8 and $4.884.89. Commercial bills. $4.84. . Mexican dollars. 4c. Government bonds steady; . railroad . bonds Irregular. |