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Show STOCKS GET 0NT0B0GGAN Sharp Decline at Opening Througheut the List on Wall Street. NEW YORK, March 24. There were offerings in large blocks of all the leading lead-ing speculative stocks at the opening, first sales in many instances running from 1000 to 2500 shares. The result was sharp declines throughout the list Selling: decreased for awhile after the opening, and prices partly recovered. The absence of any active demand on the decline stimulated short sales later, and the market fell back to about the opening range. Atchison preferred and Smelting lost 1 and Anaconda and North American lost 2. There were slight recoveries when Wabash preferred pre-ferred rose to 51, but they were not well held. Trading was very dull. Bonds were Irregular. - Offerings Increased as prices reached a lower level, stimulated by more aggressive, aggres-sive, bear selling. St. Paul, Union Pacific, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Amalgamated Amal-gamated Copper and a number of other leading stocks declined a point or over, and Northwestern 3. Stocks continued to come upon the market mar-ket at . the expense of prices which touched the lowest in the last hour. Losses reached for North American Ave, Minneapolis ft St. Louis. 4; Lake Erie & Western, 8; Union Pacific. St. Louis & San Francisco second preferred, Colorado Fuel, General Electric, Manhattan, Louisville Louis-ville and Brooklyn Union Gas, 202; and Hocking Valley, 1. The market showed no rallying power, and closed active and weak. Closing Stock List Atchison, 81; Atchison Atchi-son preferred. 97; Baltimore & Ohio, 924; Canadian Pacific, 129; Chicago & Alton. 31: Chicago tt Alton preferred. 70; Chicago 4k Northwestern. 1M; Colorado Southern. 27: Denver A Rio Grande, 37; Denver & Rio Grande preferred, 86; Erie, 35; Illinois Central. 139; Louisville Louis-ville & Nashville. 120; Manhattan L., 139; Metropolitan St. Ry., 134: Mexican Central. Cen-tral. 27: Missouri Pacific. 108; New York Central. 135: Pennsylvania, 142; Reading. 69; Rock Islsnd. 444; Rock Island preferred, 7; St Paul. 1G9; 8outhenn Pacific. 63; Southern Railway. 31: Union Pacific. 91: Union Paclno preferred, fl; Wabash. 28: Wisconsin Central. 26; Amalgamated Copper, 71; American Car & Foundry. 40: American Locomotive. 27: American 8meltlng tt Refining. 47; American Smelting tt Refining Re-fining preferred. 93; Brooklyn Rapid Transit. 5; Colorado Fuel & Iron, W; International paper, 17; National Biscuit Bis-cuit 46; National Lead. 26: Northern Securities. 106; Pacific Mall, 37; People's Gas, 102: Pressed Steel Car, 62; Pullman Palace Car, 221; Standard Oil. 6S2: Sugar. 124: Tennessee Coal A Iron, 66; United Uni-ted States Steel. 36; United States Steel preferred, 86; Western Union, &. |