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Show IRREGULAR NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Ths opening deallr.rs In stocks today wers Irregular, and changes were unusually narrow. Amalgamated Copper rose a point on the purchase of KXK) scares and then reacted a half. The opening hesitancy was of brief duration, as the execution of large orders for Sugar. Amalgamated Copper, St Paul. Union Pacific and Rock Island carried the market substantially.,, above yesterday's closing. Amalgamated Copper Cop-per touched m and, Union Pacific 111. Other advances reached 1, in Sugar. 2 in D. A H.. and 1 In New York Central. Reading. O. or W. and the Metropolitan stocks. Exceptions to the rise included Wheeling dr. Lake Erie, which lost 14. and Illinois Central. Kansas City Southern. E referred. Southern Railway preferred, melting preferred, Manhattan and International In-ternational Paper 11 . Top prices were not maintained and trading became quiet on the decline. " The market became duller during the second hour than for several weeks until the slow sagging tendency gave way to faster declines. Only fractional remnants were left of any of the gains and the average level of prices fell below yetr-day. yetr-day. Colorado A Southern lost 1. Pacific Mall 1. and St. Paul, Atchison, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island. Reading. Pressed Steel Car. Colorado Fuel and Kansas Texas There had been gains by Great Northern preferred of 4, Des Moines 1H snd Chicago Great Western 1. Bonds were irregular at noon, U. S. Steel second 6s lest 1 In addition to the interest off. . Prices declined rapidly with the news of the warlike preparations at Gibraltar.. St. Paul fell an extreme 2. Kansas A Texas 2 and Rock Island, Union Pacific. Canadian Cana-dian Pacific and Colorado Fuel lWfi-Practically lWfi-Practically all of the stocks on the Hat were brought within the one point range of losses. The violence of the afternoon decline Induced In-duced some heavy covering by shorts, and the market rallied from H to 1 point throughout. The rally was for the purpose pur-pose of further selling and the market broke abruptly to the lowest St. Paul sold 3 lower than last night, and Union Paclflc. Reading and Hocking Valley about 2. Brooklyn Union Gas dropped 8. Cotton Ooll recovered with the declaration declara-tion of a dividend of 1 per cent on the stock. There was an almost immediate rally of a point in Union Pacific. Chicago Cattle. CHICAGO. Nov. 1. Cattle Receipts, 4000. including 4000 Westerns; market steady; good to prime steers, $5.80.66; poor to medium, $4.0(kg5.75: stockers and feeders. 2.00j4.10; cows, $1.304.15; heifer. heif-er. $2.0005.20: canners. tl.6OC2.60; bulls, $2.004.16; calves, $3.007.00; Texas-fed steers, $3.50f4.75; Western steers, $3.0067 6.00. Hogs Receipts today. 30.000; tomorrow, tomor-row, 22,000; market 6ftl0c lower; mixed and butchers. 34.80igS.lO; good to choice heavy, J5.wa6.20; rough heavy. $4.60&M.80 light $4.7O5.06; bulk of sales. $4.60(85.05. Sheep Receipts, 22.000; sheep, strong; lambs, steady; good to choice wethers, $4.00i4.75; fair to choice mixed. $8.25g4.00; Western sheep. $3.0O4.6O; native lambs, $4.2&g5.86; Western lambs, $4.0066.65. Omaha Cattle. - SOUTH OMAHA, Nov. L Cattle Receipts. Re-ceipts. 4200; market generally steady; native na-tive steers, $4.00.30; cows and heifers, $2.6X&3.86: Western steers, $3.004.; cows and heifers, 32.253.26; canners. $150 2.15; smokers and feeders. $2.263.90; calves, $3.00.50; bulls, stags, etc., $1.76 3 40. Hogs Receipts. flOOO; market &S10C lower; heavy, $4.8084.92; mixed, $4.82 4.85; light $4.804.90; pigs, 24.50fc4.75; bulk of sales. $4.8234.87. Sheep Receipts, U.OOO; market steady to strong; Western yearlings. 4.00g4.35; wethers, $3.804.26; ewes, $3.5083.90; common and stockers, $i&04.10; lambs. $4.755.65. Boston. WooL BOSTON, Nov. 1. In the wool market here this week there Is a general flrmneas and a steady demand. Manufacturers are watching the market closely. Fleece wool was firm, but the finer wools are yet quiet New York Sugar. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Sugar Raw. firm; fair refining. 3c; centrifugal .98 test 44c; molasses sugar, Sc; refined, firm; crushed, $5.80; powdered. $5.20; granulated, gran-ulated, $5.10. Coffee Steady; .No. 7 Rio, SHc. Kansas City Cattle. KANSAS CiTY, Nov. 1. Cattle Receipts, Re-ceipts, 19.000. Including 800 Southerns; steady to 10c lower; native steers, $3.75 8.26; native cows and heifers, $1.5O$y4.50; stockers and feeders. $2.264.00; bulls, $1.75 tf3.26; calves, $2.25g.75; Western steers, $3 0064.60; Western cows, $1.60(33.25. Hogs Receipts, 11,000: market 610e lower; bulk of sales. 4.706.10; heavy, $5.006.15; packers, 4.8C5.06; pigs and lights, $4.40 4.M. Sheep Receipts, - 6500; market strong; muttons. $3.o04.10: lambs. $4 254 6 75: range wethers. $3.604.40; ewes. $2.50 63.75; Utah ewes, 101 pounds, $3.60; Colorado Colo-rado lambs, seventy-three pounds, $6.70. |