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Show M71T7APJ TENBENGY Wall Street Shows Up Weak After ' Prolonged Holiday. ' NEW YORK, Feb. 24. The weak opening open-ing in the stock market today was the efTect of the poor bank statement of Saturday Sat-urday and the selling of Americans in London yesterday while the local stock exchange was closed.' Opening losses ran from a fraction to more than a point, the losses of a point or over being made by Metropolitan Street Railway. Reading, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, a number num-ber of the Gould stocks and Tennessee CoaL St. Louis , and . San Francisco jumped ( points on a large absorption and the second preferred rose 2. Buying orders appeared on the decline and carried car-ried leading stocks a good fraction above their opening level. Amalgamated, Wabash Wa-bash preferred and Nw York Central made full recoveries. Meanwhile the St. Louis and San Francisco stocks rearted steadily, the common breaking from $04 to BtiK and the second preferred losing Its 2-polnt rise. When fresh selling orders appeared in Pennsylvania and transcontinental trans-continental groups, forcing them to the lowest, trading became more active and the general decline was renewed. Consolidated Gas advanced 24. Laclede Gas S4 and Bloss-Sheffleld Steel. Virginia Iron and Minneapolis, St. Paul 3c Sault Ste. Marie preferred 1 to 14-. Wabaah preferred came into demand in very large blocks, carrying It up to 644. This steadied stead-ied the genaral market, but rallies were fractional and the buying light. There were declines of about a point in Erie second sec-ond preferred. General Electric and Locomotive Lo-comotive and of t in New Haven. St. Ixuls ft San Francisco funding 4s and Wabash debs. B's were ths features of the bond market. In which the general tone was Irregular at noon. The furious buying of Wabash preferred did not abate until the price touched 56, at which figure a block of 6000 shares changed hands. The demand ceased ss abruptly as It started and the stock became be-came quiet and easier. Ths geneAl market mar-ket outside of the Gould group gained but little by ths movement and soon became nearly stagnant. Prices hardened during the final hour. The consideration by the Senate of the Aldrich financial bill was regarded as a favorable Influence and bears were disposed dis-posed to cover short contracts. Some losses loss-es were largely recovered. Amalgamated Cooper rose 14. Sugar IS. Anaconda and Colorado Southern about a point over Friday. United States Steel and Southern Railway established fractional net trains. Illinois Central lost 1, Louisville 1 and Buffalo, Rochester ft Pittsburg 24. The dosing was moderately active and firm. , NEW YORK METAL. 00 NEW YORK. Feb. 24.-Bar silver. 484c Copper, firm. fi3.00QU.26. Lead, quiet. U-UA. St. Louis WooL Sf. LOUIS. Feb. 24. Wool Weak and unchanged; Territory and Western mediums, me-diums, 17lSV4c; fine, 13174c; coarse, 13 ls&c. New York Money. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Noon: Money on call steady at 1 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 464 per cent. Sterling exchange fairly steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at 84.87.60 4t4.87.7S for demand and at $4.84.675fi4.4.625 for sixty days. Posted rates, $4.85-404.88-4. Commercial bills, 4.83H&4.84 Mexican dollars, 7c. Government bonds, steady. Ref. 2s reg. and coupon, 1074: Ss reg. and coupon. 107; new 4s reg.. VSii; do coupon, 1364; old 4s reg. and coupon, 10914: 6s reg. and coupon. 102-4. Chicago Cattle. CHICAGO. Feb. 24. Cattle Receipts. 4500; steady; good to prime steers, $5.60 6.75: poor to medium, $3.2504.60; stockers and feeders, 4.30; cows, 81.404(4.60: heifers. 32.0064.75; canners, 81.40ti2.60: bulls. $2.254.50; calves, $3.258.00; Texas fed steers, 33.504.25. Hogs Receipts today, 28.000; tomorrow, 35.000: left over. 10,400; slow. 10c lower; mixed and butchers, 86.807.15; good to choice heavy, 37.157.35; rough heavy, 86.85 67.16; light, $6.457.15; bulk of sales. $6.90 67.15. Sheep Receipts, 12.000; sheep and lambs steady; good to choice wethers. $3.00ie.75; fair to choice mixed. $4.006.00; Wentern sheep. $4.765.75; native lambs, $4.557.2a: Western lambs, $4.757.25. Kansas City Cattle. KANSAS CITY. Feb. 24.-CattIe Receipts, Re-ceipts, 12,000, Including 1000 Texans; steady to weak; native steers. 83.60Q6.25; Texas and Indian steers, 32.004.00: Texas cows. 82.103.06; native cows and heifers, $L6G 4:06: stockers and feeders, 12 Q4.76; bulis. $2.603.60; calves, 32.75.2o; Western steers, $2.90fe6.00; Western cows. $L85 1 3.00. ' Hogs Receipts, 12,000; market weak to 10c lower; bulk of sales, Sfi.S5Ci7.05: heavv. 86 .9687.10; packers, $6.65j7.00: medium. 86.807.10; light. J6.406.90; yorkers, $8.86 6.90; pigs, 3S.8O.00. Sheep Receipts, 4000; market steady; muttons, $16S.00: lambs, $3 60-&6.65; range wethers, $3.006.50; ewes, $3.2566.40. New York Produce. NEW YORK. Feb. 24. Butter Receipts. 7200 packages: firm; State dairy, lofrrOc; creamery, extra, 18c; creamery, 1827c. Eggs Receipts. 11,400 packages; steady; State and Pennsylvania, 17c; Western candled, fancy, 164c. Sugar Raw. firm; fair refining. 34e; centrifugal, 96 test. ic molasses sugar, 3c; refined, firm; crushed, $5.36; powdered. $4.87: granulated. 84.75. Coffee Quiet; No. 7 Rio, 84c Boston WooL BOSTON. Feb. 24. The wool market here Is very quiet but prices are firm. For fine staple Territory wools, scoured basis. 66S7c is quoted, while fine medium calls for 062c and medium 4647c Fleece wools have not been active. |