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Show FRACTIONAL ; V ADVANCES! NEW YORK, Feb. H. Prices generally advanced a sharp fraction at the opening: The exception were imonf the Oould stocks and Metropolitan Street Railway. There were hear dealing In Copper and Anaconda torn two In sympathy with. Amalgamated. When the opening demonstration demon-stration of strength failed to increase the demand for Block trader took profit and put out skort lines of specialties. Llqul- 1Vi,0k .,r. Metropolitan Street Rallwar, which fell below 136. accentuated the selling sell-ing at other points. The United State leather etocka were sold freely, the pre-i ferred logins; J. gt. Xouls A gan Fran-claco Fran-claco lot a point net. but the movement otherwise unimportant In the rail' . H?av7 orders came Into the market mar-ket fori Rni-t Talanrl -. 4. I .. .. - Po'nt and the market made a general raJly The Oould group hung back. Bock Jf2d PrferrKl. St. Paul. Delaware A Hudson, Sugar and Tennessee Coal gained i to ,Lether Preferred recovered its loss. The market eased off again before noon. The bond market was caster at noon. Renewed selling orders appeared in Metropolitan Met-ropolitan when It had recovered to near 137. Their appearance encouraged more free offerings by the bears and the stock broke to 125, a loss over night of 2. Metropolitan Securities! fell 14 and the other tractions weakened decidedly. Reactions Re-actions occurred elsewhere, reaching point in Amalgamated. Sugar, Bt. Paul. Rock Island and Wabach preferred. A rally of over a point in Metropolitan Street Railway and a rise to the best in Amalgamated' steadied the market, but prices reacted again later. There were rains of 8 in General Chemical, of 2 in Minneapolis, St. Paul ft Bault Ste. Marie preferred 1. 1 in Sloes-Sheffield preferred pre-ferred and 1 in Blncult preferred. Linseed Lin-seed preferred and St. Louis 4k San Francisco Fran-cisco first preferred lost 21. ' Prices showed a further settling tendency ten-dency except for advances of a point In C C. C. & St. L. and Pere Mamuette. end a momentary stiffening to the best In Amalgamated and Tennessee CoaL St. Louis Se. San Francisco fell Pi. th first preferred . the second! preferred 1 and the Wabash preferred t Rock Island. Amalgamated. Sugar and St. Paul relapsed re-lapsed to below last nlht. Other stocks touched the lowest of the dav. The closing clos-ing was dull and weak. Close: Atchison, 8M; do preferred. 10f"4: Anaconda Ana-conda 124: Baltimore & Ohio. 97; Chicago Chi-cago Alton, 35; Chicago A Great Western. West-ern. 2fi: C. & O.. 60; Erie. tML: Tlllnnla Central,.144: Louisville & Nashville. 126; New York Central. 147: Pennsylvania, i4g; Reading-. 62; Southern Pacific, 63H: St. Paul, 177: Southern Railway, 35; Union Pacific. 99V4; do preferred, 93; United Unit-ed State Steel. 3&: preferred. 88; Wabash Wa-bash preferred. 63: People's Gas. 104; North American. 118: Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 68; Missouri Pacific, 112; Copper, Cop-per, 73; Sugar, 132: Wisconsin Central. 27; do preferred, 52; Corn products, 33. NEW YORK METAL. 00 NEW YORK. Feb. 25. Bar ell- ver. 4Sc. Copper, firm. $13. 12 513. 37. Lead, quiet, $4.12. St. Louis WooL ST. LOU18. Feb. 25. Wool Lower; Territory Ter-ritory and Western mediums, 16fl8c; fine, 13lttc; coarse. I&gl5c. Kansas City Cattle, KANSAS CITY. Feb. 25.-Cattle Receipts, Re-ceipts, 700. Including 300 Texans: steady to 10c lower; native steers. $3.605.25: Texas Tex-as and Indian steers. t3 104jM.; Texas cows, 2.00ft3.00: native cows and heifers. $1.604.25: Blockers and feeders. $3.004.90; bulls. $2.263.90; calves, $3.75i7.00. Hogs Recdpts. 9000; market weak to 10c lower; bulk of sales. $5 re7.00; heavy, f6.f&a7.C5; packers. 8.6'e6.90: mdium. .8ib.9S: mixed. 16.40(56.80; yorkers. $6.75 fc W; pips. $a.9O6.20. Sheep Receipts. 3"V0: market steady to lower; muttons. $3.60i4 0: lamb. $3.60 6.75; range wethers, J3.0OSS.70; ewes, $3.35 6.45. Chicago Cattle. CHICAGO. Feb. 25. Cattle Receipts. 21,000; steady; good to prime steers, ii.25 66.75; poor to medium. $5,2544.75; stock ers and feeders. $2.3fg4.60; cows, $1.40ft4.M; heifers. $2.M.:5 ; canr.ers. $1.402.60; bulls. $2.25&4.25; calves, $3.25g7.76; Texas fed steers, $3.25ij4.26. Hops Receipts todav. 36.000; tomorrow. 30,000; left over. 85flO: fcglOc lower, mixed and butchers. $6.8007.10; good to choice heavy, $7.10ai.30; rough heavy. $6.8(a7.05; light, $6.46.70; bulk of sales. $S.907.05. Sheep Receipts. 22.000; sheep, steady: lambs, lower; good to choice wethers. $3.0 I5.75; fair to choice mixed, $4.0OS6.00; Western sheep, $4.7516.75; native lambs, $4.75(f7.C0; Western lamts, $4.767.00. New York Money. NEW YORK. Feb. 25. Noon: Money on call steady at 8 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 48 per cent. Sterling exchange, easier with actual business In bankers' bills at $4.87.5094.87.6 for demand and at $1.84 J256 "4.84.50 for sixty da vs. Posted rateg $4.S5ff4.85 and $4.58. Commercial bills, $4.834.84. Mexican dollars, 38e. Government bonds, steady. Ref. 2s reg. and coupon. 107; $ reg., 107; do coupon. 107; new 4s reg., 14: do coupon, 135; old 4s reg. and coupon, 109; 6s reg. and coupon, 102. Chicago Grain. CHICAGO, Feb. 25. Wheat opened easier eas-ier on lower cables and generally bearish statistics and May was off fcc at 76 rT7c. With light offerings the market became firmer. May selling up to 77c. Close: Wheat May, 77fc'77c; July, 73c; September. 71c. Corn May. 4fi'ci46c; July. 44c Oats May, 35c; July, 32c. Pork May, $17.72.; July. $17.20. Lard February, $9.65; May, $9.65; July, $9.65. Ribs May. $9.72e9J75: July. $9.57. Flax Cash, Northwestern, $L17. Rye May, 51c. Barley Cash, 44&6e. Timothy February, $3.96. Cash: Wheat No. I red, 75ST6e: No. 3 red, 7175c; No. 2 hard winter, 7l37Sc: No. 8 hard winter, 68&"71e: No. 1 Northern spring, 79)c: No. 3 spring, 78J79c; No. S spring, 71$r79c. i Corn No. 2. 44c; No. 3. 4242C. ' Oats No. 2, 24c; No. 3. S4c. |