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Show - I I I V w . - . . J ' ' ' r r - L Irrcjulr.r "svezciit cf Prices n Stccli List . DurtjV:: D:y. KEW'TORK. Jin. 3.-The small - orders or-ders in the market at the opening caused a sluggigh and Irregular movement In prices, which did not exceed an eighth of a point either way for the majority of stocks. There was great hesitancy in the -movement of prices. Tenne CoaJ and' Amalgamated Corper made good advances ad-vances on trade reports, but the railroad llt became heavy. The V"sbah stocks were weakened by reports of. new step In opposition to extensions eastward. Kenewed absorptions of Erie on a larpe scale steadied the market. The buying movement was checked occasionally and the market became dull. The developments develop-ments in the Venesuelan situation were offered as reasons for hesitation. Erie " rose above 40 and Its firmness had a sympathetic sym-pathetic effect on the market. Erie first preferred gained a point and the second I preferred l-. ! Bonds were steady at noon. Tennesse Coal relapsed to below last night but prices generally were almost Immovable at top level. St. Louis A San -lYancisco dropped two points below last night, with an unsettling effect on the market. The second preferred. Metropolitan Metropol-itan Street Railway. Pump and United States Express lost about l1 points each, .Louisville selling ex. dlv. lost a point. Closing stocks: Atchison, do pre ferred, W4; Anaconda, ; Baltimore St Ohio, 10Oi; Chicago & Alton. 84; Chicago Chi-cago Great Western, 2T4; C. Sc O., 617i; Erie preferred, 7i; Illinois Central. 147H: Louisville & Is'asavllle. 143T4: New York Central, 1514: Pennsylvania. 153V. Readme;, Read-me;, Q: Southern Pacific, 64: St. Paul. 177H; Southern Railway, 344; Union Pacific Pa-cific 100 V. do preferred, 4; 8teel, 36S: do preferred, g7; Wabash preferred. 44; People's Gas, 103; Brooklyn Raplr Transit. Tran-sit. gTH: Misouri Pacific, llo1; Copper, 634: Sugar, liS; corn products, S3. The languid demand for stocks prompted prompt-ed sharp selling which developed the greatest animation of the day. Erie's gain was wiped out and the average fell below last night. Declines reached a point or more in Rock Island, St. Fteul and Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific Sugar Su-gar and . others.' The close was steady and dull, a. |