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Show WALL STREET NEW YORK. July 3. Prices fell off ahruptlyln the opening transactions In stocks today. Lehigh Valley, which was affected bv the adverse decision of the ln-iterNtste ln-iterNtste commerce commission In the coal Irate case, declined 1- Losse, of 1J were sustained hy Oreat Northern preferred, t'anaman Pacific. General Kleclilc. I'nlon Fki-hic, Northern Pacific. Reading. Chesapeake Ches-apeake A Ohio. Minneapolis. Ht. Paul A Sault 8te. Marie, and Amalgamated Copper Cop-per receded a potul each, and almost all of the oilier active .hares lost large fractions. frac-tions. Canadian Pacific exhibited further weaknesa, touching I3W. and then rallied a point- The rest of the list waa sluggish slug-gish and made but little recovery. Crop news seemed lo be about the only Influence In-fluence affecting Ihe market, the blistering blister-ing heat In the grain regions raising fresh misgivings. Pressed Hteel Car advanced ad-vanced a point. Kxcvpt for .the era Issues which received re-ceived support. Ihe market was weak during the forenoon. The decline In liudon gave a heavy lono lo Hie opening, open-ing, which Ihe market aoemed to be unable un-able to throw off. The Intense heat and the approach of a holiday kept away operators, op-erators, and the trading waa dull after lira first few minutes. Reports of fur-theidamage fur-theidamage to crops from the heat and the dexjslon against the Lehigh Valley In the ccaiKrate cases exercised a depressing de-pressing effect. Declines ran between one and two points for :not of the representative repre-sentative stocks, with the Hill and Har-riumn Har-riumn leeocs weSaesl. Hoods were easy. Tlie government crop report on cotton failed ot Influence aloelts. although tlie condition of the crop was Indicated to l,e bettor than a week agH. 1 ton ."f i-ontpletion ol the ljrwlon aeHlng. which amounted to in.otio shares, prioes hardened hard-ened a slight fraction, hut tho demand wSs largely from Ihe aliort tntcrestX liulliicsa wms the clil. f haracterietlr of the afternoon market. Traders were not Inclined lo lake on el.x ka over the holldav and shorts preferred lo stand their ground In vlt w of tho uniformly bad cror. reports. ' Tlie market closed steady. Trices scarcely moved at the session drew lo a ckise. Klnnl figures showed losses fur Ihe usual market leaders of I mi. Stock Lilt Clot. Amalgamated Copper. t: American Reel Sugar. Ml; Amerb-an Car and foundry. foun-dry. it-1. American Cotton OH. SHI: American Amer-ican leMomollve. ? bid: American hmclllng and Refining. Wl: American Smelling and Refining preferred. IS.: American f-ugar Rennlng. 1171 bid: Anaconda Ana-conda Mining rompanv. 4i: Atchison. Ill: Atlantic Coast Line. 127J: Haiti-more Haiti-more A Ohio. 10s: Brooklyn Rapid Trenail. Tren-ail. H: Canadian Pacific. 231: Creapeake Ohio. tl: Chicago a Northwestern. 117 bid. Chicago. Milwaukee V St. Haul. !2foV Colorado Fuel and Iron. (nlo-rado (nlo-rado Southern. 4 bid: Delaware Hudson. 17"1: Denver A Rio Ornnde. 2; licmer A Rio firnnde preferred. fi: Erie. ZH Oreat Northern preferred, 31; Ureal Northern Ore Cerllncatea. eel: 1111-nol. 1111-nol. Central. 1411 bid: liilerhorough Metropolitan. Met-ropolitan. 171: Intcrhornngh McimpoilMn preferred. Ml; l.oulvllle A Nashville, rail: MIesourl Pacific. 4X1: Missouri. Kansas A Texas. J.1: National Hlscult. l:tt: National lad. IS I: N-w York Central. Cen-tral. lO'.r Norfolk A Western. 10jI: Northern Paolnc 1311: Pacinc Mall. 27 l.bl. Pennsylvania. 1211: Peoples lias. 1 hid: Pullman Palace Car. 17: Reading. i:.st: Rock Island company. 321: Rock Inland company preferred. 411 bid: Southern South-ern Pacific. I2U: Southern Railway, it: I nbMi Pacinc. 1ST; I nlled Stnlen Steel. 7X4; Culled States Steel preferred. US; Hl.h. IM: Wabash preferred. 3M: i Wc-tern I'nlon. 7il: Standard till. IU; j tevhlgh Valley. 17S. |