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Show WORLD'S MARKETS LONDON PRICES HIGHER. New York. Feb. 19. Despite the shurp decline in stocks est-rda. l-ondon prices for Americans before toda s opening were substantially higher. Bull operators in Wall street tool advantage of the rise abroad and the indications that the Mexican situation sit-uation Is clearing to hid up prices on the shorts Persistent selling of certain specialties and renewed hear attacks, however, undermined the market, declines among the specialties special-ties runplng from one to four points When supporting orders caught the downward movement the market went Up gradually again and reached a hi cber level than at the outset. Bonds were heavy New York Stock List. (Last Sale.) Amalgamated Copper 67 T-S Lmerlcan Beet Sugar 35 1-4 American Cotton Oil 38 1-4 American Sm & Rfg 70 i-i t merit an Sugar Rfg 1 1B 1-2 American Tel. & Tel 182 1-2 knaconda Mining Co 85 1-8 Atchison Ml 5H tlantlc Coast Line l Baltimore & Ohio 100 1-2 Brookhn Rapid Transit 89 1-8 Canadian Pacific 280 7-8 Chesapeake 1 Ohio :- i i eago & Northwestern ... 134 i hi( ;.go Milwaukee - St P. 1 08 Colorado Fuel &. Iron 84 Colorado & Southern 28 I Delaware & Hudson 160 5-8 Denver & Rio Crunde M9 Erie . . . 29 1-2 General Electric 139 Great Northern pfd 126 1-8 Great Northern ore ctfs 35 1-2 Illinois Central 122 1-4 Interborough-Met 17 Preferred 89 1-8; j Inter. Harvester 108 1-2 'Louisville & Nashville 132 1-2 Missouri Pacific . ... 37 3-4 M . K. & T 25 1-2 Lehigh Valley 156 1-2 National Lead 49 1-2 New York Central 105' 1-4 Norfolk ft Western 106 1-4 J Northern Pacific 116 I Pennsylvania 118 1-2 I People's Gas 110 ' Pullmau Palace Car 159 1-2 Reading 158 7-8 1 i Rock Island Co. 22 1-8 ! Preferred 39 'Southern Pacific 100 7-8 I I Southern Railway 26 1-4 ( Union Pacific 156 7-8 United States Steel fil 1-81 Preferred 108 1-4 Wabash 3 1-8 Western Union 68 1-2 Indicates bid quotation. Chicago Grains. Chicago. Feb. 19. Wheat turned upward up-ward today after a hesitating start. Unfavorable crop reports favored the bull side The southwest particular-ly particular-ly was skeptical regarding promised! moisture. Futures were unchanged ' ot 1-8 cent higher. May at the outset out-set was sold at 92 5-8 cents to 92 3-4 j cents, unchanged to 1-8 cent up. sold' at 92 3-8 cents, hut rose again to 92 8-407-8 cents. Lower cables weakened corn. May opened unchanged to 1-8 cent lower' at 52 5-8 cents to 52 3-4 cents, but! sagged to 52 3-4 cents. Oats sagged owing to poor demand. Hay, which started 1-8 cent up at 34! 1-8 cents, descended to 33 7-834 cent 6. More pientiful supply of hog3 here and west caused provisions to drop Firt sales were 7 1-2 cents to 2 1-2 cents down, with May 19 75 to 19 77 1-2 tor pork. 10.55 for lard and 10.47' 1-2 for ribs. An additional rise in wheat took place on nccount of export demand at j Kansas City. The close was easy on account of showers. May closed at 93 5-8 cents, a net gain of a shade Subsequently the corn market ral- lied with wheat. The close, though., was weak, with May 3-8 cent net low- i er at 51 3-8 cents for May. Chicago Livestock Chicago. Feb. 19. Cattle Receipts 17,000; market slow; beeves. 6 65 9.00. Texas steers. 5. 20(06. no. west-' west-' ern steers, &.50?x7.65: stocker6 and feeder?. j i.mi T 7 5n , cows and helters 3.1607.40; calves, 7. 00 10.50. Hogs 'Receipts 37.000: market weak: light 8.2008.46; mixed. 8.158 45. heavy. ! 7 95i S. 4n, rough. 7.95(58.10; pigs. 6 -40(3 8 25. bulk. 8 20(5 8 40. Sheep-Receipts. Sheep-Receipts. 21.000; market steady: native, na-tive, 5 006.50; western. 6.2608.60; yearlings, 6.65(5 7.85; lamt6. native, 7.2608.86; western. 8.25(58.86. Chicago, Feb 19 For the first time in many weeks hog receipts today were In excess of a year ago. Buy-, ers had Instructions to prevent fur-1 ther appreciation. Cattle prices lost a point. There, were more arrivals than expected. Lambs declined 10 15 cents, bu' sheep held steady. South Omaha Livestock. South Omaha. Neb. Feb. 19 Cattle Cat-tle Receipts 4400; market steady; I Dative steers. 7 .00()08.50; cows and I heifers. 5.007.40; western steers, 5 - 608.00; Texas steers, 6.0006.50 cows and heifers 4 50-56.75; calves. 6.0009.00. Hogs Receipts 16.700. market lower: heavy. 7.9608.10; light 8.05 08.20; pigs. 6.60 07.75; bulk of sales. 8 s t" Sheep Receipts 6.- 900; market sieady, yearlings 6.3v'n 7.8). wethers, 5 756.50; lambs. 8.00 1 i TT8 80. N;w York Excnange. j New York. Feb. 19. Prime mercan- B ; tile paper, 5 per cent. Sterling ex- change heavy, with actual business in t bankers' bills at 4.88.16 for 60 day bills and at 6.87.60 for demand Commer- ( I cial bills. 4.82 8-4 Bar silver. 62. Government bonds easy; railroad M bonds heavy Money on call easier at 808 3-4 per 1 cent; ruling rate. 8 1-2 per cent: ! closing bid, 3 1-4 per cent; offered at 3 1-2 per cent. Time loans strong: 60 days, 4 l-24 3-4 per cent; 90 1 days, 3 3-4fi5 per cent; 6 months, 4 8-406 per cent. V Chicago Produce. Chicago. Feb 19 Butter steady; I creameries. 28tTi35 1-2 Eggs firm, re- iLsfl I ceipts 6403. at mark, cases included. fH I 1 7 fit IS ; refrigerator firsts. 18014; lH firsts. 18 1-4. Cheese firm daisies, lLsifl 17 3-418; twins. 16 1-4(31-2; young ILH Americas. 17 1-401-2; long horns. 17 ll 1-208-4. Potatoes firm; receipts 45 H oars; Michigan. 47S50; Minnesota, 46 H ffj5G, Wisconsin, 4550. Metals. New York. Feb. 19 Copper unset- 'H I tied; spot and February, 14.00 bid; H I March to June. 14.00014.60; electro-lytic. electro-lytic. 15 00 lake. 15.25; casting, 14- 75 Tin firm; spot and February, 49.- 1 fcLLa 0049.50, March. 48.25 048.80; April. fLH 47.8010 48 00. Lead quiet at 4.2604.- 35. Spelter quiet at 6.255 6.35. An- lil timony dull. Cooksons, 9.8009.40. JLH Iron sieady. unchanged. Ll Sugar, New York. Feb. 19. Raw sugar was fLLI steady: muscovado, 89 test. 2.95; cen- IbLI trifugal. 96 test. 3.45: molasses sugar, ILsl 9 test. 2.70. Refined steady. IkLLl Wool. St Louis. Feb. 19. Wool steady: iLBI territory and western mediums. 21$ ILLI 25; fine mediums. 1S3 20; fine, IStj IlLH . , |