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Show WORLO'SMARKETS Wall Street More Normal New York. Feb. 14 --AVith business in the first hour only one-third ot the volume of yesterday, speculation in Wall street was of a more normal character today and there was none of the feverisbness of yesterday Fluctuations in most cases were small, with the main trend downward The better outlook for settlement of the firemen's dispute with the eastern east-ern railroads lessened pressure against the railroad list. Further weakness of foreign copper markets contributed to the depression depres-sion of the local copper shares Although Al-though familiar forces apparently were at work in Can. elevating it several sev-eral points, today's movement in this stock was without effect on the general gen-eral list. Bonds were irregular. New York Stock List. (Last Sale l Amalgamated Copper 69 6-8 American Beet Sugar 36 American Cotton Oil 50 Amer. Smelt A Refining 70 3-S i American Sugar Refining ....115 5-8 ; American Tel. & Tel 132 3-4 Anaconda Mining Co. . 35 3-4 I Atchison -102 3-8 'Atlantic Coast Line, bid 127 1-2 , Baltimore & Ohio L01 Brooklyn Rapid Transit M 1-4 Canadian Pacific j Chesapeake & Ohio 7f. 1-S ! Chicago & Northwestern .... 136 5-S Chicago. MIL & St Paul 109 Colomoc fuel Iron 16 Colorado A Southern 29 1-2 Delaware & Hudson 161 3-4 Denver & Rio Grande bid 20 1-4 Erie 30 1-4 Oneral Electric HO 1-S Ir.reat Northern, pfd 12s i-s Great Northern Ore Ctfs 36 3-4 1 Illinois Central bid ...123 3-4 Interhcrough-Met. 17 7-8 Preferred " 1 Inter Harvester, hid HO 1-2 Louisville A NaahTille 134 1-4 Missouri Pacific 40 1-4 Missouri. Kansas & Texas .. 27 Lehigh Valley ,"1cf 1"4 National 1-ad 51 New ! ork Central 10H Norfoli: A Western Northern Pacific H8 Pennsylvania 1 4 People s Gas Ill Pullman Palace Car 160 Reading lJ J-J Rock Inland Co 1-a Preferred Southern Pacific - Sonthtrn Railway -6 1-2 Cnion Pacific US United States Steel 68 , Preferred ln J"J Wabash ' 6terc Cnion . - 11 Chicago Grains. I Chicago. Feb. 14 Predictions tha-1 tha-1 world shipments this week would ibe smaller helped give firmness to- day to wheat. Liverpool reported an active continental demand, with India In-dia still feeling Ihe effects of the recent re-cent drouth. The opeuing was the same as last niKbt to 1-4 cent higher. May started start-ed at ! 1-2 cents to 92 1-2 cent, changing no different from the n, ket taken altogether A dip to 1-8 cents was followed by a rise 92 1-4 cents Mav corn opened at 52 1-3 cents to 15"' 1-4 cents, last night's level, to ' L4 cent up, and steadied at 52 1-8 c t ft ' 1 Mny oats opened n shade down fo like amount up at 34 1-4 cents to 34 2-8 ceuts and weakened to 34 1-S cenln. Depression iu the hog market was j reflected In the provisions pit First sales ranged from 12 1-- cents lower to a shade advance, with May at ltMO to 19.52 1-J for pork. 10 0 to 10 42 1-2 tor lard and 10. 4o for ribs. After a fresh reaction wheat prices again advanced The upturn was due to dry conditions in Nebraska and Weston) Kansas. Closing prices wer? steady with .May 1-L' cent net higher high-er at f3 3-4 ceuts. A temporary setback ensued, but later the corn market hardened with wheat. The close was firm. 1-205-8 cent net for May at 62 l-26-8 cents. New York Exchange. New JTork, Feb. 14 Close Prime mercantile paper 5 per cent Sterling exchange steady yvith actual ac-tual business In bankers' bills at If 483.1V) for C0-dav bills and at U4S7.35 I for demand. Commercial bills. $482.75. Bar Silver, 01 3-4c. Government bonds Rteady. Railroad bonds, heavy. Money on call firm.' 4 ft 4 1-2 per :cent: ruling rate 4, closing bid 1; offered of-fered at 1 1-4. Time loans strong; GO days. 90 days and six mouths, 4 l-2ift"4 3-4 per cent. Metals. New York. Feb. 14 Copper Steady at the decline. Spot and February Feb-ruary $14 25 bid; March. April an l Mao $14.25ls7; electrolytic. 115.00: lake 115 25: castings. $14.7". Tin Steady: spt and FVbrnnrv $4S 65iTr.4S.75; March, $4 S 2548.50; April. $48.0548.30. Lead Quiet. S4.j504.35. H I Spelter Dull. $6.356.45. H Antimony Dull, Cookson's. $9.35 1 9.5o. ; . Iron Easy; unchanged. Kansas City Livestock. Kansas City. Feb 14 Cattle Re- ceipts 500, including 200 southerns; lll market strong. Native steers, $7.00fl fH 8.75; southern steers. $t. 007 50; lisH southen cows aud heifers. $4.00l.50; gllsV native cows and heifers, $4 2.".fi S.oO; ! etorkers and feeders. 16.0907.86; j bulls. $5 250.50; calves. $C50'S 1 n.oO ; IIH I western steers. $6.500846; western LlkS looirs 14.0906.76. kjfl Hogs Receipts 5.000. market 5a qII ! loyver Bulk of sales. 67,9608.10; 111 heay. 67.9O08tO5: packers and WKH butchers, $7958.15; light. $8.00 RlH 6.15; pigs, 66.7507.26. Hflfl Sheep Receipts 3000; market steady, active. Muttons. $4.6006.25; Hifl Colorado lambsfl. $8.0008.75; range 111 wethers and yearlings, $5 257.65; ull range ewes, $3.5005.75. KrCLsl Sugar. j New York. Feb. 14. Raw augaiv IlkS Easy, muscovado. .89 test. $2,920 iNH 2.98: centrifugal. .96 test. $3.42 lUlil 3.4S: molasses. .89 test, $2.(j7'9 2 7 3, lH Refined steady. Chicago Produce. Chicago. Feb. 14. Butter Steady ; jljlH creameries 2Sc. tl'EI KC,S steady; receipts 4959 cases: ;a IsS at mark, cases Included, 16019 1-tbl refYlgeiator firsts lS'&'l-lc; firsts 16 jH |