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Show WORLD'S MARKETS STRAIN ABROAD WEAKENS THE MARKET New York. Mar. 10. Financial strain abroad, particularly in Oer-1 led to heaw liquidation bj tho I continent on the London exchange, and the weakness of American"; there jvas transferred to the stock market l:ero today at the opening of business busi-ness IVcline? here did not measure 'ip to the drop in London In some eases, but several quotations registered regis-tered new low levels for this month, including Fnion Pacific. Reading and Meet, around whinh i-w. oieei, around which the speculation 1 entered j The severity of the decline led to a reaction and the general market worked up to a level on a parity with .last week or a fraction above Bonds were heavy. New York Stock List (Last Sale ) 1 Amalgamated Copper S 1-4 I American Beet Sugar 30 I American C otton Oil 45 American Smelting and Re- ' fining 67 1-2 American Sugar Refining ' 11:: American Telephone and Tele- praph 13' 3-8 Anaconda Mining c0 ' 1.- Atchison " A Atlantic Coasl Line i - . Baltimore and Ohio 100 1-8 j Brooklyn Rapid Transit, ex-dividend ex-dividend S 1-" Canadian Pacitic -' Chesapeake aud Ohio "71 Chicago and Northwestern '..13.1 1-2 Chicago. Milwaukee and St. pal 108 .::..! Colorado and Southern 26 ' Delaware and Hudson 16u 1-2 Denver and Rio Grande Hi General Electric . 137 t-8 Great Northern preferred ...125 7-8 Great Northern ore certificates certifi-cates 34 Illinois Central 122 3-4 j Interborough-Metropolitan . . u .-l Preferred 58 1-2 International Harvester .. ."107 Louisville and Nashville 132 1-2 Missouri Pacific 36 1-2 Missouri. Kansas and Texas.. 24 3-8 Lehigh Valley 153 National Lead 50 1-4 New York Central 104 3-4 Norfolk and Western 115 1-8 Pennsylvania 119 People's Gas 109 1-2 1 Pullman Palace Car 159 Reading . ... 153 1-2 Rock Island Co. . 21 Preferred 35 1-2 1 Southern Pacific . 98 3-4 Southern Railway 24 1-2 Union Pacific 147 3-8 United States Steel 59 Preferred 107 3-4 Wabash 3 3.4 j Western Union 67 Bid 'Offered. ( . 1 1 New York Exchange. New York. March 10 Prime mercantile mer-cantile paper. 5 1-2 per cent. Sterling Ster-ling exchange strong, with actual business bus-iness in bankers' bills at 4.83 75 for 60 day bills and at 4 87 90 for demand de-mand Commercial bills. 4 S3 1 -4 Bar silver. 58 3-4 Government bonds eas-ler; eas-ler; l allroad bonds weak Monev on call strong at 2.(4 i." per cent: lowest. 3 per cent; ruling rate. 4 1-2 per cent; closing bid 3 1- ' per cent, offered at 4 per cent Time loans strong, fio and 00 davs 5T;." . per cent. 6 months. f.T;-, 1.4 ,.,-cent. ,.,-cent. Metals. New York. March 10. Copper firm Pl to June. 14.2514.75 electrolytic electroly-tic 16.00 $16 12 1-2 lake 15 25 15 - 1-2; casting 1 4 75'u 14 S7 1 Tin I w.-au; spot and March. 46.25 46.50 April, 46.2046.25; May. 45.87 l-2fi 46 12 1-2: Line. 4G 12 1-2 it, s; 1 Lead steady at 4.304.40 Spelter steady at 6 306 40. Antlmonv quiet f'ooksons. 9 25c7i9 40. Iron usettled No. 1 northern. 1 7 .75(0 1 B 25; Vn 8 northern. 17.25017.75; No i southern and No. 1 southern soft 17.76 Ms::. Chicago Market Review Chicago, March 10 Wheat advanc-eci advanc-eci today in sympathy with firmness at Liverpool and a decline a Rritish consols There was also a doubt as to whether the Washington crop n port would confirm bearish estimates on farm reserves Sales here late Saturday to foreign buvers tended to help the bulls. The opening was unchanged un-changed to 1-4 cent higher May Started at 91 1-4 cents to 91 3-8 cents agalnsl off 1-8 cent to 1-4 cent, and rose to 91 1-4 ctfnts Absence of selling pressure aided an upturn in corn. Mav opened a shade off to a like amount up at B2 5-8 cents to 52 3-4 cents, touched ol 1-L cents and rallied to 52 7-8fi 5 I I ''MtS Oats were firm on account of buying buy-ing on the part of local speculator's May, which started a sixteenth higher high-er at 34 1-8 cents, sold at 34 cents jnd then climbed to 34 1-4 cents I Hogs in plentiful supply carried I provisions downward First sales ! lunged from 5 cents to 22 1-2 cents "' U lower uith May al 20.70 too 20.75 for j H pork. lu. 7L- 1.2 to lo 7.", ior lard and 10 77 1-2 to 10.80 for ribs s'l A reaction in wheat followed be- ff cause the majority of the European .IN markets other than Liverpool did not :s reflect anv uneasiness. The close, fjN however, was firm with Mav 1-lf?3-8c B ncl higher at 91 3-8 2c 1 orn .,rire .,., r ,. , ,,n wj(, wheat. Th- clos. was eas at 52 5-Sc Isf for May, a net loss of a shade. 1 !n Chicago Livestock. ' ''.-'. ' Hi - Hol;.- Recelptl SJ market weak, 15c under Sat- urdays average, bulk. 8 558.70; light I IE B.5008.80; mixed. s::5',, s 73: heavy. B 20 5 8 65 . rough, 8 20(5 ' P " - W ""t, fattloRrcciptS 27.000; market weak. mo-ily HV lower. beeves, M59.20 western steers, 6.- B5 '" " " 90 : T. x ts st. -its, 5(Ki 50: sfocker, and I l.-r- ... ;) .i:, rows P" and heifei i 50 i 00 ah es 7 "Ofi 11 00 Sheep Receipts 28.000; mar- ITJ kel v, er:k to 10c lower, native, 6 OOiJi1 7.00; western. ".:,fl7 in- vr.irlines. 7 2 v.- n 2.i lambs, native, l no 9 ", JrJ western, 8.009.i South Omaha Livestock. South Omaha. Neb., March 10. Cat-tl Cat-tl -Receipts 600; lower. native !ol steers. 7.6008.75; cows nnd heifer, V1 1 on n.imi ,..,i..rn si. -ers. n 5 "" 'i 8.25 ; T.-.v.is H..i- ",77'" 7 7.". . ows and . heifers. 5.0007.50; calves, 6 259.25 to Hogs Receipts 7200: market lower, ti heavy. S IT, s ::;, , r . ,x ;n w S.4n . dqr pics. 7 Hurt s no. bulk of sales, 830 CH 8-35. Sheep Receipts 20.000. lower. HH yearlings, 700,-77.1;:,; v... hers. .."' ' tsmi ' 65 lambs, 8 00 S 9 i"1 Chicago Produce. ltar ''hicago, March 10. Ruttur steady: creameries. 28fr3i5 p:u-s steady; re-eelpts, re-eelpts, 13.186 cases, at mark, cases included. 10TM7 1-4; ordinary firsts. 16016 3-4; firsts. 17 1-4. Potatoes L firm: receipts on mrs . Miehkan 14 a- Ka. 16 Minnesota. 13 40, Wisconsin, 40 l Y 17 1 Sugar. New York. March 10 Raw sugar firm; muscovado, 89 test, 2114, cen- . trifugal, 96 test, 2.54. molasses, 89 1 test. 2.79. Refined quiet; crushed. 5- 05; granulated, 4 35; powdered, 4.45. Wool. Si Louis, March 10. Wool steady; ' territory and western mediums, 21 ''' - ; . fine mediums, 18'120; fine. 13 1 I r17 |