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Show WORLD'S MARKETS New York Stock List. last Sale) Amalgamated Copper 70 1-4 American Pet Sugar ...... :H American C'otton Oil 49 Amer Smelt. & Refining 7n American Sugar Refining 115 5-8 American Tel. & Tel r:2 r.-S Anaconda Mining Co. 36 1-8 Atchison . 102 Atlantic Coast Line 127 1-2 Baltimore & Ohio 100 3-4 Brooklyp Rapid Transit 8S 1-2 Canadian Pacific ..288 Chesapeake Ohio 75 Chicago & Northwestern 125 5-8 Chicago, Mil. A- St Paul ... 108 7-8 Colorado Fuel & Iron 35 1-2 Colorado Ac Southern, bid ... '29 1-8 Delaware & Hudson, bid 161 Denver & Rio Grande -. M (Erie 30 General Electric 1 4" Great Northern pfd 128 L-4 Great Northern "ie ('lfs :,; '"2 IlllnoiH Central l24 1-2 lnterlorouKh Mot 1S Preterred 61 1-8 Inter Harvester .. 1,0 1-2 I Louisville & Nashville 124 Missouri Pacific 3! 7-8 Missouri, Kansas & Texas . .. 26 1-2 Lehigh Valley ir.8 1-4 National Ix?ad. bid . 50 PRICES DROP ABRUPTLY. New York. Feb. 18. The selling 1 movement of the earlier days of the' week gathered Increased momentum in Wall sorect during the morning aud prices were borne down abruptly S,.- u'; tor were confronted ith a budge, of unfavorable news and sentiment senti-ment was correspondingly bearish. Cnenslness over the money situation situa-tion was increased by preparations lo expov $1,000,000 more gold and by a sub-treasnrv drain of more than $v".-000,000. $v".-000,000. Prospects for a strike of the 'firemen on the eastern railroads, the I revolution in Mexico and proposed legislation to require incorporation of the stock exchange helped to unsettle unset-tle the market Bear operators concentrated their attack against the coalers. Harrimans, coppers and Steel, and succeeded in 1 forcing out a good deal of long tock High grade investment share, which ! ordinarily display sturdy resistance to pressure, crumbled away an readl-lv readl-lv as the market leaders A large number Of Important issues were lowered l to over three points. Honda were weak Chicago Grains. Chicago. Feb IT: Mild weather and promise of more made the wheat mar. ket toaav weak There were also re- ports that rains had improved crop conditions throughout India Selling was fairly general with support poor. Opening prices were l-8c to l-2c lower. low-er. Mav started at 03c to f3 1-Sc. a loss of 8-8C to l-2c and dropped to 92 5 -8c. Corn declined on account of heavy receipt, decreased domestic consumption con-sumption and lightness of exports Ma' opened l-43-8c to L-25-8c off at 58 Ic to 58c, and fell to 52 1-2 !f5-So Despite free buying on the part of a leading house oats sagged with wheat and corn. May, which started L-8c 1 - lc down at T,J l-2c to 34 5-Sc. tow hod 54 "-n Stockyard dealers sold provisions and fuiced lower-prices. First trans-lactionj trans-lactionj veiled from 7 1-2c decline to 2 l-2c adance, with Mav at $19 00 to S10 97 1-2 for pork . .lu 20 to $10 22 1-2 for lard, and $10. (jo to $10.05 for ribs Liberal arrivals of wheat from the southweNt an. huge shipments from Argentina Influenced an additional setback The close was stead v.lth iMay 1 l-0c net lower at 02 l-4c Argentine estimates of a big sur-' sur-' plus n corn kept the market depressed depress-ed The elope was weak at 52c for May, 1 1-4" 1 l-8 net decline Kansas City Livestock. Kansas City, Fob 18. Cattle Receipts Re-ceipts 2,000, including 100 southerns ! Market strong. Native steers. IT.OOffi1 'l 75 southern steers, $6.007 50, southern cows and heifers. $4 00j t; 50; native cows and heilers, $4.00ft 9 on pto kera and feeders, $6.00g 7.7". bulls, 86.2506.50; calves, 16.50 610'.00; western steers, $C.5.8.25; western cows. S4.OO06.76 Hogs Receipts 7,300; market steady Bulk, $S OOcfi S.l 5 ; heavy. $7.90S 10; packers and butchers, $8.0008.20; light, 88.0508.20; pigs. $rt 75Tj 7 25 Sheep Receipts i.ooo. market Steady. Muttons $4 50fi25; Colorado Colora-do lambs v ",,-:",; range wethers and yearlings, $5 25Q 7 75 rsne ewes $3 50 n 5.75 New York Exchange N'ew York Pob. 13. Close Prime mercantile paper. 1 8-4 to 5 1-4 per Cnt Sterling exchange, steady with actual ac-tual bnsineSS in bankers' bills at 5-is:' 10 for 00-day bills aud at $4X7 '.'. lor demand Commercial bills. $482 75. Bar silver, 61 S-4c, fiovernment bonds heavy Railroad bonds, w. g Money on cail steady at 304 per cent: ruling rate. 3 3-4 pei cent, colslng bid. 3 per cent, offered at 3 3-4 per cent. Time loans steady. 60 and On days, 3 1-2 per cent, 6 months. 4 ft 4 1-1 per cent Metals. New York. Feb 13 Copper Weak ; Mot. $14 50 bid; Februarv. M 4.37 bid; March, April and Mav. fl4.37015.OO electrolytic. $15 7557 lfi.25; lake 116.00 25 castings. $15 50 Tin Weak; spot, $48.75 0 49.05; February. $4S Ih'a 4!) 00 March $1R.25 048.37; April. 4S l r,t 48.60 Iead Steady. $4.25'ci 4 35 Spelter Quiet, C,:::, -,i '. 16 Antimony Dull Cookson s 25 7 8.60 Iron Quiet, unchanged Chicago Produce Chieago, Feb. 18. Butter Steady; creamrrvq. 27084 l-2c Eggr. Weak; receipts ... : at ( mark, case included. 18020c; refrlg-erator refrlg-erator firsts 1 5 g ice firsts !0 1 - ic Potatoes Strong receipt r,0 cars Michigan 48062) . Minnesota. 48f) 50c; Wisconsin, 47f3 52c. Sugar New York, Feb. 13. Raw sugar -Stead v Muscovado, test, $2.98; I centrifugal, ,86 test. $3.48; molasses .88 te $: 73 rteMned stead 1 Wool. St. Ioul?. Ft-h 13 Wool Stcu! territory and western mediums. 210 1 -5c- fine mediums. 1Stf20c; . fine LJ t 1 ,c Chicago Livestock. . 'h1!CaKO- Pe 13 -Cattle-Receipt F 'uarkot strone. Beeves. $6.66fl 9.15; Texas steers. 85.0005.90; western west-ern steers. $6.25 07.46; stocker and (seders, 154507.65; cows and belters. belt-ers. 83.1O07.1(lj ':ales. 16,75010.26 Hogs Receipts 28,000. market slow Light. S.10fj i. 12 1-2; mixed1 $.$ 10. hea v. $7.95frs ::7 1-- rough $i:.',"H bulk Ol .-- !5 j r- " Nsii '""'Vfi1 ... -...-11 $7 j 9 25 . |