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Show CHICAGO GMIN- . Chicago. April 15. Despite a mod-erate mod-erate rally, wheat today leaped to th.9 j IH bear side. Reports of the nearly per- feet condition of the winter ctop out- , weighed smallness of rece'ipts north' ..H west and scattering complaints , of rH dry weather in the spring wheat Bolt JH The Mexican situation "appeared td vdH have little If any influence on "the , market. Opening prices, wjrich4 va? , ried from l-Sl-4c lower' to' a shade ;fH advance, were followed by Tsomc liard; 'H ennig all around but then quotations' receded to below last night's level. Corn sympathized witbwheat. The" chief buying came frorijipt traders who were conspicuousj''sterday-as active sellers. Prices star&d 1-8 off. to a like amount up, nWe a slight general gain, and then fh$low last jl night's figures. Traders in oats seemeo bp-"g"o"-erned wholly by the course- of otht. JM grain. Business was not large. Provisions suffered from-lack of dc-mand. dc-mand. First sales were unchanged 10 5c down and there :was a subHC-quent subHC-quent further decline. .-. Later the wheat niarkeftook a tera porary upward turn ovtfng to a re-t JH ported spread of the HeBslan fly lnnH Kansas. The May option' continued tot be tightly held. Closing.-prices werej unsettled, a shad lower to l-25-Scv jH up compared with last rilgh.t. '& ' Unconfirmed rumors of.vjake char-, : ters for 2.000,000 bushels, otprn .elp-l : ed to bring about a t'rantot bulge.?. The close was lrregulkrl-2c lower;-. to 5-Sc up compared "with 24: houtejL-M before. f J. ( $ Money. f It New York. April money. 1 steady, 1 7-8 per cenjTrulIng rate. , 1 3-4 per cent: closln5.$L3-43 per v Jm ceut; time loans. weakefrO,-days.f2, l-2 3-t per cent: f9tt 'daysj 2 S-Vt JM per cent; six months.3 1-4 percM cent. fj,,.,. . vi Mercantile paper. 3, l-43 3-4 pet U cent: sterling exchange, steady, 60 Ij davs, 54.84.85; .demand;'?4.86.85.- com- UJM mercial bills, $.S4. -JU4." Bar silver. 5Sc. Mexican dollBTSTrfFJc; Gov-eminent Gov-eminent bonds, easy;aUfOtd, bonds. easy. -jfffifi SugariJMv New York. April lfg.??rRa' firm. Molasses, $2.33 .centrifugal, $2.98; refined, steady ffi, f |