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Show CHICAGO GRAIN Chicago, Jan 5 Directly as a consequence con-sequence or the European war, cash wheat in Chicago today soid at $1 36 1-4 a bushel, the highost price In more than forty years. Moreover the chief speculative option. May delivery, de-livery, rose to $1 37 6-8 Q 137 3-4 a bushel, an advance of more than 10c n bushel since a week ago. and 3c above last night's figures. The market mar-ket closed unsettled, but not far from the top level of the day. Duluth, Minn., Jan, 5 Durham wheat today sold at $1.50 flat for May delivery, which closed up 3 3-Sc over yesterday at $1.49 1-2. A bull movement move-ment and export buying pushed the hard Russian wheat to what is said to be the highest price in its historv in the United States Chicago, Jan. 5. Sensational ad- Lancea In the prjee of wheat at Liverpool Liv-erpool resulted today in a new upward swiug for the market here. Cables reported British traders excited, quo tations still rising and holders hard to deal with Besides. Argentine offerings of-ferings were very small, and the European Eu-ropean visible BUPPly showed a decrease de-crease of 7.634 000 bushels, a fulling off of more than four times as rapid as a year ago Wheat prices In Chicago opened 1 3-8c to 2 l-2c higher, breaking all records since 1SSS. On the bulge (hat accompanied the rush of buying, holders indulged in much profit taking, tak-ing, and there was a reaction from the top figures at the start, $1.87 for May. That month receded to $1 35 5-8 and later steadied around $1.36 1-4. with Julv about $123 after having risen to $1-24 as against $1 22 lat night, Strong cables and the advance in wheat made the corn market harden at the outset. Commission house selling, however, soon led to a setback that more than wiped out all the gains. After opening 1-8 to l-2 higher, prices declined to slightly below be-low last night all around Oats took the same course as corn. Buying of oats was fair. Provisions wore firm, despite heavy receipt of bog The wheat bulge tended to check selling Realizing sales by longs led to another an-other decided dip In wheat prices, but reports of extensive foreign buying brought about a complete rails', and then a further advnee. The close was unsettled. 1 3-4 to 2 5-8 2 3-4c above last night. Increased rural offerings kept the com market a trifle depressed until just before the close, when wheat was once more breaking the high price record. The finish was nervous at the same as last night to a shade advance. Chicago, Jan 6 Wheat No. 2 red, $1.32 1-231.32 1-4; No. 2 hard. $1.82 1-201.36 1-4. Corn No. 2 yellow, 70 1-4 70 l-2c; No. 3 yellow, 69 14069 3-4c. Oats No. 3 white, 51 1-451 l-2c; standard. 52(62 l-4c. Rye No. 2, $1.13 1-2. Barley 65 Q 75c. Timothy $6. 50(3?' 7.50. Clover $12 50cg15 00. Pork $17.00. Lard $10.75. Ribs $9.7o10 25. New York Stock List. (Western) Alaska Gold 26 1-2 Amalgamated Copper. 63 I S American Beet Sugar 34 American Can 26 1-2 Amer. Smelt. & Refining 69 American Sugar Refining 103 3-4 American Tel. & Tel 117 Anaconda Mining 25 34 Atchison 94 Baltimore & Ohio 69 Brooklyn Rapid Transit So 1-2 0' ' I California Petroleum 16 B Canadian Pacific 157 1-t H Central Leather 38 7 S Chesapeake & Ohio 41 H Chicago, Mil. & St Paul 8S1-S Chlno Copper 33 3-8 H Colorado Fuel & Iron 21 3-4 JM Colorado & Southern 23 1-2 Denver & Rio Grande 41;J I Erie General Electric 140 3-4 Great Northern, pfd " llH Great Northern Ore Ctfs. ...271- VH Illinois Centra 16 Interborough-Met, pfd 52 1-4 Inspiration Copper 1G 7-8 International Harvester M . Kansas City Southern 21 3-4 'H l ehigh Valley 133 H Louisville & Nashville H3 1-- Miami Copper . &"o 'H .Missouri. Kansas & Texas .. M Missouri Pacific jj II National Lead LI New York Central ' 1' 1 N. Y., N. H. & Hartford 65 7 ! m Northern Pacific SS''5 I Pennsylvania 'H1 Pullman Palace Car Co 15 I Ray Consolidated Copper 164 m Reading !, J M Rock Island Co ( Preferred til I southern Pacific JEti I Southern Railway ,,;k oMB lnion Paoific clolHi t; nlted States Steel 'f'1! Preferred J Jtah Copper i - tVnbash. pfd rJ " NH A'estern Union M m |