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Show WORLD'S MARKETS N New York, March 10 Standard stocks ere inclined to greater heaviness heavi-ness in today's initial trading. Read ing. Southern Pacific and United States Steel making fractional declines. de-clines. Specialties moved irregularly, gains in motors. American Linseed and Pittsburg Coal preferred being offset by proportionate declines In American Tobacco. Great Northern Ore certificates, Consolidated Gas & American Express. Traders seemed disposed to await the result of the New Yorlc state bond sale and the steel tonnage figures for Fobruar before taking a definite stand. Of the entire international list, Canadian Canad-ian Paciric alone showed strength in : the London market 8oirth Omaha Livestock, South Omaha, Nebr., March 10. Hoge Receipts 21,000: lower. Heavy $6.65)6.66; light, $6.65 (jP 666; pigs. $6 50(86.50, bulk of sales, $6.6f6 65. CatUe Receipts 7800; easier. Native Na-tive steera, $0.608.50: cows and heifera, $6.007 0O; western steers. $6.007.76; Texas steers. $5.S07 20, cows and heifers, $4 766 75, caUss, $7 0010 00. Sheep Receipts 13,800; steady Yearlings, $8 50t!9.OO , wethers, $7.50 8.00. lambs, $9.30(39.80. Chicago Hog Market. Chicago, March 10 Liberal receipts today weakened, the hog market. Cattle Cat-tle were forced down -by. lack of eastern east-ern shipping demand There was no urgency about the call for sheep and lambs. Sugar. New--York. Maroh, ltVBucar.ftrl tures opened firmer on scattered covering cov-ering and buying by the trade interests, inter-ests, prompted by the steadier tone to Hie spot market, where offerings were smaller. Prices at mid-day were 3 to 4 points net higher. Raw suitar, steady; centrifugal, 14.71 ; molasses. $3.94, refined, steady. CHICAGO GRAIN. Chicago. March 10. Wheat prices : tumbled tciay as a result of London n.mors that the German imperial chancellor would announce terms on which Germany was willing to make peace. The market was also affected affect-ed by assertions that shipping facilities facili-ties for exporters were getting worse dally, and that charters were diL't-cult diL't-cult to obtain at any price. Scantiness Scanti-ness of country offerings, however, helped to cause nervous rallies. After opening 1 1-8 to 4 1-Sc lower, the mar- ket suffered a slight further break, ; and then recovered to a moderate extent. ex-tent. Weakness of wheat had a bearish effect on corn. Purchasing on the part of some of the smaller cash houses checked the decline. The open Ing, which ranged from 1-2 to 11 l-8c lower, was followed by a little iicldltional setback. Commission concerns unloaded oats freely. Seaboard demand was not much in evidence. Big receipts of hogs and the weakness weak-ness of grain carried down provisions Trading, ihough, was not of large vol ume Renewed selling pressure afterward pulled down the wheat market lower than before, with numerous stop loss transactions 5 l-2c under laBt night's level. Bearish crop reports had some influence in discouraging speculative holders The close was unsettled at 2 1-2 to 3 l-4c net decline. The large stocks of corn here and at other terminals prevented any important im-portant rebound. Closing prices were eesy at 1 to 11 1-Sc under last night. Chicago, March 10. Wheat No 2 rod. $163 l307-8c; No. 2 hard, $155 01.66 3-4. Corn No. 2 yellow, 72 l-2c; No. 4 yellow, 69 1-2&70 l-2c; No. 4 white. 70l-4c. Oats No. 3 white. 65 3-4(56 l-2c, standard. 56 1 257c. Rye No. 2. $1 15. Barley 7084c Timothy $4 50f5) 6.60. Clover $10 QOiYi 13 76. Pork $17 20. Lard $9 97. Ribs $9.00('9 50. |