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Show CLOSING QUOTATIONS OF WORLD'S MARKETS i PRICES IN STOCKS ARE CARRIED DOWNWARD , New York. April 17. Free offering of stock at tho opening today carried prices downward throughout the list. The grangers and transcontinental stocks were most conspicuous in tho decline. Great Northern, pfd.. and St. Louis Southwestern, pfd., fell 1. and Union Pacific, St, Paul, Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, Atchison. Reading, Amalgamated Copper and Westlnghouse Electric a tubstantial fraction. A rise of 3-1 in. Norfolk and Western was the only notable exception to the weakness. Irregularity - developecL-aiter the opening dealings, some stocks rallying and others declining before the tendency ten-dency became uniformly upward. The rebound lifted Reading and some of the Hill and Hfcriman stocks to above yesterday's close, but the rise was not firmly held. Central of New Jersey hardened five points, Adams Express. 4, National Lead 1 11. and Rock Island, Is-land, pfd., and Mercantile "Marine, pfd.. and Hocking Coal 1. During the decline, Atlantic Coast. Line got down 2 1-4. The market closed strong and active. Strength In the coalers prompted shorts to cover, and the market rallied strongly to above yesterday's closing. Tho upward up-ward flight in Central of New Jersey reached 17 points, Reading gained 3, Delaware and Hudson 1 3-4, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific and Chesapeake Chesa-peake and Ohio 1. National Loud 2. |