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Show CLOSING QUOTATIONS OF "WORLD S MARKETS WIDE MOVEMENTS IN MINOR STOCKS AT THE OPENING Xew York, Jan. 13. MosJ of the standard railroad stocks were little i changed today from last night's prices hi the opening dealing but there were wide movements In some of the nir.or stocks. Wisconsin Central preferred pre-ferred advanced 2 3-4, National Biscuit Bis-cuit 2 and Toledo, St. Louis & Western West-ern 1 1-2. A decline or 3-4 in St. Paul was the largest .change show n in the mixed and general list. Stocks began to. lo .oU'ered more freely than tho market could absorb :.na there was a rather sharp brcaK in which Union Pacific, i-Jrle and th New York public utilities stocks were prominent. Erie first preferred declined de-clined 1 5-S. tho second preferred 1. Colorado Fuel l 3-S, Amalgamated Copper. Consolidated Gas, Westing-house Westing-house Electric 1 3-4. and St. Paul, i n-ion n-ion Pacific, Southern Railway and l'n .t-sod Steel Car prefcrrec 1. Chicago Chi-cago Great Western preferred "A" sold at a loss of 5 1-2. National Biscuit extended its rise to 4 and American Am-erican Smelting and St. Louis Southwestern South-western gained 1. - Intermittent selling carried prices to successively lower levels without much Interruption. Stocks of fertilizer fertil-izer companies were the exceptions to the weakness. American Agricultural Chemical, Virginia Carolina Chemical rmd American Cotton Oil rising 1 to 1 1-2. St. Paul was notably weak at I a decline of 2. Amalgamated Copper lost 1 3-4 and a large number ot others oth-ers a point or more. Bonds were Irregular. |