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Show STOCK MARKET IN NARROWCONFINES New York, March 31. The market today further disclosed its narrow limitations. Traders operated on ono side of Ihe market for a time, and then shifted to the other side, while real buyers and sellers apparently refrained re-frained from taking any action at ail. Great uncertainty exists as to the significance of the decision of the supreme court not to accompany tha body of the late Justice Brewer to its resting place in Kansas. The desire de-sire to avoid delay In the public business gives rise to a supposition that th Americau Tobacco case may be decided on Monday. The opinion is universal In stock market circles that the decision will U followed by a pronounced movement of tho market In one direction or the other. Another An-other matter receiving much attention was the number of railroads following the example of the Pennsylvania by advancing wages. UneaslnesK over the crop conditions condi-tions was revived by the failure of predictions of general, ralus in tho southwest and by tho cooler weather reported there. Another wave of depression emanated em-anated from the Cranby mlninff episode epi-sode In tho Boston market, Tho gravity of the incident wa Inferred from the news of the influence in so remote a field as the Paris bourse. Iondon sent reports, however, of confident expectations of an earlv movement of gold from New York to that center. . The local market for money was unaffected hv the prenaratlons for the |