IRON TEADEEETIEW. Hot Much Sign of Improvement in the Pittsburg Market Yet BO PROFIT FOE THE PRODUCER. A Heavj Bnjintr Horement Has Started in Southern Lines. " TKI LITTLE CHAKGE IN THE EAST There are no signs of improvement in the markets the past -week. There are well authenticated reports of sales of mill iron a shade below 516 per ton within a few days. j Holders of standard brands, however, claim that $16 is the figure. Foundry irons are weak and demand is moderate, but prices of last week still hold good. Bessemer iron is very weak at a shade lower prices than pre vailed a week ago. The drop in this iron the past 80 days has been not less than $3 a ton. Nails are moving slowly at last week's figures. At present prices of Iron there can be no profit to the producer It he has to purchase stock at rates now prevailing. Furnace men cannot possibly come out even at $16 per ton for mill iron. The present weakness of markets is dne largely to speculators, who, anticipating a boom t the beginning of the year, contracted with many of the furnaces for three or four months ahead. Furnaces who were fortunate enough to make these contracts are now press ing their goods on to the purchaser, who would gladly let go if he could. The losses to speculators the past three months have more than overbalanced the gains of the previous quarter, and the end is not yet It is reported that one firm of this city has dropped close to a half million dollars since January 1 because of contracts with furnaces for their products until May. Manufacturers of standard brands re withholding their products at present prices, and will continue to do so until the tide turns, which cannot be long delayed. Follow ing are latent quotations: Structural Iron -Angles,:.:!: tees, 2.80c: beams ind channels., 3.10c: sheared bridge plates, steel. 2.60c; unrtersal mill plates, iron, :.ac: refined bar 2c card. Barbed wire fencing, galvanized, $3 fO: plain wire fencing, galvanized, ?3 SO. eutral mill ?15 T.VE16 00-cash All-ore mill 16 Tvarr 00 casn o. iroundrv, native ore it TtfblS 00-casli o I roundrv. laLe ore IS I8 50 cash Hessemer is 00 cash bplegel S6 50ffi37 00 Muikbar 2 C0:9 00 Mcel blooms 23 .VoC9 Oil bteel slabs bteel billets bteel ltc ends Meet bloom ends Old Iron rails, American Ts.. Old Heel rails, short pieces.. 2sscasoo . 2S KSJ9 03 . 21 IClJ4 50 . 22 OLtasz a) . 25 OOffiJS (10 . 22.V(3 . 34 50235 00 . 33 worn oo . 1 SMI 1 90 . 2 I,225 . 2 10 . I CO 2 C5 . M O095 CO Heel It. light i c liar Iron bteel nails, perke; usual dls... iron nans "W ire nails, per Leg..., ferro manganese 1E0.N .MARKET FAIELT ACTIYE. Order, Flnced at Philndelpbln, However, Are Only for Immediate Needs. ISrEClAT. TELEGRAM TO THE DISIU.TCB.1 FBrx.ASEl.PBrA, April 11. The iron market has been fairly active the past week:, but it has not manifested the strength which dealers an ticipated. The orders placed continne to be small and only for immediate requirements, no large contracts to meet future necessities be ing made. The production is unstinted. If tbe storage and warrant sjstem is to be effective and protect the interest of iron makers the present is the time for Its benefits to be made manifest to the trade. Iron men, however, do not believe that they will be helped ov placing pic Iron in store. By experience they have learned that the very fact that a large stock of iron is hanging over the market will cause a depression. The plan is not liked by the mill owners. Iron workers are best satisfied wbep they handle the product from one furnace regularly, because they know exactly bow to treat it to get the best results with the greatest speed. If iron is placed in store it loses its Identity and tbe purchaser ob tains stock which bis orkmeu are unfamiliar with. After a successful run furnace owners are reluctant to close down tbeir furnaces. Tbe accumulation of stock will certainly-rcsult and that will bring a lower range of prices. While some business is doing in fancy grades at figures above quotations a fair range of prices is S 75Q19 SO for .No. 1 pig. $17 5017 73 for Ka 2 and Slfl 50S17 00 for gray Io--ge, and Southern iron is offered 75c below these figures. Bessemer pig is nominal at $20 0020 50 per tun. bteel rails are steady on small orders at $34 per ton at tbe milL Old rails aie quiet at $2423. Billets are moving at 530 and above, delivered. Blooms are quoted at J5233 per ton for hot blast. Charcoal delivered, 5i55 for cold blast, and H445 for run out anthracite. Muck bars at the mill are worth J2S 5U29 50. Planes are 'worth 2U02.15c 9 ft: angles at the mill, 2.20 2.25c: tees. 2.602.75c; beams and channels, S10c: merchant bars at mill, 2c; sklp grooved, Lfc5L90c; skelp sheared at mill, 2.00& 2.10c A BUIING MOVEMENT. Southern Ironn Are Once Store Decidedly an the Upward Tarn. rSFECXAL TELEGRAM TO THE CIKPATCH.l Ctscxssxn, April 1L Rogers, Brown & Co. say: Tbe general tendency of the market indi cated in our last report has continued during the week just closing. In Southern irons there has been the heaviest buying movement wit nessed since last November. The feeling sud denly took possession of the largest buyers that the bottom wa reached, and it was time to go In, On some of the largest deals under fierce competition of leading Southern companies prices were forced to the lowest limit reached since last midsummer. It is claimed that gray forge sold as low as $10 25 cash at Birmingham, and 3 foundry at J10 73. It is fair to say. however, that some re ports of the nnder prices are emphatically de nied by the' leading companies alleged to have made them, as tbey are positively affirmed by buyers. It is certain that the great bulk of business placed was not under 10 SO, Birming ham, for gray forge, and $11 for 3 foundry. While forward delivery orders were at 25c to 60c per ton higher: though one or two im . portant exceptions in the matter of long de liveries are reported. No. 1 and No. 2 foundry being more scarce in supply and more heavily sold did not go as low proportionately at the close ot tbe week, leading sellers are feeling decidedly firmer. In some cases they have advanced prices 25c to 60c per ton, and in all cases are refusing deliveries for June or July, unless at higher prices. In Northern iron there has been no change and none is expected in tbe immediate future. The furnaces have not followed the ranid decline in Southern irons, and tbev are selling as near cost as they care to go. There Is no accumulation of stocks anywhere. A BETTEU FEELING. Offers Tbnt Would Hare Been Accepted a Week Ago Now Refused. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. J ST. Louis, April 1L Rogers, Brown and lleacbam say: The low quotations made on Southern irons have resulted in numerous orders. Consumers are w llhng to buy at pres ent prices for scattered deliveries throughout tbe year, but the furnaces demand about 1 advance on such contracts. The increased de mand and heavy purcha es have given sellers greater confidence, and offers are now refused that would have been accepted last week. Sales are based on the freight rates effective April 16, which are SO cents per ton less than those now in force. We quote for cash f. o b. St. Louis: Hot blast coke and charcoal: Southern Coke No. 1 Southern Coke No. 2 feoutbern Coke No. 3 Southern Gray Forge Southern Charcoal No. 1 Southern Charcoal No. 2 Missouri Charcoal .So. 1 Missouri Charcoal o. 2 Ohio fcofteners. -JI5 TSffilC 25 . 15 2-VffilS 75 . n T.vai; 25 14 15(314 75 . IS B019 00 . is onais so . IS 50(919 00 . IS 90&18 50 . 19 0O3J0 SO Car wheel and malleable irons: Lake Superior $3 Southern... 21 Connellsvllle foundry coke: East St. Louis Et LOUlSa... ....... ......................... .., aa:4 oo D&I4 10 .$ 3 63 .5 80 An Improvement In Inanlry. rSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE UIBF ATCH. Chicago, April 11. Rogers, Brown fc Co. say: We have to report a steady improvement w in Inquiry and more active sales at low prices. This applies especially to Southern iron. The largest trades, however, that were on foot a week ago have not eventuated and perhaps will be delayed, as Southern furnaces are now firm and under heavy orders in other markets. In Lake Superior charcoal irons there is a quiet feeling, but the position is firm. Most buyers, in placing small orders for this class of iron, want shipment hurried. There are still con "fllcting views about the future of tbe market. bat the general opinion Is more hopeful. Local MHnn iiiililllfi n in i aiuriiUaM n . .mm -:, ,., i Jj-j Js-n.?j.zSkl jiiiisiSjJl !BHnBMOMMBISnttnOJHKHajU labor troubles are having some effect on iron Industries depending on building trades. New York Quotations. New YoBX-Pig iron dn'l and easy. Copper nominal; Lake, April, $11 25. Lead, domestic, S3 87. Tin weak; Straits. SIB 65. THE MAEKET BASKET. Bauer and Egg. Chenpei An Active De mand for Vegetables and Frnlts Not Enough Flab Ruling Prlcea of Staples. In the line of kitchen market materials the market feature or the week past has been the decline in butter and eggs. Hen fruit, in a job bing way, is now very close to 12c per dozen. Creamery butter dropped 2KcatElgin on Mon day, and the lay down price here Is little, if any, above 21c per pound. Pasturage is unu sually good for the time of the year, and the result is seen in the weakening of butter prices. Oleo is on the wane, as the genuine stuff grows plenty. In vegetable and fruit lines the week has been active in retail trade, while prices have not materially changed-. Southern fruits and -vegetablesnave been very scarce for a week past, owing to heavy frosts around the Gulf of Mexico. It was tboughta weekago tbattbe talk of frosts In that section was only a care. It proves now to be based on facts. Florida tomatoes and strawberries, which were plenty on the mark ets a eek or two ago. are of late very scarce. Asparagus from the South is still in good sup ply. Home grown rhubarb made its first ap pearance on the stalls this week. In the line of ocean products trade has very much Improved within the past few davs. Frozen fish are now out of the market. Fresh raught fish are not in supply up to demand. Good shad from tbe Delaware and Susquehan na are coming in freely. There is also a lair supply of fresh codfish at 10 cents per pound. Sol t-sbell crabs are to be had at $1 50 per dozen, and frogs' legs at 75 cents per pound. Florists report a lively demand for their products since Easter, with no material change in prices. Staple meats rarely change, whatever live stock prices tnav be. -Following are the latest quotations of mar ket basket filling as furnished by leading retail dealers: Stnple Menliu The best cuts of tenderloin steak range from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from 15 to 18c; standing rib roast, from 15 to 20c; chuck roast, 10 to 12c; best round steaks, I2K to 15c; boiling beef, 5 to Sc; sweet hreads.20 to 50c per pair: beef kidneys, 10c apiece; beef liver, 5c a pound; calf liver&,25to35c apiece; corned beef from 10 to 12c per pound. Veal for stewing commanas 10c; roast, 12 to 15c; cuilets, 20c per pound; spring lambs, fore quarter, 10 to -13c; hind quarters, 15c A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime quality, brings 12c; fore quarter, 8c; loin of mutton, 15c; giblets, 5c per pound. Gnrden SluO". Potatoes, 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota toes. 25c per half peck; cabbage, 10 to 25c; new Bermuda potatoes, 30c per quarter peck; choice Florida tomatoes, 40c a quart; celery, 10 to 15c a bunch; bananas, 15 to 20c a dozen: carrots, 5c a bunch; lemons, 25 to 35c per dozen; oranges, 25 to 40c; lettuce, 5 to 10c per' bunch; beets, new, 10c, old. 5c; onions, 10c a half peck: green onions, 5c a bunch;Bermuda onions,25c a qnartn-bubarb, 5c a bnnch, 6 for 25c; turnips, 20c per half peck; cranberries, 20c a quart; cucumbers, 15 to 20c apiece: mushrooms, $1 a pound; radishes, 5c; asparagus, 20c a bunch: new peas, 30c a quarter peck; strawberries. 3550c a quart. Choice creamery butter, 27c Good country butter. 25c. Fancy pound rolls, 30c, Tbe retail price for fresh country eggs is 15c The range for dressed chickens is 81 to $1 25 per pair. Soring chicken, 'SI So per pair. Turkeys, 25c per pound. Ducks, $1 25 to SI 50 per pair, Ocenn Proddctn. Following are the articles in this line on the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 12c; California salmon, 35e per pound; white fish, 12c; herring, 4 poundsfor25c; Spanish mack erel, 25 to 30c a pound; blue fish, 15c; halibut, 20c: rock bas, 2oc; black bass, 15c; lake trout, 12c; lobster', 20c: green sea turtle, 20 to 25c OjMers: N. Y. counts, SL 75 per gallon; clams, $1 25 per gallon; scollops, 50c a .quart; frog leg', 75c a pound; soft shell crabs, $1 CO per dozen. Flower. Jacks, $3 00 per dozen; La France, $2 00 per dozen; Mermets, SI 25 per dozen; Brides, $1 25 per dozen; yellow and white. $1 00 per dozen; tulips, 50c per dozen; Bennetts, $1 25 per dozen; Beauties,50c apiece; Magna Charta, $100 apiece; Harnon lilies. 25c aniece: violets. $1 50 a hun dred; lily of the valley,7oc per dozen: Dutch hyacinths, $1 75 to $2 00 per dozen; heliotrope, 60c per dozen. Wool Markets. Boston There bas been a good, steady de mand for all kinds nt wool, and tbe sale of the week aggregate 2,3S1,000 pounds of all kinds. Prices remain steady and holders are less in clined to grant concessions, owing to tbe firm ness shown in tbe West. Stocks of the most desirable kind here are reduced and this fact adds to the firmness of holders. Best Territory wools are in verv short supply, and fine would sell as high as W3c clean. Other stocks of less desirable Territory were offered at575Se for fine: 5355c for tine medium, and 50joJc for medium. Eastern Oregon wool bas been sell ing at 1619c, and Valley at 2225c Some small lots oi choice sprii g California sold at 2223c Spring Texai wools are in small sup ply and are sold in small lots in the range of 1623c Fine washed fleeces have been Quiet and have sold at previous prices; Ohio X at 30g31c and XX at 3233&; Michigan X sells at 29c and New York at 28c No. 1 combing is firm at 3S10c Ohio fine delaine at 3536c and Michigan fine delaine at 3135c Pulled wools have been dull. Australian wool sold ?;uite freely at 3712c as to quality. Other brcign wools have been quiet but firm. Philadelfbia Wool prices steady with fair inquirv. Ohio Pennsvlvania and West Virginia XX and above. 3.'34c: X, 3033c; me dium, S6g3&c; coarse, 3335c; New York. Michi gan, Indiana and Western fine, or X and XX, 2S30c: medium S637c; coarse. 3335c; bne washed delaine X and XX, 3337c; medium washed combing and delaine, 39llc; coarse do., SigSCc; Canada washed combing, 32Q34c; tub washed, cnaice, 3S40c: fair. 373Sc; coarse, 32635c; medium unwashed combing and de laine, 2730c; coarse -do,-2627c; Montana, 1625c; Territorial 15022c FLAYING EUCHRE IS GAMBLING. A Missouri Jadge'a Sweeping Instructions to aGrandJary- Sedaxia, Mo., April 1L Acting under instructions of Judge Byland, the grand jury, now in session, bas issued subpoenas for a number of members DTtbe "High Five" Club, a tony social' organization, among whose members are quite a number of young ladies, to appear belore that body. It is sup posed that an eflort will be made to find in dictments against the persons at whose house the club has met during its existence, on a charge of permitting gaming or gam bling on their premises. Judge Eyland's instructions to the jury Monday to indict all persons engaged in, or participating in, a game oi euchre, high five, or cnurch raffles, has created not a little umavorable comment here. At first it was regarded as a joke, but now, that an attempt is being made to carry out his instructions, a more serions view is being taken of the matter. MES. GEEEN PERSISTENT. She Continues tbe strnegle for tho Pos session of New Jersey Real Estate. Chicago, April TL. The case of Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York, in her struggle to have the sale of a section of laud in the town of Cicero to the Grant Locomotive "Works, of New Jersey, set aside, came up this morninc before Judge Gresham in the Federal Courts. The case had been, decided against Mrs. Green in the State Courts, and she began a new and similar suit in the Federal Court. It came up on a demurrer on behalf ot the defendants. Tbey set up the plea that the matter bad been decided in the State Courts and moved a plea of ouster. Judge Gresham held that the demurrer wa;sufficient, but on the request of tbe attorney ior, Mrs Green, he was given until to-morrow io file a repli cation. 0SLI F1TE DAIS' FAT. Beaver and Ilnstlnca Have Financial Problem to Solve. rSrSCIAI. TELEQBAM Tu SKI DISPATCH.! Habeisbueo, April 11. Governor Beaver and General Hastings bad a confer ence to-day with Robert H. Coleman con cerning the division encampment ot the National Guard at ML Gretna iu June. It will be a difficult matter to keep the militia in camp the customary.eight -days owing to a lack of funds to paythen for that time. There is just enough money available to pay them for five days'" Services. THE WILL BE ORGANIZED. Steps Being Taken to Fnt the San Carlos Silver Mining Scheme on A MILLION DOLLAR FOOTING. Manufacturing: Advantages of Fittsburg Makius Impression Abroad. MAGNITUDE OF LOCAL C0KF0KATI0NS The promoters of the San Carlos Silver Mining Company, of Pittsburg, have deter mined to organize a company with a capital of $1,000,000, in 100,000 shares, at a par value of 510, and place tbe stock on the market on the following basis: 65,000 shares to be placed at $6 per share, payabje 52 a share on organization, $2 a share six months thereafter, and 2 a share in 12 months, alter which paid-up certificates will be issued at a par value of 510 a share and be non-assessable. This money will be used in the erection of a plant ol 125 tons capacitv. The prop erty is now being worked, but, with the addi tional capital to be raised, development will be vigorously pushed. At least 60 per cent of the stock, it "is expected, will ba taken in Pitts burg. Now that the natural gas scare fear that the supply was failing has subsided, business men in other cities are once more talking of pulling up stakes and locating In Pittsburg. She pos sesses advantages for manufacturing many lines of goods which render all attempts to compete elsewhere abortive. A real estate broker on Grant street remarked yesterday: "I look for some Important additions to our business population before many months roll round. I have received letters lately from four or five firms in Eastern and Western cities re questing prices of business sites,costof building and other information, which lead me to think theyare seriously considering the practicability of locating here. One or two of them said they preferred to rent for a while. One is in the wholesale leather business and expressed a preference for Wood street," This is gratifying as well as encouraging. PIttsDurg has risen superior to the disadvan tages formerly attaching to her insular position and is reaching out like an octopus for the trade of the continent. Althongh she is finan cially able to carry forward all of her great enterprises, outside capitalists are invited to come in and assist in tho work of industrial development. There are boundless possibilities here for brains, muscle and money. Whitney & Stephenson's "Bine Book," a copy of which has been received at this office, is a complete directory of tbe banks, insurance and other corporations of Pittsburg and vicinity, compiled from authentic sources. It enumerates 1,092 corporations doing business in Western Pennsylvania, the canital stock of which ap proximates 5150,000.000. Those having a capital of 31,000,000 and over are the following: Allegheny Light Company. $1,250,000; Alle gheny Gas Company, Sl.000,000: American Cer taldo Marble Company, $1,000,000: Chartiers Valley Gas Company, Si.000,000; Citizens' Trac tion Company, $2,500,000; Central Traction Company, Sl.500,000; Crescent Steel Company, $1,000,000; Great National Petroleum Company, $3,000,000; Iron City Brewing Company, $1,200, 000; Murray Oil Company. $1,000,000; Moorbead, McCIeaned: Co., 81,600,000, Monongahela Fur nac Company, $1,000,000; Monongahela Nat ural Gas Company, $1,0C0,0W); New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, $1,000,000; Oliver Iron and Steel Company. $1,000,000; Pennsyl vania Salt -Manufacturing Company. 82,000.000; Pennsylvania Natural Gas Company, 81,000,000; Pittsburg and Stewart's Run Oil Co.. 81,000.000; Phosphor Bronze Company, $1,000,000. Pitts burg and Birmingham Traction Company, $1,500,000; People's. Natural Gas and Pipeage Company, 81,000,000; Pennsylvania Lead Com pany, $1,000,000: Siemens-Anderson Steel Com pany , 1,600,000; Standard Underground Came Company, Sl.000,000; Westinghouse Airbrake Company, $5,000,000; Westinghouse Electric Company, $5,000,000; Woodruff Parlor Car Trust, $3,000,000. There are12 passenger railway companies, 10 bridge companies, 9 local railroads, 6 incline plane companies, 75 banks of all kinds and 21 insuranoe companies. 'local secdkities. Some Advances nnd a Notable Decline Trading Misbt be Worse. The stock market, patterning after petro leum, was lively in spots yesterday, although sales were not large, being 370 shares of which 210 were Philadelphia gas and 100 Westing house Electric The only price changes of moment were advances in Bridgewater and Wheeling gas, and a decline in Westinghouse Electric to 11 without any apparent reason. Central traction was a little stronger early in the day but lost tbe improvement. Philadelphia gas closed at a fractional advance from the opening price. It was hinted that Westinghouse Electric was depressed for a purpose to give certain parties a chance to get in. This may or may not be true. However, as no other explanation of tbe break was offered, tbe statement is given for what it may be worth. It closed a point tbetter ban the Ion est. MOHXIKG. AFTEBirOOX. Hid. Asked. Hid. Allied. Pitts. P. S. M. Er... 460 475 ... .. Commercial Nat. B'fc. 7i 8 Masonic Bank Wi ... it. JtM. .Nat. Bank 693 .... Alononganela K. B.... 13) Allegheny Gas Co.. Ill 40 Allegheny Heating Co. 109 Brldirewater HH Chartiers V. Gas Co 43 Ohio Vallev IS 15 People's Nat. Gas. 40 1'eople'sN.G. I'.Co. J6)J 17 16 17 Pennsylvania Gas Co.. 13 IS Philadelphia Co 31 K 31 K 21M Wheeling bas Co 21 24 21) 23 Columbia Oil Co 3 Forest Oil C 9S 100 .... 100 Washington Oil Co SO 86 S Central Traction !4 Z7K 3 274 Citizens' Traction 63H Pitts. Traction 401$ 37Jf 39 Heaunt Vallev i&H 26 26 27 La orla Mining Co. JJ X Luster Miulne Co.'..... 15H J6H 15Jg 16H Westlnebouse tlectrlc 40 42 41 42 U. h. & SIg. Co 13 14 U. S. & SIR. Co. pref. 45 .... 45 WestlnghouseAlrb'ke 114 Pitts. Plate Glass Co 2uu .... 200 Sales at tbe forenoon call were 10 shares of Philadelphia Gas at 31 and 10 Pleasant Val ley at 26. At tbe afternoon call 100 shares of Philadel phia Gas brought 31K- Between calls 100 shares of Westinghouse Electric sold at 42, 100 Philadelphia Gas at 31 and 50 Pipeage at 16K- C. L. McCutcheon sold 75 shares Philadelphia Gas at 31 K. J. C. Fofse sold 25 shares Pleasant Vallev at 27 and 25 shares same at 2 The total sales of stocks at New York vester dav were 156,650 shares, including Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, 12.00): Misiouri Pa cific 24,800; Northwestern, 5,450; est, Paul, 9,750; Union Pacific, 10,604. MOVEMENTS IX EEALTT. A 814,000 Den! In Allrcheny City Other Important Trnnaacilons. Ewing & Byers. 93 Federal street, sold for the Stewart heirs to Mr. Charles Beckert, the prop erty No. 95 Ohio street, near Sandusky, Third ward, Allegheny, being a large tc-story brick storeroom, with lot 24x60. for 814.000. Samuel W. Black & Co., 90 Fourth avenue, sold to Oswald Werner, the well-known dyer, for $10,200. or $127 50 per front foot, a lot 80x323 feet, on the east side of Highland avenue, near Stanton avenue. Nineteenth ward. Mr.VVer ner will erect thereon a handsome stone resi dence. Magaw & Goff, Lira., 145 Fourth avenue, sold in the Oak station plan, on the Castle Shannon Railroad, two levef lots, Nos. 110 and 111, each 2oxl00, bounded by two streets and one allev. to Samuel S. Smith for 8225, and lot No. 59 In same plan, 25x100. to George Carey, for S110. W. H. Herrou & Son sold a lot on tbe south side of Howe street, between Riuip and O'Hara streets. Twenty-fourth ward, 40x102 to a 20-foot' alley, for 835 per toot, or$l,400 cash. Black & Balrd, 95 Fourth avenue, sold for Jeremiah Dunlevy. Jr., lot No. 60 in Dunlevy's plan of Linden Place, being in size 0x191 feet, and situated on -Hastings street, near Fifth avenue. Point Breeze, for $400. They also sold to Thomas Coutf, lots Nos. 110 and 111 in J. Walter Hav's plan of Valley ViewPlace, in the Nineteenth ward, being 20x100 feet each, for $40(1 James L. Orr sold a house on Webster ave nue, six rooms, lot 22x120 feet for $4,750; also placed mortgages for $750 on Allegheny prop erty .at 6 per cent, and one of 9,500 on Pittsburg property at 5J per cent Hamstt & Meredith, 102 Fourth avenue, PJTTS3UEG "DISPATCH. Pittsburg, and Wilkinsburg, placed a mortgage on Wilkinsburg property for $SO0. E. T. Schaffner, 72 Washington avenue. Thirty-first waid, sold two lots on Beltzhoover avenue, Beltzhoover borough, 50x114 feet, for SL600 cash, and placed two mortgages on Beltz hoover borough property, one for 8750 and one for $1,500, lor three years each at 6 per cent. He also placed a mortgage on Arlington avenue property. Thirty-first ward, for $1,000 for one year at 6 per cent I. M. Penrftick 4 Son sold and settled a mort gage for $5,000 on city property, five years, at 6S-10per cent, andoae for $2,600 on property in the East End, three years, at 6 per cent THE DAT-AT THE BANKS. Local Financial .Affair a In Good Shape to Pntli Basinets. There was no special movement in the local money market. yesterday,-but loans were con siderable in the .aggregate., and checking and depositing were fair. "Discount rates were 67 per 'cent Most bankers- think money is as cheap as it will be this season, as a brisk demand is looked for to push spring trade. Tnl will maintain rates. .Exchanges were $2,345,876 23 and balances $413,096 41. The San Francisco Mint is running underfull pressure, and it is estimated tbat during the present month 60,000. silver dollars will be coined, or about the same amount as was turned out during February. The' coinage of gold will nit be neglected, and this month about $2,000, 000 north of the precious metal will be turned into American monev. Money on call at New. York yesterday was easy, ranging at 46 percent lastloan4,closed offered at 5. Prime mercantile paper, 57. Sterling exchange quiet and steady at $1 &$ for 60-day bills. and$4 87Jfor demand. Closing Bond Quotations. V. S. 4s, reg 1S2 U. 8. 4s, coup Jii U.S. 4Hs, reg 103 U. S. 4s, coup 10.1.& Pacific Ss or '95 116 r.oulslanastamped4s 957a Missouri 6s ,100 lenn. new set 6s.. ..K8 lenn. new set; 53. ...103 Tenn. new set 3s... . 74 Canada So. 2ds 97V Central PacHclsu.lllK Den. & It. u. lsta...llS4 Den. 4K.G. 4s SUM U.&R.G. Westlsts. Erie Ms 100!4 M.K.T. Gen. s.. 75 M. K. &T. Gen. 5s.. 64X Mutual Union 6s....l03'i ti.J. C. Int. Cert...lllJ Northern Pac. lsts..HG Northern Pac. 2ds..llla Northw't'n consols ifSi Northw'n deben's 5sll0 Oregon & Trans, bs.107 St.L&I. M. Gen. 5s. 83 bt.L. &S.F. Gen.M.lll at. Faul consols 121 bt.P. Clll&l'c. lsts.HS IX.. Fc L,.G.Tr.K8. 92 Tx.. PC K b.Tr.Ks. Zthi Union Pacific 1SU...U2K West Snore 105K New Yoek Clearings, $103,700,323; balances, $4,457,661. Boston Clearings, $14,450,874: balances, $1,172,796. Money 5 per cent Philadelphia Clearings, $11,873,093; bal ances, SL.Kio.309. Baltimore Clearings, $2,530,831; balances, 8242.417. London The amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England on balance to-day is 100,000. Bar silver. 44Jd per ounce. Paris Three per cent rentes, 89f 6c for tbe account. Chicago Clearings. Sll.518.000. New York exchange sold at" 25c per $1,000. Money un changed. OIL RALLIES and breaks. Backbone of the Mnrket Badly Fractured byn Tremendous Gusher The oil market was active and excited during part of the sessionyesterday. Fluctuations were frequent and .important, and trading was lively at times. It was a good day for pykers and scalpers, and they, handled considerable stuff. The market opened at 8QJ, and influenced by bearish field news and free offerings, declined in a abort time to 79. The shorts then went in to cover, and the market rallied to 82. At this iuncture about 2 o'clock the event of the day occurred. A report obtained cur rency that the Fort ,Pitt No. 2 well, near Cora opolis, one of tbe first put down there, had, after being drllled.deeper, made 105 barrels in 33 minutes. This broke the backbone of the market: it dropped like a plnmmet from 82 to 79 where it stood, weak, and feverish, at the close. At 3 o'clock the well was reported doing 200 barrels an hour. Tbe range of fluctuations was: Opening, 80-; highest 81: lowest and closing, 79. The Vandegrift gusher on the Young farm, near Groreton, is making fully 1,500 barrels a day and showing no decrease in its staying qualities. The Harmony Oil Company's No. 1, on the J. E.Dainbach farm on Little creek, is through the sand and will be a small producer. H. W. Christie's No. 9, on the lift farm, is in the sand and showing good. Tbe hole is full of nil. Brandon & Co.'s No. 1,' on the J. W. Brandon farm, is also showing very good. Guckert & Co.'s No. 1, on the Schilling farm at Glade run, is completed and a dry hole. The Marburger farm well of the Anchor Oil Company at Gallery Junction is making 60 bar rels a day, and Mc .arland & Co.'a Mile3 Coovert farm well, west of Mars station, is doing 50 barrels. Tbe t ore-,t Oil Company's well, on theMur rin farm, half a mile east of the Snee. is dry in the third sand, and is now trilling in the Spepchly sand, with poor prospects. Stevens &. Co.'s Kelly farm well, two miles northeast of Murrinsville, Butler county, is expected to reach tbe sand shortly. The Gormlev pool in tbat locality has six wells, with a daily produc tion of but 16 barrels. The Mortland well, same field, is disappoint ing, doing only about 25 barrels a day. Features of Yt-aterdnv'a Oil Market Correcte'd daily by John M. Oakley & Co.. 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange: . , Opened ,...80H I Lowest 793( Highest S2JJ Closed 799, v Barrels. Average charters..)... 29.414 Average shipments,...., 69,879 Average runs 7. 62,227 Refined, New York. 7.10c. Kt-flned, London. 57-lGd. ltetlned, Antwerp, lSr. Heflued. Liverpool. S ll-16d. Keflned. Bremen, 6.45m. A. RMcGrew quotes: Puts, 78k785c: calls, Oilier Oil Markets. On. Crrr. April 11. Petroleum onened at 80c: highest 81c: lowest 79c; closed at 79jc; sales, 124.C0O barrels; no clearances re ported: chartersis,963 barrels; shipments. 72, 184 barrels; runs,' 73,740 barrels. Bradford. April 11. Petroleum opened at SOUc; closed at 79c: highest 82c; lowest 7ic; clearances, 630,000 barrels. New York, April-ll. Petroleum opened steady at 80Kc and advanced to 82c on lib eral buying. In the last huur the marker turned sharply and declined to 80c. closing weak at &iic .StocK Exchange: Opening, 80c; highest. 82c: lowest, 8lc; closing, bOc Consolidated Exchange:. Opening, 80c: high est 82c; lowest 79c; closing, 80c. NEW YOBK" STOCKS. Wall Street Bears Make a Vigorous Attack on the Market Depresses Effect of the Government Crop, Report Union Pacific Unities Again. New" Tl OKK. April l. The stock market de veloped considerable animation to-day, but it was done at the expense of values, and the bears, aided by tho. Chicago party and tbe traders, succeeded in making material declines in tbe few stocks which tbey attacked with sufficient vigor. Tho news from the West was not assuring, and the Government crop report was another inducement to sell the Grangers, while tho probabilities of gold exports was used as a bugbear to frighten tbe timid holders. Some attempt was made to manipulate the market late in the day. Reports were circulated that the bank statement would show a material decrease in the surplus- reserve, which, if true, would wipe it about out The general list was as usual fairly steady within narrow limits, but increased selling of five or six active stocks made the marker more animated than on any previous day this week. Tbe Bhorc selling, which for tbe past two days bas been in Missouri Pacific, was trans ferred to Rock Island to-day, and that stock sprang into activity at the opening, and led tbe list during the entire, day, although closely pushed by Missouri Pacific The fact that Rock Island stock held by tbe late dividend was not fixed up, but was at any time to com? on tho market was used against it Hitb considerable effect, but the selling of the stock by Chicago people on tbe probable disturbance of railroad-business in the West was in the principal, and tbe traders joining in tbe movement the stuck was cut down-to the lowest price It has seen for some time. Mis souri Pacific was Sold down to helov70, but at that figure some buying orders appeared, and it went little further. .'In the last hour when the bidding up of money was done there was extra pressure. The Grangers and Bnrlington and Qulncy were marked off rapidly. Union Pacific Buffered somewhat from the fact of the story that Vanderhilt would go into the directory, but tbe selling was nut importantand in the afternoon rallied to tbe best price of the day. Lackawanna showed considerable strength, but tbe Coalers, since tbe settlemejt of tbe Reading controversy, have occupied a small place in tbe market - The bears were on the aggressive throughout tbe day. Tbe market closed quiet but weak, with all the active stocks at the lowest prices. The list is lower' abd this evening sugar Is down 2;1Rock Island, Ui; Burlington, 1; and Northwestern anil Manhattan each 1 per cent In the railroad hoods market tbe Atchison issues are still the. leading stock in point of activity, though the .movement was within narrow limits, and to-day were rather heavy. The general market was not so firm during the past two daysiahoVsome important declines were established. ' c , The sales aggregated $1,272,000, of which the SATURDAY, APRIL 12, Atchison incomes contributed $185,000 and tho 4s $172,000 The advances include Dnluth and Manitoba firsts. 6 to 109; Ohio and Mississippi Springfield 7s, 4 to 115; Peoria, Decatur and Evansvllle 6s. 2 to 105. 'ihe following table shows the prices or active stocks on the New York Stock Exchange yester day. Corrected dally for ins Dispatch by Whitnby & BrxPHKf son. oldest Pittsburg mem bers of Mew Xor Stock .Exchange, 67 Fourth ave nue: " Clos- Opcn- High- Low- ing lng. est est Bid. Am. Cotton Oil is WK M "M Am. Cotton Oil Trust.. 2S 28 26 2$ Atch., Top. & S. F S7K X7JC JJH Canadian Pacific ; J. Canada bouthern 54 Mi Wi 54 Central of New Jeraey.HS) HSH 8Ji 11M Central Pacific ; - j Chesapeake & Ohio.... 22X 3 22-4 a C. Bur. & Qulncy... .106 106 1WK IMS C, Mil. &Sf. Paul 675 X 67H 67J4 C. Mll.ibt. P.. pf..,113V J I"? 113 C, Kock I. & P......... SljJ 91J 89 89 C St L. ft Flit J C, St. L. & Pitts., pf .... 48$ C. M.P..M. AO...... 31)4 Sltf UH 31 C, St P.. M. O. PI 93Ji C.S Northwestern. ...Ill 111 U0M 1I0X CAN. W.,pl :. 141)4 C, C., C. A I. HH 71X 703i 70X a, C..CAI.. pf. Col. Coal Iron 46)4 47 46 46 Col. ft Hocking Val .. 2134 213 H 21)i Del., Lack A; est 1354 MS 13o! 135H Del. ft Hudson 151 151 151 150t E. T., V.i. &Ga 8H E. T.,Va. &Ga., lstpr 'tii K. T.. Va. ft Ga., 2d pf 22 Illinois Central U5X 115JJ 115)i 114 LKe KrieiWest 17X r,ake Erie ft West pr. 63Jf 63M .6J 63X Lake bhore ft M. S 1D5 107X 1117 107 Louisville ft Nashville. SI 84 83 833$ Michigan Central 97)4" 97H 97)4 97 Mobile ft Ohio 14 Missouri Pacific 70H 7034 69 69 New York Central 107 107 107 107 N. Y L. E. ft W UH 24K 24 24 N. Y.. C. ft bt. L 16 N. Y C. ft St. L. pr. 70 N. Y.,C.fttt. L. 2dpf 3S N.Y. &N. E. 45H 45X 45' 45M N. Y., O. ft W. 17 18 17 17 Norfolk ft Western 19 Norfolk A Western pf. 61 - 61 61 60J Northern Pacific pr... 73 73 73)4 73 Ohio ft Mississippi 19 Oregon Improvement 45 Oregon Transcon 37 37 36 XK Teo., Dec. ft Evans.... 21H 21X 21 2014 Phlladel. ft Reading... 40 40 40 40)4 Pullman Palace Car 189 Hlchmond ft W. P. T.. 21U 21 20 20 Richmond ftW.P.T.pl 78 78 78 78 St. P., Minn, ft Man lin St. L. ft San Fran 16 St L. ft San Kran pf. 36 St L. ft San P. 1st pi 8S Texas Pacific 19 19 J9M 19 Union Pacific 63 61 62 62 Wabash 12 12 12 11 Wabash preferred 25 25 25 Western Union 81 81 81)4 81 Wheeling ft L. E. 72 73 72 7i Sugarlrust 64 64 G2 62 National Lead Trust... 17 17 17 17) Chicago Gas Trust 45 45 45 45 Boston Stocks. Atch. ft Top 37 Boston ft Albany.. ..217 Boston ft Maine "2! C, u. ft q 104 Eastern K. I! 167 Hasten K. K. 6s 126 Flint Fere M 32;( Flint ft PereM. pref 93 L. B. ft Ft. S. 7s. ...100 Mass. Central 17)4 Mex. Central com... 19 N. Y. &N. Eng 45 N. Y. ft N. En. 78.125 O. ftL. C. com 9 Rutland preferred.. 72 Wis. Central com... 29 AllouezMgCo 3H Atlantic 14 Boston ft Mont Calumet ft ilecli... Catalpa Franklin Huron Kearearge Osceola I'ewahlc (new) Qulncy tamarack Annlston Land Co., Boston Land Co..... San Diego Land Co, West End Land Co. Bell Telephone Lamson Stores Water Power 49M 255 22 " 160 S9 . 63 22 .21 216 iOJi . 6)4 Pbllndelphla Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished bv Whitney ft Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock Ex change: Bid. Asked. Pennsylvania llallroad 53 54 Hearting 20 1-1S 20 Iluffalo, Pittsburg ft Western 8!4 9 Lehigh Valley 51 52 Lehigh Navigation 51 52 Northern Pacific 30 31 Northern Pacific preferred 73 73 mining stocks. New Yoek, April 11. Mining Quotations: Comstock T. bid, 2.900; Comstock T. scrip. 2.800; Caledonia B. H 200; Consolidated California and Virginia, 485; Commonwealth. 250; Dead wood T., 123: EI Cristo, 140; Gould & Curry. 175; Hale & Norcross, 270; Homrstake, 825; Horn Silver. 235; Iron Silver. 195; Ontario, 8,800; Ophir, 425; Sutter Creek, 15a BUSINESS X0IES. W. I. Mustin returned home yesterday from New York. Jamks W. Drape is seeking rest and recrea tion at Portress Monroe. Fine architectural effects are often spoiled by inconsistent signboards. OitDERS for rolling stock are keeping car and locomotive works busy all over the conn try. Two hundred dollars a f oot has been of fered for ground on Wood street, Wilkins burg. Messrs. Ewing & Byebs report a lively de mand for business property on Ohio and Fed eral streets, Allegheny. Maine's ice harvest aggregates about 2,200, 000 tons of which 1,800,000 is from the Kenne bec, 650,000 from the Penobscot and 850,000 from the coast and lakes. Thirty-three mortgages made up the list yesterday. The largest was for $90,000 E. F. McCombs to the Tradesmen's National Bank for purchase money. The Young Men's Christian Association bad an eye on the Holmes property on Fifth avenue several years ago. Who it is that is bidding on it now, it would not be judicious to divulge. He is a young man, however. The latest nickel-in-the-slot invention is con nected with the telephone, and by dropping the required coin in the toll box attacbed to the 'phone, tbe connection is made with cen tral, without the prolonged ringing tbat usu ally precedes a conversation with that digni tary. LITE STUCK MARKETS. The Condition of Business at the East Liberty Slock Yards. Office of Pittsburg Dispatch, ? Friday. April 11, 1890. Cattle Receipts, 918 head; shipments, 882 head: market nothing doing; all through con signments; no cattle shipped to New York to day. Hoos Receipts. 2,100 head: shipments, 2.050 head: market slow; medium and selected, $4 45 4 50; common to best Yorkers. $4 204 35: pigs. M 001 15; 2 cars bogs shipped to New York to day. Sheep Receipts, 900 head: shipments, 1,100 bead; market slow at unchanged prices. By Telegraph. NEW YORK Beeves Receints. 620 head, in cluding 21 carloads to be sold. Market a shade Drroer: steer.3 805 00 perlOO Bs: bulN and dry rows, J2 40Q3 75; dressed beef flrm.at 67Kc per tt for sides, exports to-morrow B50 beeves and 2,320 quarters of beef. Calves Receipts. 245 bead: market steady: veals, ti 006 00 per 100 ft-". Sheep Receipts, 3.565 head: sheep firmer; yearlings isteadj: sheep. So 757 05: yearling laintis,IB50775; spring lambs. S4 00fi!600eaeh: dressed mutton steady at 910c per fi; dressed l.aml)3 firm at I0irJiC Hogs Receipts, 5,574 head, all consigned direct to slaughterers; nomi nally steady at S4 404 90. CHICAGO Cattle Receipts, ,10.000 head: shipments, 4,000 bead: m irfcet weak; beeves, 51 805 10; steers, S3 30Q4 75; stockers and feed ers S2 353 85: Texas corn fed steers, S3 U0 3 83. Hog Receipts, 15,000 head; shipments, 899 bead: market string and higher: mixed, J4 154 35; heavv, 84 154-40. light, $4 104 35; skips, J3 004 00. Sheep Receipts, G.000nead: market slow and dull: natives, $4 006 00; v. estern cornfed. So 305 80; Texans, 3 505 65; lambs, 55 0007 25. ST.LOUIS Cattle Receipts. 500 head; ship ments, L100 head; market strong: good to fancv native steers. J4 254 90: fair to good tin, S3 30 4 35; stockers and feeders $2 25t3 40;Indiin and Texas steers, S260S3 9O. , Hogs Receipts, 4,200 head; shipments, 4,200head; market steady; fair to choice heavy, $4 154 25; packing grades. 104 20: light fair to best, S4 05 4 15. Sheep Receipts, 200 bead; shipments 2,400 headtmarketsteady: fairtochoice.Mfflo 80. INDIANAPOLIS Cattle Receipts light; mar ket fair; shipper-. S3 004 60; butchers'. $1 25 3 75; bulls. $1 603 25. Hogs Receipts 3,500 bead; market active and stronger: choice heavy and medium. $4 10 1 326X mixed, $4 004 25; light.S4 054 27: P'gs. S-!o03 90. Sheep Re ceipts light; market steady; lambs, 3 505 75; sheen, 2 755 65. BUFFALO Cattle unchanged; receipts, S loads through, and on sale. Sheep and limbs firmer, but not quotablv higher; receipts, II loads. Hogs Receipts. 25 loads sale; mediums and heavy and mixed. $4 45; Yorkers, S4 40; light Yorkers. Si 3C4 35; pigs, fi 25. CINCINNATI Hogs firm; common and light $3 504 25; packing and butchers, S4 15 OH 35: receipts, 1,870 bead; shipments, 1,970 head. Drygoods. New York. April 1L There was consider able doing in dress goods, blankets and cotton flannels for fall. Tbe market was unchanged, but tbe tone was rather better, tbe weak spots beginning to sympathize with the advance in print cloths. Whisky Market. Chicago There bas been no change in prices which aro, steady at 11 02. The demand is good and Stocks moderate. 1890. DOMESTIC MARKETS. Potatoes Are Yery Firm and Prices - Mast Advance Soon. DULL PRODUCE TRADE FOR FRIDAY No let-Up to the Boom in Grain," Millfeed 'and Choice Hay. - SUGAE STJJADI AND COWEE' STR0XG office of Pittsburg Dispatch, Friday, April 11, 1890. $ Country Produce Jobbing Prices. Potatoes are very firm and prices are sure to advance within a day or two. A Liberty street commission merchant reports that he bas shipped 10 carloads to Baltimore within a few days, and there sold at 90c per bushel. The' freight amounted, to about 9c per bushel. In California potatoes are very scarce and high, and Northwestern dealers are shipping freely to the Pacific coast within the past few wesks. It is doubtful if there is any trade center in the land where potatoes are as cheap as tbey are here at the, present time. Higher prices here within a few days are about as sure as anything future can be. Eggs are quiet and slow at the late reduction in prices. In general produce ljnes trade is reported slow for Friday. VBUTTEB Creamery, Elgin. 2425c; Ohio do. 212ic; fresh dairy packed, 202Ic; country rolls, 1921c. Beaxs Navv hand-nicked beans. SI 75(31 80. Bkeswax 25028c 13 H fqr choice; low grade. Liber Sand refined. S7C0: common. 3 00 64 00; crab cider. S7 508 00 fl barrel; cider vinegar. 1012o ffl gallon. CHEESE-Ohio. llHKc; New York.l212Kc: Uinburger, 13Kle; domestic Sweitzer. 14 15)c: imported hweitzer, 23c. EGOS 12X13Kc V dozen for strictly fresh. FlttJITS Apples, tancy, S4 004 60 barrel; cranberries, 54 605 25 a crate; strawberries, 3510c a box. Feathers Extra live geese, EOQCOc; No. 1, do, 4045c: mixed lots, 3035c V &- Maple Syrup New, 9095c a can. Honey -15c ft. Poultry Live chicken. 8590o a pair: dressed, 1415capnund; ducks, 75cSl f pair; dressed turkeys, 1820c & ft. Seeds Clover, choice, 62 fi3 to buhel. $4 00 ? bushel; clover, large English, 62 ft. SI 35 60; clover, Alsike. S8 00; clover, white, 89 00; timothy, choice. 45 fts, SI G01 70; blue grass, extra clean, 14 fts, $1 251 30; blue grass, tancy, 14 fts, SI 80: orchard gras , 14 fts, SI 40; red top, 14 ft?, SI 00; millet, 50 fts, SI 00; Hungarian grass, 50 fts. SI 00; lawn grass, mixture of fine grasses S2 50 ) bushel of 11 fts. Tallow Country, 3c: city rendered, 4Jc Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, S3 00 3 50, fancy, S4 00-4 50; Honda oranges, $4 00 4 25, Valencia, S4 004 50 for 420 case. Jamaica. 87 00 a barrel; bananas, SI 502 00 firsts, SI 25 good seconds, t bunch; cocoanuts. S4 00 4 50 ft hundred; dates. 67c V ft; layer figs, 12K15Kc J Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 7075e: on track, 6065c; new Southern cabbage, 84 50 one barrel crate: celery, 75cSl $) dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes, 84 50 a barrel: turnips, SI 50 Ol 75 a barrel; onions, S4 604 75 a barrel: Bermuda anions, S3 00 bushel crate; green onions. 2025c a dnz.; parsnips, 82 00 ID barrel: ooion sets, 82 503 50 per bushel: kale, 81 25 01 50 barrel: asparagus. 4070c bunch. Buckwheat Flour $1 7562 00. Groceries. Coffee options are still moving upward, and packages are firm enough to go higher within a few days. Raw sugar is firm and refined steady. Dried and evaporated fruits are very scarce and firm, and an advance is probable at an early day. General groceries are moving freely in the old rots. Green Coffee Fancy Rio. 2425Kc; choice Rio, 22KZ3c: prime Rio 23c; low grade Rio, 2021c; old Government Java, 2SK30c: Maracaibo, 2527Kc; Mocha, 30 32c; Santos 222Cc; Caracas 242bc; La Guayra. 2627c. Roasted (In papers) Standard brands, 25Ke; high grades. 26K31c; old Govern ment Java, balk, 33K35c; Maracaibo, 2S 29Kc: Santos. 26KJc: peaberry, 30kc; choice Rio, 26Kc; prime Rio, 25c; good Rio, 21c; ordinary 21X23e. Spices (whole) Cloves, 1718c:allspice 10c; cassia. 8c: pepper. 17c: nutmeg, 7080c Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110test 7Jc; Ohio, 120 BKc: headlight 150 SJic: water white, 10Kc; globe. 1414c: elaine, 14Kc; car nadine, liKc; royaline, 14c; globe red oil, 11 HKc; purity, Mc. Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 4244e $ g tllon; summer. 3840c Lard nil. 60665c Syrup Corn syrup, 2629c; choice suear syrup. 36633c; prime sugar syrup. 3033c; strictly prime, 3335c; new maple ayrnp, 90c N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop, 4748c; choice, 46c; medium. 3S43c; mixed, 4042c Soda Bl-carb in kegs. 3J3Kc; bi-carb In K 5c; bi-carb, assorted packages, 56c: sal-soda in keg', 1 c; do granulated, 2c Candles Star, full weight, SJc; stearine, set 8KC! paraiflne. 11012c. Rice Head, Carolina, 0Ji7c: choice, 6JiS) (5ic; prime, 56c: Louisiana, 56c. starch Peart 2c; cornstarch, 56c; gloss Starch, 4J7c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, 82 65: Lon don la) ers, 82 75; California London lavers, $2 75; Muscatels S2 60: California Muscatels. 8240; Valencia, SKc.: Ondara Valencia, 10K6 lie: sultana. 14c: currants, 56c: Turkey prunes, 666c; French prunes, 8611c; Salon ica prune', in 2-ft packages, 9c; cocnanuts, V 100. S6; almonds. Ean., ?! ft, 20c; do Ivica, 17c; do, shelled, 40c: walnuts, nan., 1314c; Sicily filberts. 12c: Smyrna figs. 12613c: new dates. 6ffl , 6c; Brazil nuts, lie; pecans 910c; citrun. ty lB,,JO&lirc; lemon peei, ioc ft iu; urange peel, 17c Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft. 6c; ap ples,cvaporated. I0llc: auricots,Californla, ov.iporated,15616c; peaches, evaporated, pared, 2126c; peaches, California, evaporated, un pared, I320c: cherries, pitted. 13jjl3c; cher ries, nnpltted, 566c: raspberries, evaporated, 29630c; blackberries, 767c; huckleberries, 10012c SUGARS cubes, 9ic; powdered, tc; granu lated, o'c: confectioners' A. 6c; standard A, 6c: soft white. 5J5c; yellow, choice, bi& 55ac; yellow, good, Sita5Zc; yellow, fair, 6i ojlc: yellow, dark. 5Kc ' Pickles Medium. blHs (1,200). 87 50; me dium, half bbls (600), U 25. SALT No. 1. W bbl. 65c: No. 1 ex. fl bbl, 81 00; dairy. "j bbl, SI 20; coarse crystal, 4) Dbl. 81 20: Higgins' Eureka. 4-bu sacks, 82 80: Higgins Eureka. 16-14 ft packets. $3 Ou. Canned Goods Standard peaches, 82 00 2 25; 2d?, SltJJilbO: extra peaches. 82400260; pie peaches. 95c: finest corn, 81 001 50: Hid Co. corn, 60S5c: red cherries, S05c: Lima beans, SI 20; soaked do. 80c; string do, 65670c: mar rowfat peas, $1 1061 15: loaked peas, 7068"V. pineapples. 81 30ii'l 40; Bahama do, $2 75; damson plums, 95c; greengages, SI 25; egg plums. 82 00; California pears. 82 40;do green gages, SI So; do egg plums. SI 85: extra white cherries, 12 40; raspberries, SocQl 10: straw berries 80c; gooseberries. SI 3061 40; toma toes. 83688c; salmon, 1-ft. 81 5061 85; black berries, 60c; succotash. 2-ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green. 2 ft, 81 21 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans 82 05; 11 ft cans $14 00: baked beans, 81 4C1 50; lobster, 1-ft, 81 S061 90; mackerel. 1-E cans, broiled. SI 50: sardines, domestic K-. H 25 4 50; sardines, domestic Ks SB 7567 00: sar dines, imported, ls, Sll 50612 50: sardines im ported, K". H" 0- sardines, mustard. S3 50; sar dines spiced, S3 50. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel. S36 11 bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mes. $40: extra No. 1 mack erel, shore, 132; extra No. 1 do, mess S36: No. 2 shore mackerel, S24.- Codfish Whole pollock. 4jijr fl ft: do medium. George's cod. 6c: do large, 7c; boneless hake, in strips. 4Xc; do George's cod in blocks. 6K87K"'. Herring Round shore, S5 00"flbbl;splir, u 50 lake, S2 90 ? 100-ft bbl. Whitellsh. t) 50 ty lOU-ft half bbl. Lake trour. So 50 fl hilf hbl. Finnan haddock. 10c "H ft. Iceland halibut 13c fl ft. , Pickerel, half Dbl. S3 00; quarter bbl. SI So; Potomac her ring, S5 00 ft bbl: S2 50 ft half bbl. Oatmeal S6 006 25 fl bbl. Grnin, Flonr nnd Feed. Sales on call at tbe Grain Exchange, 1 car 2 white oats, 33c, 5 days, P. R. R.; I car choice timothy bay, 815, 5 days: 2 cars 2 y. s. corn, 42c, 10 days: I car same, 42c, 15 days. Receipts as bulletined, 21 cars. By Pittsburg. Ft Wayne and Chicago, 3 cars of wheat 4 of hay. 2 of mid dlings. 4 of flour, 1 of malt, 1 ofJiusks,2 of oats. By Pittsburg. Cincinnati and St Louis, 1 car of hay, 1 or corn. By Pittsburg and Western. 1 car of Sour, 1 of oats. Wheat and flour still show an upward drift. The lay-down price of fancy spring patent flour, is now 85 10, against SI 00 last week. Corn and oats are still firm. Millfeed is very scarce, but old prices still stand. The bull movement in cereals has prob ably reached Its climax. Good weather and better roads will, no doubt bring a reaction, as there Is plenty in the land if it could only be lirnnt'ht to market There was no wheat of- lered at the Grain Exchange to-dav. out prices are undoubtedly a shade nlgner tuan yester day. Wheat advanced fully 3c In Chicago this morning, and' flour is snre to advance within a dav or two. Prices below.are for carload lots on track: WHEAT New No. 2 red, 9192c; No. 3. 87 89c CORN No. 2 yellow, ear. 45Q46c; high mixed, ear, 44615c; No. 2 yellow, shelled. 41612c; No. 3 yellow, shelled. 40641c; high mixed shelled corn, 3910c; mixed suelled, SS39c ' - - oats No. 2,whl'e. S3633Kc; extra, no. 5, 3232Kc: mixed. 29630c RYE-Jo. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 53654c: No. 1 Westero,51652c - Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and spring patents, S4 7565 25; winter straight 84 5004 75; clear winter, 84 0064 25; straight XXXX bakers', 83 754 00. Rye flour, 83 256 3 60. Millfeed "Middlings, flue white, 816 006 17 00 ft ton: brown middlings. SIS 00616 60: winter wheat bran, 816 00618 SO; chop feed, 815 60616 00. Hat Baled timothy. No. 1, 811 00614 60: No. 3 do. $1212 50: loose from wagon. 814 00616 00, according to quality: No. 2 prairie hay. 87 009 8 CO; packing do, $8 7567 00. Straw Oat !6 7567 00; wheat and rye. 86 0066 25. Provision. Sugar-cured hams large, 9c; sugar cured hams, medium, lOJc; sugar-cured hams, small, lOKc;" sugar-cureti break fast baton, 8c; sugar-cured shoulders. 6c; sugar-cured boneless shoulders. 7Jc; sugar-cured California hams, !c; sugar-cured dried beef flats. 9cz sucar-cured dried beef sets. 10c: sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 12c;. bacon, shoulders 5JKC: bacon, clear sides 7ic: bacon clear bellies. 7c: dry saltshoulders.5J4c; dry salt clear sides, 7c Mess pork, heavy, Slz 00: mess pork, family, 813 00. Lard Refined, in tierces, 5Kc: half-barrels, 5c: 60-ft tubs, 5Kc; 20-ft pails, 6Kc; 50-ft tin cans, SKc: 3-ft tin palls 65ic; 5ft tin pails. 6Kc; 10-ft tin pails 6c; 5-ft tin palls, 6c. Smoked sausagp.Iong. 5c; large, 5c. Fresh pork links. c Boneless hams, lOJc Pigs' feet half-barrels, 84 00; quarter barrels, $2 15. MARKETS BY WIRE. Another Day of Excitement In the Wheat Plr, Duo to the Government Crop Report Other Commodlllee Show More Life. CHICAGO Tbe wheat market was active to day, with a large business, and trading was too general for any individual operator to control prices. Fluctuations covered a vide range, and advances and declines followed In rapid sac cession, with tbe iange considerably higher than yesterday. A prominent local operator was reported as being a persistent buyer most of tbe day; at the same time there was very general realizing on the advance. The opening was lj62c higher than closing figures yester day, and immediately sold off 6c under free offerings, rallied VBVic, then declined Kc, again rallied sharply 1c, ruled irregular and closed 2c higher for May, 2Jc higher for June and 2c higher for Jnly, than closing figures on 'Change yesterday. From opening to close the market was in a constant state of excitement. The over-night advance from closing yesterday to opening to day stopped a gobd many stop limits and was unsatisfactory to partief having such orders. Tbe sudden and sharp turn in the market was wholly due to the Government report which was made public this afternoon, estimating the average condition of Western wheat over the entire area at 81 against 91 si me date last year. On this basis, and taking into consideration tbe increased a.reace, the crop would indicate a yield of about 37,000,000 bushels less than last year. Corn A good general trade was reported, prices fluctuating within KS?bc range. Tbe feeling was on tbe wbole firmer, dne almost en tirely to tbe sharp advance in wheat At out side prices some outside selling orders came on the market for May at 32c and Jnly at 33c, and as the local crowd was long tbe market re acted, losing most of tbe early advance. Tbe market opened fairly active and firm, and "under a good local demand advanced 6c. sold off, as noted above, and ruled firmer, clos ing c better than yesterday. There Has a good trade in oats, buc tbe ag gregate fell below tbat witnessed tor several days past. Prices also held within a narrow range. The feeling, bowever, was firmer, and closing sales showed a net advance of ac over those of yesterday. A very brisk, trade Has reported in pork and appeared to be from miscellaneous sources. Tbe feeling was strODjr throughout the greater portion of tbe day. Opening sales were made at a advance, and was gradually followed by an advance of 5c, with active bnying at tbe ad vancing scale Outside prices were not fully supported, though the market closed strong. Quite a good business was done in lard. Prices advanced 2K65c, and the advance was fairly well supporteu. A brisk trade was reported in short ribs. Prices advanced 57Kc, and the market closed steady. Tbe leading futures ranged as follows: Wheat April. No. 2. 834884JJ683684c: May. 83;Q85I83S84Jc: June. 84i6!io684.. 685Kc; July, 836S4K6!8.c Corn No. 2, April. 3031Ji30631Kc; May, 313263lK31c; July. 32K6i 32K633C Oats No. 2. May. 23V623M23t June. 23K623KQ23K6Sc; July. 23623 Mess Pork, per bbl. May, SU 95Q11 50 10 9511 47K: June. $11 0511 60610 0511 57; July. Sll 156H 70611 15611 67K- Lard, per 100 ft. May. S6 256 306 22M6 6 27U; June. S6 27ig6 32J6 2766 32X; July. S6 326B37K66 JiK637K. Short Rib Sides, per 100 ft?. May. 55 326 5 3765 325 35; June. So 37K05 4iK5 37 5 4o; July, to 455 47K5 406a 45. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour in moderate demand and 5610c higher. No. 2 spring wheat. Sl81c:No. 3 spring wheat 736 77c: No. 2 red. 84'4S84Kc No. 2 corn. 31c No. 2 oats, 2323ic No. 2 rye, 4647c No. 2 barley, nominal. No. 1 flaxseed, 31 49. Prime timothy seed. SI 211 22. HLm pork, per bbl, 811 45611 5a Lard, per 1(X lbs. 86 25. Short ribs sides (loose), ?5 3065 35; dry salted shoulders (boxed). S4 7564 80: short clear sides (boxed). So 605 70. Sugar Unchanged. Re ceiptsFlour. 13,000 barrels: wheat. 10,000 bush els: corn, 131.000 bnshels; oats, 78,000 bushels; rye, 2,000 bushels; barley. 14.000 bushels. Ship mentsFlour. 13.000 barrels: wheat 240.000 bushels: corn. 457,000 bmhels: oats. 2bl,000 bushels; rye, 7,000 bushels; barley, 20,000 bush els. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was weak; fancy Elgin creamery. 19 19c; finest Westerns 17618c: fine. 15616c: finest dairies, 14616c; fine, 11613c Eggs, steady. NEW YORK Flour stronger, with an active export and trade demand. Cornmeal quiet Wheat Spot fairly active, strong and lf62c up: Chicago exporters buying: options closed strong, at 262c over yesterday on a remarka bly large business, buying orders from all on the Government crop report and additional crop news. Rye firm; Western. 57658Ja"c Bar ley man steauy. torn opot active ana higher; options moderately active. c np and firm. Oats Spot firmer and moderately active: options firmer and quiet Hay steady and qnlet Coffee Options opened steady; un changed to 15 points up; closed steady: un changed to 5 points up; sales, 43.750 bags in cluding April. 17.636i7.75c: Jiav, 17.50617.55c; Jnne. 17.OU617.40c; July. 17.10617.20c; August 17.00617.05c; September, 16.80616.90c; October, 16.656 16.75c November. 16.40616.55c; Decem ber. 10.35616.45c; January, 16.35c; Februaiy, 16.35c; spot Rio steady, fairly active; fair car goes 20c; No. 7 flat bean, 19c Sugar Raw firm and fair demand: sales 17.200 bags; centrifugal. 96 test 5 13325 5-I6c a cargo of do for Boston at 3 1-ltfo and F; 2.000 bags molasses, 87 test, at 4.44c: re fined more active and firm: off, 55 15-I6c; mold "A," 6Jc; powdered, 65-lGc Molasses Foreign steady: New Orleans steady. Rice in good demand and, firm; Cottonseed oil strong. Tallow steady. Rosin firm. Tur pentine quiet and weak at 4242c Eggs firm and in fair demand; Western, 126120; re ceipts 13.387 packages. Pork firm: mess, old, 811 25611 50: do. new, 12 00612 50; extra prime. 59 7510 25; cutmeats firm; pickled shonlders, $0; middles strong&hort rlear.SO 05. Lard active speculation; dull spot; Western steam, 86 CO: sales, 250 tierces; option and sales 10,000 ticrce;AprI1.56 68 bid:May.S6 5iS6 SS.cIosing at 86 5S bid: June. 56 62: July, S6 646 09. closing at SG C9; Angnsr. 6 73; September. S6 77656 80. closing at J8 77 bid; October, SO 85, closing at 86 84 Butter fairly active and steady; Western datrv. 7I3c; do creamerv. 10618c; do held, 5KUc; do factory. 4013c: Elgin, 19620c Cheese steady and in fair demand PHILADELPHIA Flour strong. Wheat strong and higher; desirable milling grades scarce and wanted; rejected, 67674c; fair to good milling. 81087c: prime to iancv. S994c; No. 2 red, April. 87)SSc; May,8S6SSKc:June, &J6SSKc: July, 876SSC Corn KJc higher; No. 4.ii3635c; No. 3 mixed and high mixed, on track, 37S537KC; steamer No. 2 mixed, on track. 87ic; No. 2 high mixed, iu grain depot""9Kc; lancy No. 2, yellow In Twentii th street elevator. 40Kc: No. 2 mixed. April, 380 3SKc: May. 3SJ46&KC: June. 3S39c; July. 3uC?639JJc Oats firm: car lots generally held jkc higner: No. 3 white. 32632$c: regular No. 2 held at 33Kc: No. 2 white, clipped. 3333Kc: No. 1 white clipped, 35c; futures quiet but firm; No. 2 white. April. 320320: May, 30 8Hc; Jnne, S0K3lc; Jnly, 30tf 31c Butter quii-t andeas; Pennsylvania creamerv extra, 19620c: do extra. 26630c Eggs firmer; Pennsyl vania firsts. 12612KC ST. LOUIS Flour very firm, in sympathy with wheat but business excited bv higher prices asked. Wheat The report of higher cables anil generally light receipts harply ad vanced prices; the market wai very nervous and unsettled at times, with wide fluctuations, but active, and a larg" buiness was (Tone: tbe cloe was firm, with May 3Jc, and Jnly and Au emt 2JJc above yterda; No. 2 red cash. 83KV$:;-: May. S2JS0MJSC. clowl at 84Kc: July, 8iS2c closed .it 81Ji-; Augnst. 806 S2c, closed at 81c asked. Corn Cash scarce and higher: No. 2 mixed cash. 29; options irregularly higher for May, bnt other months moved steadily up; May, 2SJJ2c closed at 29Jie bid: July, SO03Oc. closed at 30c Oats higher; .No.2 casn. Wir bid; Mav closed at 23Jc; July. 23c Rye 40642c asked. Barley held flrmlv. butnosale reported. Flax seed 81. 40. Provislpns Adfices from Chicago caused an advance iu pork and dry salt meats. Pork. 811 00. Lard. 85 8565 90 MINNEAPOLIS Receipts of wheat for the day were 142 cars; hipments, 25 cars.' Good wheat sold pretty well wben tbe bulge was in the future market, but during most of tbe day the demand was slow. Skin grades were very 11 dull; only a few local dealers were buying. A few lots that were choice sold quite well, but tbe bulk of it stood around on the, sample tables most of the session. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard. April and May, 83c; July. 85Jic: on track, 84685c; No. 1 Northern, April and May, 82Jic: July. 84c; on track, 833S4c: No. 2Ncrtbirn. April and May, 79c; July, 81c; on track. 79631c BALTIMORE Wheat Western strong; No. 2 winter red spot and April, 686c: May. 86S6c; jnly, 85c bid. Corn Western strung: mixed, spot and April. 3SK63SKe: May, 3SK38c; June. 39K639Kc; July, 3S610cj August 40Vc: steamer. 36e bid. Oats llrmt Western white. 31632c: do mixed. 29830c; graded No. Z white, 32c Rye steady at 55657c Hav steady; prime to choice timothy. 811 50 J3 00. Provisions steady; mess pork. old. 810 75; .new, 811 75. Bulk meats, loose shoulders, 5c; long clear and clear rib sides. SV.e: sngar pickled shoulders, 5K6c; sugar cured. sraokad shoulders, 16616kc: hams. 10J 12c Lard, refined. 7c; crude, 64c Butter weak; western, joq'ioc; creamery, iwsic .sgs steady at 12c Coffee qnlet and steady; Rio cargoesf air. 20K20Kc Receipts Flour. 7,613 barrels; wheat, 7.000 huhcls: corn, 637,000 bush els: oats. 10,000 bushels; rye. 5,000 bushels. Ship ments Flour. 3,913 barrels: wheat, 3,000 bush els; corn, 2,000 bushels. Sales Wheat 5.000 bushelstcorn. 8,000 bushels. MitWAUKEE-Flonr steady. Wheat extited; No. 2 spring, on track, caib, 78683c: May, 77Kc bid: No. I, Northern. S5c Corn firm: No. 3, on track. 34c. Oats higher; No. 2 white, on track, 2626Kc Rye higher; No. L in store, 16Kc Barley lower; No. 2. on track, 6055c Provisions higher. Pork. Sll SO. Lard, 56 22J. Cheese steady; cheddars,10610c TOLEDO Wheat active and higher; cash, 85K:; May, STc: July. 85c: August 84c Corn dull and firm; cash. 34c: May, 33c. 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