Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1888, Page 11

THE CONDITION OF TRADE. Clearing House Raturns Show a Fair Increase for the Week. RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS. The Flonr Market is Without Life, and Millers are Talking pf Forming Trusts — Sugar is Weaker and Declining. “The result of the elections has had no ap preciable effect on the money market here more than clscwhere, and rates are un changed and the supply equal to the demand The movement of merchandise is season able and trade is fully up to expectations, clearing house returns showing a fair in- crease over the corresponding week of last year. There has been prices. Sugar is weaker coffee is in very liberal supply, and the tend ency of prices is lower. T'he flour market is without life, and millers are talking of form ing trusts to curtail production. Minneap olis millers bullish, however, and Mr. Pilisbury insists that flour is cheap at present prices, and will be dearer before New Years, having written to jobbers here to that effect =] The local market is fu plicd. There is a strong demand class creamery and dairy butter, poorer grades are neglected According to the Cincinnati Price Current the yield of the cercal crops in this country this year amounts to the following: Wheat, 405,000,000 bu. 1 corn, 1,960,000,000 bu.: oats, 0,000,000 bu. 3 rye, 25,000,000 bu.: barley, 5,000,000 bu.i buckwheat, 14,000,000 bu., total for the six cereals, 3,163,000,000 bu. "This 18 the lareest aggregate produc re corded, the nearcst to it being in 18 ’ the total was 3,015, 00 bu. In the production of pig iron Great Britain retains the lead over all competitors, al though she is now being closely pressed by the United States. Germany is third in the list, but far below the two leaders, France is fourth. The United States is perhaps the greatost consumer of lemons in the world. One hun- a thousand boxes it is estimated are used ry week, Fach box contains from 500 to i lemons, New York is the principal point of distribution. Sinee April 1 India has exported 26,000,000 bushiels of wheat, against 22,420,000 busliels in the same time in_ 1887 with a population of 85,000,000 con- umes as much wheaten bread as' the United Btates, with a population of 63,000,000, “The season for shipping western range cat- te is nearly ended. On an average prices have been higher than during the season of 1847, and as cattle are now i good condition and fecd is plenty, the range business is in much better shape than a year ago. Mon- tana cattle have sold far the best, though nortiern oming ranges also ' at good prices, bein h better in quality than last 3 outhern Wyoming and Col- orado cattle have not improved so much in quality, and consequently they advanced no materia! change in nd declining, Rio yntinue rly sup. for first while produce nd 80 high that the The total cafeh any, over 40,000 atches of the the catch to 1884, 415,418 Jerel are scarc pusumption s checked. will not foot up much, if barrels, just_ about half th two previous years. In 1555 dute was 820,108 barrels, and in barrels, Coffee is in fairly active demand, and mild grades are firm at the recent advance, but Rio coffee is plentier and not so strong. Th are 202,000 bags of coffee 1 Rio de Janeiro, and Havre holds 303,000 bags, including 134,000 bags of Brazilian coffce. The stocks of Brazilun coffee in first hands at the American scabourd and atloat for our shores ure as follow: Bags. New York 182,191 Baitimore, . “ee . 24,550 New Orles TOtaliStocle s io.ineesosss 30,523 Afloat from Rio per steani .. 154,000 Afloat from Rio per sail.... s 81000 Afioat from Suntos pergsteam wnd sail. 41,000 Total. Same time last year.... . soeeenel 410,824 ho Sugar 1 g company’s stock is reported as being quoted as low ‘as 89 or 90 (par value 100). If this report is true it showsa very decided break in prices, as 475@500 was quoted about two months ago. ‘The result of the eleotric refining scheme, should it prove successful, would be highly important, as it is said that in that event asyndicate representing a conditionally {:wdgml capital of $15,000,000 will at once uild refinerics in all the principal markets of Kurope and America, Its representatives are said to have alrcady arrived i New York, and are waiting, together with repre- sentatives of the English capital invested in the process itsclf, for the developments prom- ised by the promoters. The following table shows the stock of flaxseed 1 Chicago elevators on the dates vamed : Grade. No. 1, bu. Rejected, bu, No grade, bu, Total....... 244,827 Railroad earning: Nov. 10,'88, Nov. 3’88, Nov. 12'§’ 5,018 337,508 ar on the surface to be quite satisfactor: o Financial Chron- icle gives the gros: rnings of 100 roads during October a8 £20,445,055, an increase of 123,083 of ninety-seven roads from January 1 to October 31, 1 1,744, an_increase of 694, and of fifty six roads for the fourth 12,432, un increase or compared with OMAHA LIVE STOOK. COattle. Priday, Nov. 17, 1895, There were plenty of eattle here, although the reccipts were not so heavy as yesterd The market was strong and opened netive, quite u fow cattle changing hands be fore the midday. The backers were free buyers, and in addition to thewr purchases of beof cattle o good many feeders changed bands before the close. e Hogs. The market was strong,but 10¢ lowe! nd tive at the decline, The maricet is still higher in proportion than other markets, and within be of the extreme top in Chicago, Evel thing offered on the market wus sold, pens being cleared before midduy. the Shoep. There wero only a few here, and they m with ready sale, ot Receipts. Cuttlo. Prevailing Prices. The following 1s a table of prices paid in this market for the grades of stock men tioned Primestoers, 1300 to 1500 1bs..$4.10 @5.00 Prime stoers, 1100 to 1300 (bs. . 4.00 @4.50 Nauve feeders. . ‘Western feeders........ Rango steers, com'on to choice Common 0 good cows..., Choice to fancy cows, . Common to chowoe bulls Fair wonoice Light hogs. . Fairtocnoice heavy hogs. Faw w choice mixed hogs. . Iepresontatuve Sales. caTTLE Ne. B00M o caoncons oy 24 cows, northerns ) 1cow.. oine. 080 7 coV S aas L 22 cows and bulls, . 1,042 17 cows, natives... L0027 1COW.,.00vn L.1,040 BS cows. ... L 1,034 14 cows, . ... L015 20 cows, natives... .......... W3 100 feeders, westerns .our RANGE CAT Owner, No. R C. Hutler- 10 cows, westerns....., 8 cows, wosterns. ... 88 feeders, western: Gutlrie & Oskamp— Av, i " Av. L1217 P N L1287 OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY 27 cows 01,080 W. S, Pugsiey 22 steers, Colorado Texans.1,088 F. P. Ernest 42 steers, Colorado Texans, 1,020 J. Brash 19 steers, Colorado Texans 1 steer, Colorado Texan Dowling 1 steers, Colorado Texans no Springs Cattle Co 1,076 20 70 0 o1 2,60 0 2m° R. B. Connor cows steers | Kinney steers, westerns 1064 Pr. No. 68 0 ‘ 2.40 1,108 2.65 125 865 Av. Shk 40 & 200 5.3 160 160 420 160 160 200 ¥ 200 120 S0 100 0 240 120 0 160 120 210 360 200 S0 160 12) 20 200 80 02 00 & 120 80 0 40 80 240 80 “0 120 S0 40 Puarchases. Showing the numbor of hogs bought by the leading buvers on the markot to-day: G. H. Hammona & Co... . sesss BI1 Oma cking Co. .. 11,657 Armour-C. P, ( 3201 Cudahy Bros. 200 Highest and Lowest. The following are the highest and lowest prices paid for hogs daring the past few days and on the corresponding datss one and two years ugo Nov. 1533 300 @3 65 @) 8 @3 65 “@) 15 4 @3 0 Sunday 36 @17 35 @D AR Nov. 1341, | 10 @B 510 @5 45 40 @i 5 Sundny 405 @i |8 @ | 410 @ % |8 @) Sunday. i @ 55 410 @3 L@y o | 400 @ {8 as |5 445 @6 | B 62wl 8) 400 @ B> Sund. 370 @0 Sunday 420 1 i 365 @iHs h 0 @) 46 ovement of Cattle. g 1 table snows the receipts and tle the past week at the cen- and totals for the preceding a0t The follow shipments of ¢ ters mentioned sk und a year Received Shipped. Th008 Chicago......... 43,564 8t. Louis 0 10,044 Kansas City 23,209 iy | Cincimagi ew York Total Previous weok Sulme week last year. pust 5 40,000, compared with 71,000 the pre Kk for corresponding time last year t supply was 45,000, ices of cattle at Chicago compare with a r a0 on grades mentioned as follows 58, 3 10625 8150 t05 60 todi 32 Good to extra sl Medium shipping Butch 300 103 50 Texans L 2%tod —Cincinnati Price Current. OMAHA WHOLESALE MARKETS. Produce, Fruits, Etc. Burrer—Fancy, solid-packed creamery, 20 @23¢; choice conntry, I8@20c; medium grades, 14@17c; common grades, 10@l6e, Frovr—Nebraska patents, §6.00@7.50: Minnesova p nts, $6.25@S8.00: straight grades, £ 50; bakers' flour, $.25@5.75 per barr Sweer Porators—3c per b, Povimiy--Live chickens, .75 per doz; spring chickens, $2.50@3.00; dressed chick® ens, S@l0e¢ per 1b; turke; 8gl2e. Edes--Strictly frosh, 21¢ candled. CoNcorp Gt Joi@40c per 10 1b b ket. . MaLAGA GRares—In kegs, S@10c per lb. BANANAS—Common, $1.50@?2.%5 per bunch; choice, $2.50@3. LEMONS—§5.5) per case. Onaxars—Plorida, $1.00@4.25 per box. Gaye—Per dozen': Mallards, $250@2.75; teal, $L.00G01L25; quail, §2.50; prairie chic cns, $3.50; rabbits, £1.00; squirrels, $1.00; venison, 6 10¢ per Ib. ANDER £7.50@.00 per bbl Provisions—Hams, No. 1, 11ige: No.2, 11 shou rib bacon, 11¢; clear bacon, 1 10c; dried beef ham 104, , short, 8ige; ext short, 8igc; short ribs, 8ijc: pickled pigs feet, 151b kits, S0e; lard, 93g@@10¢; smoked sausage, G@sc per 1b: hog casings, 17@15c. i 25ad0e per dozen. ON10NS—40@30¢ per bu, Cannal $2.00 per 100, Begrs—0¢ per bu. Tukxips —e per bu. Saven Kraur—Bbls, $6.75; half bbls §2.75 Avrres—Choice, £.500 275 per bbl; fancy, $3.00 per bbl; coramon, $1.50@1.75 per bbl, CipEnr—Michigan, #.00a6.50 per bbl of gals; Califor cider, $15.00 per bbl, Por Cony 3 common, 2k Jaunors —40¢ per bu. BeaNs—Uhoice eastern handpicked navies, £2.00 per bushel; western hand picked na' vies, £1.75(1.80; mediums, $1.50@1.40; Lima beans, 5e per b, HAY-—F. 0. b, 2 upland, £.00. HuaN —£15.00@16.00, Cuorren Feep —§14.00615.00 per ton, CoRN—3lLase, Onts VINE: Cider, 10@15¢ per gal.; wine, 10@20¢ per gal. ars, No. 1 upland, §6.00; No. white Grocers' List, ces are as follows: Stark A, scamless, 22c; Amos Lewiston A, scamless, buriaps, 4 to 5 13¢; gunnies, Twines—Flax, W@2Le; cot Revised pr BAGGING keag, scamless, 171/¢ 16¢; American, seamless, 17 bu, Tl@l4e; gunnies, single, 3 wool sack, 35¢ suil, 20@e] sail B, Jute, 9¢. iPuuiT—Rigs, in boxes, per b, ates, in boxes, 7@10c; London Mulaga layer raisins, per box, $250@3.75; Malaga loose rawsins, $2.30@250; new Valencia raisins, per b, 8¢c: California loose musca- tels, por box, #2002, 10; California Londons, 1588, §2.40; pitted chiorries, ver 1b, 10c; Cali: fornia pitted plums, per 1b, 12G@1de; dried bluckberries, per b, 74@sc; dried raspber- ries, per Ib, H@25¢; evaporated apples, Ti; @ 11e; Californin sun'dried peaches, 13c; Cali- fornia unpared evaporated peaches, 15@180; evaporated California appricots, 15¢; Zante 615 @i0; Turkish prunes, 41 @4d1c citron, 23 He; go peel, 15¢; lemon peel, 16¢; California French prunes, 116 16c. Correes—Mocha. 25@30¢; Rio, good, 16@ 170; Mandabling, 20@28¢; roasting 1tio, 15 16¢; 0. G, Javo, 24(i2e; Java, interior, 22 to, fancy, 16190} Santos and Mura- caibo, 17@19¢: Arbuckles, 21'Jc; MecLaugh- lin's XXXX, 21i¢c, anvlnted, 78c; conf. A, ite extra C, Tic; oxtra C, 7i4e C. 6c; powdered, 8ige; cubes, Sige. BEEsWAX—Choice yellow, 20@22] colored, 1@ 4c. Cuerse--Young America, full cream, 12@ 12:g0; full cream cbeddars, 11@1%! full cream flatg, 12igc, Pickies ~Medium, in bbls, £.00; do, in half bbls, $3.00; small, in bbls, .00; do, in half bbls, $3.50; gherkius, bbis, §7.00; do, Balf bbls, $4.00 Acco—-PPlug, 26—-650; smoking, 16@19e CrAcKERS - 6@10¢ per 1b; assorted cukes, § @25c per 1b as per list. JuLLIks—-$1.35 per 80-1b pail, Thio; yellow o dark THE SPECULATIVE MARKETS. Wheat Opened Heavy and Closed a | lear: Few Cents Lowor. CORN CLOSED WEAK AND LOWER. Provisions Attract Increased Atten tion—Cattle About the Same— Hogs Active and Ten Cents Lower Than Yesterday. CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET. Nov. 17.—[Special Telogram to, The wheat market was heav. dy for a break all day, yet market and resisted raids that sorely tried the nerves of ‘short sellers.”” This was the case until the scssion was well advanced Then the deluge. The first feature of note was the rapid selling of a big line of wheat by Schwartz & Dupee, with sceming deter mination to break the market. Large lots were offered a shade under the market until May was pulled down from $1.1414 to $1.187¢ @1.14. When the pressure from that source relaxed the price rebounded to $1.141. It sub sequently worked back to $1.14, and for an hour or more hung at $1.14@I.14'. Then, shortly before 1 0'clock, pressure was put on, and the market was beaten down to €113, ‘There was a strong fight around § 135, but the market gave way, and fractions dropped off rapidly. Tt took but a moment to traverse the distance from $1.13%{ to $1.13%. With scarcely a pause the price went to $1.131, where,after a trifling delay,a start was made for $1.13. The close was §1.127(@1.13 for May, and L.11 for December, This mukes a loss on the day of 13{c for December and 11§ @1%c for May. The dealings were heayy the last thirty minutes, and a declining ten- dency overwheTming. A ray of light may be found for bulls in the fact that the difference between contract wheat and No. 8 had nar- rowed 214¢ in the last two days. It was given out early that Fairbank had unloaded the last of his big line of wheat through Schwartz & Dupee, but on the other hand, parties who are very close to that gentleman say that he had expressed his intention be fore going east to hold on to his wheat, re- gardless of immediate fluctuations. That, however, was before he came into personal contact with the intenscly bearish crowd in New York. He may have modified his views since. In any event, the importance of Fair- bank’s position has been quoted at its full value. He is said to have been long only about 2,000,000 bushels, instead of 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 bushicls, a8 -reported by gossipers, The first effect of the unauthorized announce- ment that Fairbank had sold out was to btace up the market, but later another view was taken of it and the crowd acted as though a terrifyiug bug-a-boo had been re moved. Short scllers operated with more confidence than usual. The bull-dog in their path had abandoned his post. Hutchinson was on all sides of the market, He was buy- ing and selling at every point, appearing sometimes in the gaise of 4 raider, and azuin as a buyer attop prices. The crowd hus ap- parently given up trying to guess who has been doing the steady buying that was noted for two or three days, the mysterious de- mand having been seemingly satisfied around $1.14. For want of definite knowledge on the subject some of the wise ones attributed the buying to Armour, but that tip was quite ineffectual in bolsterng up values as ’s letter. The Pillsbury epistle has 1its greatest power in its kick-like- a-kangaroo, The market was weakest most active the last half hour. In time it broke a full cent and closed we and limp at the bottom. Hutchinson was a big seller on the break. ~Indeed, he started it on a report that the receipts of wheat in Minncapolis on Monday would be nearly seven hundred cars, On’ the break there was brisk sclling on stop ordags *‘for long account.” It was generally supposed that cables were steady, but thé situation abroad cannot be said to be favorable to the bulls. The domestic situation also seems to be destitute of fresh bullish _inspiration, and some of the best friends of wheat do not an- ticipate a_change for the better until the stocks of flour are reduced considerably. The mills are very generally curtailing pro- duction for the préscnt. ‘'he receipts of cotn were 2 cars over the estimates made yesterday and 6,000 bushels more were added by canal. In to-day’s in- spection returns there were five cars of new corn and three of those graded No. 2. The weather was again clear and frosty, which is of course favorable to freer movement of this year's crop and to an improvement in its condition, The Liverpool market was quoted dull and slight. A reduction was quoted for spot and November delivery, but more de- ferred futures were unchanged. The prin- cipal influence was the weather and its prob- able effects, and those were not in favor of higher prices. The business done was again very limited in amount. There were few outside orders and they, as fur as could be ascertained, were principally to sell. A weakness developed 1n wheat was another element of weakuess which was felt most near the close. May future was in fairly good demand, though it_suffered in price along with the others. November closed at 393{c to-day, against 403c yesterday. De- smber was 385 at close, wi is 1g@ige lower than the resting price of yesterda, and May closing at 3897 bid to-day is ¢ under the closing price on Lriday. Provisions dttracted increased attention, Cash property was again in good demand, and in a speculative way trading was more general and large: in volume than on any day during the week. On morning call, sales, made for future delive amounted to 28,500 bacrels of pork, 4 tierces of lard and 250,000 Ibs, of short ribs, Increased buying by distributive trade, coupled with meager stocks here, has finally turned the tide, aud to-day the bull side was favored with u strong, as well as an _active, market. Higher prices were realized with- out trouble, and well maintained throughout, In pork the net advance established was 7 in lard, o7}5c, sand fu short ribs, Cricaco, The Bee, and seemingly ro it was a stubborn with stolid strength soon develop —— CHICAGO LIVE STOCK *mieaco, Nov. 17.—|Special Telegram to Tng Bre.|—CarrLe—The quality was poor and common, made up largely of low-grade Texans and rangers, yet nearly all were sold; and anything at all useful, either in nativ ‘Texan or ranger line, sold equally as high as yesterday. A stock yard circular, referring to the business of the week, says: “Our cattle murket opened this week with a fair supply of western and Texas cattle and a large sup- ply of natives, ‘corn-fed.’ And while the re- ceipts have been moderately quiet during the weck, prices have advanced on westerns, “Texans and native butcher stock, while corn- fed native cattle have declined from day to day until prices are 25c lower. On Friday there were less cattle, and prices are a littie stronger. Western cattle are about in for the season, and better markets are looked for on native corn-fed, as our packers, as well as shippers of live cattle will have' to confiue their purchiases to this class, Texans will be coming forward the entire year, but as a 1 jority go into cans, they do’ not greatly inter- fere with corn-fed cattle. The receipts include 4,500 Texas and western cattle. Steady, oice to extra beeves, nominal at .00 medium to good steers, 135) to 1500 1bs, $4.00@5.00; 1200 Lo 1850 1bs, #3.50(4.0 10 1200 Jbs, $3.00@3.75; stockers and fe £2.00@1.40; cows, bulls and mixed, 4.00: bulk, §2.20@2.60; Texas cattle, steers, $2.50@3.60 3 COWS, $1.85@2.405 western rangers, §2.904.10. Hoas—Trade was active but 10¢ lower than the opening yesterday, closiag steady with all sold. Bulk of mixed sold within a rauge of §3.30@>.35, and best heavy at .40 5.45, & few funcy making $5.50@5.55, There was a heavy runof light with u limited de- mand, hence an ordinary run of 150 to 140-1b averages sold at £5.30@5.85; light light sort sold largely at $3.60, which' was bigher than any other class. The reccipts so far this month, as compared with the same period last year, show @ large decrease. In conse quence packers did not enter into competition or offerings. Usually we bave large receipts and good markets this tume of the year, snd if Lhe receipts were heavier business would be better, The weather has been warm, and NOVEMBER that al Wi shipping packers can see 1 hold u s aga 18 demand and o an handle hogy ) reason why the to the present prices. iere are 1ot as many hogs market as there should b year, and it is thought th bulk of the hogs will be marketed later in the season. 1t looks as if provisions woald be light, and ex rt demand good. Slight fluctuations this k leave | the market about 15@20c lower week the ler wenather (or pr 1), we market should not far ady fc present - EINANCIAL. ew Yonk, Nov. 17.—[Special Telegram to Tue Ber | —STo0ks ~Tb was day in stocks, with no_infportant ch vrices, There was a firm tone on the that rate cutting troubles will be no wors and that an improvement is likely to occur at any time. The opening was ittle b res than yesterday's closc and a further small gain was made in most of the stocks in which there was any trading. The total sales were 53,103 shares The following wore the closing quotations: 4s regular....127% Northern Pa | doprefarred. beeks preferrad, ‘ LY Cantral Central Pacifie 5 85 [PAD &K ... Chicago & Alton 185 [ROCK Tsland Chicago, Burlington —(C., M. &St P70 & QUiNCY .0 110% |0 preforred. DLk W L1 St. Paul & Omatia Tiinois Central. " 116 °| dopreferred LL&W. L1 Union Paciflc Kuntns & Toxas | 1% W.EL L. & P LakeShors @nsl do proterred Michigan Ceniral | &3 Western Union MissouriPacific ... 7' MoXeY 0N CaLL— closed at 2 per cent, Prive MencaNtiLe Parer—414@s cent Steruive Excmasae—Dull but firm at A very quiet .12l lasy at 1§ per cen per &84, for sixty-day bills, and #4.57% for demand, ——— PRODUCE. . Nov. 17, Jecember, $#1.1 Cirreac eat—Fasier; cash, January, 1003 ; cash, 307, 73100 Ma cash, 2 ge. December, 38ige; January s —Steady (o1 May, 20, Rye—5c, Bariey—Nothing doing. Prime Timothy—Nothing doing. Flax—$1.50. Whisky—$§1.20, December, 14.80; December, €5 May, §15.07 @ cash, $8.40; 3 January, $3.2¢141 May, $.37% lour—Quict and unchanged Bulk Meats — Shoulders, $7.8714@7 503 short clear, $3.12}5@s.25: short ribs, §.50@ 7.70. Butter— 15@Ae. Cheese—Firm: full cream cheddars, 97 @10 c; fiats, 10}@10}c; Young Americas, 1@iiige, Eygs—Firm; fresh, 19@20c. Hides — Unchanged: heavy green salted, 6ige: light green saited, G¢c; green, bej salted bull, 5{e; green bull, 4%c; green dry flint, 7i5@sc; dry ealf, 7@sc; brandeld hides, 15 per cent off; ‘deacons, 23@3¢ cach; dry salted. 10@i5e. Tallow—Firm; No. No. 2, 4¢; cake, be. December, irm; creamery, 21@20¢; dai 1 solia packed, 5c; Shipments. 11,000 77,000 260,000 60,000 Recents, 12,000 46,000 eee 162000 ~1ee 50,000 Flour. bbl; Wheat bu. Cincinnati, Nov. 17.—Wheat—Dull and weaker; No. 2 red, $1.04, Corn—Firm: No.'? mixed, 4474414 Oats—Dull und barely steady; No. 2 mixed, Whisky—Steady at $1.14. Minneapolis, Nov. 17.—Wheat—Speca- lative markets were lower and with pros pects of a still further decline, buyers hold- ing to wait_for bottom' quotations; No. 1 Y December, 3 v My £1.23; No, h, §1.12; December, $1. 14155 M on track, #1.13; No. % nortnern, cash_and December, $1.07; May, §1.12; on track, §1.07. Milwaukee, No — Wheat—Easy, cash, §1.04%{; December, $1.05); January, §1.063¢. Corn—Easier; No. 8, 43¢ Oats—Firm; No. 2 white, 30@31c. Rye—Easy: No. 1, sigc. Barley—Kasy; No. 2, 2ic. Provisions—Firm; pork, cash, §14.80, Kanwsas City, Nov. 17.—Wheat—Stead No. 2 red, cash, no bids nor offerings: cember, 91¢c bid; May, 983(c bid; No. 4 red, h, 78c bid: No.' 2 soft, cash, $7';¢ asked; December, 950 bid. Corn—Weaker; No, 2, cash, December 288(c bid; Junuary, 3, cash, £5¢ bid. Oats—No. 2, cash, 20%c asked; 2415¢ bid. St. Louis. Nov. 17. — Wheat—Lower; cash, $1.05; December, $1.05%. Corn—Dull; cash, 87c; December, 34lge, Outs—Quiet: cash, 25¢; May, 20 13-16c. 23 2ige bid; vid; May, Lard—Firmer at § Whiskey—$1.14. Butter—Firm; creamery, fancy, 28@%c; choice, 23@20c;’ dairy, choice to' fancy, 23 (@2ie. . Liverpool, Cablegram o Nov. 17.—2 p. m.—[Spocial 'ue Bee.|—Close; Por Holders offer sparingly; prime mess,eastern, 525 6d, firm; do wi , 71s 3d, firm. Lard—Holders offer sparingly; spot 45s, firm; November, 44s 6d, firm; December and Janu s Gd, firm. Wheat—Holders offer frecly; new No. 2, winter, 8s 235, firm: do, spriug, 8s 3, firm. o Flout—Holders offer moderately it 12s, n Corn—Holders offer spot freely and futures <d, dull; Novemver, 48 9d, dull’ January, 4s 7d, dull, New York, Nov. 17.—Wheat— Receints, 51005 exports, none; spot market dull: 1i@dy lower and heavy; No. 2 red, $1.0857 in elevator: $I.10igc afloaf, $1.10@ 1. o, b No. 3 red, $1.034; , $L.05@1.101 5 No. 1 $1.16w]1.16}4. Options moderately i@ lower and weak; No. 2 December, closing at $1.095¢. Corn—Receipts, exports, spot market moderately active; opened ca ier; closing steadier; No. 2, 49 @40gc in elevator: 4914 @504¢c afloat; 50%c £. 0. b.; un- graded mixed, 49', @504c. Options quict and @' e lower, but steady; December closed at 4yl e Oats—Receipts, 03,000; exports 85; spot quict und firmer; options dull and easy December closing — at 8lie; spot No. 2 white, 85@i5i¢e; mixed western, 20 @32ige: wite western, 3lc. Coffee—Options steady: siles, 35,250 ba including ~ November, $13.75; ber, #13.35@I13.50; January, $1 February, §13.15613.85; Spot — Rio, fair cargoes §15 Petroleum —Steady ;United closed at 859 ¢, Eggs—Steady for choice, and in fair d mand; western, 25140, Pork—Quiet ' but' _fizm; $16.00 @16.75. Lard—Fairly active; westernsteam quoted at §.80@5.8; December $5.55, Butter—Iirm and active; western dairy, 12! {(@20c; weslern creamery, 17@sc; Elgins, 2de. Cheese—Fancy higher but quiet; western, 9@10}gc. i red and firm mess, —_—— LIVE BTOCK. Chicago, Nov. 17,—The Drovers' nal revorts as follows Cattle—Receipts, 5,000; market beeves, £5.00wH.00; steers, .00 stockers and feeaers, $2.00@3.00; cows, bulis and mixed, §1.40@3.00; Texas steers, $1.55 @3.70; western rangers, §2.90(@4.10. Hogs—Receipts, 0; market steady; mixed $5,25w5.50; #.80@5.55; light, 5,305,558 skips, $3.50@ Sheep—Receipts, 4,000; market steady; natives, $3.00@4.50; westerns, $315@3.40; Texans, #2.50@4,46: lambs, $1.00@4.75. National Stock Yards, East St Louis, Nov. 17.—Cattie—Keceipts, 900 shipments, 603 market choice heavy native steers, § 0; fair to good native steers, $1.40@5.10; butchers' steers, medium to choice, £3.404.45; stock ers and feeders, fair to choice, $2.00@3.25; rangers, _corn-fed, $3.00@4.207 grass-fed, 2,10@3.15, Hogs—Receipts, 1,305; shipments, 4,000; market slow; choice heavy and butchers' selections, € 20@5.40; packing, medium to prime, $5.00@h.20; light grades, ordinary to good, 5.00@5.25. Kansas Clty, Nov, 17,—Cattle—Receipts Jour- 18, 1888, —~SINTEEN PAGES. = o o ey e — OUI- “The Best Way to Get a Home, "is on the Ten Year Plan of The M. K. & T. Real Estate Trust Co., CHAS, BE. HASBROOK, 2d Vice President. OF KANSAS CITY. OFFICERS L. E. DAVISON, 3d Vice President. M. C. CURTIS, Troasurer. E. J. DAVIDSON, Secrotarg, CAPITAL, $500,000. This company proposes to by the applicant, on monthly payment years. ssist people to procure homes. or it buys lots cost of the house and lot, and the balance in monthy payments; these monthly payments extending ov Tt builds houses costing from $2,000 to $10,000 on lots owned nd builds houses for them on a payment of twenty per cent. of the period of ten In the event of the purchaser’s death, prior to the completion of the ten years, the wholo of the balance of the debt remaining unpuid is cancelled and the home becomes the absoluto property of the heirs. This plan places a home within the reach of every ma ceeding fair rent. any circumstances. Every citizen of Council Bluffs Frank B. Hochstetler, 205; native beef steers active and steady; to choice corn 5,000; shipments, steady; grass ranze native cows strong: good fed, $4.75@p.2; common to medium, §325 @450; stockers and teeders, §1.50'@1.50: Rrass range steers, $1.5)@3.00; cows, $1.00 @255, Hows—Receipts, market opened be 9,000; shipments, 210; lower, elosing strong and bale highers good to choice, $5.30 (@5.40; common_to medium, $1.60@5.20; skips and pigs, $3.0004.40. -~ 1 Thinks About It. English papers are good humoredly seolding Chamberlain for going across the sea for a second wile, even thougrh she is a lineal descendant of the Pil- grim Fathers. The Pall Mall Gazette sy The advent of the Ame 1into English society at first was a curiosity. It soon became a portent. It is now as- suming the dimensions of a menace. Before long it will be recognized as a calamity. Of all forms of competition there .is none so deadly as this. Wo can stand our farmers being ruined by Amevican corn; we can listen un- moved to wails of the graziers made bankrupt by the influx of American beet, but the American girl is too much, Already we hear the murmur of the cry of the drawing-room, of the despairing Belgravin mother who sees season after season American girls swoop down upon the most eligible partners and cut our native girls out be- fore the eyes of their distracted par- ents. That cry is growing, and before long will rival the lament of the Pacific coast of America over the influx of the heathen Chinee. We are being ruined, not by Chinese cheap labor, but by the bounty-fed competion of the Amer- ican girl.” Now, can we cope with it? What is to be done? Are we to impose a prohibitive tariff on this de ption of American produce? The Prince of Wales of course is most to blame in this matter. Instead of discouraging the disastrous influx of American beauty, as was his bounden duty to every good Briton, this unconscionable prince took the fair intruders under his special patronage An ingenious correspondent has re- cently sent us a suggestion that the true way in which to give the Ame cans tit for their recent tat in the Sack- ville ewisode w for his royal highness to boycott the Amervican element in London. We fear the prince is too much of a free-trader to listen for a mo- ment to any suggestion of reprisals, and we must look clsewhere for remedies, if remedies there may be, for this intoler- able competition. The advan in the manr these: What Englan of the Ameriean girl rket are bricily intelligence and is not kept in a band- ical experience in af- fuirs., Her education, o bet- ter, and if her complexion is not always s0 good she makes up foritby a fortune. It is curious that so many of the English who have married Americans have tried an English wife before they ventured upon marrying her Americun vival, Mr. Chamberlain is a case in point, e Poor John L Boston Herald: Yesterday John L. Sullivan was a happy man. e walked from his home at the South 1ind down Washington strect with his face wreathed in smil His devoted nurse, Hayes, walked by his side, but only as o compunion, because John needed 1o us- sistance to get along, and seemed stronger in the legs than he has been at “f time since his illness.. To a Her- ald man, who met him, Sullivan looked as well, if not better, than for along time hefore his recent illuess, and said he was fast recovering his health and strength, He had thrown his crutches away, and hoped he wouid never have oceasion to use them again, The sore- ness had nearly all left his legs,and he felt strong enough to gyo and geta Turkish bath, which he thought would help him very materially. He got the bath, and afterward went home feeling llke a new man, and looking just us chubby and contented as he aid early in the'day when he left Ins home with out his crutches for the first time since his illness. Now that he is able to go around again without assistance, his friends confidently hope his recovery will be move rapid than it has been, and he will soon be able to show them that he is vigorous and powerful as he was in his younger days, -~ English Cotton Mill Burned Loxpox, Nov. 17.—The Brotherton cotton mill at Preston bas burned, causing a luss of £40,000, box, but h Sultivan, WEEKLY BUSINESS REVIEW. Condition of Trade All Over ‘World. the SALES ON NEW YORK EXCHANGE. Our Reckless Railroad Management May Fright Euvopean Stock- holders Into Sending Their Stocks Home—Discounts, Cricaco, Nov. 17, Tue Bee.]—The si circles is much the same [Special Telegram to uation in monctary as last week. | Bunlers report agood healthy demand for discounts from nearly all lines of business, the only diminution in calls compared with the preceding three or four wecks was from grain operators here and at interior points, “The decreased call from such borrowers was mainly due to the bad weather, which dimin- ished the farmers’ deliveries to a material extent, but the small demand from such cus- tomers was largely made up by enlurged calls from other sources. The indications are favorable for an early recovery in de- mand from interior borrowers, as the close of the luke navigation may be expected within another week or ten days, and the accumulating supplies of grain that follows will necessitate an enlarged demand for money with which to carry it. Pork pack- ing at all the leading western points is also absorbing money with considerablo freedom, and all the indications favor an active and strong loan market for some time to come, There are, few reasons for predicting an lincomparable stringency during the mext four or five months, unless Buropean holders of Ameri- can railway and other stocks become fright- ened av the unbusinesslike management of many of our leading roads and seyd their shares home in suMicient voluwe to draw large sums of gold from this side. Discount rates are strong at 6@3 per cent, i@s per centbeing the ruling figures for time loans. The shipments of currency to the country were fair and were mainly to the live stock districts. New York exchange was m mod- erate supply and sold at 25 per cent discount 0 40 per cont premium per 1,000, and closed at 25 per cent discount and at 30 per cent pre- mium. Forcign exchange was firm on the basis of $1.53@1L8315 for shippers, 6)-day’s documentary bills on London closing at .83 @531 “The mercantile jobb ing trade in all leading lines of goods, although a trifle better than last week, was slow. The sales were mainly confined to filling orders, aud tne demand of dry goods was lessencd by the absence of a sufliciently low temperature to_increase con- sumption. of heavy fabrics. A lurge business was transacted on the New York stock ma during the past weck. An unsettled feeling prevailed, and prices on the majorivy of active properties suflercd some deprecis. tions. The chicf exceptions, however, wei New England’s, which advanced four points on rumors that the Vanderbilts were trying to secure its _control, and Cotton Oil certifi cates und Chicago gas trusts. The last two named were hought freely on the ¢ they were intrinsically worth more than their present selling value and would soon be paying handsome dividends. Although no authority was given for such statements they were bought with such frecdom that prices advanced 27@3 points in the face of a ( clining market for other sccuritics. The dis turbing feature in the general list was the cut of B0@ 0 per cent in west bound rates by Vanderbilts, ‘The reduction was immediately followod by further cuts by the Pennsylvania ana other lines. Holders of sccurities became scared and sold freely. London and large bear pro- fessionals also took hand and sold heavily, and a large decline resnlted. Au attempt on the part of the “shorts” to cover checked the downward current and started prices up ward, and fair rallies resulted. Stocks which showed s0 much strength early became weaker, as the general list advanced, and moderate realizing produced a good declin and about all early gains in Gas Trust Cotton Oil certificates was lost. Grang were effected t & moderate_extent by the cutting of rates on cattlc and packing house products from Missouri river points, and fair lines were recorded. ‘Total sales on the New York exchunge during the week were 1,435.103 shures. Considerable busincss was transacted in produce circles during the past weck, yet the warket exhibited no particular excitoment, and changes in prices were slight. In the speculative branch of tradethere was no par- ticular activity and no features were pre- serted of sufiicient importance to have any marked influence on the course of the markets, In shipping circles about the usual volume of business was transacted, orders from casters markets being reccived in fair numbers, though mainly from interior poiuts, Until within the past day or two the t n lower cost than by any other plan, the payments not exe Best of all, in the event of death, tho debt is cancollod, thus securing the family & home under and Omaha is invited to call at our office and examine plan, Nebraska State Agent, Room 509 First National Bank Building. ather has been somewhat warm and un- sonable, and far have given their fall work, which has been delayed somewhaty rather wiore attention. Now that the weather hias turned colder the inereuse in the receipts of farm produce at interior points may be iooked for and the quality of the new corn is - somewhat ved. The receipts of rain at leading western markets were fair for the scason of the year, and shipments were quite liberal, The supplies in_ leading grain conters show an merease of wheat and rye, and i 50 of corn, cats aud barley. The export mov ment in grain has been light, exeepting of corn, while in provisions there h considerable merease in all articles. The prices of grain have advanced slightly, but are not of sufticient interest to attract much attention. Provisions ruled higher early in the weels, but closed easier again. Seeds wo shown a little o strength, with s rather more fuv. . Tho eipts of live stock were larger at all tho principal western markets, but are still less than for the corresponding time last year. The packing of the west shows a further de- crease, and is now estimated at 202,000 hogs less than the returns of last season, to date, g ey Aaistocratic Generosity, Chicago Tribune: He had evidently risen from a good dinner a few minutes before, had the tall, portly man who strode down Dearborn avenue about 8 o'clock. There was a contented ex- pression on his ruddy countenance. He was smoking an exquisitely flavored wr of the kind that costs 25 cents apiece. Altogether, he presented & picture of prosperity that attracted a shabby individual who slunk out of an alley. He stood with cap pulled well down over his eyes, shivering in his thin coat. “Ixcuse me, sir,” he said. “Could I speak to you a minute?”’ Without waiting to receive permis- sion, he plunged into his story. The t words of it brought the diner-out ndstill. I'm just out of the Joliet peniten= tentiavy. I won't say I was innocent, for [ was guilty. Lt was drink lle({ me to steal. T want to leave my pasf life behind me, sie. I want to get work and begin anew. But I can’t, I'va walled the streets thirty hours without sleep and without food. Once I wag near having a job, when [ saw the po= liceman that arrested me coming up the street, and 1 went aw: I'm tired with cold and hunger. I never begged before. Will you help me, sir?” There was a glare in_ his o) hollow gerness in his volce. diner-out had listened intently. My friend,” said b “Idon’t know whether you are telling the truth or not. I hope you are. If you have fallen into evil ways and been punished for it there is no reason in thut why you should despair. You have life left, and while theve is life theve is hope, 1t is never too late to mend. Some of the best and greatest men have risen to glory out of the ashes of their former lives of corruption. “Take this,” and he balanced a coin between his fingers, ,'but don’t spena it for drink. Let it help you to be w man. Determine to be and to make the world look up to you instead of down upon you. Good night.” He dropped the coin in the tramp’s outstretched hand and entered the darkness, The unfortunate hasiened to the nearest gas lamp and looked ut the cown which lay in his hand and filled his heart with such wild hopes. It was a nickel, and a Tha il S~ 3 $5600 a Plate Vor lce Cream. Now York Sun: Lucie A. Moore, a magazine writer known us Mrs. A, Ele movre, in the court of common pleas, be= fore Judge Allen and a jury, yesterday recovered a verdict of #500 as damages against Richard and John Shea, restaus rant keepers at 762 Broadway. On June 16 Mps., Moove ordered ice croum there, and, it is charged, the waiter, Thomas Kerins, gave her a plate that had been standing in the window, and was oo soft to eat, She did not for it, but left the restaurant, and the waiter fol= lowed her and seized her umbrella, Proprietor Richard Shea was at the desl, and told her that she would have to pay for itor he would keep the ums brella. Mrs. Moore paid for the cream under protest, and sued the proprictor to recover #2500 for assault by the waiter, The jury gave her 3500, e King Milan's Concessior Loxnoy, Nov. 17.—Tho Vienoa corrg spondent of the Tim esjtelegraphs that King Mila® has offered to confirm the right of ex-Queen Natalie to the title of mw provided she foregoes her intended p Lo the Kuropean courts and adinits Lhe legals ity of the divorce,