Show WEEKLY OF OS' 7 i The past week has brou brot t lh ih expected ex cx- peeled re reaction in stOC stocks S passing pass pass- pass lug JUg ol ota ola a dividend by the tile M Missouri Pacific and some som troubles among mong V Western V frn roads lOads But in in the he bus business ness ness' of the no reaction appears nor are there signs of discouragement The cro crop crofts S are au large and andare are safe and the fact o of consequence consequence con con- s sequence quence is that the r fers who usually have to take nW th thau n the he cost ost of production 1 Jor iora a cI pi will ill ht f largest crops ever grown In ver-t ver very verZ many matly cases farmers will realize for thir wheat grown this year more than th entire cost of their farms It is is impossible that t tsuch such conditions should not cause a greatly great great- ly lv increased demand for many kinds of ol manufactured products and the steady enlargement of trade in ill nearly all lines hinea liness s not nat n t merely a the inevitable effect of an an enormous addition to the wealth of the producing classes Unseasonably Unseasonably Unseasonably hot weather has for the time retarded retarded retarded re re- re- re some trades but a change is already already air al ai r ready noticed It is also arnost encouraging og fact that thai these favorable conditions has produced produce as yet no speculative excitement or br craze such as often prepares the way for swift and disastrous reaction It is fortunate for the country that apprehension of 01 financial difficulty this fall has bas powerfully powerfully power power- fully restrained the tile speculative tendency The demand for bar iron is s not active and weakness in stocks tend lend to check sales o of rails Anthracite agents have decided upon an allotment of tons for October although actual prices ore not above those of the July circular while there have since been two ad ad- vanes Large sales of copper at li u j are reported but tin has hass has's sold ld as a. low as 20 cis and sales ales of lead are re small and of tin plates moderate moderates Tobacco has risen 3 to 8 S in tee Connecticut V Valley and the producers are r realizing large profits f Boston reports a closer r money m market and satisfactory trade especially in dry goods since cooler cooter we weather lher came A better trade is seen in b boots and shoes and in iii leather and sal sale of wool are Ibs lbs with firm At Philadelphia money motley is So in fair air demand building is more act actie and improvement improvement improve improve- ment is seen in all ll lines lines' oC of dry goods and clothing t though ough there thie is complaint in these as in iii other brai branches hes o of trade of slow collections A g good god od demand is seen for glassware improvement in jew jewelry dry elry and larger sales of tobacco and of leather and shoes but UL gt groceries ries are less active and wool duI dull At At Baltimore the tile shoe trade exceeds years last at Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land trade in iii Cincinnati some improvement improve improve- ment is seen in the tue shoe siloe tm trade e. e At Chicago some increase is is seen in re- re of corn oats and cheese and in cattle a third in wool and wheat receipts receipts re reo are five times limes arid and rye eight times last years year's but decrease appears of 01 half halfin halfin halfin in lard a third in cured meats and a fifth in barley At St St. Louis trade and manufactures are active and money close At Minneapolis l and St. St Paul Paui business is good rood and lumber advancing and at Kansas City and Denver improve improvement ment mentis is seen At all points reporting at al the et is improving except at where th the great strike sus sus' the movement of cotton otton In spite of several more circulars advising ad ad- farmers to holt hold their wheat the price pice has lias de declined d about one ne ent cent Receipts Re Re- at the West Vest have j been been over 1000 bushels in J f tr qty days and nd Atlantic t I I exports bushels against for the whole week last year Corn has advanced 2 cents and oats a ij Ii cents cent and While cotton is unchanged in price pork products have changed but a trifle trine and coffee and oil are a little ower There is more perplexity than usual regarding the yield of the most conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive estimates conclude that a large decrease decrease de de- de crease in the product is probable making mak- mak ing a a market for th heavy stocks which were brought h over from l last st year The stock tock market has bas been especially aIly depressed Missouri Pacific having fallen more than n xi cents for ot the week and Rock Island 7 cents cents with much realizing throughout the list The mo money ey market marketha has ha been a active tive here hero at 6 to 7 per cent cent- for commercial paper but gold is arriving arriving arriving ing fr from m Europe in large amounts and nd more is on the ca-the the way A vexatious Treasury Treasury Treas Treas- ury regulation lation probably be rescinded rescinded hinders hinders the use of imported gold for th the moment and the tha Treasury is not now in position to disburse freely the revenue having been much ed Imports of merchandise though smaller than a year ago when the move movement movement movement ment was exceptional are quite large and exports from New York for the past two weeks are nearly equal to those last year Rail road ad earnings exceed last years year's as do exchanges at t the various clearing houses outside New York though but stil slightly and there are as asyet asyet I yet no of f the he artificial monetary mone mone- tar tary pressure which some have bended The business failures occurring th the country the last seven days as reported to R. R G. G Dun Co The Mercantile Agency number for orthe forthe the United States 20 and Canada tor 29 a total of oi as compared totals O o of last week and and the week previous to the thelast last For the week of last year the figures were representing fail failures failures- u s' s Jn ill the United States and 3 31 in inthe the Dominion of C Canada nada |