Show FINANCIAL REVIEW Crop Conditions Now Figure With Speculative World New York July Bradstrects Financial Fi-nancial Review tomorrow will say Much attention Is paid at this period by the speculative world to corncrop conditions and prospects The news bearing on the subject at present has been favorable though drought and hot winds in the western portion of the corn belt furnished material for stories of a total loss to the crop In that section sec-tion This was the occasion for somc selling of the granger stocks during the week The Chinese troubles also continue con-tinue to look very grave though at the beginning of the week the disposition In London and the other foreign financial finan-cial centers was to look on the absence of news from Peking as a good rather than a bad sign London sales of American stocks were counterbalanced by renewed purchases pur-chases and it was noted that all of the foreign offerings have been very well taken In fact the market though narrow and at times a very dull one has shown a considerable degree of Underlying un-derlying strength and this activity was In connection with the advances of several prominent trading stocks like Union Pacific Baltimore Ohio common com-mon Illinois Central Norfolk Western West-ern and Sugar In the ease of the two first mentioned securities the movements move-ments were based on renewed reports of favorable action In connection with dividends the expectation being that both stocks will be placed on a 4 perCent per-cent basis The declaration of U percent per-cent semlannuaj dividend on Louisville Louis-ville Nashville had a favorable effect although It was about what had been confidently looked for The disposition of the stieet In fact IB to take a more cheerful view of railroad dividend prospects pros-pects In the bond market moderately high issues have fully recovered the amount of their July coupons In the past fortnight fort-night |