Show IN THE BUSINESS WORLD The Philadelphia and Reading Coal arid Iron company announced yesterday that on antI after that date all grades of coal are advanced 5 cents a ton A large proportion of the shipping business which has heretofore gone byway by-way of Montreal will in future bo transferred trans-ferred to Boston The Canadian city has been asleep The corner in Scotch pig iron has 1 r > nvl In Pun nrlpf Vnn innlntr > lnnl nf 77 shillings for somo time and Monday 77 shilling and 3 pence cash was called It collapsed yesterday at OS shillings The Coates the Clark company and the Brookb company Glasgow have advanced prices 3 penny per pound on knitting mending and tambouring cottons cot-tons The increase equals 12 to 17 per cent Yesterdays statement of the treasury balances In the general fund exclusive exclu-sive of the 150000000 gold reserve in the division of redemption shows Available cash balance S131700S0 gold 7i200019 The American Sheet Steel company and the Republic Iron and Steel company com-pany Irivo entered an arrangement by which the former withdraws from the merchant trade and the latter from sheet production The announcement Is i made on the New York stock exchange of the suspension sus-pension of Hatch Foote The failure Is supposed to have been hastened by the Illness of one of the partners and is not considered an important one |