The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-22
STATE OF TRADE.
GENERAL CONDITION Of BUSINESS
Aboat tho Sam. as that of the rfs,IOu. Week.
Report Provisions Somewhat Depressed.
Situation In the Iron Trads-rhs Wool
Market EAsy-sO Decline in Values. :

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NEw YoRk, October 20.-special tels
grams to Brddtrea's indicate that the gen
eral commercial movement has been about
equal to that Of the preceding week. Al
various leading distributing centres in the
East active preparations are making for the
opening Of sales OF spring goods. The re,
centlow range Of temperature has assist.
ed the movement Of merchandise among
wholesale clothiers and dealers in heavy.
weight dry goods. Anthracite coal has i'm.
proved In demand during the week, and
the excess OF production thus far in the year
amounts to about 2, 100000 tons as com.
pared with 1882. The call for bituminous
coal and for coke for industrial pur.
poses during the year has greatly exceed.
ed that demanded in 1882, and promises to
still further increase. The price OF wheat
has declined about 1!c per bushel in
the week and Indian corn about twice as
much. The causes are the old ones, OF
stocks 80 large, both ut home aud abroad, rs
10 shut out ot.sigh THE question OF demand
and supply based on the size Of the pas tsea-
sons crop and surpluses. Exports continue
restricted, and the demand from abroad
Is nominal. Provisions are lower, owing TO
the same causes which have operated in
favor OF their depression f)r some weeks
past. Arrivals Of hogs at the west continue
heavy; exports are moderate, and the home
dull, and for speculation not materially
Ia ,1,F f..
export Is ! to 4c per gallon higher, and ex.
ports are increasing rapidly. There wero
$50 failures In the United States reported
TO Brddsireds during the past week, IA more
than the preceding week, 80 more than cor.
responding week OF 1882, aud II more than
the same week OF 1881.
IRON.
The past week has brought with 1t several
surprises in the iron trade, and among
them further cut Of 50 cents per ton in
the price Of big iron by the Thomas Iron
Company. According to the schedule now
presented We find that No. y Is quoted at
SO so per ton, and No. 9 Kat $40 80.
With the exception Of the Sterling Com.
pany, Of New York State, welhear OF none
following 10 thu reduction made by the
Thomas people. The Sterling furnace offers
No. iron at $l7 IS per ton, and 1t ia
believed that the Rame can be had at
Sl7 so, which places No. iron at Sl7 50a
SIS so for certain brands. But this cut Is
OF less Significance than the above state
ment warrants. None but regular custom
ers can take advantageoi the Thomas Iron
Company's reduced rates, so 1t may not be
improper 10 state that while the price Of
raw iron is nomihally lower, with respect
to the general public 1t Is unchanged.
The Thomas Iron Company has blown
out three furnaces. About eight furnaces
have been blown out altogether within the
past week or two. Scotch pig iron contin-
ues about as previously reported, with
about !, 400 tons arrivals, nominal sales,
practically none stored, and prices un-
changed. Coltness Is quoted at So 75a233,
with only fair demand. OF Gartsherrle
there Is only small quantity in stock, and
that is held at $23 with little demand.
There is no Glengarnock now Offering.
There is some Eglinton here, but no in
quiry therefor, its place having been taken
by cheaper brands. Stocks OF Scotch iron
on hand in New York will aggregate be-
tween 1000 AID 5000 tons only, OF mixed
brands, none predominating sufficiently to
specify.
WOOL.
BosroS, October 20.-The Adrerti&er in
Its weekly review Of the wool market says:
The sales show that the wants OF manu-.
factures are well supplied by the previous
large sales, and it is noticeable that the
transactions have been less than for any
week siace the broken one ending July 5,
when they were ], ,775,700 lbs. There Is a
difference Of opinion concerning the con-
dition OF the market as to prices. Manu-
iacturers OF woolen goods tell US that they
are urged to buy, and Inducements are out
in the way Of commissions that they could
not have secured week ago. On the 9TH
er hand, many wool dealers consider the
market easy, with no actual decline in val
nes, except what invariably accompanies a
dull market. All concur that staple woods
and XX Ohio, which are in short supply,
are as firm as before. II is noticeable
that no Michigan wno is selling above Soc;
and that the OHIO M has sold at 40c. The
sales OF territory have been large Dealers
are sold ahead on combing and delane, and
some Of the sales reported this week have
been made some time ago, but deliv-
cred only now. A cablegram received this
afternoon reports an advance on the other
side OF I'd. in English combing wools. Some
fall Texas has been sold here, and fair
quotation is l5al8c, with some extra at zoe.
Wool is selling there, In a email way, at 10a
lie, but most Of 1t will come forward on
commission. Receiptsas yet are light. There
has been sale OF fall California at cole.
The stock oil wool in San Francisco Is now
mostly spring, that Is not worth more than
l5a16c here.
Among the more noticeable sales Of the
past week are $4,000 Ohio XX, and above
lic; 10000 Ohio 'XX, at 40; 10000 ter.
ritory, 17a27c; 10000 fine combing at 46c;
100000 fine medium comblng, at 45c; l2,.
900 super, at 35A43c; 12. 900 Oregon secured
at 66c; 5000 scnured at 60a65r; 5000
scourei Texas at G4; 10000 eastern Ore
gon at 24lc; $1,000 spring California at goa
22c; 5000 do. at "a; $500 Australia at
32a39c.
The total sales Of the week, although
light, are still more than for the CORE.
spending week last year, when they were
only 1852 400 lbs. The receipts this week
were quite heavy Of domestlc wool.
A Murder Mystery.
Special Dispatet 10 Uk Latelgno1.
WESTON, October 2l.-Samuel Faulkner
was shot and killed Friday evening at Jane