Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-11
BUSINESS POOR.
Trade Still Retarded by the Labor
Troubles.
Bad Roads and Worse Weather
Also Restrictions.
The General Industrial Situation
Slightly Better.

| NEW YORK, April lO.-Speclai tele
grams to Bradstreets from prominent busi
ness centers do not reveal any genera
gain in the volume of merchandise die
tributed during the past week. Trade g.
Philadelphia has been little more active
but there is yet room for improvement il
most lines. Memphis and Louisville re
port slight Improvement, owing to bette
weather. At St. Louis the business com
muniIy is suffering from inadequate rail
way facilities and ia adapting Itself to the
diminished demand.
Kansas City reports decidedly improved
trade. Chicsgo admits that the boom
which was looked for month ago is miss
ing, and that purchases al that market are
made on more conservative basis. Lead.
ing lines there report the volume of bust
ness as medium ouly, or unsatisfactory. At
other interior markets no special changes
are noted. At the Esst business ia quiet
in oil important linea.
On the whole there have been only slight
gains here and there, as compsre1 with q
week ago. The reports es to foods and
unfav vorable weather ct the South and
West are being replaced by more encoursg-
ing ones, though sdvices as to the condi-
ton OF country roads indicate that they sre
almest uniformly bad. This continues 10
check interior trading, and reEders mer-
camille collections slow. The demand for
funds at Chicago is larger, but at st. Louis
and Pittsburg the request for sccommoda-
lion is only fair. Elsewhere there have
been but slight changes in the money mar.
kets within the week.
Dry goods at frat and second hands aIe
not as brisk as expected at this time.
stocks are small The weather has inter
fered with the obbing trade, and print
sales are light, though prices are unchanged.
Wool is quiet, With prices tavoripg buyers.
Buyers asking large lines may get them at
lower figures. Stocks at mills are report
ed not large.
The general industrial situation is some
what improved. The Southwestern rail
way strike has lost some of it's worst feat
ures though presumably including great
part of those who originally struck. Iron,
raw and manufactured, is quiet and un.
changed as TO price at the East. Some
varieties have been shaded on actual
sales OF St. Louis. Wheat has suffered
this week, and prices of cash
No. 2 red at New York have
gone off 23c, as compared with week
ago. The decline in cash spring wheat at
Northwestern markets is about 4c, and this
in the face of the most active buying tor
export since last harvest, but it remsins
pne that the wheat bulls are disappointed
With the outward movement at this time,
having anticipated much heavier buying
from abrosd. Other grains have failed to
withstand the heayiness shown BY wheat
Wheat -four Is dull and in less demand
from abroad, with an average reduction oi
about 10 cents per barrel. Grain ocean
freights at New York have been higher,
owing to the improved demand for room.
Mediterranean wheat purchases have been
the future. A better consumptive demand
results in better prices for sugar, and high.
er rates OF exchange in Rio have advanced
coffee aacat. The exports CT cheese sup
port prices, and the home demand holds up
huttar nnntations