Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-11-03
Weekly Report from r. G. Dun
& Co.'S Agency.
Reports From all Parts OF the Nation, and
Especially the Yves, Very Cheering
Prices Tending Downward
Business Failures.


General business is remarkably activ'
and Increasing in volume at the west
improving at the south, and distinctly
less dull than it was week ago at east
ern cities. Collections are improving
in nearly all directions, as the liberia
movement Of crops enables the farmers
to settle their accounts and to make pur
chases for the coming season. The
money markets are at nearly all import
ant points quite easy, though with no
ticeable improvement in the demand
These signs plainly promise a stron'
trade for the fall and winter unless dis
turbances, which cannot now be fore
seen, should interrupt.
The reports from other cities are OF
the whole more favorable. At Boston
the Improvement in trade is slow. A
Philadelphia groceries are active, with
a decline in sugar. At Cincinnati re
tail trade is brisk and clothing active
At Cleveland business is good and tn
tone confident, though iron is inactive
At Detroit trade and manufactures are
fully up to last years mark.
AT Chicago increase appears OF ;
third in receipt Of hides. dressed beef
flour and corn, though new corn moves
slowly. Receipts OF rye are three times
last years, but some decrease appears
in oats, barley, cured meats. lard. but
ter, cheese and wool. The dry goods
trade is much larger than a year ago
I< into IF h,y
head for the week, the shoe and clot h
ing trade large. and business gradual
increasing in all lines.
At Minneapolis the lumber trade il
very good. prices rising and shipment:
for the week 1000, 600 feet more thar
last year The -four mills again bea
the record with 1860 barrels, an(
general trade is good there and at st
Paul.
At Omaha and Kansas City bushes:
is satisfactory, grain and cattle receipts
being above the average, and trade il
agricultural implements active. At St
Louis trade shows encouraging strength
grain coming in faster, and at Memphis
business is very fair. A better feeling
exists at New Orleans.
Wheat has fallen AZ cents, with re-
ceipts at the west Of 100000 bushels in
four days, and exports Of | $780, 900 bush
els. Corn is scarce and 81 cents higher
for spot, and oats / 2 cents higher. Cot
ton receipts even surpass those of the
same week last year by $4,000 bales, and
the price falls a sixteenth, with sales OIL
9l4,0 900 bales here. Coffee is an eighth
lower. oil cent lower, lard an eighth
lower, while hogs have fallen 30 cents
per hundred pounds, with no change in
pork. Sugar, both raw and granulated,
is somewhat lower, with quite active
market. In general the speculative
movement appears to tend toward lower
prices for products, the supplies being
unusually large.
The iron industry looks stronger
Bar, plate and structural mills are fairly
employed but prices are low.
The boot and shoe manufacture shows
a sign OF more active demand, and the
shipments are close to last years. The
wool manufacture shows more demand
for dress goods, and stocks of these are
relatively low, while for mems spring
goods the orders Of clothiers are far be-
hind.
The merchandise exports for the past
two weeks have succeeded those of the
corresponding weeks last year, while
imports fall far below those of a year
ago, so that the balance OF trade in pro-
ducts strongly favors continued imports
OF gold.
The business failures occurring
throug bout the country during the last
seven days number 249, as compared
with totals of go last week. For the
corresponding week OF last year the fig
ures were 225.
Murder for n Dog Bite.