The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-11-26

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o. ~ Saturday n their weekly re-
vioSf 04 fe1do. RI 4 -. "a sfsss4i
T6e gain IN volume Of business CON.
tlnuoe oirirSly without president
More than 500 tsblishmeuts have
started work since the election, which
wore idle, and at least 800 have
increased their working force. Ev.
cry day thus adds thousands 70
the number Of those who are able to
buy weeks supplies and then make
mp gradually for many months of en-
forced economy. Already this brings
great increase In the volume of business
and the clearing house exchanges, for
only exceed those Of last year By
ten per cent, but also exceed those Of
the same week In 1891 by nine per cent
Business men ore all anxious to pre-.
vent anything like the excitement Of
last summer, and In nearly all branches
an excessive rise in prices IL prevented
But with more hands at work there 10
inevitably greater demand for sup
plies, materials and products
The speculative markets have been
reactinR, which u almost natural.
Wheat had risen with wonderful rapid.
ity, 90 that exports had been checked
by the higher prices and rsalixing
started break which made the close
az lower for the week.
<ssThe demand for freight room, both
mere and on the Pacific coast, IL still
80 large as to disclose IN extraordinary
foreirn demeud.
Cotton has declined from to 7.69
cents in spite Of the starting Of many
cotton mil1s. and the controlling fA6t
moment IL that reports. Of . yield
smaller than eight million bales sst
now entirely discredited. The qusnti.
ty coming into sight has exceeded last
years BY e90, 900 bales, and II IL mol
expected that the decrease In the 70
manning months Of the year will bring
| the aggreeAte below 8, SOC, 900. The ex
| port demand doe not abate, although
| temporarily checked while prices werl
| above eight cents and the increase o.
| %, 40O, 900 In value Of cotton exported
In October contributed more than any
/ other single item to mako the aggre
| gate exceed that Of the same month Il
any previous year.
4 In transition period industries re
cord gains slowly, but the slight de
cline in prices Of Bessemer pig iron ant
| Of finished products Of iron and stee
is partly due to realizing on spsoula
tive purposes before the election
and partly to the selling o
nails by iobbers below the oom
bination price. For most ohere,
products Of iron there Il ., better de
mand and q slow advance In prices
Shipments Of boots and shoes for thre
weeks Of November, have bssn lel,
OF cases against l75.17s last yesr
but while the works have or
ders for some time ahead, neithe
mines or deaiefs are disposed =
do much because Of the uncertaint,
about finances, those Of boots an
shoes being sbout - per cent abov
the lowest point, leather 1e.S Per cent
and hides BL4 per cont. the latts
!. again rising q Chioaeo, In cottol
and wooden goods NO serious chang
sppears, though there Il continues
| weskness In cottons and print cloth
are q sixteenth. lower. Stocks Q
wool purchased before and In
mediately after the election no,
prevent further advance, but to Nc
vember 10 wool had risen 10 per cent
on the average Of 104 quotations b
Coates Bros. since September an
much more at the west.
4 Failures for the week have been 81
In the United Staten aoniust 39O las